Hi! Hi! Tuck!

While we were driving the incredibly long distance to Disney a few weeks ago (all 9 or so hours) G decide to start waving to truckers. I can only imagine what the truckers aware enough to see a little hand waving at them.  We would wave as well once we got to the front. A few truckers honked at us to say hello which made G giggle.  The general sequence of events:

G, "Tuck! Hi!" As we got close to the rear of the truck we start waving. G would try to climb out of his 5-point harness carseat (which he did successfully Houdini his way out of in a parking lot on the trip) so the he could wave the entire length of the 53' truck. As we approached the front the trucker would wave or honk if they were paying attention. 

This sequence has continued for two weeks now. We have even started seeing it with pick up trucks around town.  It is a fun game he is playing and laughing about. 

The reason I'm thinking about this is that today we made the trek to Winston-Salem to see a Pediatric ENT and an allergist with G.  As we drove we waved to truckers between bites of cereal, muffin, and raisins.  We also decided that raisin make great projectiles when expelled from the nose. They are the right size to partially insert into a nostril, and with a quick blowing action can go far. We had to apologise to the doctors today wanting to look up his nose...

The result of the visits is that allergies are probably a large part of the inflammation and fluid in his head. We will do some more allergy testing as he gets older. In the mean time we are going ahead with "ear tubes" to get the fluid out of his middle ear.  He will become proud owner of these devices the beginning of August if all goes according to plan.

We also found out where the massive amount of food has been going on him: his feet. We got him measured in April, and in 3.5 months his feet grew 1.5 sizes. We got him some new shoes while we were in the big city as well since we had some time between the doctor appointments.

A is becoming quite the 4 year old.  She even played nice and remembered my friend was picking her up from school today since the trek was not for her to make with us.  The really cool thing is that A has stopped sucking her thumb.  She hasn't sucked her thumb since before our Disney trip.