the hicks family: It's been a while...

Well, quite a bit has happened since my last post. A couple of weeks ago, Tyler got a stomach bug (at least that's what we think). It was pretty sad. He couldn't hold anything down so we had to give him 1 tsp of pedialyte every 5 minutes! it was fairly late in the evening when we started this, so we did it for maybe 2 hours until he fell asleep. The nurse recommended that we wake him after a few hours to give him a little more to prevent dehydration. I didn't want to get to the point where we had to do an IV, so we followed the instructions. After a couple of days he seemed to be back to his playful, energetic self. Then every now and then he would randomly throw up. We went to the doctor and determined that he had ANOTHER ear infection and the vomiting could be due to that or due to acid reflux. We just finished the antibiotic for the ear infection (and hopefully it's gone this time) and have to take the reflux medicine for 30 days.

Beyond that, Tyler is doing great! Katie was in Houston for work and the timing worked out to where she stayed with us Friday evening thru Monday evening. Even though Tyler was not 100% himself, they had a great visit! Mom, Dad, Jake, and Sara came over for dinner that Saturday to celebrate birthdays.

Here are some picture of Tyler and some from Katie's trip home.