Denver is 10 Months Old!

Believe it or not Denver was 10 months old last week Wednesday. He continues to be a busy little boy. He crawls all over, loves to push his little "walker" all around the house, he crawls up the stairs (and has caused a couple of scares!), learning how to feed himself with a spoon, learning animal sounds (has been making tractor sounds for quite some time), and who knows what else! Denver has also taken up to 5 steps on his own. He's scared to do it by himself and if you don't have him preoccupied with seeing Mom or Dad a couple feet away from him he'll plop his little butt down on the floor instead of walk, but that's okay with me! When he takes off I'm afraid it will take a day or 2 and he'll be running! We were too busy to take pictures the day Denver turned 10 months, but I took some 2 weeks prior that I never got posted and I attempted for some more yesterday, but he didn't really cooperate.

An update on Denver's butt is....that it is ALL BETTER!!!!! We couldn't be happier and I've learned to absolutely love dermatology! They took such good care of us, I couldn't be happier. I never had to sit on hold when calling the clinic, they returned phone calls within 5 minutes, and they even called to check on Denver this week and to let us know that his culture did come back showing some staph so they were indeed correct that his little butt was infected through fungus and bacteria. Denver will finish his oral antibiotics tomorrow which he has done wonderful with...he gets excited when he sees me come with a syringe of "pink stuff" and we're done to his special cream of once a day and then next week we'll go to once every other day and then we will also have a follow up appointment that week as well.

Other things going on in the Kindt household are finally winding down. We finally had a Sunday with NO plans; it was absolutely amazing to be able to do our own thing and spend the day as a family. Evan went on a fishing trip last Saturday with his Grandpa Pootsie. He couldn't bare ending his summer of fishing with catching nothing. They actually limited out on walleyes so Evan is semi-content in the fishing department now.

Here's Denver feeding himself his breakfast (yogurt....he LOVES yogurt!)

A friend from work had suggested taking pictures of Denver going crazy with a box of Cheerios. Denver loves Cheerios, but he really didn't go crazy with the box and it took a little for him to figure out he could actually get them out of the box!

The Butt Update

I wanted to update everyone on Denver's poor little butt. After seeing the dermatologist who gave us a special cream that we had to go get from a special pharmacy it started to fade away and we thought we were finally going to have a happy little boy again. Well, we were proven wrong. I worked nights this past weekend and got a phone call from Daddy at 5a.m. Denver had been up since 3a.m. screaming and frantically pulling at his diaper and Daddy couldn't get him to stop crying. Finally around 5:30a.m. Denver calmed down and went back to sleep so Daddy got a couple hours of sleep before he had to go to work. Today we returned to the dermatologist and she put Denver on a different cream and an antibiotic. They think that the fungus has cleared up some (which I agree) and that it looks more bacterial now and are hopefully that the antibotic and new cream along with Aveeno baths will do the trick for us. As long as all goes well we won't return back to the dermatologist for 3 weeks. Thank you for all the prayers you've said for Denver and us and please continue to say them. I'll try to keep you posted.

Drinking Water

Just the other day I decided it was probably time to let Denver drink from a cup by himself. Here's a video of him. Now his meals are all about the cup. He wants it the whole time.

The Power of Prayer

Just wanted to update everyone and tell them how powerful your prayers have been for our family today. As I said earlier today I called our peds clinic and asked for a referral to the dermatologist. After another phone call and waiting about 4 hours our pediatrician's nurse finally returned my phone call. She said she would make the appointment for Denver with a dermatologist and would get back to me with the date and time. I then asked if she thought we'd be able to get in today yet and she kind of laughed at me and said "No, no, you won't get in until the end of October. It's hard to get into a derm.". I responded "Then we need to see McKercher or we need him to come up with another plan as we need something more than what we're doing now." She told me she'd get back to me of what our pediatrician wanted to do and we'd go from there. After hanging up with her I was very disappointed and just didn't know what to do for my little boy. Then I reassured myself it was okay and that we have lots of people praying for Denver and put my trust in God to take care of it. After waiting another hour or so she called us back and said she had derm on the other line and that they had a cancellation and could see us at 1:30p.m. (it was currently 1p.m.!). I said we'll jump in the car and be there. We got to Denver's appointment and waited a long time to be seen, but it was so worth it (or at least I think so as of now). She walked in and took one look at his little bottom and said "Oh, that's a fungus. I know how I'll treat it, but we need to get a slide of it first just to make sure." She was very impressed when I responded with "THANK YOU, I knew it wasn't yeast and that it had to be a fungus". The slide confirmed that Denver has a fungus and she gave us a new cream to try that we actually had to go get from a special pharmacy. God is good! Thank you everyone for your prayers and keep on praying that this cream does that job and Denver gets over this fast. We have a follow-up appointment in 2 weeks unless it doesn't start improving in a couple days then we'll go back sooner.

Denver's First Trip to the Black Hills

Denver had his first experience of a LONG road trip which was to the Black Hills. We went with the Waltner/Schmeichel family. During our time there we went to my cousin Ethan's 2 soccer games and hung out with the family and relaxed the rest of the time (Evan did go fishing....but unfortunately he had no luck AGAIN! I'm beginning to think fish can smell him and say don't go close to him...just kidding honey!). Denver did very well with the long drive. He did have one screaming/crying fit on the way out there, but the rest of the time he was perfect! We did take our portable DVD player along and let him watch Baby Einstein towards the end of the trip on the way out there and on the way back as we were running out of ways to entertain him (sorry for those who disapprove of a 9 month old watching videos, but we all had to stay sane and he loves them!). Here are some pictures from Ethan's first soccer game the night we got there. The first 2 pictures are courtesy of my sister (Yea! Finally some pictures of Mommy and Denver!). These days it seems my hands are a little tied up that I don't get many pictures taken anymore when we are out and about so I don't have many pictures from our trip.

Our whole family stayed in a cabin while we were in the hills. My cousin Paula brought her dog Max along who Denver absolutely LOVES. Where ever Max was is where Denver wanted to be or he had to at least be able to see him. Here's a video of them together.

Denver playing with Max

Before ending this post I have a little prayer request for my little boy. Denver has had a rash in his diaper area for a little over 3 weeks. We've been to the doctor twice for it and today I called back to our peds clinic and asked for a referral to a dermatologist because it's still not better and it's now starting to hurt him. Please pray for the doctors to know what it is, for it to heal, and to quit hurting Denver fast as it just breaks my heart to change his pants because he just cries and cries.

Labor Day Weekend

Labor Day weekend Evan's first cousin Jordan got married to Ann (Congratulations Jordan and Ann!). This was a big day for our family. Evan was a groomsmen and I was one of Ann's personal attendants. It was a beautiful day and overall Denver was very well behaved and loved watching all of the action going on. Unfortunately, we never thought about who would be Denver's entertainer during the ceremony so I had to stand out in the narthex area and let Denver play and talk as when I tried sitting in the sanctuary with him, Denver would start talking and tried to warn Ann of the "crazy" Kindt family that she was marrying into! :) (Please don't take that personal Kindt's as we love you dearly and love spending time with you, but you have to wonder when you can find a carrot in a silverware drawer or a hammer in the freezer! Hee, hee!) Denver's Great Grandpa Pootsie thought he needed to give Denver a sucker. Denver loved the sucker and made a mess out of it and was very upset when Mommy said "No!" and took it away.

Later that night Great Grandpa Pootsie along with Great Uncle Bryce thought that Denver also needed some Pepsi!!!! (And they wonder why Denver doesn't come to the farm by himself!) :) Mommy and Daddy were dancing and Mommy saw them letting Denver drink out of a cup and Mommy said right away "What are they giving my baby now?!". Daddy thought it was funny at the moment. We got home late and Denver was tired, but never fell asleep as he did not want to miss out on any of the action. Everyone kept saying "Oh he is going to sleep so good tonight!". Well.....we wish everyone would have been correct, but instead they were wrong. We were up with Denver 2-3 times that night (Daddy no longer thought that drink of Pepsi and the sucker were cute as he was now tired like Mom!).

Here's our immediate family picture from the wedding. For those of you who do not know, Evan's Dad, Keith, is next to me and Evan's younger brother Aaron is next to their Dad.

Playing in the lawn with Dad at the reception.