We made it!

After the long drive of stopping every 2-3 hours to feed Clay, we finally made it to Colorado Springs. This area is so beautiful with the mountains and all the pines. The weather here is crazy! One day it will blizzard and the next day it will be 65 degrees. They have warm winds that sweep down from the mountains, so the snow melts right after it comes. All next week will be in the 50's, so there's no complainin'! Yesterday, Dave, Clay, and I took a long walk on some paved trails out in the country area.

We love our apartment, but with the move, it is a disaster. How to people get anything done with a baby? I don't seem to know how. I have stayed really busy, but it has been a big adjustment going from working to being a stay at home mom. Plus, I don't know anyone here yet, so it gets a little lonesome sometimes.

So a day or so after we arrived in Colorado, Clay started being really fussy. He cried for a whole day and night straight and I couldn't figure out what was wrong. The next morning Dave took Clay's socks off and found this....

There was a hair wound tightly around Clay's toe and it was cutting off the circulation. His toe was swollen and bleeding, because the hair was cutting into it. We dug in and got the hair, but it wasn't looking any better, so we took him to Urgent Care. We found out that this is pretty common with babies and is called "Turnicut hair syndrome." It happens especially often with babies in the post pardum months when moms start losing thier hair. Hair can get wrapped around any of the baby's apendages and if it goes unnoticed for too long, the apendage will either fall off or have to be amputated. So now, i examine his fingers, toes, etc. every time I change his diaper. Poor little guy. His toe is doing much better now.