A week in the life...3

A week in the life of Titus

September 12th-18th

This was a long and hard week for the Marasco family. We found out on Monday that Titus was sick with a virus. He screamed on Sunday night from 1am-5am, it felt like having a new born again! We thought he was just teething or maybe he had an ear infection. I  took him to the doctor on Monday afternoon and it's turns out that he had the hand, foot, and mouth virus! I know sounds creepy, huh?? Sunday and Monday he was miserable! I could see a big difference on Tuesday and by Thursday he was back to his wild self! :) Basically, with this sickness he had normal virus type symptoms (fever, sleeping trouble, etc), plus he had blisters on his hands, feet, and mouth (hints the name). Now, my son is drool-er. He drools through 10,000 shirts a day, or maybe like 5, but still he drools a lot! This week it was even worse! Poor little guy, because of the sores in his mouth he really was drooling through 10,000 shirts in one day. It was heart breaking to see the little guy in pain. Now for those of you who are wondering why he was back in the nursery today...he is hand, foot, and mouth virus free and has been since at least Friday. :) 


We also walked through another hard thing this week. We had a miscarriage this week. For some of you it might be poor etiquette to talk about this on the internet, but for us it's healing to be able to be open and be honest about it. We want to be able to be real about our struggles and hardships. We want our friends and family to see that Jesus is our only hope all the time; good, bad, pain, trial, joy etc. Knowing and believing and trying to live within that truth doesn't change the fact that the miscarriage was hard. We had been watching my pregnancy levels for a few weeks and they weren't looking good. However, we were prayerful and hopeful that my levels would go up and we would have a new baby in May of next year. This wasn't our lot. I think it was God's kindness that we knew the baby didn't have a great shot at making it. It doesn't take away the hardness of losing a baby, a hope for the future. But I'm thankful we weren't blindsided by it. We wrestled to have hope and believe God could keep this baby developing in my stomach. For reasons we don't know, it wasn't the case for this baby to come in May. That's hard to understand, but God is still good. I'm sharing all this in Titus' A week in the life section because these two events drastically changed our week. We still had a good week with our son. We were more thankful for him this week than ever, but there was a lot resting, crying, praying, reading, and talking. There wasn't a lot of fun activities or play dates. I'm thankful for our week though. I think it brought us closer as a family and pushed us to run to our rock, Christ.

Titus spent time reading in his new chair this week. Thanks for the chair Aunt Hollie! (don't let this picture deceive you, by reading I mean looking at books for 2 seconds throwing them and then climbing and jumping off the chair)

Grandma Chili came up to check on us and gave Titus his bed time bath

Our one outing this week other than the park was to the library. We had a crazy Friday night at the library! Titus loved throwing the books off the shelves and running wild through the "art room".

This is not the clearest picture, but Titus looked so handsome this morning for church I had to get a picture. We were running late so this is the best I could get with my phone!