Day +45

We've had a really great last few days thanks to auntie lena's visit to our temporary home in cincy! Max really enjoyed playing with auntie lena and laying in bed with a nice girl on each side. Elena and I ate cupcakes, brownies, cookies, and drank coffee. We also played on facebook, odnoklassniki, and watched project runway. We did some arts & crafts and continued my mommies work on max's photo album. Sadly auntie lena had to leave this morning and go back to rochester. We hope to see her on skype soon.
Our big news for today is that max learned to roll over from his stomach to his back!!! He's so good at it now that i don't think we'll ever get another second of tummy time again! This must be thrilling for max as we all know how much he likes to be on his stomach.
The other thing that happened today is that max pooped! Max has been constipated for the last two days and today roman and i were getting really worried so i rubbed max's tummy until he started straining and straining and crying and finally he pushed out a little green chunk of poop! then another huge hard chunk came out. then, i held his legs up without the diaper and roman and i cheered for max as he pushed out 4 more hard green poops!!!! it was really exciting. later he pooped 2 more times, this time healthy looking green paste!!!!! yay.
max's counts are increasing steadily and he is 100% engrafted as of 9/29!!! Also, he has a little bit of a rash on his back, arms, and legs. The drs think that it may either be a mild case of graft vs. host coming on or just irritation from the little black hairs he's beginning to grow everywhere. either way, we're rubbing him with steroid cream and watching to make sure it doesn't get worse. hopefully it won't. we also didn't wean the steroid this week so we're going to have to deal with an extra week at least of restless nights and naps during the day. i can't really complain though, since its a small price to pay for his health.