Parma Heights, Ohio

Well, we’re pretty much all settled in and we’re excited to be here. Our apartment is in Parma Heights, about fifteen minutes south of downtown Cleveland. You would never know we are that close to the big city. We’re not out in the country or anything but we are in a city where all the houses have big pretty yards and there is a lot of forest area around. Our place is nice, and it's on the ground floor which is a really nice change for us!

The area is really pretty, everything is really green. There is a nature trail right by our house with a river and big tall trees. We walked along it on Sunday. There are tons of squirrels and Lennon thinks they’re pretty funny. He likes to watch them climb around on the trees. There are also a couple geese living in the pond near the playground and Lennon likes to throw his goldfish crackers at them. One of them came looking for food and we had to climb to the top of the playground and wait for it to leave!

A couple days after we got here Lennon got a really high fever and then broke out in a rash. It looked like chickenpox and we were treating it like it was, giving him oatmeal baths and smothering him in calamine lotion. I called the nurse back in Utah this morning because some of his symptoms were a little weird. She said he needed to be seen right away, she was worried it could be measles or something else. Just before we left Utah he received the measles, chickenpox, and rubella vaccines. So we took him in to the hospital, 3 different doctors came in and looked at him, none of them could determine what the rash was for sure. They finally decided it was not chickenpox, but some weird reaction he was having to his recent immunizations. The good thing is that through all of this he has been really happy for the most part. I can tell he’s not feeling good but he keeps smiling and laughing and that makes things so much better.