Thank you for all the support and love! I look forward to writing an update soon. For now, here’s a post I wrote before Tate’s arrival…

Now that summer is in full swing in Austin, so are the mosquitoes. Henry must have the sweetest kind of blood or else he spends an inordinate amount of time outside or maybe his mom is adverse to using the kind of bug spray that actually works (no DEET for us) or perhaps he scratches bug bites and scabs more than the average kid.

 

Or all of the above!

 

I’ve tried keeping his nails really short, applying non-DEET bug spray religiously, using