As the title suggests, there haven’t been any pictures lately, but that may be just as well. There was a 5 day stretch during which Atty often couldn’t keep down any food or much drink. After the 3rd day, and once he really started to seem thinner, we called the doc, who told us to limit his intake to just a teaspoonful at a time. This seemed to help, though it led to some pitiful and heartrending time for Beck and me, since Atticus would point or trot to the kitchen while using his hand signals for wanting to eat or drink all day long.
He got thru most of that day fine and didn’t throw up again until the next, on the ride home after an apple-picking excursion, but then was OK that evening. Toddler and I saw the doctor the next day, though, because Atty was starting to seem listless and not acting like himself (and because our doctor’s office seems really responsive and let us come in that same morning). Doctor C. said he likely had just had a stomach bug, but that he also had mild ear infections in both ears, so she prescribed an antibiotic; he had lost about 1.5 lbs. since his last visit.
The story ends almost entirely well: on that doctor visit day and the next, he didn’t throw up at all… except when we gave hm his medicine, which led to tremendous, er, episodes both times we gave it to him, even after we returned to the pharmacy to get it flavored — exceedingly frustrating.
We’ve since laid off the antibiotics for a few days so he could get some weight back on (and I think he has, after a couple of days of relative feasting), and the smell in various rooms has been mostly banished. In the middle of the goings-on, I sat down to the computer once and thought about posting a screen capture of what I saw: the google search bar where B had recently typed in “vomit toddler,” but decided against it, not wishing to be alarmist to readers who might not see the humor * 
*not that we parents necessarily did either, at the time
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