Water, water, water!

Most of you know that Max was diagnosed with Diabetes Insipidus at 10 weeks old. Part of DI is that he is constantly thirsty! DI means that his kidney doesn't respond to a hormone put out by his brain, and therefore his kidney depleats his body of hydration. So, he takes a medication to help him not be as thirsty, drinks TONS of water and goes to the bathroom often. When I explain to people how much water he drinks, they just can't comprehend it. You'll have to experience first hand just how much water he can drink before you will believe it. For years, we would get up in the middle of the night, to change his diaper, fill up his water cups, etc. Actually, Greg did it more than me...he's a good daddy! Around 3 years old, we noticed Max was waking himself up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom! So we started putting TONS of water bottles by his bed at night so that all he had to do was get up to go potty then head back to bed. So this night when I put him to bed, I just laughed when I saw all of the cups! And I thought we should take a picture of it. I really wanted to show our pediatrician Dr. Raley because I thought he would think it was funny! So here is a close up of all our cups! There are a total of 15 cups, most holding at least 7 ounces up to over 16 ounces! We're thankful that Max's major complications were "cured" by surgery. So a little bit of medication and lots of water is something that he can for sure handle. I just wanted to document these pics so I could show you one day Max!