The Good Life

Friday, February 14, 2014

Fall Photos with Cara Beth

[Happy Valentine's Day! I will show you guys next week how awesome our Valentine's Day was! Hah.]

Did I ever post these? Well, I meant to. These got taken literally two days before Walker was born. I had no idea these were going to be my last pictures pregnant, but I am thankful for them. Cara Beth has moved away but still comes back to our area every so often and offers mini sessions at a local park. We love her!

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Photo Dump

Well, I've probably got enough un-posted photos to do about 10 photo dump posts but I'm going to start with one. I don't want to get over-ambitious. Some of these are over a month old. I'm not going to caption them, I'll just let you use your imagination. Enjoy!

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Snow and Big Girl Beds

We had some fun snow over the weekend! It was the first time Savannah has really enjoyed the snow, and we got out in it and ran, raced around the backyard, built snowmen, dug and threw the snow, and got out the sandbox toys to play in the snow with. It was a super time!

Also a certain 2 year old decided to start sleeping in her big girl bed. For two or three months now, we've not been able to rock her (yes we were still rocking her. don't judge) cause she's just TOO heavy. So one of us was lying with her until she fell asleep in her double bed (big girl bed) in her room and then transferring her to the crib after she'd called asleep. She's just too big for that, people. She was waking up, because one of us would not place her gently enough cause she's TOO HEAVY to move without some muscle. So, we asked her if she wanted to sleep in her big girl bed and she said yes! So she's in there for night number two and we will see how she does. She slept all night the first night and woke up very pleasant and happy so hopefully that'll continue.

Monday, February 3, 2014

Walker at 4 months

Walker, you are 4 months old! The months are just flying by with you, buddy! It is hard to imagine life before you joined our family and you are such a sweet happy little baby. We love you very much and thank God for your life! At 4 months you take about 8 4-oz bottles each day, sometimes 9 bottles (you ask for extra every other day or so) and you love your bottles! You are on strictly breast milk and we are having to defrost frozen breast milk every day to feed you because Mama can't keep up with your demands. Luckily we have a deep freezer full from when you were in the NICU so that should hold us over for a while. You started taking Zantac this month for Acid Reflux because you were just really arching your back during bottles and after bottles, and crying and burping a lot while feeding. It has helped some so we are glad for it, but I guess I was hoping for a miracle worker and of course it is not one. You sleep from about 9:30 to 8:30 in the morning, getting up once around 5 and your daddy feeds you every night! Mama gets to sleep! (She does stay up until 12:30 to pump once more though) Walker you are still using your Soothie paci but we're using the WubbaNub ones now so that is nicer, I can actually hold on to the thing and not drop it every minute. You also don't mind a Nuk paci but don't love it as much as the soothie. You're still wearing size 1 diapers and really going up on the clothes sizes. You're wearing a few 0-3, and mostly 3 and 3-6 month clothes already. You have a really really long torso that makes buttoning things very difficult (more on that later). You've lost quite a bit of hair up top this month, but that's ok, you'll get it back. You've really taken off with smiling and cooing and found your hands (which you put directly in your mouth) and wave your arms and kick your feet really well. You love your playmat and grin and wink at it like you are trying to flirt with the light show. It's adorable. Walker, you got to get off your heart monitor and caffeine medicine right after you turned 3 months so you've been without it almost a month and I can hardly remember it at all. You weigh about 13 or so pounds (I KNOW. SERIOUSLY?) and are 23 1/2 inches long roughly. You've got a big noggin just like your sister and your mama, so that's a sure sign you'll be brilliant with that big brain in there.

Just a quick health update so I remember all we went through in the past month: Walker had some tests run for possible forms of skeletal dysplasia. His femur and humerus bones are shorter than average and his torso is very long. Dr. Aaron noticed it more at his last appointment (we've been talking about his short femurs since he was in my belly) and I was glad he decided to go ahead and do some testing. We've seen a geneticist and he said at this time he does not see any reason to diagnose Walker with any skeletal dysplasia! Praise the Lord! We did, thankfully, find out Walker has Rickets, thinning of the bones, and are in the process of figuring out a treatment plan for that. Totally curable and not a big deal, but we wouldn't have probably found it if we hadn't had X-rays done until Walker had another reason for an X-ray or broke a bone or something. Walker might not be 6 feet tall but that is ok! (and maybe he is, but his measurements now don't predict that) Walker also has been seeing a Retina Specialist Ophthalmologist as his retinas had not matured from his early birth, but he has officially had his last appointment and his eyes have matured! Yay! Anyway, lots of wins this month with Walker's health. No skeletal dysplasias, no eye problems, no heart monitor, and no caffeine! And help for the acid reflux and getting help for the rickets.

Pictures!