11-30-12

 

On Griffin's acutally birthday, Friday 11/30/12, we went to The Wonder Place. It was his first time going and he throughly enjoyed it.  His favorites were splashing in the water.

 

 

 Playing with the balls..

 eating the produce..

and watching the ball float in the air.

The Big One Yr Old

 Griffin the big one year old. What a sweet and fun baby. He's pointing, cruising around, stands up on everything, has to hold on to stuff to walk around. Shakes his head yes or no. He can say dada, mama, bubba, and ball. There's other things he says we think he's saying something but not quite sure. He's been such a joy and the past year has gone by way too fast. So glad he's happy and healthy.

Thanksgiving 2012

 Nash and Griffin had a great Thanksgiving.

 It was this guy's first Thanksgiving and he was at a good age for it because he was throughly enjoying eating table food. He ate his plate and off his brother's.

 Nash had a Thanksgiving feast at school with this friends.

Nash and Kekoa

 

And my favorite...Our family picture taken by our cousin Kayla Bradford.

Halloween 2012 (superhero edition)

The boys looked adorable and did great. Griffin was good while we went to a carnival at school and just took it all in while Nash had a blast playing playing games and trick or treating with his friend when we got home.

My 11 Month Old

 So this guy is 11 months and I can hardly believe it. I have been in denial for quite a while. I would start planning his birthday party and stop because I just couldn't take it. He's doing good. Eating good. Trying new things. Really liking more table foods and feeding himself. He started to have some formula and seems to be needing more than I can give him so we are backing off some on breast feeding. He's got three teeth now. Two on bottom and one on top. He's crawling all over the place and pulling up on things. He sleeps through the night other than when he's cutting a tooth. We did have one sick dr visit where he had an ear infection but even with that he really is happy most of the time. He got to go on big brother's field trip to the pumpkin patch and one family trip to the pumpkin patch. He likes to clap his hands and dance to music. He likes bath time and splashing in the water especially when he gets a bath with brother.

hospitals are yuck!!!!

Nash had this first hospital stay since birth. He came home from school sick on a Monday with 102 fever. The next day, since his fever wasn't going down with medication, he was crying out in pain, and was very lathargic I took him to the doctor. The doctor was in shock with how sick he was and how fast he got so sick. He was just kind of lifeless. I had to carry him around. He was admitted to the hospital because she thought he had menegitis because of how ill he was and him having bad headaches with it.

Turns out in less than 24 hrs he had gotten extremely dehydrated. They had to do a spinal tap to test for menengitis and he was so dehydrated that she was only able to get a couple of drops of spinal fluid out of him. A very long and painful story short. He stayed in the hospital 2 days which felt like a good week. He was stuck numersous times trying to get IV's in and blood drawn. He did get an IVand lots of fluids and anitibotics in  him. Originally the thought of menengitis and west nile virus was very scary. In the end he had a severe fever virus that invaded his school and strep b.

 Besides Griffin being in the NICU this was the next most painful thing I've been through. It hurts so much to see your child hurt and not being able to do anything about it. He was very ill. I kind of went on auto pilot and did what I had to do but then broke down and had a good cry. It was very good when we started to see our little boy act more like himself. It took him a good week to be totally back to normal.

Hope we can stay out of the hospital. Not a fun experience.

The 10 month old

This is his goofy face he now makes ALL the time.  It's hard to get a picture of him when he doesn't make that face. He is crawling now finally. Has one more tooth and getting several more up top. Teething lik crazy. He had his first sick visit to the doctor last week and has an ear infection but is so happy most of the time you wouldn't know he felt bad. He's eating, sleeping, and growing good. Can't believe he is 10 months. He has such a sweet and good personality. He loves his big brother and reminds me so much of Nash.