Family Pictures

Life Gets Busy

I just realized that it has been over a month since I have posted anything (I am not sure if anyone reads this anymore!).  Life has been super busy with going to back to work and having a little one, I don't know how people do it with more than one child. 

Cole has been doing awesome, he is growing like crazy and the doctor is very happy with his development.  He made me get rid of the scale that I was using because I was weighing Cole too much and calling the nurse hotline to much worrying about his slow weight gain.  Right around 6 months the weight gain slows down, but of course I still worry!

Cole is moving around like crazy, he rolls all over the place and is doing a little army crawl now.  We are going to have to start baby proofing our house.



Cole's 7 Month Pics, he is such a happy baby

Cole is starting to eat soilds

 





Halloween Pics

Cole is 6 Months (a little belated)

I can't believe it, Cole is already 6 months, the time has gone by so quickly and he has grown so much.  I pulled out the hat that he wore in his first week of life, and it is crazy how small it is.  He has grown from 3 lbs 4 oz and 15 3/4 inches long to 14 lbs and 25 inches long!  We are so crazy in love with him and couldn't have asked for a better miracle.

UW Center for Development and Disabilites

Yesterday Cole had his developmental follow up at the UWCDD and it went great!  They tested him for what a full term baby would be doing at 4 months.  Cole scored really high on the mental/social section (despite waking up at 5:30 am and not napping before the appointment at 10:30, he smiled the whole time and loved the evaluator).  On the other hand, he was a little behind on the motor skills portion of the test (I am going to blame this on him being tired!).  He had some trouble lifting his head up all of the way when he is on stomach and balancing his head while be held by his waste.  The evaluator wasn't too concerned and said that it was probably because he just needed to gain more weight.  We are going to have a physical therapist come to our house to work with Cole for a couple times to help him catch up and teach us what we need to be doing. 

On another note, I had to go back to work, it was a very sad day.  But I absolutely love our nanny Kelsey, and Cole does too. Here are some pictures that she has sent me, he is such a happy baby!

Cole is 5 months old!

I can't believe it, Cole is already 5 months old, the time has gone by so quickly.  And Cole is doing amazing, we recently had an in home evaluation of Cole's development to see how he is tracking, and the evaluator said that Cole was doing extraordinarily well, I love hearing those words.  We have another appointment with the UW high risk clinic next week to do a more detailed medical evaluation, but I am pretty sure that everything will be great.

We are also finally getting out of the house a lot more and letting people hold Cole.  I know, I know, we were a little over the top with being protective of Cole, but once you have struggled so long to have kids and then have your first child rushed off to the NICU not knowing if you would ever see him again you will do anything to make sure to protect them.  We needed to be overprotective for our own sanity.  So feel free to ask if you can hold Cole!

What has Cole been up to -

5 months

Day 3 - So Crazy!
 

Hanging at the Fremont Brewery

This is what happens with Grandma H watches Cole

Hanging at the Red Hook Brewery

Using the Bumbo for the first time

Selfies

Testing out his high chair

Hanging with Grandma D






 

The Story of Cole

Cole is 4 Months

It is a little belated, on July 5th Cole turned 4 months.  It is so crazy to see the change from day 1 to today. 

 



 

 

 

 

Life has been busy!

Time seems to fly by when you have a little one at home!

The biggest news that we have is that Cole had his follow up echo and the lower VSD's have completely closed.  There is still one on his upper heart that is open, but the doctor is not too concerned about it and we do not need to follow up until he is 2. 

Cole's 1st 4th of July

James made me take the outfit off because he looked like a girl

All tuckered out!

Cole's 1st Trip to Alki -

Hanging with Grandpa -

Outside with Daddy -