3 weeks old!!

Yeah Gavin is 3 weeks old today. He is still doing good. He weighs 4 lbs 5.7 oz. They had to put him back in the isolet because he is still struggling with his body temp. The nurses told us not to think of this as a step back, just a little help for him. He is working and using all his energy and calories on trying to stay warm, so putting him in the isolet will help him not have to work so hard and he can focus his energy on getting bigger. I do have new pics and I will try to post tomorrow but Mommy is so tired so I'm off to bed.

Happy Birthday Daddy.

Tomorrow April 15th is my Daddy's birthday. It is already his birthday over in Saudi so that's why I am posted late at night because it is morning over there. I love you Dad more than ever. You have been the best father and the best Grandpa anyone could ask for. I am proud to say that. I thank you so much for everything you have done for me, and for Chris, the girls, Chloe and now for Gavin. I hate that you are so far away and we can't celebrate with you, but we will later. I can't wait for you to meet Gavin and see how big the girls have gotten. I miss you everyday and love you and Deb tons.
Happy 50th Daddy. I love you.

new pics of Gavin

Trying to hold Daddy's hand

He's doing good. 4 lbs 2.5 oz today. He also had a hearing test and he passed. yeah!!

He looks like a grouchy old man in this one.

Stitches anyone???

My poor baby got her first stitches, 4 to be exact. We were at my grandma's house on Saturday and we ere having our family egg hunt and Olivia wanted to go up some stairs outside that lead to my grandma's garden, well she did not quite make it to the stairs, she tripped and went face first into the rock wall. I ran over to her only to see blood gushing out of her forehead, I immediately freaked out and burst into hysterics, Chris grabbed Olivia from me and rushed her over to my cousin who is an ER nurse and she was able to stop the bleeding, thank goodness. She thought she would need stitches so we headed to the ER. 4 stitches, a sticky, sweaty, exhausted 16 month old, a freaked out colorless mother, and two hours later, we finally made it home. What a way to spend an Easter weekend.


They had to put numbing medicine on it so this is her trying to pull it off, eventually she did and was not a happy girl because we keep trying to put it back on and keep her hands busy on something else.

Before all the trauma.

Update on Gavin

He is still doing good, he is up to 4 lbs 1 oz. He is opening his eyes alot more and still doing good on learning to suck. They said the results from his head ultrasound(not MRI, sorry) came back normal and everything looked good. Yeah!! He was having a hard time breathing tonight while I was feeding him so they had to cut my holding time down so he could be put back in his crib. But as soon as he was back in his crib, he did a little better. They will just monitor him through the night and hope that does not happen to often. I just love my little guy and can't wait for him to come home.

Egg hunt

We had a little Easter egg hunt at Grandma yoya's today. The girls had so much fun. Then we colored eggs and that was an experience with all the kids wanted the same color, but in the end they all turned out cute. I did an egg for Chloe. Olivia and Gavin.

Gavin...again

His head is looking much better now that the skin is starting to grow around his skull.

Trying to open his eyes and find Daddy

Gavin is doing good today, they came and did an MRI on his head today, we have not gotten the test results back yet but the nurses seem to think that if it is bad news they would have said something right away. He is 3lbs 14 oz. The last few days he has gained around 2 oz a day. He had a hard time with his feedings last night, the Dr. just thinks he had an upset stomach, because by morning he was doing much better. Tonight his umbilical cord fell off, and he is starting to suck on a binki. They don't think he will be ready to bottle feed for at least 2 more weeks because even though he is starting to learn to suck he can't suck and swallow at the same time. They tend to forget to breath and that can't happen. I was thrilled to see him sucking though, he is progressing one day at a time.

Yeah a binki, he's learning to suck

Still so tiny especially in daddy's hand.

Here I am, hi Mommy.

Argh!!! Matee

Okay back to bed.