Quick Note

Just wanted to let everyone know our little man is steady gaining weight finally! Today he weighs 12 pounds 12 ounces!! He is actually gaining at the normal rate for his age now. He is gaining about an ounce a day. Everything else is fine! We have an appointment for an ultrasound of his kidney's on Friday and then we see his cardiologist on Monday so I will post more after these appointments. The ultrasound is to check to see if the kidney stones are still growing and these results will determine if we are going to Baltimore in January. I will keep ya'll updated!

Hi guys..Here are a couple of pics..I will post more soon!

PICTURES!!!

Hello Everyone!!

I hate that I haven't posted much lately but the closer the holidays get the less time I have to sit at the computer!!! I am happy to post that everyone has been fine here! Nathan is actually GAINING weight finally!!! We went to the doctor last Monday and he weighed 12 pounds 4 ounces and I am sure he is more than that now. He eats almost everything all the time now! Still no crawling but I'm not really complaining. He is into everything already. He rolls everywhere and gets into enough trouble as it is! I plan on putting up a Christmas tree this week but I have no idea how I'm going to keep him away from it! I think he may begin to learn the word "no" really soon. Austin is doing great! He is happy to be out of school for the week. So far we have had other kids at the house everyday for him to play with and more are coming tomorrow so he is on cloud nine! He got his report card last week and all his grades had improved since the last one. He is growing up so fast!! I know everyone wants pictures and I plan to post some soon...I may wait until after Thursday so I can post some of Nathan's first Thanksgiving!! I hope everyone has a great turkey day! I know we have an extra lot to be thankful for this year!!

Another Hospital Stay

Hi guys! We have now come to the conclusion our little man likes to stay in the hospital!! Saturday morning Austin woke up vomiting. He threw up three times, layed around for a while then perked up and was fine. He had no fever so I assumed it was the food he ate the night before. Everyone was fine until Monday evening. Sal came home not feeling well, I wasn't feeling so hot then around 3:00pm Nathan began throwing up! After the second time I called his pediatrician who told us to bring him to the ER. She said being that he is SO small it wouldn't take much to dehydrate him and we need to get him to the hospital for fluids. By the time we got to the ER he had vomited about 8 times! Poor baby couldn't stop. They gave him some medicine for nausea and started him on IV fluids. They did a urine culture which showed a very high white cell count so they admitted us. The continued to give fluids until Wednesday am and by then he was drinking a little formula again so we were able to come home yesterday afternoon. He seems okay now. Everyone I know has a child sick with something so we have pretty much decided to keep Nathan at home as much as possible for the next few weeks!! Obviously his little body cannot fight off infection as well as it should. He had only been throwing up for about two hours when we got to the hospital but he was already severely dehydrated!! It looks like we will be home bodies for the winter!!! On another note we had our Halloween bash Saturday night and it turned out AWESOME!! I hope to get some pics up on this site today or tomorrow! I will post more soon!