Another trip under our belts. We left for FL on St. Patrick's Day and it was another full flight. We drove down to RI where Pop Pop drove us to the airport. Of course we were running a few minutes late because Dylan did not want to cooperate and sleep in the morning so we couldn't pack. Yes we waited until the last minute to pack! But we had built in some extra time so we still made it in plenty of time. It was another full flight and Dylan was yet again fantastic. He fell asleep as we were taxiing on the runway and woke up the minute we landed. Fine by us!
We had such a good time in FL and Dylan loved getting to meet all of his family! First we went to go visit Tasha's Uncle Eddie, Auntie Holly, and Anna, Daniel, John Paul and Peter as soon as we landed. Then on Fri, Dylan got to meet his Great Grampy and Great Grammy Wade (Josh's mom's parents)! They LOVED getting to see him. Sat. we went to the beach with Tasha's cousin Alyson and Dylan got to dip his feet in the ocean. He stayed nice and protected out of the sun under an awning we rented. I however, got a sunburn on my arms because I apparently put sunscreen on my shoulders twice and never went all the way down my arm. Oops! Sunday we went to go see Great Grandma (Tasha's father's mother) and Tasha's Auntie Trisha, cousin Jenn, and her husband Nevin. It was great just hanging out with family. We also went and got some Bob Evan's takeout, yum! We don't have Bob Evan's up here, and we had been once before and they had delicious salads and banana and blueberry bread, so we were excited to have it again. It's the little things in life!
On Monday, we packed up the hotel room and headed out. We ate our Bob Evan's salads by the pool and then headed to see Great Grammy and Grampy again. We had to stop at Mixon's fruit farm one last time though. They have the most delicious orange juice you have ever tasted, and they have this orange swirl ice cream, so we each got a cone. We had dinner there and headed to the airport. Dylan was pretty good on the flight again. The empty window seat next to us was the last seat open on the plane, no one wanted to sit next to him! But he did good- he was awake during taxiing and take off, and then i think he had a little belly ache, so he maybe let out 3 cries, then he fell asleep for the rest of the flight. Can't complain! Now we need to figure out where his next trip will be!
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Just a normal day
Dylan slept from 8:30ish last night until 3:30 am, then went back to sleep at 4:30 and woke up at 6:30. I pick him up and he fell back asleep on me until 7:30. That's where the fun began! I went to go change his diaper, which he loves, and is usually very happy and smiley. So I take off the old one and already have the new one under him, and he starts to pee. I am quick to this now, so i grab the front of the new one and cover him, so it stays in the diaper, just have to use another new one now. He was supposed to get a bath last night but fell asleep, so I decide I will just have Josh shower with him now, while he has no clothes on. So I wrap a towel around him, and carry him into the bathroom, and he pees again- through the towel and all over me. Lovely! He loves the shower and is quite happy, so we get him out, get him dressed, and bring him downstairs. I am about halfway through feeding him his bottle, and Josh comes down and takes over. He changes positions to burp him and discovers the back of his outfit is wet. He has pooped through the diaper and its all up his back. So that is the start to our day, all before 8:30 am!
We leave for FL tomorrow! We have so much to do, I am doing loads of laundry today, then I will gather it all together tonight and start to pack probably. Not sure if we will take 2 suitcases or 1 big one, Dylan requires the most stuff since he needs multiple outfits a day. Our flight isn't until 4:30 out of Providence, so Josh is working a 1/2 day tomorrow from home and I will have time to officially pack and make sure we have everything. The flight is already sold out, which means Dylan will be on our laps again, but he did great on the planes to CA and back, so we are hoping for a repeat. Someone is not going to be pleased to sit in our row! There is also the chance to be bumped, so depending on what they are offering, there are 2 more flights after ours, so we may take advantage of it, who knows! The weather says it will be 80 down there, so we are hoping to make it to a beach at least once. We are mostly going to visit family, so getting to enjoy some sun will be nice too.
We leave for FL tomorrow! We have so much to do, I am doing loads of laundry today, then I will gather it all together tonight and start to pack probably. Not sure if we will take 2 suitcases or 1 big one, Dylan requires the most stuff since he needs multiple outfits a day. Our flight isn't until 4:30 out of Providence, so Josh is working a 1/2 day tomorrow from home and I will have time to officially pack and make sure we have everything. The flight is already sold out, which means Dylan will be on our laps again, but he did great on the planes to CA and back, so we are hoping for a repeat. Someone is not going to be pleased to sit in our row! There is also the chance to be bumped, so depending on what they are offering, there are 2 more flights after ours, so we may take advantage of it, who knows! The weather says it will be 80 down there, so we are hoping to make it to a beach at least once. We are mostly going to visit family, so getting to enjoy some sun will be nice too.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Fun Weekend in ME
We just got back from a great weekend ME and Dylan got to spend some time with Grammy and Grampy. It is definitely different from when we used to go there by ourselves, we need to bring so much more stuff for him! Josh and I also got to sleep in both days because they let us bring him to them when he woke up in the morning and then we got to go back to bed! It was fantastic and very much appreciated. For dinner today, we also met up with Abner and Aleana so we could see them and they could see Dylan who they haven't seen in a month.
We pretty much just hung out for the weekend which was so nice. Dylan was constantly chatting it up and gave huge smiles. It is so great to watch him already growing and developing a personality and interacting with us. I can't believe he is already 9 weeks old. It seems like so young but so long ago that he was born at the same time. Grampy and Grampy try to see Dylan as much as possible, I think between now and the next time we see them it will be the longest time we haven't seen them. We will be in FL next weekend and then the following weekend we have lots of plans already, and the next one is my last weekend of maternity leave. I am already struggling with the thought of going back and having to put Dylan in daycare for so many hours and only have a few hours with him at night.
We pretty much just hung out for the weekend which was so nice. Dylan was constantly chatting it up and gave huge smiles. It is so great to watch him already growing and developing a personality and interacting with us. I can't believe he is already 9 weeks old. It seems like so young but so long ago that he was born at the same time. Grampy and Grampy try to see Dylan as much as possible, I think between now and the next time we see them it will be the longest time we haven't seen them. We will be in FL next weekend and then the following weekend we have lots of plans already, and the next one is my last weekend of maternity leave. I am already struggling with the thought of going back and having to put Dylan in daycare for so many hours and only have a few hours with him at night.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Lots of Doctors!
Dylan certainly tried to make life interesting this past week or so. On Wed. 3/2, we had a doctor's appointment at Boston Children's Hospital. Dylan has an issue with his kidney that was discovered when I had an ultrasound at 37 weeks. They found what they called water on his kidney. To follow up, they do an ultrasound of the baby at about 1 month old once he isn't dehydrated from birth anymore to see if it is still there, and it tends to go away. So we took him in Feb. for the ultrasound at Children's and unfortunately it was still there on him. The dr. deemed it moderate, so that meant we would have to do some follow up tests to figure out what was causing this. The appointment on 3/2 was the first.
We finally got to meet with a urologist who explained exactly what the issue was, which no one had done before. He has what is called hydronephrosis on his left kidney. For some reason, the urine is staying in his kidney instead of completely draining, so the tests are to figure out why. For this one, they were checking to see if he had reflux, which meant the urine was draining, but then coming back up into the kidney. They had to give him a catheter and a dye and then watched to see if the dye was going back up. He did cry a little, but that was mostly because he was hungry, he was a little trooper. Below is a picture of him in his little hospital johnny.
The good news is, he doesn't have reflux. However, the dr. showed us the ultrasounds they had taken last time, and for some reason, the tube from his kidney to his bladder is very swollen. When they showed his right side, you can't even see the tube, when they showed the left, the tube was swollen almost as big as the kidney itself, which meant there is a blockage. So he earned himself a trip back for another test that will include an IV at the end of the month :-( That test will be to see whether his kidney is actually functioning at 100% or if the blockage is causing his kidney to not work properly, which could mean surgery. He is also on amoxicillin until he is 3 months old, and then another antibiotic until he is 9 months old to try and avoid a Urinary Tract Infection, which could be bad for his kidney.
On Thurs 3/3, he started to show signs of a little cold and was congested. We took his temperature each day, but it wasn't anything out of the ordinary. The poor guy slept a lot and just wanted to snuggle. On Sunday 3/6, he was just so quiet and not really himself, and by the end of the day, his head was really warm so we took his temperature. The first time it was 99.8, which was the highest he had been. So we took it again and it was 100.4, which is the temp. the doctors tell you for a newborn you have to call them. We took it 3 more times, and stayed within that range, so we called and they told us it was right on the border, but because of his hydronephrosis, that we had to go to the hospital that night. So Dylan got his first ER visit. Because he was so little, they took him right in. First thing they do is take his temperature, 98.6. What?? So they take it again, 98.6 again. So he now doesn't have a temperature. I think the Dr. thought we were nuts, but he was nice to us anyway. I had to hold him on the bed and he did not feel nearly as hot as he had at our house. The Dr. did hear he was a little congested, and so had a RSV test (a respiratory illness common in little kids that can be dangerous) run, and also tested his urine to make sure no infection, because a high temp is the only sign of a UTI. Dylan also somehow developed a rash all over in between the time the nurses checked him and when the dr. came in. Great! Well all the tests came back negative, so the Dr. said to just watch the temp. and the rash and if either got worse, to come back in. When we get home, we read the discharge papers which state in like the 2nd line that a new antibiotic can cause a rash. Oops, no one had asked, and neither of us had thought to mention he was now on amoxicillin. The little guy had to be in a hospital johnny again!
Luckily, he started to feel a little better the next couple of days, but then we discovered he had a lovely diaper rash on Tuesday. So we started putting some cream on it. We went to a little dinner party that night, and we mentioned it to the people hosting who have 2 small boys and they immediately asked us if he was on a new antibiotic. Yup! They said its probably a yeast infection! So we had Dylan's 2 month appt on Thurs and brought it up to his pediatrician. They were correct, and she prescribed us another medicine to use on his rash. Poor guy! It immediately started helping though so that's good, we have to use it for 2 weeks. We also got his 2 month statistics: 14 lbs, which is in the 90th percentile and 23.75 inches, which is in the 80th percentile, but both of us noticed the nurse didn't quite straighten out his legs, so we'll see next time. He is a growing boy!
We finally got to meet with a urologist who explained exactly what the issue was, which no one had done before. He has what is called hydronephrosis on his left kidney. For some reason, the urine is staying in his kidney instead of completely draining, so the tests are to figure out why. For this one, they were checking to see if he had reflux, which meant the urine was draining, but then coming back up into the kidney. They had to give him a catheter and a dye and then watched to see if the dye was going back up. He did cry a little, but that was mostly because he was hungry, he was a little trooper. Below is a picture of him in his little hospital johnny.
The good news is, he doesn't have reflux. However, the dr. showed us the ultrasounds they had taken last time, and for some reason, the tube from his kidney to his bladder is very swollen. When they showed his right side, you can't even see the tube, when they showed the left, the tube was swollen almost as big as the kidney itself, which meant there is a blockage. So he earned himself a trip back for another test that will include an IV at the end of the month :-( That test will be to see whether his kidney is actually functioning at 100% or if the blockage is causing his kidney to not work properly, which could mean surgery. He is also on amoxicillin until he is 3 months old, and then another antibiotic until he is 9 months old to try and avoid a Urinary Tract Infection, which could be bad for his kidney.
On Thurs 3/3, he started to show signs of a little cold and was congested. We took his temperature each day, but it wasn't anything out of the ordinary. The poor guy slept a lot and just wanted to snuggle. On Sunday 3/6, he was just so quiet and not really himself, and by the end of the day, his head was really warm so we took his temperature. The first time it was 99.8, which was the highest he had been. So we took it again and it was 100.4, which is the temp. the doctors tell you for a newborn you have to call them. We took it 3 more times, and stayed within that range, so we called and they told us it was right on the border, but because of his hydronephrosis, that we had to go to the hospital that night. So Dylan got his first ER visit. Because he was so little, they took him right in. First thing they do is take his temperature, 98.6. What?? So they take it again, 98.6 again. So he now doesn't have a temperature. I think the Dr. thought we were nuts, but he was nice to us anyway. I had to hold him on the bed and he did not feel nearly as hot as he had at our house. The Dr. did hear he was a little congested, and so had a RSV test (a respiratory illness common in little kids that can be dangerous) run, and also tested his urine to make sure no infection, because a high temp is the only sign of a UTI. Dylan also somehow developed a rash all over in between the time the nurses checked him and when the dr. came in. Great! Well all the tests came back negative, so the Dr. said to just watch the temp. and the rash and if either got worse, to come back in. When we get home, we read the discharge papers which state in like the 2nd line that a new antibiotic can cause a rash. Oops, no one had asked, and neither of us had thought to mention he was now on amoxicillin. The little guy had to be in a hospital johnny again!
Luckily, he started to feel a little better the next couple of days, but then we discovered he had a lovely diaper rash on Tuesday. So we started putting some cream on it. We went to a little dinner party that night, and we mentioned it to the people hosting who have 2 small boys and they immediately asked us if he was on a new antibiotic. Yup! They said its probably a yeast infection! So we had Dylan's 2 month appt on Thurs and brought it up to his pediatrician. They were correct, and she prescribed us another medicine to use on his rash. Poor guy! It immediately started helping though so that's good, we have to use it for 2 weeks. We also got his 2 month statistics: 14 lbs, which is in the 90th percentile and 23.75 inches, which is in the 80th percentile, but both of us noticed the nurse didn't quite straighten out his legs, so we'll see next time. He is a growing boy!
Friday, March 11, 2011
Welcome to our blog!
Welcome! We always have so much going on in our lives and places we are visiting, so I thought this would be a good way to document it. We have bought a house and had a baby in the past year, so we definitely have stuff to talk about! Hopefully, this blog is something that Dylan will be able to look back on one day and see all the things we did!
Dylan Jacob was born on 1/9/11 at 12:36 am. He was 9 lbs 7 oz and 22 inches. Not exactly small! Dylan is Josh's middle name, so he has a connection to his daddy. Plus, D is also Josh's father's first initial, and J is my father's first initial so it has a lot of meaning. He is now 9 weeks old today and such a cute little thing! He has started filling out and looking like a little boy not a newborn. It's so cute and so sad that he is already getting so big! I have been on maternity leave and have just been loving getting to be home with him. We don't really have any schedule, so we haven't gotten much done around the house, but spending time with him is worth it. When he snuggles up on me and falls asleep, it is pretty hard to want to put him down and paint or do dishes instead! I posted a couple of pictures from when he was born below. I will post some recent ones soon.
We are usually on the go a lot, visiting friends and family or running errands. He hasn't slowed us down too much, it just takes us longer to do things now! He has already been to RI, ME and NH and a couple of weekends ago he went on his first flight out to CA to visit San Francisco and Sonoma. He was fantastic on the flights and in CA, we were very impressed. We are hoping to get him used to traveling early since I travel so much for work and we like to go on little trips and we would love to continue that. Plus, because of my frequent traveling, Josh is able to fly free with me for a year on Southwest. So we are trying to take as many little trips as we can until the end of the year to take advantage of it. If anyone has any suggestions for places to visit, let me know! The hope is Josh and him will be able to travel with me on a few of my work trips in the fall too. It all depends on the places I will have to go.
Dylan Jacob was born on 1/9/11 at 12:36 am. He was 9 lbs 7 oz and 22 inches. Not exactly small! Dylan is Josh's middle name, so he has a connection to his daddy. Plus, D is also Josh's father's first initial, and J is my father's first initial so it has a lot of meaning. He is now 9 weeks old today and such a cute little thing! He has started filling out and looking like a little boy not a newborn. It's so cute and so sad that he is already getting so big! I have been on maternity leave and have just been loving getting to be home with him. We don't really have any schedule, so we haven't gotten much done around the house, but spending time with him is worth it. When he snuggles up on me and falls asleep, it is pretty hard to want to put him down and paint or do dishes instead! I posted a couple of pictures from when he was born below. I will post some recent ones soon.
We are usually on the go a lot, visiting friends and family or running errands. He hasn't slowed us down too much, it just takes us longer to do things now! He has already been to RI, ME and NH and a couple of weekends ago he went on his first flight out to CA to visit San Francisco and Sonoma. He was fantastic on the flights and in CA, we were very impressed. We are hoping to get him used to traveling early since I travel so much for work and we like to go on little trips and we would love to continue that. Plus, because of my frequent traveling, Josh is able to fly free with me for a year on Southwest. So we are trying to take as many little trips as we can until the end of the year to take advantage of it. If anyone has any suggestions for places to visit, let me know! The hope is Josh and him will be able to travel with me on a few of my work trips in the fall too. It all depends on the places I will have to go.
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