9 Months!

We have a 9 month old! Doc says he looks great! He has a great appetite still, weighing in at 20 pounds even! He has made it up to the 50th percentile finally! Still only 10th for length and head circumference, but thats ok, haha. Still has baby food three times a day with yogurt snack, and 4 six ounce bottles. He is only on 1/2 tablet of aspirin a day now, much better than 6 meds per day. He is almost crawling. He wants to soo bad but hasn't quite gotten it. He can move all around just not straight forward yet. He can also pull up to stand in his crib. He's wearing 9-12 month clothing now, and 12 month big boy pj's :) We also had recent cardiologist check up and his heart function was great, too! We are so thankful he is so healthy and doing so well.

We were able to spend a few days at the beach last week with my mom and step dad. We had such a great time, and we're so fortunate they invited us to go. Colt absolutely loves the water and he even liked the sand. He also got another tooth while we were there! So he finally has two little teeth at the bottom.

Colt's Meme who watches him, recently went to Australia for almost 3 weeks. Andrew and I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped watch Colt while she was gone!! We cant begin to tell you all how much we appreciate your help. Then once she returned, she found out she was being recalled to work (American Airlines) and we had just a few days to figure something out. We were very fortunate to find a spot in daycare right down the road from our house. I'm very nervous about it, but I know he will be just fine. He really loves being around other kids and learns so much from watching them. He starts on the 27th, so please say a prayer for him and me :)




Colt and cousin Bryn




Colt and Emery




Colt and Nick

Missing Colt

Well I write this post as we are in the air on the way to Atlanta. From there we go to Austin, Texas. Drew's big brother Tim finally decided to get married :) But, we sure do miss our little man already. The doc said we could bring him, but it's such a short trip ( leaving Friday coming back Monday) we didn't want to stress him out. Not to mention his oxygen saturations would drop during flight (everyone's does, but his are already in the high 70s to low 80s, where normal is high 90s to 100) and we didn't want to chance anything bad happening. So he is staying with my sister Leah. She also has a one year old, so i know they are going to have a fabulous time!!

Since last update, I did take Colt back to the doctor and sure enough he still had an ear infection. So they switched his antibiotic to something stronger for another 10 days and gave him an antihistamine. He finally seemed to get over it. Still has some congestion, but only really noticeable when he drinks his bottle.

He sure is getting to be a big boy!! Sitting up really good, and his legs are getting much stronger. I don't think it will be much longer before he is crawling!! Still no teeth though, I don't know if he will ever get any!! He has recently started to squeal. He loves to do it. And do it loudly. In our ears. But that's ok. It's so cute, he can do it all he wants. He is finally back in his crib. He loves it in there. He can move all around all night unlike the rocker. He just started eating baby yogurt and loves it! Still drinking 6 oz bottles and food three times a day. Size 4 diapers already! Mainly because he liked to poop out of the 3s for some reason, and the 4s seem to work much better. He stayed with his girlfriend Emery the past two days since Meme went to Texas earlier than us, and they have such a fun time together. I give Emery's Aunt Lindsay a lot of credit for keeping them both at the same time :) Well, that's about all that's going on in our household. We go back to Duke in a couple weeks for a check up. Hoping for good news!!





















































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First ear infection

Well the time finally came. Poor Colt got his first ear infection. I would say getting sick for the first time at 7 months is ok. Still sucks but I know it had to happen eventually. He seems to have done pretty well with it over all. He will finish up his antibiotics on Friday. But poor little man is still very congested and has trouble drinking his bottle. I may call the doctor back before the weekend, even though im pretty sure there's nothing they can do about it.

He has just started sitting up in the last few days! It's so exciting watching him grow and learn new things. He's up to 6 ounces per bottle and he has between 4 and 5 bottles per day. Lately he seems to not really care for his bottle first thing. Still loving his baby food, though. He gets cereal twice a day at breakfast and dinner usually mixed with fruit. He doesn't like it by itself. And he will have a veggie at lunch time.


At the doctor last week he weighed in at 17 lbs 2 ounces and was just at 27 inches long! I think he's finally starting to catch up!! He loves watching cartoons in the mornings while playing in his exersaucer. He still doesn't have any teeth yet, but he sure is working hard on it! Maybe by the next post he will have one to show!!











































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Since surgery

Ok, I'm not going to keep apologizing for not updating and promising to do better. Only because no matter what I just don't do it :( I don't know why. Anyway.


When we came home from hospital we were able to spend a couple days at home with Colt before we had to rush back to work. Unfortunately we have bills to pay :( He recovered really well and fast. For the first three weeks or so he was waking every 2-3 hours at night though. That made for two very tired parents. Of course he couldn't help his schedule got off. We would feed him each time, then he would only wake twice then once. Then he would wake a couple times and we would just have to put his passy back in. But, I'm proud to say he has been sleeping through the night completely since Sunday, woohoo!! He goes to bed around 7 and gets up around 6:30 or 7am. He wakes up very happy just talking away. I let him lay there and talk about 5 minutes or so before I get him. I love hearing him just chatter away. He loves to turn circles in his crib.

We couldn't pick him up under his arms for 6 weeks. That was tough and took some getting used to. It also set him back a little developmentally because he couldn't use his bumbo or exersaucer to practice sitting up. But no big deal. He's back at it now and will be sitting up in no time. He loves to roll! He's finally drinking 5 ounces each bottle and has baby food three times a day. He's gaining weight and the doctor wants us to watch him and if he gets too chubby we have to switch formula, haha. He's had his first pool and beach experiences and loved both!! Can't wait until next year when he can run around the beach on the sand :) He has even spent a couple days with his girlfriend Emery. They were both on their best behavior and loved being together all day, haha.

I am looking forward to the weekend so I can spend time with him. It sucks coming home from work and only having an hour or so with him at night. And one night a week I have to work til 7, (tonight) and he was already in bed when I got here :(

Have I mentioned he is 7 months old today???? Time is going by way too fast!! We are so blessed to have such a strong, sweet, happy boy. Thanks to all of you for your thoughts and prayers this last surgery and everyday. Hopefully we won't be back for another for two years. Until next time, enjoy some pictures of our precious boy.


























































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