Fun weekend!

Gage is ready for bed and saying bye to Uncle Josh and Aunt Brittany

We have had such a fun weekend!! It started a little early on Thursday. Aaron's mom came in for a visit. Gage was excited to see his Lolli, but sad that Pop couldn't make the trip with her. He got to spend alot of time with her on Thursday and again on Friday. She left on Friday around 4:30. Gage was down for a nap, and then had some alone time with me for a couple of hours, and then my parents came in around 7:30. He got to see his Grandma and Papa J for a little bit before it was bedtime. THEN, on Saturday, we added to the numbers with Josh and Brittany driving over from Statesboro to spend the day with us. We went around to a few local stores around Dublin and then went out for lunch. We had a relaxing afternoon at the house watching football, talking, and playing Rummikub. We all went to dinner at a local restaurant here and then out for ice cream. Whew! We were all tired after a day like that. This morning, we went to church with Grandma and Papa J, and then out to eat. They left town after lunch, and after a good nap, we are now about to go to a corn maze and pumpkin patch with the youth group. It should be fun! I'm hoping to get some pictures as well. I'm sure Gage and I will both be ready for a relaxing, do-nothing day tomorrow :) But we sure have had fun being with family this weekend. I have included a couple of pictures from the weekend....though I wish I had taken more. I never think of it at the moment...I need to improve on that.

Uncle Travis carved a pumpkin with Gage's name in it. He sent us the picture last night. What an awesome pumpkin!!

Bumbo Chair

From 2-4 months

This is one of his favorite spots to sit in the house. He loves to sit here and have conversations.

Ok, so the last blog caught everyone up to the point when we moved here to Dublin, and Gage had just turned two months. Since we have been here, we have had no health problems..yay!! He is a strong, healthy, growing boy. I am thankful everyday for that. We have a wonderful pediatrician that we use here, and thankfully have only needed to see him on the normal monthly appointments( well, not so monthly anymore). Gage has learned to smile, laugh, and really starting to interact when you talk to him. In a sweet, soft voice of course. He is trying his best to sit up and stand. He loves to be on his feet and for you just to hold him so he can stand up and look around at everything. He has wonderful control of his head for such a small person. We are really working these days on getting him to grab and hold onto things. He seems to have no interest in it whatsoever. He would much rather smile and talk to you. Which is super cute, and I would prefer that as well :) We have also discovered that he is a major flirt with girls. He will constantly smile and play with them. Not sure what this means for our future with him.....haha! I have loved being at home with him and watching all these milestones develop. I cherish everyday with him and just can't get enough love from him. He will 5 months on October 29th. I can't believe how time flies!!! Within the past few months, we have also made several visits to Statesboro to visit Uncle Josh and Aunt Brittany, gone to Kentucky to visit Uncle Bert, Aunt Sarah, and Temperance. We have had  a visit from Uncle Justin, and have seen Uncle Travis for a few minutes while in Albany one day. Gage has still not gotten to meet his Uncle Zach, but we are trying to plan out a time for that to happen. And he of course gets frequent visits from his Grandma and Papa J (my parents) and from his Lolli and Pop (Aaron's parents). In fact, they are coming to see us this weekend! So..I think that about catches us up on where we are today. He is just wonderful and other than his size, you would never know he was 2 months premature and spent a month in the hospital. God is so very good!!

He now loves his bath time. Also, as you can see here, his belly button is sticking way out. He has an umbilical hernia. Nothing serious, the dr told us it would go away between 18 months and 2 years. Good news! It is now already way down from this picture.

Now that he can support his head, we enjoy sitting him in his bumbo seat.

Introduction

For this blog, I will introduce you to Gage. He was born on May 29, 2010 at 12:15 pm. He was 16.75 inches long and weighed 3 lbs 10 oz. He came 9 weeks early. He was in the NICU for exactly one month. He had no major problems while there, just minor ones including breathing apnea and a staph infection. He was released from the NICU after he was able to nurse or bottlefeed for 24 hours and had no breathing problems off of his medicine for 24 hours. We went home on June 29th. What an exciting day that was!! No more driving to the hospital to see my son and I could wake up to feed him at night, instead of waking up to pump (not fun!) We spent another month in Leesburg pretty much cooped up in the house and then moved to Dublin, Ga on July 31st. So that catches you up on his first two months, I know, not too exciting yet. I'll have more to tell in future posts. Enjoy a few pictures of the first couple of months!

He had to be hooked up to all this as soon as he was born. He only had the breathing machine (the mouthpiece) for about 24 hours.

See how tiny he was?!?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At our house in Leesburg, Ga