So...it has been awhile since I have updated our blog. We have been busy with a lot of family staying with us. Brandon's mom came up from Tennessee and stayed with us from December 14th to the 20th. Then my mom and step-dad came from Arizona and stayed from December 24th to the 30th. While they were here my brother and his family came up from Tennessee along with my sister and hers from Rochester. After they left, Brandon's dad and step-mom from Oklahoma were with us from January 2nd to the 7th. We also went down to Rochester this past weekend to finally have Christmas with my dad and step-mom and sister and her family.
As you can see we have had a LOT of company. It was a good time seeing everybody considering we don't get to see them that much since they all live across the country. I had not seen my brother in 3 years and that meant meeting my new nephew who is now 2. Now that our company is gone, we are now ready to get used to it being just the three of us. This past week was the first week Caleb and I were home without any help. We had a good time playing, singing, and reading books when he was awake (which is not that long). Amaya is also getting more used to him. She doesn't run away when we get close to her with him like she did at first. She is even laying right next to him when he is on the floor.
Brandon and I are doing pretty good and adjusting pretty well to having a newborn in the house. The lack of sleep is what gets us. Caleb has a pretty consistent schedule already. He eats every 3 hours so that means we only sleep for a few hours at a time. It wasn't so bad when we had all of our family here to help and when Brandon was home for Christmas vacation. Our routine was I would feed him and Brandon would change his diaper then put him back to sleep. Now that he has gone back to school that leaves me doing all of it. I am pretty exhausted at those middle of the night feedings. I keep telling myself eventually he will sleep for longer periods of time. Right?!?
Caleb is doing really well and eating really good. Sometimes I am afraid he is eating too much. We weighed him tonight and he weighs 10 pounds 6 ounces. I am not sure how accurate our scale is but at his doctor appointment on the 5th he weighed 8 pounds 14 ounces. That seems like a huge weight gain in only 11 days! We also had a little scare with him the week before last. While changing his diaper I noticed a hard knot in his groin area. We thought it was a hernia and took him to the doctor the next day. The doctor also thought it was a hernia and tried to reduce it but it did not go away. She was concerned about it and sent us to the ER to see a surgeon who was on call. That surgeon was not able to see him but about 3 or 4 other doctors did. After being in the hospital for 6 hours and having to have a CT scan and Ultrasound they diagnosed him with a hydrocele. We took him to see a vascular surgeon last week and the surgeon diagnosed him with the same thing. It is nothing scary. Only a fluid filled cyst on his spermadic chord. It is not doing any harm to him and he does not even act like it bothers him. The surgeon said to watch it and hopefully it goes away by his first birthday. He said most of the time they do. If it doesn't though, he may have to have surgery to remove it. Pray that it goes away. I hope that is all the drama we have with him health wise. Needless to say we probably met our insurance deductible for the year.
Caleb goes back to the doctor on February 7th for his 2 month appointment. He will have to get his immunizations at that appointment. I am not looking forward to that. I scheduled the appointment for later in the afternoon so Brandon will have to go with me. There is no way I would be able to handle that on my own.
I have a few more pictures that I need to add to his photo album on Facebook. I will try to get that done this next week. Hopefully I will have another update sooner than this past one.
