Next Week.......

..... is going to be a busy week. Its going to be our last week here at Scott before we come home and its full of doctor appointments and other things.

August 4th Brooke goes to the dentist to get a filling.

August 5th David goes to Children's for a colotogram and we find out about when his surgery is going to be (sometime in November)

August 6th is our WIC appointment

August 7th is David's WELL check with his 2 months shots

August 9th We pick up Great Grandma from the airport

And last but not least is August 10th Brooke's 6 week check up

We will post on Wednesday with a surgery date

Love Brooke, Keith and David

My friends kid Roman 8 lbs 3 oz

We will be home Aug. 11 - Nov. 3. We will be staying at my mom's house. So if you want me to visit let me know when we wre home. Next appt is Aug. 5th at Children's. Home Health came out today and David is 8 lbs 2oz.

Post again soon

Brroke, Keith and David

New pics

Turtle Time (nap)

Time for Bed

Mr. Personalty

Bouncer

Changing my Diaper

Changing My pee pee diaper

My poop Bag !!!!

Baby Acne

Trying to Stand

Look at the Penguins

What are you doing?

Playtime

Look at all those colors

Mommy thinks I have elf ears in this pic

Watching Tv

Swing Time

What's up

More Family !!!

Stormy guarding lil man


Mommie and me on the tram to Grant's Farm


Mommies new do


Great Grandma and me


Everyone at Grants Farm


Daddy feeding me


My big sis watching me while mom wash my bottles


Aunt Sarah mommie and me


Don't mess with my Big sis


Aunt Sarah changing my diaper

In my car seat sleeping at Grant's Farm

Updates.... We had a busy week this week.

On Monday, We went to see Dr. Sammer (Plastic Surgeon) about David's thumb. He has a weak ligament to his right thumb that will need an operation in January but maybe in December. Dr. Sammer will have to go in and take tissue and add to his ligament to make it stronger. David will be in the hospital overnight for recovery. He will wear a splint that will go up to his elbow (for 2 weeks), and then a cast for 4 weeks. This will be the last of the four surgery he will go thru.

On Tuesday, Home Health came out for his routine checkup. David weight was 7lbs 1 0z. He is starting to sleep thru the night 3 hours at a time.

On Wednesday, We went to see Dr. Saito (his general surgeon) She will be giving him a new butt in November. At this appointment Dr. saitio check his stoma and said everything is looking good. The infection has clear up and is very impress with Brooke and his colostomy changes. He will have a colostmgram done in August (where they take dye and look to make sure everything is looking good for his operation) and his next appointment with her is Aug. 5th. David Went to bed around 9pm and did not wake up til 3AM. He slept 6 hours straight. Then he woke up every 3 hours after that.

On Thursday, Home Health came out and weight him again he is now 7lbs 3 oz and is 21 inches long. Brooke called David's peds Dr. His next appointment is Monday at 320. Keith goes back to work on Monday on second shift. 230 til 11 pm. Brooke got a new haircut this weekend too. That's all for now. We will post again soon.

Love Brooke, Keith and David

This past weekend Brooke's Aunt Carolyn, Cousin Sarah and Grandma came to visit David. We had so much fun. We went to see the Clydales at Grant's Farm in st. Louis and got stuck in a really bad storm. Brooke was on a bridge when the power went out on the bridge follow by a crack of thunder. Scared Brooke to death luckily David slept right thru it.

Family Time !!

Today David went on his first social outing. We went to the squadron picnic and he had fun. He got a little hot but everyone loved him. We said farewell to Chief Clark he is PCSing to Hawaii. Nanny, Aunt Carolyn and Sarah are here visiting David. Tomorrow we will be going to St. Louis to see the Arch and the clydales at Grant's Farm we will post pictures tomorrow. Oh the Home Health Nurse came by and David weighs 6lbs 11 oz. On Tuesday he weighed 6lbs 8oz. So he has gain some weight quickly in a few days.

Love Brooke, Keith and David

P.S. We no longer have Ernie we had to get rid of him. He ate our cushion to our couch. That was the last straw he is with a nice family now. Brooke will miss him.

Back to the hospital for an over night stay !!!!!!

We went to David check up yesterday morning with Dr. Savath. David is now 6lbs 6 oz and is 20 inch long. We were told to call David's surgery doctor and to have his stoma look at. Dr. Savath was worry that it might be infected. (and it was) So we call Dr. Saito's office and got him in to get his stoma look at. David had the beginnings of an infection that we caught in the nic of time. One of his stitches was coming up out of his skin (like a blackhead) and need to be pop. Dr. Saito then told us that we needed to stay over night to treat the infection with antibiotics thru and IV. Well that didn't go as plan. They had 4 nurses come in and stuck him in both feet, hands and arms twice (that's 4 times in his hands and arms) and in the head twice (Brooke and Keith could not stay and watch that). They never got an IV in so they decided to give him oral antibiotics. Poor little David went thru hell and back yesterday. This morning the nurse practitioner told us that it looks good now and we can goo home.

On a side note ...... Brooke did not held things well yesterday (we blame her hormones) Every time David cry and was pitching a fit with the nurse Brooke cried and it made Keith get worry and upset too. It was a long night at Children's Brooke or Keith did not sleep at all we were up all night long.

I want to thank Rugie, Jim and one of the guys from the ows for watching the dogs for us last night. It was a big help !!!

We will post again later

Love Brooke, Keith and David

Tummy Time !!!!!

His stoma it started to bleed right after we took this picture. We think if you look to the right of it, that it is swelling on the side of it (it feel like its inside of his belly).

Tummy time !!!

Wasn't happy about tummy time.

Getting ready to roll himself over.

His July 4th outfit Nana got him

Today we had tummy time on the floor. David is starting to turn himself over and hold his head up for a few seconds at a time. We are so proud of him. He is doing so well until we get to his colostomy. That is where we have problems. Brooke is the one that changes it. Keith hasn't been able to master it yet. When he screams at the top of his lungs it breaks Brooke's heart and she get upset afterwards. Instead of having his surgery in November we are going to see about September. I don't think Brooke can take it much longer with all the screaming she get really really sad afterwards. We have a doctors appt. tomorrow with Dr. Savath @ 8 AM. We will post later that day.

Love Brooke Keith and David

Bath Time !!!

Little man acting like his sleeping

He is so silly

Asleep after a bath

Trying to relax after a bath

Mad at Mom and Dad for giving him a bath

All Done

Not to happy

Still not happy

So much fun (diaper is coming off to clean his butt)

Cleaning his little legs

Bath time is so much fun

Not sure whats going on

You need to fix me mom

Still not liking the tub thing

Getting ready to go in

Today we gave David his first bath. He was not to happy about it. We left his diaper on until time to clean his butt, bc we cant get his little colostmy wet. So that is why there are pictures of him in his diaper in the tub. After taking a bath he pass out so we now know to give him a bath a night before bed. Thats all the updates for now. Tomorrow we are having a cookout for the forth of July. We will post later that night.