Health Update

I just wanted to give everybody a short update while I have a few minutes. Grady has been sick lately, so I took him to the doctor on Friday. After a chest x ray it was determined that he had pneumonia, so he was given an antibiotic and a breathing treatment and was due back for a recheck on Monday. Well, on Monday, there was not much of a change so we did another chest x ray, changed his antibiotic and gave him cough medicine. After the 2nd chest x ray, it showed no more pneumonia so we were confused as to why he is coughing so much. (Our regular doctor has not been there, so we were seeing another doctor.) However this morning, our main doctor was back, so we went back to see her. To make a long story short, our doctor told us the films were misread and he never had pneumonia, but he does have Restrictive Airway Disease, which is a precurser to asthma. It is completely treatable and thankfully does not mean he WILL have asthma later in life if we can treat it now. We were now given a steroid to keep the swelling in his lungs down and we are continuing with the antibiotic and breathing treatment every six hours. Our main goal is to keep his oxygen level up which has been lower than we would like. The doctor says as long as she sees him everyday for the rest of the week, she thinks she can keep him out of the hospital. So, we have another appointment tomorrow morning and we are hoping his oxygen levels will have risen since putting him on the steroid and giving his breathing treatment more frequently.

Needless to say, poor Grady has been through the ringer and has not been sleeping much at all. Putting him down in his crib for a nap is out of the question, so he's been taking "shoulder naps" a few times a day....



Yesterday I felt like I sat in the rocking chair ALL DAY. The past two nights he's been up 7-8 times... last night was the worst because he would only sleep about 20 minutes at a time. However, we both just took a long nap together in my bed and he is happily playing next to me.

So, I don't have lots of pictures today, nor do I have the time to post them, but here is one that I just took... he's getting A LOT of hair!



I will post later about the nice weekend we had with Mikey's Aunt Lorraine and Aunt Janice (from NJ and NY). They came for a visit!

Busy Weeks... and Grady is Growing!

Things have been busy at the White House. Katie moved in last week and we are enjoying have her here... I'm a little psycho about keeping the noise level down at night time and that is very difficult with 12 paws clicking around the wood floor!

Mother's Day was a nice day... Mikey bought me adirondack chairs for the patio and Grady sent me flowers to work on Friday! A very talented friend of Mikey's made the chairs for us, along with a baby rocking chair for little Gray Gray...






Aunt Jenine sent a Mother's Day shirt for Grady to wear... It says "I Love My Mom"!




Grady enjoyed a fun time at Relay for Life the weekend before last. He strolled along for a few laps and my work friends really enjoyed seeing him!



Katie and I are trying out Anna Cross's new hairbows on Grady (Mikey was NOT happy!)... doesn't he look cute? Lol...



And just a few more random pics...

Waiting on my Camera!

I haven't posted anything new lately because I left my camera in Elaine's car. We had a busy weekend last weekend and this week Katie moved in! I will be getting my camera back tomorrow and posting lots of pics! Have a great Saturday everybody!

Busy Weekend...

This weekend we had a fun visit from Mikey's sister, Jenine. She came over early Friday morning to pick Grady up and he spent the day with Aunt Jenine and Grandma. Friday night, we had an early dinner and just relaxed. Saturday, we went to the "Scratch Ankle" Festival in Milton. None of us were quite sure why it is called that, but it is basically an arts and crafts festival in downtown Milton that is about 2 blocks long! It was small, but the weather was beautiful and we enjoyed being outside. Saturday night, we grilled steaks and ate on the new patio. Grady loved sitting on Aunt Jenine's shoulders and pulling handfulls of hair!



He also had his first "people food" as we call it... carrots! He loved them and made a HUGE mess. We decided it was time for some food when we noticed the past several days that Grady follows our every bite from plate to mouth like a dog. Look at the mess he made...






And finally this weekend, we went out and bought some new bikes and a bike trailer for little Grady to cruise around in. Due to the ever expanding waistline 18 weeks post partum, I've picked up the exercise by walking the track at least 3 days a week and now the whole family can bike together! We bought beach cruisers which are much more comfortable than mountain bikes, and since we aren't going to take Grady on any steep, rocky trails anytime soon, these were perfect for us.

Don't you like the retro look?



And Mikey's along with the trailer...



We took our first ride after dinner tonight, with Grady and his teething ring in tote (yes, he is teething, that is a whole different story), we rode like the wind and Grady LOVED catching the breeze!






A few more to tag on... Grady is his exersaucer (mom tries not to let him get "overstimulated" with all those colors, noises, and spinny things"). He really enjoys it and we really enjoy him becoming a little more independent- as much as a 4 month old can be!

4 Months Old Today!

Today is Grady's 4 month old birthday! Everyone says how time flies and how fast they grow up and it is so true. But we are enjoying him everyday... he smiles and giggles and squeals. And he rolled over for the first time with absolutely NO help today!

Easter Pics...





All Smiles!

Pictures are up!

Go to www.kaybrownphotography.com, click online viewing, then type in White.

Let me know what you think!

I will post Easter pics soon- I left the camera at Mikey's mom's house on Sunday...

Old Friends

Today, Grady and I went to Destin to meet my friend Kami, along with her 7 month old baby girl, Makay, her mom and her aunt. I have known Kami and her family since middle school, for almost 15 years! We haven't seen each other since her wedding in October 06. So it was great to catch up and meet her precious baby. Grady and Makay enjoyed each other very much- Makay kept reaching over to grab Grady's hand, and even leaned in for the kiss! She's a cougar. :) And Gray Gray (as I like to call him) is quite the lady's man.



Mikey stayed home and put together our new patio furniture and gazebo. We got a new concrete patio in early March and have been searching for the perfect table, chairs, and gazebo since then. So we really haven't spent much time out there at all. But now that we have our items, we will spend many summer evenings eating dinner together! As an added bonus, Grady LOVES to be outdoors.

We have a busy few weeks with visitors... Emily and Jeff are coming on Wednesday for one night, Mikey's sister Jenine is coming in a couple of weekends, and then Katie moves in the first week of May. Yay! I can't wait to have my sister back home although I wish Beau could come, too. :(

Grady finished his 3 months pictures on Wednesday (although he's almost 4 months now)... she has not posted them yet, but if you want to check periodically, go to www.kaybrownphotography.com, then click on "online viewing" and type in "White". I check daily!!!

Look how much he has grown... the first picture was taken at 4 weeks old, the second taken just last week at 15 weeks old. I wish time could stand still now before he gets any bigger! MUCH cuter now, if you want to know my opinion!!!







(Quite the chub-chub! below)






Happy Easter everyone!