Fort Worth Cats Photo Shoot

Today we had a photo shoot with the amazing Maggie. She wanted to get some photos of Channing for her portfolio and for us to have some of as well. She wanted to do some kind of baseball theme because seriously we all know Channing is probably going to love baseball!! At first we decided to meet at the baseball fields that all the kids play on. WELL Maggie had a wondeful idea to call and see if we could do the photo shoot at La Grave Field where the Fort Worth Cats play and they said yes as long as they could use the photos later if they wanted too!! I mean who could say no to that opportunity. I was so excited to get some great shots of him on the field, in the dugout, and in the stands. Channing was so great the whole time we were out there too! I am so excited with the way the photos turned out. Thanks again Maggie we are going to cherish these photos forever!!!

It is just Acid Reflux

Channing has been having a small issue. We have noticed that after he eats a bottle he will spit up a good amount of it afterwards. This has made me extremely worried that something is wrong but I am not quite sure what since he is not crying when it happens and doesn't seem upset by it. I decided to have it checked at his 8 week appointment. When we meet with Dr. Vert she said it was possible he could have acid reflux or could have a problem with one of his tubes not opening and closing right which would cause the spit up. She switched us to a new and very expensive formula to try to see if that would work and if it didn't then she wanted to send him in for an ultrasound. We were to wait a week and see if he was doing any better with the new formula. Well when we went back for the check up it hadn't gotten any better so they decided to go ahead and set up the ultrasound.
We took Channing to Cooks Children hospital for the ultrasound. He couldn't eat 4 hours before the procedure just to make sure his system was empty. Once we got back to the room they made him drink a lot of sugar water and burp him to make sure there was no gas blocking the view. We were not there for very long and she said she would have the results to our doctor by the end of the day or the very next morning. Now was just the waiting game.

The next morning we got the call from the doctors office to tell us he has acid reflux and needs to be put on two different perscriptions to help him with the spitting up. She said he will more than likely out grow it by the time he is 1 or before he turns 1. We were so thankful it wasn't the tube problem because that would have required surgery and I am pretty sure that was something I would not  be able to deal with!

8 week photo shoot

Today we had Channing's 8 weeks photos done by the wonderful Theresa! I was not sure how this was going to go down with him being a little tired and wondering if he would even smile for any of the photos. But once we got started with the photos he did great. We took some of him in his crib and he was starting to show his beautiful smile.

Next we took some on his dresser surrounded by all his baseball stuff that Chase got him!

Once we started those photos though he started to get a little cranky because he was getting tired already! So while we tried to calm him down Theresa got some great photos of the room and us trying to calm him down.

After that we took him into the living room and made our own little studio to take pictures.

Channing was great for this part. He was really smiling at Theresa when she was talking to him and she was getting some great shots of him! One of my very favorite is this one, it is a true classic photo!

The photo shoot was a success and Channing did a great job! Thank you so much for the wonderful photos Theresa!!

First ER Visit

I am sure this will not be our only trip to the ER especially with having a little boy but it was enough to make me hope we don't have to go to many more times. Over the past couple of days we have noticed that Channing spits up a lot and doesn't hold much of his bottle down. He doesn't seem to be complaining like he is not getting enough food but it has been really bothering us. Also he has been having diarrhea really bad like every couple of hours and it just seems like a little much for the little guy to go through. I called the pediatrician and he said we could give him some pedialyte to try to help him from getting dehydrated and he told us what to watch for in case we thought he was becoming dehydrated. All of this had Chase and I both really worried especially when the doctor said if it got worse to take him into the ER. Well we only waited a little longer and thought even if they ER tells us he will be fine and there is nothing wrong that would put us at ease.

So off to the ER we went. Thankfully it wasn't busy at all and since we had a little one they didn't want to risk him getting sick by anyone else so they took him back to a room right away. We seen the doctor and went over everything that had been going on and what the pediatrician had told us. He said it sounded like he was lactose intolerant. They were going to check his poop for a bacterial infection and see if it was anything like that but he really thought is was him not being able to have the milk. So we waited for the results of the test that came back that he had no infection that they could test for. The doctor told us to take him home and put him on soy formula and see if we noticed a difference and to check up with the pediatrician in a couple of days. We were so thankful that he was not dehydrated or something more serious was wrong.

If all the other ER visits could go this smoothly that would be great, but I can only hope that would be the case!

First Family Christmas

Well even though Channing is only 4 weeks old he is already having his first Christmas. Next year we will make it a big deal since it will be his actual first Christmas where he can get into things and really enjoy it.

We started off our day by opening the one small gift we had gotten him, a tug boat!

 I am sure he will love it once he can actually start playing with it. Then we were off to Chase's parents house to do gifts with them and the kids and to see what Santa brought the kids. Let me tell you those kids are spoiled. They had so much stuff everywhere but it is so worth it to see their smiles on their faces when they open something they really wanted. We spent the morning with the Hargroves and had breakfast and relaxed for a bit before we needed to head over to my dads side.

Around lunch time we headed on over to my dads house for Christmas with them. Channing made out like a bandit. He got so much stuff and he has no idea about any of it. He just sat there like a good boy and watched all of us opening presents while taking little cap naps!! He is just too cute!! We had a wonderful lunch with the family before we headed on home to unpack the car and relax for a bit with just us as our new little family.

As tradition goes that night we headed back to Chase's parents house for game night. We were all dressed in our pjs or comfy clothes and sat around the table playing games while the kids played with all of their toys and Channing slept right through it all.  It was a great first Christmas for us all but I really can't wait until next year when he will hopefully be walking and into everything so it will be more fun!!!

First Thanksgiving

Our first Thanksgiving with Channing and we could not have more to be thankful for! I have been wanting to start a family with Chase for some time now but the timing was never right. Now after 6 months of trying and then the whole 40 weeks of pregnancy we finally have our first little bundle of joy! We spent it with my family in the afternoon and then over to Chase's parents house at night! Although it had only been about 24 hours since we left the hospital we had a great time and Channing was such a good baby! God has truly blessed us this year!

So cute!!

Looking up at daddy!

Aunt Michele

Getting some sleep in

Mommy decided she needed sleep too!

Mema and Papaw

Hospital Visit

We had a lot of visitors while we were at the hospital, which I really enjoyed since I would rather have them all there instead of at my house! It was great getting to see the family with him and holding our little bundle of joy! Even Kayden was not scared and came and visited us a lot! We got some lovely flowers from Jenny and Vanessa and Kayden got Channing this really cute elephant that is bigger than he is! The overall hospital visit was ok, we had a nurse that we thought was going to be a problem at first but then in the end turned out to be really sweet! All the nurses and nursery nurses were great!
Here are some pictures of our visitors!

Little blurry but love his reaction

Mema and Papa

Aunt Ali and Hunter

Braden

Hargrove Men!!! Love it!!!

Kayden

Pappaw

Flowers from Jenny

Flowers from Kayden and Vanessa

Trying to nap in between visitors!!

Hospital Photo Shoot...

So the hospital people came in and did his photo shoot today! We were so excited because we brought his cute little baseball outfit for the pictures. When the lady came in she noticed his outfit and she said she had a small baseball we could try to see if he could hold! Well he was able to hold it while sleeping and we got some great shots of him! Of course we spent way to much money and bought the CD so we could make plenty of copies ourselves and give them out to family, but hey he is only 1 and 1/2 days old once in his life!!! Here are the super cute photos!