July 10th

Well, I can't get any more pictures off the camera without the IT fairy's help, so we are stuck with just text!! We also lost a bunch of text from all the pictures...so guess it all balances out!
Yesterday was the big day of doctor appointments. Teaching for 13 years definitely requires flexibility and apparently so does motherhood!!! Who knew! My appt. was originally at 1:30, so we had the feeding schedule planned out by 7:00 am...WELL, at 8:10 the dr called and needed to clear out his afternoon appts for a surgery. SOOO..we got bumped to 10:30 am! So, thankfully we made it on time and clean and fed...looked like train wrecks, but we made it...not bad for our first go at it all! Dr. took off the steri strips holding the incision together, said it is doing fine, gave me permission to "walk and drive" (we have been doing that anyway), but not to jog or exercise yet. So, at least we have some clearance! I go back in 3 more weeks and we should be cleared by then for all the real life activities. Luke did great, slept the whole time and everyone thought that he "looks nothing like" me. Yeah, I know, he looks EXACTLY like his dad. :0)

After the appt. we took Luke's cousin Sarah her birthday present. Stopped in and saw Aunt Celie and the cousins for a few minutes, then home to eat.

THEN, at 3:00 Luke had his appointment. He is up to 8lbs and 4.5oz now!! He is in the 49% range on height, if you can laugh out loud at that one! We told him to live it up, it may be his only shot in life to be almost average in height with all the short genes we dumped on him!! So right now, we have a TALL SON!!! He got a good bill of health. The best news is that he is still sleeping at about 4 - 4.5 hrs. at a stretch at night. so we really only have one middle of the night feeding and he is up with daddy around 6:00am. So this is a great blessing for us, we don't feel terribly sleep deprived. He has started eating a lot more, thus sleeping a lot more. I assume he is in a "growth spurt" of sorts...did I mention how TALL he is? Takes a lot of work to be tall! I wouldn't know, but would imagine so.

Well, that is about it, we are scheduled for Aunt Jill to come hang out for a bit today and then we need to still go back to the hospital for a follow up blood test. Got the dr. orders yesterday and will try to do that if the rain clears out!
Have a wonderful day, and thanks for all your prayers for us!!