My flower is growing like a weed ;)

So Brayden went to see Dr. Carter today for his 4 month check up and he is indeed growing like a weed.

He weighs a whopping 16.4 pounds and is 26 inches long with his head circum. being 17 something inches.

BIG HEAD. Even Dr. Carter said something along the lines of "yeah, its big...95th percentile." Thats my boy!

Monica just heard him laugh his little, well big, head off and she just loved it.

He did end up getting 4 shots and an oral vaccine. Yes, 4. I believe that you SHOULD vaccinate your child. But I won't get on that soapbox because I've already irritated enough people. Sorry, I just value having a living being rather than a marble slab with his name on it.





AND GUESS WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We're moving out of Brad's parents soon!!! We've gotten this beautiful little duplex that is just gorgeous! The kitchen!! !OH!! If it was just a little bigger I would be so completely in love :) No one has ever lived in it and the bedrooms are large. The living room has hardwood floors!!! Sorry, I'm just a little excited!


I'll post pictures of the inside next time I go over there to move some stuff, I can't wait!

speechless

Just moments ago I was doing my daily ritual of reading posts on Baby Center and I again came across the very thread that just still makes me cry. It's a memorial to all these families who have lost children due to anything under the sun. It just makes me cry and ache for these families who had someone so innocent taken from them.

Just the other day I read a post about a little boy name Sawyer who, like Brayden, was born in June. He was just like any other baby with the exception that he suffered from Spinal Muscular Strophy. Here's a brief description of SMA and how it effects the body:


Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a motor neuron disease. The motor neurons affect the voluntary muscles that are used for activities such as crawling, walking, head and neck control, and swallowing. It is a relatively common "rare disorder": approximately 1 in 6000 babies born are affected, and about 1 in 40 people are genetic carriers.

SMA affects muscles throughout the body, although the proximal muscles (those closest to the trunk of one’s body - i.e. shoulders, hips, and back) are often most severely affected. Weakness in the legs is generally greater than in the arms. Sometimes feeding and swallowing can be affected. Involvement of respiratory muscles (muscles involved in breathing and coughing) can lead to an increased tendency for pneumonia and other lung problems. Sensation and the ability to feel are not affected. Intellectual activity is normal and it is often observed that patients with SMA are unusually bright and sociable. Patients are generally grouped into one of four categories, based on certain key motor function milestones.



When he was diagnosed, he was given 10 months...that was only a few months, if not two months, ago.

I honestly don't know what I would do if I was to lose Brayden. I can't imagine what his family, or any of these families are going through. That's why I never, ever take advantage of the fact that although I'm only 21 I have a beautiful baby boy who is healthy.

I might not want to get up out of the warm covers to feed him when he wakes up, but to be able to run my hands over his smooth, innocent skin and just stare at him makes it all worth wild. Just one gaze into those big, blue eyes makes the day that much better.

Please pray for Sawyer's family and for everyone who has lost a child or is in the sometimes long process of trying to have that one child.


Sawyer Eberhardt
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Bandwagon jumping....

I'm not usually one that does what other people do, if I do, its usually on my own accord and at my own pace. Well I jumped on Monica's bandwagon a few weeks ago to see if I too could make some extra cash. Yes, I am now half-heartily attempting to try GPT sites. I seem to favor Fairy Tale Treasures more so now than I did before, which when I started I favored Treasure Troopers, but NEVER got anything to approve so eh.

I just wish I had more time to sit down and do it. But living with Brad's parents and having to share the one computer that is fast enough for the internet is tough, esp with Toni being such a computer hog. I'm seriously thinking about hooking up my desktop or something. We've got wireless set up, but for some reason it only gets 11Mb so it is INSANELY slow. I'll have to play later!

WOOHOO!!!!!!!!

As I previously posted, Brayden usually wakes up anywhere from 4-5 in the morning, which is fine because now I've fallen accustomed to it so it doesn't bother me. So this morning when I woke up around that time and waited to hear him stir, I didn't. So I checked on him, yup, still breathing. So I let him sleep.

6 o'clock came and I told Brad to be quiet while getting ready for work because Tater had yet to wake up. Well he slept through Brad leaving and continued to sleep.

And when did my lovely child decide to arise??? 8 o'clock! YES!! HE SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT!!!!!

It would have been lovely of him though to give me a warning so I might have been able to sleep and not worry whether my child was breathing, but thats Brayden for you...he likes to pull stunts and surprises.

Maybe we will get two nights in a row....who knows but wish me luck!!