The Love of my life

Just updating

Well we have continued to be busy with appointments. Over the weekend I got sick and my ear drum ruptured. There is never time for mom to be sick, but luckily it did happen on the weekend so Ryan was home to help out. Notre Dame won, so Ryan was happy.
On Wednesday the 23rd we went to the doctor for Garrett, we were concerned because he was acting as though he was sick and we didn't want him to catch something bad, so we took him in and found out he has two ear infections. Our doctor does not want to wait for a year before he has tubes. So our 6wk old has ear infections and he is up to 9lbs and 2oz! We will be talking to Riley on the 8th about tubes. He is continuing to grow and is a wonderful baby at 6 weeks!

New Haircut

You really can't tell in this picture, but we decided it was time to get Rylynn's hair cut. So we had her second haircut and then she got it curled she looked so cute with her curled hair and did very well.

Being a good big sister

Rylynn has loved being a big sister. She is very concerned when Garrett cries. She will say "mommy brother is crying." she will go and pat him on the bottom. She also watches us feed him, so at times she thinks she needs to listen and make sure its time to eat and check the placement of his feeding tube.

Update

Well this week has been a rocky one for me. I would be lying if I said everything in the Sipe household has been wonderful. I have had days which I just want to cry. We have been overwhelmed with doctor appointments this week. Garrett is up to 8lbs 14 ozs!
Rylynn started Kindermusik this week. She was such a big sister! She listened, held my hand nicely and participated wonderfully in class. She did everything that was asked of her and seemed excited to be doing something just the two of us (of course Garrett was there, however I was concentrating on Garrett)
It is hard to believe, but Garrett will be 6 weeks on Monday. We are still trying to figure out our daycare situation. At this time we are on the waiting list at Bona Vista, but it is looking as if we won't get in until Jan 2010 at the earliest. The daycare that Rylynn is attending will not accept Garrett while he is on the feeding tube. We are praying God will allow us to take the feeding tube out soon.
Until then, Ryan will be taking FMLA soon and I will be returning to work (which I am looking forward to)
We are going to have a busy weekend, I will try to post pictures, but we are very happy that both the kids are doing well.

Time to eat

Garrett will remain on a feeding tube at least until October 8th. We will have a swallow study done at that point to evaluate if he is still aspirating to his lungs. We are praying that we can use thick it or something else to make his bottles so the feeding tube can come out. But until then we change it every week and we continue to feed through his feeding tube.

Nap Time

I LOVE to watch Garrett sleep. He looks so peaceful and precious. When he falls asleep in my arms I always have the hardest time putting him down. I know now why I never get anything done...because God has blessed me with a wonderful little man.

Hunter loved to hold Garrett. He was very proud of him and told everyone about him.

Rossville Visit

We went to Rossville to have a garage sale and get rid of stuff. While we were there we got to spend alot of time with my family. Hunter and Kayley LOVED holding Garrett. We tried to capture some sweet moments.

Weight Update

Well for those of you that are keeping up to date, the doctors are still watching Garrett's weight rather close. Two weeks ago he gained a pound in a week, which they were thrilled with. On Thursday he was up to 8 pounds and 9 oz. So he gained 9 ounces in 10 days. The doctor wants us to go back in for another weight check next week.
We will be evaluated by first steps next week and we have a RN from our insurance company that believes we need to have a home healthcare nurse, so we will see about that. We did have an interview with a daycare, that did not go as well as we had hoped. At this time we are on a waiting list for the only local daycare that will accept him and who has a nurse on staff. Therefore one of us has to remain at home with him from now on.

No BIG girl yet

SO Ryan and I are really sick of diapers and we wanted to try to potty train Rylynn. We had alot of free time over Labor Day, so we figured we would take the long weekend and put her in play clothes and "pretty panties." She enjoyed picked out her panties and sitting for 3 seconds on the potty chair...then she was up and running. To make matters worse she didn't care if her panties were wet. We decided to do a load of laundry and hang the towel up...I guess we will continue to buy diapers, hopefully soon she will go for us like her baby dolls!

What a weekend

Well we had a busy weekend. I felt wonderful, so I tried to clean and pick up a little. Ryan helped tremendously with Garrett. My parents came to visit on Sunday so we took some outside pictures to capture the moment.