Sunday Best

Here we are in our Sunday clothes. A white polo with a sweet sweater vest. Need I say more?

Cute Cousins

This year's 4th of July amazed me. Last year we spent it with the Castillo's and we went to the new ISU pharmacy school campus and watched the fireworks. Ashton and Leigh were scheming where they were going to put a basketball hoop when they both were accepted to ISU's pharmacy school. What a difference a year makes. Now, the Castillo's are moved to Washington and we are headed to Omaha for school. Amazing what happens when you are willing to follow Heavenly Father when it's different from what you want...



This year was a blast. For the 4th of July, my parents and Curt's family came up to our little apartment and stayed for the weekend. We were a little cozy, but had a lot of fun. Lydia and Brody just adored their new cousin. Lydia just wanted to hold Dexter's hand the whole time. It was so cute. She kept saying over and over,"he's just a cute little guy". Brody had fun too. He can't quite say Dexter so he calls him Duggers. It's pretty funny.

Ashton treated us to a nice bar-b-que of shishkabobs and other goodies. He was in heaven cooking all day. Shauni, Blake, and Dalton came over for the bar-b-que too. When it was time for fireworks, we all headed over to a soccer field and watched the Meridian fireworks shoot off from the speedway. It was a lot of fun.

One Month Old

I can't believe that today my baby is a month old! Time has just flown by. To celebrate the day we let him do his favorite thing... hang out in the boppy.

Here are some things about Dexter: He is the calmest baby I have ever met. All he does is sleep and has a pathetic wimper instead of a cry. When we go outside, he waves his hands slowly back and forth to feel the warm air. His new favorite past time is to look in a mirror during tummy time, and he has discovered his tongue. He will spend a majority of his awake time sticking it out and moving it around. He also is learning to tolerate a bath, but he loves being wrapped up in his towel! He is growing so fast, too. I just love this guy!!!

Dexter's Photo Shoot

Yesterday we had a fun day with dad and did Dexter's first photo shoot. We got some pretty cute pictures. Here are some of my favorites...

They flew the Coop

I suppose all things have their time and their place. Peppermint ice cream during the Holiday season, Backpacks and notebooks during school, fireworks at the Fourth of July, the list goes on and on. For us, our parakeets Spencer and Sophie, fit this concept. We got them before we had Dexter to help bring life into our house and to give us something to dote on. Well, a couple of weeks ago, just shortly after we had Dexter, their time and place must have expired with us. We put them out on the back porch of our apartment like we do every morning, so they can enjoy being outside and enjoy the other birds. That day, a storm rolled in unnoticed by both Ashton and I. The wind the storm brought blew off the lid to the birds cage, and the next thing we knew there was a crash of the lid landing and a blur of blue and white flying away. Spencer and Sophie were gone. Their time and place with us was up I suppose, now that we have little Dexter. We aren't sure what has happened to them. We hope someone in the subdivision next to us was able to catch them, but we fear for the worse. Ashton is sad and has left the cage on the back porch hoping they will find home. This has yet to happen. I'm sad they are gone but am glad that I don't have to move them to Omaha. Spencer and Sophie, you will be missed.

To Friends

Last night we went to Chuck E. Cheeses with some friends. The Castillo family moved to Washington today where Leigh will be attending pharmacy school, so we had one last hoorah. It was fun for the kids, both big and small. We will miss them so much, but wish them well in Washington.

While we were at Chuck E. Cheeses, they had a sketch machine so Ash, Dexter, and I went and had our first family picture taken. Cute huh?

2 Week Stats

Dexter went in for his 2 week check up on Monday and he did so well. He weighed in at 6 lbs. 13 oz. He had gained 9 oz. from his appointment last week. He is growing so fast and has changed a lot already. I can't believe how fast he has changed! This is how he sleeps, both arms up by his head. His arms are usually stretched out more. It's funny, no matter how tight you swaddle him, he will squirm his arms out so they are by his face. What a cutie!

Happy Father's Day

I know this post is late but better late than never. I just wanted Ashton to know how thankful I am for him. He is a great dad already and I can't wait to see him as a dad when Dexter is older and as we have more kids. Dexter and I are really lucky to have him! We love you!

Future Basketball Star

When we were in the hospital, Leigh and Michelle brought Dexter a gift. His first basketball jersey. Ashton was in love. When we got home from the hospital and he needed a change of clothes, the first thing Ash wanted to put him in was his jersey. I had bought the shoes earlier much to Ashton's disgust (he doesn't think babies need shoes), but now with a jersey to go with them, life is good.

VCUG

This morning we took little Dexter in to do the VCUG. It wasn't much fun for him at all. They didn't sedate him since he was so little which was a big relief to us. Here is what they did: They put a catheter in him so that they could fill his bladder with contrast to watch where his urine flowed. Then the radiologist came in and took a bunch of x-rays as he was urinating. I was in there when they did it to hold his little arms down and to help soothe him. The worst part was putting in the catheter. My poor little peanut was not happy at all! After they took the catheter out he peed all over the x-ray machine and had both rad techs scrambling for blankets. It was so hard not to laugh. I could almost hear him say "well take that for making me hurt!"

The radiologist said that his urine is back flowing into his ureter and kidney (not supposed to happen) and that on a scale of 1-5, 5 being the worst, he was at a 4. Then his pediatrician called us to let us know the results and her plan of action. Typically, they would put him on profilactive antibiotics to help prevent any UTI's from happening. However, since he is so young, Dr. Lanuza doesn't want to put him on any antibiotics unless he does develop a UTI, then she will. She said that there are studies out there that say putting kids with this on antibiotics doesn't really do anything but build up a resistance to the antibiotic. However, the other arguement is that if you don't give him anything, and he does frequently get UTI's, it could damage his kidney. For now, we aren't putting him on any antibiotics. She referred us to a pediatric urologist. We couldn't get in till the end of July. We will talk to him and see what he suggests we do. In the mean time, we will just hope and pray he doesn't get a UTI.

We also learned that 90% of the kids who have this, it corrects itself in about 6 months to a year. That is a huge relief too, to know that there wouldn't be any surgeries to correct it.