TOOTH!

Reagan's first little tooth is starting to poke through the gums. He hasn't seemed to be super cranky latley, but boy, has he been drooling and chewing on everything! He is crawling EVERYWHERE and is pulling up on EVERYTHING! This weekend, we put up a baby gate across the bottom of the stairs because he has found the first steps and likes to pull up on the first step.

We took Reagan back to his final appointment with his urologist yesterday and everything the doctor was very pleased with the results of the surgery. There is only a tiny bit of scarring and he said that within the next six months all of the scarring will be gone. We are so glad to have that behind us and we are happy that things went so well.

The pictures in the overalls are out-takes from his 6 month photo shoot. The one was his eyes closed was the first picture I took. Reagan is such a little ham and smiles as soon as I pick up the camera. And of course, there he is again dragging his golf club around.

The picture of him sleeping was right before the game started on Saturday. Then he woke up and enjoyed the game with Dad and cruised around the house and came over to say hi to Charley.

We had a pretty productive weekend. I had listed Reagan's infant carrier and the three bases on Craigslist and I sold them Saturday morning. Last week, my old co-worker and friend Frank had called and needed some work done on his computer. He and his wife are now officing out of their home that is outside of Dripping Springs, so we packed up and went out there Sunday morning. We wondered around outside and Reagan played with the goats. He had no problems sticking his fingers in their mounts and pulling on their ears. I wish I had taken my camera with me! He really, really enjoys being outside. I can hardly wait until we can let him start exploring on his own! When we got out to Frank and Linda's, we noticed that they only had Frank's truck out there and were missing a couple of their vehicles. They had left one with their daughter who is in grad school in Colorado and had sold another one, so they were down to one car. I laughed and told them that we had an extra one since we had just gotten the CRV. Frank offered to buy it and wrote me a check. I also mentioned that we had hung our TV on the fireplace, but were looking for a mantel. Linda just happened to have an extra one that is just the size that we need. Frank said that he will bring it out to us later this week. So, Linda road back with us and picked up the car. Very profitable day for us!

8 Months Old!!

First of all, HOORAY for the rain! It has been raining here for the past couple of days and we have needed it so bad all summer and so glad that we are getting it.

Today has been a good day of hanging out inside, watching college football, and listening to the rain.

We took Reagan to the urologist on Thursday so that the nurse could take the catheter out. They said that he is healing better than they even expected. He hasn't take any pain medication all week and has really been in a great mood. Thursday was the first day that he started eating like he did before he had the surgery. We had them weigh him when we were at the doctor and he had lost about half a pound. They said that was normal because the medications mess with his appetite.

He is just crawling everywhere right now. We are constantly having to watch him to make sure he doesn't grab cords or get into something that he is not supposed to. When Reagan started crawling a couple of weeks ago, I told Darrell that if he wanted to keep his 42" flat panel TV that he better figure out a way to hang it on the wall because it could very easily be pulled or knocked off of the stand that it has been sitting on. He ordered the brackets last weekend and they arrived yesterday and Darrell hung the TV up above the fire place yesterday evening. Here are pictures of Reagan helping him.

We also got Reagan a bigger carseat today. He is too long for his infant carrier now and he and the carrier together are so very heavy for me to carry. The new seat that we got him can be used facing forward or backwards. We will keep him facing backwards until he is around a year old and then we can turn him around. I am really happy about not having to use the very heavy carrier anymore!

Here's a picture of Reagan in his UT orange with one of his very favorite toys, his golf club.

Crawling and Pulling Up

Here's a video of Reagan crawling on Tuesday September 2.

Healing Well

The little man seems to be doing pretty well. Yesterday, we gave him only regular Tylenol and did not give him any of the Tylenol with codeine. He was moving around fine and eating alot better yesterday as well. I think he was a little uncomfortable last night. He was really restless before we got ready to go to bed and wouldn't go to sleep, so we finally just put him in his crib. We were expecting him to cry alot, but he went right to sleep. He slept for a couple of hours and then woke up crying alot about 1:30 am. We gave him some more Tylenol and brought him in the bed with us to see if we could get him calmed down. He would get calm and then just start screaming again. After about an hour, we finally got him somewhat calm and put him back in his bed and he cried for about 15 minutes and then slept until 8 this morning.

He was pretty fussy this morning and after Darrell fed him, he took his temperature and he was running a little fever of about 100.7. The doctor told us that it would be normal for him to run fever, but to really keep an eye on it and to call him if it gets to 102. We gave him some more Tylenol and he fell asleep on me for about an hour and a half. When he woke up, he seemed to be feeling much better and was in a much better mood.

The three of us decided to get out of the house for a little while, so we went over to Academy so I could get some new running socks and a couple of other things. After that, we went to lunch at Red Robin and Reagan was just in the best mood. He enjoyed riding in the basket and looking around at everything. By the time we got home, he was ready for another nap.

We are SO excited for the college football season to start and will spend the majority of tomorrow watching any games that we can fine. So ready to watch those Longhorns again!!

We discovered that Reagan really likes to drink water today. Darrell was drinking some water and he kept reaching for the bottle, so Darrell gave him some. He would get really excited and open his mouth for more. The other picture is from Wednesday. He had been crawling around and was getting pretty tired.

Surgery Went Well

I was really worried about him being hungry this morning because we couldn't feed him past certain times because of the anesthesia. We gave him his last solid food (apricot and mixed fruit) at 9:30 pm and his last formula at 10 pm. We were told that we couldn't give him anything other than water or juice after 3 am. He slept all the way through the night and we got him up at about 7 this morning and gave him some juice, but he was cut off of everything at 7:30 am.

We headed up to the surgery center and had to check in at 9 and our surgery was scheduled at 10. We got there and they took us right in to pre-op. Reagan was very cranky, but he seemed to be tired more than anything. He usually get his first nap in the morning around 8am, he time I drop him off at Mom's in the morning. He normally takes about a 1-1 1/2 hour nap at that time, so this morning, he hadn't had his morning bottle or his nap either. His tired was a very tired cry and he kept trying to go to sleep on Darrell and I, but would here noises and wake up. Here are some pics of him in his awesome peach hospital gown and fuzzy hospital issue yellow socks right before they took him into surgery.

The doctor told us that they do the surgeries on the youngest children first. Reagan was the 4th and last surgery of the day, so that means there were 3 babies younger than Reagan having surgery. It made me sad. They took Reagan into surgery about 10:45 and the doctor came and spoke with us about 1:15 when the procedure was complete. He said that everything went smoothly and just as planned. He told us not to be alarmed, that his little man parts are going to be very swollen and bruised for the next 4-6 weeks, but he will be fine after that. He does have a little catheter to drain the pee and we have to double diaper him until that comes out next week. The inside diaper is to catch the poo and we have to cut a hole in that one so that the pee can drain into the outside diaper. This keeps the bacteria from the poo away from the incision area.

They finally brought Reagan back to us about 2pm. He was very, very lethargic and barely woke up to look at us. They had me feed him to make sure that he could hold his food down. He took about 2 ounces and he was so passed out that he wouldn't eat any more. He held that down and they let us go home at about 3:30.

He has been very, very mellow all evening. The doctor us had given us prescriptions last week for his Tylenol with codeine for the pain and an antibiotic as well. I had gotten them filled over the weekend so we didn't need to worry about waiting for them today. He wants to move around, but when he tries to put himself from a sitting position into the crawling position, he gets pretty upset. I know he's really tender in that area down there and I'm sure that position doesn't feel good. The nurse told us to make sure that we give him the Tylenol every 4 hours to prevent him from hurting and not to wait until he gets to the point where he does hurt. We gave him his next dose at 5:30 and he was pretty sleepy again. He has been a little bit fussy, but not as bad as I thought it was going to be.

He's taken 3 bottles and after he was grabbing for the bowl of food that Darrell made me for dinner, we decided to give him some solid food. He ate a whole container of sweet potatoes with corn about 6 this evening. He still seemed really hungry around 8, which is the time that we normally feed him dinner, so I gave him half of a container of apricots and he ate them all and I gave hi two bites of banana and he barfed everywhere. That was the end of the feeding.

Darrell and I gave him a sponge bath, which is what we have to do for the next week, and he still seemed to enjoy his bath time. He squealed and laughed, so I guess we didn't hurt him.

We are thankful to have the worst part of this past us and now we just need to get through the recovery. I am so glad that Darrell and I have both taken the remainder of the week off so that we can be here with him. I will keep everyone posted as to how he is doing.

Thanks to everyone for all of their thoughts and prayers!