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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Max is so much fun!

Well, it has been a very long time since I posted, I think Max qualifies as having my hands full.  Mark is holding Max right now, so I am taking advantage of the opportunity to record more about Max's life so far.

As of today, he is 3 months old, and growing up so very fast!  I have gotten emotional every time I have packed away his clothes that are now too small.  He is wearing 6 month sized clothes, and soon will be wearing 9 month.  His last checkup, November 21st, he weighed 16 pounds.  This time we don't have to see Max's doctor for an entire month!  We will be seeing Dr. Tuckman at the end of December for Max's routine 4 month Well Baby checkup.

Since I have taken so long to update the blog, I am going to do a relatively quick recap, and then do most of the updating through pictures.

Quick recap: Max was on oxygen for 2 months.  On October 1st Max's lips turned blue, in the middle of the night again, so we called the on-call nurse.  Mark told her Max's symptoms, and she suggested we call 911.  Mark then called 911, and before I got a shirt on we had a police car, fire truck, and ambulance in front of our house.  They said that because Max was already on oxygen, there wasn't much they could do, and wanted us to take him to the ER, except they didn't want us to drive him, and drove him in the ambulance. They observed him for a few hours, and then sent us home recommending that we see our doctor the next morning.

The next morning, the day before we were supposed to go to Utah, we saw one of the other doctors in our doctor's office, and she had us get an oxygen monitor to make sure Max was still getting enough oxygen, which he was.   We went to Utah on October 2 and had a great time visiting with family.  Max was able to meet all of his Utah cousins, aunts and uncles.  While there we had 2 baby showers for Max, and an impromptu birthday party for my brother-Travis, Max and I.  Finally, Mark blessed Max on October 7, 2012, which was the main reason we went to Utah. Max also got to listen to his first General Conference and attend his first two soccer games, which were his cousins' Andrew and Ashlee. 

When we came back, Max saw his doctor, who sent him to see the cardiologist.  Max had already seen the cardiologist when he was in the PICU, but Dr. Tuckman wanted to make sure nothing had developed since the last time he saw the cardiologist.  Everything went fine, and it was decided that Max has acro-cyanosis, which is the bluing of the area around the mouth and other areas of the face, which he is supposed to grow out of.  He still has it, by the way.  And, Max is still the cutest little boy I have ever seen, which is why I have taken over 1200 photos of him in these 3 short months.

November 7th Max got his first haircut.  He was starting to get the bald spot on the back of his head making him look like an old man, and I hate the old man look.  So we got out the trimmers, and buzzed his head.  The hair was a light brownish-red, and now that it is starting to grow back a little, it is really blond so he looks bald.  His head still feels like a tennis ball.  Mark really doesn't like it, but I'm used to bald babies, since most babies born in our family are bald.  I do miss his hair.

Last week we were able to go to my aunt's house in Gilbert for Max's first Thanksgiving.  We thought we were going to spend Thanksgiving at home by ourselves since Mark had to work the day after, but my Aunt Michelle invited us down to spend the night the night before, and we had a great time.   It was the first time we have ever eaten Thanksgiving outside, which we did because the weather down in Phoenix was fantastic!

In other news, our house is being built, and is scheduled to be finished so that we can close January 22nd.  We are very excited!

And now to the pictures...

Max's first, and hopefully last, ambulance ride. 10/1/2012



Max's cousin, Maylee, gave him his Halloween costume - a bear. 10-31-2012

The cute little bear bottom, 10-31-2012

Max's first Thanksgiving at Aunt Michelle's house 11-22-2012.

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