2 months!!

My cute little dude turnes 2 months old today!!  He is growing up too fast!! 

Just in the past week or so he has started smiling, and just today, he smiles back when you smile or rub his cheeks. 

Just a few things that I love about this cute dude:

• His adorable hair.  You try to comb it down and it sticks right back up. 

• He is just like his sister and kicks his socks off every chance he gets. 

• His eyes are BLUE!!  I love my blue eyes kids!! 

• He gets the hiccups just about every time after he eats.  

• He is so ticklish we in just about every part of his body.

• He doesn't like to be tickled.

• He loves to hold onto my hair

• Oh his smile!  I just cannot get enough of that toungy grin!! 

• He still sleeps 9+ hours every single night!! 

• He grunts when he is waking up and when he is hungry. He never cries unless he is starving! 

 

He gets his next round of synergis shot next week, so then we will find out how much he has grown in a month. 

We cannot get enough of this handsome dude!! 

My 7 week old

Jefferson is doing amazig everyone.  He has been off of oxygen for several weeks now!!  YAY!!! I know it's only one more bag to carry around to dr appts, but that is one less bag, one less cord, and one less thing causing him pain when we have to pull the tape off his face every day.

Just seeing this breaks my heart!  He is so tough, he doesn't ever cry, but this cannot feel good! 

So yes, no more oxygen, having to pull the cannula away when he sats high, and no more stinking tape!!  It's a huge giant step for him!  I'm so proud of him! 

Another thing that is so amazing about him, he sleeps a good 10-11 hours straight every night.  What 7 week old baby sleeps through the night?  My stud does!  He is amazing and just as perfect as ever!  

I love this onsie, reminds me of his daddy's awesome Jeep, that I cannot wait for him to ride in.  I cannot wait to see his excitement out of getting to ride in Dads truck, like Stella does, some day.  It's adorable! 

He's just adorable! 

Grieving continued..

I found this article off Facebook and I thought it was just wonderful!  This is almost identical to how I felt.

http://liveactionnews.org/doctor-tells-expectant-parents-of-baby-with-down-syndrome-that-they-are-a-lucky-couple/

Grieving .. Huh?

I have talked and met many new wonderful friends now that we have joined a new family, the Down syndrome family.  I have read and heard that many parents were depressed and cried for days after they found out their child had DS.  I am right in the middle of a book, "Babies with Down Syndrome," and I am only in chapter 2 and I feel horrible.  I feel horrible for all of those people whom have cried and been so depressed over their baby.  I don't quite understand how could one be sad about a beautiful baby that you carried for 9 months, prepared a nursery, possibly had baby showers, filled the drawers full of clothes and blankets; then go through the difficult task of giving birth to that sweet baby.  Don't get me wrong, I grieved, for a totally of probably an hour.  It is a pure blessing to be given a child.  How could you be sad about that. I understand that they might not be your ideal child, have full potential, go to college, get married, have kids, etc.    But they are still your sweet innocent angel.

Probably the one thing that felt like a huge jab to my chest, was when I found out that male DS kids are infertile.  That was hard to read.  I had to take a minute to breathe after that.  But then I got to thinking, all these trials, his disabilities, his health issues that he will have to go through throughout his life, they are only temporary.  He will be perfect in the next life.  It is only temporary. 

He was sent to us for a reason.  For that I do not know, but am eternally grateful for the opportunity.  I still cannot understand why their has to be a lable.  I know he is extra special and has an extra chromosome, but he is just a baby.  A super cute baby that eat, sleeps, poops, is starting to coo and smile at you.  I cannot get enough of his cuteness.  He is just a baby and seems absolutely normal to me.  Just like any other child, he is no different.  I just am so madly in love with this stud muffin and I will take him any way I can get him!!  How could anyone grieve, or feel the need to grieve, when you get to look at this face all day?