Every Girl is crazy about a sharp dressed man!

This was such a good find by Lori. I know she couldn't wait to take a picture of him wearing his shirt and tie. I'll have to say, I'm a little jealous of the tie. Okay we have gotten some good pics of the kiddos, but first a quick update on Garrett.

We went to the urologist today and he was very impressed with how well Garrett has been doing on his cathing. He actually said we could probably quit doing it all together. We talked about it with him, since we were a little apprehensive with quitting all together, so we are just doing it once a day! We are so excited about this! Garrett doesn't really enjoy the cathing, but really who would.

Avery has been doing great in Pre School. She's talking in Spanish now. My dad is very fired up about that. Avery and I watered the yard the other day, and Avery had a blast! She loved it we sat in the hammock and got sprayed by the water. It was awesome. My mom came over the other day to see Garrett and Avery. Here is a good pic of Garrett and his Grandma.

Pic of Mommy, Garrett and Avery. Garrett is letting us know he's #1! I'm sure Avery would debate this...
That's about it for now. We will update again soon. As always thanks for keeping Garrett in your thoughts and prayers!

One Month Old!

Today is such a great day! I can't believe Garrett is one month old. Of coarse we have no pictures to post at this time, because we are in the process of getting a new camera. So we will take 1 month pics on the iphone. I know what you're thinking... Awesome!

Garrett is doing great! His caths have gone from 4 a day to 3, and we still are getting low levels of urine. We meet with ECI tomorrow to see if they will need to work with Garrett or just monitor him. Next week we meet with the urologist. Hopefully we can stop cathing or at least move to morning and evenings only.

Avery is doing great! They moved her to preschool 2 months early, and today was her first day. We have gymnastics on Wednesday and I think I'm gonna bring the video camera.

Lori and I are doing well. We cooked dinner for ourselves tonight for the first time in like 2 months. It was the Adam special: Grilled chicken, mashed potatoes and steamed veggies, and don't worry Lori made dessert.

Thanks again for all the support. As always thanks for praying for Garrett!

First Week Home

What a great first week we have had at home as a family. Avery has been such an amazing big sister. She constantly helps and makes sure that her brother is okay. Garrett is doing great! He is such a big eater. He probably eats as much now as a 3 week old as Avery ate as a 3 month old.

As you know we had 2 Doctor appointments this week. The first one was with our Pediatrician, Dr. Q. He was very impressed with Garrett and it was great to see him treating Garrett like a normal child. Everyone else has been so careful with him, but Dr. Q was moving his legs all around and measuring him. We also went to see Dr. W, the neurosurgeon. He also was amazed with Garrett's leg strength. He said his back looks great and we can take off all bandages, and that his shunt looks good too. Garrett has a renal ultrasound on Monday to check his kidneys and bladder. His cathing is going great. They wanted his residual to be under 30 ml, and he is averaging 11! Here is a precious picture of how much Avery loves her brother.


We are so proud of Garrett. He is even rolling from his back to his side. This isn't a great picture, but as Shrek would say, "It'll do Donkey".


And a picture of me with the kiddos. I went from beard, to goatee, to clean shaved.
Another pic of Garrett.
Garrett and his Papi.

And our Princess. She's eating one of her main food groups.


As always thank you so much for keeping Garrett in your thoughts and prayers.