luvin' it

For those of you out there with kids in diapers, luvs is going to have a $1 coupon in the paper this Sunday.

Brrrr

It is 66 degrees in my house right now.

Someone stole our Sunday paper again. Not cool.

Dog food

Today some kids came by for a school fundraiser. When I opened the door I had to hold Izzy back to keep her from jumping on them and/or running away. So that the kids wouldn't be scared I just told them that she gets a little hyper. One of the girls looked a little confused, and a few seconds later she asked me, "so, do you feed your dog sugar?"

Awesome.

Corbin's newest cousin

Rex Thomas Butterfield

Congratulations Chad and Lindsay!

Two Months!

Corbin is two months old. It is crazy how quickly the time flies. We decided to move him out of his bassinet in our bedroom, and he is now sleeping in his crib. It is amazing how much better I sleep with him in there. I wish we would have moved him a few weeks ago!

I took Corbin in for his 2 month doctor appointment yesterday. It was vaccination time, so the poor kid has some battle wounds where they poked him. Here is an update on his statistics, along with his percentage compared to the average child.

Height: 23 1/4 inches ____________55%
Weight: 10 lbs 13 oz_____________30%
Head circumference: 15 inches______15%

The good news is that his weight has increased from being in the 10th percentile to the 30th. As you can see, his head is still pretty small. The funny this is that I don't think it looks small at all, I just think that other kids have big heads :)

At the appointment the doctor put Corbin on his stomach to see how high he would lift his head, and the doctor was very impressed! He said that Corbin lifted his head higher than most kids can at 2 months (probably because all those other kids have heads that are twice the size of his!)

Smile

So far this is the only pic I've been able to snap of Corbin smiling

Corbin's new toy. I got it at a garage sale last week. It lights up and plays music when he kicks the toys. Corbin gets really excited about the lights and he kicks his legs and waves his arms like crazy!

Funky

There is a strange smell emanating from our neighbors to the North. It almost reminds me of back when my Korean roommate Pam would cook. But the smell doesn't come through where their kitchen is, it is smelly upstairs by our shared bedroom walls. Why does it smell so bad by the bedroom? That must be some pretty powerful food to seep through the walls. Even Pam's cooking wouldn't smell up the apartment next door...

Christmas shopping

Joseph Banks is having an awesome online sale for the next 4 days. Check it out.

so sleepy

I can't believe that it is already Thursday night. Clark has been in Ohio since Monday night, and surprisingly the week has not gone by as slowly as i thought it would. Clark gets back tomorrow night, and it will be nice to have some help with Corbin (not to mention the fact that I will have an adult around to talk to).

Today I went and visited my old work. It was really nice to see all my friends there, and to show off the baby. I ended up going to lunch at a mexican place called Qdoba with my friend Marcy, which was really nice. At my work there is this cute massage therapist named Alfred, and he insisted on carrying Corbin in his carseat all the way to Qdoba (which was probably about a 5 minute walk). Now, that might not seem like much, but Alfred is 68, and he didn't even want any lunch. He just didn't want to see me carrying the carseat that far. He is adorable...he reminds me of Minnie Driver's grandpa in the movie "Return to Me."

Anyways, that is about all I have to say right now. Corbin has been sleeping a ton today. I am kind of worried that he won't sleep tonight, but I can't get him to stay awake! Maybe he is just growing, and needs lots of sleep. Let's hope that he doesn't stay up all night.

Muscle Man

It has been a while since I put up new pictures. Corbin is now 7 weeks old. Can you believe it? He is getting so strong! Check out the first two pictures. He is totally trying to roll himself over. And yes, both of his legs in the second picture are completely in the air. He is one tough dude.

the results

Corbin did awesome with the catheter! He barely even cried. I was very impressed, and very relieved. The results of this last procedure confirm that Corbin does have urinary reflux (it was so obvious, that even I could easily see it on the x-ray machine). Corbin's doctor called today and explained it all to us. In a normal body, the ureter (which connects the kidney to the bladder) enters the bladder at an angle, so that after urine passes into the bladder the ureter closes off so that the urine cannot travel back up the ureter. For Corbin, the ureter enters the bladder straight on, so it never closes off, which allows urine to make its way back up the ureter and back into the kidney. This puts him at a high risk for urinary tract infections, so it is definately a good thing that he has been on amoxicillin since his birth. I imagine he will be on it for quite a while longer. Sometimes this condition requires surgery, but othertimes it does not. We have made an appointment to see the pediatric urologist so that he can give us an idea of what the next step will be.
The urologist is the same one that we saw when I was pregnant, but since that time he left the office he was at (which was a part of The Childrens Hospital) and started up his own practice. Because of this, he is no longer in network with United Healthcare (he was before when we saw him because he was under The Children's Hospital, and the accepted UHC) This means that he has had to apply to get in network with UHC, and they said they will hear back on October first whether or not he is accepted into their network. So I went ahead and made the appointment for the first, and we will just hope that he gets in network. If not, there is another urologist that we can go to, we were just hoping to see this one because we really liked him.
Well, that is about all I have time to write, right now. Corbin is fussing, and it is time for his dinner.
Smell ya later.

baby coybin

Corbin had his ultrasound yesterday, and here are the results. His left kidney is still a little dialated on the bottom. The doctor thinks that it could be one of two things. Either he has a small cyst on his kidney, or it could be urinary reflux. Basically they think that when he goes, some of the urine gets pushed upwards, instead of down and out. To figure out which it is, I am taking Corbin back to the horspital tomorrow, and they will give him a catheter (poor kid) and they will inject him with dye. Then when he urinates they will put him under a special light to see if any urine traveled up instead of down. I will let you all know how the test goes tomorrow, and what the results are.

BBQ

Clark and I made these skewers for dinner on Sunday. I highly recommend them. They are really tasty, and really easy to make. The perfect kind of recipe, if you ask me. I got the recipe from http://www.kraftfoods.com/ This website always has lots of good and easy recipes posted.

Caramelized Beef Skewers

1 lb. beef sirloin steak, thinly sliced
1/4 cup A.1. Original Steak Sauce, divided
1/4 cup KRAFT Original Barbecue Sauce
1 tsp. GREY POUPON Dijon Mustard

TOSS steak with 2 Tbsp. of the steak sauce; let stand 10 min. to marinate. Meanwhile, combine remaining 2 Tbsp. steak sauce, the barbecue sauce and mustard; set aside.

PREHEAT grill to medium-high heat. Thread steak onto eight long soaked wooden or metal skewers.

GRILL skewers 6 min. or until steak is cooked through, turning after 3 min. and brushing generously with the barbecue sauce mixture.

The good life

It's been a long time since I last posted. Corbin is doing good. I took him in to the doctor on Wednesday, and he had gone up from 8 lb 4 oz to 8 lb 12 oz. We have had to start supplementing his diet with formula to help him gain weight. He is scheduled to go in and get an ultrasound on his kidney on Tuesday. Lately Corbin has started smiling more. I haven't had him smile enough that I could snap a picture, but his smile is pretty darn cute. I will post a pic as soon as I can get a good shot.

The closet is nearly finished. Clark's parents stayed until Tuesday helping with it. All that is really left is the painting, and putting the trim around the door. I can't wait until it is a functional closet!

Yesterday Clark and I went bowling. I totally stunk it up! But it was really fun. We went to a fairly new bowling alley, and it had lots of different colored lights on the ceiling, and when we first got there Corbin couldn't get enough of looking at all the different colors. It was really cute.

I finally got around to downloading the pictures from our utah trip. Here are some nice ones for you to enjoy.

These are the four babies born this year (so far) in the Gee family