Happy 5 months boys!!!

Love how they love each other so much!




Jacob with Piglet!  5 months old!



Aidan with Pooh!  5 Months old!

 Wow!  Time flies when you are having fun!?  5 months ago (and a few days now) Aidan and Jacob made a dramatic entrance into our lives.  At 10 weeks early Aidan decided he had had enough of getting kicked by his brother so he decided to get the heck out of dodge...was he in for a rude awakening when his brother followed him!  Now at 12 and 13+ pounds, the boys bring joy to us every day.  It has been a hard road but we wouldn't give it up for anything (even when Jacob is screaming!)  ;0) 

Since the last post much has happened!  Grandpa George and Grandma Dawn came from California to visit.  They were the first of our family to visit the boys when they were born so they were amazed at how big they have grown.  We had a great weekend of sightseeing and hanging out together.  The boys loved being with them and Grandma loved humming Don Williams songs to Jacob to calm him...go figure! It worked!

The following week we got the "storm of the century"!  Well, maybe not the century, but it was pretty bad.  It began with a hail storm on Sunday morning and ended with hurricane force winds and snow over the next couple of days.  The hail was so bad it looked liked it had snowed when we work up Sunday morning.  Later in the day the snow started and didn't let up until Monday morning.  It was so bad that Gavin's clinic closed for the day on Monday.  In 2 days we got almost 6 inches of rain and had hurricane force winds; the strongest gust was 95 miles per hour!  Aidan's surgery was scheduled for that Thursday and the entire state was getting hit hard with this storm.  Portland was covered in snow and the roads from the coast were impassable on Wednesday.  Fortunately, when we woke up on Thursday, the morning of the surgery, the road was safe enough for us to drive Aidan to the hospital in Portland.  His surgery was scheduled for 3:30.  He had his breakfast at 7am and then I convinced him to drink another couple ounces of breastmilk around 10:15.  No more food after that in preparation for the surgery ;0( .  He actually did better than I thought he would...and considering his surgery was postponed for an hour, he did a great job being patient with an empty stomach.  Both Gavin and I were very nervous for the surgery, but knew everything would be ok.  Finally, at 4:45 they took him back and the waiting began.....We were relieved, about an hour later, when the surgeon came out and told us that Aidan had done fine and that both hernias were fixed!  Thank goodness!  We had to stay the night at the hospital to make sure that he didn't have any apneic episodes.  Aidan did great recovering and the next morning we headed for Nana's house for the weekend.  We were all grateful that his surgery was over and that all was ok!   His recovery has been better than expected and he hardly seems phased by the stitches in his tummy.

The boys continue to grow and hit their milestones!  While grandma and grandpa were here, both boys began to laugh!  They laughed first for Daddy and then he came and got all of us to listen!  It is always cute to see them smile.  Now we love to hear them laugh!  They also began eating rice cereal and oatmeal!  So far they like the oatmeal way better!  They eat it about 3 times a day and are doing great! And on their 5 month birthday they both rolled over!  Jacob did it about 3 times while having a temper tantrum and Aidan followed suit later that day!  They continue to amaze us and we are so pleased that they are growing so big!






After surgery with his IV paddle!

  


Patient Aidan is his cool hospital gown!