Good News All Around!!

As you can tell by the title of the blog, we had a great check up with the pediatric neurologist this week. The doctor did a bunch of physical evaluations to see if there are any developmental differences. Brayden did really well and passed all of his tests. Since he has not had any seizures since we left the NICU, we get the go ahead to do another EEG (brain scan) in about 3 weeks. The doctor said that if there are no brain seizures, then we can spend the next month weening him off of his medicine. So that is great news!! We also made a great discovery about his medicine. They told us from the get go that it causes drowsiness, so Jon and I thought, it helped put him to sleep. So we always gave it to Brayden right before bed. Well when we were talking to the doctor we told him that he was not sleeping so well and when we always go to check on him he is always tossing around. Well come to find out that the medicine does make him drowsy, but it also prevents him from getting really deep sleep!! No wonder why he is always up and tossing around. So in order to combat the medicines side effects, we were told to give him the medicine earlier in the day so that it will wear off by the time he goes to bed so that he could possibly get a deeper sleep. After we went to the doctors he sent us a written report about Brayden's progress and boy did it make us laugh. Right in the report it states that Brayden is " a big baby". He grew and inch and a half in 3 weeks and of course gained two more pounds. He needless to say he is in the 92nd percentile for length at 25 inches and weighs in at a whopping 14 lbs 6 oz, that is in the 89th percentile! So our new nickname for Brayden is Tank. The kid is just solid.

Our other great news for the week was that Jon's sister Jamie and her husband Josh, had a baby girl, Madelyn Grace on Thursday. We were all super excited, no one knew the sex of the baby so we were all anxiously waiting for the baby's arrival. We headed out to visit with them this weekend. It is amazing how little she is. It boggles me that Brayden was that small less than 3 months ago!!

Ok, so let me tell you the story behind this. We share a nanny with one of Jon's co-workers and this is her son Colin in the picture. When he gets dropped off usually Brayden is still in his pajamas, so I know what Colin is wearing when I change Brayden. On Tuesday we were up early so I got him dressed and then Colin showed up wearing the same exact outfit. It was hilarious!

Brayden has now learned to giggle at himself and just about anything funny that mommy and daddy do. On his shirt is Rocky, the Lees Family got this shirt for him, saying that he was such a fighter when he was in the hospital. Brayden also loves to take pictures with his hands clenched up, we always say he is going to be a boxer, so this shirt is very fitting.

Jamie holding Tank! The thing about this picture is that she lifted him up to see how heavy he was and then remembered that her doctor told her not to lift anything more than 10 lbs, so she immediately put him down since he weighs over 14 lbs.

Madelyn Grace, she is absolutely adorable. She has the cutest little nose and the longest fingers and toes I have ever seen.

Grandpa and Grandma holding their grandkids.

Maddie and Brayden, he looks like a monster compared to her

I thought this was cute, something caught their eye and they both rolled the same way.

Brayden playing so big with daddy