3 pounds!!!

Jake is such a little sweetheart. He has been one of the best things that has ever happened to Rory and I. We now are completely hooked on the philosophy that good things come to those who wait! And we will wait forever for this little guy to come home with us some day! 

But we don't seem to have to wait as long for him to grow these days! Jakey-boy is now 3 pounds 2 ounces and doing GREAT! To put it in perspective it took Jake almost 2 months to reach 2 pounds, but in the last 3 weeks he has shot up to 3 pounds!

He is also now doing a bit better with his digestion and pooping! I can't wait to get him up to Primary Children's to get his hernias fixed. They are now the same size as a tennis ball! He has to be 4 pounds to get the surgery so it wont be long now. Right now the poor little boy has a hard time going to the bathroom because literally most of his intestines and tummy are hanging between his knees so he has nothing to push against when he needs to poop, therefore he doesn't poop very often and therefore he doesn't digest enough to grow as fast as they would like. 

But as soon as his hernias are fixed... and he gets well enough to be transported back to Utah Valley, then we can start weening him off of the feeding tube and I can actually try to nurse or give him a bottle. And as soon as he can regularly drink from a bottle he can come home!!!!!!

I can't wait! I bet my van can't wait either. It has probably one of the most abused and neglected things through this whole adventure. Rory says I have been very good to give my best to each of my kids and him but i have been completely neglectful to my mini-van. I never allowed food in my van before this, and I was always pretty on top of cleaning it out and keeping an empty garbage bag in there, but now... It is a dreadful sight! And on top of the messy grossness on the inside.. I got slaughtered by a rock on my way home from the hospital last week and it took only one block for it to crack across my windshield! So now it has to go into the shop tomorrow. The poor van!

We moved into our new house this past week and it went really well, and it is also so nice to all be back together finally! We still have one van load left and a garage sale to have at the old house and then from there we should be done with it. It has been great to have for the past 7 years but we were definitely growing out of is and my kids love the new neighborhood where there are kids in every home! We couldn't have found better neighbors anywhere!

Well Jake, if I could say anything to you right now, I would tell you how much I love you and how stinking cute you are and that I can't wait to watch you grow up because I know you have big things planned for you and I am excited to see what those things are! You are our little miracle, who has taught us more than anyone will ever know! I want you to know that from day one you have had this light in your eyes and everyone can see. You proved to everybody from day one that you are a fighter, that you know what you want, and that you are worth fighting for! And I love it!!! Love you Buddy!