Chase @ 5 weeks

For those of you who didn't know that Chase went back into the hospital... please do not be alarmed. Chase has since been released and is doing great.
At around 4 weeks he started throwing up after almost every feeding and the Dr. thought it was due to acid reflux, we started him on an antacid. A week later we took him back to the Dr, he had slowed down in his weight gain and was still getting sick constantly. Not only was he unable to keep his food down he also spent a lot of time with tummy aches. They scheduled an ultrasound for the next morning on his stomach. It took the tech less than 2 minutes of looking at Chase's stomach to decide to go get the radiologist. Chase had developed something called Pyloric stenosis, a condition that occurs usually only in young infants. At the bottom of his stomach is a muscle that is supposed to open and close allowing food to exit once it has been digested. Chase's was not opening and had swollen so that every time he ate and his food would try to exit only to be forced back up. The only way to get it to open is through a surgical proceedure where they cut the outer part of the muscle so food can escape after being digested. Chase never left the hospital after the ultrasound but was admitted and started the preperations for surgery. He was dehydrated by that time so we had to wait a few hours for the IV to admin fluids before he could go to surgery. The surgery was done that evening and he was kept overnight so they could measure out small feedings and monitor his reaction. The next evening we were able to take him home. He is doing great now and we are so thankful to have found out relatively quickly what was causing him so much trouble. We have wonderful pediatricians!

Chase Andrew Latta is Here!

We are so thankful for the birth of our son Chase Andrew Latta. He came into this world at 3:34 p.m. today weighing 7 lbs. 4 oz. and is 21 in. long. He and Julie are both doing great. Here are a few pics...I am sure we will be posting many more pics in the days ahead. Thanks to everyone who has been praying for our family!

The Corn Maze

Jared discovers corn

Comparing wrist bands with Daddy

Leading the way

Follow me!

Too busy for pictures

"""balls"

Jared and Daddy

Riding the "train"

Peeking at the goats

Playing in the corn box

Who put this corn on my pants?

Sticking corn in the goats noses

Riding a pony for the 1st time

Petting the pony

Peeking over the fence

Daddy's boy

A morning with Jared...

I wake to the sound of someone talking with a paci in his mouth. Someone who has gotten out of his own bed trotted across the house and into my bedroom to say "goodmorning there will be no more sleeping in this house". Squinting I can hear him get more animated as he knows he has finally woken me up. I give in and he follows me around as I get ready running ahead of me to the kitchen when I suggest we have breakfast. I settle him onto the couch with his cereal and milk so I can take a shower in "peace" (meaning only 1 or 2 interuptions instead of 500). When I exit the shower he is waiting in the bedroom with me with our family portrait that he has stolen off an end table. He points excitedly over and over at Jesse exclaiming "daddy daddy" just in case I forgot who that was. I rescue the picture (for now) and ask if he would like a bath. In answer he takes off running across the house to his bathroom to stand beside the tub and wait to be put in. I start the water and as I am not moving fast enough he decides to make his best effort at climbing in by himself (pajamas and all). Thankfully his legs are just a little too short. I undress him, help him into the tub, wash him and then leave him to play in the water for a while. Later I start the water draining while he keeps playing. At one point I leave and come back to find the water has finished draining and Jared has the soap and washwrag in hand getting ready to re-wash his body only with no water. I rescue the afor said items and fish him out to dry and lotion up. He insists upon helping with the lotion which is in a pump bottle so when we are done the bottle has as much lotion on the outside as he does. I have forgotten to get a fresh diaper and his ointment so I run to his room grab them. In the few seconds I am gone he dashes completely naked out of the bathroom to his firetruck in the hall (this is a ride on toy). Once straddled upon it I hear the tell tell sound of liquid hitting a hard floor. He is sitting back hands on his thighs watching as he pees on the firetruck upon which he is sitting and everthing else in range. The humor in this is that it is a fire truck and I guess perhaps it needed a "hose". I carry him quickly to his potty chair but he is finished and doesn't want to stay there. I wipe down his legs then go grab a towel to clean my hardwoods before the moisture makes a mark. I return to his room to find him, still completely naked diving around in his ball pit. When he gets out he has a ball stuck between his fat little thighs (I'm sure the lotion helped this). I just about have him down on the floor ready to be diapered when Jesse calls wanting to know "what are you guys up to?". Moments later Jared is finally clothed and decides all this work had made him hungry for a mid-morning snack. He runs to the kitchen to ask for applesauce. Glad to have him stuck in one place I put him in his highchair with the applesauce, a bib, and a spoon. I come back when he is finished to find that he dropped a huge spoonful down his front and UNDER the bib so that his shirt he has been wearing all of 10 minutes is soaked in applesauce. I change him into a second shirt and wonder how many more hours before Jesse comes home for lunch and Jared goes down for a nap?

Jared helps Daddy

Jesse cleaned out the gutters tonight and Jared decided to help... no he did not get of the roof, but he did make off with some of Daddy's supplies:) Jared is actually wearing this glove he wore it around the yard backwards and up to his elbow for quite a while.