News Flash - Zachary is Mobile!!

Just a quick update folks - Zachary is crawling!


No pictures yet (he's too quick for us), but here's a picture of him standing up!



Love to all!

Good news on the cardio front, a visit to the NICU and standing up!

Hi folks!

We've got the best news to share! Zachary went to see Dr. Petit, his cardiologist and we learned the the tiny hole in his heart (an ASD) has closed on it's own. We knew it would, we just thought it would take a couple more years. We are so pleased! His heart murmur is almost gone because his pulmonary stenosis (he had a valvuloplasty last May) is in the normal range now. Even better the PDA surgery that he had when he was three days old is a success (in May there was some indication of some leakage, but not anymore!). NOTE: If you click on the heart issues above, it will take you to a website that give an explaination of the condition.

After Zachary's appointment with Dr. Petit, we went to visit our great friends at The Women's Hospital. We visited Level II NICU, Level III NICU and the nurses in Antepartum. It's so hard to believe that this time last year, Kim was in the hospital trying so hard to keep Zachary inside as long as possible. He is such an amazing boy, he had such a rough start but is just doing so wonderfully well, we are so happy, so pleased and so proud!

Now for what you have been waiting for...new pictures! Zachary is learning to pull himself up into a standing position! He LOVES to stand! Enjoy the pictures!

STANDING TALL!

PULLING UP ON DADDY

ALL SMILES

PLAYING WITH HIS LEAP FROG TABLE

WITH DR. THOMPSON AND
NURSE SARA (NICU III)

WITH NURSE PHYLLIS (ANTEPARTUM)

WITH BROOKE (SOCIAL WORKER)
DR. DEGUZMAN, NURSE MELISSA

(NICU II) AND DR. JERRELL

PLAYING WITH NURSE MELISSA

And for those of you who like to watch Zachary in motion...here's some videos!

What a wonderful week! We've got a quiet week ahead, but we're working on getting ready for Zachary's first birthday!

Love to all!

Quick update...

Sorry folks, we haven't found the camera charger yet so no new pictures this week (at least not today).

Zachary is doing well. Last Friday he went to the doctor and got his Synergis shot (to protect against the RSV virus) and the flu shot. Last Friday night he developed his first fever...it got up to 103.8 and Mommy's and Daddy's panic level rose comparatively. After three calls to the nurse-on-call, a sleepless night and a Saturday morning appointment with his pediatrician, Zachary is just fine and thankfully it was just a bad reaction to his flu shot. His fever broke Saturday evening and all was well the rest of the weekend. On Sunday, Uncle John, Aunt Betty, April and Ashton came by and we had a little cook-out and had a good time. We went shopping yesterday and bought his Halloween costume. I'm not going to spoil the surprise, you'll have to wait a couple of weeks for the Halloween pictures!

Zachary is now 12 pounds 15 ounces and now measures 24 inches! Yes folks, our amazing boy has grown just under a foot in just under eight months! Our two-foot tall little boy. Wow! He's certainly growing! He takes five bottles a day and has one bowl of rice cereal (mixed with breast milk).

Next weekend Grandma Marla is coming to town to visit and we are planning a trip to the pumpkin patch! We hope to have a get together with Brinson and her Mommy and Daddy next weekend if everything stays status quo.

Anyway, that's our news! Love to all!

Photo catch-up time!

Hi folks!

Sorry for the delay, but we finally came across the cable that takes the pictures off the camera (we didn't mean to pack it!). Here's your weekly fix of Zachary pictures!


Last month we went to Women's Hospital to show off our big boy!

Here's Zachary with Blair, one of Mommy's nurses when she was on bed rest. Blair spent lots of time researching Mommy's numerous questions.

Here are Phyllis and Tammy. Phyllis and Mommy formed a close bond and Phyllis was in the room when Zachary was born. Zachary loved to burrow down inside Mommy when Phyllis put the heart monitor on.

See? He still burrows down for Phyllis. :)

This is Doctor Thompson. She is one of the NICU doctors that took extra special care of our sweet boy! She was so impressed to learn how well Zachary is doing and asked lots of questions about his follow-up appointments.

Here is just some of the great NICU, level III nurses and Dr. Thompson. They are truly miracle workers and we are so thankful for the wonderful care they give all the babies in the NICU.


Here's Nurse Sara. She took care of Zachary quite a bit. As you can see, Zachary is impressed with the ties to her yellow gown.


This is Jeanne, she too took care of Zachary a few times. She was an Nurse of the Quarter while we were in the NICU.

Here are some pictures we took a while ago.

Here is Zachary, trying on Daddy's shorts.
Silly Zachary, you have your own cargo shorts!

The Million Dollar Smile!

Just precious!

With Cuddles!

Yay for the Bumbo Chair!

Zachary recently discovered his tongue.
Here he is sticking it out!

Again...

Recent pictures, taken at our new house!

A big boy sitting in our new chair.

Kisses from Granny!

Big boy eating cereal in his new high chair!


He loves his new chair!


Grandpa David giving Zachary some cereal.


Cuddles with Mommy!


Mommy put together Zachary's new Excersaucer.
Zachary loves it!

Nap time with Daddy (and Magellan the kitty too)

Thanks for all the comments on our last few posts! We love them!

Have a great day and love to all!

Superstar!!!

Just look at these pictures! Our Zachary is a Superstar!!

We are all doing well. Zachary is completely off his apnea/heart monitor and we will start feeding him cereal once a day, every day beginning next week! After a couple weeks of cereal, he'll get to try a new veggie every week. He is now 12.6 pounds and loves standing (with our support), sitting in his bumbo chair and chewing on EVERYTHING! That's about all, except we are moving into our new house on Friday! YAY!!!

In other news, we've heard that Brinson, Noah and Aubrey are all doing well. We can't wait for our own little NICU reunion!

Love to all!

The Baldwins have a new home!

Hi folks!

Well, last Friday we closed on the new house! We are so excited! While we have already begun moving some stuff in, we won't "officially" move in until October 10th. We are getting some of the big things taken care of like having our new refrigerator delivered, getting estimates for window treatments (we're going with white 2" faux wood blinds in most of the windows) and Stephen is going to paint Zachary's nursery and seal the granite and the grout of the tiles so our new house will stay looking new as long as possible! Thanks to Grandma Marla for all the help!

Zachary is doing fabulous! He was with us when we closed and with us while we shopped around for the new fridge and he just takes it all in stride. We are so blessed with the sweetest baby boy with the best disposition! He has an appointment to check on his eyes on Thursday and we are waiting to hear from his pediatrician to find out when he gets his Synergis (a RSV vaccine) and flu shot.

Over the weekend we visited our friends at Women's Hospital, both Kim's and Zachary's nurses and Zachary's doctor, Dr. Thompson. It was so great to see them all, we have pictures to post and will get those up here soon!

Oh! We booked our flights for our TWO trips to Cali in November. We'll be out for Kim's brother Paul and Devin's wedding when we OFFICIALLY add Devin to the family (she's already such a big part of it though) and then again for Thanksgiving. We are looking forward to letting all of you in Cali meet our big boy!

We have to say thanks to Kim's brother Jeff for getting the web cam all set up at the gathering after Grandma's funeral so many of Kim's family got to see Zachary and so Kim could see her family. It was hard for her to be here and that really helped!

Here are some recent pictures taken with Kim's cell phone...we have lots more on the camera, but we have to save some for later!

At Don Pico's waiting for queso (not really)!

Doesn't she though?

He's getting so good at holding his head up!

That's about all that's new. Love to all!

Grandma Marla Came for a Visit!

Zachary's new favorite thing to do...chew!

And admire himself, as we all do!

Sitting up, well propped up actually!

Pushing up!

"Hello?"

Snuggling with Grandma Marla


Play time with Grandma Marla!

Sleeping on Grandma Marla

Holding Grandma Marla's hand

Checking out the action at IKEA

OOOOH! I like my doggy!

Sweet dreams (while visiting IKEA)

Good times with Daddy!

My new cow toy. I love it!

See? I love to snuggle lots!

Yesterday Zachary went to his pediatrician, Dr. Gray. She is very pleased with how well he is doing. He is even advanced in some areas and on target with his corrected age in others. No delays...whoo hoo!! He's now 11 pounds, 6 ounces and measures 21 and 1/2 inches. He got his six month vaccinations and was none too happy! A couple of weeks ago we were told that we could start taking him out a bit so we've been enjoying getting out of the house a bit. Next month we start feeding him solid foods, rice cereal to start.

We all had a great time with Grandma Marla. She's talking about coming out in September and October too. We agree Grandma Marla, spending time with Zachary certainly is addicting!

This weekend we are going on our first Baldwin Family Road Trip! We're loading up and heading to Rockdale, Texas (in Central Texas) to visit more of Stephen's family. We have also been cleared to take Zachary on an airplane in November so we're going to visit Kim's family twice in November, once for Uncle Paul's wedding and once for Thanksgiving. Watch out world, Zachary's mobile!!

Love to all!