Cute enough to eat and other wonderful moments!

Hi folks!
Enjoy the new pictures and be sure to check out
the two videos we posted towards the end!

Have a happy and safe Halloween!

First time wearing jeans!


Oooh! A pumpkin!

Zachary's First Halloween Costume!

I like this!

Rolling as a Tootsie Roll! (Get it?)

Cute enough to eat!

Family Photo at the Pumpkin Patch

Aunt JJ, Daddy and Zachary

Daddy makes me happy!

Gamma Marla, Mommy and one happy boy!

This is fun!

He can hold his own bottle for a little while.

Can I eat this?

Happy boy!

Now that he's full
he's sleepy!

Oh! I get it now!

Here are two new videos so you can see
our sweet boy in action!

Play time!

He loves his new duckie toy!

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!