Back to work and more...

Where do we start. Even as I write this Cami and I are riding the wave of emotions that come with being new parents. AJ is 16 days old now. Cami's Mom who has stayed with us two weeks and has been such a huge help left a few hours ago. It was nice to have her and Ed here this weekend. Ed really enjoyed holding AJ and every chance that was given to him he did. Tim and Niki even got to come and spend a little time with us on Saturday. Well, most of us. I had to work.

This week marked my return to the office and what a week it was. We had a ministry fair at church that was a huge success, but a lot of work had to be done to make that happen. I had to print around 20 banners and take care of a few logistics. The area of ministry that I over see saw a bunch of volunteers sign up and now begins the work of getting all them plugged in and helping to be highly committed participants at Compass Bible Church. Needless to say we are looking forward to a lighter week.

We also have a couple of follow up DR. appointments this week. One with Cami's DR as a follow up to her C-section and the other is with the pediatrician and we will get a little update as to how AJ is feeding and all that. We have noticed that AJ's cheeks are getting chubbier as well as his legs. He has been eating like a champ as well as doing the other things that come along with that.

Mom and I are getting ready for a new week and a new day as we continue to see God's goodness and provision in our lives. We have been blessed with a church family that has been so hopefully in providing meals for us. We look forward to the ways that God will continue to provide in the coming weeks as he blesses us with friends on this journey. In returning to work there have been so many that have congratulated and offered to extend a hand in help in whatever way that they can.

There are more pictures from the last several days on the site. Click on the link to the right to take a look. They should be in the February albums. Enjoy.

Coming Home

Yesterday was quite the eventful day. It was the day that we brought AJ home. Mom was really tired from all the commotion of the day and so was little AJ. We are all still adjusting to the new schedule and I have a feeling that we will always be adjusting to a new schedule for some time as AJ continues to grow and as we get to experience the joy of being parents. Oh what a joy it is, tiring but a real joy. The image of God's good gifts has never been more real in our life. To see how he blesses us in such great ways with things that we don't deserve like little AJ. Cami and I keep asking what did we do to deserve such a blessing, knowing that we did not do anything to earn or merit this gift. God's gifts are good.

Here are some more pictures of little AJ from the last few days.

Feb 8th
Feb 9th
Feb 10th
Feb 11th
Feb 12th
Feb 13th

The last few days at the hospital were eventful for Mom and Dad as they learned to take care of little AJ. It was an exciting time, some filled with tears by AJ and Mom, some with laughter, and a all of them filled with love.

More to write later. But just too tired to write.

Happy Birthday

First off if you want to see the pictures, here they are.

Now on to the rest of the story. Everything went great. Cami was awesome especially all through the night as AJ wanted to eat. He seems to being doing really well at that. Which is a blessing. Especially in the emotional time of learning/figuring out that we were gonna have to have a C-section.

The main story is that Cami's induced labor never got her beyond 5cm after going through it for about 10 hours. The doctor came in and suggested that we have the C-section. Cami and I had a good cry, for all kinds of reasons, but at the same time trusting that God is in control, and praying knowing that we could lean on Him.

I was sitting in the hall at 7:50pm, they asked me to join Cami in the OR at 8:00pm and at 8:07 AJ came into this world weighing 7lbs 7.5 oz. and 19 inches long. The first thing that the nurses said is wow, what big hands and feet he has. They are huge. It was a very exciting time.

Cami has done a great job in getting AJ to feed and has shown a lot of patience in being a new mom, especially after a long day with surgery to follow. Last night was made longer with AJ wanting to eat and having several BM's.

We finely got some extend sleep time around 6 am and woke up at 8:45am. The hospital pediatrician just came in and said everything looks good. Oh yeah, did i mention his sixth toe on his left foot. Not really a full toe just a little extra skin ball that will have to be removed with a surgical procedure at some later date. Cami thinks that he kicked so much and so hard and that is why he has the extra toe. We will know more after meeting with our pediatrician. Which will happen sometime next week. So please keep that in your prayers, just that the doctors would show wisdom with what to do and when to do it. Everyone says it is not really a big deal, and it has not bothered Cami or I. Take a look through the pictures and you might spot it.

Thanks for all the prayers. We hope that today we get some much needed rest. We are thankful for our families and their willingness to be here and help in the next coming days.

Join us in praying that AJ would become great in the kingdom of God.

C-section

Well it looks like things will not go to plan, but that is ok cause God knew all along. Join us and pray as we embark on this next leg of the journey.

Thanks

Gus, Cami and soon to be here AJ.

Contractions 1-2

They are about 1 to 2 minutes apart. I am writing this as fast as I can while she is using the restroom. Just wanted to give a quick update. It is 1:20 and right now we are just waiting for the epidural. He is in an emergency cesection (not sure how to spell that) so when he is done with that he will be up here. So pray that happens soon. Cami has been doing a great job and it has been a great pleasure having our families here.

Praise God

More pictures are uploaded.

The funny one is of everyone sitting in the room on three different computers at the same time. All Macs I might add! :)

Not far away now

So I am writing this from the hospital with Cami, Mary Lou, and my Mom and Dad. We got here around 7:15 am and it is not 9:48am. Cami has just started having a few contractions and things seem to be progressing as they should. Thank you for all your prayers as we continue on this exciting journey.

Here are some pictures from today. Hope you enjoy them.

Daddy?

So we are still waiting for baby AJ to make his grand arrival into our lives. This last week Cami has had several contractions, but nothing consistent. Actually she did not even know she was having contractions until she went in for a stress test. While there she had her first one and there was a little scare cause AJ's heart rate went down. It ended up not being so scary, they kept her at the hospital for 2 more hours just to see how he would react through other contractions and he did fine. She had 10 more in the two hours that she was there with no ill effects to him. She had to go in for the same thing the next day, was only there for 30 minutes or so and all was fine.

The induction is schedule for Friday February 8th. We and especially Cami are hoping that AJ will arrive before that time, on his own without medical help. But even if that is not the case we know that we are a mere 3 days away from seeing out little guy. We are so excited and eager to see where this journey will take us.

The room is ready, the bags are packed, the car seat is in the car, so come on little buddy, don't you want to me your mom and dad and the rest of your family? See ya soon.

Daddy