Will, Jen, Ruby, Seth & Wilson

Our sweet Wilson

   Wilson is a great baby... now that we have figured out his stomach issues. When he was 2 weeks old, we put him on medicine for acid reflux. He wasn't necessarily fussy, but he was spitting up a little. The biggest thing was that sometimes when he would burp he would dry heave and gag on nothing that we could see. But you could see he was in pain and trying to get something up. The dr. said that it is called silent reflux and that it is usually more harmful for babies because a lot of parents ignore it and then the acid just keeps burning away. After a few weeks he started to get really fussy though, so we changed his formula to sensitive. That seemed to help, but we could still tell he was really uncomfortable and gassy. He thought he was still hungry, but he was already eating 6 oz every 3 hours. I tried gripe water and it did nothing for him, so my cousin had told me about this stuff called colic calm. She warned me it was black but that it worked wonders. It is all natural but there is vegetable charcoal in it that causes the black color. We gave it to him and he took it with no problem. By the next day we had a whole different baby! He was happy and we could tell that he wasn't in pain anymore :) So now that he has sensitive formula, acid reflux medicine and colic calm, he is doing great! Our other 2 did not have stomach issues, so this has been a trial and error thing for us. Luckily we found what worked for him and he is chunkin' right up now!
     He was getting up every 3 hours until he was 7 weeks old. Then he started going longer stretches. This was great, because I went back to work when he was 6 1/2 weeks old. I would feed him at 11 before bed, then he would would get up at 4 and then again at 7. By 9 weeks though, he was going all night!!! He would eat at 10 and then get up at 6:30. For the last few weeks, he has been eating at 8:30 and sleeping until 6:45. He is still eating 6 oz every 3 hours and he keeps it down. If you don't give him that much, he freaks out!
     At his 2 week appt he weighed 8 1/2 lbs and he was 21 inches long. I was shocked that he had grown an inch and a half in 2 weeks. Then at his 2 month appt he weighed 11 1/2 lbs and he was 22 1/2 inches long. Again another inch and a half! He was in 3-6 month clothes when he was a month and a half, because he was so long :) He might be our tall one. Seth is short and stocky!
   Wilson loves Ruby and Seth. Ruby got him to smile first. She loves to play and read to him. Seth can get him to smile now too. Wilson is a momma's boy already, which I LOVE :) We are so grateful that he is a part of our family!

Grandpa Forbush and Grandpa Hanks

Brynn loves to hold Wilson

1st bath- almost a week old

Sucking on Daddy and Ruby's noses

1 week old

2 weeks old

Ruby reading to him and playing patty cake

1 month

I actually took 3 kids shopping :)

Chubby Cheeks!

2 months

Pictures of the kids

We went to Camera Shy in Lehi to have Wilson's newborn photos done and to also get pictures of the 3 kids together. Once again, they turned out so cute! Ruby did great, Seth didn't care about anything and Wilson was fussy. But they still turned out good. I must say that we have 3 adorable kids :)

I love Seth's face in this one.

The brothers :)

The sister :)

Seth gets tubes!

We have been having problems with Seth's ears since he was 9 months old. Every winter season he would get 6 or 7 double ear infections, or he would just constantly have them and never get rid of them. But then they would always clear up in the Summer time. We changed doctors right before I had Wilson and he gave me a referral for an ENT. I had been asking my old dr. about tubes and he kept putting me off! So I called my ENT, Dr. Tagge and we had an appt for Seth when Wilson was only 3 days old :) I wanted to try and get it done over my maternity leave from work. Dr. Tagge said that with the consistency of the infections he would do them no matter what. But what worried him the most was that Seth had fluid on his ears and that he had just gotten off of medicine and the fluid was still there.
He had surgery on March 6th at 6:30 am. He was tired and a little unsure, but he did great! The hardest thing for me was when they put him to sleep. They put a mask on his face and he did NOT like it. He had a panicked look in his eyes while I held him down. Me and the nurses all sang Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and he was out within 10 seconds. It was also hard to walk away and leave my little boy on the surgery table. He was only away from us for about 25 minutes, but I was nervous the whole time. Dr. Tagge said that when he went in the fluid was a lot worse than he had thought and that his right ear was especially bad. He said that the fluid was the consistency of rubber cement. He was shocked that Seth had even been talking before the surgery. When there is fluid on the ears, everything is muffled and kids tend to get behind on their speech. He also said that Seth's ears never would have cleared up on their own. So needless to say, we are very grateful that we did the surgery.
He was tired when he came out of it, but he still wanted a green popsicle. He kept saying he wanted a green pickle, but he settled for the popsicle :) He started running around like his crazy self when we got home. Sometimes he will cover his ears now when things are loud cause he is not used to hearing things so clearly. He will also fold his ears down and then open them to see what he can hear :)