Our long day

Yesterday ended up being a very long day for us! Which proves, I should never assume a day is going to be low key. Anyway~ it started out by taking Ayden to a check-up at his reg. dr. His dr. wants to see him like every 6 weeks to keep tabs on Ayden's weight gain... or should I say lack there of. Despite Ayden now eating like a champ! In 6 weeks, he only put on 4 oz and did not grow any length wise. :( So he referred us to an endocrinologist (a dr. that specializes in hormones... the kind of dr. i had to see growing up because of my turner syndrome).

 Ayden still has fluid in his ears too. Not enough to call infection or for him to do about, but it's been going on long enough (about 8 months) that he wanted us to see a ENT (ears, nose, throat specialist) too! Yes, I was discouraged.

So when I got home I called the GI dr. (aka feeding specialist) to report his lack of weight gain, called an ENT, and called an endo. We ended up seeing the ENT yesterday. Without any hesitant she told us she wanted to put tubes in Ayden's ear

sorry, maybe kind of graphic, but i like pics to visual things

In all actuality I'm kind of relieved. The poor boy has had more antibiotics than a 13 month old should. Also, I wonder if that's kind of the reason why he's not walking quite yet. He's having trouble with equilibrium. Anyway~ so we scheduled the surgery and it'll be good! It's a low key, outpatient surgery that Ayden should recover from in about a day.

Anyway~ that's the latest and greatest going on in the Payne household. I will keep ya posted once we see the endo, GI, and things progress. Thanks for all the love, support, and prayers! Love to all!!

Ayden takes steps

Ayden has taken steps before, but I haven't been able to get him to do it on camera. My amazing friend was able to catch it for me though!! Yes, it is a girls jacket he's wearing, but he's so incredibly cute still! lol

Halloween!

This year Halloween was kind of low key. With Ayden still being to young to go trick-or-treating... We went to see his bio. family, we went to see my granddad, meet up with my best friend for a bit, then went home, had dinner, and had TONS of trick-or-treaters So it was fun, just nothing to exciting. lol Here are so cute pictures from the night. As always you can see more on our picasa account :) Love to all!!

Pictures!

Here are some more recent pictures! I'm only putting five on here. If you want to see more, check them out on facebook or on our picasa (which you can get to by going to the pictures tabs). Love to all!

Serious?

Oh my! Where has the time gone?? Here's a quick update on all of us

Jared is loving his new job! It has taken some getting use to, but he's working on actual projects now and is enjoying it. The company feeds their employees like crazy! Domo is always bringing in lunch and dinner... they always have bagels, donuts, etc. there for breakfast too. So far it's been a great company to work for. Other than working, Jared stays busy keeping me from going more insane :o) and playing with Ayden and Buddy. Still no new calling for Jared, but right now I'm okay with that.

I haven't been up to anything new. Mommy and wife sum me up! I still do activity days and primary pianist for church. I swear, I'm there forever! lol Good thing I love it, huh?? We have our primary program next Sunday... I'm excited, yet ready to have it over. It's fun, but kind of stressful. Yes, I'm the pianist, but it puts on a lot of me, I feel like. Anyway~ life is good.

Ayden is thinking he's Mr. Independent. He is now eating liking a champ! All the sudden one day, he decided that he was going to eat finger/table food and love it. He definitely has his favorites and has an opinion on what he eats... but he will eat now. We're kind of still working on the drinking thing. The boy LOVES chocolate milk. He's still small, but I'm definitely not as stressed about it, since now he likes eating. He loves to get into everything. He's still not sure about the walking thing. He can do it, it's just helping him get the confidence. We're excited to take him around for halloween. Technically this is his second halloween, but it feels like it's his first since he was too little, just brought him home from the NICU last year. We won't go trick-or-treating... but we have a costume for him and we'll take him to see his bio family, some family, and friends.

Think that about does it for us! I will be adding more pictures soon, so be on the look out. Until then, love to all!!

Happy birthday, Ayden!

Let me start off by saying, Ayden is one loved little man! lol On Sunday, we went over to his bio. families house and celebrated his first birthday with them. Oh, quick side note... these are not all the pictures.. to see all of them go to our picasa or facebook :o)

On his actual birthday, we had a bunch of friends and family over and had cake, ice cream, and presents

Like  I said, this is one loved kid!

At one years old Ayden is 15 pound, 5.5 ounces... he is 27 1/4 inches tall...

Ayden crawls around and is into EVERYTHING! He loves to test boundaries! He is a major daddy's boy. He loves playing with his toys! He is getting to be a bit more cuddlier... which makes this mom extremely happy! He loves to be thrown around and bounce on the couch/bed. He's a very happy, fun baby! We couldn't be more blessed to have him in our lives!! 

phone and ipad pics

So I need to do better at unloading my phone and ipad pics. Oh well lol... I will try to be better. In the mean time, enjoy just a small, impromptu photo shoot of Ayden I did.

If you are just dying to see my phone and ipad pictures (we're talking like 400) go look at our Picasa page or facebook :o) I warn you now, some of them are blurry, and some I may have already posted. Anyway~ Love to all!