5 minute check-in (more later)

I can't believe this sweet boy is 5 weeks old today.  I love him so much! He hardly makes a fuss.  Such a happy little boy.  Quite a bit has happened in the last few weeks.  I've been so busy, some day soon hopefully I can get caught up on here, but for now, this will have to do.  Parker had his 3rd set of testing for VLCAD today.  His second set of bloodwork came back negative, so we have high hopes that he doesn't have it.  But, they are still uncertain and needed to do the DNA test, which is more bloodwork.  We'll find out in a few weeks if we need to do the enzyme test.  If the results come back where he has one mutated gene, we'll need to do the enzyme test.  If everything looks good, we will be free.  At least they've come quite a long ways in the last year or two, and it would be another blood drawn test instead of a skin test.  He hardly cried at all.  The first time they poked him in his right arm.  He had a good vein, but couldn't get any blood.  He didn't cry at all.  Then they tried the left arm.  They poked him.  He cried a second and then stopped.  This time they got their blood.  :P They had a nice dietitian there who I was able to talk to.  I was a little concerned with how much Parker burps up after he eats.  I asked if it seemed like it could be a milk or lactose allergy.  She told me I could try getting off dairy and should know in about 3 days if that was the case.  I've already been off regular milk for over a week and using lactaid milk, but she told me that I would need to be using soy milk because the lactaid still has the protein in it.  So, I guess I can do soy for a few days to see if it helps.  She's guessing he just has a weak sphincter though, which is perfectly normal in young babies.  It'll get stronger by the time he's 3-6 months and he won't burp up so much.  Nolan burped up a lot too as a newborn, but he always seemed to be in pain.  Parker doesn't.  He hardly cries or anything.  Just shortly after I feed him, it seems like it mostly all comes right back up.  Frustrating.

Parker will be blessed on February 3rd at 12:30 at the Poet Smith Building.  After church we will also have a little birthday celebration for Annika.  Whoever can come, we'd love it!

I'll try to get some more pictures on here soon.

We also took a little vacation trip to Monterey.  It was wonderful! I needed to get out! :) It was so spontaneous.  We've never done this since we've had kids.  It was about time.  Adam had the whole weekend free.  Nolan had a mini day on Friday and no school Monday.  Adam got a good hookup on a hotel in Monterey.  It was going to be in the 70 degrees! We were off! I will tell more about this trip later.  You should see my house right now.  It looks like a tornado hit! :P