Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all. This is Gavins first Thanksgiving. Last time he was struggling to get out…but was hesitant. 24 hours later he arrived! Much to be thankful for. Gobble Gobble!

Happy Birthday Dad/Grandpa! Not going to say how old you are…not sure the computer can display a number that big!

Our little boy!

It seems like only yesterday you can sreaming into this world. Such a tiny little boy and now your walking all over the place, pointing at everything and wanting to know everything around you! Happy 1st birthday my son!

He has had two birthday parties, thee first one was with all his friends, Cassie, Joey, Tony, and Nicolas. The second was with family. Thanks for all the presents and gifts! He has played with them all! He still not sure about the un-wrapping of the presents, but I think it was mainly due to the amount of people around. He was getting distracted! The biggest hit thus far: his pull behind helicopter! He like being able to walk and pull the helicopter along behind him!

Added his pictures from his birthday. You can click on the link on the left side of the main page or  www.thebodeys.com/photogallery/Gavins1stBirthday/index.html

As requested, I have posted some new pictures mainly of Gavin, but what do you expect! Links are on the right side of the main page. I uploaded his Halloween pictures and his 9 - 10 month pictures. Sorry I havent been keeping up with it as much lately. So much to do and so little time! Enjoy!!

Happy Halloween everyone. Gavin decided to go as a fierce dragon this year, curtesy of Great Uncle Kevin.

Gavin the Dragon

Our little peanut.

Steph had the first ultrasound today, just to get a better idea on the approximate due date: ~28 May 2009. The baby will be 9 weeks old tomorrow, assuming the doctor uses the date the technician said. The fetal heart rate was 160bpm which is right where it is supposed to be. The picture above you can make out the head and the torso and two little appenadages (aka arm and leg) and the umbilical cord. Squint if your having trouble, it probably wont help, but you will look funny doing it!

Steph is doing ok, very tired and nauseated which is coming very early this time around. She says she is “feeling it more” than when she was pregnant with Gavin.

Congratulations Jim and Sue on being pregnant!! The timing couldnt have been better…the two cousins will be very close in age. Congrats again to new Grandmas and Grandpas to be…again! This is such GREAT news! My how the family is growing!

25 years ago you were brought into this world and it has never been the same since! Heres to you Katie for putting up with me trapping you in the laundry basket…even though you know you liked it!

Happy Birthday!

Well we have had another exciting week. Nothing to do with the weather this time…but mainly with Gavin. Two Thursdays ago, Gavin started running a fever of 102F. We would give him Tylenol and it would go down and come back up. By Friday evening (actually Saturday morning at 2am) his temperature was up to 104, so we took him to Childrens Medical Center. Ended up that he had an ear infection, so the doc prescribed Amoxicillan. After one day of taking the drug he was starting to feel better. He slept rather well with the Tylenol, only waking up around 4am each day.  However that Monday, he broke out in a rash and was REALLY itchy! Steph took him to the pediatrician who told her he is allergic to Ammoxicillan…great! So we spent the next few days giving him Benadryl and Oatmeal baths, which really seemed to help! His rash is all gone now thankfully! He has retained the “wake up a 4am routine” this week which has been very annoying, but hopefully we can break him of that soon. Mommy and Daddy need thier sleep!

Since then, Gavin is crawling everywhere and has learned to climb up and down stairs. Its SO cute to watch! He is getting very good at going up, but is still a little nervous about going down. Wont be long until he starts walking, if he can ever get over the fear of walking on his own.

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What a week it has been. For those of you who havent heard, Ohio was hit by “Hurricane” Ike…meaning we got a LOT of wind, but no water. The winds around Dayton were around 60mph, knocking over trees and powerlines. Most areas lost power, ours was out for 2 1/2 days. Mom and Dads was only out for around 4 hours or so. Stephanie and Gavin spend the night at Grandma and Grandpa Bodeys house on Monday. The night temperature was a little cold and we were not sure when we would get power. So they stayed up there and I went to work on Tuesday.

Southern Ohio was hit the hardest, some areas still dont have any power a week later. To add to the problem, the power company sent 3/4 of their electricians to Texas to help restore power there. So the surrounding states sent in thier electricians to help out in Ohio. I want to thank the electric companies though: the Dayton area had over 300,000 homes without electricity and by Wednesday that number was down around 94k and quickly dropping. Considering the widespread amount of damage that occured, this is a spectacular feat. I have heard many people complaining about how much time it took to get thier power restored, but I was out during the storm watching the winds tear through trees, knocking over a tree into my car. The amount of down trees was tremendous and that it took ONLY two days to restore more than half of the power is AWSOME. I know that some areas still dont have power, but all things considered this was an amazing feat. Thanks to all the workers who put in 16 hour days and only had an 8hour break until they went back in.

Other than that, I think Gavin has the sniffles. He has been a bit more fussy this week, sleeping more and crying without any warning. Its nothing horrible, just new. He has cut a few more teeth, now up to 5 teeth: 2 on the bottom and 3 on the top. 2 of the teeth on the top at his canines, meaning he has fangs! The little bloodsucker! Grandma Bodey made a pot roast earlier this week and Gavin LOVED it! He gobbled up the pork like we are starving him.  Since then, he has eaten homemade chicken and noodles, macaroni and cheese and hotdogs. He is definatly quite an eater which is surprising that he is in the 10th percentile for weight.

I have posted new Gavin pictures here. Including his 7 - 8th month pictures.

Yes, Gavin is 9 MONTHS OLD! My how quickly time flies. It seems like just yesterday we took him home from the hospital. The doc said everything is looking good. Gavin is 28.5 inches long (50%) and 17.6lbs (10%). Since his weight was so low, the doctor wanted to supplement his daily feeding with formula to help put some of the weight back on. So he gets 12oz of formula a day now.

Physically, Gavin is crawling and climbing like a mad man. He is starting to let go of things and stand on his own. But as soon as he realizes that he is standing by himself, he sits back down. He is using Mommy and Daddy as stepping stools to get onto the couch and chair to get into everything, so we have to watch what we put on the end tables. We dont think it will be much longer and he will be walking. Hopefully I will have his 8 month pictures up this weekend, so you call all get your Gavin fix!

For those of you who didn’t know, Dad aka Grandpa aka Tom had outpatient surgery today. He had been feeling very sleepy over the last few months along with some memory loss, so he went in to the doctors and they said he had an irregular heart beat. So they did a heart cath this morning and found that he had 70% blockage in his left lower part of his heart (sorry, dont know the medial terminology that well to give more than that), and “minor” blockage in another area. They put a stint in the left portion to keep the artery walls open and said that the stint would do more damage than good for the minor area. He was awake for the procedure and was in good spirits when it was done. Mom aka Grandma aka Carol, Steph and I were at the hospital this morning and afternoon and Mom was staying this evening. He should be released tomorrow, pending good behavior!

I Stumbled upon this video, and thought it would make a great starting post:

Well this should teach me a lesson…BACKUP! I tried to update the family blog tonight…and it hosed the database! Which means…ALL THE POSTS ARE GONE!! The photo gallery is still there, I will just have to add back in the links. However, all the users have been deleted. Everyone who wants to contribute, please reregister. This should teach me to make backups! Sorry everyone…I hope to get things back up and running SOON!