Kole's 2 Month Check-Up

Kole had his 2 Month check-up this week, he was actually 2 1/2 months when we went though. But he is perfectly healthy and growing sooo much!! He is quite the chunker :)

2 Months

Weight- 15lbs 5 oz (90%)

Height- 23 1/2 in (75%)

Head- 16 1/2 in (90%)

He measures pretty big.. he is my big baby now! He is finding his hands and scratching his face all the time! He does not like a binki, he just loooves his bottle full of milk ALL the time! :) He is so happy! The second he see's Cooper he smiles, Coop doesnt even have to say anything to him to get a grin. We had Kole's baby blessing Saturday the 14th at my sister's house.  His grandpa Glen gave him the blessing and did a great job! :)  We love you Kole!

Best Friends!! :)

Bug & Worm

Since Cooper was born I always called him Bug, he is my little Bug =) After Kole was born Trevor started calling him Worm cuz he is a little wiggler and NEVER holds still! So this is obvioulsy a post about my Bug and Worm..

From day one Cooper has loved his brother, he is so helpful.. he feeds him, holds him, and baths with him. They are best friends! Kole might not know it yet but he has the best big brother anyone could ask for!

 Coop snugglin Kole

 Cooper is telling Kole what all the animals are on his shirt, trying to teach him early =)

My handsome Bug!

Kole got sick one day.. typical runny nose, cough, all that.. well later that night his fever jumped to 101.. he was only 20 days old! I called the hospital and they said with a fever like that he needs to be seen right now (this was at 11 at night) So we packed up and went to the hospital, they tested him for RSV and it came back positive. Where he was only 20 days old he didnt have his own immune system yet so his body couldnt fight off infection on its own, that being said they wanted to run more tests just to be COMPLETELY sure it was only RSV and no other infections.. so they gave him an IV in his arm, but his tiny little veins were to small they couldnt hit them in the right spot so they put the IV in his head..

I told the doctor um.. no i dont think so, but he assured me that in kids this small it is easiest to get a vein in their head.. My heart was breaking for my baby.  Then they needed a urine sample so they did a catheter on him.. he actually slept through it so it didnt make me too sad to watch that one. Then the worst part.. they needed fluid from his spine to test for infections. Spinal tap.. pretty much like an epidural! One doctor had to fold him in half like a taco while the other doctor tried to get the needle in his tiny spine.. well it was so small they couldn't hit the right spot. They tried 6 times and were not successful so we said no more, he had been through enough and I didnt think my heart could break anymore. Then they did a few chest x rays and then told us that he needed to be hospitalized for 2 days.

We were sent to inpatient and he was hooked up to Oxygen and monitored every hour throughout the night. They started him on antibiotics and we hoped to see improvement. His oxygen levels were prefect the whole next day so we waited for the doctor to come that night to give us the ok to go home. In the mean time our brother in laws Chandler and Kevin came in and gave Kole a blessing. Shortly after we got to go home! I took Kole in the next day to see Dr. Mckenna for a follow up and Kole was starting to develop Pneumonia.. i didnt think it could get any worse! His oxygen levels were also dropping so we were sent home with a nebulizer to do breathing treatments on him and antibiotics for the Pneumonia. He went back to the doctor for the next 3 days until he was finally healthy again!

He didnt mind doing his breathing treatments, which is good we had to do them every four hours or as needed. Now at 6 weeks he is totally healthy and we are so glad he is ok!

Here are a few pics to catch up from the past weeks...

I love my Bug and Worm =)

Kole Perry Gillies

  Kole Perry Gillies

March 1st, 2011

6:45 pm

8 lbs 6 oz

20 1/2 inches



On Tuesday, March 1st I had my last doctor's appointment, i was just 4 days away from my due date and ready to have a baby!  I was dilated to a at 1 so he sent me up to the hospital to induce me. We checked into the hospital at 10:30 am. I got into my room and hooked up to my Pitocin(used to induce labor), within minutes of being hooked up my contractions started. They started at about 2 to 3 minutes apart and only got closer from there. At noon i asked for my Epidural, right after that was done my Dr showed up to break my water.  When he broke my water i was dilated to a 4. Then it was the waiting game, we had lots of visitors, it was nice to have family around except the worst part was Cooper wasn't allowed in the hospital.  They put the hospital on a "lockdown" because of flu season so no one under the age of 14 (not even my own child) was allowed in.  They wouldn't even let him be in the waiting room.  It was really hard, I was excited for Cooper to be the first to hold Kole and then they told me he couldn't see him until i was checked out. It broke my heart. But Cooper was in great hands, my parents had a sleepover with him and spoiled him rotten.

We waited until 6:30 and then I was finally dilated to a 10 and it was time! They paged my Dr and got me ready to push. I started pushing at 6:43 and baby Kole was born at 6:45. Thats right.. 2 minutes! I pushed for 2 minutes and he was here! I could not have been luckier. I had such an easy labor and delivery. Kole was absolutly perfect. We didn't have a name for him until after he was born, once we saw him we knew it was Kole.  He was healthy and beautiful. His lungs started retracting so he was put on oxygen for a few minutes then he was fine!

Family came in for a few minutes to get a peek, then we were moved to recovery room.  Once in recovery we got to bath and feed him.  Then the sleepless night began, I don't know if it was just the excitement of Kole being here or what it was but I could not get to sleep that night, and the couch for Trevor was about hard as a rock so he didn't sleep much either.  Kole did great through the night, he slept a ton!

The next morning family started coming to see Kole, everyone was so excited! Dr. Noorda came in that day to check on me and he gave me the ok to go home when I wanted, We wanted to see Cooper so bad that we left the second we could.  When we got home I told Cooper I had a surprise for him, he looked in the car seat at Kole and said "What is that?" I told him it was his baby brother and he said "I wanna hold him".. he hasn't stopped wanting to hold him since.  Cooper is such a good brother, he is so hands on with him.  He helps with everything, we couldn't be more lucky. They are best friends already! :) Kole Perry is named after a great man.. my dad! :) Kole is growing like crazy and we are loving every minute of it!



Starting a New Year..

Here are a few pictures from the end of 2010 and the start of 2011.. Hopefully my next post will be introducing our new little baby! He is growing and growing and growing.. he is about 5 lbs right now, he is measuring a little big so we are hoping to meet him in February instead of March!

And here is the dreaded belly picture..33 Weeks

My dad took us all Ice Fishing to Hyrum Dam

Cade & Cooper

Cheesin' It

Uncle Corey got the privledge of pulling Cooper and Cade on the little sled that carries the tent and chairs.. Cooper could not stop laughing.

This was Christmas Morning before Cooper got ahold of his presents!

He had so much fun opening his presents.

This was Christmas Eve at my Parents house, My parents got the grandboys their own bean-bag chair, they sat in them while they opened all their presents.. they got completely spoiled!

This is just a picture i found of Cooper and Trevor

and thought it was pretty cute :)