Busy Little Girl

Our little girl has been quite busy this week, actually, all three of us have. 

Last Wednesday we took Gwen with us to my BPU five year service award dinner. She did great through the entire lunch! 

Friday, Danielle, a childhood friend of Tamie's, brought her toddler, Addyson to meet Gwen. 

Saturday, they shopped Main Street for the Holiday Open House. 

Sunday, Tamie and I officially became members of First Christian Church, the same church where we were married, and have been attending for over the past two years. We are very happy to be a part of such a great church family! 

Monday, Tamie and Gwen enjoyed a cold rainy day in their pajamas while I finished up my last evening shift. 

Finally, today, Tuesday. Tuesday was filled with activities for Gwen. Unfortunately, not all of them were fun. Gwen has been spitting up often, almost after every feeding. We became so concerned we took her to the hospital, where the doctor scheduled an Upper GI(gastro intestinal) test. It was a simple test, and not harmful at all to Gwen. The doctor simply gave her a drink of barium water, and watched how Gwen digested her food through x-rays. They found that Gwen still had curdled milk in her esophagus and stomach, at 10am, from a feeding time of 7am. They also determined that Gwen has acid reflux with this test. However, through the entire testing session, our little girl was totally cooperative! Now we are waiting for the final test results to come back, and praying that the doctors can help Gwen. Almost immediately after the doctor Gwen got to go have some fun! Tamie's co-workers at Farmers Alliance had a diaper shower and chili lunch for us. Not only was the chili and dessert good, Gwen got her little red dress for Christmas. Tamie and I want to give a BIG thank you to anyone who helped make the lunch and diaper shower happen! 

Above, is the mound of diapers we were given from Farmers Alliance! Take a guess at how many diapers Gwen got! The answer is at the bottom of this post.

Gwen making a goofy face while being held by Mom.

Tamie often sends me pictures while I'm at work, this is just one of the many.

And finally, Dad got Gwen to smile while cuddling on the couch. 

Well, what's your guess on how many diapers? The final count was exactly 1,245 diapers! 

4 Week Picture

Hard to believe that our girl is four weeks old today! We'll be using her Cubs teddy bear for her monthly pictures. (Thanks Richard!)

Letters From Gwen Part 2

Hi again everybody! It's Gwen! Mom is busy doing laundry and Dad is yelling at the Chiefs. I sure hope the Chiefs win, it makes Dad so happy. I've been such a busy little gal this week. Mom and Dad took me to the doctor again. I have been staying awake WAY too much! I have only been sleeping 6-7 hours a day. Doctor Overholt says, "that's not enough". In fact, the doctor says I have something called Colic. I don't care what it's called, it keeps me awake, and makes me really upset. Thank you to the doctor for figuring out that all I need is four tasty drops to calm me down. 

 Here's proof the drops work! I'm asleep!

 That's me taking a snooze again, Dad says I snore. I don't think so!

 This was the outfit I was supposed to wear when I came home from the hospital; it just NOW fits me!

 Monday was Halloween, I dressed up as a skeleton! And when Mom and Dad shut the lights off, my bones GLOWED! I had so many friends stop by to trick-or-treat. Here's a few pictures of my friends.

 The monkey is Brody, and his little sister Bre is a duck. QUACK QUACK!

My other friends from Lindsborg couldn't make it to the house, but they sent us pics. This is Haley, and she was a little ducky too!

Haley's big sister Lilly was a duck too! QUACK QUACK QUACK!!

I've got another diaper shower from Farmers Alliance next week! I go through so many diapers, I keep Mom and Dad very busy changing them. I'm looking forward to meeting all of Mommy's co-workers. Daddy has a service recognition dinner at BPU tomorrow. He's been working for BPU for five years, I'm excited to meet some of his co-workers too! Uhoh, I gotta go guys, Daddy is done yelling at the Chiefs and Mommy is coming to check on me. 'Til next time...