Garet is 1 1/2 and baby Howard is 22 weeks.

Here we are, wow how time flies. Garet is now a year and a half. He is using his words well. Each day it surprises us what he says. It used to be we could only understand the last work of his sentence and now he is string 2 and 3 words together. Sometime I feel like I am talking to a parrot and he is just repeating what I am saying. He now things jumping on the couch is a game called "Sit down". That does not mean he sits down when I tell him to it just means that as he is jumping he says sit down, sit down. It is so hard to not giggle when he does those things. It is very cute but can very quickly turn into not cute. Matt has told me that I have to start being more strict with him. He always says that if Garet is anything like him when we was little he will be a very tricky little boy. I can already see his little wheels turning when we ask him to do something. It is like he is thinking of the fastest or easiest way to get it done or get out of it. It is so much fun to be able to talk to him and have him understand and respond.

The picture above is Garet and his Song. He loves anything that makes music. He has started a collection of maracas, drums sticks, and drum toys. This by far is his favorite musical instrument. He found it at a yard sale and loves to walk around the house with it singing his own song. We actually have to hide it when he looses interest or he will not put it away when it come bed time.

Now that the weather is cooling off it is so much fun to be outside. As soon as we get home from work and Grandmas we normally hang out outside while Matt cooks dinner on the grill. We have found that we have to find more outside toys to play with. Good thing Christmas is coming soon.

The above picture is of Garet and his new Bike. We found this at a Garage sale last week and he loves it. He still need to grow about 2 more inches to be able to peddle on his own. He can peddle a little bit till the peddles get out of reach. It does have a bell on it and it is so easy to ring so most of the time right now he sits on it and rings the bell till Matt or I come and push him around.

Garet dr update - The last visit to Shands went well. Dr Fricker only change one medication and that is just because of normal weight gain. He is now up to 23 lbs. That still puts him in the lower range of weight but he is still on the chart and that is good. He has also grown up quite a bit he is now up to 33 inches. His heart function is still around 35% so we are still just watching and waiting. We have been trying to get Garet ready for the new baby as well we can. He now has a big boy room with a big boy bed that he has slept in a couple times during nap time. We are getting ready to do the overnight transition. I just want to get a couple more naps in on his big bed so I can make sure I have everything blocked so he does not fall out of bed. That will help me sleep at night when we move him to that bed. So many thing going on and so little time to get used to it before things start to change again.

Below are the latest pictures of Baby Howard. These were taken yesterday at my high risk appointment. He were able to see the Little one for at least 30 minutes while they did a fetal ECO. It is so amazing what technology lets the drs do these days. They were able to zoom in to the heart and measure the blood pump in and out and how thick the walls of the heart are. The dr was very happy with what he saw. The heart structure looked perfect right now and the blood flow was good. I will have to go in every 4 weeks for a fetal ECO to make sure everything is still good. They have told us many option if something does start to look funny, but we will not worry about those right now. We are just happy that the baby is looking good and right on track in growth. After all the measuring and everything the computer told us the baby weights exactly 1 lb right now so that was cool to find out. We are trying not to find out the gender again this time. With ultra sounds that are this long it has to be hard to the tech to avoid that area. I secretly try to see if I can see anything but the tech we had yesterday was awesome in getting lots of pictures without getting that area in the pictures. Anyway here are the pictures enough of my talking. If you have any guesses on what gender that baby could be I would love to hear them. Have fun looking.