The Inevitable

It was only a matter of time before his calm, simple and serene sleeping positions would diminish and make way for Mom and Dad's sleeping methods...

Walkie Talkie Baby

With Jaden's first teeth already coming in, taking his first "assisted" steps, and giggling while having his diaper changed -- I feel like it's going by so fast. Here are some pics taken tonight. He was distracting me from "Iron Man" with his cuteness to the point of me picking up the camera.

Playing with his new Christmas Present

One small step for Jaden...

He's probably imagining himself as a big monster, walking about in the city.

"Did you see me walk Dad?"


...told you! They grow up so fast don't they?

I'm dreaming of a...

....White Christmas!

It was a truly wonderful first Christmas for Jaden has he slept, burped, farted, cried and smiled his way through the season.

Apparently pictures are worth a thousand words, so here's my essay:

Hospital Visit

The story in a nutshell:

Jaden has had a fairly plugged nose since two weeks after birth. Over the course of the last two weeks he's run the occasional, low fever. The walk-in clinic (our doctor wasn't in that day) prescribed him antibiotics; they didn't work. Two days ago, my wife takes him to the doctor and receives a requisition for a chest x-ray. Yesterday morning he gets the x-ray (a traumatic experience for our little one) and we receive a call from our doctor later that day.

"He has a bronchial infection, if his condition gets worse, take him to emergency".

His condition got worse, so we did just that.

It was a quiet night, in fact when we arrived, we were the only ones in the waiting room. But despite this, the triage nurse was quick to give us the classic "your baby sure looks fine to me" line. Everyone knows that the moment you want a doctor to check you out, your symptoms hide around the corner, right?

I knew from that moment that we were just wasting our time. I hate being right about that sort of thing. After checking his heart rate three times, they checked his blood/oxygen level. Tell me if this next part makes any sense to you:

They confirmed that his oxygen level is at 99%, which apparently is great. Then they proceeded to give him an oxygen mask with some medicine (essentially a "puffer") and said "we'll be back in ten minutes." After this, they hooked him up to an all-too-familiar mechanism....

"Excuse me", I asked, after Jaden's mask had been removed and us sitting around for ten minutes. "Should we be waiting here, or are we free to go?"

"No, they're just waiting to get some pending test results back, but his blood/oxygen levels are now showing at 99%, so he should be fine." There ended up being no more test results, that was all they were checking.

So, let me get this straight, we spent two hours going from "his oxygen levels are great" to "let's give him oxygen" to "his oxygen levels are great, our work is done here."

Ladies and gentlemen....the Placebo Effect.

Fortunately, purely based on the doctor examining Jaden's breathing, he prescribed us a four-day puffer for Jaden. I still don't know what this puffer is going to accomplish other than make it easier for him to cope for a brief period.

I was tempted to ask "can we just check his oxygen levels one more time?" But sarcasm gets you nowhere in life, so I just had an inward chuckle.

Jaden's Dedication

Christmas!

Mini-Me is not impressed, but plans for world domination will persist...

Christmas Around the Corner

We're pretty much ready to celebrate Christmas as parents for the first time, which seems very surreal to me at the moment. All is well in the Buvyer household and Jaden is a growing boy now weighing in at 13 pounds. Despite this perpetual growth spurt, he's managed to retain his cuteness, complete with double chin and beautiful smile.

Never a dull moment when the cousins get together...

Hallelujah!

A Funny Joke for Ya'

Did you hear the one about the husband who didn't look hard enough for the camera?

Well, now that we've got my pride out of the way, here are some more pictures!

I think I'm smiling....Thank you Auntie Cara and Uncle Adrien for the cool sweater!Yes, Daddy's proud of the Buvyer "sleep" gene.

iPhone Saves the Day

Well thanks to the wonders of technology I was able to get a great shot of my little boy despite not having our actual camera within reach. He's getting so big now. Last night was his first night sleeping alone in his room. I don't know who had the greater separation anxiety....Jaden or my wife. Angela turned to me with tears in her eyes saying, "He's been with me every night for the last eleven months!"

Well, since you put it that way, I guess it would be difficult.

Lost and Found

Well, it would seem we've temporarily misplaced our camera which, of course, contains many photos that should be up on this blog by now. In the meantime, for your viewing pleasure.....a picture of a llama!!!