Monday, July 14, 2008

Jaydon holding his baby!
Brady Cameron getting ready to go shopping with Mom!
Taylor, Jaydon, and Kaylee keeping up the McCon tradition by climbing up in tree at PawPaw Con's!
Jaydon playing on the piano at PawPaw Con's!
My cousin Jason is teaching Jaydon how to ride a big boy bike....already? I don't know who had more fun.....
Mommy and Jaydon at PawPaw's Pond

Brady Cameron is so happy to finally see his PawPaw Con.


Brady Cameron smiling at PawPaw Con!




....Getting back on track....

For those of you have been waiting on an update on how we are doing, I apologize. We have been so busy that I have barely had time to check my email. Brady is doing well. At our last doctor's visit he weighed 8lbs 130z. We are so excited that he is finally gaining weight quickly. The doctor told us to do every bottle with rice cereal in it, instead of every other because he was still spitting up a good bit. So, we have started that process. After doing that for a few days the doctor wanted us to go back to any formula that we were comfortable using. So we have officially started back on the soy formula. So far we are doing pretty good. He did spit up an entire bottle yesterday, but I don't think it was related to the formula. He is still grunting and acting very uncomfortable, but the doctor assured us that this was just a reaction to movement inside his body (stomach, intestines, etc.) He is apparently very aware when something is going on in his body. The doctor said he is not in any pain, so we will just have to endure this until it works itself out. That was not so fun to hear, considering this keeps all of us at night....for the most part. But we were glad to know that it was not pain related or something worse going on.

We have gotten Brady out a good bit. He went to church the first time last week. That was fun to watch everyone with him. We also were able to take him to see PawPaw Con (my 93 year old grandfather). He was so excited to finally see him in person. He held him almost the entire time we were there. It was so wonderful to be able to share Brady with him. He is always so supportive of our journey's through adoption. He always likes to hear exactly what happened and when. So this trip was really special for all of us.

Of course, we have taken him to MawMaw and PawPaw's a few times. He is totally spoiled when we are there...(which we all knew would happen...ha!).
We also have gone to see Granny and Papaw too. We all went out to eat at Cracker Barrel, which was fun. That was our first time to go out to eat with both boys. Jaydon loves playing with his lawn mower that they bought him that blows bubbles and sounds like a real lawn mower. We all said too bad it doesn't really cut the grass, because he will cover every square inch of their front yard.

My dad is in the Ukraine right now on a mission trip. If you are reading this I hope you will pause for a moment and pray for God's protection on the group that is there. Also that God will prepare the people's hearts that they are going to come in contact with through their medical work. So far things are going really well, they have treated many people and the first day that we heard from him there were already 25 people who have accepted Jesus, our Lord. The next day, I think my mom said they treated more than 200 people. We are so thrilled that God is continuing His work through this team in the Ukraine. These people are special in God's eyes and we are so proud that this team has a heart for the Ukrainian people. The families that are back at home here have come to love the Ukraine just as much too, after seeing the pictures and hearing the stories, it is always amazing to see just how Awesome our God truly is. It hard to wrap your mind around how great He is and how deep His love is for all people from every walk of life. I am very blessed to have a family and church family that sees the importance of mission work, and obeys when God calls them to go!