Getting ready to take Jaydon to the beach for the first time.
Jaydon walking in the sand for the first time!
Jaydon doing what he loved to do....play in the sand!
Brady Cameron getting ready to go to the beach for the first time....he's not liking the glasses!
All 4 of us....first family vacation!

....Back from the Beach....

Well....we survived taking an 11 week old baby and a 2 year old to the beach...ha! We had a good time. Jaydon didn't like the water, because the waves were too big the first day we took him out there due to the tropical storm or whatever it was (...I didn't watch any television when we were there...). But when the waves were huge, Buddy, my nieces, and our girls from Natchez had a blast riding the waves. Jaydon liked playing in the sand.

The most fun was the fact that Brady Cameron didn't like his carseat....the entire way there and back. We had noticed this before we left, but thought he would be okay on the trip...no such luck... he screamed everytime we put him in it. So the day after we made it home, we bought him a new carseat. So far, he likes it.

Today Brady is 12 weeks old. Can't really believe that. He has gotten so big. He is starting to really get his own personality. He still spits up the entire bottle about once or twice a week. But, that is so much better than every day, multiple times a day.

Times are busy, but great around here. We are enjoying having 2 little ones. I joked with my parents before Brady was born that I wouldn't be out of the house for about 2 years. But, things aren't that bad! So far we have been blessed, even though Brady has had so many stomach issues....the boys are really exhausting at times...but so much fun!

God is good!

Baby Dedication

This past week Buddy and I were just curious as to how much Brady weighs. We noticed a drastic change in his size over the last week or so, and we just couldn't stand it any longer so we took him up to our pediatricians office to have him weighed.....Boy were we in for a shock! Brady weighs....10lbs 6oz! YAY!!!! He is really putting on the pounds now! He is still struggling off and on with the stomach issues....for example....We had the worst trip to Target the other night. Brady spit up an entire bottle all over himself, me and up and down the toy isle that we were on. Needless to say, it took us a while to clean everything up and also put back the toys that Jaydon managed to get off of the shelves while we were preoccupied with cleaning and changing Brady. I am sure it was funnier for those who were watching us than we felt at the time....now we laugh about it!

Today was wonderful....we had baby dedication at the church and Brady was dedicated during that service. We enjoyed spending a few moments prior to the service joking around with the other families that were also participating. Hopefully I will show pics as soon as I get them from my father-in-law. He was nice enough to bring his camera and do all the work for us. We are very thankful for that because we just participated and enjoyed.

Our pastor has been preaching a series over the last few weeks about revival, and I am just amazed every Sunday at how this man just removes himself and lets God really shine through him. He is a wonderful pastor and we are so blessed and privileged to sit under him week in and week out. God is so good to us.

We are so excited about the new Crest Kids Sunday School kick off this coming Sunday. There are so many people who have worked tirelessly to make this happen. Our church is full of talented and very giving people. We pray that God will open the floodgates....and bring the children of our community to Him through this new avenue.


More updates to come......hopefully I can try to update a little more often now that we are somewhat on a schedule.

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!

Okay...I again apologize for those of you that get updates only from the blog. Let me start by saying today, we had our court date for the finalization of Brady Cameron's adoption. It was so wonderful. Our judge was so compassionate and truly a blessing to us. Judge Grant (Rankin County) made everything so easy and truly a pleasure. He waived the 6 mos waiting period for us and we were just thrilled that things went so smoothly. The pictures are of the Judge, our attorney, and Buddy, Brady, and me.... Jaydon was at school. We didn't want to run the risk of the judge not signing everything because Jaydon was running around screaming....ha...no really he wanted to go to school and we had court at 8:00 am. Once we got there we were glad that we didn't make Jaydon come with us because we had to wait a little while for the judge to get there. We can't believe that this is already finalized....with Jaydon he was almost a year old before we went to court. So God has truly blessed us in every aspect of this adoption.

Okay...for the update on Brady....he is finally doing much better. We went to the Pediatric Gastroenterologist last week and he diagnosed him with a severe case of Reflux. We are having to give him medicine once a day and rice cereal in every other bottle and feed him every two to three hours....it's more work on us...but it seems to be working so far. His diarrhea seemed to also work itself out. The doctor said that he was having that as a response to pain. It all seems to be getting better with this new treatment plan. Thanks for all the prayers for Brady. It has helped us get through a stressful few weeks.

Tomorrow is the big day....SHOTS!!! We will finally be able to get out in public...and we get to see how much he has gained.

Hopefully we will be able to get all the family together for a celebration dinner sometime this week. (We did that after Jaydon's adoption was finalized.) We have so much to celebrate!

We are so excited about our future....and we can't wait to keep you updated as our journey unfolds.....

....Waiting on the Results....

Okay....the latest is that we are now on Soy formula and waiting on some results from the doctors office. This will tell us if Brady Cameron has a stomach bug or exactly what is going on...hopefully. He is tolerating the soy well....hardly any spit up compared to before...but the other is still a problem. He is terribly uncomfortable and screams because he hurts. It is hard to be in this position of not doing anything for him...but hopefully we will be able to find something out soon.

They did tell me to go get some "Gripe" water....I had never heard of it. It is an all natural liquid that is supposed to help with cramping, gas, etc. So, I have been giving that to him as directed and it seems to help for a few minutes but not as much as I hoped it would. He does seem a little less irritable after he has taken the gripe water, so maybe it is working some.

Aside from all of that, things were wonderful and busy this Father's Day weekend. We had lots of company and we enjoyed it. Some of our friends/family from Natchez came up to see all of us and to see Brady for the first time. They were so excited. They brought gifts for Jaydon too. He got a new elephant (or HELEPHANT as he says it) from his PaPaw CB and MaMaw Joanne and from Mrs. Pat and Mr. Roger (or Raager as Jaydon calls him...like he is from up north..) they gave him an Ole Miss basketball (in one of the pictures) and he loves it. They also got Brady some cute LSU things....like a pacifier and sippee cup. We really enjoyed our visit with all of them and wish they all lived a lot closer than they do.

We also celebrated Father's Day with both sets of parents this weekend, one on Friday night and one on Saturday night. But after all of that, on Saturday evening Jaydon put on Buddy's tennis shoes and kept saying they were his and walking around in them.....so I just had to post a picture of him with them on for you to see. The other picture is of Brady wearing his MawMaw's spiderman outfit. He looked so cute in that outfit, but he only got to wear it for a few minutes, because that was on one of the days that he was still spitting up really bad, so the outfit had to be changed.

We are so thankful for our friends and family. We were so blessed to be able to spend good quality time with them this weekend. We hope everyone else had as much fun celebrating with their families.

....I will let you know what the results are as soon as I hear from our pediatrician.....