Dear Beckett: 5 Weeks

Dear Beckett,

We are seeing more and more of your dad in you everyday.  You look the same and even have the same mannerisms.  Two peas in a pod!

You both LOVE your naps!

I wonder if your personality will be anything like mine.... or will you be Guy Mayo Junior?

 

This week we went to your one month appointment.  You AMAZED the nurse and Dr. Harpavat with your growth!  You now weigh 8 pounds 3 ounces - up from the 5th percentile to the 15th!!!  You have also grown 2 inches, which puts you at the 35th percentile for height.  Your head measures 37.25 inches.  Your newborn clothes are starting to get snug, so you have started to wear 0-3 month sizes.

Now that you have grown past 8 pounds, you were able to try the Baby Bjorn carrier for the first time.  You loved being snuggled up to me and happily sucked on your paci and looked up at my face.  

We have been out and about more and more.  The temperature now though is SO HOT!  Most days it is 100 degrees, so we try not to expose you to the heat too much.  Not that you seem to mind.... you always fall right to sleep in your car seat.  Ha!

On Friday we went to Dallas Children's Hospital to do testing on your kidneys. 

The first test was a sonogram, which was a piece of cake.  You happily sucked on your doggie Wub-a-Nub.

The next test was NOT so fun :(.  You had to be strapped to a board and poked and prodded.  I just about cried along with you! 

We learned that you have 5th degree Kidney reflux.  However, we know you are such a fighter and if there's any little boy that can grow out of and overcome this, it's YOU.  We are thankful to live in Dallas and have access to one of the top ten urology departments in the country.

We love you.

Love,

Mom