A little recap of life around the Coak household. :)

~Christmas was wonderful!!! Got all we wanted & more. So blessed & loved! :) Austin had a great time opening presents and has been loving playing with all his new toys and wearing some new clothes!

~His one year well baby appointment went well. Stats are to the right but I'll type them here too. Weight: 22lbs 9oz (50th%). Length: 28in (10th%). Head: 18.5in (70th%). He is doing great she said and we got the ok to start introducing cow's milk. He likes it so far. He has had it a couple times in a sippy and we are going to start slowing replacing one of his formula bottles with a milk bottle once a day at first and then go from there...wont type out the whole weaning schedule! :) He self weaned himself from breastfeeding about a week ago (been self weaning for about the last month). It went smoothly and if I wasn't pregnant he would have probably kept going. Gotta move on though. He's a big boy! :) His hemaginoma is starting to get smaller. We are also now watching his sternum. He has the same issue that several on my dad's side do. It's called pectus excavatum and basically means the sternum caves in a little. There are varying degrees of this. We are lucky that Dr. Camille studied with the surgeon who invented the procedure to fix this condition during her pediatric surgery rotation. Alan had his corrected several years ago so we obviously have that experience too.

~At his one year appt they also draw an iron and lead level. His lead level was normal...didnt think there would be an issue since he doesnt go to daycare and we dont live an old house. His iron level was 10.9 and the normal is 11-16 so he is on a vitamin with iron for the next 3 months and will get it redrawn at his 15 mt appt. I'm sure it'll be just fine. Thankfully he takes the vitamin in his oatmeal. Its very bad smelling and stains horribly (from my NICU experience).

~I am 12 weeks along today with baby # 2. Still sick in the very early morning and the late evening. Had some vomiting on Tuesday morning....Austin's early morning diapers and the smell of formula just sent me over the edge. Andy has been changing him first thing in the morning (because of that) but didn't that day! Next doctors appt is Jan 16th.

~School starts January 9th (technically) but our first class day in Indy isn't until January 18th and clinicals start for me on January 19th. So I have 2.5 weeks left. :( The first half has gone so fast....hopefully the second part of break goes slower.

Merry Christmas Everyone!! :) Enjoy your families today!

Austin's birthday party went great!! He was totally not sure what to do about his cake! Oh well, maybe next year. He got lots of new toys/clothes! Can't wait til its warm out so we can try out his new wagon from my parents!!

OB appt for baby # 2 went well yesterday. Got to have another ultrasound due to my tilted uterus. It makes it near impossible for the doc to hear the heartbeat with the doppler this early on. It was nice to see the baby moving around and to see the look on Austins face when he heard his/her heartbeat! :)

Christmas is 5 days away! We finally put up our Christmas tree and decorated the house last night. We have about half our presents bought now. Been slacking this year. I've been wanting to make & decorate cookies but havent done that yet either!

Ended up with an A in my class! :) My GPA is now 3.75.

Our boy is ONE! This year has gone so fast. We have enjoyed every minute of it...even the hard parts.

New things~
-walking!! walks all over the place...sometimes he gets going a little fast and falls but its very cute to watch!
-says "oug" for dog :)
-scowls at you if he isn't getting his way or you tell him something he doesn't want to hear
-waves and claps mostly on command now :)

Austin has his one year appt on December 27th. Can't wait to hear his weight & length!

We have our next appt on Monday to check on baby # 2. Chinese gender chart says this one is a boy too...haha! We'll see. It was right with Austin but most of the other old wives tale type things were wrong about his gender. The nausea is bad when I first wake up, gets better over the course of the day, and then strikes almost like clockwork again around 6pm. I feel my worst from about 6-9pm...and then I just go to bed... Thankfully Austin has been a great sleeper lately! He sleeps from about 8:30pm to 7-7:30am! Yes, he put himself on that schedule and we know we are very, very lucky! It's going to be rough when baby # 2 arrives to get used to waking up all the time again!!

I will have a one year old in 3 short days! Insane!! I'm not ready for my baby to be a toddler!!

He is doing very well with the whole walking and balancing thing! So big! :) I am really loving my time home with him during the semester break! :)

Can't believe its December! This year has gone by way to fast! I have a feeling that time is just never going to slow down...

Still nauseous ALL THE TIME! :( Really is not cool at all. Still fighting with the insurance company this time around too about my Zofran. OB writes it for every 6 hours....insurance company will only pay their part of it within their rule of 24 pills in 30 days. So I've been cutting them in half to attempt to trick my body. 8 weeks have flown by (well technically only 4 since we found out). Hoping the rest goes by fast...or at least until the nauseous part is over...which took til 22 weeks with Austin. Yuck. Still don't care either way about the gender...although if its a girl then Andy says we will be done having babies...

Austin is doing great!! :) He is becoming such a fast little guy! Not walking on his own quite yet but he is very close. He makes this cute "nom, nom, nom" sound when you ask him if he is ready for breakfast/lunch/dinner. :) Still nursing...yes still. It's safe during pregnancy and he isn't quite ready to wean yet. He does get 2 formula bottles a day to help.

2 more clinicals days and then this semester will be over...well after I take my final by Dec 9th. Then no more driving to Indy til January 18th (for class)!!! Woohoo!! Clincals for next semester will be at Ball Memorial in Muncie and will start either the week of Jan 9th or the week of the 16th...haven't decided which week I want to start yet. Beauty of grad school...more lenient on letting you pick as long as you get all your hours in.