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Baby boy, Levi came home after 5 days in the NICU. We came home on Monday evening, returned the next morning to find out he was discharged! He had lost a bit of weight at the hospital and continued to lose after we got home, down to 6.6 before climbing. That was a bit scary but God is faithful. We may not be Jewish but we managed to adhere to the 8th day procedure. ;)
He was in newborn diapers for a few weeks...none of the other kids even used them. At 13 weeks old he is still in size 1 disposables although we rarely use those. We may manage to move up to 2s soon since I don't have more 1s left. We are mostly using cloth diapers. My wonderful sis-in-law let me use all her cloth diapers. Such a blessing since the diapers are rather expensive in the beginning. Still trying to get the laundry part figured out but I'm getting there.
On November 19, John's paternal grandmother, Florence Spohr, went Home to be with Jesus. We spent Thanksgiving with his family then celebrated her life the next day. What a blessing to visit with family, just painful under the circumstances. On the way home, Levi decided to smile, at daddy and nana... and lick his chops at me :). Seven weeks old and I got my smile the next morning (I teared up).
We spent the next few weeks watching Levi grow and "wake up" with smiles and coos.
Levi was also honored to play Jesus at our church for a "living nativity" :) So much fun to see all the kids in awe that there was a real baby in the manger. He was 11 weeks old and 10# 10 oz. Still short for his age but look at his mom :)
The next day we got a new family member... Bam (formerly known as Bama, bleck, couldn't keep that one). He is a 10 month old 1/2 Weimeraner and 1/2 mutt with lab and maybe red bone coon hound. He was with a great family that had him well trained so we are VERY blessed. So now are you ready for pics? Here you go...
