Air planes and Halloween

Well, it has been a few days since I updated on Dexter so I thought I would update. Last weekend Dexter took his first airplane ride. We flew to NY to visit Shanes parents. Dex did really well on the plane. He didn't really cry, he fussed a little bit on the way back to Tulsa but not as bad as the kid in the seat in front of us. He mostly laughed and cooed.



About to get on the plane

Tonight we went to the Haunted Castle of Muskogee. He had fun, we dressed him up as a dragon and everyone thought he was a hoot. He played with everyone, and we sat by the camp fire and listened to ghost stories while Dad, Shay, Kristy, Ethan and Dalton went to the scary parts (which I later found out we all would have been able to go to but oh well). He also finally figured out how to suck his thumb, he has been sucking his hand and wrist but tonight he mastered the thumb.  

I think he has been cooped up too much today because he is laying in the floor talking, and kicking up a storm. He is so sweet. I just love him so much! Tomorrow I will post pictures of his first Trick or Treating experience. :-)

Dexters sister, Shay and him at the castle



Dex and his pumpkin



Lazy Days

Dexter is all ready for bed.

This weekend has been pretty calm, Dexter went estate saleing on Saturday. Today we just hung around the house, and played outside. He loved to be outside. I hope he grows up to be an ourside kid, I can't stand it when kids just stay inside and don't do anything, I want Dexter to grow up to love the outdoors, and to be in sports.

Morning Person

Dexter is such a morning person, this morning I woke up to him cooing. I looked over into his bassinet and he was laying there looking at my with those big blues just shining away. I asked him if he was ready to get up and he gave me the biggest smile.

This pictures is of when he was about a month old, and one of my absoulte favorites. This picture also was taken around 7:30 one morning. He is such a morning person. (I don't know where he got that from either)

Dog Gone Cute!!!!!!

5 Generations

I would like to share with everyone what Dexter has done today. He got to lay in the shadow of his great great grandfather.

We took a 5 generation photo today with myself, Dexter, my mom (Nana), Memaw, and my grandpa Joff. It is something I will never forget, and I hope that Dexter will treasure the picture forever. I never got to take a 5 generation photo, and they are few and far between now days, and I think it is such a historic event.

Dexter is such a little blessing to all of us. Tonight I was talking with Grandma Patsy about Dex and everything he has been through, and I kept looking at him laying next to me, and I couldn't help but thank God for him. I always thank God for healing Dexter and for giving me the strength I needed to get through that horrible ordeal, but when I talk about it now the reality of what he went through hits me and I just cry. I never in my entire life thought that I would have to go through that with my son, but I also never imagined I would have such a beautiful son.

A LOT of bad things have happened in my life for such a long time, and I feel that God is finally turning things around. I know that by giving us Dexter he is healing our family, and that is exactly what Dexter has brought us all. Again I say, Dexter is such a little blessing.

I love you, son!

(I have a better picture of our 5 generations, and I'll post them on here a little later)

(Right to Left) Rebecca, Joff, Melanie, Ann, and Dexter

 

Dexter's Pictures

Right after Dexter was born (7-27-2010, 8:08 pm)

Dexter with his ventilator (7-30-2010)

Dexter with just the cannula (I don't remember what day this was they were running together by this time)

Sweet little hand

Holding Dexter for the second time ever (he was 15 days old.)

Daddy and Dexter

Sleeping sweetly

He looked so cute, and sneaky.

First day home (08-17-2010)

Dexter smiling at Memaw. I love those cheeks.

First Blog

This is my first blog about my son, Dexter. I thought I would let everyone know about him, and what he has gone through, then I will post pictures from when he was born until now. (There will be some sad pictures of him when he was really sick, but I want this blog to be about him, and even though its sad, it is something he had to go through so it is part of him). I will try to make this as short and sweet as possible to catch everyone up.

Dexter Hume Thompson was born July 27, 2010, at 8:08pm after about I'd guess 36 hours of labor. He was 19 1/2 inches long, and weighed 6lb 11oz. When he was born he was 3 weeks early and had water on his right lung, so he had to go to the NICU on July 28th, he was put on a CPAP machine (which stands for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure), basically it blows air into your lungs and drys them up, or helps you breathe. On the 29th, in the evening his lungs collapsed and he had to have 2 chest tubes put in, one in each lung. Then he was put on the ventilator, and a feeding tube. (At this point in my tale the days all run together, so I don't know how long he was on the ventilator).
After a few days he was taken off the ventilator and he was put on a nasal cannula, and had a feeding tube. After a few days with that, he would pull it from his nose and suck on it, he liked having the air in his mouth, he thought it was his binky.
Since my days ran together I don't know how long he was on the cannula either, but after a few days he got off that and we moved his feeding tube to his nose so he could try bottle feeding, and he took to that like a fish takes to the water. After I think it was 3 days of bottle feeding we got to go home.
We went home on Aug. 15, 2010, 1 day before his due date. It was the scariest thing that has ever happened to me. I love him so much, and I have loved him from the moment I found out I was pregnant and the thought of anything happening to him just killed me. I prayed so hard for that little man, so did everyone in our family.

Now Dexter is almost 3 months old, cooing, laughing, playing, and smiling. If you saw him today you wouldn't even think that he was so sick when he was born. He is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me. I love him more than anything else in this entire world, and that is why I want to make this blog because I want to world to love him too. :-)

My next post will be only pictures of when he was first born until today.
Until next time...