Jaxon at Primary Children's Hospital

Jaxon Levi Anderson
June 10th, 2009
5 lbs 3 oz
21 inches
2:40 am

Jaxon is in the NICU at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center
in Provo, UT.

He is hooked up to a CPAP to help him breath. In this picture the doctor is inserting 2 lines through Jaxon's belly button, the lines are used to give Jaxon meds and to take out blood when needed.

This is Jaxon's very first outfit. As you can see it didn't fit him at all. It's a newborn onsie and Jaxon didn't even fit into premie clothes. It's an outfit that once belonged to Kaden.

Jaxon was always being poked for a new IV. He would get a new one about every 12 hours or so. The nurses would wrap his IV's to help keep em in longer. The tube up Jaxon's nose is the tube he was fed through.

Jaxon was such a trooper through everything. This is our "TOUCH DOWN" picture. It just makes us smile.

This is by far my favorite picture ever. Jake named it " Momma will watch after you."

This is right after Jaxon developed a fever and his leg was swelling up. The swelling was caused by a PICC line that was inserted into his leg. His meds where being given through the PICC line. They had to take out the line and continue on with a new IV every 12 hours. Thus this is one of the days we realized that we where going to be at the hospital for awhile.

Jaxon always posing for us. He was sitting on my lap and talking with me in this picture.

We had to do a car seat trial before they let us bring him home. This was done a month before we brought him home but as you can see, he didn't fit into his car seat.

These pictures are of the first time EVER, that Jake and I held Jaxon. Most of the nurses wouldn't let us hold him because of all the tubes and wires. But Miss Nancy Roof wasn't about to let another day go by that I didn't get to hold my baby. She's is a very kind and loving nurse!

The left is Jaxon getting all comfy while the nurse did "cares" which is taking his temp, changing his diaper, switching the cuff on his foot to either his other foot or a hand, etc.

The picture on the right is of a nurse feeding Jaxon through his nose. Don't worry he slept through the whole thing.

Momma and Jaxon having a heart to heart conversation. I was explaining to him that he needed to get better so that he could come home and meet Kaden and Lucy. The smile makes me think he that he thought that was a good idea.

They used to wrap Jaxon up so tight. I am not sure how he would breath. The nurses were fantastic at making him "as snug as a bug in a rug!"

This is the same outfit as before only now it actually fits!

This is one of the first pictures of Jaxon at Primary Children's Medical Center. The cover on the right side of his chest is from when the doctor used a needle to release the air surrounding Jaxon's lung. He is also on the ventilator in this picture.

YEAH! This is on our way out the door, NEVER to return! Although we must say.. We have made some wonderful friends and we are very thankful for the Doctors and Nurses who took care of our precious Jaxon.

Kaden and Lucy FINALLY getting to enjoy their baby brother.

AND this is the Walk for Healing Hearts that we did through Intermountain Healing Hearts. A support group that we will continue to support for as long as we are able to.

Our family is now home and happy together and we very much plan on staying that way.

Trick or Treat...Smell my Feet, give me someting good to eat!

These last few days have been hard for me. With Jake having been gone for over a week now that leaves me to be a single momma until he returns.
Don't get me wrong, as I have said before I am Eternally thankful for my beautiful babes, But there are sometimes I wish I could check out. Infact I have noticed that I tend to do so, When we were living in our own place no one was there to pick up the slack. Now that we are living at my mom's house, she picks up the slack without even being asked.

HOMEWORK IS GOING TO BE THE DEATH OF ME....this is what I am talking about! I am checking out while doing homework with Kaden. Mostly because I get so frustrated. WHY is it so hard to do your homework? Kaden is very good at math and is failing reading and writing. So if he has a math page to do, why does he stare around the house, ask me a million questions not related to the homework, get up to go potty about 3-4 times etc....

I have asked the STUPID school to help me out and have Kaden tested for dislexia, I honestly think he has a form of it. I have gone in and talked with his teacher ( I even took my Elementary Princepal of a Mother in Law in with me ) and still NO HELP!
I shouldn't be surprised. My older brother's kids went to Westridge for awhile and his oldest was held back in the 3rd grade because they wouldn't help him either. When he swtiched his kids to another school... What a change it made. His son got completley caught up to the level he should be on (mind you he is still a grade behind now) and is now in 7th grade and making A's.

I now feel like I need to become more aggresive and I really don't want to do that. I am already volunteering on a weekly basis and trying to help out Kaden's teacher when ever and where ever I can. All he seems to do is make excuses for why he doesn't have time for anything and how he stays at school everyday until 10pm. I am aware of what it takes to be a teacher, I know plenty of them!  ARRRGGG....

On to something better.....HALLOWEEN!!!

Only the BESTEST holiday ever.... We went over to Grandpa Kirk's and Grandma Linda's house where Jeff, Evie and Izzy B met up with us. We started out the night with Jeff and Grandpa giving the kids and I blessings. We really needed them! Lately I feel myself slipping away and I don't like that. I need to get my family back on track! That is a whole other post in itself.

We then went around their block for a bit....Skipping and singing and dancing all the way... well most of us anyways. Kaden for some reason has been having tummy aches and crappy enough he got one on Halloween. He fell asleep sitting up at Grandpa's house, it was quite cute. But I felt for the poor kid. I asked him if he really wanted to go Trick or Treating and to my surprize he wanted to go.

Little Bella was Goldie Locks and man she sang the whole time we where out.. The kid has always had a set of lungs but now it's not so much of a shriek as it is a tune. Sometimes it's hard to make out the words she is singing but if you know the tune it's quite funny to listen to her try to say the words.

Lucy was a Pumpkin Witch and Jaxon was her Pumpkin.... She had so much fun! I am sure she is going to be my Trick or Treat partner from now on. I can see us now going trick or treating when she is 18.... She ran and ran and ran. She even managed to get blisters on her poor feet. But that didn't slow her down and she never once complained! Now that is a die hard trick or treater!!

Kaden went as Robin and Uncle Harley was Batman. So we had our Caped Crusaders with us to watch over and protect us from all the wicked Wtches and Goblins and Ghosts! He tried very hard to have fun and I think he did. He was a little slow going at first but quickly regained his energy and I think got a second wind.

Afterwards we went back to my Mom's house and went Trick or Treating again around my old neighborhood. This time we had Deagan, Alyssa, Sierra ( Alyssa's friend ) Zach, Jathen and Austin to go with us. I am pretty sure I will never again take all the kids trick or treating by myself.

The kids got a load of candy.... Good thing momma gets to have first pick! Hey I have to take taxes out first.... They need to learn now that you can't skip out on taxes or it will haunt you in the end!!

Now onto a month where we give our many thanks!