The Gilford Family

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Trevor's first photo shoot

I took the boys to Portrait Innovations to have their pictures taken today. I didn't realize what I was getting myself into by trying to take them by myself. My oldest, as most of you know, is a ham and quite photogenic. The pictures of him were effortless. My youngest, as you have read, is a fussy and difficult and very hard to catch not crying, much less with anything resembling a smile on his face. Despite his congeniality when the camera was just on him, Jordan was not so cooperative for the photos of both of them. He didn't want to listen to instructions or be in pictures with his brother. He wouldn't even hold him. But, after much coaxing, as you can see, he did agree to kiss him. After two hours, here's a sample of 82 pictures they took:

As you can see, Trevor seems a little skeptical of his brother's unusual loving gesture.

Fists are clenched, ready to protect himself in case of an attack disguised as a kiss.

Trevor's not really into "tummy time," so I was surprised, we pulled this off. And he almost looks like he's smiling.

He has the Renner smile here, one corner of his mouth cocked to the side.
Here's my sweet baby:

Could this kid be more photogenic?

Jordan was so excited about this rocking chair. He kept sitting in it and saying "take my picture in the rocking chair!"

Showing off:

A loving look for his younger brother???

This is the very stern and serious look that Trevor usually has when he isn't crying and doesn't have a pacifier in his mouth:

If you're interested, I'm going to put all of the pictures here http://jordang.shutterfly.com/ (since anyone can order pictures from the shutterfly site, and this blog is not password protected, I've added a password to shutterfly - I will email it to family and friends, if you don't get the email and you want to view the pictures, let me know).

Saturday, May 31, 2008

An afternoon with mommy and daddy

Jordan is at his Nana's house in Somerset for the weekend for some much needed individual attention, so mommy and daddy got to spend the day with Trevor. We had a wonderful lunch in Midway at Quirk Cafe and then we headed over to Johnnie and Omar's for an impromtu cookout.

Here's Trevor after our lunch ready to be loaded into the car. He had a stressful time trying to take his bottle (the reflux sometimes makes it painful for him to eat) and then we had to change his clothes from an explosive dirty diaper. I only had a long sleeve onesie in the diaper bag, so poor guy was burning up in the 80 + degree weather. You would think I would be more prepared on outings with the second child, but it hasn't seemed to work out that way . . . ..

Later, Uncle Omar held Trevor for the first time and even fed him (with no crying!!!).

Cousin Kaitlyn

Mommy's Aunt Kathy, Cousins Jen and Allison and Allison's daughter Kaitlyn came to visit us for a little while today. Unfortunately for Kaitlyn, Jordan wasn't around to play with (he's at his Nana's for the weekend), but she wasn't too bothered because she apparently LOVES babies. Here she is admiring, and kissing, Trevor.

Mommy and her boys

More of my boys

Trevor - 5/31/08 (5 weeks, 3 days old)

Jordan, I'm not sure of the date, but it is probably August of '05 around the same age.

They are starting to look different now. And, as you can see, one of them eats significantly more than the other. The reflux certainly hasn't left Trevor malnourished.

Reflux

So, we've determined that Trevor has infant acid reflux. Apparently, this is quite common among babies and a lot of people believe that what is often labeled as "colic" is either reflux or a milk protein allergy. Anyway, it's quite painful and Trevor seems to have a worse than average case of it. Hence, he has spent most of his six weeks looking like this. As you can imagine, after a while, my nerves are shot.

We've been working on a combination of medicines and formulas with rice cereal added and we're starting to have more moments like this. Say some prayers that they become more frequent.