So AJ had his one month doctors appt. last week! He gained 1 and a half lbs! He is almost 8 lbs! He's a big boy! He has now moved to his big boy crib, drinking between 5 to 6 ounces, & letting us know when he's hungry! It's so crazy to think that when we brought him home, he weighed 6 lbs., was eating 3 to 3 and half oz., & had to be woken up to eat. They change so fast! He loves to lift his head. He reminds me of the cutest bobble head EVER!!!! He is opening his eyes a good bit and just looking around (of course most is blurry, but he sees us when we are all up in his face! lOL!) I always think of the movie Look who's Talking, when I'm talking all goo goo ga ga to him! Don't know how many of you have seen that movie, but the baby is making smart comments to the adults in his head bc of how silly they sound. 

Anyways...all is great in the Floyd/Vaughn household! WE are LOVING being parents! LIFE IS GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just want to let everyone know how great of a father Adam is. He and AJ have such great chemistry. I can tell how wonderful their relationship is going to be and is! Adam is so excited about putting AJ in his Tennessee Vols and Miami Dolphins outfits for the games! He has been talking about that since we found out we were pregnant (Oh! and his first golf clubs!) AJ is so fortunate to have such a wonderful man to learn from. 

“One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be." 

AJ is doing so great with his eating! Seriously..he has got some lungs on him! When we first brought him home was drinking 2 and a half to 3 ounces and we had to set our alarm every 4 hours to feed bc (being a premie..he would sleep right through feeding) NOW....he is drinking 4 to 5 ounces and telling us when it's time to eat! Which is great! Here are some photos we took that captured his way of communicating.....FEED ME NOW!

Soooo we had a fiasco today! LOL! AJ decided he wanted to peepee on his own head this morning! Yep..first off, Big Adam had not witnessed the new poopie diapers from formula. He was very familiar with the breast milk # 2's...those are way better than the formula poops! Heehee!

Anyways..Adam got up with AJ for his 8 30 am feeding, I was half awake and could hear the two of them in AJ's room. All of a sudden I hear OH MY GOODNESS BUDDY!!!  I kind of chuckled to myself (bc I knew that AJ must have given his dad the poopie gift), then I got out of bed and walked into the room with Adam. His eyes looked at me so BIG and said...Uhhh..how could..so much..uhhh poop..come out of such a little guy! I just laughed! Next I went to touch AJ's head and it was wet! Adam said.."Oh yeah..he peed on himself too." It is amazing what can happen within seconds of a diaper change. So needless to say..the diaper change that was supposed to take seconds to do ended up taking us about 10 minutes to finish! Yep...it was bathing time!

What a great start to our morning! We laughed so hard..first time parents..wow..this is going to be an adventure!!!!!!! 

Hello everyone, please bare with me as I try to put into words how our lives have changed in the last 9 months! I am not a very good writer so please forgive all of the grammar errors and misspellings! LOL!

Last December, Adam and I found out we were pregnant! What a surprise! We found out our due date was August 22. Well baby AJ decided to come a little early! July 8, we were blessed with the most precious gift God could ever bestow upon us! It was/is amazing! With our little one being 6 and half weeks early..he was in the hospital for a little over 2 weeks! The day of delivery..all we wanted to hear was that sweet little cry when he entered this world! (You see..with premies, your never sure how developed their lungs are..so there is a great chance that they will need help breathing..which means once he is out he is automatically taken from you, put on a breathing tube and put in the NICU.) But we were fortunate..WE HEARD HIS SWEET CRY!!!!! IT WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SOUND! We were able to hold him for about 10 minutes before they took him. Next we went to see him and he was in an incubator with and iv in his little hand/strong cry. He was out of the incubator with in 3 days and held his temperature beautifully while in the crib. Now the next thing was to teach him how to suck, swallow, and breathe when eating. He would have episodes bc he would forget to breathe, he was too busy trying to fill his belly (he is gonna be a garbage disposal..just like his dad!) But soon enough he had the swing of things! The called him SUPER PREMIE  at the hospital! The nurses were so great to him and us! He learned everything so fast! He had his iv removed after a week or so...thank goodness!

Finally it was time to bring him home. I have to be quite honest..I was so scared for him to come home. Adam was so great with him..such a natural! He helped me to calm down and realize that I too am natural at it and to not be scared! We spent the first couple nights just staring at baby AJ. One night, soooooo sleep deprived, we caught ourselves just staring at our beautiful baby boy AND IT WAS 3 30 AM FOR GOODNESS SAKE! We decided then and there..for the sake of our sanity and our childs safety the we needed to sleep when he was sleeping OR WE WILL GET NO SLEEP AT ALL!  It was just so hard to not stare at him all day and night long! He is so beautiful and sweet!

So it is Baby AJ's 7th day at home and he is doing great! He has had visitors giving him all kind of TLC! He is already so spoiled! LOL!

Anyways...I'm gonna stop rambling...just wanted to catch everyone up on our lives for the past 3 weeks! THIS COULD QUITE POSSIBLY BE THE BEST THING WE HAVE EVER DONE IN OUR LIVES! I know Grandaddy Don and my dad are staring down from heaven with great big smiles...knowing that we are so happy and so fulfilled.