The Dore Family Blog

Friday, March 16, 2012

A Real Circus

Last year, I took Braiden to a circus. It was a little one put on by a local group. At the end, he looked at me and said, "Momma, there were no elephants!" My poor baby knows there are supposed to be elephants at the circus!
Thank goodness for his Gigi! She took Braiden to the one and only "real" circus in January and he loved it!

A Huge Mess

Back in January we were receiving a bunch of wonderful gifts for Gavin and his big brother. One of those gifts came in a nice brown box and was from The Powell's. We absolutely loved the gifts!

However, ATTENTION Grandma Miki...
If ever you send packing peanuts to our house again, you will receive a very nice brown box back in return with a sweet little boy inside of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My entire family room was covered in these!

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Happy Valentine's Day!

Let me start by saying, thank goodness I tortured my first born with photo shoots because this second little boy of mine HATES cooperating for pictures! I took 127 photos of him and the ones I've posted are the only ones that came out half decent.

Enjoy a few photos of our little Cupid :-)

This is really what he thought of our photo session!!!!!!!!

And here's my big Valentine! This is the card that we made for his friends at school. I took a picture of Braiden with his hand stretched out like he was holding something, made chocolate candy pops and stuck them through the photo :-) They turned out pretty good for a night before project!

The photo, minus the flower

(sorry it's blurry... my camera has a mind of its own and was not working!)

As you can see, neither of my little men felt like cooperating. The best I could do for a picture of my Valentine's...

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Can You Guess Who's Who of Babies?

Let's just say... My boys look a lot more like me than they do Daddy ;-)

Sunday, January 29, 2012

A Poor Attempt at a Photo Shoot

Before my Mom headed back home, we decided to attempt a photo session with Gavin. He was not thrilled with the idea and didn't cooperate. Here are just a few pictures we snapped ;-)

Smiling in his sleep... this was before we started to move him all around and make him mad!

Ten tiny toes

2 weeks old

Gavin Michael

Sleeping angel

Comfy in Mommy's arms

And of course... The cutest big brother there is :-)

Monday, January 23, 2012

Another Little Miracle Enters Our Life

As you probably know by now, we are so excited to announce that on January 14, 2012 at 2:17am our precious baby boy, Gavin Michael made his appearance into the world weighing 5 lbs. 12 oz. and 19 inches.
On January 13th at about 8:30pm my contractions were 1 minute apart and seemed more intense than the ones I had been experiencing over the last 4 weeks that landed me on bed rest. With much hesitation, I finally convinced myself to pack up and head to the hospital. I didn't really want to go due to all of our false alarms. Good thing we did! When we arrived I was hooked up to monitors and an IV for fluids. The monitor showed that baby was doing great and Mom was in fact experiencing contractions that were 1 minute apart and intense! I was checked and had finally dilated from 3 cm to 4 cm. The doctor decided she just wanted me monitored. No decisions were going to be made for surgery at this time. Two hours later, I was rechecked and was now 6 cm dilated! At that time, the doctor felt we needed to prepare for a c-section. From there, everything went pretty quickly. I met with the anesthesiologist and next thing I knew I was being wheeled in to the OR.
Gavin Michael arrived and was immediately checked by the neonatal doctors and nurses due to his prematurity. He was having difficulty breathing and the decision was made to take him to the NICU. The nurse carried him over for me to quickly kiss his head and he was gone! After surgery, I went to my room where I recovered until 2pm. At that time my catheter was removed and I was able to get into a wheel chair and head to the NICU to see my newest angel!
Gavin spent the day and night in the NICU. He did well and was taken off of the CPAP (a tool that aids in breathing). He was great about taking bottle feeds and by late afternoon on Sunday my baby was discharged from the NICU and able to spend the remainder of our hospital stay next to my bed side... A huge change from my first delivery.
On Tuesday afternoon, I was discharged. This time, with my baby in my arms I left the hospital! We've since then been adjusting to life as a family of four, which is wonderful! Gavin Michael is such a sweet baby. He smiles in his sleep often and eats every 3-4 hours sleeping the entire time in between :-)