Mason update and the beach

Sorry for the brief break from the blog but Josh, Corbin, and I took a quick trip to the beach. Since Mason was doing well, Josh and I really wanted to take Corbin for a trip to the beach to spend some time with him and to let him experience the beach. We had a good trip...more about that later.

Mason is doing great! He is up to full feeds and is taking all of his medicine through his feeding tube and is off of TPN. That means all nutrition is coming from breastmilk. He weighed 6 lbs. 4 oz. this morning. Neuro did come and tap him this morning and took out 12 cc but if I am correct that was the first time since Tues. They have added several medicines to help with jaundice (from being on TPN for so long) and they can now add supplements as well (vitamin D and HMF). He is off of CPAP and is just on nasal canula. We sure missed him while we were gone but checked in on him quite regularly. Corbin talked and talked about Mason going to the beach, jumping in the waves, seeing the fishies. He loves his brother so much and it is so neat to see.



Our beach trip was great. Corbin was a little timid about the beach the first day but by today he LOVED it! He and his Daddy had a blast together building sandcastles and playing in the waves.

He loved to make sandcastles!

The first day we just stayed at the beach and then went to Broadway at the beach for dinner. Corbin was beat! The waves, sun, and sand took it out of him. Here is a picture of him at dinner barely able to hold his head up.

The next day we decided to go to the aquarium and see some fish. We had a great time and Corbin's favorite thing to do there was petting a sting ray. Below are several pics:

He sure is brave!

That night we went to Chesapeake House for dinner. This restaurant was a tradition that we went to with my Nana and Papaw every time we went to Myrtle Beach. It was nice to be able to share this with Corbin. They have a pond out back with turtles and alligators. I remember this so well growing up and hope our boys can share in this tradition as well. 

Searching for alligators.

This morning we got up early and went back to the beach. Corbin is officially in love. He kept talking about jumping in the waves and we found his all time favorite thing today...

the baby swimming pool.

He played in this for quite a long time splashing and splashing. We had such a great time with this sweet boy and look forward to having our whole family at the beach next year. It was such a blessing to be able to get away and spend some time with Corbin. We sure do love both of our sweet boys. 

Corbin and the "wabes" as he called them.

Corbin said he was cold and wanted Daddy to hold him.

Mason we missed you but look forward to our first beach trip together next year!