The LaGarde Family

Dr’s Appointment

Yesterday, which was monday, Chris drove April and Logan to his first dr’s appointment. We are taking him to All Star Pediatrics in Lionville, and we met with Dr. Alex. It was a great appointment. She was very impressed with his progress. He weighed in at 5 lbs, 13 oz. So since his birth last wednesday, he has gained 6 oz, which is great. Most newborns lose weight, but because we needed to keep Logan’s weight up, we gave him formula, which is why he hasn’t lost weight.

He also scored a 9 on his APGAR test, which is a test given to newborns immediately after birth that tests appearance, pulse, responsiveness, muscle activity, and breathing . Dr Alex said that no one except the own dr’s child gets a 10, so, Logan got the highest score he could have gotten. So that is very good.

We left the dr’s with an appointment next week, just to make sure everything is still tip top and then another one at a month out, and two months. We are both very happy and excited with how Logan is coming along.

Who does he look like?

It is hard to tell with newborns, of course. But it is also fun. So far in our pole, 82% say he is all April. Chris says that he definately isn’t all him. There are parts of him that look like both.

For instance, his “scrawny-ness” is more Chris than April. But some of his facial features have been described as “exotic/european”, which chris responded that April’s family has a very Hungarian hertiage, which the european look can be attributed to.

He definatly has Chris’s temper, because we have noticed that if something doesn’t work out right away, especially at feeding time, he gets very upset. He also sneezes like Chris, sometimes as many as 6 times in a row.

I know it is too early to do this, but I couldn’t help myself. To help the debate, here are some pictures of both Chris and April, and then of Logan. Let’s see what people think:

Yesterday, Saturday, everyone got their discharge orders from clean bills of health and the three of us left at about 12:30ish. we didn’t head home right away though- we went out to the family “compound” out near Cochranville, where April’s family lives. We spent the afternoon having family meeting him. One of the highlights was having Grandpa Kepiro, now Great Grandpa hold Logan. It was so neat. He just couldn’t get over how small he is. He and his friend Phylis, along with Chris’s parents and our friends/neighbors, Andy and Bernice will be coming by today.
Anyway, we went home around 8:30 ish. We ended up putting logan in a little laundry basket to have him in our room last night, b/c we couldn’t bring the basinet over from April’s parents house. He is so precious in it. We took pictures, and we will post them a bit later when we don’t have so much to do.

If you wish to come visit us, please do! First, give us a call just to make sure. Right now Logan is feeding every three hours at 6:30, 9:30, 12:30 3:30, etc. So in between those times are good.

Thats it for now.

Of God’s Love

I will try to make this short, but i have a feeling it might not be.
I am home. It is 12:15 am and I am waiting for the 200+ photos that I have taken of Logan to copy to my hard drive so I can then upload them to the web. As i was driving home so many thoughts went through my head. I want to “spill” some of them.

The Greatest Day of My Life

March 8th, 2006, will forever be labeled the best day of my life. Period. Not because of anything I did. Not because of anything April did. Simply because of life – life that came to us in a 5 lbs 7 oz, perfect and beautiful package that we intend to call Logan. I cannot express in words or actions, how much emotion and love I feel for this tiny perfect being. The moment that I heard him cry was so unlike any other moment in my life, and i doubt any other will ever come close, with the exception of another child. And even then, it will be completely different.
That moment that i first heard his cry, marked a very significant change in my life. I will never, ever be the same. In fact, I hate this moment right now, simply for the fact that I am away from him. I want to love him, protect him, have him close all the time. I want to stare into his face. I cannot get enough of looking at him. Especially when he stares back at me with those perfect, dark and big eyes, as if he knows something so profound that if he told me, I would be crushed under the weight of it. In fact, as I stared at him on Thursday, for the first time, I felt that time is now an aggressive enemy – stealing all these perfect moments that I know I will never have back. I want to drink them in, imprint them in my mind so that i can recall them again and again. But, as much as i try, i cannot win against time. I cannot drink the moment in enough.
Part of me wants to shout from the mountain tops about Logan. But another wants to keep him all to myself because he is so special to me. I feel a love that i have never felt before, a love that I know will make me a different person. A love that is much more closer to God’s love than any love I have felt before. I am so excited about what the future holds. Anyway, enough gushing.

I know many would like to see pictures our our “little peanut”. So, here he is:

Logan, cuddling with mom.

Mom sees her baby for the first time.

Logan, 10 minues after birth.

The new daddy and Son.

(Click here for) Lots more pictures. . .