Our Baby is ONE MONTH OLD!!

I can hardly believe our precious son is ONE MONTH OLD! (Actually one month and 2 days) Jake is such a good baby. More often than not he lets us get in some good rest at night. He is such a happy and STRONG boy. He is already holding his head up with ease and looking around. If you stand him up he will straighten his knees and push himself up. He loves his swing and usually sleeps in it for at least one nap a day. He is starting to smile and talk more and more each day. He loves it when I put him in the stroller and we go for a walk. He is usually asleep before we reach the end of the drive way. I'm going to be sad when the really cold days get here because we won't be taking those walks quite as often.
Jake loves it when Daddy gets home from work. He just watches him and Daddy often gets a grin. G is such an AMAZING Daddy! He really helps out around the house and he is on diaper duty in the middle of the night. I feed and he changes, and at times when baby J decides he wants to be awake, G will stay up with him and let Mommy get some much needed rest. We have been SO EXTREMELY BLESSED by our friends and family this first month. Tonight is the first night we are on our own for dinner. That's right, we have had a meal brought to us every night!! I'm not sure how I have managed to lose any baby weight with all the good grub coming in :o) I think Jake already has more friends than we do.. but we don't mind. On the health front Jake is oblivious that anything is going on with his precious little body. For those who haven't heard the doctors found a "long QT" on an E.K.G. we had done as a follow up from the hospital. Basically what that means is that it takes longer than normal for Jake's heart to relax a then contract again. It's not a heart problem, his heart is strong and healthy, it's a problem with the electrical impulses that control how and when his heart beats. His numbers weren't awful, but they were high enough to cause concern with the cardiologist. He had to be put on a 24 hr. halter monitor (which I think bothered Mommy and Daddy more than it did him) and has been put on Beta blockers to help with the long Q.T. He got blood drawn this week to get some genetic testing done to determine why he has this long Q.T. and to see if it needs to be treated in a way other than the meds he is on now. It's a pretty confusing issue to have. Nothing about the tests or treatment is 100%, of course that is why we are just trusting Jake in the hands of our Lord. We have known from the beginning that Jake is going to do big things for our God, and this is just the enemy trying to thwart those plans... hahaha, he has another thing coming. Jake and this family are fighters!! Let me tell you, we have already learned so much in this one month. For one we are reminded that our faith is in our Lord, Jesus Christ and not in our circumstances. Our faith is in the ONE who can do ultimate healing, and not the doctors. Yes, we know there is a place for doctors and we will heed all they tell us, we just aren't trusting them to "heal" Jake, we are looking to our All Powerful God!! I know that as parents Gerald and I will be challenged, but if it means drawing us and Jake into a closer walk with God, then so be it! We want Jake to be so much more than we will ever be. We want him to know, understand and have a personal relationship with God before we did. We want him to understand the importance of a close relationship with God before we did. We want him to understand that it's not enough to make Christ #1 on your priority list in life, He has to BE your life! That means He is involved in every aspect of your daily living. It's my prayer that as a stay at home mom I can set an example for Jake. I want him to see the Lord in my everyday life. I want him to see that you can praise the Lord while doing house work or read the word while eating breakfast, or you can even watch sermons while folding laundry. I want him to see Christ as the highlight of my day. "Lord help me to be the best example I can for my precious son." Lastly I want Jake to understand that Mommy and Daddy are not perfect. I want him to understand that there will be times we will mess up. There will be times when we make mistakes. There will be times when we may disappoint him. But if he trust in his Heavenly Father, HE will never disappoint, he will never mess up, and he will never make mistakes, HE is perfect!!
So I guess all in all, I think this journey that we are on with his long Q.T. is only the beginning of us seeing how BIG our God is and how He is going to use Jake and his life in BIG ways!! God has entrusted us with such a precious, precious gift! Speaking of that precious gift, he is waking up from his nap, so I'm going to go get me some loving!! Will keep you updated as I can!