JEDREK ARRIVES.....TO A NOT SO GREAT BEGINNING

On August 22, at 11:56 pm

Jedrek Kevin Park

arrived in this world.....

unfortunately he was

3 weeks early.....

 Due to this early arrival he experienced

 some lung problems

and if that weren't enough for this 6 lb 5 oz baby

to deal with,

an infection was thrown into the mix

of problems....

Fortunately he was born 3 weeks early,

had he been born later, his infection would have

been a lot worse, and he would have been

in the hospital for a much longer time.

Jedrek was not shy about letting everyone know

what made him happy.....



And what did not..... 

On the bright side, his nurse Elaine

was great!

And Jedrek is a fighter....

getting stronger each day.  

I was able to hold him on his 2nd day in the NICU. 

So many tubes and wires on such a little guy. 

Rob holding his new son for the 1st time. 

On Monday, August 27 after

5 days in the NICU

The champ was able to go home!

Big brother Brecken was so happy to see

"baby brother"!

Brecken knows his name is Jedrek... 

  But he still calls him baby brother. 

This picture was not staged at all....

well, maybe just a little.... 

Avi was not so sure she wanted

baby brother around. 

Will he try to eat her food?

That is totally 

UNACCEPTABLE....

Mom shows Avi that baby brother 

is a keeper.

And she warms up to him.....

Especially when his bottle of breast milk

was left on the table.

Mom walked in

 to another room for a just a minute....

and when she returned.... 

the bottle was empty....

Avi now loves him as much as the rest of us.....

because he shared his milk with her.

I sense a lot of sharing episodes for Jedrek

in the future.....

Courtesy of his older sister.

LET THE PICTURES DO THE TALKING.........

IDAHO week starts

by picking up Briqelle and Cali in SL.

Since Cali was going to have a birthday

she got to open her present a little early.

She wanted the Justin Bieber perfume

Someday

which Bumma gave to her.

Next stop Idaho.

The girls were so excited to have Bumma come

they could hardly tear themselves away from the movie.

Hello girls.......Bumma is over here....

HELLO?!?!?!

At least I got the attention of one of them.

Dalan also had a birthday on August 2.

He wanted Bumma to get him a skateboard.

I took him to the store and he picked it out

5 minutes later he was riding like a pro.

Hopefully this will not make me responsible for any

future broken bones.

In the afternoon

we went to a new park so the kids could play

Briqelle decided she was too old for the twirley thing...

or maybe not...

after all, no one knows her in Idaho.....

and certainly no one will tell if she wants to

act like a little kid......

no one.

Cali and Macie are never out of each other's sight.

Cali does a great job of pretending to be scared.

 

Khloe is the independent one and does

exactly whatever she wants to do.

Lindsay and I sat and enjoyed watching the kids play.

It was so nice to be able to actually sit outside.

Not something I can do in St. George in August.

The park had this stage that amplified sound

and the kids had a great time putting on a play for us.

Dalan was asked to please not get in the water.

It was getting late, and a bit windy.

It was just too hard for him. He tried.

He really tried.

He just had to "wash off his shoes"

which led to him getting completely soaked.

Briqelle couldn't quite fit in the baby swings.

This is the only time Macie wasn't moving.

It lasted about 10 seconds.

Khloe needs NO help.

Don't even try.

What a fun

way to end

the

day!

(Photo idea courtesy of Briqelle)

 

Monday we went to the

Flatbread Pizza.

The kids made their own

even Khloe gives it a thumbs up.

After all that fun the kids took a nap.

yeah, right.....

Just down the street from the Pizza was the

candy shoppe.

Candy that I haven't seen since I was a kid.

Everyone had fun choosing a bag of their favorite treats.

 

We drove up to the Boise Depot where

Bumma almost had heart failure.

Those rocks are too close to the water for me to relax.

The kids had no fear, but I breathed a lot easier

when we were back on the road.

This was the view from the pond

 of

downtown Boise.

This was my heart doing flip flops watching the kids

get that close to the water.

And of course....

Dalan led the way.

I liked the view from here.

AWAY from the water.

 

An old train from the 1920's

hence the name

Boise Depot.

Brilliant.

Tuesday was the day the kids had been waiting for.

Roaring Springs Water Park!

We almost didn't get to go because it started to rain in the morning.

But it soon stopped and the temperature was perfect.

Not too hot, and a little overcast.

 

Entering the park 

The family tube ride.

The grandkids insisted I go.

And that was not me doing all that screaming.

well maybe a little.

It was kiddie pool land for me after that fun.

Khloe went down the slide in a tube by herself

and loved it!

She's 3.

Bumma unwillingly went in a tube with 4 other kids.

She's not 3.
 And she didn't love it all that much.

Would I go again if the grandkids asked?

In a heartbeat. Anything for the grandkids.

Even scary tube rides.

 

Relaxing after a hard day of riding the rapids.

ok, floating in a tube on the Lazy River.

Sorry there are no pictures of that.....

 I was too lazy.

Every one went on this ride....

except the 3 year old....

and me.

Thanks for a great time in Idaho

Grantham Family!