Kaiu's first 3months

Kaiu was born about 5pm on Mother's Day in the same room Makai was born in "Room 103". Mike & my sister Tricia were both in the room with me and we had lots of visitor's in the hospital. I got to enjoy him in my hospital room for the first two days, then when there were talks about releasing us his test for Jaundice had gotten worse so they moved him over to the NICU and there began my depression of him spending another week in the hospital. Luckily Kaiser Permanente had a guest room open, so they were able to move me so I wouldn't have to make the daily drive to visit him from Lemoore and drop off booby juice and I wouldn't be charged any hospital room fees either. I was nursing, but they had me pump over and over and over, because the Dr didn't want the baby being removed from the light. Whenever the Dr wasn't there the NICU nurses would call me to come in and nurse the baby, because they said he wasn't as bad as the Dr was making it out to be and they noticed that Kaiu seemed to get a boost of happiness whenever I would Koala hold him. I loved those nurses, they put a big smile on my face when all I thought I had in me was tears at that time. He was released after a week and I realized when we got home, his cool take home outfit was on backwards LOL.

We got home to My mom (Nanny), Kaila & Makai welcoming baby Kaiu home. It was nice to have Kaila home the first month of Kaiu's life, then she flew to stay with her daddy in DE the weekend of Father's Day! After she left we had guest after guest after guest stay with us over the summer and it was awesome. My friends Curtis & Connie stopped by to visit a few days during a Coast to Coast road trip they did on their way home to WA. Then my friend Ann stopped by a couple days from NE while she was in Cali for her High School reunion. Last but not least my dad (Grandpa Stone), my step-mom and lil sis Jenny flew in to visit a week, they met Makai & Kaiu for the 1st time. When Kaila flew home, we took Kaiu to his first amusement park Universal Studios... of course he was only 3months old so he'll never remember it, but it was so much fun and it was like he was a little star, because he got so much attention there. He certainly is a little attention getter, considering he literally woke up every 1-2hours throughout the whole day & night. He was a little colicky, but mainly just wanted me to hold him & he absolutely loved the Strawberry Sling I would hold him in which my sister hand made years and years ago. He's very insecure and when he sensed I wasn't near he would freak out til I cuddled him for awhile. Although he is a very needy baby, I kind of like it, because I love always holding him :-).