New adventures to come!

Well, a very unexpected but very exciting thing happened last week during "The Match" process. Jared found out that he will be doing his preliminary year of residency at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona! We will move there in about 2 months, I can't even believe it! We are so excited to move close to home for a year before we move back to the other side of the country again in New York where Jared will be doing his Ophthalmology residency for 3 more years. We have some very exciting and new adventures ahead of us!

Six month appointment

Shad had his 6 month doctor's appointment last week, even though he wont be officially six months until next Monday. Here are his stats:

Weight: 14.5 lbs - 8th percentile

Height: 25.5 inches- 16th percentile

Head circumference: 16.5 inches- 21st percentile

He may be small, but he is definitely passing all of his milestones, a lot of them earlier than most babies. 

He got more shots again. So sad!

Before:

(I'm pretty sure he had a hunch something was about to go down)

After:

This was the first time I have seen actual tears from him in a very long time. It broke my heart. I started crying too, it was really hard to see him that sad. 

He had a pretty rough rest of the day. I let him watch part of "The Lorax" with me because it was the only thing that made him stop crying for a little bit. Poor kiddo. 

(I really need to get a nice camera- all the pics I have of him are from my phone)

I had to work that night and I was pretty nervous that he would have a rough night, but Jared said he slept the whole night without waking up (he woke up 20 minutes after I got home from work of course- but I made Jared take care of him all morning so I could sleep- thank goodness it was a Saturday!)