Max's 6 Month Session

To our fellow blog followers we apologize for being so behind. January and February flew right past us. Unfortunately for most of those two months Max was fighting a terrible cold which turned into pneumonia and then into RSV (respiratory virus). Despite being sick he was a pretty good sport and managed most days to put a smile on his cute little face. He is one tough little cookie!!

Kelly managed to sneak in a session in early February for Max's 6 month session, even though technically he was 7 months. We wanted to share some images from the session. Much to our surprise there were a lot more images of Max smiling...lets just say he was not a happy camper having his pictures taken!

An update on Max, at his 6 month check-up he was weighing a little over 17 pounds and was 26.25 inches long. Still a little peanut when it comes to his percentiles but his pediatrician reassures us that he is happy with his progress. We made a trip down to Milwaukee in the middle of February to visit his doctors at Children's Hospital. Ultra sounds are showing that Max's kidneys are still under sized and that the right kidney is still abnormal. His kidney function is still 50%, which has not changed from our last visit. On a better note his bladder looks good in comparision to our previous visit and the urologist is hopeful that no further operations will need to be performed to the bladder or valves. We will continue with monthly blood work for his kidneys and head back to visit his kidney team in April.

Albuquerque Trip

The Gust family traveled to Albuquerque to visit Grandpa Gust as well as Aunt Tammy and Uncle Jon at the end of January. As many of you know Grandpa Gust has been battleing cancer and has been staying with Travis's sister and husband since the fall. We missed Grandpa at Christmas and we couldn't of thought of a better way to spend a vacation then with a visit to Albuquerque.
This was a trip of many firsts for Max. His first vacation, first time on an airplane, first time meeting uncle Jon and Aunt Tammy and meeting lots of fury friends. Max did very well with traveling and enjoyed all the attention. We enjoyed our time with the family and took in some sight seeing while we were there. Here are some snap shots of our stay...

Max's First Airplane ride

Grandpa Max with Maxwell

Aunt Tammy and Max

Kelly captured some great moments with Grandpa, Travis & Max

The Roberts home

Max meeting Uncle Jon & Aunt Tammy's animals

Kelly caught this shot of Max hanging out in the hay bails

Mom and Max enjoying the outside without snow!! However, while we were there it did snow a bit...crazy mother-nature...snowing in Albq., New Mexico!!

These are some of images Kelly took while we were out sight seeing.

This is the sight we saw as we drove up into one of the mountains. There is a ski hill and lodge located on this mountain as well. I guess you could say that all this snow didn't make us home sick at all because we felt as though we were back in Wisc., minus the mountains!

Thank you Uncle Jon and Aunt Tammy for opening up your home to us. We enjoyed the love, food, great conversation and laughter you gave to us We look forward to many more trips as Max grows older.

We will continue to pray that the good Lord blesses Grandpa with strength and courage to keep on battling. WE LOVE YOU GRANDPA MAX!!!