Two Months Old

Carter is 2 months old!!!!!!!!

What is going on in Carter's world?!

• Weight- 9pounds 3 ounces (Carter is working on gaining weight and Mommy is working on loosing it - You are between 5 and 10% but we are going to fatten you up
• Length- 22 inches long and growing 20-25 %
• graduating to size 1 diapers was a big deal to us
• You are still wearing newborn outfits but your length is getting to make you need to move up to 0-3 months. Pretty much you wear both sizes
• Your eyes are still blue so we are thinking that they will be like Mommy's eyes
• You don't have any hair (still!)
• Your bedtime is anywhere from 9:00 -9:30pm and you are sleeping through the night until anywhere from 5:30-7:00am
• You are eating 4-5 ounces every 3-4 hours except for when you are asleep at night time
• You love to lay on your mats and look around at what is going on. I like to say you are people watching like your mommy and her friends :)
• You can lay on your tummy and push up with your arms now and you look around like you want us to watch you
• You roll on your side everynow and then
• You hold your head up every chance you get
• You love the car and the new toys you have in your car seat
• You are starting make noises at us and love to hear yourself coo and ahhhhh
• You love to be outside and doing things
• You are lasting longer doing your own thing like the swing and the bouncy chair( this lets Mommy get some things done)
• You have made it into your CRIB!!!!!!!! I am so proud of you and Daddy is so proud of Mommy for letting you sleep in your own room. ( I still watch you on the Video monitor)
• You have started to notice who Mommy and Daddy are and we could not be happier!

WE LOVE YOU CARTER!!!!!!!!!!!

6 weeks and counting!

Carter was 6 weeks old on Monday! He has already grown so much in the past 6 weeks and is getting to be a big boy. He sleeps at night from about 9:30- 5:00am and then has some food and then will usually go back to sleep until about 7:30. This is so great for us!!! Today he took his first nap in his crib. He did pretty well. He was in there for about 30 min and then woke up so I swaddled him and put him back in for about 20 min and then he was ready to be in the living room with me. I have learned that he loves the sound of water and nature sounds so I started having him take his naps with noises like this and he sleeps pretty well.

I am wanting to work his way in his crib for night time as well but he (I ) am just not there yet :)

He has been sick this past two weeks and I have had to clean his nose out everytime he eats to make him not get sick to his tummy. I never knew how hard it would be to see your child sick until now.

Any tips on the transition into cribs would be great!

Carter is 1 month old today!

Today is Carter's 1 month old mark!!!!!!! I wanted to share how we are all doing :)

Carter:
Can now hold his head up for almost 1 min
Can roll on his side
Can hold his paci in his mouth for at least 5 min (of pure joy)
Either sleeps through the night until about 5:30 or wakes only once at around 3:00
Is liking his alone time a little more in his swing or bouncy chair or just hanging on the couch next to one of us
Does not like to be wet at all! Either from spit up or a wet diaper
Likes to listen to the bathwater run full blast
Loves his doggies
Enjoys being an on the go baby!!!!!


What we have learned:
After the first 2 weeks things get a whole lot easier
Routines are the best thing ever
Carter does not like to be wet!
We can still go places even with a baby it just takes a little more getting ready
A swaddle blanket can be your best friend
Not only does Carter need to have extra clothes to go anywhere but it does not hurt to bring an extra shirt for us as well


Picture to come soon!!!!

Welcome to the world!

Carter came in the world on April 20th at 3:46pm. It was a long day that turned into me having a cesection around 2:00pm. Things went really fast after they said I would not be able to have him normally. He was perfect with all his fingers and toes :) We had to stay in the hospital until Thursday since I had a cesection so by the time we got out we were all ready to head home. Wednesday before going home was a rough day for all of us. I got really sick and thought I would never be able to go home so when Thursday came and I was all better we were all really excitied!

Since coming home things have been like a roller coaster. He sleeps pretty well now, however, the first week was pretty rought for all of us. Now we are getting into a routine and doing much better. If Carter could learn how to keep his own paci in his mouth things would be GREAT! Just a few days ago we started to have tummy problems so I am trying Mylocon and little tummys gas drops to help him feel better. Have any suggestions?

On Saturday my wonderful MOM is taking him for the day and night so Ryan and I can have date night!!!!!!!! We are just counting down the days!

Here are some pictures we had taken of Carter. These are not all of them just what she has sent me so far. I will set up more as they come in :)

Two weeks of Carter's life and here are some things we have learned:

1. He loves to sleep in his swaddle blanket
2. He loves his paci!
3. Sometimes he will cry for no reason!
4. he can hold his neck up pretty well
5. He loves to look at the lights

Carter Keith

I went to the doctor again yesterday and unless they can get me in sometime this week I am set to go in the hospital on Sunday! We are very excitied and I am very ready!!!!! I think that I am actually getting a little nervous though :)

I hope you all had a great Easter!!!!!!!!!!

update!

Got a long awaited call from the doctor today. (yes he was supposed to call yesterday) that stated he thinks the origanl due date of the 24th is correct based on the babies femur bone or something like that. He therefore will not take him until at least next week. He wants me to come in first thing Monday and get checked and will fill me in then! He did say that he could come on his own at any time so that is what we are hoping. :) More to come later

Sono appointment this morning

I had a 7:15am appointment to get a peak at the baby! This meant that I had to be there at 7:00 to hopefully get in early to make it back to school by 8:00ish and be able to give the TAKS test to my kids!!!!!! My doctor made me go after yesterday's doctors appointment. He wanted to see how big the baby was in order to see if he can take him early. WELL..... I am not sure what is going to happen.I will let you know when I know. However, I am ready so that means he prob. won't take him early!!!!!!!

The Waiting game!

We are just waiting now......... Tomorrow I have my weekly doctors appointment so I will know more then. HOPEFULLY we will get good news. We shall see...........

Let the countdown begin.........

First: Please go and pray for Baby Stellan. I have a link on my page for him.



I have decided to make myself feel like the days are going faster than they really seem to be going to keep everyone updated on the daily things going on with us..........

1. The countdown to Math TAKS has begun and is going well
2. YEAH for the reading TAKS scores coming back
3. We go to the doctor every week now and each week I feel like he might just maybe say something great that will make me either have a baby or feel much better (so far no luck)
4. I just can't seem to get enough advice on the fist couple of weeks of new mom life. So fill me on what you think are some of the most important things I should know for getting through the first few weeks, days, mins etc.
5. I started having these horrible mind wrenching pains on my left side that last about 1 min and bring me to tears and then they are gone and I usually have 2 a day. Prob. nothing but that is where I am at!
6. I need to finish things in Carter's room BUT I am just so tired after I get home from work that I can not seem to do anything. NOTHING AT ALL!!!!

So this is where I am at :) Where are you this week?

Baby Carter

We are still here and waiting for Carter's arrival! We had an apointment yestreday and we are looking at about the 9th or 10th. I have been feeling pretty bad and due to asthma issues spent all of last Monday in the ER to help get that under control. So we are really ready!!!!!

I hope all of you are having a good week sorry I have not called and updated latley I promise I still love all of you but the past couple of weeks have just been crazy!

Love to you all!
JEN

Just a picture post!

Mom and I


Tristen and Me



Me and Nana




Mom and I

loading pictures

I have had a very busy weekend but have tons of pictures of Carter's room to show you all! I am so excitied and can not wait to hear what you all think :)

I will get it done by tomorrow PROMISE! How was everyone's weekend? Any crazy weather going on around you?

Question of the day: Do you need to get a head rest thing for the car seat when they are newborns?

Baby Carter

Here are some pictures from Carter's room! It is not done by any means but I wanted to give you guys a sneak peak :)

What a DAY!!!

(just a side note: this is the 2nd time that I am having to type this because the first one got deleted somehow!!!!!!!!)

This weekend we went to Austin to Matt's, Ryan's brother, wedding and it was great! We love Monica and can not wait to share in their lives! As always we got to hang out with family that we don't get to see all the time and had a blast.

Today was a wonderful day! My team at school through me a surprise baby shower and invited my mom, Ryan's moms (Judy and Pam) and Leslie Ryan's sister. It was great! We got such amazing gifts. Go to Target and Babies R-Us to see what all we got and send any ideas of things we did not put on this list that you would if you were registering now. Advice always welcome.

Question of the day: Swaddleing- why do it and how do you do it

Sick in bed............

I have been sick since Saturday night and just can't seem to shake it! I thought that it was just my asthma until it just would not go away even with using my machine for asthma. I have not slept in 2 nights and finally decided to go to the doctor. I can not get into my doctor so I am going to CareNow. They have this really cool web checkin on line so now I just wait at my house instead of the 2 plus hour wait there. Hopefully they will be able to give me something that will make me feel better and I can stop coughing!

Please pray for me to get better soon!

Needing a New Week!

I am in need of a new week to begin! I have meant to come and post a new blog this whole week but I have not gotten home any night until after 6pm and then I am so tired that I pretty much just go to bed. Work is very hectic right now and with TAKS coming so soon I am having to crack down on my 110 kids and the not so fun part of being a team leader kicks in! I hate having to get onto or correct my team mates! HATE HATE HATE IT! BUT this is part of the job and right now I feel like we are going to pull this off if we all work together! I HATE SCHOOL RIGHT NOW! (next week is going to be better I just know it:))

Update on baby carter- I have begun to feel how heavy he is all the time! I have also started to have this numb tingle pain in my left thigh and down my leg all the time. Dr says it is normal but it hurts and I just don't like it. I have not been sleeping very well. I constantly am worrying about something or someone and have been having dreams where people around me are dying SO please pray for that because it is bad.

I hope everyone is having a great week and will update again soon :)

Tag your it!

My friend Lindsay tagged me my first blog tag! Thank you Linds! This is fun to see what picture ends up here so go join in the fun!!!!! :1. go to your 4th folder where you store your photos.2. select the 4th photo (no exceptions).3. post the picture with an explanation and link it back to your tagger.4. tag 4 people do do the same.

I tag- Natalie, Tiffany P, Stephanie and Monica

This is me and my friend Karlene at a party called the White and Black party! Everyone wore Black and White. It was at the opening of a store in Uptown Dallas and we had a great time! This was a few months after Ryan and I had just met so this brought back some great memories! Lets see what you come up with!!!

Ice day!

Today was an Ice Day for us and while I was happy to have the day off I was upset because I only have so many days before the reading TAKS test and my kids need to be at school! Once I got over that this morning ,at 5:15am when both Ryan and I got phone calls from school, I was planning on being very productive.

We got all of the clothes from our family and friends that were pass downs and all of the new stuff that we have bought for him so far put away!!!! We went by size while hanging things up in the closet and I put all the sleepers away in a drawer. The only thing is every sleeper we have been given from others is long sleeves. Is this normal? Should I be getting him some with short sleeves? Then I got all his socks organized and put in a tub that I will eventually put in a basket when I get them and put them in one of his drawers. I will take pictures tonight of his room so far and post them for you guys tomorrow! Let me know what you think!!!!!

Off to cook dinner! ham and cheese roll yummy! Have a great night!

Change of website address: PLEASE READ!

I changed the website of our blog and now I realize that if you have us linked to your website you have to change on yours too!! I am so sorry!!! I did not know that would happen. Please change your website link for us. :) I promise not to do that again!!!!

This weekend!

This weekend Ryan and I were the parents of 3! We babysat for my Aunt Connie who lives in Southlake while she and her husband went out for the weekend for their anniversary. This is the 3rd year in a row we have done this for them and let me tell you each year it gets a little easier!!!! Her kids are Allie who is in 3rd grade and Twins Katie and Max who are about to be 4. This year I think was my favorite. Maybe because we are so excited to see Carter soon or maybe because this was the first year Kaite did not wake up in the middle of the night. Either way both of us had a great time!!!! Ryan and I would both like to have 3 kids (spaced somewhat out of course) and by the time we went to bed last night we actually thought ok we can do this! It was so great seeing how my wonderful husband interacted with the twins. They loved him and would both sit in his lap and watch him play their DS Mario brothers ( which we both loved from back in the day!) and yell for him when he did good and say that's ok you try again when he would mess up! Yes I can say he is going to be a great dad!!!!!

On another note.......
I have become aware that I need to use this blog to document the rest of my pregnancy and to later use it like my friend Jill as a document of Carter's life! This way people I love who do not get to see or talk to me everyday can (if they want) keep up with what is going on in our little family. So this is my new plan. I hope that you all will read and comment on what I write. I love advice and yours is greatly appreciated :)

I have been reading on Kelly's Korner and praying for her little girl Harper! I can not even begin to imagine what she and her husband are going through. Please go to her site and pray for her baby and her family. It has been so emotional for me since she had a great pregnancy and then all of the sudden when Harper was born things went wrong. God creates miracles everyday lets pray for one for Harper.

Have a wonderful Sunday!