My Silly Boys: December 2008

Friday, December 12, 2008

thanksgiving

i know, i'm behind. but i thought that i would post a few photos from thanksgiving! it was so great to have my family join us!! here we are @ Fazoli's!1 haha!! we got a little burned out of leftovers and went out!!! (BTW, i have no idea why this is posting like a link?)

(l-r) my sisters BF (jason), my dad's stepson (sam), MAC, my dad (Pop), my dad's wife (candy), my Hubby, my sister (Auntie shannon), Me and Baby J.
Auntie Shannon and Baby J- she's the best Aunt!!

MAC the Photographer took this photo of me and my dad!

Pop, MAC, and Baby J

it was a fun and simple holiday! baby J was only a little over a week old so we kept everything simple. but it was great to see our family!!!

new photos

my sweet baby j- sleeping with his Boppy. i'm sure this was taken during the day! he loves that boppy!!! he would sleep like this all the time if i let him!!! i have resrted to putting him the his bed just like this- but only a couuple of times!!

i have totally enjoyed reading about everyone's Christmas traditions and general goings on!

ALAS, we have nothing to report!!! Having Baby J the week before thanksgiving was pretty much THE even of our holiday season! we did manage to get our tree up BEFORE the baby got here and that has been the extent of our decorating!

all of my energy has been spent trying to get some sleep. Baby J seems to hit his peak between 2 & 5 AM- OY!!! in general he is a good baby- he is just genetically predispositioned to being a nightowl!! AUGH! anyway- here are a few photos of my boys!

MAC loved taking photos of Baby J- we managed to catch him with his eyes open!

it was 70 degrees here yesterday!!! augh! BTW, that is a 6 mo. onesie that tankmeister is wearing!! i'm afraid the poor kid has my family's bird legs!! i'm really hoping that the "chaps" brand of clothing runs small- cuz we'll be in trouble come summertime if he can already wear 6 mo clothes!!!

Baby J LOVES to watch big brother MAC

sweet boys!

Monday, December 1, 2008

return to the land of blogging...sort of!

hello to all! sorry for the long absence. the lack of sleep doesn't really allow room in my brain for blogging!! but i thought i would give a BRIEF update. (MAC is in the bathtub..soon to be a popsicle i'm told.)
life is good. we welcomed sprout/baby j on tuesday nov 19 @2:54 pm. it was an interesting experience!!! i will NOT go into ALL the gory details....here's the readers' digest version:
i went into labor around 230am...and stayed in bed till around 500 ( i wasn't POSITIVE i was in labor)...around 6 it was obvious i was in labor.....we got to the hospital @ 730. they promptly took me back and checked things out....the nurses' eyes got HUGE and she told me she thought she needed a second opinion because she thought i was @ 9cm!!! sure enough i was!!! haha!!!! so they kind of panicked and got me to a room really fast. they thought that they would break my water and we would have a baby. not so.....around noon the baby had STILL not dropped and we were getting NOWHERE!!! they started talking c-section. they tried a few other things first....and @ about 215 they said "C-SECTION!!!!"....so my little watermelon was born @ 254. he weighed in at a WHOPPING 9 lb 4.2 oz!!!!! so the reason for c-section baby j was STUCK!!!!
anyway, he has been a very sweet baby. he only cries when hungry....which BTW seems to be ALL the time. his little clock is a little bit off....he seems to be a night owl like me (poor kid)...hopefully we will get out of that soon. MAC has been a HUGE helper and LOVES to give the baby kisses. he is anxious to be able to teach the baby SOMETHING...he'll have to wait a little while. here are some photos.

he began to eat the bandage on his arm!!
he arrived wanting to eat!
are you beginning to see why he got stuck?

Proud Papa!