2 Months Old!

Gavin had his 2 month check up yesterday. He is now 11 lb 13 oz and 22 1/2" long. So he's grown 4 inches since birth! He had his first shots, which I think hurt me more than him. He gets cuter everyday. He's started to find his voice and pretty soon he'll be rolling over. It's going so fast already. He has just now started to smile back at us and he's having a blast playing. He loves to be naked. I think he poops just to get naked sometimes. He smiles and giggles whenever he gets stripped down. We got a video camera but I haven't been able to figure out how to get them uploaded. My PC is not cooperating, so I'll have to try Shannon's sometime.

I'm a slacker

I've been a big slacker and haven't update this in forever! I do have the excuse of a new baby and no sleep, but I'm going to make an effort to get this updated. I'll also have to try to fix all the pictures from prev. entries. I tried to organize photobucket and in so doing I screwed up all the blogs. Whoops.

Quick recap of recent events:

Water broke on Friday, Jan. 2nd about 10 am. I felt little gushes and figured I'd wait until some contractions kicked in to worry about it. Well they never came so I eventually called the OB. Went in @ 1:15 and was sent to L&D. They put me on Pitocin and cranked it up to the max of 30 fairly quickly. I never really did get painful contractions. After a long day of waiting (12+ hours!), the Dr. finally checked me and I was still 2 cm and going nowhere fast. We decided it was time for a c-section and Gavin was born at 2:41 am on January 3rd! He was 7 lb 9 oz and 18 1/2 inches long. It took several hours for me to feel my legs again after the spinal. I hated it. It made me shake and it was pretty miserable. We left the hospital on a Tuesday and I spent the rest of the week crying on and off. Hormones stink! After about 2 weeks of an emotional rollercoaster, it leveled out and now we're great!

Gavin went to his 1 month check up and weight 9 lb 13 oz! He also gained 2 inches! Wow! We haven't had any shots yet, we go on March 5th for his 2 month check up and I think he starts them then. We are slowly starting to get on a schedule. I've started putting him to bed sleepy, but not asleep, and that has really helped! He puts him self to sleep and that will pay off big time when he's older!

Will try to update again soon....We just got a video camera so hopefully we'll get some great videos of little man too!

Brrrr.

I woke up this morning to no water. NONE. Had to brush my teeth at work this morning. It's 3 degrees with the windchill this morning, so maybe the pipes are frozen. I guess we will see when it warms up. If it warms up. I think it's supposed to get to 29 today maybe? I feel really disgusting today. I don't function well without my morning shower. Even if I shower before bed, I still want one in the morning. Ugh I feel dirty today. If I go home and still don't have water I'm going to my Mom's and taking a shower! Too bad I can't get in their hot tub. That would be nice, but I'm sure Gavin doesn't want to come out hard-boiled. I feel like I have Senioritis of the work-place today. It's a holiday week! I wanna go home!

36 week 3 day Dr appt

I am 1 cm dilated and 50% effaced. I'm getting pretty swollen too and I've been having a lot of headaches. So far no protein in the urine, so hopefully that'll stay away. I go back again on Tuesday. I guess we'll see if there's any progress between now and then! He's been crazy active lately but he's still head down. Yay!

Long overdue update

Sadie loves my snoogle pillow..

I've been too lazy to update this, so here goes...

We had the baby shower a couple weeks ago, got lots of great things! I think we are finally ready for him to be here. The only things we are "missing" are a changing table/dresser and a breast pump. Even those things we can live without.

Shannon started his new job about 3 weeks ago. He likes it ok so far I think, and our benefits kick in Jan. 1st so that will be nice. I miss riding to work with him everyday but it's ok.

Gavin looked good at the last appointment. I'm 35 weeks now, and starting to feel pressure sometimes. I guess we better get ready for him to come anytime now. I'm sure I have a good few more weeks but I want to be ready. Shannon gave the dogs a bath today so that's one less thing that will need to be done. They were so dirty. It's amazing how they can look clean but toss them in the bath and you realize they were filthy. Sadie is prancing around the house. She LOVES baths. You can tell she knows she looks pretty.

Oh yea, almost forgot. We had a pipe burst in our yard. Had to have the line replaced from the meter at the street all the way to the water heater. Our yard looks like a tornado chewed it up. It's awful. It's muddy and gross and full of holes. We had to have a giant willow tree removed to fix the leak, so it messed up rest of the yard while we waited on the city to come get it. I'll try to post pics but I'm my computer not Shannon's so they will probably be enormous. If so just click em I guess. It's just depressing because we are trying so hard to get out of debt and this just set us back another $2k that we will be paying on forever. :(

Dr. Appt

At my 32 wk 3 day appointment we found out Gavin has finally turned head down! YAY! His heart rate was great and I was measuring perfect, so all is well!

Here are a few pictures that sum up what's been going on around here. Shannon did his husbandly duty :P and built me the wall in the garage. He also started a new job today! I'm sad I don't see him at work everyday now but we need the better benefits.

















This is the cat door going from the garage to the kitchen.















This is my Gracie hangin out with her Daddy!















The "wall" in the garage. Creative huh?
















My Annie-bannanie (Sadie) ....she thinks my pregnancy pillow is hers!















Me and the Gavster at 31 ish weeks