Okay, I have to start with an appology for any goofy typing - our foster kitten has gotten big enough for us to let her roam the house, and her favorite place is on me and batting at my fingers while I type. Cute, but annoying!
Anyway, my son is doing very well, after a really rough start. He was 3lbs 13 oz. 16 1/4 inches long. He spent a couple of days on a ventilator, another week on cpap, IVs and such, but at 3 weeks old today, he weighs in at a hefty 4lbs 1oz, and graduated from an isolette to a regular basinette today, as well as increased his bottle/breast feedings to 6 of 8 per day. Just a little bit more growth and progress and we can lose the last intrusive machine he is hooked up to--the feeding tube.
Jacob Paul
Welcome, and congratulations! That's so great that Jacob is doing better, despite a rough start!
WEll guess who is ONE tomorrow? I can't believe this time last year I was being induced. It's been a long road and a family member made a great comment- how they haven't seen DH and I smile more than we have this year since Will came along. He's been a pure joy.
WE are truly blessed.
Hooray for Will! Sounds like you have some fun plans for celebrating, even if you can't take off from work. Love the orange frosting - you'll have to tell us what that looked like (or post pictures!). I can only imagine...
I just found your post, and though I'm a mom to 3 kiddos. I'm a new mom to my first baby Boy who is 5 months. My family is very girl dominate so for me to have a boy was a BIG SHOCKER! But he is the sweetest little man! I love my girls too.
I have 3 kiddos
DD4- Ellarie, DD2-Araeyah, and my baby boy Attikus who is 5 months (A.J.)
Welcome! Glad you found us!
Ok....Christmas/holiday question for all of you... For those of you that celebrate Christmas and do the whole Santa thing...what are you planning on doing for your LO? I want Brady to be able to come downstairs and see lots of gifts and presents to open (as I did when I was a child), but good god...this kid has more toys than I know what to do with!!
Just curious...since some of our kids are still young and may not know *exactly* what's going on....what is your plan? I feel like going to Toys R Us and spending hundreds of dollars on toys is kinda crazy (although would be fun...don't get me wrong!). Never mind all the gifts he will get from family and friends!! But, I don't want to jip him from a Santa experience, ya know?
Just curious what all you ladies are planning on doing!!
DH is known far and wide as "the Grinch", so he keeps muttering "I must stop Christmas from coming...but how?!"
If I left it to him to decide, we would never decorate, and we wouldn't give presents at all.
We'll see how/if that attitude changes as Owen gets older...
But we do at least agree that we want Owen to enjoy Christmas, but not go overboard and we want him to understand the meaning behind the traditions and celebration. Since he's only 12m (and 7 days!
) this Christmas, we'll probably just give him one big gift from us and a few stocking stuffers, and let the rest of his gifts come from family and friends. He's grandchild #14 of 15 on my side, and #6 of 6 and #9 of 9 on DH's side (DFIL is remarried and has 3 step grandchildren, but DMIL is not remarried - so complicated!), so I'm not worried about Owen getting spoiled by grandparents or anyone else, for that matter. Everyone already has a million kids to buy gifts for. I'm just hoping that people don't do the "oh, his birthday is a week before Christmas so he only needs one present" thing. Not such a big deal now while he's little, but when he gets older he's not going to appreciate that.
Christopher is not even remotely picky about eating (heck, he likes Meow Mix if he can get it
). He's had chinese and mexican, and likes both of those. The only thing we've found he won't eat it white potatoes. No mashed potatoes, no french fries, no baked potatoes. I don't get it myself, but I'm not arguing. And yes, the diapers after some foods are horrific. The ones after he eats beets are nasty (and downright scary the first time....
)
Oh my gosh, the beets!
I'd forgotten about the beets!! Those diapers are frightening the first time you see one...
And I'm cracking up at the Meow Mix!
Owen has done that, too. He rarely is allowed to be on the floor in the kitchen, but the minute he's set down he makes a beeline for the cat food and tries to get a handful stuffed in his mouth before I catch him. Where did he learn this??!
I mean, the very first time we put him on the floor in the kitchen, he went straight for the catfood. Ignored the bright magnets I'd put on the bottom of the fridge to entertain him - just went for the kitty food. Who's telling him that he should be eating cat food? Are the cats somehow communicating with him?!
Hi Guys
Super excited about Halloween tomorrow. Izzy is going to be Yoda - we tried the costume on last night and OMG - it was so adorable.
But - he is taking me out for a super fancy dinner tonight to celebrate my birthday and his promotion so that will be fun!
REQUEST : I think it would be great and fun if everyone posted a pix of their little's one dressed up for Halloween! I would love to see everyone's costumes.
Have a great day ladies!
-Nicole
Fancy dinner sounds fun!! And I love the Yoda costume! That's awesome! You have to post pictures when you get a chance.
I'll definitely post some of Owen after Halloween. His costume is way obscure, but we're amused, and we figure that's what counts. We're dressing up as Kim Possible, Ron Stoppable, and Rufus (the naked mole rat) for our friends' "Superheroes and SuperVillans" Halloween party. They usually get 700+ kids coming past trick-or-treating because they do an amazing set up at their house. We always dress to fit their theme so we can be outside and help with the crowd control. I made Owen's Rufus costume out of a pink fleece snowsuit, and it's super funny and cute if I do say so myself!
DH is cracking me up because he has to wear a wig to be Ron - he's mostly bald, so we had to find a blonde wig for him, and it looks so strange to see him with hair!
I can't believe that I will have ONE YEAR OLDS in less than two weeks!!! Sam & Zoe are pretty much walking now, still a little wobbly but they are all over the place! We were outside playing in the front yard and it was soo cute..Zoe was enjoying the wind blowing and was pointing at the lemongrass plant and Sam was trying to eat leaves off the ground! I sent out like 36 invites for thier bday party
!!!!!! I know not everyone will come, but looks like we'll have a good bunch here for the cookout.
They must keep you busy, chasing their wobbly walking selves around! Love the image of Sam eating leaves...too funny! Sounds like you'll have a great 1st birthday party for the twins. We've got a lot of kiddos turning one in the next month or so here!
Spencer is turning into an escape artist. He was piling toys up in his playpen and then standing on them. Well, now he puts his arms over the sides, pulls himself up, and uses his feet to scurry to the top!!!
He doesn't even need the toys now.
He also has a small rocking chair that we can buckle him in. He stands on the floor and the chair looks like a turtle shell on him. He refuses to just sit and rock in it.
Yikes! What an escape artist! The rocking chair/turtle shell thing cracks me up!
) But we didn't go overboard because she had so much already, and then I knew she'd get SO much more from the rest of our families (it really was pretty ridiculous). So, I think we'll do the same thing this year- one big gift, a few smaller toys, plus books and stocking stuffers and we always get Christmas pj's and open them on Christmas Eve. Tradition!
And we have had credit issues too, and my inlaws co-signed for us. It taked a lot of time to clean up credit, but just a very short time to wreck it. 
We had a major medical setback (my pregnancy) and I was out of work for 11 months (which we could not afford). But, you do what you can with what you have and it's not a permanent situation. 
Although, a time will come when you're going, "Where is my sweet baby and who dropped off this cranky little dictator?" 
I'm finished by 5, but usually have another hour of paperwork after that, and a 40 minute drive home. DH is taking him out, and my parents are coming down to hand out candy for us.
