Tis the season

Where has the time gone. LT is now 13 weeks old. He is sleeping through the night and napping during the day.

It was just Halloween yesterday. Time just seems to fly since LT was born. We had Thanksgiving at Barrett and Angela's then on Friday I did Thanksgiving for my husbands family.

Then we had the mans birthday which included a trip to Pat's Steakhouse (his first time). It was awesome as usual. If you haven't gone, go it is the best steak in town but leave the Visa at home they still only take the green stuff and lots of it about 100 for dinner for two w/o alcohol.

Coming up for us is my birthday and Christmas. For my birthday my mom and I will make Chicken and Dumplins for the family.

Then Christmas morning I will have my husbands family out again for breakfast for the first time. This is a family tradition being passed to the next generation.

This will be LT's first Christmas, I know he won't remember and won't be able to open his own presents but I do hope he has a great first Christmas with many more to come.

Merry Christmas to all! I will see you in 2009.

Catch up

Well as you can see LT was Tigger for Halloween this year. Who knows what he will be next year. Doesn't he make a cute Tigger?

Eating and sleeping...Our doctor has us using the method from the book On Being Baby Wise. So for the past 5 weeks I have been feeding LT every 3 hours during the day. Keeping him up when I can then putting him to bed and when I can waking him up at the 3 hour mark. This is supposed to lead LT to sleeping all night. Well, I have been doing this with no success then this weekend LT becomes very fussy and stayed fussy through last night. I am talking if he was awake he was screaming and he would even cry in his sleep at times.

So last night he finally cries himself to sleep in my arms at midnight I put him to bed in his crib and I go to sleep on the couch since it is closer and I will be more likely to hear him and wake up to take care of him...but I never did hear him...he didn't wake up until 5:15! He slept all night! So I fed him a bottle and he went right back to sleep and woke up at 8:00 for his next bottle. He was up then till 10:30 then fell asleep but work up at 11:00 for his next bottle.

We won't know for sure if he is now sleeping through the nights or this was a fluke since he hadn't been sleeping well due to the fussiness. But I will keep my fingers crossed that tonight I get a repeat of last night!

He is beautiful

LT will be two weeks this Tuesday I am already wondering where the time goes. He has been so far a really good baby. Our biggest issues now is sleeping in the bassinet. He prefers his swing with the sound machine but after months of sleeping on the couch I prefer the bed.

I am on restrictions still and will be for up to six more weeks. I think I will be able to drive again in three weeks. But still after that I can't pick up anything that weighs more than LT for another three to five weeks.

I can tell you that you just never expect how much you instantly love someone. I was told it was going to be a rough delivery for LT, but when I didn't hear him cry after about 30 or so seconds I was asking if he was okay. Then when he finally did cry so did I and even though I had yet to see my little man I was already in love only to fall more in love with him when I did get to see his face.

Now I am off to see if we can get to bed if LT will sleep in the bassinet I can get a couple of hours sleep in my own bed.

He has arrived

LT is here. He was born on September 16th at 7:58 a.m.

The home strech

As I sit here at my computer at 2:25 a.m. not able to sleep again. I know that my time of being pregnant is coming to an end and motherhood will soon begin.

This pregnancy was a breeze until the last month or so. The not being able to sleep has been the worst of it. I still am looking forward the baby arriving and knowing the not being able to sleep will continue, it will be different.

As things stand now, we have our final doctor appointment on Thursday. We will have another ultrasound just to see fetal movement and I will again be hooked up to the monitor for a non stress test.

Unless things change at this appointment we are to be at the hospital bright and early Monday to have the baby by c-section. This child has not turned and as much as I had hoped he would I just don't see it happening with his size.

We will keep everyone posted with the facts as we know them when we know them.

big and upside down

Had an appointment with the doctor today. The baby is now 7 pounds and breech. Which means I may end up having a C-Section.

Lake Cumberland and Baby shower and birthday

The last two weeks have been busy and tiring. At this point anything I do wears me out. For example we went to the grocery store today and after putting the groceries away and making lunch I slept for the rest of the day. Which is one of the reasons I haven't posted in a while.

Two weeks ago, the family went on a little over night trip to Lake Cumberland. We stayed at the state park lodge which was great except for their trying to charge us for a room we didn't need at the last minute then rented out. Isn't double dipping illegal in Kentucky? Hasn't that been in the news enough lately? Then on Sunday we went down to the state dock and rented a pontoon boat that at top speed went 8.5 mph and to get where we needed to go was about 15-20 miles.

We did what my dad requested where he requested it and decided to try and find a cove that we could pull in to so we could swim and fish. On the way to that cove the first tank of gas ran out and when we switched tanks the boat refused to start again. Not having a anchor for the boat we just drifted to the side of the lake in not a great spot couldn't fish or really swim.

Good thing the cell phones worked so we could call the dock and tell them we were stranded. They said the mechanics were out on another run and would get to us shortly. After hour one stranded we called again where are they we asked? They are on their way. We were told. Well an hour and 15 minutes later they showed up. Twenty minutes later they had the boat running. Water in the gas go figure.

So at 7 or so we got back to the dock. My mom put me in the car and we took off because I was severly swollen and tired and sun burned. My sister was paying for the boat or so I thought...turns out she was complaining about the boat and the wait for assistance since she had a pregnant woman and a child on board. Oh and we really had no food. We did have pretzels and chips and the required cheese puffs but no "real food".

Turns out we got the boat for half price for our inconvience. You go sister!

Then this past weekend was my baby shower. I had a great time. I was greatful for everyone who attended and we got lots of great stuff for the baby. Many thanks to Paige, Mom, Angela and Leslie for all their efforts to make it a great day!

On Sunday for Kadens Birthday. The big number 2 for him. I think he had a great time with the dump truck Bobo got for him. It was big enough for him to sit in and be pushed around. And for him to play with in the big dirt pile next door.

Be sure to check out the pictures on my flickr for all of these events.