One Busy Month!

Today is William's one month birthday! The past month has flown by. It has been really fun to spend time with Sandy and my parents. Unfortunately, when they were here we weren't able to do much outside of the house, but we were able to spend some time with the little guy and play games. Which, let's face it, is what we really want to do when we are hanging out with family. 
Today Will and I had to go to a doctor appt for me and a doctor appt for Will. I was way nervous because Will's eating has not been held to any kind of schedule lately and I didn't want to have to figure out how to feed him in between the appts. Luckily he ate just before we had to leave for my appt and he fell asleep in the car. He stayed asleep until we woke him up at his appt. :) I knew he would be getting hungry because it had been two hours so I was so worried he would be grumpy for his appt. However, he was happy as could be until we had to leave. By this time it was almost three hours so he was really getting hungry. During the car ride home he was fussy and ended up crying himself to sleep. Poor guy. 
Will is now 10 pounds 10 ounces and 21.5 inches long. He is in the 75th% for his weight and 50% for his height. He is growing way to fast already. Part of me is excited for him to get bigger so that we can do more things together, but I am sure that when he gets bigger I will long for the times when he was smaller. :)
My appt went pretty good also. Two weeks ago my doctor started to wean me off of one of my blood pressure pills, and today she decided that I could stay off that pill from now on. So, when I left the hospital, I was on three different blood pressure pills and now I am only on one. :) I go back in a month and I hope that she will take me off the last one. But it all depends on how my blood pressure is doing. 
We really enjoyed the time we had with Sandy and my parents. It was so nice to see them. When Sandy was here we didn't get to do much because we were hoping a baby would come at any minute. And then when he did there were so many complications that Sandy spent most of her time with the cats. :( It will be so nice when we get to see her and Bill again so that we can do some fun things. 
While my parents were here we wanted to go to Nashville so that I could get a nursing bra. We tried to go on a Monday so that Matt could be with us, however, that day there was a fatal accident on the freeway. We were 2/3 the to Nashville when the traffic came to a dead stop. We found out that just around the corner of the road th ere33333333334444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444. (sorry Loki wanted to say hi)
...(back to what I was saying) just around the corner of the freeway there was a really bad accident in which a person died. We were stuck in traffic for an hour or so when the cops had the two lanes of traffic turn around and drive down the shoulder to where we could get across to the other side of the freeway. Apparently the freeway was shut down for about 7 hours to clean up the road. So we had to go to Nashville on Wednesday without Matt. It was really sad when we drove around the corner where the accident was because I knew that someone had died there. On Friday we went to Matt's work so that we could see the helicopters. That was pretty fun. There was a chinook that was getting ready to take off and several black hawks flying around. 
We are looking forward to Will's first Christmas. I know that he won't remember it but we will have fun anyway. :)
Here are some pictures from my parents visit and Will's one month birthday.

 This was taken the day the my parent's left. 

 Grandma Smith spoiled his silly!

 Will loves his Papa Smith!

 Look at me! I am one month old today!

Will gave me this look after I got done feeding him one day. I thought it was so cute. 

December already!

I can't believe it is already December! Time flies, especially with a new baby. :) We are so excited to share Christmas with Will this year. I know he won't remember it but it will be fun. We got the cutest outfit for him and took some Christmas pictures. We want to do a Christmas card but I think finances and time will not allow. Hopefully this will be good enough. :) 

 This is Will in the Love Sac that we have. He looks so tiny in it. :)

He was starting to get frustrated with us by this time. :) And a little hungry too from the looks of his fist. He tries to eat his fist off when he is hungry. 
We went to the doctors today to f/u on his nursing and he is doing great! He has gained almost a pound in two weeks. It is so crazy how different he looks also. I decided today that he doesn't look like a newborn anymore. He just looks like a cute little baby. 

2 Weeks old and I'm the star of the show!!

Will is two weeks old today. It is so weird how quickly it has gone. I was noticing today that he looks so different already. :(  We have already had some firsts, such as pooping/peeing while getting his diaper changed, screaming at the top of his lungs because I am being to slow to get him some food, and little grins here and there from gas while he sleeps. We were able to start nursing this past week so things have been a little crazy. It is very difficult to figure out when he is done versus just chillin with my boob in his mouth and how often he needs to eat. Hopefully we will get this all figured out soon. 
My parents came to visit this week. It should be lots of fun to have them here to enjoy him for a bit. We are going to put up the tiny bit of Christmas decorations we have and get some stuff fixed around the house. Gotta love when dad comes! :) Here are some pics from week two!

Bath Time!

We gave Will his first bath at home yesterday. Will did really well. He only cried when we took off his diaper and he kept putting his foot in and out of the warm water trying to check it out. He is adorable! Now I just need his umbilical cord to fall off so that it doesn't gross me out anymore. :)

Our Sweet Baby Boy!

Well I am a week late, but we have a baby boy! William Kevin Weaver was born on Sunday November 20, 2011 at 21:31. After a somewhat stressful couple of days I thought my water was "leaking" so we decided to go into the hospital on Sunday morning and get it checked out. At this point I was 2 days late from my due date and was very anxious to get this baby out of me. :)
When we got to the hospital they said that I was not leaking. However, my blood pressure was dangerously high and they were worried that I had acute preeclampsia. Basically that is when you have quick onset of high blood pressure and build up of toxins in your body at delivery. It can be very dangerous for mom and baby. We were incredibly confused because my blood pressure was great during my pregnancy, in fact the previous Monday it was below "normal". However, like I said I was very stressed out the couple of days prior to delivery and I think that this was a contributing factor. 
Since my blood pressure was so high the doctor insisted that we induce the labor as I had not had any contractions for a couple of days. Originally Matt and I hoped to have a completely natural delivery without any drugs. However, the doctor was very concerned and implied that if they did not get me on pitocin to start my labor she would do a c-section to get the baby out. We decided that the lesser of the two would be to compromise on the drugs. However, I was still determined to have the baby without an epidural. Unfortunately, the pitocin totally kicked my butt and I went from having no contractions at all to having strong contractions every 2-4 minutes lasting about 45 seconds to a minute each. Because of this I could not get myself to relax and handle the contractions how I had been taught. The pain and anxiety was also making my blood pressure go even higher. So again the doctor asked if they could give an epidural to help with the pain, otherwise a c-section would be necessary. I decided that I was not going to be able to handle the contractions and went ahead and got the epidural. At first I was very disappointed in myself for not being able to stick to my guns. But looking back I really feel it was the best decision based on the circumstances. 
About 5-6 hours later we started pushing. And about an hour and half later William was born! 

 Matt took this picture in the nursery when Will was 2 days old. :)

 This is the second day home, his outfit looks so big on him. 

 I love this picture. Daddy and son are so cute!

After several hard days in the hospital we were finally able to come home. Unfortunately, with my blood pressure issues we still have some challenges but things will be better soon.

Our house is more complete...FINALLY!

After closing on the house we were finally able to hang up pictures and get the rest of the unpacking done. We have got pretty much everything done for our house. The other stuff, paint and rugs, will come with some more time and money. :) However here are some pictures of the office/spare bedroom that is almost all complete. I just need to clean Matt's desk off and then he needs to hang pictures. I told him the pictures in that room were all him. So maybe they will be hung up in the next few months. LOL 

This is the rest of our books. We were so worried that they would not all fit. Fortunately, they did. Unfortunately, my VHS tapes did not so I have to find some other place to hide them so Matt doesn't get rid of them. We are so excited that we actually have some place that can fit Matt's helicopter and airplane decently too. 

Loki was excited for another place to lay down. :) The bed makes the room so much smaller, but it will be nice to have a place my family and friends to stay. :)

Maybe with the keyboard set up Matt will play some for me and Will. ) That will be way cool!

 I am also way excited to have a family picture wall! Right now the pictures are not of who they will be, we need to get some printed. But soon we will have Matt's family and my family displayed. 

 The frame in the middle at the bottom says "Our Family" this will get a family picture when will comes. :) Just the three of us. We also have an 8x10 that is waiting a family picture for the living room. :) Maybe in the next few months we will also get rid of the blue cable strung along the hall. :) Matt plans to run it from the office to the living room through the attic. Hopefully no falling ceilings this time tho. HA HA

 More of Will's room. It is finally as complete as it is gonna get until we can paint. When we do we will probably paint it blue and we are thinking of doing some kind of stencil as well. My sister also sent me a really cute vinyl saying that is brown and says "The nearest thing to Heaven is a Child". I will put that on his wall somewhere also. :)

We finally found a cheap bookshelf and we can get more of the square tote things for toys when he gets older. :)

We got this cute little rug at Target. I would like to have a bigger on, but this is all we could afford at this time. 

So that is all our updates at this time. :) House is finally coming together which makes me so much more happy. It drives me crazy to have things unfinished. And if I just ignore the crappy paint job in this house I can be a lot more happy. :) We also put up a shelf in our bedroom with my bouquet from the wedding, some pictures from the wedding, our cake topper, and the ring pillow. I have a vinyl phrase that I want to put on the wall in there too but it will wait for paint. :) 

Falling ceilings, labor& delivery tours, and roast beast

Today has been kind of eventful. While putting boxes in the attic after unpacking pictures I was folding laundry in the bedroom. When all of a sudden I hear a crash! I knew Matt was still in the garage and was completely frightened that he was still in the attic. So I ran to the garage and see a huge piece of the ceiling on the ground, dirt, dust, and drywall pieces all over the car, and my husbands leg hanging from the ceiling! Freaking out much!!!!! Turns out Matt was exploring the attic and took a wrong step and the whole chunk of ceiling under his foot fell. Luckily he did not fall and did not get hurt. (Our car is OK too) 

After cleaning up a bit, letting Matt relax from his trauma, and finishing the laundry we decided to head out. We got some lunch at Wendy's where OF COURSE they got my order wrong and my already diminished appetite almost went away. We then headed off to the hospital to get a "tour" of the labor and delivery area. The rooms look pretty nice and they are huge. Our next step, if I can get Matt off the couch (football are you over yet?) is to actually get some pictures/shelves hung up and then for dinner I have a roast beast in the crockpot. It smells so YUMMY!  Almost like being at my parents on a Sunday. 

More fun baby stuff!

I have been waiting for days and finally today it came! Will's handmade afgan from Grandma Smith! It is so cute and she worked so hard on it. 

In our birthing class we have talked about being prepared for D day and so we have started putting together some stuff for the bag. We picked out the cutest outfit to bring Will home in have the car seat in the car and ready to go! Now we just need to baby. Hopefully not for a couple more weeks! 

Week 36!

We have started the down hill slope. I am officially 9 months pregnant and about 4 days away from being considered full term and ready to pop at any time! :) We are so excited to meet our little guy! The other day I was thinking that it would be so cool if we had windows in our tummies so we could see what our babies looked like, kind of like that cow in Iowa or somewhere that has a hole in him so that people can study how corn affects animals. :) Kinda gross but I am probably one of the most impatient people I know and it is killing me to have to wait for the baby to come. 
We purchased a stroller yesterday and put it together. Luckily Matt did not have to get inside it to put the wheels on. HA HA. It matches the car seat and is super light. It will be wonderful when our families come to visit and to go on walks after a couple of months. 
Another kind of cool thing is that lately we have been able to see Will more. At night I will be sitting down and notice that my stomach is lopsided. :) Most of the time it is just his butt, however occasionally it is bigger so we are assuming it is his back. Our birthing coach told us that if Matt puts his ear to my stomach he might be able to hear Will's heartbeat. So we tried it and Matt said he heard something faintly. :) 
Not much else is going on in our lives right now. Just work and baby. :) We are still struggling with our doctor a bit but I am hoping that on the day of he will either not be around or things will go as planned and we won't have to deal with him until I am well into my labor and showing him that all is not horrible as he acts like it will be. :) 

Emotional!

The past couple of days I have learned what the people have always said about pregnant women being emotional. I seem to cry at the smallest things these days. Luckily it is usually when Matt is not home. LOL
On a brighter note... We went to the doctor on Monday and found out that Will's kidney issue is no longer an issue! He is doing wonderful! The ultrasound tech said that his lungs are looking great and that he looks big and healthy. Big being the scary word... She thinks he is almost 7 lbs and we still have a month to go! Yikes. The doctor says that the ultrasound can be off by a pound or two so hopefully Will is not that big but I guess we will see!
Things here is TN are going well. The past couple of days it has gotten a lot cooler and has rained a lot. The only bad thing about rain here is it is usually accompanied by fog in the morning. Good thing Matt is a safe driver! That's about all that is going on here, not much to tall this week! :)

The engineers that set up the streets here are crazy!

OK it is time to say one good thing about Utah. I know, don't be shocked! So let me just tell you that whoever built up the streets in this place has lost their mind! Almost every street here has more than one name. Do you know how hard it is to find your way around when the streets will randomly change names! To give you several examples... One of the main roads from the freeway is called Wilma Rudolph at the freeway and for about 2-3 miles down the road. Then it changes to Guthrie Highway and then when you get closer to the University it changes to College St. What the heck! Another example... there is a highway type of road that is called 101st Airborne, then a couple miles from our house it changes to Warfield and a couple miles after that it changes to Richview or something like that. And the final example of THE most retarded road is... To get to the hospital from our house you have to turn onto a road called Dunlop Ln, as you are traveling down this road (maybe a mile) it curves and you see a road off to the side that makes a 90 degree turn off Dunlop Ln that is also called Dunlop Ln. If you continue doing straight down the first Dunlop Ln it will T you then can make another 90 degree turn so get to the actual Dunlop Ln that the Hospital is on. Seriously!!!! 
I don't understand why this place cannot use the simple and easy to follow grid system that Utah has, does this not make much more sense??? Perhaps my friends from CA or KS can help me understand this craziness. :)
OK I am done venting now. :)

5 more weeks!

Today marks the first day of week 35! It's hard to imagine that the pregnancy is almost over, time definitely has flown by. However, I am soo ready to be done. The past couple of days have been especially hard as I feel way tired and uncomfortable. Hopefully this last month won't be like this all the time! 
We have another ultrasound on Monday to check on the baby's kidney's one more time. Our new doctor here wants a high-definition ultrasound so that they can get better measurements of Will's ureters to determine if they are still swollen and if so how much. Unfortunately, there isn't anything we can do, but I guess he just wants to know what the pediatrician will have to monitor after the baby is born. As of last Monday the ultrasound estimated that the baby is 5 pounds, which according to the books is where he is supposed to be. Starting this week he should be up to 6 pounds. One thing I have been worried about is that I am no longer gaining weight. Since living in TN I have not gained any weight. I am not sure if this is something I really need to be concerned with but I am going to check with the doctor. One reason might just be that I am watching my diet a lot more carefully and trying to make sure I meet all the requirements for higher protein and lower carbs. So maybe I will be skinnier after the baby is born that I was before I got pregnant! Wouldn't that be lovely. HA HA (Anybody else want to live in my dream world???) 
We have started birth classes with a lady named Jade. She is very nice and fortunately we are the only couple in her class on Tuesdays so she is able to give us more one on one training! Hopefully meeting with Jade will help us feel more prepared to take on labor. Just thinking about it kinda scares the crap out of me, but hopefully when it happens Matt and I will be able to remember what we are learning and make it through as planned. 
The doctor kinda scared us the other day at the appointment because we thought we heard him say that the new ultrasound moved our delivery date from Nov 18th to Nov 5th. He kinda just said it in passing so we are not sure if we heard him correctly or not. We will definitely be getting that straightened out on Monday! 
In other news, we are planning on closing on the house in the next couple of weeks which will mean that we can FINALLY get pictures hung up and make the place more complete. We feel very lucky to have had things work out like they have and are looking forward to the next step in our lives. :)

Will's room finally has some decoration!

Last night Matt put up some shelves and other decorations on Will's wall. :) It still isn't quite finished but it's getting there. I wish we could paint the room because the previous owners totally botched the job, but eventually we will get to that. :) It's nice to have to room feel a little more complete. The blue and white shelf needs some repair from the move and when it is done it will look tons cuter! I am also especially happy that I have something from my grandma to represent for Will. Unfortunately, he will not meet her and so to have something of hers that I can give him is very special to me. The figurine on the blue and white shelf was hers. :) 

 

Soon I will also be able to fill out more of the cute baby book on this shelf. :) We are so excited to meet this little guy and hopefully he will love his new home when he is born!

Does Matt have to climb in the product to put it together?

Matt decided to put together the bouncy seat last night. It was pretty funny because he started out reading the directions and following them. Then apparently he decided to stop following the directions he read. SO SHOCKING!!! :) Unfortunately, for him, this meant that one piece was twisted and he had to take apart another piece to fix it. The funniest part is that Matt had to bouncy seat frame wrapped around his body to do this. I'm starting to wonder if he always has to climb in the product to put it together. First the crib and now the bouncy seat. What happens when he puts a dresser or something together? :) It reminds me of that episode of Friends where they were in England and Joey had to climb into his 3D map in order to figure out where he was. :) Fortunately, he got it all fixed and now Will will have a wonderful little seat to be in. It vibrates and rocks and plays music and "white noise" for him. How exciting!

We have rugs!

I am so excited to announce that we were finally able to purchase some rugs. We still need one for our bedroom, Will's room, and eventually the office/guest room. However, the living room and hallway are good to go! We found them at Walmart, so they are probably not super great quality, but they work. Eventually I would probably like a bigger one for the living room but that will probably be a couple years down the road. The hallway rug has the same design as the living room and hopefully they will help with some of the issues I have been having. :) 

Unfortunately, we are having a very hard time finding a dresser for Will's room. I have found one that I really like at a local furniture store, but OF COURSE it is the wrong color. You have no idea how hard it was for me to convince Matt that the dresser cannot be a light wood while the crib/bed Will will have for several years is dark cherry mohagony. I still don't think I convinced him but he is leaving it alone for now. :) Tomorrow we plan on hanging shelves and things in Will's room so hopefully it will feel more ready for him. I have been having a really hard time because I don't feel like we are ready for the baby. There are still several things that we need and I feel like I need them all now. I just have to keep reminding myself that we have several weeks and it will be OK if his room does not look or feel the way I want it to right this second. That is very hard for me! 
Overall, things are moving forward slowly but surely. :)

Decoration time!

I am so excited to finally have a nursery for our little guy. Now the trouble is decorating it. :) Unfortunately, we do not have the time, or money, to paint the room. So for now we are just working on things we can add to the room. We purchased a "W" at Babies-r-us and decided to paint it green and yellow to bring out some of the colors of the bedding we got. Matt also found some really cute aviation wood things to go with it! After some help from friends and family on Facebook we decided to put the W on the wall above Will's crib and we will put the airplane and helicopter on either side. Here are some pics... (the only pics I have of the airplane and helicopter make it look like it is on the W but it will not be).

We also have a shelf that Papa Smith made that we are going to hang up and put pictures and the below wooden helicopters on. Hopefully more will come! I have a rug picked out that I want to buy also. :)

Week End review!

 


Matt's mom made these beautiful quilts. We got them in the mail today and are so excited for Will to see them.

So nothing super exciting has happened this week. The kitties are settling in nicely. :) I was finally able to get in to see a nurse at the OB and will be seeing the doctor on Monday. However, it seems that Will is doing great and I am doing a good job, most days, at keeping my blood sugar in check. We started birthing classes with a lady named Jade. She seems really nice and is going to help up prepare for birth using the natural method called The Bradley Method. I really hope that I can do it! Aubrey has been a trooper and has been able to delivery all but one of her babies without pain meds, and the only reason the last one was different is because she was in labor for basically 2 months and was exhausted. So I figure if my sweet sister can be strong then I can! 
My friend, Amber, had her baby the other day and my other friend, Stephanie, is in labor today. I can't wait to see their pictures and hear how their deliveries went. 
I feel that my belly is getting bigger and bigger. It is getting difficult to bend over, which makes sweeping the wood floors kinda difficult! I guess I will have to try a vacuum or leave piles for Matt to pick up when he gets home. :) According to my weight at the doctor office I have actually lost 4 pounds from the beginning of September so who knows! Hopefully that means that after Will is born I will be able to get in shape faster!