I can't believe the amount of things you need for a newborn-it is insane. I personally think we would have been better off just renting a U-Haul and dumping 90% of our belongings into it. Though I have to give Jeremy credit because he actually managed to fit all of our gifts, the Pack N Play, bouncer, Boppy, 3 suitcases, 2 blankets, 1 comforter, 3 pillows and all of our other crap into our little Altima. Talk about awesome gas mileage-NOT!
Anyway, we're ready to go and very excited for the trip. We love road trips! So, I will most likely be on a blogging hiatus while we're making our contribution to the slowing economy via our Tour of The Midwest! In the meantime, Happy Holidays to you and your family! Adios.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
Here's to Good Intentions
As you can tell from the title of this posting, I got just a tad behind on my blogging. I was trying to write at least every other day and here it is Monday night already (almost Tuesday since it's 11:55 p.m. as I begin writing this).
So here's the latest and greatest. Keeping with the theme of daily excursions, I finished up the week (last week) by bringing the little man to both of our workplaces. He was a hit, even though he decided to be fussy McGoo on Friday when we visited my workplace. We believe it might have something to do with his formula. So, like many parents before us we are now playing the formula game to figure out what works best for him. Kinda like the diaper game when he was first born and peeing through all his outfits on people. That was fun (not so fun for those that got a little shower surprise). :)
This weekend we just hung out around the house and enjoyed our time as a family. I got to get out of the house with Michele on Sunday to finish up Christmas shopping and we ended the weekend with a nice chili supper (courtesy of Jason). :)
Today we went to the doctor for my postpartum follow-up, only to be rescheduled 15 minutes after we arrived due to a delivery. Babies love to come when they darn well feel like it, right?
Tomorrow, we get to go through Lucas' clothes (well, alot of them are from Jordan...) and see what fits him since he's growing so quickly! Then we get to pack for our "Tour of the Midwest." We leave on Christmas Eve to visit grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins-you name it! We are really looking forward to the trip for Lucas to see relatives before he's crawling... Our only regret is that we won't get to be with all of our relatives (like Grammy and Grand Dad) for the holiday.
I've posted recent pictures of Lucas to show how much he is growing-it's quite amazing! Check out Lucas in the outfit Jeremy wore home from the hospital almost 32 years ago. "Little Jer" as my family calls Lucas-very fitting, since he does look exactly like his Daddy!
So here's the latest and greatest. Keeping with the theme of daily excursions, I finished up the week (last week) by bringing the little man to both of our workplaces. He was a hit, even though he decided to be fussy McGoo on Friday when we visited my workplace. We believe it might have something to do with his formula. So, like many parents before us we are now playing the formula game to figure out what works best for him. Kinda like the diaper game when he was first born and peeing through all his outfits on people. That was fun (not so fun for those that got a little shower surprise). :)
This weekend we just hung out around the house and enjoyed our time as a family. I got to get out of the house with Michele on Sunday to finish up Christmas shopping and we ended the weekend with a nice chili supper (courtesy of Jason). :)
Today we went to the doctor for my postpartum follow-up, only to be rescheduled 15 minutes after we arrived due to a delivery. Babies love to come when they darn well feel like it, right?
Tomorrow, we get to go through Lucas' clothes (well, alot of them are from Jordan...) and see what fits him since he's growing so quickly! Then we get to pack for our "Tour of the Midwest." We leave on Christmas Eve to visit grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins-you name it! We are really looking forward to the trip for Lucas to see relatives before he's crawling... Our only regret is that we won't get to be with all of our relatives (like Grammy and Grand Dad) for the holiday.
I've posted recent pictures of Lucas to show how much he is growing-it's quite amazing! Check out Lucas in the outfit Jeremy wore home from the hospital almost 32 years ago. "Little Jer" as my family calls Lucas-very fitting, since he does look exactly like his Daddy!
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Today's Excursion
We actually have blog followers-so I guess we aren't as big of losers as I'd thought. Oh wait, they are my sisters. Does that count and still put us in the "sort-of cool" category? Who knows.
Anyway, anyone who knows me is aware that I am not the type to sit on my rear picking my nose and eating bon-bons (a cool phrase one of my co-workers, Deanna, came up with which I find hilarious). Since I've been on maternity leave in the oh so beautiful Winter months, it can be kind of confining staying in the house all day. If we don't get out at least every other day, I tend to go stir crazy. Monday we went to Wal-Mart, Tuesday we went to the dentist and today we went to the pediatrician and the fertility doctor's office. Hold on, not so fast-we aren't trying to get pregnant again yet... That would be quite insane! We just wanted to visit and thank those who helped us to get pregnant with Lucas.
Back to the point. We went to the pediatrician first where Lucas got a clean bill of health and his first shot that I had to personally witness. No, I didn't cry-but it was a little hard to watch when he started crying in that soft little newborn cry after he got his shot. We also found out he is now 22 inches long and weighs 10 lbs 11 ounces-he gained almost 1.5 pounds in 2 weeks! What a piggy-piggers! He does like to eat quite a bit. In fact the only time he usually cries is when you don't feed him fast enough (sounds kind of like his Daddy). He really is an easy baby so far (ask me what I think about how easy he is once he's mobile).
After the traumatic shot incident, we headed off to the fertility practice to see Dr. Reuter and her nurse, Shelly, who guided us through the twists and turns of infertility treatment, including the IVF (in-vitro fertilization) process. Obviously it was worth it to go through everything to get to this point-we are so blessed! It was great to see both of them again (we haven't seen them since the 10th week of pregnancy when they released us to our obstetrician).
Tomorrow we will visit Jer's work so they can see him before I return to work after New Years' Day. Friday we will visit my work for our company pitch-in and so that they can see him before I go back to work for good. That will be a sad day...we won't even start with that topic.
Anyway, anyone who knows me is aware that I am not the type to sit on my rear picking my nose and eating bon-bons (a cool phrase one of my co-workers, Deanna, came up with which I find hilarious). Since I've been on maternity leave in the oh so beautiful Winter months, it can be kind of confining staying in the house all day. If we don't get out at least every other day, I tend to go stir crazy. Monday we went to Wal-Mart, Tuesday we went to the dentist and today we went to the pediatrician and the fertility doctor's office. Hold on, not so fast-we aren't trying to get pregnant again yet... That would be quite insane! We just wanted to visit and thank those who helped us to get pregnant with Lucas.
Back to the point. We went to the pediatrician first where Lucas got a clean bill of health and his first shot that I had to personally witness. No, I didn't cry-but it was a little hard to watch when he started crying in that soft little newborn cry after he got his shot. We also found out he is now 22 inches long and weighs 10 lbs 11 ounces-he gained almost 1.5 pounds in 2 weeks! What a piggy-piggers! He does like to eat quite a bit. In fact the only time he usually cries is when you don't feed him fast enough (sounds kind of like his Daddy). He really is an easy baby so far (ask me what I think about how easy he is once he's mobile).
After the traumatic shot incident, we headed off to the fertility practice to see Dr. Reuter and her nurse, Shelly, who guided us through the twists and turns of infertility treatment, including the IVF (in-vitro fertilization) process. Obviously it was worth it to go through everything to get to this point-we are so blessed! It was great to see both of them again (we haven't seen them since the 10th week of pregnancy when they released us to our obstetrician).
Tomorrow we will visit Jer's work so they can see him before I return to work after New Years' Day. Friday we will visit my work for our company pitch-in and so that they can see him before I go back to work for good. That will be a sad day...we won't even start with that topic.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Copycat
Hello family and friends!
I admit that I am a big, fat copycat (how third grade does that sound?). My sister, Michele, recently started blogging and I have to admit that I'm already hooked-even though they only live a mile up the road. This seems like a totally cool and easy way to connect with people, whether they live right here in Indy or miles away. Plus, it's so easy I don't need to nag Jeremy to send information and pictures out to family and friends. :)
So I hope someone will end up following our blog-otherwise I guess we're just total losers.
I admit that I am a big, fat copycat (how third grade does that sound?). My sister, Michele, recently started blogging and I have to admit that I'm already hooked-even though they only live a mile up the road. This seems like a totally cool and easy way to connect with people, whether they live right here in Indy or miles away. Plus, it's so easy I don't need to nag Jeremy to send information and pictures out to family and friends. :)
So I hope someone will end up following our blog-otherwise I guess we're just total losers.
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