On a side note...

here are some of my favorite pics i've taken this year..

Wow time flies..

considering it's been about 3 months since i've made a post.
Hmm..What's happened?
Well Ethan's doing great! He hates sleeping during the day (although he's taking a nap right now) but is a great little sleeper at night. He normally goes down at about 7 and sleeps straight through until around 7 the next morning!



He absolutely loves being outside! He likes looking at everything, we've already gone to the zoo and the aquarium in the last few months.

Josh is still busy at work and i'm still full time in school, but i'm taking classes online this semester. I think they make the online classes almost harder than going on campus!! But hopefully this semester will come and go just as quickly as the last few months have gone by.



I am tired though just thinking about everything that's going to go on in the next few months! I will say, I enjoy my alone time more than ever. It's nice to hear silence every once in awhile.
It's nice though, having a routine. Considering the first 2 months were a huge learning process, it's nice knowing a little more of what to expect day to day!

Almost a month old??

Already? Wow where did the time go?? Sleep must have joined too because i'm missing both!

Next week Ethan will be one month old and wow, has it been a roughest but greatest month ever! He's doing great though, we just started a new schedule a few nights ago. At 8pm, we give him his bath, then lotion him up, book, eat, then rock to sleep and put him in his bassinet. So far it's been really successful! We haven't had trouble getting him to sleep once! Keeping him asleep though is a totally different story :)

Taken at the hospital..


Sponge bath! This was obviously before his cord came off..it fell off about a week and a half ago..



He's not really a fan of the swing yet..




His first "real" bath






He LOOOVES his baby einstein play gym

My birth story..

I had my baby!!! Ethan Dylan finally decided to grace us with his presence :) Here's my birth story:

At around 9pm on April 28th (the night of the full moon) I started having some mild contractions. I honestly didn't think anything of it and went to bed. I continued having them all night about 20 minutes apart. That morning I told hubby not to go to work because I thought this might be the real deal.

Around noon my contractions were about 5 minutes apart and we started getting ready for the hospital. At this point I still didn't think it was the real thing but then again, I didn't want to get my hopes up too much either! We got to the hospital and I was still fairly calm about everything. The nurse checked me and said I was 6cm! I was completely shocked. Even the nurse said she was amazed at how calm I was and she had even gotten my discharge papers ready because she was convinced she was sending me home.

They admitted me to the hospital and Josh and I walked around for about 2-3 hours. They checked me and I hadn't progressed at all and they started me on Pitocin and the midwife (because my doc was still on vacation) broke my water. I was slightly bummed because I wanted to go all natural. Once the Pit kicked in really strong the contractions were HORRIBLE...and I mean yank out my teeth with pliers horrible. I finally gave into the epidural when I was a good 8cm.

I pushed for an hour and 18 minutes and finally got his gigantic head out! Josh was right there next to me the whole time and had to hold one of my legs while I was pushing

Ethan Dylan came into the world at 10:28pm on April 29th weighing 8lbs 1oz and was 21 inches long.

This picture makes me laugh..look at how grumpy he is!!

Doc appointment

So went in today for my appointment (i'm 38 weeks 4 days today) and had the midwife instead of my doctor. My doc is on vacation all this week and next (yeah great timing, huh?!). The midwife was pretty nice though-she did let me know that i'm 1 and a half centimeters dilated! I wasn't dilated at all last week (or at least they didn't say) so i'm pretty excited about it. I know it doesn't necessarily mean anything, but it makes me feel better :) She also put his weight at probably 7 1/2-8lbs.

I go back in next Tuesday (at 39 weeks 3 days) and I meet with the midwife again. The appointment after that (if I get that far) will be at 40 weeks 2 days and i'll be meeting with my doctor again. At that appoinment he said we would be able to schedule an induction (but i'm hoping I go into labor before then!)

We move in ten days from today too-the countdown for the new house is the same as my due date, lol. We're trying to wrap a lot of stuff up this weekend because family is coming in a week from today and we want to have as much done as possible!

P.S. Ethan, come on out :)

As of today, I have 12 days remaining until my due date. Of course i'm happy about it and hopefully I won't have to do all 12 days and he comes before! I will say though i'm not a happy camper these last few weeks/days. I think about 37 weeks is when I was "done". Since then I've gone to labor and delivery twice (both for migraines). I had a migraine last week for 3 days straight! I seriously thought I might die. The first visit they gave me Norco (sp?) which apparentlly is some kind of vicodin...that didn't work at all and when I woke up at home, the migraine was still there. That night we went again because I was vomiting and just plain miserable. They gave me Tylenol 3 with codeine and went home, woke up around 3am and I STILL had it! But luckily they gave me a prescription for the Tylenol 3 so I popped another one and that seemed to have done the trick! Woohoo!

With the migraine squashed, i'm still really uncomfortable. I can't really move around all that well and i'm just at the point where i'm getting really frustrated and grumpy with EVERYTHING! My next appointment is on Wednesday (at 38 weeks, 4 days) and i'm hoping to hear some promising news :)
or someone might get hurt.

37 Weeks!

Yay to FINALLY being full term!! I'm starting to get pretty uncomfortable though..he's really hurting me now when he moves-literally takes my breath away!
Here's some progression pics (we'll go backwards)-

37 weeks


32 weeks


26 weeks


23 weeks


16 weeks


12 weeks


8 weeks


Next doc appointment on Wednesday!

36 Weeks!!!!!

One more week until i'm full term! :) I'm a lot more tired these days it seems (having just woken up from a nice nap)and it hurts a lot more to walk. It feels like my hips are going to fall off. Aaand baby is starting to kung fu my belly more. I swear, sometimes it feels like he's going to bust out of my skin!

We're moving!

Old house..


Meet new house..




Yay we got the house!! The new house pics aren't the best since we were doing a drive by and snapping the pictures inside of the car...but you get the idea. I'm so excited! We're signing the lease tomorrow and going to start packing! We're going to try to move everything in before May 1st..and we're also hoping baby comes before then too!!!!