Truly Blessed

posted by Kristin @ March 30, 2011 0 Comments

Jude Robert, You Are Three Weeks Old

This week your Daddy went back to work

and your Grandparents went home,

so it was just me and you...

I like to think we did okay.

I love the quiet time we have together.

I love reading the Word together.

I love how you respond to worship music..

something you began to do in the womb.

I love how in the mornings we read the Book of

John together and in the evenings (and throughout the night)

we read a combination of Psalms and Song of Songs.

I love how you continue to have the hiccups--

something you had constantly in the womb.

I love when you sneeze--
they come in threes!

I love how this week we finally had

breakthrough when it came to feeding.

We had to go get some more help

at the hospital, but it was so worth it.

You are doing so good

and I am so proud of you!

I love how you let us take your picture today

even though it was during a storm and the

lighting was not at it's best.

(We're going to try to capture some more 

pictures tomorrow--I know you are thrilled!)

Your Smith grandparents came back up this

weekend to get some newborn love.

They sure do love you!

This week you became an "official"

person.  You have a social security number,

health insurance and even a college fund!

Mommy started driving again and we went to visit

Daddy at work (a couple of times!).  

We went and had lunch with our

RiverStone staff. 

We went to the Post Office together.   

We even went to our first

play date at the park!

And when Daddy got off work one evening

our little family of three

 went and had dinner together, 

did a little shopping and strolled

through Barnes and Noble.

You even had your first of I'm sure

many trips to Lowe's

with your Daddy.

You had your first experience with projectile

vomit--I think you were more traumatized than we were.

Your mommy and daddy had their first

experience with being peed on.

If you could laugh, I think you definitely would

have done so.

Speaking of, you are starting to smile

or maybe it's just a little smirk.

You are starting to make a couple of cute little noises 

as well.

During the night you wake up every three hours

on the dot.  As sleepy as your mommy

is,  I'm trying so hard to drink in all this

newborn goodness.

You are the perfect gift from my Father above.

We love you Jude Robert.

**Beautiful handmade "Tree of Life" blanket

by our amazing friend Dawn Pape**

posted by Kristin @ March 26, 2011 0 Comments

One for the baby book...

Let me just start with saying that Robert and I have survived enjoyed the past three weeks of parenting by laughing...a lot.  It's what I love about my husband--he can make me laugh in any circumstance--and the Lord knew that was exactly what I needed.  And now we're a little family of three and there has been lots and lots of giggles.  At the current moment our little precious bundle of joy is "working on one" and Robert just picked him up off his lap and is currently holding him in the air off his lap.  Hilarious.

We had a day this past week that is one for the books.  Best one yet out of these past three weeks.  One worth recording--I hope you can laugh as hard as we have.

We started the evening off with watching "Life As We Know It".  We found it appropriate to watch this movie at this time in our lives as we're two people having absolutely no idea what we're doing when it comes to parenting.  We laughed our way through this movie.

Then we got everyone ready for bed.  All snuggled in our pj's, fed, diaper changed and swaddled in.  We turned off the light and not 10 seconds later we heard a noise come out of our bundle of joy, but it was the splash of something hitting the side of the pack-n-play that caught our attention.  We both jumped out of bed, quickly turned on the light, to find our little one staring wide eyed, not making a noise as if he wasn't sure what had just happened.  I picked him up to find that he had spit up all over himself...it was all over him, his hair was all matted down with throw up, and that splash we heard, yeah, it was projectile.  And Robert and I just started laughing hysterically...we. could. not. stop.

We finally calmed down, got him all cleaned up, changed out the ultimate crib sheet (thank you friends for this suggestion), changed him, swaddled him with all new blankets and we went back to bed.

Fast forward through the night time feedings to the am and we needed a good thorough bath (to get anything we may have missed during the 1am cleanup after the projectile incident).  Up until this point in our parenting our only pee incidents were him peeing on himself.  Well with bath time this am we had our first experience of pee that took aim.  ALL. OVER. ME.  I screamed....then started to laugh--he's a funny little man.  I took this as a warning for future diaper changes.

When daddy got home that evening I told him I could not wait for him to change his diaper--as our little man was now armed and dangerous....

Later that evening I was working on some projects upstairs while daddy and little buddy were having some bonding time downstairs.  Robert came up and said, "I just got peed on."  I said, "I told you..."  He said, "No, I just got peed on" and showed me his lap.  Robert wasn't even changing him and he got peed on---Jude was sitting in his lap when he had a leaky diaper incident and Robert was soaked.  All I could do was laugh.  Little man got handed off to me to clean up and change while Robert headed to the shower.  Me still laughing uncontrollably.

And now at the current moment Robert is changing him and said, "When did you have oatmeal?"  Nice.

But who could resist these chubby cheeks?

posted by Kristin @ March 26, 2011 2 Comments

St. Patrick's Day!

posted by Kristin @ March 23, 2011 2 Comments