He Doesn't Like It

I don't think that Joshua likes his new chair. This goes from being a seat that helps him learn how to sit up on his own, to a table with toys to entertain him, to a booster seat at the table.

Moby Wrap......All The Rave

So everyone is talking about the Moby Wrap to hold baby in. I am waiting for the exchange on my Polkadot Papoose Sling before I decide on one of these. Hopefully Joshua likes his Polkadot Sling. The Moby may be wonderful to get for complete control and to hold him comfortably and won't kill my back, which is hard to hold him a lot because it starts screaming to put my ten pound baby down. I don't think it would be bad to have a second sling/wrap on hand for different things we are doing.

Picture of the Moby Wrap:


Here is an instruction video on how baby would go into it:
http://www.babyslingdemonstrations.com/Demo/p/BS1001

More Pictures

This is Joshua after he eats....He looks like a "drunk" little baby.


After a bath


Daddy being silly


Joshua isn't too sure about this hat

Growing So Fast

Joshua is growing so fast. When he was born he weighed 7lb 8.8oz and was 20 1/4" long. Yesterday morning I weighed him at home (which may not be all that accurate, but gives us a good guess) and he weighed 10lbs. Using a tape measure from my sewing stuff he measured 23". Do you know what that means?!?!?!?!? Look at the length/weight on the clothes next time you buy them. We went to Target and bought him some sleepers and some pants, since the ones he had were starting to look more like shorts.....we actually bought 6 month sizes. Even bought some 9 month ones to have on hand if he keeps growing as fast as he is right now. I've been hearing that growth spurts come about every three weeks....which means by this time next week we'll be going through another one. Oh man....during those times he eats about every hour to hour and a half. He is absolutely beautiful. I'll load up some new pictures from this weekend soon.

Smiles and His Pacimal

Well, I sort of caught his smile on camera. He doesn't seem to like the cameras very much and will usually stop whatever he is doing and just stare at it.



We also got his Pacimal in the mail today. I got a mouse because it looked very similar to the stuffed mouse my dad had bought me before I was born. Joshua seems to like it a lot. I even stood him up and he kept it in his mouth.



A picture of Joshua's Pacimal and my stuffed mouse.

6 Hours of Bliss

Oh Yeah!!! I'll never take a full night's sleep forgranted again. Last night I fed Joshua and then swaddled him up and rocked him to sleep in the rocker. Once he was asleep I layed him in his crib and put some blankets on him so he was all snuggly. That was 7:30pm . . . . . at 1:30am he woke up. It felt awesome to have my bed back for a short amount of time. Perhaps we should have invested in a King size bed. I hope that the sleeping in the crib becomes a habit.

Video of Joshua

A Dirty House

How true is this? He's only three weeks old, but already the house is driving me crazy. You have no idea how many times I will run through things that I need to do while I hold him. The worst part was that I had been cleaning my living room in my head for over a week. So finally this past Tuesday when Joshua finally fell asleep in his crib I managed to clean the kitchen and living room. I even organized the office and went through our closet. I'll be okay for at least another week now.

More Pictures

18 Days Old Today!!!

Joshua is 18 days old today. It's amazing how time flies. He is slowly falling into some sort of sleep pattern. The fast three nights he's slept for over four hours and then wakes up and wants to eat and have his diaper chaned. Once those are completed he'll sleep for another two or two and a half hours before the process repeats itself.

At his two week check-up (he was actually just 10 days old) he had made huge improvements. Here are the numbers:

Birth: 7lbs, 8.8oz and 20.25" long
Leaving the Hospital: 7lbs
4 days old: 7lbs, 5.5oz
10 days old: 7lbs, 15oz and 21" long

He is growing like a weed. Here are some pictures taken recently of him:


At the Special Assembly in San Antonio, TX - 12/7/08

Baby Shower - 11/30/08

Where Mommy and Joshua get to sit:


All the presents:


The table and cake:




Joshua all ready for the party (which he slept through):


The Loot:

Pictures

The Night Before:


In Labor and Delivery:


Joshua's First Picture:


Our First Family Photo:


Joshua Being Weighed:


Noni Holding Joshua For The First Time:


Joshua's Feet (look at the comparison between his foot and Noni's ring finger under it):


Coming Home From The Hospital:


Bright Eyes:


In His Cradle:

Joshua Has Arrived

Sorry to all those waiting for an update. I've been very busy and distracted with being a mommy.

Here is our story of Joshua's birth:
We were supposed to be induced on Thursday morning, but Joshua had other plans. All day Wednesday, while out shopping around with mom I'd been having small contractions and feeling rather tired. Went to bed late that night after being all anxious for the next day. I kept getting woken up by pains that would take my breath away. I'd just breath through them and go back to sleep. At 2:30am I went to use the bathroom. My water broke on the way before I had even gotten there. I left Raul sleeping and went to wake mom up. We sat on her bed and timed the contractions. At first they were five minutes apart, but then they started spacing out and barely took my breath away. Around 4:30am Raul came out to the living room and we told him we had gone into labor. We went back to bed to rest for a bit. At 5:30am I called the hospital to let them know that we had started labor and that my water had broken. They said to come into the hospital immediately because an infection could set in. We all got up and showered, made coffee, finished gathering our things and left for the hospital.

At the hospital they admitted me and we went up to Labor & Delivery. I changed into the gown and got into the bed and got hooked up to the monitors. When Dr. Reid came in to check and see where we were we were told that we were only 1cm dialated. Because my contractions were so scattered and slowly climbing in strength I was hooked up to Pitocin to get things going. I was checked every couple of hours and still after four hours hadn't made any progress. Dr. Reid asked for the Pitocin to be upped on a regular basis to get things to progress faster. Around 8:00pm I'd only dialated to 4cm. I'd been given two doses of pain medication to take the edge off the contractions that were coming one ontop of the other at this point. I remember at one point begging the nurse not to up the Pitocin drops. After sixteen hours of labor I just couldn't handle the pain of the contractions, which were not making any progress on the labor. I asked for the Epidural. The anesthesiologist was wonderful and couldn't have done a better job. I never felt a thing. After she was finished I was able to get some rest. The nurse upped the Pitocin to 10 drops and things started progressing. By 11:30pm Dr. Reid said I was 8cm dialated and 90% effaced. She said she would check on me in an hour, if I hadn't progressed anymore I would have to have a cesarean. Well, at 12:45am on Friday morning I hadn't progressed any further. OR was called and they came up and got me. I was rolled down and prepped. This time with a stronger spinal block that would numb me from the chest down. After they had prepped me they brought Raul in. Joshua Tyler was born at 1:39am, weighing 7lbs 9oz, and measuring 20 1/4" long. He had a full head of hair and the largest eyes.

We were discharged from the hospital Sunday afternoon and everything has been wonderful since.

Induction is Thursday

Well, we can't wait for Joshua or my body to be ready any longer. At the doctor's appointment today everything looked good with him, but the placenta (which supplies the oxygen to him) is calcifying, meaning that it is starting to stop doing it's job. Raul and I decided that we would give him to Thursday to make an appearance on his own. So we'll see what happens over the rest of tonight and tomorrow. If nothing then for sure we will all get to meet Joshua on Thursday sometime.