Sunday, November 6, 2011

Month 1 of fun!

Well we have officially survived a whole month! I can't believe how fast it has gone by. Braylen has changed so much. He is almost holding his head up now, and we are working on getting into a schedule... or trying at least. We are also working on getting him to sleep in his crib in his room rather than the bassinet in our room (which is more of a challenge for me than for him) but he does well in his crib for naps during the day. We did get to celebrate Braylen's first holiday... Halloween! He was a tiger, not a very happy tiger though...
On halloween we trick-or-treated at both of Braylen's grandparent's houses so they could see him :)

Bray's room is almost finished!!! Only a little over a month late, but daddy has been working hard to get his dresser refinished and it has been quite a project. Ill post pictures of his room once its all done! 
Other than that I don't have much to report... there are many more pictures on facebook! This last one is from the 5th (his official 1 month picture) and one with daddy!

 


Thursday, October 20, 2011

He is finally here

Sorry it has taken me so long to post this... Taking care of a newborn is a lot more demanding than I ever imagined. This post will cover the last two weeks of his life and Ill do my best to update more often!

Tuesday October 4th, contractions started at 10:30 pm... We finally went to the hospital at 1:30am once my contractions were 2-4 minutes apart. By 4 am I'd had the epidural and was feeling pretty good. If it weren't for the nurse coming in to check vitals every 20 minutes or so we might have actually been able to get some sleep. Chris and I finally called our parents about 5:30 am to let them know we were having a baby!! We made sure to tell them that things weren't progressing very quickly but the grandma's were pretty stinking excited. Our families were so awesome, hanging out at the hospital all day with us and supporting us! At about 7:40 am the on-call Dr broke my water to help speed the process up! It was a long day of waiting. By 2:30 I was fully dilated and ready to start pushing. At 5:15 pm our beautiful baby was born!!!! He was perfect!!!


He didn't get a name until he was about 24 hours old but Braylen Christopher is the highlight of our days. Born at 8lbs 12oz he was a very healthy baby boy!!! We had two of the best labor nurses and of course Dr Brown was wonderful! Artie, our delivery nurse twisted Chris' arm into being a little more involved than I think he would have liked, (although I think he is now happy he was there, or I hope atleast.) Chris was able to "help" give Bray his first bath in the hospital...


We were able to go home thursday at 6pm (although it was more like 7 before we got out of there)
 The past two weeks have really flown by.. Chris was able to take a whole week of work to stay home with baby and me and it was so nice having him there to go to the dr appointments with us. We had Braylen's two week check-up yesterday and he is now up to 9lbs and 21 3/4 inches! He is just growing so fast!!
He really loves looking at himself in the mirrors at the dr's office. He must know how handsome he is!!!
Well, hope thats a good update for today.. My boy's are snuggling on the couch so I think Ill take this time to go hang out with them! Good night!! Ill post again soon! :)

I do post a lot more pictures and more frequent updates on facebook if you are on there and would like to see them please feel free to send me a request :)






Saturday, September 24, 2011

Nothing new... yet

We had a doctors appointment on Friday of this week and unfortunately it seems as though baby boy is not quite ready to make his debut (or maybe its just me that's not ready.) Either way, he will continue to "cook" in the baby oven for a few more days at least. The doctor did do another ultrasound to measure baby and the computer guessed his current weight at 8lbs 2oz!!! OHHH MY!!! This little boy better come soon or he will be walking out! Lol. Dr also said he is measuring pretty long (surprise surprise!) Next apt is Thursday the 29th so we will hope for some promising news then! Also, my brother sneakily snapped a "Baby Bump" photo yesterday so this is the one and only place I will share that photo! Feel lucky for this once in a lifetime opportunity!! :)


I know, its HHUUUGGGE!!! Hope you have a super weekend.

Kirsten

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Almost time!

I have always thought it was so cool how some people blog to let their family and friends from far away keep up with their life. So I am attempting it. I say ATTEMPTING because blogging seems like a daunting task. Atleast those of you that are far away can feel a little better connected once our lil boy arrives. Ill try to keep this updated with pictures, videos and posts as much as possible!!! Thanks for checking out our blog!!

For our first post I've added a picture of our lil man from our 20 week ultrasound on May 20, 2011... Hopefully we will be meeting him in just a couple short weeks!!

Loves!