Its Christmas and Nathan is 5 Months today!

Christmas is here!  

Its Nathan's first Christmas and we are so excited to share in his wonderment. I know he has no clue what is going on but I love watching him stare at the lights outside, the Christmas tree and boy can he pull an ornament off a gift! He may even be able to help open gifts :-)

Today he is 5 months old!!! 

It felt like his 4th month flew by. At the doctor's he was 14lbs 5 oz, 26-1/2" long. James thinks that they measured him a little short and that he should really be 27" long. We realized after getting this news that our car seat only goes to 30" so needless to say we are going to be getting a new one shortly!

He is already wearing size 2 diapers and 6 month to 9 month clothes - more for the length than the weight. His favorite toys are his Sophie (a teething giraffe) crinkle book or block and this fun ball popping toy that he just got. 

He rolls from his stomach to his back when he doesn’t want to do tummy time. Little stinker! But he has great muscle control with his neck. He enjoys his walker and jumper much more than his swing - but even then its only for 10 to 15 minutes - and then he wants Momma.

We are slowly getting a schedule, his naps are starting to become more frequent. But with 2 teeth coming in I know I can’t rely on anything. He sleeps through the night most nights, unless he is in pain and then I sing to him to soothe him back to sleep. Teething is not fun and its getting worse so I assume that means they are going to break through soon. He gnaws on everything and had his first diaper rash - poor little guy! We will make it through this soon...  :)

I know I can speak for James when I say that we are so blessed to have such a wonderful baby boy. He is our delight and joy and he is truly our gift from God.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Family and Friends

I mentioned in my previous post  that we had lots of family and friends come to visit as well as stayed at family homes during our a/c setback. I thought I would share the photos of Nate being loved on by all his new family. I don't have photos of everyone - but we appreciate everyone who came by.

 Thank you, we feel so blessed to have you in our lives!

Bum lovingly holding Nate in the hospital

GiGi and Mimi visiting their grandson

Uncle Robbie visiting his new nephew in the hospital

Aunt J visiting baby Nathan at the hospital

Uncle Scott and Aunt Erin holding Nate at the hospital

Grandpa and Nate having their first conversation. 

This was when the a/c went out and we were staying with them.

Aunt Erin introducing Nate to "this little piggy" 

she also helped clean and gave me time to get a good shower!

GiGi stopping by on her lunch break

Uncle Scott is a natural

  

Aunt Jen Tulip and Cousins Hayden and Harper stopping by

and brought me a smoothie

Cousin Courtney meeting Nate for the first time

Cousin Austin doing a great job taking care of Nate

Coeli stopped by excited to finally meet Nate

Cheryl brought us an amazing dinner and didn't want to put Nate down! He was such a flirt :-)

Alex stopping by to drop off a yummy dinner and hold Nate

Grandpa and GiGi visiting while we were staying at Uncle Scott and Aunt Erin's

Christine stopping by to keep me company and help with Nate

We love y'all

Rewind: First month

Lets go back in history for a moment...
The one thing that I never expected from a brand new baby was how interactive and alert they are. Sure he took a lot of naps but his awake times were amazing. It was exhausting, however, but we expected that. We were both so thankful for all the visitors and meals that showed up that first month - or I doubt we would have had any good food to eat. Nathan was held by many people, its awesome how loved he already was and we were glad to share. Slowly he started knowing who we were - Momma is food and Daddy is fun. We sang to him, gave sponge baths and held him and pushed him to do some tummy time. It was crazy how strong he already was!

Resting after tummy time

Playing after his first bath 

When he was about 10 days old our a/c starting acting up and we stayed with family for about a week until it was finally deemed not fixable and needed to be replaced. He adjusted well over at the different houses, but it was good to be home again. Once we were home we decided it was time for him to sleep in his crib in his room. That step proved to be the right one and he did so well from then on. 

He also started noticing the big hairy objects around ... talking about our sweet golden retrievers Bailey and Goldie and our tomcat Rex. We jokingly call Nate the little brother since the animals are his older siblings.

When he was about 3 weeks old I got a horrible breast infection and couldn't nurse him for a few days. I was scared about how he would take to a bottle and formula but he was such a champ and we made it through those rough times. 

My dad (Grandpa) feeding him while I went to the doctor. Mom (Gi Gi) also took off a couple days

and made sure I ate and helped me take care of Nathan.

And he grew and grew and grew! 

First Blog

Hi!
Welcome to my first blog. I wanted to do this not because I have great wisdom or wit to share, though sometimes I do, but because I have the cutest little boy. So here are a few pictures of how much he has grown up and how adorable he is. I do love being a mom and staying home with him right now has been the greatest. I feel so privileged to see how much he changes daily and every smile he makes just melts my heart. Nathan will be 16 weeks old tomorrow. He was born a super healthy 7lbs 3 oz - 21 inches long on July 21st after a pretty routine delivery, the only thing that was amiss was I was induced due to higher than normal blood pressure. But he was fine and very alert and ready to start living from day one.
I hope you enjoy!

Happy family, so glad to have our little boy!

Getting measured at the hospital

Snug as a bug! 

2 weeks old

1 month old!

2 months old

3 months old and is a thinker!

Another 3 month old picture, being silly