Laughing

Lets be honest...James is the most exciting thing in our lives right now so here is him being cute and laughing. He is watching Kyle juggling. We think he is pretty cute. :)

Pictures

We got our first family pictures taken a little while ago, so I thought I would put them up. We love them. They are taken by my good friend Megan, she is amazing! ..here is a link to her site. http://megruth.com/

Two Months and Sleeping!

James (who is pretty much our whole life) is growing so fast! We took him in for his two month check up this week and he weighs 16 lbs!!! That puts him in the 99.7 percentile! He is huge. He has also grown 3 inches since he was born making him 25 inches. He is already wearing some 6 month clothes. We can hardly keep the right size of clothes in his drawers! I think we have gotten over the initial shock of the change in life style now as parents. We have gotten into some routines. One that we can thank James for is our sleeping! He will sleeps through the night! This last week 4 of the nights he slept 8 hours....no one is complaining here!!

I (Tawnya) am back at school teaching, which has been hard. Luckily (counting our blessings) Kyle gets to be Mr. Mom at home and goes to school in the afternoons. He is really loving it. The two of them have bonded:) We are also waiting to hear back from grad schools still. It has been a bit of a test of our faith. Who knows what will happen.

Here are some pictures :)

Sorry about the sideways pictures....:)

One Month!

It is hard to believe that one month has passed since our last entry. Time does fly. What do I say about how wonderfully our lives have changed? James is so fun to have around. I don't think there was anything anybody could have said to prepare us for the 24 hour a day job as parents, it has been quite the change. We love it.

This is how James acts in the middle of the night... It makes us not want to try to make him sleep! we're softies.

Yay for the Good News!!!

Well, we made it!! James was born on December 4th at 7:45 pm. (Yes, that is 6 days late!) It went pretty well though. I was scheduled to be induced the next day, but he decided that he wanted to come earlier! I was glad that I went into labor because I really did not want to be induced. Anyway, we went in Thursday morning and everything was looking good. Then we hit about 6pm and I had not made any progress and my body stopped having contractions. The doctor looked at all of the different options and after 6 hours of no change he decided that we needed to do a C-section. It looks like I take after my mom in that my bones just won't move to fit a baby through. I was very dissapointed that we had to do that, but when the doctors were taking him out I felt very reassured. They said the cord was wrapped around his neck 2 times and that he was 10 lbs 2 ounces! We are just grateful that he is strong and healthy. I am recovering well now too. James is a little backwards with his slepping schedule--he sleeps all day and is awake all night!

Despite the long nights and soreness, it has been a wonderful adjustment to make in our lives. We just feel so grateful that we were blessed with this beautiful child. He has us all wrapped around his little fingers! We love him so much.

Here are some pictures and a video for your delight :)

Waiting....

Hello family and friends!

I thought I would write a little note for all of you who are wondering about the baby. I am now 4 days overdue and we are still waiting! We figure he is just so warm and cozy in there that he doesn't want to come out into this chilly world. I don't really blame him. I am still feeling great, although I am not at school--I am at home on pre-maternity leave doing fun things with my mom! I guess I can't really complain about that either! I do have to admit that as hard as it is to have this delayed, I am so grateful that I have made it this far. I know not everyone has the luxury of being pregnant and keeping the baby full term. We are counting our blessings. So keep checking...we will be posting pictures when we have some.

Two weeks and counting...

Kyle has wanted me to post some updated pregnant pictures. As I looking at them, I thought this was quite funny....the first is a picture of me a week and 3 days ago, and the second is me today wearing the same outfit (which is pretty much what I do since I have out grown all my maternity clothes). Side note: the sticker on my stomach is the sticker I got for voting. It was my first time and I was proud. (I know if you do the math I could have voted at the last election, but didn't--shame on me. I have learned my lesson.)