Christmas time

This past weekend we sent to see Santa Claus. I was really worried about how Jackson would act but he didnt mind it all! We sat him down and he was playing with the beard. I can't believe this year is almost over. Our lives have changed for the good and it is amazing. People aren't kidding when they say wait till you have kids. It rocks your world. People without kids always say that want a girl or boy and think it really matters. Well from someone who wanted a girl so bad I can tell you it doesn't matter. All you want is a baby and a healthy baby is just the icing on the cake. God knew better than me that I needed Jackson. He will always be our first born. Someone to carry on our last name. I am so thankful for the gift I received way before Christmas this year and he just keeps giving.

Two in one week, I am getting good

So I started this blog thing thinking it would be a great way to keep up with my pregnancy and Jackson, but like we have learned you have to keep up the blog in addition to keeping up with a newborn. But on to more important things like Jackson. *MAYBE* just maybe he was scooting his little tushy back yesterday. Almost scared me to death when he pushed the pillow off the bed and started to roll. (mental note put him on the floor now), so I turned him the other way and I swear he started scooting back. Then he was doing it in the den course it is a lot easier on hardwood. So I tell my mom this and she says yeah he has been doing that there. I made her promise before to not tell me if he did anything new and exciting at her house. Cause it would just break my heart to miss it. Anyway, this could the beginning of a new and exciting chapter.

Jason is going out of town this weekend to go skeet shooting. I hopefully will be taking Jackson to see our town's Christmas tree lighting.

Ok ok, so I know I said I was going to keep up with it more. Cut me some slack I have a newborn at home you know :). So tomorrow Jackson will be 7 months!! 7 months?! How did that happen and how can I make it stop? He is such an awesome little kid. He is so smiley and happy most of the time. We are truly lucky. Just this past week we pulled out the camera and he posed and smiled. Too funny!! He is sitting up better each time. He also tries to sit up if he is laying down. About a month ago we started solids and he loves everything we give him. ok the first time we tried avocados he didnt dig them, but now he loves them. He kinda says Dada but it is more da.................da. He just had his first Thanksgiving. Nothing too eventful, just some sweet potatoes. It is hard to believe this time last year I didnt know if I was having a girl or boy now here he is. My 100% boy.

Playing catch up

So despite the fact that he is already here I thought I should post about the 3rd trimester. It is the longest time of your life. No seriously, I felt great all the way till the end. The day before I was admitted to the hospital I was cutting the grass and working in the yard. I was so bummed when my due date (april 28) came and went with no Jackson. I took that last week and tried to enjoy time to myself. But then the day came when he was born. The first night home he didnt sleep until that morning. the next day I learned how to swaddle and it saved our lives!! I will post my birth story later.

Fast Forward

Ok, so I started my blog back in January and here it is September 2 and now Jackson is here and 4 months old. Maybe it is because I was never any good at keeping a journal or diary that I always thought about my blog but forgot to post. Maybe I am boring or lazy or some of all the above. In any case... here I am back for some more. I can't believe Jackson is already 4 months old, seriously makes me want to cry. I never realized I could love someone so much and I hate how fast time flies by. If I must say he is the coolest 4 month old I have ever seen. There are so many things I love about him and I hate that he is growing up and starting to stop doing them. Like when he sneezes- it is always 2 times and then an 'ahhhh'. How cute is that?? I love how he now can hold onto things and he holds on to my shirt when I carry him. Love that when he sleeps he puts both arms up around his head. Love to watch him and jason together. Most of all I just love him and thank God for him everyday

The New Year

Happy New Year!

This entire pregnancy it has seemed that the time when our little one would come was forever away. I guess partly because it was occurring in the next year. Well that year is now here. Jackson will be here this year!! It is incredibly exciting and nerve-racking at the same time. I mean I have never cared for a newborn before. Being the youngest in my family, I never was around babies. Sure one summer I worked at a daycare but I watched the 2 year olds. Give me a toddler and I am good- I can be the fun aunt who plays games and watches cartoons. But a mom to an infant?? I have never done that before.

So what is truth about pregnancy: Well first it does crazy things to the entire digestive process. From start to finish, it is all different. You get tired a lot faster and earlier than before. Course when you do fall asleep you will wake up throughout the night to pee or just cause. I am lucky if I can manage to sleep in one morning a week. Otherwise I am up at 7 am ready to go. You pee all day without ever really going. Your temper is cut into a 1/10 of what is was before. Someone looks at you the wrong way or you take something the wrong way and you are madder than a hornet. But I will say that if you want to do it, you can do it. Course ask me that again when I am in the middle of labor before the epidural and who knows what I might say.

Second Trimester

Beginning in week 14, I felt great! And luckily this has continued up till this point. The second trimester is largely quiet compared to the all the changes in the first trimester. Sure you start to show and you switch your wardrobe over to stretch and elastic clothes with large non-formfitting tops. There are two very exciting things that happen in the second trimester. One happened on December 12, we found out we are having a little boy! While the picture was slighty grainy, I can already say he is very handsome. The second is that on December 11, I felt the baby. For weeks, I had been analyzing very twinge that occurred south of my neck and north of my knees. But on that night, I felt the bubble pop. That is the best way I can describe those first kicks is that a bubble has just popped under your skin. Now I can sit back and watch my stomach jump.

First Trimester

The first trimester was filled with nausea, night sickness, pure exhausation and nerves. I started with nausea in my 6 week of pregnancy. Nothing too bad, just an aversion to certain foods and a need to eat about every 2 hours. I no longer wanted sodas, sweets, any tomato sauce, fried foods or onions.

I have decided that my night sickness was mostly brought on by myself drinking Propel water. I thought it was great cause it had B6 which is supposed to help nausea and it was flavored which brought an end to the boringness of water. After 2 1/2 weeks of getting sick daily, the thought occurred to me to stop drinking it. From then on, the sickness was spotty and I could usually tie it to a particular food.

There was a time (during the 2 1/2 weeks of hell) that I thought I couldn't do this a second time and our child would have to be an only child. No one prepares you for how hard those first few months can be. How draining it can be to feel gross every day all day. How tired you are and you are completely devoid of energy. But then as you round the corner into your second trimester these things start to fade and so does your memories of all of the times you hung out with your toilet. Your energy level returns and you feel normal despite the fact something very not normal is happening in your uterus.

The Beginning

So I decided that I should start blogging about our latest adventure before my memories of it fade away. Course, the best place to start is the beginning. Jason and I were married on Sept 23, 2006. Our original plan was to start trying for kids fairly quickly, but I can say that neither of us were ready. So we just lived our lives going to work and doing things that are harder to do with kids like vacations and partying. In February, our world changed rather quickly as we decided to move from one end of Atlanta to the other. On April 02, we closed on our new home and everything before this house seems like a blur. We both feel that this is the house that we will stay in for years to come. In July, we both decided that we were ready for the next chapter in our lives. Kids.

On August 15, I woke up at 4:30 in the morning on my own (which should have been a clue). I quietly went into the bathroom and took a pregnancy test. Course for the 3 minutes you have to wait seems like an eternity. When I came back and looked there it was- 2 pink lines. Not wanting to wake Jason up at 5 in the am. I proceeded to save the test and go to work. On my way home, I stopped and bought more tests (for good measure of course) and bought an Auburn pacifer and bib to give to Jason. When he got home, I gave him his present and the look on his face was pure excitement.

This began our adventure into parenthood. Little did we know what the next 9 months (ok they really lie to you cause it is 10 months) would hold for us.