Classic photo of Stella scrunching up her nose to smile!
Looks who's two months!
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Saturday, March 30, 2013
March weather
They say Spring can be a little crazy in Colorado (weather in general actually), and March was the proof that this statement is 100% true, though it's totally annoying to have a Colorado native tell you this when you move here.
Here is what happened in March and now APRIL!:
March 10th: we were building snowmen in the backyard
March 15th: Hudson was in his bathing suit, playing in the water in the backyard
March 23rd: We went sledding in 8 inches of new snow
March 30th: We went to the Mayfair park Easter egg hunt in shorts and t-shirts.
April 9th: Blizzard conditions, schools closed.
April 13th: Andy's back in shorts
April 22nd/23rd: More snow. And this is officially ridiculous. It's supposed to be 70 in three days.
At least we get to wear more than one season of clothing at a time. That is, if i was fitting into my normal clothes already. That's going to be a process.
Here is what happened in March and now APRIL!:
March 10th: we were building snowmen in the backyard
March 15th: Hudson was in his bathing suit, playing in the water in the backyard
March 23rd: We went sledding in 8 inches of new snow
March 30th: We went to the Mayfair park Easter egg hunt in shorts and t-shirts.
April 9th: Blizzard conditions, schools closed.
April 13th: Andy's back in shorts
April 22nd/23rd: More snow. And this is officially ridiculous. It's supposed to be 70 in three days.
At least we get to wear more than one season of clothing at a time. That is, if i was fitting into my normal clothes already. That's going to be a process.
hello spring!
Last week we were sledding at this very same spot…this week, SHORTS. That's right.
Walking to the park for the neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt and to meet the Easter bunny!
Year three meeting the same Easter bunny - crazy how grown up he looks here!! First time the bunny did NOT hold him for the picture! :)
Monday, March 25, 2013
Visit from Oma and Grandpa
Hudson got really quiet in the living room this afternoon, playing with his musical instrument. I walked into the room to find him like this…with a big #2 in his pants. No wonder he was quiet.
We had a fun weekend with Oma and Grandpa Reeves - these pictures turned out great - the two grandchildren!
Saturday, March 23, 2013
sledding in march
hudson's first sledding experience
yesterday andy and grandpa went golfing…today we have over 8 inches of snow and still falling!!
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
I have a feeling this will sum up their relationship for quite some time…Hudson talking, Stella giving a face like this and just looking at me.
A little late but i just got the stickers - so she's 6 weeks in her one month sticker, but we'll go month to month now until she's 1. I like having these pictures of Hudson each month and want to make sure I have the same photo record for Stella!
Wearing a Christmas shirt from G&G Reeves, please ignore her balding head.
Friday, March 15, 2013
warmer days
time for sunglasses - Stella doesn't fit into hers quite yet, but she's trying! :) It was in the 70s today so we took advantage of the time outside!! I can't believe i only have 3 weeks left at home before going back to work - how on earth will we handle that in the schedule!?!
It's not summer so we don't have a pool yet, but this is the next best thing for Hudson! He still ended up with nothing on but the shirt by the end of our time out there! But we are LOVING the big backyard!
Sunday, March 10, 2013
nick names
Today I started noticing how many nicknames Hudson has, and the fact that he responds to all of them. I had no idea this kid was called so many different things. So in an effort to remember them in the years to come, i'm going to write down as many as i can think of right now. Of course there are at least a couple i'm sure that i don't even remember or realize i say, so i may have to update this at some point.
Nicknames for Hudson:
Booboo
Baby
Mr.
Bud
Kid
Sweet cheeks (that is more Andy's name for him)
Wiggle bug
Monkey
Sugar bean
Little guy
Little man
Big boy
Sweet pea
Darling
Cutie pie (which he has started telling us how cute we are, which tells me I say this a lot!)
And he responds to each with confidence. Perhaps it's the way each name is said, but that seems like a lot of names to respond to!!?
Nicknames for Hudson:
Booboo
Baby
Mr.
Bud
Kid
Sweet cheeks (that is more Andy's name for him)
Wiggle bug
Monkey
Sugar bean
Little guy
Little man
Big boy
Sweet pea
Darling
Cutie pie (which he has started telling us how cute we are, which tells me I say this a lot!)
And he responds to each with confidence. Perhaps it's the way each name is said, but that seems like a lot of names to respond to!!?
snow day
We got some snow yesterday (after having weather in the 60s just two days earlier), so we decided to build our first snow man with hudson! Here are some pictures of how it went...
Stella slept through everything...
Well, it was almost a snowman...
but we had fun anyway - nice to have these moments with just Hudson to do something he loves - be outside!!
Friday, March 08, 2013
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
When Hudson was a baby, he lost a lot of hair…in the front part of his head. It is with a little bit of sadness that I have to say that Stella is doing the same thing. Her dark hair is thinning all over, but she's beginning to get the "old man" look in the front as she is looking a little like she's going bald. SO, much like I had to do with Hudson during this time, i'll be getting creative with my photos, and maybe taking a few less until she looks a little more like a little baby girl. :) of course she's still smiling and as cute as can be and she's smiling every day, but the hair, um, not cute. Poor thing. Good thing it will grow back!
Friday, March 01, 2013
Thank you, Gigi and G-Grandpa!
Yesterday, at just four weeks old, Stella had her first SMILE! She repeated it again today as she rested with her new bunny rabbit!
This week Hudson and Stella got some sweet surprises from great grandma and grandpa! THANK YOU!! We love you!
Sunday, February 24, 2013
The birth
I wanted to write about the day Stella was born before the memory fades too much. It was so different from Hudson, and I look back already and wonder how i could have thought that i might not "know" when i was going in to labor. Wednesday morning I woke up at about 1:15am (it was 1:19 on my clock when i got up to go to the bathroom) and was having some contractions. I layed in bed for about an hour as they continued to get more intense, then finally woke Andy up to tell him. In the next 30 minutes they went from painful to so painful i couldn't talk and hound myself holding my breath through each contraction. It was then that we called the doctor and they notified the hospital that we'd be coming in.
During this time Andy and I talked mostly about what to do with Hudson. We had not planned on calling anyone at 3am (or had hoped we wouldn't have to), but soon called our friend Sarah Inks Jones to come get Hudson. She and her family live about 30 minutes away, and after she let us know she was on her way I didn't know if i would be able to wait that long to go to the hospital. We decided that since the hospital is literally less than a half mile away, I could drive myself there and Andy could come meet me after Sarah got to our house. It wasn't our ideal choice, but it wasn't long after we talked to Sarah that the contractions were coming on strong every 2-3 minutes. So I kissed Andy, grabbed my hospital bag, sat in the car through a contraction, and drove as fast as i could to the hospital. I had to stop once, then sat in the car at the hospital before I could walk in to check into the delivery wing. Andy arrived about 30 minutes later (i think), and I was more than ready to put my request in for an epidural. The pain was intense in my back - literally feeling like someone was trying to saw my spine in half - and I was not feeling the need to deliver naturally!
After I got the epidural, i remember having a few minutes to rest with Andy and anticipate her arrival. Since the epidural can slow down contractions, it gave us a little more time to process the fact that "it was really happening". My water hadn't broken on it's own, and the nurse said Stella was pushing up against it so they were going to break it, speeding up the delivery. Right when the nurse got the 'tool' (you don't want me to describe that to you, trust me), the back broke on its own - all over her! It was the funniest, grossest, strangest thing I have seen - and apparently doesn't happen often according to the nurses!
It was not long before hard labor began once my water broke, and literally 20 minutes later Stella was born - with her hand by her head saying hello to the world!
They took her to clean her up and get the fluid out of her lungs, and after about 20 minutes of that they told us they were going to need to take her to a "transition" room because the fluid wasn't coming out of her lungs. I literally held her for less than 10 minutes before they took her away for what would end up being 6 hours of transition. Because she couldn't flush the fluid out on her own, she needed to be on oxygen and monitored to ensure she was getting enough oxygen in her lungs when breathing on her own. We were able to go visit her after a while in the room, but she was not able to be off the oxygen. Though the doctors weren't too worried about her being fine, it did take longer for her to fully breath fine on her own that they initially thought. So when she finally was able to be in the room with us we were relieved!
Everything else with her birth went great, and though she did have jaundice and needed to be on the light bed like Hudson did, she was not as bad as he was, and we were much more relaxed about it since we'd already gone through it once!
When we got her home she was sleeping and eating great, and is still doing well at almost one month old! She did seem to still be having some trouble breathing, and was making quite a bit of noise so we asked the doctor about it and found out she has Tracheomalacia. Basically her trachea is soft so it collapses when she breaths. We are hopeful that she has a mild case and will outgrow it with no complications. She is still able to eat and sleep fine, which are good signs that it won't be more complicated or need special treatment. Most babies outgrow this as their trachea hardens (it's made of cartilage) and are fine by the age of 2. If she gets sick then she needs to be monitored much more closely, so we are hoping to make it through the flu/cold season and into summer with no more illness in our house for her sake! Respiratory infections can be more dangerous, so we definitely will be keeping a close watch on that.
Otherwise she is a wonderful little girl, happy most of the time, responding better to sensitive formula (my breast milk never came in, much to my trying hard for more than two weeks!!) than normal formula (we aren't sure if she's lactose intolerant but it definitely gives her more gas!). She sleeps 3-5 hours at a time during the night, and takes at least one solid nap during the day - especially if Hudson is less noisy than normal. She is precious, growing every day, and securing a deeper spot in our hearts by the minute.
Love you, Stella bean.
During this time Andy and I talked mostly about what to do with Hudson. We had not planned on calling anyone at 3am (or had hoped we wouldn't have to), but soon called our friend Sarah Inks Jones to come get Hudson. She and her family live about 30 minutes away, and after she let us know she was on her way I didn't know if i would be able to wait that long to go to the hospital. We decided that since the hospital is literally less than a half mile away, I could drive myself there and Andy could come meet me after Sarah got to our house. It wasn't our ideal choice, but it wasn't long after we talked to Sarah that the contractions were coming on strong every 2-3 minutes. So I kissed Andy, grabbed my hospital bag, sat in the car through a contraction, and drove as fast as i could to the hospital. I had to stop once, then sat in the car at the hospital before I could walk in to check into the delivery wing. Andy arrived about 30 minutes later (i think), and I was more than ready to put my request in for an epidural. The pain was intense in my back - literally feeling like someone was trying to saw my spine in half - and I was not feeling the need to deliver naturally!
After I got the epidural, i remember having a few minutes to rest with Andy and anticipate her arrival. Since the epidural can slow down contractions, it gave us a little more time to process the fact that "it was really happening". My water hadn't broken on it's own, and the nurse said Stella was pushing up against it so they were going to break it, speeding up the delivery. Right when the nurse got the 'tool' (you don't want me to describe that to you, trust me), the back broke on its own - all over her! It was the funniest, grossest, strangest thing I have seen - and apparently doesn't happen often according to the nurses!
It was not long before hard labor began once my water broke, and literally 20 minutes later Stella was born - with her hand by her head saying hello to the world!
They took her to clean her up and get the fluid out of her lungs, and after about 20 minutes of that they told us they were going to need to take her to a "transition" room because the fluid wasn't coming out of her lungs. I literally held her for less than 10 minutes before they took her away for what would end up being 6 hours of transition. Because she couldn't flush the fluid out on her own, she needed to be on oxygen and monitored to ensure she was getting enough oxygen in her lungs when breathing on her own. We were able to go visit her after a while in the room, but she was not able to be off the oxygen. Though the doctors weren't too worried about her being fine, it did take longer for her to fully breath fine on her own that they initially thought. So when she finally was able to be in the room with us we were relieved!
Everything else with her birth went great, and though she did have jaundice and needed to be on the light bed like Hudson did, she was not as bad as he was, and we were much more relaxed about it since we'd already gone through it once!
When we got her home she was sleeping and eating great, and is still doing well at almost one month old! She did seem to still be having some trouble breathing, and was making quite a bit of noise so we asked the doctor about it and found out she has Tracheomalacia. Basically her trachea is soft so it collapses when she breaths. We are hopeful that she has a mild case and will outgrow it with no complications. She is still able to eat and sleep fine, which are good signs that it won't be more complicated or need special treatment. Most babies outgrow this as their trachea hardens (it's made of cartilage) and are fine by the age of 2. If she gets sick then she needs to be monitored much more closely, so we are hoping to make it through the flu/cold season and into summer with no more illness in our house for her sake! Respiratory infections can be more dangerous, so we definitely will be keeping a close watch on that.
Otherwise she is a wonderful little girl, happy most of the time, responding better to sensitive formula (my breast milk never came in, much to my trying hard for more than two weeks!!) than normal formula (we aren't sure if she's lactose intolerant but it definitely gives her more gas!). She sleeps 3-5 hours at a time during the night, and takes at least one solid nap during the day - especially if Hudson is less noisy than normal. She is precious, growing every day, and securing a deeper spot in our hearts by the minute.
Love you, Stella bean.
Friday, February 22, 2013
around the house
One of the orchids Andy got me years ago is blooming again!! This is not easy to do if you've never tried to keep an orchid alive long enough to see new blooms, so i'm pretty happy about it!! :) Thanks for teaching me a thing or two about these amazing flowers Aunt Susie!
Hudson got to have his very first ice cream sundae this week. Yes, he's getting a lot more "treats" to keep him occupied these days. But this was funny because he didn't want to use the spoon, he wanted to let it melt, like the snow, then drink it. Silly guy. His vocabulary is still amazing and growing more established and expanded by the day. He uses descriptive words, speaks very clearly, and will listen and repeat things that you didn't even know he was paying attention to — that's the one that's catching us by surprise the most! He is definitely adjusting to having a sister, and when he gets a good nights sleep he is typically more loving and accepting of her than anything. Like his mother, if he doesn't get enough sleep he's a total wreck. :)
Little fingers...
Though Stella doesn't need to be held as much as Hudson, she isn't always content just sitting and watching like we thought she was going to be a couple weeks ago. She enjoys walking around, and i'm sure the more she can see clearly the more that will increase.
Please see the very first pillow cover i have ever sewed with a zipper!! :)
Monday, February 18, 2013
visits
Saying goodbye to grandma…
trying to get a decent picture with all smiles from now on will be quite a challenge i think!
Sunday, February 17, 2013
haircut time
Hudson and Andy got haircuts yesterday - SHORT cuts! I have to say Hudson looks kind of like a different kid…not sure I like it this short, but it will grow! :)
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