2 Months

Sweet Boy! You are growing so fast! You are already two months old. At your doctors appointment you weighed 12.3 lbs! Which was music to your Mommy's ears since she is constantly worried that you are not eating enough:) It is the holidays and your daddy and I could not be more excited to spend them with you this year.

You have been such a travel trooper. You have already traveled to Houston twice this month to visit your Nannie, Grandpa, Aunt Leslie, Uncle Ryan and cousins. You slept the whole way there, even with Bogey slobbering over the seat on you.

Speaking of Bogey, you guys are becoming great friends. He lays by you on you play mat, alerts me when your crying, greats you in the morning and sleeps patiently by your rocker as mommy gets you to sleep. You guys are going to be great friends.

You are still working on your sleep habits, but last night you slept for 8 hours! Such a big boy!

Your smiles (which you started at 7 1/2 weeks) fill up the room and our hearts with such joy! You smile so big when your daddy does bicycles with you and when your MammaDu and PapaDu play with you.

Your MammaDu PappaDu Uncle Mike and Aunt Erin can not get enough of you:) They love you so much. They see you usually more than once a week. They even babysat one night so your daddy and I could go to a Christmas party.

Right now you are working on finding your hands and feet, lots of tummy time, laughing, strengthening your legs and keeping that cute head steady ( although it is really strong already).

You are going to take your first airplane ride next week to Illinois for Christmas, so we will let your know how that goes.

Things you love right now include riding in the car, your swaddle, watching the fan, your owl play mat, sleeping and eating.

Your mommy and daddy love you so much. You have changed our world to such a more beautiful place.

Love you,

Mommy

p.s I had to type all of this with one hand because you are sleeping in my arms. Trying to take mental snapshots of all these precious moments.

Graham's Arrival

Wow, our first month with Graham has gone by so fast! I find myself wanting time to stand still, while he is so tiny. We are busy soaking up every moment of him (even if it is in the middle of the night). For those of you who don't keep up with us on Facebook, Graham was born on October 7th and weighed 7 lbs. 13 oz. I ended up having him via c-section that evening after a day full of no progress. Graham's little heart rate kept dropping following my contractions, so we decided collectively to have him via c-section before it became an emergent option. He arrived safe and sound and we could not be more in love.

Life at home has changed A LOT!!! Graham adds a wonderful new energy to our home. Bogey was not sure what to think about his new baby brother at first but they are adapting very well now. Bogey is certain to come get me if Graham is crying (as if I can't hear him) and sleeps by my feet while I wake during the night to feed him.

Recovery time from the c-section was a little more intense than I expected, but I am happy to report that I am on the go now! My parents and sister spent several days with us. They have been a huge help! You don't realize how many hands it takes to keep everything running when you have a newborn!

Who does he look like? People ask me all the time. Here is a side by side of David and Graham. Look a like much??/ Ha... no denying who is daddy is.

Graham loves to take walks and we do so frequently. I have not quite ventured out to taking him and Bogey, so for now Bogey has gotten the back burner until David gets home.

Speaking of David. Words can't describe what an amazing Daddy he is. I mean you always anticipate that they will be good. But he is a GREAT dad. After the C-Section, I dont know what I would have done with out him. He really stepped in like a natural. You would never know it is his first baby. He keeps us all calm when the days get long. He started a new job the week before Graham arrived, which has been such a blessing. It does mean long days as he doesn't get home till 8:30 most nights, but we are thankful for his new management position. He is a natural leader and I am so excited to see what he does with his new role.

Our days right now consist of lots of feeding, sleeping and walks. We usually try and get out at least once every other day. We are starting to get the hang of it. We have had lots of visitors which has been such a blessing. We love to see our friends and share our new baby with them!

Pretty sure I should write a book about the funny things that happen when you are sleep deprived, at least a blog post but that is for another day:) For now here is our little happy feet.

I do not return to work until January, so I am soaking up this time off with my sweet little one. More to come when I have more time:) (ha)

Nursery Pics

Well the nursery is finally finished! Here are some of the latest photos of his room.

This is Courage his lion. We just like him.

Grahams new chair, window shade, "You are my sunshine" sign and mirror

My mom made him some "fill in" letter A's until his arrive. I think they look great though!
We have a few more I will post them soon.

Waiting for Graham...

A picture my mom took last week with my not so fitting Baylor shirt. I had to represent though.

Wow... seems like the last two weeks have gone slower than this whole pregnancy. I guess because we are anxiously awaiting little Graham to get here! We can't wait. Everything around the house seems to pretty much be done. So we just wait.

Last Monday at the Doctor she said I was pretty much the same as the week before progression wise. However, I think a better indicator of when you are about to go into labor are the comments that people make to you... here are a few of my favorites from this week.

-70 year old house keeper at work whom I don't know pointed at me and said "you really big" and kept walking.

- 3 year old little girl at church tugged on her mom's shirt, pointed to my stomach and said " can she take that out"

-Friend at work "I mean you have really have always looked all tummy, but this week you are really looking pregnant in your face!"

-David "you have pregnant nose"

I guess those are all my favs from this past week. I am sure there are others I could think of:) I know everyone means well, so I take it with a grain of salt. However, there should be some kind of clinical study on whether these comments could actually mean you are nearing labor:)

-Erin and I last week. I look huge, pretty sure it's the camera angle:)

I am still working right now which has helped keep my mind off of my non progression:) I have four more scheduled shifts. We will see if I make it that far. My body sure feels like it should be sleeping after about 10 p.m .

Speaking of sleep. There is minimal. I think it is a combination of my dislocated hips, swollen pregnant nose that can't breathe and David's newest habit of chewing in his sleep:) Ha!

I don't want to be one of those complaining pregnant people though, we have been so blessed by God's grace during this pregnancy. All things considered it has been very easy and a wonderful experience. (I am sure my friends reading this are thinking "just wait till labor") we do feel very blessed.

We are going on a hospital tour tomorrow (kind of cutting it close) and then we go back to the Dr. on Monday. Hopefully for our last appointment. His official due date is October 8th. We will see if she suggest induction or not. We will keep you all posted.

Our latest picture of Graham- 36 weeks. This is a picture of his sweet face. It is hard to make out but it is a picture of just his face with his hands up by his cheek.

That's all for now!

Keller Baby Shower

My sweet friends from our church threw us an amazing baby shower last weekend! It was amazing. It was held at my friend Lindsey Arita's house. She and several of my other church friends hosted the shower and are always so creative and thoughtful. Their friendship has been a huge blessing to my life over the past three years. Once again my words can not do the creativity and details justice, so I will post several pictures! Thank you to everyone who helped with it, it was such a BLESSING!

Beautiful Blessings

David and I are overwhelmed with the beautiful blessings we are surrounded with. We have such amazing family and friends that we often ask ourselves "how are we so blessed" our answer is always by the grace of God. One of our most recent blessings was shown through a shower that my sister and best friends Courtney and Caylin threw for Baby Graham and us in Dallas. The details of the shower were to fantastic to even describe through words so I will post lots of pictures. It was Owl theme which of course are my favorite! They truly out did themselves. It was held at my Sister's home in Dallas which was transformed into what looked like a perfect posh tea room. We were blessed by over 30 friends and family members there. Courtney did all of the decorations and Caylin made all the wonderful food (people were asking her if she had a catering business, it was that good). Here are a bunch of the pictures that my mom took. Thank you all for your all your hard work, it was such a special day!

The newest additions: Olivia, Tucker and WyattBesties: Lauryn flew in just for the shower and surprised me. She was in Texas a total of 4 hours!


New laundry basket from Mom for Graham's room.

Cutest little Owl cookies that matched the invitations.
Sis, Mom, Patsy (David's Mom) and Leslie (David's Sister)

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