Explanation

You will find a humungous archive as I decided to transfer some old posts from livejournal to here. Note, I did not transfer them all. some of those posts were just too embarassing to transfer as I was...well..quite immature. Also, instead of going all the way back to 2003, I decided to start in March of 2005, which was when I get engaged to bryan. All the other posts before that really don't matter, and just show how immature I was :) 

Also, major props to anyone who actually makes it through all the posts :) Previous LJ users don't count. 

Following everyone else

Well, I've decided to go with blogspot mostly because so many people I know are on blogspot. I wil definitely miss the days of having a friends page on livejournal. I'm still keeping that account in order to keep uo with everyone I know. 

This blog is a work in progress as I will be moving some old posts form livejournal to here, so that people can get a better idea of who I am. 

That is all I have to say for the time being, exciting, I know :) 

Kiernan

Photos and a video
http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b267/slvrchic83/?action=view¤t=sleeping015.flv

Kiernan update

Kiernan had his well check up today, 2 months (he is 2 months today). He's bigger than I thought!

24 inches (90th percentile)
12 lbs 14 oz (75th percentile)
Head was 41 1/2, didn't tell me the percentile on that.

He was such a good boy today, he's strong, healthy and well :) He also got a couple of vaccinations today, and I cannot believe what a trooper he was. He did cry during the shots, but was done about a minute after. He's been smiling and laughing all day when he's awake. :) Such a good kid.

This is what I originally wanted to post:

The past couple of nights since he's really started "talking", he's been laughing in his sleep! he smiles in his sleep a lot as well. It's just so dang cute!

Update all around

Ok...so I said I'd do an update yesterday, and never got to it. Now that I'm at work, and the interface isn't working, I have some time on my hands while I try to wait out the tech problems.


It's been a month since I last updated, sure doesn't feel like it's been that long. People are NOT kidding when they say how busy a baby keeps you, and how fast time flies!

Kiernan update

Kiernan is 7 weeks today, crazy!
It's been fun watching him grow, he's now looking all over the place moving his head back and forth trying to find things and just simply looking. As you can see from the pics, he's smiling, cooing, and attempts to laugh. He has mastered his mad cry, there is no interrupting his feeding for this little guy unless you want to hear an instant, loud "WAH!" as if he's scolding you. He can hold his head up really well, whether he's on his stomach or if we're holding up so that he's standing. He loves jumping when we're holding him up. He kicks and moves his arms about when he's excited. When I'm gone, or haven't talked to him for awhile (this is true for Bryan too) and I start talking to him, he just lights up with a smile! It's nice to know that he recognizes who Bryan and I are now, and knows that we care for him, or at least he likes us the most :)

Turns out, he didn't have an eye infection, just has a clogged tear duct. The green goop is just stuff that would naturally get rinsed through the tear duct, but since it's clogged, it just gathers around his eyelids. At least it's not an infection :) He's been healthy, happy and hungry all this time. He really is just a great baby, and doesn't fuss too much. He loves listening, you can tell when he's listening to something as he'll kind of look to the side, stop moving, and just blink for a bit with a half smile on his face, or a confused look on his face depending on the sound. We're trying to help him with localizing sounds, and get him to talk more. He's just so much fun.



Emilie Update


I'm doing well. I just went to my 6 week postpartum check up on Tuesday. The incision has healed just fine, there's wonderful hard healthy scar tissue there now (..yay?). I sleep a lot though, I think more than typical new mothers would (Bryan agrees with me on this), and so we're having my iron and thyroid checked again to see if it's either one of those things. Health wise, I'm generally ok. Still having trouble with some...bathroom issues :) The only other problem I'm having right now is my tendonitis. It kills like no other right now. I've had tendonitis before, and it's usually gone within the week that the pain starts up. However, this has been going on since just a couple of weeks before Kiernan was born. I wake up in the middle of the night to the pain because my wrist popped right where the tendonitis is, and it ....just kills. Hopefully this will go away in the near future.

It's been nice to have the break from school (not work, been working since the last update :) ), and I'm not really looking forward to school starting again. However, I'll only be taking two classes, so that will be nice, and they're both night classes. Bryan and I had thought we got lucky and were going to be able to get away with not having a babysitter between our class and work schedules. Unfortunately, one of Bryan's classes switched times, so that it's now at night....the same night I have one of my classes. :( My sister-in-law has said that she will babysit those nights though, so that'll be nice, and at least it'll be with someone I know pretty well :) I just hate having to ask favors, obviously I'll be willing to return the favor or find some way to compensate for the time she takes to babysit.

I've been ok'd to start doing very very very very light exercising, which I'm excited to get back to. I'm definitely back at my pre-pregnancy weight still (I didn't gain anything at all since I lost all those pounds from pregnancy), so that's nice. I just need to eat a LOT better than I have been the last couple of weeks, and start walking and doing some very basic ab exercises to get rid of the tummy flub.

The past month, in short:
Christmas happened
Sister Hannah got married
Kiernan's baby blessing
New Years


It's been busy, fun, relaxing, and enjoyable :)

Hi

Update to come later

Update

So, it's been just over two weeks!
Kiernan is doing very well. His jaundice is gone, and he had an infection in his eye. We got drops for that, and he's doing fine now. He's back at his birth weight, which is expected, and has grown a half inch. So he's now 9 lbs 8 oz and 23 inches. crazy! Looking at his face and just watching him move, you can tell that he's been growing, and that he's just slowly getting a better understanding of his environment. Part of the major benefit of being an early childhood major, I know some things I get to look for.

Uh oh, crying baby

just wanted to be held :)

He really is a cutie and a very calm mild baby. He only truly CRIES when he's being changed, or is being given a bath. He *HATES* baths right now, hopefully we'll find a way to make it a not so scary experience for him :)

I'm feeling great. I've lost all 50 lbs from the pregnancy weight gain that I had. That just shows how much water I was retaining, and how swollen i was. I fit back in the pants I had before I got pregnant, I thought that wouldn't happen for a couple of months, so it was a nice surprise. :)

He's starting to be able to calmly sleep in the cradle, which is nice, just need to find a night light that's bright enough for me to see things, and dark enough for Bryan to be able to sleep.

a couple of pics to enjoy :)