Connor is 2 months old:)

Connor is two months old today!!  I can't believe how big and grown up he is getting!  We both weighed in this morning and I am so close to my pre-pregnancy weight!  5 more pounds!!  Connor weighed in at 12.7 lbs what a big boy:)  We spent the morning singing songs including HAPPY BIRHTDAY!  Gary and I went to the river while Grandma watched Connor, yes I sported a pok-a-dot bikini.

Over the past two months Connor has developed likes and dislikes but mostly likes!

Connor's favorite toy: his colorful elephant that hangs above his car seat and his yellow lion thing that shakes.

Connor's favorite song: Good Morning Mr. Connor and Go to Sleep My Little Henny Penny

Connor's favorite spot to sleep: on Mommy's chest

Connor's favorite activity: gazing at himself in the mirror in the swing and playing in the kick and crawl aquarium.

Connor's favorite part of the day: his lotion massage after a bath and in the morning before getting ready for the day.

Playing in his aquarium

Chubby Bunny

Connor is 2 months old on Thursday!

The last two months have been a joy the first month was pretty much Connor's world what he wanted when he wanted it, but he as always taken 1 hour naps in the afternoon and slept at least three hours at a time at night.  After the first month it was pretty easy to figure out a schedule for him.  We start by getting him ready for bed at 8 o'clock first it's bath time then we give him a lotion massage clean diaper and put on his PJ's then Connor and I read a story while Gary heats up a bottle of breast milk (so we know how much he has eaten) he drinks 5 oz before bed I don't know if that's a lot...  It's amazing to think back to when I couldn't get him in bed before 11pm and sometimes not till 12 and thats when I would start to get really tired, but now he goes to bed at about 9:15 9:30 and he sleeps between 4 and 6 hours, when he wakes up he sometimes needs a diaper change and is always hungry, once he eats he goes right back to sleep for another 3 or 4 hours and the same thing for the next time he wakes up.  At about 9am he wakes up and we sing a good morning song, which he absolutely loves and always smiles, he gets another lotion massage (yes he's spoiled in that since poor Gary says he gets two a day and I get one if I'm lucky:( ) and ready for the day.  He usually stays up for an hour, with tummy time and now he plays in his Aquarium Kick and Crawl (thank you Tammy, Kim, and Katie) then goes back to sleep for a little nap.  He usually take about 3 1-hour naps a day and is up for a long period of time in the evening and then the routine starts all over again.  I am so happy and lucky that I get to stay at home with him all day, but I am looking for a job.  I would love to be a nanny so if any one knows anyone who needs a nanny please let me know!

Here are some of my favorite pictures of Connor that I have taken over the last two months!

connor's bassinet

1st bath awww

All wrapped up

LOVE this picture

Sleeping

cute hands

trying to crawl

2 weeks old

3 weeks old

Hailey

Daddy joined in on the fun for a kiss

Connor and Hannah

Sleeping

Mommy's little monster in his bumbo

Happy family on the 4th of July

Connor's First Week Home

As amazing as the hospital care was I was happy to head home with my little guy.  Here are some pictures of Connor's new family visiting in the hospital.

Aunt Hannah and Connor

Sleeping on mommy

Papa Ed

Great Grandma Kathy

Connor in his first car seat ride home.

Both Grandma's helped me come home from the hospital which was very sweet and fun.  I was a little scared when they both walked out the door and it was still a few hours before Gary was off of work.  Walking around the house was still a little hard and it was weird not to be able to move as easily as I had before becoming pregnant or even at 40 weeks pregnant.  I was really wanting to be able to jump right on that treadmill, but my body was sore and tired and I learned why they tell you to wait 4-6 weeks (I only made it 3 1/2 before my first work out).  Because of my slow moving body (literally felt like an old woman) the first night home was difficult because first of all my alert system of waking up to a crying baby was slow and it was hard to get up out of bed quickly and it was nice to have a little back rub to boost me out of bed:) so by the time I got to him he was pretty upset, by the next night I was jumping right to him and it seemed to be pretty easy.  Connor has been a great sleeper and luckily never had his days and nights switched:)  Connor was 4 days old on our first outings, we had a doctors appointment with a lactation specialist who was surprised when I thought my milk hadn't come in, but he had gained weight so she said it wasn't possible.  So many people had warned me I'd be leaking everywhere I assumed it hadn't come in, but the little guy was such a great eater it had and I didn't notice!  After the doctors we went to the Goddard School to visit my friends at work.  It was a lot of fun to show him off and see my kids again.  Later that night we went to cheerleading tryouts again a lot of fun to see my girls again and show him off.  Needless to say he slept through everything and slept all night:)

Here's pictures of Connor's first week home

Connor is one week old (boppy is the best invention ever!)

I love my little boy

One of my favorite pictures of Connor

Holding hands with Mom

Connor's room decorated by Mom and Auntie Emily and Auntie Jillian

Grandpa (aka Dr. Lawrence)

Grandma

Tired boys

Aunt Hailey

Big feet just like Daddy

The thing I love most about Connor is he looks just like his Daddy.  So even though Gary works forever every day (4am-6pm) I still have a little part of him at home.  Gary absolutely adores Connor and I love watching the two of them together.  As much as I wish Gary was able to take paternity leave I love my alone time with Connor and it makes their time together so much more special!

May 16th 2009

Friday May 15th:

It was 4 o'clock in the morning on Gary's only day off that week because he was working every other day to make up for the days he would have to take off.  The pain sunk into my stomach and knocked the wind out of me, waking me out of my sleep.  Ten minutes later another on hit, the loudness of my pain woke Gary up and we started timing for the next two hours, consistently ten to fifteen minutes apart.  The plan was to be induced the next Tuesday if I didn't go on my own because for the last two weeks my doctor kept saying I would go early but I was now three days late and very much so wanting Connor out of me especially after Mother's Day passed without my baby!  After two hours of being woken up every ten minutes I called the hospital hoping it was time to go in.  Confused on if my water had broken or not because I didn't know exactly what to expect they told me to wait a couple of hours take a shower and then come in.  Around ten we checked into the hospital where they were very busy and seemed to pay no attention to me, they had delivered fifteen babies already that day and I was on low priority.  After five hours of sitting in that room and three tests that all confirmed I wasn't in labor we went to Gary's family's house to celebrate Hailey's birthday!  After a little nap:)  The girls all went to the mall where everyone kept approaching me and telling me to go to the hospital after this last trip to the mall annoyed that I wasn't in labor I just smiled and  said I wish!  Still having contractions every ten minutes and taking a deep breath in with each one to continue to have fun with Hailey and the girls.  At dinner Aunt Tina said this might be your last meal without a little one and she was right!  Gary had wanted to go to a movie that night and his family insisted he stayed home with me so about 9 we headed home (he wasn't to happy) we turned onto the street our apartments are on and bam it hit me hard.  I screamed ooowww and then said I don't know if I was trying to hold it in around your family but I think that one hurt really bad and I don't want to wait till Tuesday with this pain!  We got home and as I was climbing into bed (which was hard with that big belly) it hit me again and hard!  I thought oh no I'm not going to get any sleep tonight or for the next few nights if this keeps up.  Gary had to work the next morning and needed his sleep and was still a little pissy so asked if I could be in pain in the other room.  I only lasted half an hour before I called the hospital this time:)  I explained what had happened and she asked what kind of pain medication I wanted and I said "I want an epidural" and she said "come in NOW" so we rushed to the hospital and went right to the room we were in earlier that day.  It took about an hour of following contractions and some crazy lady who got my bloody show on the way and wanted to break my water then and there.  I told her I wanted to wait till I got the epidural to have her touch me again!  At 11 o'clock they moved us to the delivery room where I had the sweetest nurse:)  The time flew by with contraction after contraction and Gary right there holding my hand with each one (now happy he didn't go to the movie!).  At two o'clock the epidural finally arrived along with that lady who wanted to pop my water, I denied her again and let it break on it's on (naturally).  After the epidural they turned out the lights and let us sleep.  At four o'clock I woke up with a weird feeling that my water had broke so I woke Gary up and he stumbled around and found the nurse.  It hadn't broke but as she rolled me over I guess it did (hey I couldn't feel anything).  Then it was back to sleep. 

Meanwhile the poor awaiting parents didn't get much sleep that night either after the 11 o'clock phone calls that we were headed to the hospital.  Tracy woke up at three with the news and tried to find us at the hospital but we were sleeping.  At seven when we woke up again we called everyone and spread the news that Connor was on his way.

Throughout the morning around nine Tracy, Ed, Hannah, Hailey my Mom and Dad came to the hospital and my friend Emily came too.  They were all kicked out about 10 when they check to see how dialated I was 10 cm!  They started to slow down the epidural and said we could start pushing as soon as I could move my legs.  My right leg was a lot easier to move than my left and it was fun to be able to move my foot around, finally at 11:15 the nurse said were going to try and push she sent everyone out of the room again, saying they should be back soon if nothing happened or not for a while.  The nurse showed Gary how to hold my legs and head and about 11:25 we started pushing, within the first couple of pushes she said "we need to get the doctor in here now this baby is coming" they flipped up a mirror so I could see his hairy head come out and get motivation to push harder each time.  It was pretty amazing to watch and 11:42 we had a little boy!!  They threw him right on me and cleaned him off all I could do was stare at him.  I was a little surprised at how big he was I thought he would be much smaller even with how huge I was!  After all the stitching up was done and everything was out the families came back in and got to meet Connor Jo Adams:)  I felt like a model (even though I definitely didn't look it) with everyone snapping pictures.  It was a joy to watch Gary pick him up and give him his first bath and diaper change.  8 pounds 2.5 ounces 21 inches no wonder he looked big:)  They then had him try to breast feed and he seemed to take right onto it.  After all the pictures and ooos and awws everyone left us for the night to be a family.  All we wanted to do was hold and look at him.

Connor's first bath given by Daddy

8 pounds 2.5 ounces

So cute!

I couldn't stop staring at him he was perfect:)

Happy family so in love!

We eventually moved to another room upstairs where we would be for the next 48 hours with room service and nurses to help move you and all that fun stuff, why anyone wants to leave day of I have no idea.

All in all it was a wonderful amazing experience and I am so happy to finally have my little boy that I can stare and look at all day:)

Pregnancy

Call me crazy but I absolutely loved being pregnant!  Until about week 39:)  After finding out I was prego I knew my whole life was about to change, no more bar hopping, no more cute jeans, no more sushi!  But it was all worth providing a happy home for my little baby.  I got sick about 5 times during my pregnancy 6 if you count the time at the hospital, which some people get sick that many times a day!  I stayed very busy while I was pregnant, I coached the JV cheerleading team at the high school and worked as the preschool teacher at the Goddard school.  It made since to me that I was tired all the time working from 7am-4pm at Goddard and 6-9pm at the high school and my body was working hard to create the little baby inside me.  Maybe all that hard work kept me healthy, but it also kept me from having the energy to run an 8 minute mile that I used to and I couldn't do sit ups any more.  I was a very hands on coach I ran and worked out with my girls and showed them what I wanted them to do instead of telling them, so the change was hard but once I told them the exciting news they got it and supported my change, but hey the fact they could run the mile faster than me gave them confidence.  They were so much fun to be around always touching my belly rubbing it for good luck before competing.  Luckily they were really the only people besides my family and close friends who wanted to touch my belly so I never really minded it, I've heard the stories about old Asian women coming up to pregnant people and touching them, but again I never had that:)  The weirdest thing I ever had was always the checkers at the grocery store asking about my pregnancy and one even said wow you look ripe and I wasn't sure if they were talking about me or the strawberries I was buying!  I have no idea how people hide being pregnant I had a giant beach ball sticking out of me.  I defiantly started looking prego and not just a little chunky at four months which was nice and I loved my belly even when I was 40 weeks along.  It was my little self where I could rest a glass of water or bowl of cereal on:)

On December 18th 2008 we had our big ultra sound appointment I was leaving in the next couple of days for Arizona to spend Christmas with my family that lives down there.  It was snowing and we could barley get down the driveway my Mom had to drive us and if you know my Mom you know she doesn't leave the house in any snow!  It was a scary drive but I really wanted to confirm my hopes and thoughts that we were having a boy.  We made it and sure enough the doctor said "that's defiantly not a leg" Connor was happy and proud to show of he was for sure a boy!  Gary and I were so excited and smiling from ear to ear:)

Below are all the pictures of my growing belly and yes they are backwards I'm still learning how to blog!

Here we are at the doctor!

Easter 2009

39 weeks ready to get him out!

Big belly for the big boy!

36 weeks after we moved into our new apartment

28 weeks

23 weeks

18 weeks there's a little boy in there!

16 weeks

12 weeks I lived in Gary's PJs because they were comfy:)