Feeding Ourself Already??

There are so many things I can say about this little boy. He is smart, he loves to play, He loves to talk- - he yammers all day long to his little pals in his room -I can't describe how adorable it is.. I'll just stand in the doorway and watch him yammer away at his Looney Tunes mobile and he'll screech away and coo in delight its so adorable! But getting back to the case at hand-This boy already knows how to feed himself! he's only 6 months old! - I don't know if that's developmentally right on, But I am impressed! I am so proud of him! He makes a bit of a mess, but so what! he's a baby! I just give him the spoon, and show him how to scoop, and he'll scoop it into his mouth! And uses the sippy cup too! What a big boy! I feel so proud! And that big toothless grin!! Oh you just wanna squeeze those cheeks! He's such a lil meatball! How did I end up with such an adorable lil boy?? God really did bless me!My goodness I really can't describe how I love this little boy!

Time to Sleep

One thing I do have to say about having a new baby in the house is the one thing I learned real quick is when HE sleeps - YOU sleep! Boy can he wear you out! You learn that those precious 8 hour non stop sleeping nights? GONNE! 3 hours sleep then 4 hours up, sleep, then awake off then on, then sleep? whats that? then You and your spouse turn to rock paper scissors of who's turn it is to get up and help the baby!So then when the baby decides he wants a nap, we decide we better take one too while the gettin's good! {again rock paper scissors! }Lordy Lordy wha'd we get ourselves into? I know- just the most sweetest thing on earth that I'd travel to the moon and back for in a heartbeat! That's what! :)

Thomas' First Bath

Aside from getting little wipe downs from baby wipes, today we got our first bath! Oh boy he did not like that!! LOL I got a little Winnie the Pooh toy that cheers Thomas up that he seems to like and likes to touch, so I put it in the little tub we bought to bathe him in-I used the little thermometer-measured not too hot and not too cold, put all my supplies I needed in reach just like a responsible mom should do { actually Tom was there for me to get the stuff because I needed both hands to hold Thomas up and wash him at the same time- {it was in reach , I just couldn't reach out and hold and bathe Thomas at the same time- that would require skills a new mom like myself just didn't have yet to be perfectly honest!}How did it go do you ask? I think he screamed and cried as loud as when he got circumcised! and I heard him all the way down the hall at the hospital!I was like " yup! that's my son!" I tell you one thing, this kid, has got some PIPES!When he opens his mouth to cry? LOOOOKOUT! He just lets it fly!!!And there's no consoling him! He'll just cry and cry you'd think he was being murdered! He does not like water. But he's gotta get clean so we'll just make it a quickie. Then some lotion,and some powder and a dry diapie , and we'll be all good. But my goodness! the fuss he puts up what a first picture this'll make- the puss on his face!LOL! Oh well. It'll make a good story for later on.Maybe he'll grow out of it and learn to like baths. After all- he DID spend 9 MONTHS in liquid no? You think he'd be totally used to it by now....like second nature..ahh well lets see what the future brings..

Welcome Thomas Edward !!

So here I am In the Labor and delivery room,ready to get the show on the road. The nurse asks me if "I would like something to take the edge off'' which anything to stop this constant stabbing and slicing in my back , Hook me up!!Little did I realize that this medication, combined with my seizure meds got me instantly stoned in 10 seconds...then they decided to give me pitocin to speed up the contractions{ I personally felt they were coming along just fine-!}where all my lamaze breathing and classes went right out the window after that- for my contractions came on every ten seconds where I couldn't breath or get any oxygen to my brain after that which probably brought on my furture seizures that i had later on!, I don't remember a thing I felt so stoned! I was like a drunken sailor trying to push according to my husband, I hit on the anesthesiologist and called him sexy,I told my ob thank god you finally showed when she was there for 3 hrs already, I wound up having a seizure on the table,which My O/B says to Tom " what do I do?" he said " what do you mean what do you do?You know she has a seizure disorder,.." I'm sure he wanted to damn near knock her out if she wasn't delivering his first born son! Oh he was upset! They gave me valium, which didnt work, then phenobarbitol,and I finally stopped. They had to try to move the baby over since he wasnt aligned with the birth canal by pushing on my side, then trying vaccuum suction twice since he wasnt all the way down to the birth canal.That popped off twice and showered everyone with blood,{meanwhile im out cold} the baby went into duress and they finally performed a cesarian c- section on me after doin an episiotomy which I was told I sat up and cried "NOO!" to try and make the opening bigger which he never came out of! So I was sliced, Diced, and Thomas Edward was finally born lethargig due to all the drugs in me from pregnancy-due to my seizure condition that I couldn't go off my meds{ I wonder if anyone gave it any thought that the drugs they poured in me during delivery also went through him as well temporarily} and had very poor appetite and needed to go home with a feeding tube down his nose due to poor appetite- he would just barely take two ounces- the Hospital wouldn't send him home unless he took two ounces .-He just barely did- and we could take it from there]. He spent 2 weeks in the NICU while I spent 3 days passed out cold in recovery from all the meds in my system and finally got to see my baby boy when he was 3 days old in the NICU. I am proud to say he is the most beautiful gift of life I have ever laid my eyes on and I would do it all over again in a heartbeat! Thank You Lord for blessing me with such a beautiful and healthy little boy!

He's on His way..

Well like I said yesterday, I better calm down before Thomas tries to make his debut? Well, I've been trying to calm down and resting, but I keep having these killer back pains every 5-8 minutes like someones stabbing me or poking me in the back and twisting then letting go. and it only feels better if I'm sitting on the "loo" if you know what I mean! I know TMI . so this has been going on for some time now, and since I have a high threshhold for pain, how do I know if I'm in labor or not? does it get worse than this? I feel like an ass calling my family and asking " how do you know if you're in labor?" so I call any way , and I get the answer" You'll know" thanks just the answer I was looking for- next time I'll call my doctor-theyr didnt give me the answers I was looking for- juust alot of good lucks- They meant well,but I was in too much pain- I really want my mom at this moment an dwas pissed no one could help out." :rolleyes. So Tom and I decde to go to the Hospital and bring my stuff just in case. they check me out, say i'm 5 cm, and tell me to go home and come back when the pain is more severe. More severe? you mean it gets worse? Greaaaat! Okayy.. I go home and try and get some rest.I manage to sleep about 4 hours, when that shooting pain comes back again this time every about 5 -6 minutes only sharper and I find it very hard to walk- like I'll be walking and I gotta hold onto my bed and breath my lamaze like I've never breathed before! So I hail Tom and say screw the nurses we're going back! this is severe enough for me!! So we get there and they want to send us home AGAIN but mentioned we could walk around the wing for a while if we like which was fine with me. so they put me in a gown and let me walk the floor until I was dialated a little more- How much pain did they want me in until he could be delivered?Did they want him at a 3 and me screaming in pain to convince them I was ready??!Finallly they check me and I'm dialated enough where the nurses can hook me up to a monitor and let the fun begin...

Construction Headaches

As we visit the construction site more and more of our house it's starting to come together. The last couple of times we visit the site, they just had the rebarr in the ground to pour the cement for the basement, them poured the basement walls, then we went back another time, and they had the first and second floor up and were working on the roof. Today we drove by to check on the house and all appeared to up- the roof was up and papered,windows were in, door was on,stairs were in inside structure was framed , it was a weekend and no one was around, so we decided to take a peek inside - it WAS afterall OUR house- after checking the outside though we were like hey.. we noticed they didn't FULLY paper the roof for shingling- like some paper had ripped off on the garage, but they were going to shingle anyway? NO NO NO!uh uh! That won't fly at all!Hmm, what other things are they cheating on while we're not there that they think they can slip by on us?..lets see..well for one thing the house isn't even wrapped under the siding, there goes our heating bill in the winter and our A/C bill in the summer - strike 2~ anything else? There's a hole in the kithen floor where someone appeared to have dropped a nailgun through the floor and left a foot long hole in the floor! Did they replace the plywood floor? Nooo- they put a piece of wood from the basement and covered the hole from the bottom and nailed the hole covered shut! Now what beer drinking construction headed fool thought that plan was gonna fly and go unnoticed??!!*brainpain- Is lumber that hot of a commodity that you couldnt just go to your house nextdoor of the same model youre making of the same floor plan and borrow their wood for the floor and replace the floor and get new wood for THAT kitchen floor?I mean cmon!UGH! So we decide to see what's upstairs before going 4 steps up the stairs and noticing up the stairs that in the wall are like 25 nails nailed into ONE SPOT in the wall. Now , is this ABSOLUTELY necessary? You're building someone's firt home here! Not playing "how many nails do I got in my gun"! In my wall no less! Oh I'm pissed! So let's add it up here, My house isn't wrapped, when it rains enough over the years, my garage is partially gonna rot, I have nails in my walls for no reason, I have a hole in my floor that was carelessly repaired, I haven't even looked downstairs yet but I tell you what I am NOT a happy homeowner right now!I want my deposit back and fuming! So Tom Is gonna tell the Construction co.off and tell the realtors there's a there's a real problem and we need to get our deposit back.I've never seen such Shoddy contruction for the money we paid to have this house built! We could buy a house off the market for the price we paid to have this house built!I better calm down, because I'm starting to feel crampy and it was getting more and more difficult to make it down the stairs of the house today like Thomas was ready to make his debut..Oh boy, just chill it's cool...Don't want a home delivery, That's for pizza's...