Home from the hospital

Well, we made it home from the hospital on Saturday morning. Dave checked out just fine with the pediatrician. He has an appointment on Wednesday with his permanent doc so we're looking forward to seeing how he's doing then.

Everything has been going very well so far. He eats well, sleeps awesome, and hangs out like a champ. Basically, he has mastered being a baby. Now, we aren't quite to sleeping through the night, but I'm certain that's right around the corner :)

I can't believe he's already 4 days old! It has been such a surreal experience going from baby inside to baby outside. He is so much more than I ever thought. Right now he's napping in the same bassinet that I slept in when I was a baby. Crazy to think that someday he (hopefully) will have babies. If that's what he wants of course.

Otherwise, he basically pees through his outfit everytime we change him. He waits it out until we just uncover him and then proceeds to pee all over himself. Every single time. Cool huh? It's cute for now.

Okay, now it's picture time. In no particular order...













Grandma Lisa and Dave before the Colts game. Unfortunately, this was the 2nd Colts outfit worn. He peed through the first one. Oops.












All decked out for his first Colts game.

Great Grandma and Great Grandpa came to visit in the hospital-they were very glad Dave arrived before they headed to Florida

for the winter!

Future blackmail picture. After his first bath. And we have video footage as well. It was a hilarious scene to behold I"m sure.

Chillin before bedtime, being held by Grandma Lisa.

Sophie and Dave with

Grandma and Grandpa.

Jumpman.

It's a Boy!!!

Welcome to the world David Frederick! His delivery was ridiculously fast-in fact the anesthesiologist (who did not administer an epidermal...not cool) almost delivered him! We arrived at the hospital at 5:45 am and he was born at 8:02 am. As I'm sure will become typical, he came on the only day I wished him not to come--Thanksgiving.
I forgave him very quickly, not one to hold a grudge.















Dave with his stats. Yes, you read that correctly-his head is 14 inches.













Seriously, I know I'm biased, but those eyes are killer.













First family picture :)













Jumpman hat from Dad. It's almost too small and it's supposed to fit up to 6 months. Yikes.



Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving-we definitely did! We are so thankful to all the family for their help so far, and future help! This little guy is going to be so spoiled...

Due Date!

Well, we made it to my due date! Not that it really means anything, but still exciting. Mom wanted us to take a picture with me really pregnant, so we had Josh's sister Em take one of us by a pretty tree at his parent's house.

And Josh looks super skinny. Not fair. hehe. Oh, I am supposed to post about our "baby" arriving--we picked up Josh's PS3 on Monday from Walmart. He is ecstatic. I have to admit, it is pretty cool, but I'm growing tired of watching him kill aliens already. Just another day at the office, killing aliens and saving the world I guess. Anyway, baby #1 is here, just waiting it out for the real deal. However, this one does sleep through the night and can be muted...

In other news, I hope to make it past Thanksgiving before going into the hospital-we'll see if baby cooperates or not. Only one day to go, and as long as I get to eat I guess I can go in on Thanksgiving night or something. But I haven't been feeling anything crazy still, just the Braxton Hicks which make me feel like I have abs of steel. Kinda awesome. Doc doesn't think I'll make it to my next appointment which is Tuesday-anybody taking bets?

Speaking of which, everyone thinks baby is a boy! What's up with that? I am pumped either way, but isn't it weird that we have so many boy votes? Now baby is going to prove everyone wrong and be a girl! Should be less than a week before we find out :)

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!!! And I'll leave you with our "crazy pose" from our photo shoot on Monday.

This is really going to happen.

Given that I've had almost 10 months to wrap my mind around the idea that I will be a mom, you'd think I'd have this under control. It's not like I don't understand what's going to happen, but it is a hard concept for me to grasp when I have nothing to show for it so far. Of course I feel baby move all the time and it constantly jabs me in the ribs, but it just isn't the same as actually having it as an outside baby.



That being said, I am officially one week from my due date. Now, I am in complete denial about going into labor. I will truly be startled when it happens because I've been tricking my mind into staying pregnant through Thanksgiving. Not quite so sure that's going to happen though. Doc said yesterday I could go at anytime-yikes. I have been flip-flopping from being super excited to ridiculously freaked out since she told me that. I'm still holding out hope that I make it through the holiday, but we'll see about that one I guess.

Otherwise, I think we're finally ready-we put the stroller together and got the carseat out. It's still not installed in the car, but that's not too big a deal-Josh can do that at the hospital if necessary I guess.



I also finished the baby blanket I was making for our night guard and his wife-she's due two days after me. Here's the finished product






















They're having a boy and doing his room in a jungle theme-hence the camo type yarn. I was pretty pumped with how it turned out, and can't believe I got it done in time! It was like a sweat shop up in here the last couple of weeks :)



Well, I will either post again next week with an update, or with pictures of baby!

Great weekend off!

This past weekend was likely our last weekend off before baby arrives. We definitely made it count! Started off Friday by going down to Indy to meet some friends for dinner. While we were down we decided to do a little shopping (since we have zero stores up here). Well, we hit the jackpot for baby clothes-we found both a girl and boy version of "jumpman" outfits. Josh was beside himself.

Here they are in all their glory.

Then we met up with our friends-turns out they threw us a get-together including presents for baby! It was awesome to catch up with everyone that we hadn't seen in a while, and score some great and thoughtful gifts. Thank you to everyone involved :)

Saturday my mom came up to visit and we went shopping in ft. wayne. It was great to spend some quality time with her and she was able to check out where we live before she comes up when baby arrives. She also set us up with a webcam and Skype so we can chat with family in Evansville and show off the little one.

I'll leave off with some pictures of the weekend...

Mom and I outside of our apartment. Sunday was so pretty!

Updated nursery pics. It's not anything fancy, but I don't think baby will mind too much.

This stomach is out of control! Mom lovingly commented that it looked like I was trying to steal things from a store while we were shopping. Sad but true.

My dad, the technology genius

So I was chatting with pops the other day and mentioned to him that he never checks out my blog. I convinced him to join the rest of the modern world and enter the world of blogging to see what we were up to-mostly because I will be putting pictures of his grandchild on here. Anyway, he wanted me to post a picture of an outfit that my stepmom Kyra got for baby while she was in St. Louis.








Really every baby needs a tie-dyed shirt :) I love it because it's gender neutral but not all yellow or green. And of course, babies love Joe's Crab Shack.

In other news, we are on the home stretch of working four days in a row. I can't wait to have a day off! The guys had fall break and we were super nice to trade with one of our subs so he could hang out with his wife over her fall break. Anyway, now I'm exhausted!

I'm down to less than a month of being pregnant and am very ready to have an outside baby. Although I think baby will be making its appearance a little late. Just a hunch. Oh, and I did have a dream that it was a girl a couple nights ago. That's the second gender related dream. The first one it was a boy. So much for a mother's intuition.