Such a Big Boy

I can't believe that my son is going to be a year old on Saturday. Where did the time go? It seems as if it has gone by so quickly. I want my little peanut back, I want him to be that little bundle of joy in my arms forever. I don't want him to grow up anymore. If only they could stay little forever.

Today me and the peanut surprised "Da Da" at work, after we were done doing our errands. After I got peanut out of the car he didn't want to be carried into the store, he wanted to walk by himself into the store like a big boy. So we spent "Da Da's" lunch hour walking around the mall. Peanut absolutely loved it. He was looking at all the christmas decorations, and all the little kids/ "babies" as we call them. He even got a balloon from a local radio station that was broadcasting live from the mall.

We went down to the food court to eat lunch that is where peanut had his first taste of cheese pizza. For about a week or two peanut has been eating supper with us, eating "real people" food, so why should pizza be any different. So far he has had, roast beef, carrots, butter beans (which he absolutely LOVES), rice, mashed potatoes (another favorite, but only if he can feed himself, he doesn't like them if I spoon them to him), macaroni and cheese, french style green beans, "rollie-pollie" peas or as my mother calls them "frog balls" but they are known to the common man as sweet peas, cornbread, and spaghetti with mushroom meat sauce, just to name a few. He is really loving this growing up thing, I just wish he wouldn't do it so fast.

Another tooth??

Peanut is trying to grow yet another tooth. He has his front two teeth finally poking through the gums and now he has one on the bottom left trying to come in next to his first two teeth. He hasn't been fuzzy at all, I am very surprised.

Also, today peanut got his little big toe pricked to check his iron levels and he didn't cry at all. I think it hurt me more than it did him. I was so proud of him. Not a single tear was shed.

'Tis the season for...COOKIES!

Today me and peanut spent most of our day in the kitchen making...
KOOOOO-KIES

Well, I baked them, peanut ate them. Peanut just couldn't get enough. He kept tugging at my leg wanting me to give him more. I think he is really liking this eating table food thing.

I can't like it!

Well today peanut decided that he didn't like green beans for lunch. He threw them on the floor, wiped them on the shirt, he even clinched his little mouth shut and stuck out his tounge when I tried to "spoon" them in. I just couldn't get the boy to eat his "greenies". I'm really disliking this stubborn stage. I will be so glad when it is over with. I will not have a picky eater. Peanut is going to eat anything I put in front of him and he is going to like it if I have anything to do with it.

First Turkey Day

Peanut had his first turkey day today. Since he is essentially old enough to eat table food, he got to taste all of the goodies that we were eating (parmesan potatoes, sweet potatoe casserole with marshmellow topping, turkey, dressing, homemade rolls, fruit salad, macaroni and cheese casserole). Peanut's favorite dish of all in the thanksgiving feast was canned CRANBERRY sauce!!! I cut it into cubes and he would pick one up right after the other. He finished the little plate that he had, and wanted more. I swear he almost ate the whole thing of cranberries. I'm glad he was so drawn to the cranberries, they are supposed to be good for your urinary tract.

Whatever is in the crib must come out

Peanut for some reason feels that he must throw everything that is in his crib on to the floor outside of his crib. Pacey, Squishy Pan'a, Bottle, Juice Cup, you name it, it has been thrown out of my son's crib. I believe he has finally realized that you can drop things onto the floor. Now if only they invented something that would constantly pick these items up and place them back in the crib so that I don't have to constantly get up and retrieve them for him.

Pamper Delima

Over the last month or so, peanut has successfully managed to figure out how to take his pamper off. The delima is that he is unable to run around the house in just his diaper because he eventually takes it off and is completely naked. Several times I have put him in his crib with just a pamper so that I could take a shower and then give him one next. Well when I get out of the shower and go to the crib to retreive him he is usually standing there holding his pamper in his hand. So now peanut must be fully clothed at all times. Gone are the days of being fancy free.

Sock Obsession

Peanut has an obsession with his socks. He likes to carry them around. It is only his socks that he likes to do this with. As soon as I dump a basket of clothes out to fold, he quickly rummages through them to find one of his clean fresh socks. It is very odd. He has had this obsession ever since he was able to hold things in his little hands.

Teeth Cutting Part II

Well last night peanut started cutting his top two teeth. He did fine all day long but when it came time for him to go to sleep he was just absolutely miserable. I tried giving him a bottle, holding him, putting him down on the floor, laying him on MY bed, even giving him the pacy and nothing worked. He just cried and cried. If he doesn't take his pacy there is something seriously wrong. He kept playing with his mouth while he was crying so I just assumed he was cutting teeth. I looked at his top gums and they are a little white. It is amazing how quickly one can forget things. I honestly can't remember how bad it was when peanut cut his bottom two teeth. Anyway, peanut finally went to sleep around 10:30ish. I am glad he didn't wake up in the middle of the night.

Today I went and bought some more infant tylenol, just so we don't have another crying spell like we did last night. All in all he is doing really well today. I am sure I am speaking too soon as I haven't attempted to put him down for the night yet.

Also, Fletch came home from work today early and suprised me and peanut. Peanut was asleep at the time but we woke him up so he could see "Da Da". We both held up his top lip so we could attempt to see the progress on peanuts teefies. And sure enough they broke the skin just a little bit last night. There are teeny tiny little specs where teeth will eventually be in a couple days. It is very exciting seeing the progress and changes that peanut goes through everyday.

First Hamburger

Today after going shopping with Mama Dee, we all went to McDonald's. We ordered off of the dollar menu and since peanut has been doing so well eating his bananas, I figured he could eat a hamburger. So I asked Mama Dee to get a plain hamburger. After we got our food we pulled into a parking spot so I could feed peanut. I tore the hamburger pattie into little baby sized peices, I also did the same with the bun. He ate the whole pattie and half of the bun. I think he liked it. I didn't want to give him any french fries because that is pretty much nothing but grease, I suppose the hamburger isn't much better but oh well he enjoyed it. He also had his first taste of a frozen coke. He thought that was really good too. After he had his yummy McDonald's lunch he was bouncing off the walls.

New Word

Today while eating his lunch of bananas, I was repeating the word "banana" hoping that he would say it. He kept saying "nana", "nana". I said "Ba-na-na" and then peanut actually said "ba-na-na". I was so excited for him and the new found word.

Banana

Today Peanut had his first taste of a real banana. He loved IT! He even did the "yummy" dance. This is his first taste of real table food.

First Halloween

Today is peanuts first halloween. Me and Mama Dee dressed up like farmers, while peanut dressed up like our pumpkin from our patch. It was very cute. We went to the mall to go trick or treating, you trying to be safe and all. My goodness! I've never seen so many people at the mall at any given time. It was absolutely packed. We only went to a couple stores to get candy. I'm sorry peanut but you are unable to eat candy at the moment and I didn't feel like fighting the mob of kids with my stroller. Peanut had a really good time though, he loved looking at all the kids dressed up in their costumes.

Ok

Peanut has picked up a new word..."Ok!" This morning he awoke me with screaming "ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok...". I think he was trying to tell me, "ok i am up, you can come and feed me now."

Infant Sign-Language

Every since peanut was in my tummy, I've wanted to teach him sign language. Well he has finally done his first sign. "All Gone" is the sign, and we do it but lifting one hand up in the air and showing our palm. Whenever peanut is done eating cheerios or has finished a bottle he will lift his hand up in the air AND say "all gone" or "all done".

Peanut has also started to wave "bye-bye", by opening and closing his fist. This was the hardest for him to learn. I don't know why but he just refused to do it, until now.

"Hey" is peanut waving an open hand up and down in the air.

Steps

Peanut is walking more and more every single day. I swear he walks longer distances everytime he tries to walk. It is so exciting to see him attempt to walk around the house. Pretty soon he will be running around versus walking and falling down. An example is today he walked from the kitchen all the way into the living room! I almost fell out of my chair.

Pumpkin Picking Time!

Over the weekend, Mama Dee and I were on the search for the perfect pumpkin costume for peanut to wear on halloween. After a long exhausting day of searching, we came across this one at Toys'R'us. I think it is rather cute! And of course as soon as we got back home, we just had to play dress up! I stuffed the pumpkin part with newspaper so he would be extra round and fluffy.




















Another option would be this frankenstien sleeper set that Mama Dee had purchased last year. We also have one that is exactly like this but it looks like a pumpkin instead of a frankenstien.


I think I am liking the pumkin costume that we bought yesterday! I think that is the one!

"Ga Ga Ga"

Well peanut has officially discovered a new consanent- his "g's". He has been saying "ga ga ga" all day long. When he does it though, it is more in his throat than anything else. It is rather funny to hear. He acts as if he will be talking any moment now.

Finger Foods

Well we have finally got the finger foods down pat. Peanut LOVES Cheerios. I sit him on the floor on a blanket, scatter cheerios around him, and let him go at it. He gobbles them right up.

Today we attempted finger carrots and green beans. They were a little slimey, hard for him to pick up; but he managed to get a few down on his own. Momma had to step-in and assist the rest of the way since most of it was going on the floor. He later got to practice his self-feeding with some fruit puffs.

He also has the sippy cup thing down pat. He loves juice now as well. I'm sure that I won't have a problem breaking him of the bottle by one year.

"All Gone"

After feeding peanut, I usually say "all gone" and lift one hand in the air to indicate that there is nothing in it. Recently peanut has been doing the same thing when he is done eating. Lifting the hand and everything. Although it isn't a perfect "all gone", momma knows what he is trying to say and it is just so gosh darn cute.

Mama's Big Boy

PEANUT TOOK HIS FIRST STEP TODAY!
I am not even kidding. I thought at first it was just a fluke but he has take one step three different times today. Mama Dee came over to visit today and he stood up all by himself without holding on to anything and was clapping at the same time. Later on that day he took his first step from a plastic bin to the odomin without holding on to anything. I can't believe he has grown up so fast.

Peanut also had his first finger foods today. I was wondering if he was ready to eat cherrios, so since we didn't have any in the house I gave him some Rice Krispies. He loved them and didn't gag or choke once. I then later remembered that I had bought some gerber finger foods fruit puffs (banana) so I decided to see if he could eat those. And he couldn't get enough. A month prior I tried to give them to him and he was gagging on them. Now he eats them just like a big boy. He thinks he is so grown that he decided to help himself right out of the can.

9 mos. Doctor Appointment

Went to the dreaded doctor's appointment today. We had to go during what was supposed to be peanut's nap, I thought for sure that he was going to be grumpy but surprisingly he wasn't. Doctor said he was growing good, everything looked just fine. He is still in the 50th percentile, whatever that means.

Measurements:

weight: 20 lbs. 4 oz.
length: 29 1/2 in.
head circ.: 17 1/2 in.

He only had to get one shot today. I told myself going in that I wasn't going to give him his pacie after he got the shot. Amazingly, he only cried for like 10 seconds. He did very, very well under the circumstances of being very sleepy.

We just got home. I gave him his dose of tylenol, and now he is fast a sleep in his crib. He and I are so relieved that it is all over and done with. He doesn't have to go back to the doctor until his one year check-up, that is unless I want to get him the flu shot. I really don't know if he needs to get it or not. I mean we don't get out of the house alot but I don't know, I am still debating it. We his step-brothers come over on the weekends they usually bring a dose of daycare germs with them so maybe getting the flu shot is a good idea. We'll see, I have until next month to decide. Ah, the delimas of being a mother.

Ball

This morning on the way home from taking my husband to work. Peanut was in his car seat saying "ba ba ba". I said "baby" several times with no response, so I tried the word "ball". As soon as I said "ball" peanut quickly responded back to me with "ball". So there ya have it. All day long it has been nothing but "ball, ball, ball". I even called my husbands cell and left a voicemail of peanut saying "ball". He said he was going to keep that message for as long as he possibly can.

Weekend Recap

Well this weekend was fairly eventful since we usually don't do much on weekends but just chill at the house. Friday we picked up my step-kids and they stayed with us until Sunday afternoon. Kam'Ron drew on everything he could find (and I am still finding new marks places they shouldn't be, including my laptop screen! -trust me he got a time out for that one) in sight. After we picked the kids up from the daycare we went over to my father-in-laws house to check out the new place and to see how my brother-in-law is doing (he is very sick). They ended up taking him to the hospital after we left and they admitted him.

Saturday, we grilled out. Fletcher burnt a whole rack of ribs that I spent all day marinating and overcooked the steaks to the point that an animal couldn't even eat it (trust me, we tried. i gave mine to a cat i saw outside and the cat attempted to eat it then looked at me like "are you kidding me?").

Sunday, Peanut started clapping all on his own. He did this all day long. It is so cute to see him do that. According to babycenter.com, he isn't supposed to be 'playing patty-cake' until 11 mos.!!! It is amazing to see him do it so early. In light of his new found talent, I took him over to my folks house because my father wanted to see him. He did the dance to the 'local on the eights' and then my father switched the tv to a jazz and hip-hop music televison station and he started dancing (bouncing up and down) and clapping his hands to the music. My father said "The boys got rhythm!". I said "That is more than we can say for our side of the family". LOL. It is good to see my father smile, laugh, and interact with peanut. That is one of my favorite things to see.

Tounge Tricks

The latest of peanut's amazing acts are these:


I believe he has inherited them from his father because I am completely unable to do them. It started out him just doing it occassionally, to him doing this tounge thing everytime he has to concentrate on something. He also does this thing where he looks like an old man, I am hoping to get picture of it so I can show ya'll. So be looking out for them.

What happens when you watch the weather channel all day long???

When you watch the weather channel all day long, your 8 month old son my develope an attraction to the "local on the 8's", well at least peanut has. Every ten minutes, when the "local on the 8's" music/man's voice comes on the tv, peanut makes a b-line straight for the tv. He drops everything he does and goes to the tv, pulls up and begins to "dance" and tries to touch the "rain". It is so funny. As soon as the "local on the 8's" segment is over, he goes right back to what he was doing like nothing ever happened. I can't believe my son in a wheather nerd. Maybe he is a future meteorologist. I knew me and his father were nerds for the wheather especially when there is news of a hurricane like now but my son, my 8 mo. old son, that is just funny.

I will be publishing some video of it as soon as I record some....I'll let you know when i have it uploaded on my site.

Family Page

I have updated part of Keanu's family page...click the above link that says family or you can click HERE. When I get the page completely finished I will let you know.

Excersise

This morning when I got back from my morning 30 minute walk in hope of losing my post-pregnancy weight, I got a wild hair and decided to do a little bit extra and jump on my excersaucer (mini trampoline) for 10 minutes straight while I watched the morning news. I put peanut in his crib so he could take his morning nap (also so he wouldn't try to join me on the trampoline and get hurt and I can get something accomplished), and I began to bounce around. I turned away from the tv (to see if peanut had fallen asleep yet) to see my son jumping up and down in his crib just like mommy was doing. It was so unbelievably cute. Like mother like son. After our mini ten minute work out, peanut fell fast asleep from pure exhaustion.

Wonder Words

My husband, Fletcher, said to me today & I quote "I love seeing you play (on the floor) with peanut". Those are just the sweetest words to hear. It made me feel all warm and squishy inside. It is good that he has noticed, and felt obligated to commend me on what a good job I am doing. I feel like a proud mommy, the proudest mommy in the world.

Congrats Peanut...

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My peanut is getting so big, I can't believe it has been 8 mos. already. Time sure does fly by.

I finally got a WAVE...

Yesterday, while in the car with my father-in-law (peanut's paw paw), peanut waved to me- the open, close the hand kind of wave. He will also do the whole arm up and down wave. Right now he is more than likely to mimic your whole arm wave versus the open close hand wave. He has to initiate the open close hand wave so that YOU can mimic HIM. I thought he would never wave back. I started teaching him the wave thing at 6 mos. As soon as he gets both waves down pat I am going to move on to blowing kisses which will be 'oh so cute!'

Mimic Me

Peanut has really started up the mimic stage for the past couple of weeks. He is grunt "huh" and expect you to do it back to him. If you do copy him, prepare to be mimicing for the next hour. Also, Since he has been sick he has started fake coughing so that you can fake cough back at him. Very Funny!

HEMORRHOIDS?!?!?!?

Why must a woman get hemorrhoids after giving birth?? I mean I am only 22, I shouldn't be having problems with hemorrhoids. It just goes to show how much a womans body goes through during and after the birth process. I have decided to post my bodies latest endevor of slowing trying to go back to "normal" as a simple means of documentation for my son when he turns 18. On his 18th birthday I plan to sit him down and make him read all of these entries- my pregnancy, after birth experiences, raising him, etc.- so he will know what all I have gone through for him, also that he never forgets it. Like I said as I was giving birth to my wonderful bundle of joy "I better get Hella Mother's Day Presents!" and I mean that.

So to Keanu "Peanut" I want to say...
You mother has been through "hell" and back for you, don't you ever forget that. I love you more than life itself, but you must know the pain I had to go through to have you. You are very special and will always hold a very special place in my heart; just know that I wouldn't do this for just anyone, I chose to do this for you- count yourself lucky.

I love you so much!

Finally Over

...Peanut's sickness is finally gone, he just has a little cough left but that is it. I am so thankful, that was pretty rough for him. I on the other hand have what I believe to be strep. I know, yucky. Where I got it I have no idea, but the good thing is peanut doesn't have it and I am almost over it so it is smooth sailing from here.

Sickness

Peanut and I are both extremely ill. We both have really bad colds. This is the first time peanut has been sick, so he is taking it pretty bad. He has a runny nose, fever of 100.5, whopping cough, I believe his throat hurts because everytime he coughs he starts crying like it hurts, he doesn't want to eat. He is just so miserable. I hope we both get better soon.
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Pulling up to standing

Peanut has completely mastered the pulling up to standing thing. He now gets into everything, he likes to climb all over me when I am trying to do my excersises making it near impossible to do them. He has also mastered the sitting without any hands thing. It looks so funny to me to see him sitting there not supported by anything.

Here is a picture of peanut playing with his teddy bear his great aunt bought him sitting completely up by himself:


Also, he turned 7 months old today!!! Congrats Peanut!

Mother & Son

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The Wave

Peanut waved at me today, in the kitchen. I don't know whether he was trying to do the "come here wave" or the "goodbye wave". It was kind of sideways so it could have been either one. At least he is trying to pick it up.

First Swim

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Pulling Up

Peanut began pulling up on various thing in the house. He only pulls up to his knees but it is a start. I had to put up all the breakable things in the house, move vcr & dvd player to a high shelf (peanut's favorite thing to do is push the buttons), basically make my house look completely bare.

It is so amazing how fast they grow just last week he started crawling now he is pulling up. Before I know it he will be in college.

First of many

Peanut ate his very first cookie today. I bought some "bitter biscuits" at the store for him to gum to help his teeth to come through and make him feel better. He LOVED them. He couldn't really eat it yet but when it was completely soaked with slobber I took it away from him and he made the biggest fit.

Also another new accomplishment today was that he has started to drink watered down apple juice out of a sippy cup. He is such a big boy now. He doesn't really understand the whole concept of a sippy cup, I'll give him a couple days to figure it out.

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"DA"

I slowly roll out of bed this morning to see my husband actually up and changing my sons diaper. Very shocking, since I am the one that is usually doing this. It was very quiet in the room, peanut wasn't babbling, my husband wasn't talking to him. I walk over and sit in the rocking chair and watch them during this oh so cute bonding experience. Then out of no where my son looks at my husband and says "DA". I jumped from my chair and run over to the crib. My husband just smiles at peanut and says "That's right, DA DA". I began jumping around histerically, running throughout the house screaming "my son said DA DA, my son said DA DA". I was so proud.

Later that day, my husband was home from work and playing with the peanut. Well, by playing I mean he was making the peanut mad with his beard. Peanut hates my husband's beard. So peanut was throwing a fit that my husband wouldn't leave him alone and stop putting his beard on his face. And then in the middle of his fit he says "'Op Da Da". Which in peanut language means "Stop daddy". So very cute. My husband immediately quit and he said, "Oh, I'm sorry peanut, I'll 'op".

Apple Juice

Along with starting green beans for the first time today, peanut also has started to have some diluted apple juice. Now you would think that every kid LOVES apple juice. This is not so. Peanut doesn't like it at all. Been trying to give it to him in between his lunch and supper. Whenever he gets a swallow he does "the shiver" like in the video below of him eating green beans, I get the same exact reaction with the apple juice.

First taste of Greenies

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Best Blog Contest!!!

Please go and vote for my blog. I am under the category of "Best 'A Day In My Life' Blog", title of my blog is Life with Baby, Little Keanu.

Click the button to the right to cast your vote, I have linked it directly to the voting page so you will be able to vote quickly.

Thank you so much for your time and energy. Peanut and I really appreciate it.

6 month Doctor Appointment

Peanut had his 6 month check up at the doctor's office. Doctor says he is developing just fine, his head is rounding out good. And she was amazed when I told her that he could already say "Ma, Ma". Unfortunately he had 2 shots today in his little thighs. He was so mad when that happend, he was talking all kinds of smack to the lady that stuck him. It was very funny. He was crying and talking at the same time, in the middle of it he said "Ma, Ma" and looked at me as if he was saying "Ma, Ma that lady is mean, she hurt me!".

Well we just got home from the doc's and I immediately gave him a dose of baby tylenol, so he doesn't get too cranky because of the shots. He is laying on the floor now trying to go to sleep. He is so cute.

Tomorrow, I need to start weening him off of his pacey. Doctor said he needs to be off of it by one year. She said that I should only give it to him during naps and bedtime. This is gonna be difficult, I feel very sad to have to do this. I mean it is his pacey. It makes him happy. He is so cute with it, and he does this funny tounge thing with it. He put the pacey in one side of his mouth and sticks him tounge out the other side. But I suppose it is time. Over the weekend I noticed that he had over half of it in his mouth. Scared me to death!

So, this post is dedicated to the pacey. We love you. You save us from uncontrollable screaming in stores. We definately miss you. We shall never forget the great times we have had together.

New Milestone

Peanut's latest milestone that he has mastered is sitting by himself. He will go from his stomach to sitting all by himself, without any of my help. He started doing this last Friday but I wasn't sure if it was just a one time deal or not. I watched him over the weekend and he in fact can do it on his own.

Congrats to the Peanut on his latest milestone accomplishment!!!

Photo of the Day

Your Baby Photo Is Featured!

Peanut has made baby photo of the day, AGAIN! This is the second time he has gotten this honor. You can click the image above to go and view his pictures. Oh, one more thing before you go, DON'T FORGET TO VOTE!!!!

Thank you so much!

Sweet Potatoes?

Peanut had his first taste of sweet potatoes today. As you can tell by his face he welcomed it with an open mouth. I don't think he liked the squash very much. I don't blame him either, I am not a big fan of squash either.
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Baby photo of the day

Peanut made "Baby Photo of the Day" over at Rate My Baby Pics. Go check out Peanut's Pictures and Don't Forget to vote!

First time eating baby food out of a jar...

Peanut ate baby food out of a jar for the very first time...the veggie he started with, SQUASH!!! Needless to say, as you can see in the picture, he didn't like it so much.

Because he looked like he was having such an awful time eating it, I only made him eat half a jar and then he drank 6 ounces of formula. What he doesn't know is that he has to finish the jar for lunch...dum dum dum.

Hands & Knees

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Riding home from taking hubby to work...

Ma Ma Ma Ma, I hear coming from the back of the car.
Ma Ma Ma Ma, I hear coming from the mouth of my son.
Ma Ma Ma Ma, I hear my son calling out to me.
Ma Ma Ma Ma, I hear all that teaching wasn't done in vain.
Ma Ma Ma Ma, I hear and my heart is filled with pride.
Ma Ma Ma Ma, I hear and a tear fills my eye.
Ma Ma Ma Ma, I hear and call my husbands cell.
Ma Ma Ma Ma, I hear and bragging I begin to sell.
Ma Ma Ma Ma, I hear because only mothers can tell that...
Ma Ma Ma Ma, means "mother I love you, you've taught me very well".

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Picnic @ the Lake

Today we had a picnic at the lake with my Uncle. I had to feed peanut cereal for the very first time out in public. It was an adventure let me tell you. Of course he didn't want to eat it properly and ended up getting fussy. So I just gave in and fed him a bottle instead of trying to fight with the cereal.

First taste of Oatmeal.

Today peanut finally got to move on from rice cereal to oatmeal. At first it took him a minute to get used to the texture, it is thicker than rice. After he got used to the texture, I think he liked it. He was making his usually humming yummy noises while I was feeding him.

Also today, Peanut has started spitting. You know the whole tounge out, blowing, slobber going everywhere kind of spitting. It is funny and gross all at the same time. Ah the joys of discovering what our mouths can do.

My Brother's Graduation

I can't believe it. My brother has graduated from High School. Man I feel old.
This was the first time peanut had to be somewhere and be quiet for a long period of time. About 2 hours. He did very very well. Everyone was so shocked at how well behaved he was. My uncle brought his neice and she was cutting up the whole time and had to be taken out of the auditorium. Peanut didn't say a peep. It was great.
At the reception, I showed off my husband and son to all my old high school teachers. They were so shocked. It was great. I had a blast, and my husband didn't mind it that much.

A small note to my brother...

Congratualtions, Cody...you did a very good job. Good luck on your future, I hope you get to do exactly what you want to do. Don't ever stop trying to follow your dream. I know you will be able to do what you wanna do. Don't ever settle for second best.

Screaming

As of Sunday, peanut has started doing this screaming thing. He will just screaming at the top of his lungs in this high pitch. It is rather funny. I suppose he is trying to figure out all the pitches and tones that his voice can do. It is hilarious to watch and listen to him.

Also over the weekend, he mastered the art of rolling over....back to front and front to back. He can do it now with no hesitation or limitations. Since he can't claw yet and he sees something that he wants, he will either roll to it or keep going around in circles on his stomach till he finally reaches his destination. I wish I had a video camera to tape him doing it.

Week of May 1-7 Update

So I have been very busy this past week working on my websites that I have kind of neglected telling you all what has been going on in the wonderful life of the peanut. Well Peanut's latest accomplishments over the past few weeks are:

1. He can roll from his back to his stomach and vice versa
2. He has started to practice holding his own bottle
3. He started eating rice cereal from a spoon on April 19, 2005
4. Started playing in his bouncy chair.
5. Perfected the art of bringing things to his mouth
6. Can hold weight on his legs- Makes walking motions when held
7. Discovered his feet 2 weeks ago, tries to put them in his mouth.

156!!!!

Just checking in, to tell ya'll that I have lost 4 lbs!!!! Yeah! for me.

I also pixeled this girl; in honor of my new found yoga lifestyle.....


It is me doing my yoga...LOL. I think she is cute. It took me all day to finish her.

My First Mother's Day

Yesterday was my first Mother's Day EVER!!!! Since my Mother's day presents from my husband are going to be late, I told him that I wanted to do absolutely nothing all day long. That means he had to take care of peanut, our step-kids (Kris and Kam) and make me 3 square meals. By the time 5 o'clock came around he was about to die. He came begging to me to take the peanut. He was basically throwing in the towel and he still had to cook me dinner. Well I refused for him to give up on me, because I wanted him to see what a stay at home mom does all day. At the end of the day he said to me..."Ok, you win...I now respect what you do & I never want to do it again!" LOL. I finally got my husband to respect that a SAHM is a full time job, 24 hours a day. Even though he learned a really good lesson. The house is a complete disaster. He usually comes home complaining because I didn't clean up the house during the day, but he can't say that to me anymore because he left the sink overflowing with dishes, dinner from last night still on the stove, clean clothes on the living room floor and all he did was keep the kids a day; imagine what would have happened if he had to keep them a week. It literally looks like a tornado came through here. He completely distroyed all of the cleaning I had done the prior week in just one day. It is just sad.

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Discovered his right foot

Peanut discovered his right foot this morning. When I woke up this morning and went to his crib he was just laying there holding his foot. He has been playing with that one foot all morning. He is so funny.

I'm depressed

Today, I feel very depressed. You see, yesterday 2 people told me that I was fat...Let's see how did they put it..."You've put on weight, you were supposed to keep your figure" "I thought I saw you the other day at the quickie store but wasn't sure it was you, it looked like you had put on a few pounds, I remembered you as being skinnier." In today's F****ed up society a woman is supposed to miraculously shed all of the weight that she put on during pregnancy, the second she has the baby; like Hollywood for example. When did we get this idea from? Do people really know what all your body goes through when you have a baby? It took me 9 months for me to get this fat.....What makes you think that I am just going to loose it just like that??? I have already lost 27 lbs. Granted I am not back to my perky 110 lb. self, but damn people. I am working my @$$ off, literally, I can only loose the weight as fast as my body will allow me to. Why do I have to feel so much pressure to loose weight? I absolutely hate it when people need to point out to you the most obvious flaw of your body, as if I didn't wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and think to myself..."Yet another fat day". I guess that is one of the reasons why I don't get out of the house unless I absolutely have to. I hate when my husband asks me to come visit him at his job, I just know all those skinny b****es look at me and think to themselves "I will never be that fat when I have a baby" or "d***, she is STILL huge". I hate having to face my husbands colleagues. I hate having to be the fat wife. I want to be back to my small perky cute self, where I could just go into my closet and pick from tons of different outfits and whatever outfit I do decide to choose for that day I can just put on and never think twice about whether or not it was going to fit today, but the reality is that 3/4ths of my clothes do not fit, I wear the same things week in and week out, I stay secluded in my tiny apartment 24/7 only emerging twice a day to take my husband to and from work. This is no life to live. If society wasn't so F***ed up I could show my face in public without fear of the horrible criticism of my weight. "Oh the peanut is soooo cute, but you are soooo fat" they say to me. F*** all of you criticizing @$$holes, not caring about one's feelings, not thinking before you speak. Didn't anyone's mother teach them better, didn't anyone teach you to say kind words not hateful criticizing words. I would never in a million years think of telling someone that they are fat, or point out any other flaw to them, why must everyone so insistently do it to me?

4 Month Check-up

Peanut had a doctors appointment today....He weighs 15 lbs. 5 ounces; & is 27 inches long. My Little boy is growing up. He had his 4 month shots today...4 big long needles, poor little guy. He is very fussy at the moment, tylenol isn't quite working for him. Doc. said I can start giving him cereal. I plan on starting that tonight when my hubby gets home, he was just too ill when we got home today. I plan on getting picks of his first time eating, so be looking out for those...but until then...

2 NEW SITES

Hey guys, Guess what??

Ok I'll tell you...I have been busy the last couple of days preparing my family site and my personal website for viewing by the public. I have just finishednearly finished my family one. I have choosen to entitle it Day Dreams in the House of Batts.

I just started on my personal site today....give me about a week and it will be completely finished *crosses fingers* hopefully. But if you want to check in on me periodically and see my progress feel free to visit my Butterfly Garden.

Just wanted to let everyone know in case you wanted to go and check it out.
I hope everyone likes it.

UPDATE

Ok guys & gals, I wanted to give everyone an update as to what I have been doing lately since I obviously haven't been posting. Well peanut is currently teething so I have to take more care of him as he is very fussy. My husband has been using the good computer to download some stuff during the day which causes the laptop to be extremely slow so I just haven't even bothered trying to use it- patience level isn't very high. And now is the time of year that I like to garden, so I have just taken up my gardening again. So chances are I will be playing in the dirt for a while and spending a little less time in front of the computer. I miss all you guys (*cough *cough angela- my new bloggin' buddy, hee hee--I had to give you a little shout out, don't you feel speshy) & I promise I will be up and posting regularly again by the end of the month *crosses fingers*. Hopefully by that time I will have all my blogs updated to my liking and I will begin to update my website. Yep, that sounds like a good plan to me. So that is the plan for now, if I can stick with it.

Easter Bunny Came to Town

We caught the easter bunny trying to leave easter baskets at out house. If anyone wanted to know what he actually looks like, this is it. I'm so glad I had my camera on me...lol.

Spring is FINALLY Here

we have been waiting for you.
I have
and for some reason I have this overwhelming urge to garden and do some spring cleaning. Why is that? Why when springtime comes that I feel I just have to clean. So very weird, now whether or not I act upon it is a completely different story...lol. Hey what can I say I am just

2 weeks

It has now been two weeks since peanut started sleeping through the night. He has been sleeping through the night from my last post on. It is great and so amazing. It was just like one day he decided, you know what I think I will sleep through the night, and that is exactly what he did and has been doing ever since that wonderful night two weeks ago. My baby boy is growing up so fast. I was looking at his birth pictures as I was uploading some new ones to my online photo album I just can't believe how much he has grown and changed, it is just absolutely amazing...I also get a little sad because i know he is going to grow up so fast and i don't want him to, i want him to stay my lil baby forever...but we can't do that so I gotta suck it up and roll with the punches.

In other news...
Well as of two months peanut can say " I love you" I didn't know if I had told ya'll this or not. I must tell him that I love him way too much because now he is saying it back to me. Some people catch it and others don't.

I thought wrong

The other day (a few posts down) I thought that I had a wonderful nights sleep. I was wrong. Last night was the BEST nights sleep I have had since I gave birth. Why you ask? Well for the simple fact that peanut actually slept from 10 pm to 8 am. He slept 10 HOURS!!!! I am completely shocked. He skipped not one but two feedings. I am still amazed. It feels so good to finally be rested, I hardly know what to do with myself.

A Mothers Wrath

Today I had to drive my husband up to Atlanta for work and I took my mother with me for safety reasons. Anyways, on the way back home we decided to stop at JcPenny Outlet to shop. While we were there this old lady-grandmother-comes up to me and starts talking to Peanut. Saying how cute he is, touching all over him, taking his paci away from him, etc. Now I am usually not a person to get mad at people touching my child but on this day I was at my wits end. Peanut had some eye boogers in his eye because in his left eye his tear duct isn't completely open so he gets mucous build up in it, which is a very common newborn problem. Well this lady proceeds to tell me that I need to wipe the stuff from his eye. So I proceed to do so in my own way, since it is MY child and the lady turns to me and says "YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG!" "No not that way, honey". I turned to her so quick and said and I quote "DON'T TELL ME HOW TO TAKE CARE OF MY CHILD". She said, "I was just trying to tell you how to do it right". What the hell, what is right? How can you tell someone else how to raise their own child. I became in raged, snatched peanuts paci from the lady and walked away. I don't know what came over me. I am usually not a person to speak my mind but at that point I think I had just had it with everyone trying to tell me how to raise my child. I am especially sick of people either leaning over him or not acknowledging that he is there and bumping his seat that he is in with their large asses, complete strangers touching him, and especially old lady's thinking that they know every damn thing there is to know about raising a child. Whatever happened to "Mother knows best". I feel as if I have the biggest ballz on the planet right now, and you know what? it feels pretty damn good. I think from now on I am going to speak my mind especially when it comes to peanut. I shall not be quiet nor shy anymore from this day forward. And to all those people out their that come upon an insanely cute child whatever you do: do not touch or try to tell the mother how to raise them; you are just asking for trouble if you do....just a word of caution.

A Wonderful Night

I just had a wonderful 6 hours of sleep...How you ask?? Peanut slept for 6 hours last night, I was so shocked. I kept waking up every hour to make sure he was alright, since I am not used to him sleeping past 4 hours. I was so shocked when he slept from 10 pm to 4 am. Hopefully he will keep this up every night and start adding on a couple more hours. Maybe I won't be so irritable if I get a few good nights of sleep at least a couple nights a week. **Crossing Fingers**

I'm sick

Well I am as sick as a dog with a nasty cold. Where I got it from I have no idea, seeing how I haven't left the house in quite some time now. I hope peanut doesn't get it, because it really sucks and doesn't feel good at all. I can't really take any medicine for it because i don't want to be passed out and disoriented when peanut cries- I might not hear him. So I guess I just gotta tough it out. It is days like this that I wish motherhood had sick days, I would call in in a second.

Look @ that Punum!

This is the face peanut gives us after Fletcher kisses peanut on the cheeks. He doesn't like Fletcher's rough scruffy beard, and who came blame him that stuff feels like sand paper. This photos looks as if he should be saying..."What? No MILK?!?!?!" lmao

Mummy, I'm ready to go now!

Here is a picture of peanut in his new (too big but warm) outfit on our vacation last weekend to Chattanooga, TN.

Thank you very much UNCLE CODY

Peanut has the flu thanks to his uncle, my brother Cody. He came down a couple days before we left for our anniversary trip back to the place we had our honeymoon. He had the flu about a week or so, thought he was over it and came over to my house to talk to my husband. Well he wasn't over it and Peanut got it. Along with the flu, peanut just got his first set of shots on Friday. So we went up to Chattanooga-that is where we had our honeymoon/anniversary- with Peanut being sick and irritable from the shots. Lets just say that this past weekend was pure HELL. We didn't get any sleep, hardly got to do anything outside of the hotel. It rained on Sunday so we couldn't go to Rock City. And on top of that we spent all of my savings. On what you might ask? Food!!!! So the past oh lets say 5 days or so, have been pretty sucky. Tylenol doesn't work, doctor won't give him anything he is too younge (she said it will go away in a few days), peanut keeps screaming at the top of his lungs, he won't eat, hence he won't pee or poop, he won't sleep, hence we don't sleep. If you wanna know what hell is like have a two month old baby screaming at the top of his lungs and having absolutely no way to console him, you try everything and nothing works.....yep i think that is what hell is like.

Superbowl Sunday

How about this for a superbowl sunday.....get dinner ready, on the plate, just as you sit down to watch the game with your oh so fresh beverage be side you, the soround sound boomin' then just as the national anthem is sung the LIGHTS GO OUT!!!!! Who in their right mind would let the lights go out just as the superbowl starts?!?!?! It eventually came on just before the sucky halftime show. But as I awoke this morning I began to wonder why in the hell did the lights go out? Upon watching the local news I learn that some idiot ran into a utility pole and ran....he was later arrested but he cost alot of people in the area their power, and the start of the greatest game of the year. To that IDIOT I dedicate this post. Thank you IDIOT for giving us the suckiest superbowl EVER!!!!

ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Today is me and my husbands one year anniversary!!!! Don't tell anyone but I got him a 10 kt white gold diamond and catseye right hand ring....Shhhh! it's a surprise.

Colic

The word that no mother wants to hear nor admit that their child has......it is COLIC. The symptoms of colic are....crying inconsolably, often screaming, extending or pulling up their legs and passing gas. I started noticing it today. I could not console him to save my life. Then I recently got something in the mail explaining colic and the symptoms as I lay there watching my child scream his head off I realize that he was extending and pulling up his legs and I've notice for a while that he has had alot of gas. It is very nerve racking and Fletcher (my husband) cannot handle it at all. He always passes peanut off to me when he starts crying. It is very hard for me. I feel like I am doing everything wait I take that back I AM doing everything. Fletcher never does anything with peanut unless he is quiet. I have to get up in the middle of the night 2 or 3 times and feed him, I have to always change his diapers, I have to stop him from crying. I understand that he works during the week but damn can't i get just one day to myself....saturday to sleep in and do what I want to do. I know this started out to be a post about colic and turned into a rant about my husbands lack of fathering but I am so sleep deprived that all i need are a few good hours and my husband can't see that. I haven't been able to sleep threw the night at all since peanut was born almost two months ago. Tomorrow is our anniversary and since we are straped for cash i told my husband that i wanted one good nights sleep and that he does the nightly feedings just for one night....and would he give that to me on our anniversary...NO, why because he is selfish.

As I was writing this post I began to get very irritated with my husband so I took it upon myself to bring the issue up with my husband, which of course turned into this big ordeal. The argument in a nutshell consisted of him not recognizing nor respecting my job as a stay at home mom. He doesn't realize that it is a full time job just like his. He thinks that I sit at home doing nothing all the time. He says that he has to "recharge" on the weekends. But isn't willing to sacrafice one night of sleep every couple of weeks so that I can "recharge". I essential work a 24 hour job while he does 40 hours a week. Where is it fair? Where is it written that just because you work outside of the home that you don't have to be a father and just pass off your child to someone else when you are tired. After arguing and not getting anywhere. I have just given up on him. If he doesn't want to help then fine, peanut will remember this down the road. I've realized that bringing stuff up to him isn't worth it. He isn't going to listen nor want to change. Thatz it. So if I have a problem or whatever I guess I will have to rant here instead of arguing with my husband. Oh yeah, one thing he said was that everytime we argue he gets more and more pissed off at me to where he wants a divorce. He thinks that we aren't compatible just because we are married. What he doesn't realize is that the first year of marriage is the hardest because it is alot of give and take and adjusting to living with one another. He thinks that we are never going to argue. Someone please name me one couple that has never argued in their whole lives together. I didn't think so...you can't! It just isn't possible. No matter how "good" you are.

I am pretty sure this argument isn't over seeing how nothing was resolved. So I shall be posting alot on this matter as I try to convince my husband to recognize my job as a wife and stay at home mom.

I've got Hands!

I am starting to notice that peanut is not starting to find his hands. He is putting them in his mouth and just today he started watching them as he frailed them around in the air. My little one is growing up so fast....LOL.

Yet another Addiction

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Coo Coo

Peanut is starting to try to talk. He is cooing alot more now, not as a prequal to crying either. He is just cooing to coo. It is absolutely adorable. He is also staying awake alot more during the day and trying to sleep at night. We still have our nights were he doesn't want to sleep but he is learning the difference between night and day and that is always a good thing for mummy.
Peanut is also starting to respond to the faces that I make at him whilst I hold him on the computer. I stick out my tounge and he is starting to figure out how to stick his out too. Too Cute! Today I was singing along with the radio to him and he was cooing along....I think I must have sang that song alot whilst he was in the womb ; it was as if he knew it.....LOL.
Mummy's little man is growing up so quickly. Even though I want him to be more independant, I'm going to miss these baby days, years down the road.

Remembering this moment always.

Winter Storm in the south brought lots of Ice coating the tree limbs as a result one of the limbs fell on my brothers car busted out his window and dinted the roof. Sucks for him, doesn't it! He called and told me as soon as it happend I just had to go over there and take pictures.

Lucky Byrd 1996-2005

I am sad to announce that my favorite pet, Lucky Byrd passed away today. I came home from running errands and he was sitting on the bottom of the cage breathing real heavy, so I scooped him in my hand and began to pet him on the head, something I've always wanted to do but he would never let me do when he was well. After a few short minutes he turned his head and looked up at me ant then passed away in my hand. He was the greatest pet I had ever had and one that I will sorely miss. To my first "child" I dedicate this post:

Lucky Byrd
R.I.P. 1996-2005

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HE ROLLED OVER!!!!

OMG, Peanut just rolled over from his stomach to his back. Fletcher said he did it the yesterday too!!!! He is only 3 weeks old and he is already rolling over and holding his head up. Amazing! Thatz my boy! *smiles the proudest mother in the world*

My Arse Is HUGE!!!

OMG! My arse is so big!!! My mother being the kind woman that she has offered to buy me some clothes since I just had the baby and I am still walking around in my pregnancy garb. Well we went to Old Navy or "Slave" Navy as I call it (my previouse employer- that should explain the nickname); I have no idea what size i wear so my mother suggested that I might wear a twelve in jeans. First of all I have never worn double digits in my whole life and the thought of me wearing a twelve just blows my mind. Anyways, I sucked it up and went into the dressing room to try them on. First of all I could barely pull the twelve over my fat thighs and when I finally did the button and zipper were so far apart that was no hope nor prayer of getting those two together. And that was supposed to be the loose pair of jeans. I didn't even want to look at the other pair. I quickly put my pregnancy jeans back on and left the dressing room. I don't even want to know what size I really am. The thing that sucks is that Old Navy sizes run a size bigger. So if I can't fit in their twelve which is normally a fourteen somewhere else then I probably wear like an eighteen or even a twenty. A TWENTY, OMG the thought of that just makes me shutter. That is it I am going on a seriouse diet with some hella excersise on the side. I want to at least be able to wear jeans on my one year anniversary in three weeks- February 6th- even if they are a size twelve.

Wish me luck!

Depression

Depression is a terrible and very sad "disease"/ condition to see a person go through; especially when there is no way of helping them. That person that I am talking about I am sad to say is my mother. As of Thursday night she has slowly been slipping into a deep depression unable to pull herself out of it. It all started with an incident at work, well actually it started about a year ago when the new doctor that she is going to decided to take her off of her meds and then all of a sudden she began to change from a happy go lucky person to this very moody and testy person. My fear being around her was always saying the wrong thing and she getting in her pissy mood. But something happened at her job Thursday that basically threw her over the edge. I don't know what to do for her. I know the only thing that would help her is if she got back on her medication.

Her attitude is so weird it is almost hard to explain. It is if she can't distinguish between what is reality and what she is just making up in her head. She thinks everyone is talking about her and judging every little thing that she does. She doesn't believe she is " good enough " for anybody. Anything she says is immediately followed by an apology for what she just said; she thinks that everything she thinks is going to hurt someones feelings. She keeps asking if what she is thinking and saying is stupid.

Today we went up to my folks house and ate ribs for lunch. My father said that she is getting worse, now that she is delusional. He said that yesterday, she thought that me and my husband were getting married at the methodist church down the road . She then later couldn't think of my son's name, Keanu. Then today he said that she thought she had stolen money from her old job and that she was going to take it out of her savings plan and pay them back.

It is very weird and bizzar around here now a days. It is one thing to see her going through the depression, but now to watch her just be completely out of her mind is pretty hard to handle. I mean that is my mother. Everything is supposed to be great with her. She is supposed to be all happy and excited especially since she just became a grandmother. But to see her not even know his name. It is just sad. It makes me real sad. The worse thing to me I think is that I am to the point where I don't want to be around her when she is like this. It scares me in a way. I know I need to be there for her but I don't want to see her like that. It makes me hurt and very very sad.

I just don't know what to do...so I have resorted to blogging about it. Heaven help us all.

Finally!!!

Finally, Keanu's umbillical cord stub finally fell out Thursday morning. It seems like it had taken forever for that thing to fall of. I was almost to the point when I was tired of looking at it. When it feel of though there was all this left over blood from the birth, kinda gross if you ask me. But we have a belly button now, so it is all good.

We just couldn't wait!

Uh-oh!!!! Something just happened. You know that whole thing that when you give birth you are supposed to wait 6 weeks before having sex. Well we kinda didn't. It is 3 weeks post exactly today, and we just got caught up in the heat of the moment, and to add to the horror he didn't pull out. I am going to be so embarrassed if I get pregnant again so soon after giving birth. I tried to do the research and see how long after giving birth you are supposed to ovulate; but I couldn't really find out anything. I really hope I am not pregnant nor have I made an infection *down there*. Just cross your fingers that I haven't screwed up royally.

Happy Freakin' New year

So this is how I spent ringing in the new year:

With MTV Live at Times Square Countdown on Television, Husband asleep in bed (noone to kiss when the ball drops), a pint of Ben & Jerry's Coffee Ice Cream in one hand and a sleeping baby in the other.

Happy Freakin' New Year to Me!

Exhaustion

So this is what exhausted feels like. Man, they weren't playing when they said get all the rest that you can now, BEFORE the baby comes because you won't get any for several weeks after he is home. Well I will vouch for that. That is definately a true statement. It almost pisses me off to try to sleep. I am not one of those people that the second their head hits the pillow they are asleep. No I am a tosser, I at least toss 5 or 6 times before I am comfortable....which is about a half an hour or so. And just as I get good and sleep, peanut wakes up and needs to be changed or fed. He only sleeps in two hour intervals. So how am I expected to get any rest.

I made a deal with Fletcher that he had peanut duty when he gets off of work till midnight, and in the morning before he goes to work. Well this morning I hit Fletcher and told him that it was his turn because i had hit my limit. Well he was supposed to go into work today. I guess he was tired too. He called in and told them he won't be back till wednesday. Yes! That means momma gets to get some rest. YIPPEE!!!!

What a way to spend Xmas Eve

Well we had to take peanut to the emergency room on Christmas Eve because his thrush had gotten really bad to the point where he was not eating. Thrush is when the babies tounge gets coated with white stuff. When it is a really bad case- which peanut has- it can cause their throat to start hurting, making it a pain to swallow. The doctor says it is an oral yeast infection. Most babies get it, they are trying to build up their immune system in their new environment. Anyways they gave us a prescription and we had to go way across town to get it filled. But you gotta do what you gotta do.

Finally Home

Getting my rest...I've had a long couple of days.
We had to admit Keanu back into the hospital Monday for his jaundice. They decided to go ahead to do the light treatment, to get his billierueben count down. When he was admitted his count was 16. When he left Tuesday his level was a 13. He has another doctor's Wednesday for a follow-up to make sure that his level continues to go down. Seeing him in the hospital with the little mask over his eyes and the IV, looking so helpless. I couldn't help but cry. I felt so bad for him. Even though he wasn't in any pain, and he liked being under the light I still felt bad for him just being there and not at home. Any mother that has had to seen their child like that can relate, i'm sure.

Time to come home

Today we got to bring the peanut home. And he got to sleep in his crib for the very first time. Tomorrow he has to go back to the doctor for a follow-up and to monitor his jaundice. If his billieruben level has gone up then he might have to go back into the hospital.

We have a BABY!!!!

KEANU DEAN

7 lbs 13 oz.

Time: 11:40 AM

20 1/4 inches long

Place: MCCG

History of the Birth:

I went into labor Thursday, December 16, 2004 (my official due date) at 5 pm. just as Fletcher was getting off of work. We went to the hospital around 10 o'clock and they made me walk around for an hour to see if I would dialate. I did. I went from 3 to 4 cent. So they admitted me at 11 pm. Around 1 or 2 am I received an epidural because the pain was starting to get to me. It is strange I thought that getting an epidural would be really really painful, but it wasn't. I've had worse antibiotic shots than that. It was weird how the epidural felt. It was as if i had cut off the circulation to my legs and they were just at the tingly stage. And for some reason everyone wanted to rub my legs or feet or something. That was really annoying because if you know when your feet are at the sleepy tingly stage and you try to walk then it feels like needles. Well I started resting for the pushing part and about 4 am they started giving me oxygen because Keanu's heartbeat was going down. They gave me another dose of the epidural at 8 am. I definately didn't want it wearing off. Around 9 am the Dr. arrived at the hospital. About 10 or 10:30 I began pushing. The dr. used a vaccuum to help me along. She had to cut me down there and Fletcher said i also ripped. When Keanu was born I was just flooded with emotions and just started bawling. The doctor made sure Keanu was ok before she started finishing up the after birth process.

It is almost time....

Today I am.....

35 weeks pregnant!

I can't believe that I am just 5 or less weeks away from delivery. It still hasn't hit me that I am about to be a mother. I guess I won't feel it until I actual hold Keanu in my arms.

I still have so much to do to prepare for him, wish me luck.

Anxiously Waiting...

Today I am exactly 30 weeks pregnant...Just 2 more months until Keanu arrives.