Picture Update!

Look everyone!  Do you like my new hat?  

Aunt Kimmi teaching Milo how to hold his own bottle

Trying out his Bumbo for the first time

Then he kept making super cute smiley faces

So I kept taking pictures!

Zoo Day

Last week was Milo's first trip to the zoo!  Milo really liked looking at all the new things there were to see.  Here are some highlights:

With Dad and Aunt Kim

Just hangin out

With Dad by the tigers

Aunt Kim and Milo by the giraffes

Riding the train holding his new zoo day elephant!

After his first day at the zoo, Milo was so so sleepy.  He fell asleep right on his elephant!

Turns out he's just like his Mommy!  Here's a picture of me asleep on my giraffe after a long zoo day:

Two Month Update!

Look everyone!  So big!

Weight: 12lbs 1oz (61% percentile)

Height: 22.44 inches (31% percentile)

Head Circumference: 15.6 inches (40% percentile)

Milo is doing great!  Here are some updates:

*He is a great sleeper.  Most nights, he'll go down about 10, and doesn't get up again until 5 or 6.  He's also getting on a more consistent schedule during the rest of the day.  Yay!

*He LOVES to look around and check stuff out.  He doesn't like to be covered up in his car seat anymore, and he likes to walk around and see everything there is to see!

*He is one noisy kid!  He's started to make more fun noises, and will just babble away.

*He's starting to smile more and more.  I can usually get him to smile pretty easily, unless he's cranky.  =)

All in all, everything is going wonderfully.  I sure love that little guy!

Picture Time!

So Sleepy!

 Visiting with Grandma!

Just relaxin'

He likes to sleep with his head in the most awkward positions.  It cracks me up!

Hanging out with Daddy

Nap time!

Hi Mom!  Don't mind me, I'm just sucking on my hand.  =)

Milo's New Trick!

He'll be crawling before we know it!!

The Birth Story

Okay, so here's the whole story.  It's a long one, so prepare yourself.  =)  After going home after all that NST fun, I thought for sure I'd have to wait until the next Monday (the 17th) to start my induction (which was the plan if I didn't go into labor myself).  Keep in mind, at this point, I am still only dilated to a one, and 70% effaced, and hadn't changed in weeks.  It just wasn't going to happen.  Thursday morning, I woke up about six and my water had broken!  YAY!  Cory and I got to the hospital about 6:30 ish, and got all checked in.  They had to make sure that my water really broke (I promise, it wasn't much of a question, but they still have to check), and then they had to check to see how far I was dilated now.  I thought for sure that I would have progressed some since my water broke on it's own, but alas, I was still the same!  Ridiculous!  So they did one four hour dose of cytotec, and then we started the pitocin at about noon.  My contractions started quickly, strong, and one right after another.  Now, I didn't want to be the wuss girl who asked for the epidural 15 minutes in, so I told myself I had to last at least an hour.  Honestly, I didn't think I was going to make it the full hour!  I do not understand how people can do it unmedicated.  Props to them. It didn't help that the little one was face up (they are supposed to be face down), so I had a lot of back labor too.  Right at the hour mark, I called out for the epidural man.  It took another half hour or so for him to get there and get the epidural placed, but after that, I was a happy camper!  He was totally my favorite person of the day.  I was even able to sleep for a couple hours.  And the epidural was so not that bad.  I mean, I wouldn't want to do it everyday, but it wasn't a big deal at all.  After that, we just had to wait.  And wait some more.  And some more.  I dilated about one cm per hour all the way up to the end.  That's a long time to wait!  We watched a lot of Discovery Channel.  About midnight, we started the "rest and descend" part, which is giving the baby time to move down after you are fully dilated.  He was still face up, so they wanted me to try a few things to encourage him to roll over.  They had me lay on my side, almost on my tummy, and cross my leg over, which apparently helps.  They told me I would do it on one side for twenty minutes then move to the other.  However, less that five minutes and two contractions in that position, and I knew it was time to push.  They checked again, and he had rolled over!  I pushed for just under an hour, and Milo was finally born at 1:48 am, a little less than 20 hours after the whole thing started.  Did a little recovering in the labor room, finally got to eat a little something, then moved upstairs.  Milo had to do a few things, the first bath, footprints, hep B vaccine, etc.  By the time we were all settled again, it was just after six in the morning again!  Took his time, but so worth the wait!

Happy Birthday Milo!

 Sitting and waiting!  He took his sweet time getting here, that's for sure.

 Look everyone!  Here I am!

 Getting all ready to go home from the hospital

 Chilling in his swing at home

 Cory and I in the delivery room

Just looking around at this weird new world, trying to decide if it's okay or not.  :-)