2 month check up

Well I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter. I actually didn't have to work so we went to church and then took pictures after. Well me and Jackson took pictures. I am at work posting this so I will have to post pictures later. So we had a great time at church. Then Tuesday we had Jackson's 2 month check up. He now weighs 12lbs 0.9oz. He is getting to be a really big boy. He also had to get shots. He got 2 in one leg and one in the other leg. He screamed a little but I just picked him up and gave him his passy back and he went to sleep. I had to go to work so I didn't get to see him much. That is the hardest thing. I miss getting to see him on the days that I work back to back. It is very sad. Justin sends me pictures and things that help me get through the night. Oh well I guess I will get back to work. I will get to go home soon and sleep then pick up my baby!!! Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter.

Happy Sunday!

Well not much has happened since I last posted. Natasha is in town this week to hang out with us. I did get to go yesterday out with the girls from church. Tash went with us too. We went to Mimi's cafe then to get a pedicure. It was wonderful. Then I had to go to work. I am about to get off and go home to go to sleep. Justin, Tasha, and Jackson are going to church so I will have a few hours by myself to sleep so that I can come back to work tonight. Oh well that is all the excitement for now. Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Happy Birthday to Me!

Well my birthday has come and gone. I really didn't get to do much. Yesterday was my first night back at work. I did a lot better than expected. I cried before I left when I was telling Jackson good-bye but after that I didn't cry. Now there might be a good reason for that. Monday night we went to Red Lobster to have a nice night out for my last night of freedom and for my birthday. So we get there and Jackson has been good all day running errands with me. Then we go to eat and he cries the entire time. I change him and feed him and he still cries. So while I was doing that Justin ate his food by himself then Justin would walk around and get him to calm down while I was eating. Needless to say it was not a fun night. I cried the whole way home. Think it was more a combination of being tired, not wanting to mess up everyone else's dinner, not being able to get him to stop crying, and knowing that I had to go back to work the next night. So I ended up getting a lot of my crying done the night before. So Tuesday, Jackson was really good and let me get a nap. Well we actually took a 3 hour nap together on the couch. Then I went to work. It wasn't a bad night. Then Jackson went for his first day at daycare. They said that he did great. His teacher loves him. He is the youngest there. All the other kids are crawling or walking so they like seeing a little one again. He was up from 10-2 while he was at daycare. Justin went and picked him up and brought him home on his lunch break so that I could sleep a little more after my first night. When Jackson got home I fed him and he went to sleep. I put him down in his little chair then laid on the couch and took a nap with him. Then I went back to work. So basically my birthday consisted of getting off work, sleeping, feeding Jackson, sleeping, and going back to work. Not a whole lot of fun but what can you do about it? We are going to try to go out again while Justin's sister is here to keep Jackson. So that is about all the updates for now. Hope everyone is doing well. Sorry there are no pictures on this one but I am not on my computer to be able to add them. Hopefully next time.

Over Due Update

Well it has been a long time since I posted. We had a great visit with Tanya, Granny and Nanaw. The week after they were here we just relaxed and got some things done around the house. On Sunday we were about to get ready for church. I was feeding Jackson and turned to Justin to tell him I had a headache and he asked me what was wrong. Apparently all the color had drained out of my face. I wasn't feeling well at all. I finished feeding Jackson and went to bed. So we didn't get to go to church or home group. Monday Jackson and I had a had a lazy day. Tuesday we cleaned up the house a little cause we had company come over. Aaron and Andrea came over and brought us dinner. It was great. They came and hung out with us and we watched a movie. We will be really sad when they move to California in May. :( The rest of the week we just hung out. Friday my mom and dad got here. I had to go to the doctor. I got cleared to go back to work. Then we went and ran errands. We were starting to head to Walmart when Justin called and said he could get tickets to the blackhawks game. So we went home and got ready and we all went to Jackson's first Blackhawks game. It was also dad's first game in Chicago. We had a great time. Jackson slept for most of the game. He can apparently sleep through anything because it was really loud and it didn't bother him at all. So then Saturday we went out for breakfast then went to the mall and walked around. After that we came home and mom and Justin took a nap while dad and I had to change Jackson and give him a bath because he had a blowout. Then we all went to dinner at Weber grill to celebrate my upcoming birthday. Then this morning mom and dad flew back home. Well they are trying to at least. We woke up to snow so their flight got delayed by an hour and a half. Not that suprising because they are flying out of OHare. So that was our week so far. I go back to work Tuesday night. I am not ready but don't have a choice. My fellow nurses know that I am coming back so they are prepared to help me through the night. So hopefully this week will go smoothly. Jackson will be headed to daycare for the first time. I will try to post more often than I have been. Hope everyone is doing well.

Busy week

Well we have already had a busy week and it is only Wednesday. Friday night Jeremy, Ashley, and Maggie got here and finally got to meet Jackson. Maggie loved him at first. She wanted to hold him and everything but then she got bored cause she figured out that he wasn't old enough to play with her. After that she just went and played with Zack. Zack was very happy to have a playmate. He has been feeling neglected. We play with him and get him new toys but he still doesn't think it is enough. he especially gets jealous when I take pictures of Jackson and don't take any of him. It is really funny. Well while they were here he loved to lay on Jeremy and just relax with Ashley. Maggie did hold him once each day but that was it. Saturday was a busy day. We got up and ate breakfast at Flat Top, went to the Woodfield mall, and then went to IKEA. After such a busy day, we came home and had Giordanos pizza. The best Chicago pizza. We then relaxed and then got up Sunday and had to say goodbye. Ashley got to hold him before they left and then Maggie said that she wanted to take him with her. But then I would have to go with them so that he had food, and Justin would be left alone so they decided to leave him with us. So after they left then we got ready for Tanya and Justin's grandmothers to get to Chicago. They made it around 3:30pm. So we hung out with them and let the great-grandmothers meet Jackson. On Monday we just had a lazy day while Justin was at work. We enjoyed hanging around the house. We had tummy time and played with Elmo. It was a good day. Justin came home and we had a good dinner and went to bed. Tuesday we got up and Justin went to work. The rest of us got ready and got on the train and went downtown. Tanya and the two grandmas went up the Sears Tower. Jackson and I did not go because Justin wants to be there the first time that he goes up. So we stayed down and he ate. After they came back down, we went to Giordanos for lunch. At Giordanos, Jackson was asleep with his pacifier in his mouth. I looked down and he was awake but without a passy. I looked all over the place and we could not find it. You know how great it is to be away from home and lose the passy. Well luckily I had brought another one. So we looked for 15 min. I was on my hands and knees on the floor looking for it. We couldn't find it. So I gave up and we were leaving. I was the last one to leave and I turned around to make sure I didn't leave anything and found the passy underneath the table next to us. He had spit it out and it bounced from the side of our table to the next table over on the opposite side. We have no idea how it got there. So we came back home on a REALLY hot train. He was really great. He was a perfect baby while we were out. Then Justin came home and we had dinner. We were all great. Then at 945 he started crying. I knew that his tummy was hurting because he didn't poop all day. Justin got up at 10 and I went to bed. I got up at 1245 and fed Jackson because he was still awake crying. After I fed him he went to bed at 1am and slept till 6. We have decided that it was propbably a combination of the wind, heat, and pizza. So I am going to try to avoid pizza for a while. Today I am eating bland things so that his tummy has time to rest. Today we are just having a lazy day to let Jackson rest. He is basically eating every 2-3 hours and other than that he is just sleeping. We did finally have a poopy diaper. Actually it was an explosion but right after that he instantly went to sleep. So I am thinking that he is feeling better. Hopefully he will have a better night tonight. Other than that we have plans to go out to dinner tonight then go out tomorrow. Hopefully he will start feeling better. Well it is about time to wake him up to feed him. We don't wake him up during the night but I do during the day! Hope everyone is having a great week. I figure since I put 3 pictures of Jackson, I should put up one of Zack!! Everyone needs to see him too!

One Month

So as you can tell we have a new computer! I can't remember if I told you but I killed the other computer by spilling Jackson's vitamins into the keyboard and it got into the motherboard. So that computer no longer works.

Can you believe Jackson is already a month old! He is getting so big. We had his one month check up yesterday. He now weighs 9lbs 2oz and is 21.5 inches long. He is between the 30-45 percentile for his age. So we are doing well. Time is flying by way too fast. I go back to work on March 31st. I am not looking forward to that. I want to see all the people that I work with but I don't want to leave Jackson. :(

Since I last updated we haven't done much. Jackson is starting to be able to hold his head up pretty well. He still can't go from laying flat and lift it up but he can if he is on his boppy pillow on his tummy. He can only do it for a little while before he gets bored or mad. Other than that we haven't done much. We are enjoying family this weekend and all next week.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend and week!!!

Update

I know I haven't been on here in a long time. Basically I killed our computer. We have ordered a new one and it should be here this week. Jackson is doing great. We got family pictures taken for his newborn pictures. It was great. Jackson is sleeping wonderfully. He only gets up once a night. And he is asleep right now so I am going to go to bed. Once we get the other conmputer I will update more. I am on Justin's computer right now and can't get on it much. Hope everyone is doing well!!