4 Months

Ryan,

I can't believe you are 4 months! If feels like just yesterday that me and daddy were praying to have a baby, and here you are 4 months old. You are such a joy in our lives, I tell daddy all the time I can't remember life before you. I love you so much and love being your mommy :)

Here is what your are up to!

•  You are in size 3 diapers... you can still fit 2, but 3's fit better.
• You eat 6 oz every 5 hours 5 times a day.
• You usually sleep about 7 hours a night. Going to bed at 9 and getting up at 4 to eat. Then you go back to sleep for 3 more hours till 7.
• You are officially out of your 3 month clothes.. you can fit 6-9 month clothes
• You can roll over from your back to your belly now! You think your pretty hot stuff too.
• You love to smile and coo, and stick EVERYTHING in your mouth.
• You weigh 18 lbs 7 oz and are 27 1/2" long

Love you baby 

Yummy!

Baked Spaghetti
This is SO yummy! The recipe makes a ton of food, so we had bunch of leftovers for hubby to take to work :)

 It sort of tastes like lasagna to me, but much easier and I like spaghetti noodels better then lasagna noodels. I   did change one thing in the recipe, I used mixed Colby Jack cheese ( I forgot the mozzarella )  and it tasted great!

1 (16 ounce) package spaghetti

1 pound ground beef

1 medium onion, chopped

1 (26 ounce) jar meatless spaghetti sauce

1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt

2 eggs

1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese

5 tablespoons butter, melted

2 cups small curd cottage cheese

4 cups shredded mozzarella cheese

1. Cook spaghetti according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, cook beef and onion over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain. Stir in the spaghetti sauce and seasoned salt; set aside. 

2. In a large bowl, whisk the eggs, Parmesan cheese and butter. Drain spaghetti; add to egg mixture and toss to coat.

3. Place half of the spaghetti mixture in a greased 13-in. x 9-in. x 2-in baking dish. Top with half of the cottage cheese, meat sauce and mozzarella cheese. Repat layers. Cover and bake at 350 degrees F for 40 minutes. Uncover; bake 20-25 minutes longer or until cheese is melted.

Sunday Fun Day!

We started the morning off at 8:00, Ryan woke up and cuddled with mommy and daddy in bed.

Then we got up and did our weekly grocery shopping at good old wally world. We were out and back to the house by 10:00. Then me and the hubbs did some yard work while Ryan took his morning nap. Jose mowed the yard, and weedeated while I cleaned off the front porch and started the flower beds. They have gotten quite atrocious since we have had Ryan, but we had more important things to do :) .  I will post a picture when we are completely done, for now its a work in progress. 

We had all that done by noon. So we decided to go swimming. This was Ryan's first official pool time! So we loaded up and went to the pool. There was hardly anyone at the pool, amazing considering it was a scorching 92 outside. Lord we are in for a brutal summer. Of course I had to bring the camera to document this "first"

Umm I don't know about this guys

Ok this is pretty cool

 

Looking at mommy

Kickin my feet

I love swimming!

After swimming we came back to the house, and washed off the pool water.  We started dinner and watched our new addiction Southern Nights. Its a really great show, kinda like Jersey shore but country-fied :) Ya'll should check it out.

We finished the night off with some lovin on my little man, and ice cream, yummy!

Love Sundays with my little family

Our Hospital Stay

 About a hour after Ryan was born, I was switched over to the post partum wing of the hospital. I LOVED my nurse over there she was so nice and sweet. I told her I was still having some serious contractions, and she came in with some medicine. Then my husband came in and told me they had to put Ryan into the NICU. He was running a fever, and I had a fever when I was delivering. The doctors were worried that he had got Group B strep during labor. I had been given 2 rounds of antibiotics, and my doctor didn't think he had it. Finally about 4 hours after he was born, they let me go see him. Words can not explain the feeling of holding your baby for the first time, I was so in love and just wanted to stay with him. He was sleeping like a little angel, so we headed back to the room. I finally got to take a shower, and then tried to catch some sleep. The next day the neonatologist came in and said either he would be going home on Wednesday or he would have to stay for 7 more days. The pit of my stomach did flips, I did not want to leave the hospital with out my baby. Nothing was going the way I had planned, I didn't plan for an induction, or a horrible process to get Ryan here. I didn't plan for my baby to be sick, or for him to have to stay in the NICU, and never get to room in with me. I didn't plan on not being able to nurse him or possibly not take him home with us. We did some serious praying and asked God to make sure our baby was ok.  Fast forward to Wednesday, we waited all day for the results of Ryan's labs. The nurses wanted to discharge me, but were waiting on the results. Finally we got results on Ryan's cultures. He did not have an infection and could go home!! Praise God. We packed up and headed home. He was ours finally! No more doctors, no more nurses, no more needles and most importantly no more being apart!

Ryan's Birth Story Part 2

 So we made it home, and I tried taking a shower to see if it would help ease the pain in my back, no luck. The nurse said I would stop contracting now that the medicine was out, but It wasn't. My sister called the hospital and told them I was contracting every 3 min, and they were pretty bad. The nurse said to come back up if I was still having them by 7.  At 7 we headed back up to the hospital, and re-checked in. The nurse checked me and FINALLY I was making some progress, I was dilated to 3 and 1/2 centimeters. She called my doctor to see what she wanted to do, and my doctor said to keep me there, we were having a baby!! They put me back in the same room I had just left 3 hours prior. I was having horrible back labor, the nurse gave me a some pain medicine in my IV and from what everyone says I was pretty funny. Well the pain meds started wearing off around 2,  at 2:30 my nurse called the anesthesiologist. My sister and Husband were kicked out of the room, and She got to work. I loved my anesthesiologist, she was so nice and it was over in 5 min I swear. I finally got a chance to sleep. I hadn't slept since Friday night, and that was scarce because I was so excited. I'm not sure when I woke up, but I was having serious contractions and couldn't feel a  thing. It was GREAT! Well around 9 o'clock My water broke, and I started feeling pain in my back again. My legs weren't numb anymore, and I was not happy. I told the nurse I was feeling my contractions again, and she told me that was normal, I needed to be able to feel a little bit to push. I wasn't just feeling a little though, I felt everything. The worse part was that they had to have me lay on my back because Ryan wouldn't stay on the monitor. The nurse came in again to check me  and said I was 9 centimeters, but not totally effaced so I could not push or my uterus would swell, and I would have to have a c-section. That feeling is indescribable, everything in you is telling you to push, and to not do that is one of the worst feelings ever. Finally the nurse said we could try some practice pushes, it was the easiest part of the whole process, and felt good after holding off for so long. Then she said to stop pushing again, I wanted to cry, we had to wait 15 min for the doctor to get there. She came in got set up and said to start pushing. Well 3 rounds of pushing and out came Mr. Ryan. He was so beautiful, I couldn't believe he was finally here. My doctor put him on my chest for a minute, and then they took him over to the warmer to get cleaned up, weighed and measured. He was having problems breathing so they gave me a quick look, and he was headed off to the nursery.

The warmer right across from my bed, I kept looking at it to help me get thru labor.

Hello World

Can I please go back in

Oh Hi

Big Boy

All cleaned up, and my first good look at him. Such a special moment

Daddy's first chance to hold Ryan.

Ryan's Birth Story Part 1

I was scheduled to go in to the hospital on Saturday January 21st to be induced at 5:00. I was 41 weeks pregnant only dilated a finger tip, and MISERABLE. So on Saturday I tied up all the loose ends, made sure everything was ready and even went and got a pedicure. We went out to eat our "last meal" with my dad, sister and grandma, and off to the hospital we went. I got checked in, changed into that lovely hospital gown, went over a million and one questions, and then they placed the cervidil. So the plan was to wait till 5 o'clock sunday morning and then check me and see if the cervidil made me dilate, which of course it didn't do ANYTHING! I wanted to cry, so the nurse inserted a new round of cervidil and then we waited. Around noon on Sunday I started contracting pretty good, my doctor came in and checked me still no progress. She said if I didn't start dialating by 3, we would be sent home and restart this process next friday. I couldn't imagine waiting another week to see my baby, let alone being 42 weeks pregnant. So we started walking, hoping that would help things along. I was contracting about every 5 min, and they were really starting to hurt. So we went back to the room to sit down, and bam a gush of fluid came out. "This is it" I thought, turns out it wasn't my water breaking, it was all the fluid from the cervidil. When the nurse was checking to see if my water broke, she told me I was 1 and 1/2 centimeter dilated... and that they were sending me home. I was so heartbroken. I didn't want to go home and wait another week to see my baby, and I sure as heck did not want to be pregnant for another week. So we packed up our stuff and headed home, I had a complete meltdown outside the hospital, I was exhausted and still contracting really good. The car ride home was horrible the contractions kept getting stronger and stronger.

My Heart

My first real post (besides the intro) has to be about the Men who have my Heart. My son Ryan, and my husband Jose. 

Ryan was born on January 23rd 2012, after a 4 day process (I will talk about in a later post).  He is growing so fast, and getting such a personality. He loves to play, "talk" and smile. He is learning how to squeal, which is about the cutest thing ever. I love him so much and can't imagine what my life would be without him.

My husband Jose is my other half. We had our first date on February 2nd 2007. We dated for almost 3 years and we were married on December 4th 2009. He works very hard as a machinist so I can stay home and raise our son.  Together we are trying to make a life for us and our little boy.  

First Post

I decided to make my own blog, it is something I have wanted to do for quite awhile. I love reading peoples blogs, to see all the neat tricks, tips and everyday shenanigans. So here is my first post! Hopefully I can stick with it.