Monday, November 24, 2008
It's Natural
When I was pregnant and wondered what Noah would look like, one of my hopes was that he would end up with David's hair. Well, he did end up with a lot of hair. And, I think it's mostly like David's. But, when I imagined what it would look like, I didn't imagine it to be a mohawk from the start. Believe me folks, we do not intentionally fix his hair this way. It just simply transforms into a mohawk all on its own. I am at a loss as to how to fix it. I mean, is it ok to put hair gel or hairspray in your 12-day-olds hair? So, I guess I have to live with the mohawk for now....I don't know what else to do with it!
Friday, November 21, 2008
Week One
So far, we survived our first week with Noah. We've been enjoying every second with him....even when he's sucking the energy right out of us! This parenting stuff is definitely a HUGE adjustment. For me, the biggest adjustment has been lack of sleep. I realize that every new parent goes through this. I just wasn't expecting to be this tired. I keep asking my mom if it's this normal to feel this tired. She thought that I'm probably more tired than normal since I'm recovering from kidney stones, surgey and lack of sleep from the hospital. I now realize that sleep is a luxury! Anyway, here is a recap from our week of firsts.
1. First trip to the doctor.
2. First trip to PF Changs. David and I went to PF Changs to celebrate when we found out we were pregnant. We went there again for our last date night before he was born. And then we went again when Noah turned 1 week old.
3. First trip to Babies 'R Us. Noah is an excellent shopper and didn't make a peep the enitre time!
4. First all nighter trying to calm the boy down. Noah has quite powerful lungs and we're starting to think he has a bit of a temper if he doesn't get what he wants right away.
5. David was the first to get sprayed by Noah while changing his diaper. He then proceeded to get both his Grammy's and then me.
6. First bath. He didn't seem to enjoy this very much because he was cold.
7. First ride in the swing. Thankfully, he LOVES his swing.
8. First trip to Target. Again he was an excellent shopper.
That's the gist of our week. Of course there was a lot of eating and a lot of sleeping mixed in with all that stuff. It turns out that our boy is quite the eater and a master sleeper. He won't wake up for anything! When his is awake, he looks completely different because we're not used to seeing his eyes! We're hoping that will change here pretty soon. Until then, we'll just keep enjoying our sleepy guy.
1. First trip to the doctor.
2. First trip to PF Changs. David and I went to PF Changs to celebrate when we found out we were pregnant. We went there again for our last date night before he was born. And then we went again when Noah turned 1 week old.
3. First trip to Babies 'R Us. Noah is an excellent shopper and didn't make a peep the enitre time!
4. First all nighter trying to calm the boy down. Noah has quite powerful lungs and we're starting to think he has a bit of a temper if he doesn't get what he wants right away.
5. David was the first to get sprayed by Noah while changing his diaper. He then proceeded to get both his Grammy's and then me.
6. First bath. He didn't seem to enjoy this very much because he was cold.
7. First ride in the swing. Thankfully, he LOVES his swing.
8. First trip to Target. Again he was an excellent shopper.
That's the gist of our week. Of course there was a lot of eating and a lot of sleeping mixed in with all that stuff. It turns out that our boy is quite the eater and a master sleeper. He won't wake up for anything! When his is awake, he looks completely different because we're not used to seeing his eyes! We're hoping that will change here pretty soon. Until then, we'll just keep enjoying our sleepy guy.
Monday, November 17, 2008
We are truly blessed.
Well it's been amazing and crazy since we first welcomed our son Noah into this world. They day after he was born we got a call from our good friends the Max's and Curt said "warm up the bed next to you we are on our way in" (Tami and Jenny have the same Dr. and therefore they also delivered at Rose). The daughter they were expecting decided to make an early entrance to make sure she wasn't upstaged by little Noah (She was due mid Dec).
Later on Thursday evening we welcomed Brienne Megan Max into our little group. She is adorable and weighed in at 6lbs 2oz. Her mom Tami who underwent emergency c-section made it through just fine and everyone was healthy. Curt, Tami, Adrina and Brienne ended up getting a room just down the hall from us. It was great to spend our next two days at the hospital with friends there the whole time. Curt and Adrina and I would go and get breakfast in the mornings and we'd visit each other throughout the day. Many other friends and family gathered and visited and enjoyed getting a two for one on visiting both the Max's and us.
We finally got out of there on Saturday evening after a long day and much dreading by me while waiting for Noah's circumcision. The fear and dreading did not disappoint as that was a TERRIBLE moment in my young fragile son's life. Oh man, seeing Jenny's intestines in the OR during the c-section was almost better than what my little man went through that late afternoon. But anyway I digress.
Sara, Anna, Noah, Jenny and I made our way home together Saturday around 5pm. We were so relieved to get home and Jenny's mom who's here helping us out with the transition of having a new little one. That night Judy made the most delicious dinner standing rib roast. It was an amazing dinner and really made it so wonderful being home. Also Jenny's sister Kerri and her husband Adrian and there cute little daughter Hadley joined in on the fun that evening.
Since then we've just been trying to catch up on sleep (which isn't going to happen anytime soon) and visiting with friends.
Noah had his first Dr's appointment this morning and he is doing great. He is in the 50th percentile for both weight and head size and in the 75th percentile for height. I'm hoping he out grows me someday! :)
Noah meets his new friend Brienne only a couple hours after she was born.
Curt holding Noah and I'm holding Brienne
The proud Mama Tami with her little peanut.
Maybe he'll be a DJ. Mr boombastic...
Waaaaaaah... Take me home!
His first Sunday. Yes I'll be brainwashing him to be a Vikings fan! :)
Noah is not pleased with how Mom combed hair.
This is how he sleeps. Which is pretty much all he does.
Later on Thursday evening we welcomed Brienne Megan Max into our little group. She is adorable and weighed in at 6lbs 2oz. Her mom Tami who underwent emergency c-section made it through just fine and everyone was healthy. Curt, Tami, Adrina and Brienne ended up getting a room just down the hall from us. It was great to spend our next two days at the hospital with friends there the whole time. Curt and Adrina and I would go and get breakfast in the mornings and we'd visit each other throughout the day. Many other friends and family gathered and visited and enjoyed getting a two for one on visiting both the Max's and us.
We finally got out of there on Saturday evening after a long day and much dreading by me while waiting for Noah's circumcision. The fear and dreading did not disappoint as that was a TERRIBLE moment in my young fragile son's life. Oh man, seeing Jenny's intestines in the OR during the c-section was almost better than what my little man went through that late afternoon. But anyway I digress.
Sara, Anna, Noah, Jenny and I made our way home together Saturday around 5pm. We were so relieved to get home and Jenny's mom who's here helping us out with the transition of having a new little one. That night Judy made the most delicious dinner standing rib roast. It was an amazing dinner and really made it so wonderful being home. Also Jenny's sister Kerri and her husband Adrian and there cute little daughter Hadley joined in on the fun that evening.
Since then we've just been trying to catch up on sleep (which isn't going to happen anytime soon) and visiting with friends.
Noah had his first Dr's appointment this morning and he is doing great. He is in the 50th percentile for both weight and head size and in the 75th percentile for height. I'm hoping he out grows me someday! :)
Noah meets his new friend Brienne only a couple hours after she was born.
Curt holding Noah and I'm holding Brienne
The proud Mama Tami with her little peanut.
Maybe he'll be a DJ. Mr boombastic...
Waaaaaaah... Take me home!
His first Sunday. Yes I'll be brainwashing him to be a Vikings fan! :)
Noah is not pleased with how Mom combed hair.
This is how he sleeps. Which is pretty much all he does.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Introducing Noah Robert Coleman
Breaking news:
Team Coleman trades "Willis" for Noah Coleman and a player to be named later. Coach Coleman commented that the move was necessary to "upgrade to a player with instant impact potential." Coleman expects several weeks of non-sleep, uh, intensive training following the acquisition . . ." (reported by R. Rogers)
He's Here! Team Coleman has added a teammate and we are soooooo excited about it. Yesterday ended up being quite the whirlwind, but I'll compress it here. After making a ton of progress yesterday Jenny's body kind of stopped making progress and the little man didn't want to make his way down there. After waiting and really feeling like we exhausted our options as far as him coming out naturally we opted for a c-section. Both Jenny and I were running through a gambit of emotion but from the time we opted to go c-section to the time we first laid eyes on him was pretty brief.
I won't go into detail on what all goes on in that O.R. but it's NUTS! Anyhow Noah finally made his way out of the sun roof right at 2:30pm. I can't really express the emotions I went through at that time but once I knew he was ok and that Jenny was going to be ok the one emotion would be pure JOY.
After cutting the chord, Noah and I were whisked away from the O.R. to the nursery to get his weight and all. The tough part about that was having to leave Jenny in that room all alone with all those doctors, that was brutal but she agreed that I should go with him.
On our way to the nursery we saw the family members who were waiting and we were able to pause briefly to introduce Noah to his big sisters Sara, Anna grandmothers Judy and Pam and her aunt Kerri.
After that came the weigh in 8lbs 6oz height (I don't like the term length, this is a person not a fish) 21".
After spending about 30-40 minutes with him in the nursery I was finally able to go and see Jenny in recovery and she was doing well there, she was really wanting to see the baby since she'd just seen him briefly in the O.R. when I held him up for her. After much waiting for both Jenny and Noah to get out of recovery they were finally united. By the time they really met there was a bunch of family here and Jenny said she felt like she was at the zoo with all the camera's etc. Anyway it's been great, he's eating like a champ and everything here is well.
We are so grateful to God for entrusting us with this little one and we endeavor to take care of him the best we can.
Showing off his guns.
Within the first 5 minutes of him popping out of the sun roof.
The weigh in.
Right after his first bath. All clean.
After his spa treatment.
What I did for for an hour or so while waiting for both of them to recover.
Jenny finally gets to meet and hold Noah.
After waiting all day Sara finally gets to hold her new brother, she was so excited!
Anna was super pumped up. They had to learn a lot of patience waiting to meet him.
Grams is very proud.
My mom.... Bring back memories mom?
Our team.
Team Coleman trades "Willis" for Noah Coleman and a player to be named later. Coach Coleman commented that the move was necessary to "upgrade to a player with instant impact potential." Coleman expects several weeks of non-sleep, uh, intensive training following the acquisition . . ." (reported by R. Rogers)
He's Here! Team Coleman has added a teammate and we are soooooo excited about it. Yesterday ended up being quite the whirlwind, but I'll compress it here. After making a ton of progress yesterday Jenny's body kind of stopped making progress and the little man didn't want to make his way down there. After waiting and really feeling like we exhausted our options as far as him coming out naturally we opted for a c-section. Both Jenny and I were running through a gambit of emotion but from the time we opted to go c-section to the time we first laid eyes on him was pretty brief.
I won't go into detail on what all goes on in that O.R. but it's NUTS! Anyhow Noah finally made his way out of the sun roof right at 2:30pm. I can't really express the emotions I went through at that time but once I knew he was ok and that Jenny was going to be ok the one emotion would be pure JOY.
After cutting the chord, Noah and I were whisked away from the O.R. to the nursery to get his weight and all. The tough part about that was having to leave Jenny in that room all alone with all those doctors, that was brutal but she agreed that I should go with him.
On our way to the nursery we saw the family members who were waiting and we were able to pause briefly to introduce Noah to his big sisters Sara, Anna grandmothers Judy and Pam and her aunt Kerri.
After that came the weigh in 8lbs 6oz height (I don't like the term length, this is a person not a fish) 21".
After spending about 30-40 minutes with him in the nursery I was finally able to go and see Jenny in recovery and she was doing well there, she was really wanting to see the baby since she'd just seen him briefly in the O.R. when I held him up for her. After much waiting for both Jenny and Noah to get out of recovery they were finally united. By the time they really met there was a bunch of family here and Jenny said she felt like she was at the zoo with all the camera's etc. Anyway it's been great, he's eating like a champ and everything here is well.
We are so grateful to God for entrusting us with this little one and we endeavor to take care of him the best we can.
Showing off his guns.
Within the first 5 minutes of him popping out of the sun roof.
The weigh in.
Right after his first bath. All clean.
After his spa treatment.
What I did for for an hour or so while waiting for both of them to recover.
Jenny finally gets to meet and hold Noah.
After waiting all day Sara finally gets to hold her new brother, she was so excited!
Anna was super pumped up. They had to learn a lot of patience waiting to meet him.
Grams is very proud.
My mom.... Bring back memories mom?
Our team.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Countdown update
It's just before 10am here and amazingly enough we are expecting to meet our son much sooner than we thought last night. Her body really took off with contractions last night which was brutal for her but the positive is that instead of spending all day today working on getting this guy to come out. We are hoping to see him sometime this early afternoon. But as always that's touch and go. Stay tuned I'll do my best to keep things up to date. Here are some pre baby pictures.
This one is before the contractions kicked in.
Gotta get some rest.
This is going to be a wild one.
THE WAITING GAME CREW
TXT'ing to keep family in the loop.
The big sisters are ready to meet their brother!
Kerri is ready also.
STAY TUNED.............
This one is before the contractions kicked in.
Gotta get some rest.
This is going to be a wild one.
THE WAITING GAME CREW
TXT'ing to keep family in the loop.
The big sisters are ready to meet their brother!
Kerri is ready also.
STAY TUNED.............
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Ground Control to little Coleman.......
Commencing countdown engines on... :)
If you don't get the title and reference don't worry about it, not a lot of David Bowie fans out there that I know of. But seriously that's a great song.
Anyhoooo I digress.
We are here at the hospital tonight, we just checked in about an hour ago and we'll be here until little boy Coleman makes his appearance. My guess is that he'll be here sometime tomorrow night but time will tell. They made the decision last Friday to induce Jenny and today is the start of it. We've had the most absolutely crazy week and although I won't go into complete detail on it all now, I'll give you the nutshell version.
* Broken Water Pipes in the wall
* 4 days of frustration
* 3 different plumbers
* Flooding
* Stained Carpet
* Holes in the wrong places
* Pipes that were never broken have been "repaired"
(I'll try to post the pics of the disaster later)
Anyway we made it through a very tough week and it was very anti nesting for Jenny knowing that we were going to be coming in here tonight. Also her Mom rolled into town and we weren't able to stay at our house the first night she was here. Thankfully we have GREAT friends who took us all in so we could use their running water. Amazing how we take these things for granted. It's resolved now I believe and after a few extra gray hairs that I got I think we aren't that much worse for the wear.
OK back to the hospital.....
He'll be here soon, we came in tonight so that they could start her on her medicine and then after a nights rest on that medicine we'll get started on the contraction inducing meds tomorrow around 11am. After that who knows how long it will take but we are on our way! Stay tuned for more updates on the unveiling of baby Coleman!
If you don't get the title and reference don't worry about it, not a lot of David Bowie fans out there that I know of. But seriously that's a great song.
Anyhoooo I digress.
We are here at the hospital tonight, we just checked in about an hour ago and we'll be here until little boy Coleman makes his appearance. My guess is that he'll be here sometime tomorrow night but time will tell. They made the decision last Friday to induce Jenny and today is the start of it. We've had the most absolutely crazy week and although I won't go into complete detail on it all now, I'll give you the nutshell version.
* Broken Water Pipes in the wall
* 4 days of frustration
* 3 different plumbers
* Flooding
* Stained Carpet
* Holes in the wrong places
* Pipes that were never broken have been "repaired"
(I'll try to post the pics of the disaster later)
Anyway we made it through a very tough week and it was very anti nesting for Jenny knowing that we were going to be coming in here tonight. Also her Mom rolled into town and we weren't able to stay at our house the first night she was here. Thankfully we have GREAT friends who took us all in so we could use their running water. Amazing how we take these things for granted. It's resolved now I believe and after a few extra gray hairs that I got I think we aren't that much worse for the wear.
OK back to the hospital.....
He'll be here soon, we came in tonight so that they could start her on her medicine and then after a nights rest on that medicine we'll get started on the contraction inducing meds tomorrow around 11am. After that who knows how long it will take but we are on our way! Stay tuned for more updates on the unveiling of baby Coleman!
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