Precious

Ty took a nap with me the other day in the bed. Luckily I woke up before he did, or else I wouldn't have gotten this adorable shot.

One elbow was leaning on me, but when I got up, he stayed there, balancing on one elbow. haha- very funny.
I'm trying to upload a video I got of him smiling and laughing, but it doesn't seem to work. I need to change the format first. Sounds like something Paxton will have to do. :)

Ty's blessing day

This past Sunday, Paxton was able to give Ty a baby blessing in church. We got him all dressed up and looking adorable. He did great during the prayer, but right when Paxton came and sat down by me, he started crying. Perfect timing.

It was great to have Paxton's family and a bunch of our close friends there for the blessing. Thank you everyone for coming! We missed all of my family. Please come and visit us! I know it'd probably be easier if I came there since you are all within 4 hours of each other, but I want you to come here. :)

After church, we invited everyone over to our home to visit and see Ty a little more. Ty decided to sleep during half of the party, and eat during the other half. I guess that is okay since he's been sick with a cold for the past 5-6 days. Poor guy. But I made sure everyone put on hand sanitizer before they got close to Ty. I think he is finally getting better. We are sucking out more and more snot from his nose every day, and he doesn't sound as stuffy as much.

Here are some adorable pictures of the day. We totally forgot to take pictures at the church... dumb... so we got some afterward. I wish I would've taken pictures at our little "get together" at our home. I guess I was too busy chatting away... (and making sure my house didn't get torn apart by the little kids that were there. It's not 'baby proofed' yet. ha)

"Who you lookin at?"

and our family picture. Ty was hungry, so he wasn't gonna smile for the camera. :)

P.S. I made some changes with my hair on Saturday- if you can't tell from the pic. I added some bangs and got more BLONDE!

Pee

Ty pee'd on the wall. I thought I was doing pretty good since Ty hadn't ever pee'd when his diaper was being changed. Well, it's happened now. Who was I fooling?

Love affair with the devil

My Handsome Devil

I just love this little man so much. He has become a lot more alert now and smiling all the time. He even smiles to me in the middle of the night before I feed him. What a goof.

I attempted to get his big cute smile on camera, but got 3 different ones that aren't his biggest and cutest... but they're still pretty darn cute.

Yesterday I went for my first run post-baby. I strapped Ty in the jogging stroller, wrapped him snug in a blanket, and headed off. He slept the whole time. The run went okay, considering I hadn't run since May or June, but I have a lot of hard work ahead of me in getting back to where I was pre-baby. It felt so good to wake up with some sore muscles. Oh I can't wait to get to the gym. I just hope I keep up this motivation I have going for myself. :)

Ty

Something really gross happened today.

It seems like mostly every time I am feeding Ty, he either passes gas or passes poopy. And when he has to do either of these, he stops eating and just sits there until it's over. Well, this morning I was feeding him, and he pulled away and paused for a second. I knew he was going to do one or the other, so I just waited for it to happen. Suddenly he poops... a lot... for a long time, and it comes ooooozing(that's about the color of the poop too) out of his diaper, oozes onto my hand and my pants. Yuck!

On the other hand, he smiled at me for the first time a couple days ago- on Saturday. It was so cute. I loved it. We can still get him to smile at us, but it's always right after we feed him. When he's full and satisfied.

Another thing about Ty is that he gets the hiccups maybe two or three times a day. And he has them for so long it gets him mad, so he starts crying. I wish I knew how to get rid of them, but he just has to wait it out. Poor guy.

A lot of people told me when I first delivered Ty that if I just got through the first 6 weeks then everything will be ok and easy/ier. After 4, almost 5 weeks, I now know what they mean. I feel a lot more comfortable and less stressed about taking care of Ty. My mom told me I may have feelings like What did I get myself into? Why did I have a baby? and that sort of thing... and I definitely had those feelings. The first 2 weeks were full of stress, crying (not the baby), sleepless nights, confusion, pain & exhaustion. It was hard to imagine it would get better. Fortunately I had my mom and sister there during that time, so I had support while I was going through it. But now I feel like I understand my baby a little more and feel more confident in what I am doing. Ty is the cutest, sweetest baby and I am so grateful to have him. I love his little face, his smile, grunts, whimpers, cries, little nose, ears, lips, hands & feet, his skinny legs, and his many cowlicks in his hair. He is just delicious!

silly face - he just woke up from a nap

So, I would always get kind of sick of people who blogged all about their baby and nothing or no one else. They just had millions of pictures of their baby over and over again. Yeah- now I'm doing it. So sorry. I do try to update about other things, but we just don't have much else going on besides raising this babe. I'll try harder. Maybe.

crickets

I know I've expressed my almost phobia of crickets because of how many there are around and in our house. It's just getting out of hand here. I think I now have a phobia of crickets. I find at least 3 crickets in my house every single day, and every time I see one I get really anxious and jumpy. I hate having to throw them away, so if Paxton is ever home I have him do it. I don't like picking them up with a tissue because I can still feel the hard body and legs. Paxton grabs them with his bare hands! Eww. I still look down when I'm walking around the house keeping an eye out for them in every corner. They are everywhere. Because of the rain we've been getting, we have about 10x more in our garage. Gross.

Well, off to run some errands.

Football

Put these two pictures together and you get the Texas Stadium. Nice panoramic pic eh?

We went to the BYU/OU football game last Saturday night. Paxton's sister, Heather, was nice enough to watch Ty for us while we went. THANK YOU HEATHER. It was a little hard to leave him, and leave him for so long, but I did it. It was nice to have a night with Paxton.

We aren't really big BYU or OU fans since we went to BYU-Idaho, but we still rooted for BYU of course. We mainly went to see the new Texas Stadium. It was pretty amazing! The huge HD big screen in the middle of the field was the coolest part. It was hard not to watch that instead of the real players on the field. Anyway, it was a really fun night. A little long to be away from Ty, but I made it.

the huge HD screen

the players celebrating after the game! Whoohoo- go BYU.

4 Weeks

Ty is 4 weeks old today! I don't know how much he weighs or if he's grown in length, but it doesn't seem like he's gained much. I sure hope he has. I promise- I'm feeding him. He is still so small. I can tell he is growing and changing in his face though.

This is what he wore today. Look familiar Ann?? YaYa got this outfit for Ty on our vacation in Florida. I love it. I just want to eat him up.

We ran several errands today, and even met up with Paxton for lunch. By the time we got home, Ty was exhausted because he couldn't take a really good nap in a car seat. He loves driving in the car, but I think he got sick of the car seat after being in it for 4 hours. Poor guy. He crashed when we got home.

Ty looks a lot like Paxton as a baby in this picture, minus the goobers in his eyes. Those just won't go away.

1st day at Church

We took Ty to church last Sunday for the first time. He was good. He slept most of the time. I think he liked the new atmosphere. It seems the noise from the crowds put him to sleep. We'll see how long that lasts.

But he did look especially cute since he wore a little collared shirt and dress pants.

I caught him smiling while he was sleeping. He smiles a lot bigger than this, but this is what I got. One of these days I want to record him when he's sleeping because he makes all these silly faces and then gives the occasional grin. He even laughed one time- it was so cute.

Katie came to visit for about a week. She recently got back from her mission, and this was the first time I had seen her since she'd been back! It was lots of fun to have her here to see the baby and help out. She, of course, loves Ty to pieces. hehe- Who wouldn't? She already claims the title Ty's Favorite Aunt. She had the magic touch in getting Ty to sleep, so I let her do it a few nights. Hey, it let me get some sleep myself.

...and these are just for pleasure's sake

I am getting used to running on less sleep and having to wake up in the middle of the night to feed him. But that doesn't mean I enjoy waking up at 3 am. Mostly every night at 3 am, as I am nursing Ty, I look over at Paxton with envy. He always looks so peaceful and rested. But I try to get my sleep in during the day while Ty is napping. It works.

Well, that's been my life the past 3 weeks. Yep, Ty is already 3 weeks old! And his facial features have already changed. He looks older and more handsome every day. We just love him to pieces.

Mom's visit and more pictures!

My mom came to visit and help with the baby. She had perfect timing because she came in on Tuesday, and it was that night (Wednesday morning) that I went into labor! I guess Ty just wanted his grandma there when he came. She was SO helpful. It was a great blessing to have her here. She made dinners, cleaned the house, did laundry, took care of Ty when he was fussy, and let me sleep and recover before she had to leave. I was so sad to see her go, and felt lonely and scared my first night alone. Paxton & I appreciate all you did for us Mom- Thank You!

Ty doesn't like baths. He just gets so cold. He loves being all bundled up in the towel afterward though.

Paxton's work gave us this cute Peterbilt onesie. It's supposed to fit him at 18 months, but we wanted to put it on him now. Haha.

Ty has already passed his birth weight and weighs 7 lbs, 7 oz. Maybe a little more now. He is pretty good at sleeping at night, but it's so inconsistent. Last night was probably the worst night yet. I'm not sure why he was so fussy and restless, but it made for a LONG night! I feel bad because I can at least take a nap during the day to recover, but Paxton has to go to work all day. He was so exhausted this morning. I guess that's what it's all about. But Paxton is so helpful with Ty. I am so grateful for him.

For my labor story - since I've had requests to tell all about it. Wednesday August 12, at 1am I started having contractions 5 minutes apart. By 1:30am my water broke- or so I thought. So I got Pax & my mom up and we went to the hospital. When I got there, I was dilated to only a 2. They hooked me up to an IV and I just had to sit and wait. After a little while, they gave me pitocin to get me going. It took 10 hours for me to dilate from 1 to 5, then another 5 hours to dilate from 5 to 10 ! Somewhere during the first 10 hours I got an epidural. After that, I just relaxed and slept a ton! Paxton, my mom, and Paxton's mom were all at the hospital waiting and waiting and waiting. Ty sure took his sweet time. Finally, around 5pm I was dilated to a 10 and I felt lots of pressure. I was going to wait for my doctor to start pushing, but after waiting for 30 minutes, I couldn't wait any longer. The nurse and Paxton helped during the pushing. After 1 hour of pushing, and use of the vacuum, Ty was born! It was so amazing! I could not believe that baby was inside my belly. It was something I will never forget! I expected the labor to be a lot worse than it turned out to be. That epidural is amazing!

Ty is so sweet and just the cutest thing ever! Paxton & I love him so much!

Photo Shoot

Ty already had his first photo-shoot last night! Paxton's sister came over and took these photos for us, she did such a great job and we love them!! Thanks Heather!!

More pictures!

Ty is so sweet. He is the cutest thing ever, and Paxton and I already love him to death! Here are just a few more pictures of him at what he does best- sleep!

This is one of my favorite pictures of him- so far at least. He has the cutest lips.

Thriller !