Happy Thanksgiving - 9 weeks!!

My "1st" Thanksgiving!! I kept Mom up all night last night!! My shoes were TOO BIG but they were too cute to pass up!!
I'm a Little Turkey!!

In my new bouncer BEFORE MY SHOTS!!!


WHAHHHHHH!!!

Those shots wore me out!!!!

We had a big week starting off by getting his 2 month shots....OUCHIE!!! He did pretty good and thank goodness I had a fresh bottle ready for him so he could soothe himself!!

He weighed in at a WHOPPING 12 pounds 3.2 ounces and was 23 inches long!!! No wonder he is having to wear 3-6 month clothes now and why his "1" level diapers are getting tight!!! Momo's are now once a day or every other day...EWWWW!!!

We bought him a bouncer seat this week since he loves to kick and punch and he loves it ( usually for only 10-15 minutes )...short attention span at this age I guess!!

Lots more baby talk and smiles this week and he really knows his hands for sure...he rubs his eyes when tired, sucks on his hands and tries to hold his bottle!!

I also have been getting him out everyday so he will hopefully sleep better. We have gone shopping at the outlet store..which I think he thinks is boring since he passed out the whole time..that's why I need to have a girl next!! We have also been taking daily walks around the neighborhood too for fresh air!! And watching our neighbor put up 55,000...YES 55,000....Christmas lights on his house that is set to music!!! CRAZY!!!

This past week he has been FINALLY sleeping for at least 4 - 41/2 hours when I put him down but then the rest of the night is 3 - 2 hours!! Except for the night before Thanksgiving when he went back to his old schedule of waking up every 2 hours or so!!! So little man was very tired at my sister's house for Thanksgiving and ended up sleeping his way through dinner in my arms!!! I can't wait to give him rice cereal at 4 months so his little tummy can stay full longer!!!

For the first time this week I thought he was running a little bit of a temperature SO THE DAY HAS FINALLY COME FOR THE RECTAL THERMOMETER!! So I put him over my knee with his diaper still on and unfastened one side of the diaper to protect me and him and what do you know....he tried to squeeze his butt cheeks so tight so I could not enter!!! Good BOY!!!! But then when I did he started to momo when I was trying to hold it in there...EWWWWW!!!! So after a few minutes I decided to put him on the diaper changer and hold his legs up and do it that way....WRONG DECISION.....he started to momo AGAIN and PEE PEE starting flying everywhere on me and him so much so that I screamed and startled him so he began to cry and that was the end of that!!!! So I went and bought the Exergen temporal thermometer that they use at the doctor where you just run it across their forehead BUT it gave me different readings on the left and right side...VERY FRUSTRATING...so I called the doctor and talked to the nurse and she said RECTAL is best...so we managed to do it again ( over my knee with diaper on )with just a little MOMO this time...GEEZ!!!! She said no worries until it reaches 100.4!!

I was FINALLY able to go get my hair cut and highlighted...I was starting to look like a real worn out MOM!! So Ross took care of little man while I went to go feel human again....so I turned the radio up real loud and sang all the way to the hairdresser and back!!!! I know...I'm a nerd!!!

We made it to "2" Months Old!!

My "2" Month Birthday!!
My parents bought me 2 bottles of JAX wine for my Birthday!! Can't wait to go there!!

I Love to Smile...not just when I have gas anymore either!!

I love to sit-up too just can't wait til I can do it by myself!!

When I don't want to be held anymore I like to just chill out on the pillow and watch around me!

Holy Elsie!! We made it to 2 months...8 weeks....56 days....1,344 hours...80,640 minutes...4,838,400 seconds!!! Put it that way and it seems like FOREVER....Maybe only when I feel like Night of The Living Dead in the middle of the night STILL feeding our little wakey wakey man!! Geez!!! Other than that......it seems just yesterday we were having Champagne in the hospital!!

What another BIG week he has had. After all this night feeding and waking up I finally decided it was time to TRY some changes to see if it would help Jaxton sleep more through the night. So he slept up in his crib for the first time on Tuesday and I slept in the room down the hall with my monitor glowing brightly through the night to see what he his actually doing...I look like a DEA agent on a stake-out...waiting to move in ONLY at the precise moment..HAHA....he did pretty good Tuesday night, horrible Wednesday night, pretty good Thursday night and I am hoping each day will get better and better. When he goes down around 8 he will sleep 3 1/2 almost 4 hours and then he wakes 2 - 21/2 hours later and then another 2 hours and then every hour for the last two hours of sleep...BUT I do think he is making progress. He loves to be swaddled when he starts to get sleepy BUT he wiggles his way out of the best swaddling I can do while sleeping SO I tried the Kiddopatamus swaddle gown last night and he was no longer HOUDINI!!! Thank you GOD!!! We also started it a ritual this week to have bath time right before he goes to bed...and using that New Johnson & Johnson Sleep Bath Time Lotion and Bubble Bath...It says it "IS PROVEN TO MAKE BABIES SLEEP BETTER"....well so far in my trial it hasn't worked BUT I know trials have to be a good length to be fair...so let's wait and see....if NOT...I'm GETTING MY MONEY BACK!!!! ( OKAY...It is Saturday morning and I'm trying to finish this blog day since yesterday and I have to tell you Jaxton slept for 4 1/2 hours after I laid him down last night!!! Woo Hoo!!! ....maybe it was the lotion...maybe it was the outdoor walk...maybe it was his naps he had today...OR MAYBE IT WAS SOMETHING MY MOM SAID SHE WHISPERED INTO HIS EAR LAST NIGHT!!!!)

Ross has taken care of Jaxton some this week in the morning so I could sleep a little longer and it was SO FUNNY this week because I got up and walked downstairs and Ross was holding Jaxton while he was crying trying to calm him down and I walked in and Ross handed him to me and as he was doing that Jaxton cried "Maaaaaaa"...TRULY...Ross and I looked at each other and LAUGHED!!! He had been doing that when he was hungry but he was right on que this time!!!!

Well the pictures we took are now on the web-site and you can view them for 2 weeks....he did pretty good for his first shooting!!!

http://www.suzanneboxphotography.com/ and Go to CLIENTS and enter the password HVEZDOS

Also we have already set up the day HE is going to be BLESSED by friends, family and other christians...his baptism is planned for Sunday, March 15th, 2009!!

Goodness Gracious... what will next week bring....SHOTS!!!! Whahhhhhhh!!

7 Weeks Old

My Aunt Laura bought me these BOOT booties from Pinto Ranch....so Comfy!!!

Okay Mom, I know you are Elsie but PLEASE don't make me be your little baby cow!!


I LOVE just laying on my back and exploring the CEILING!!!

Thanks MOM for covering up my JEWELS!!!! It also keeps me warm!!!

If you look REAL close you will see where MOM spilt ketchup on me while she was holding me asleep and she was eating...she EVEN made me sleep in it because she didn't want to wake me up...so this is the next morning!!!

Well for all those reading this blog I hope you are enjoying our little moments we encounter each week. It is truly a BLESSING that this little man is in our lives and I am THANKFUL everyday that I get to hold and love on him whenever I want to. I see these Moms and have friends whose babies have been so sick that they can only touch them in their incubator for months!!! How SAD that is!!

Again this was another week of growth and fun!! I have to tell you the funniest story first though because I can't quit LAUGHING SO HARD!!!!!

Well Jaxton is now taking all formula and I am only Elsie the cow about two times a day now until I totally quit producing milk...BUT I do have to say that I shed a tear the first time I POURED my expressed milk down the sink...it was like throwing GOLD into the river!! AND I had to take the milk I was storing inthe fridge and throw it out BUT BUT BUT before I did that I had to do something that we would never get a chance to do until I have my next child...I poured some of it into a plastic cup and walked over to Ross sitting on the couch all into the TV and said, " Hey Ross, I bought some new SOY milk and I wanted you to taste it to see if we like it better than what we drink right now.....AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW....WITHOUT HESITATION...AND COMPLETE TRUST IN ME.....HE DRANK from the cup and looked up at me with a Eww Face and said it tasted sour.....WHICH it might have been since it had been in the fridge for several days....BUT I couldn't bypass the moment of him tasting MY MILK.....I started to crack up so hard and barely could tell him it was my breastmilk...he wiped his tongue with his shirt and couldn't believ I just did that!!!! Well....he had been talking about tasting it for the past 9 months ...so there you have it...his wish is my command!!!

Okay enough about the breastmilk from here on out!! No mas!!! But I do have to say that Jaxton's poopies are no longer little or odorless....they are like strained PEAS and it happens once a day and he is truly a GRUNTING BABY when it comes!! FYI...when you become a parent you become OBSESSED with POOPS and Pees!!! ANd from here on out we will call his poopies...momo's....this is the family name for it!!! And as far as his toots...they are still adult like...my Mom was shocked ( and she jumped )when she had her hand under his bottom and he decided to let one escape for her!!! It was so LOUD and it VIBRATED on her hand that it scared her!!! HA!! So as I told you before MYLICON drops are great for excessive tooting BUT on the news the other night what was on the RECALL LIST.....MYLICON DROPS>>>> for metal flakes in the liquid!!! HOLY COW!!!! SCARY!!! So when I went to Walgreens the other day to get my Flu shot and a different brand of toot medicine the MYLICON DROPS were still on the shelf!!!!! I had to tell the pharmacist and she freaked out and immediately took it off the shelf!!! Geez!!!! We all have to watch out for each other!!!

This week I also experienced " CALGON TAKE ME AWAY"...except I had no Calgon!!! I took my first HOT BATH since I had him!!! My incision is totally healed and I could of just stayed in there for a year!!! I LOVE my baths and it has been difficult not having them!!!! BUT we are back in business now!!! It truly takes the full 6 weeks to recover from a C-section!!! I can do just about anything now and am on my way to start exercising this week!!

I took Jaxton this week to have some Professional pictures done of him...which I should have done about 4 weeks ago BUT better late than never. So I will post the web-site address this next week and you can look at them if you want to see MORE pictures of him!!! They will be up for only a week.

And one note to all those new Moms out there: Jaxton LOVES the Baby Einstein CD's...it puts him right to sleep during the day and I even take them in my car to chill him out for those first few minutes when he is adjusting to the car seat!!

He has been SMILING SO MUCH MORE and I can't wait for the first Giggle!!! He is also VERY HAPPY when we sit him up in between pillows so he can see straight ahead....he is going to love it when he can sit on his own!!! Hopefully that's not too far away for him!!!

6 Weeks Old and Becoming A Chunky Monkey!!

Only 2 more weeks and we can get out and play more!!! Yea!! The highlight of our week this week was getting out to my 6 week check-up for myself at my Doctor and we also cruised by a few offices of Dr.'s that I call on for work since they were right there!! It was great to get him out BUT his car seat carrier is VERY HEAVY.... can't wait to get my muscles all back when I start working out again which she gave me the go ahead!! I now am only 5 pounds away from my pre-birth weight ( which is probably all in my boobs !!)!!

I am still pumping and giving him a bottle or two of formula which he has done GREAT with. Similac has come out with a new formula called ADVANCED - Early Shield which I can say is very very close to my breast milk in terms of his poopie diapers....they look just the same. Unlike the other Similac I tried ( Sensitive ) which made them look like REFRIED BEANS...EWWWW!! And Smelled!!!

Jaxton is growing BIGGER every minute!!! He smiles when he hears my voice now and really only screams when I don't have his bottle warmed up fast enough for him!! I can definitely tell his tired cry now and he is so precious when his eyes are so tired and he cries lightly until he falls asleep while rubbing his closed fists against my chest like a cat kneading his paws for his mom's milk. He is still eating feverishly!!

During his bath this week he had the longest sounding TOOTS in the water and they made so many bubbles that I was laughing so hard that it brought a smile to his face too...or maybe because the toot bubbles were tickling his little balls...HAHA!!!

OH....his results came back just fine from the scare!! Come to find out the Endocrinologists said they were comparing his values to ADULT values instead of PEDIATRIC!!!!! WHATEVER!!! They will hear about this when we see them in two weeks!! POOR Me...so worried something was wrong with him and POOR Jaxton...had to give that blood through his arm!!!

ELECTION DAY!!!

At least my parents are BOTH REPUBLICANS!!!

My First Halloween Costumes

My First Halloween - 5 Weeks Old!!

Well what another week we had!! More GROWING UP...Jaxton has FOUND his hands and likes to suck on them when hungry and I hear him at night sucking on them to soothe himself...when I got up to check on him the other night I sat and watched him for a moment fiddle with his hands and then IT HAPPENED....HE FOUND HIS THUMB and began SUCKING...Luckily it only lasted a few seconds since the his fine motor control is not totally developed yet...BUT I THINK WE MIGHT HAVE A THUMB SUCKER!!

The only time he takes his pacifier is when he is REALLY REALLY tired and is fighting to go to sleep or at times like this week at the Doctor. I took him on Tuesday because he had gooey eyes and his nose was stuffy and I didn't want to take any chances of him getting sick so off we went!! When we got there they of course weighed him again and he is now 9 POUNDS 6 OUNCES!! He's getting little chunky thighs now!! She said he was not sick nor had a cold but that his tear ducts were beginning to work and they can get clogged so just to massage on the sides of his upper nose to help keep them clear and that with the temperature changes outside that his nose was just trying to adjust. She recommended I put 1 saline drop in each nostril and suck it out...BOY DOES THAT SALINE WORK GREAT!..hard boogies to soft boogies instantly!! I was surprised when she said that one of the 21 different newborn screening tests that they do came back slightly elevated...MY HEART STOPPED!!! It is called CAH - Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia which means that the hormone to control his electrolytes may be unbalanced and that if we did a further diagnosis test and it came back positive he would have to have a supplement for the REST OF HIS LIFE..if he didn't then he would bottom out if he had diarrhea or was vomiting...SO OFF TO THE BLOOD BANK again with him and this time they took it out of his forearm like they do ours...this is where he was sucking the pacifier so fast to withstand the pain...we ( including the nurses ) were all sweating bullets as she was trying to get a good blood flow and then finally she did and we all breathed and Jaxton quit sucking so hard!!! WELL there is GOOD news so far...his electrolytes are in balance and we will find out on Monday if the hormone is out of whack or this was just a false positive....which the Dr. thinks it should be!! I guess this is where the worrying begins FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE FOR HIM!!!

Anyways, we had some progress this week in terms of sleep!! I put Jaxton into the Pack n Play because it has a bed on top to see if he likes that better ( for some chance ) than his sweet little bassinet which I just adore!! And what would you know...HE LOVES IT!!! Could have saved me a few extra dollars if I would have known...PLUS he hates ALL the sleep positioners I have bought too...this little man does not like to be constrained in any way!! He sleeps really good in the Pack n Play Now ...maybe because it is darker colors or has more room or that he just wanted something new to sleep in...whatever it is I am glad he likes it!! He even talks to himself in the morning instead of crying before he is ready to get up now!! Yea!! A few more extra minutes of shut eye for me!! He still is eating every 2 or 21/2 or 3 hours but goes right back down after he eats in the middle of the night!! The rocking and swaying are getting less and less needed!!! Thank goodness because my butt is getting so sore from rocking, rocking, rocking!!!

The BEST part of this whole week was that he is truly SMILING NOW!!! Talk about your heart dropping when he does that!!

The WORST part of this whole week which could of ended up really bad was when I was "pumping"in the bathroom and came out to see that Ross was changing Jaxton's diaper and as I walked over there right before he was about to wipe his bottom with what he THOUGHT WAS A BABY WIPE was actually CLOROX wipes I had near the changing table to clean the table!! I grabbed the wipe just before he was about to taint our son with horrible chemicals and prevented anyone from calling CPS if they were to have witnessed that instead of me!!! Whew!!!

Last BUT DEFINITELY NOT LEAST we celebrated Jaxton's first Halloween! Or I did at least by playing dress-up again!! We had our fun and then I wore him out so he slept the whole evening away while we handed out candy and drank some champagne and wine!! Oh by the way, one glass for me, BUT I went on-line to http://www.milkscreenmoms.com/ and ordered the test strips that you test your breast milk with after you have had any alcohol to make sure the milk is safe for him!! No more guessing or having to withhold from the precious grape juice!!

See ya on Election Day!! ( I was able to get away and vote...yea!!)