HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

My sweet little boy! You're officially ONE! I can't believe it! You're even walking now! We are so proud of you!! You had your first birthday party yesterday and it was a huge success!!
We had a balloon wreath on the front door with a big number one for you! I think it turned out great!
The theme was colors and the scheme was red, blue, and yellow! All the kids that came to celebrate go to paint on a canvas (We will have to get you to paint yours one night this week). They also all got to take home crayons, a notebook, bath crayons -and a crayon pillow with their name on it! After everyone painted we opened all your awesome presents! Then it was time for cake! You loved it!! I was so glad!! (I made it). After that you crashed! Sleepy boy! Pretty sure the cake has messed up your little belly :( I'm sorry! You just haven't had anything sweet till yesterday! Well it's 9:17 and I need to go to bed so I have enough sleep for the work week! I love you very, very much! Happy birthday!!

Dear McLane,

  

Happy One Month!!

It snowed today! Not much, and it was mixed with sleet, but I'll take it! :) It was so appropriate! We went  out and got Daddy's Valentine's Day present. I can't write what it is yet until after tomorrow ;) Then we had lunch with Aunt Kimmie and came home to start taking pictures for your one month. It didn't go so well, you didn't like it very much and we were in full blow photo shoot when Daddy got home and he is still trying to get you calmed down now and it's 10:00 I'm sorry :( I didn't even get the picture I wanted of you in the onesie that Krissie and Dan sent you. But the ones I did get are awesome! You're too cute to take a bad picture! I'll upload them all, there is quite a few!

Love you always, always,

Momma

Dear McLane

Hey sweet boy!

You're four weeks old today and will be one month old on Monday! I can't believe it's going so fast. I'm trying to think of everything that has gone on since the last time I wrote to you. I've been trying to sleep as much as possible, and you have been letting me! Last night was actually the best night you've had. You ate four ounces of milk at 8:00 then another 3 ounces at about 10:00 then you slept until 5:00 am! Then you got up at 9:00 and we just ate again at 1:00. It's been a really good day. It SNOWED! Just a few flurries that didn't stick but it was still neat. I opened the blinds in our bedroom and watched it while we watched some tv. House was on :)

I had to upload this picture, your face was so funny! You had just finished eating and I think you were thinking "Um...I'm not quite done with that!!" You're just so cute!

Daddy came home from work the other afternoon for lunch and while he was holding you and loving on you you SMILED!

Krissie and Dan sent us onesies for you for each month, one month, two months, three months, etc. I'll take your picture Monday and post it up. Can't wait!!! It's going to be so cute!!

Love you so much!!

Love,

Momma

Dear McLane,

You're one week old today!! We went to the doctor today and you are now 7 pounds 2 ounces and still 19 1/2 inches long! Dr. Newman said that you passed! So everything is going great so far, I hope we can all keep it up! You have been such a good baby so far! You sleep thorough the night, of course I wake you up to feed you every four hours, and you're eating 2 to 2 1/2 ounces of milk. I am trying to keep up! Keep growing and stay healthy! Love you so much!!

Love always,
Momma

Dear McLane,

YOU'RE HERE! YOU'RE FINALLY HERE!

I love you so much! I can't believe your dad and I made you. You are literally a miracle. From the hair on your head to the nails on your tiny toes you make me speechless. I have almost no words to explain how you make me feel. I told your Nana that I was put on this earth for you and I didn't even know it until I saw you. It's completely unexplainable! Let's get down to the details!

It's Wednesday, January 11, 2012 and I am at work. I plan on working half days this week and my last day will be Friday. I would get the house ready for you while I was off the next week and sleep, sleep, sleep. You were due on January 19, 2012 and if you didn't come before or on that day they would induce and we would have you on January 20, 2012. Well, I was at work and I just kept having contractions. I would text your dad each time they would come and it looked to be about every three minutes or so, and when that had gone on for an hour I went ahead and left work around 11 or so, even though I get off at 12. (I just didn't want my water to break at work!) Well, I went home and laid down, Daddy was ready to leave work, but I reminded him that the doctor told us the contractions need to be every three to five minutes, for at least two hours. Well, I went to sleep once I got home and they had stopped. :( I thought maybe you were going to come. Through out the day and into the night I was noticing that the plug had passed. So I called into work the next day and decided I wouldn't go-turns out they didn't expect me there anyway! Well, Thursday morning I was laying in bed probably texting away to your Dad and I felt my water break! It was around 9:00 so I called Daddy and told him I was going to call the doctor because I already had a 2:00 appointment and I wasn't having contractions so I didn't know if we needed to go in earlier, or just go to the hospital. Well, they had me come in early, so Daddy came home and picked me up. Thankfully we had the bags packed and the car seat ready!! We loaded the car down and go to the doctor around 10:30. They saw us and confirmed...YES! Your water is broken!! Time to go to the hospital!! You were going to come...not soon enough, but soon! We went straight there and called everyone on the way! Nana lives in Cleveland, Mississippi which is about two hours away so we wanted to give her ample time to get here, she had enough time to finish work and leave to be here before you were born.

So we checked into the hospital a little after noon and it was SNOWING! My favorite weather! I couldn't believe it. Of course you would come on a day that it snowed, when it had been 50 degrees all week! How perfect!! (Yes, I am wearing flip flops...I wear them everywhere! I had socks and shoes!)

Well, we got back to the labor and delivery room around 1. I got dressed in my gown and into the bed then they started the pitocin! It was to help get my contractions moving along. I was hooked up to an external heart monitor for you and a monitor that would watch my contractions. Around 10 pm I was at 9 cm and was really starting to feel the contractions so we had all the family leave. Nana, Lolly, and Pops were all there, and Aunt Kimmie, and Aunt Ruthie, and Uncle Bill. I had to get another dose of medicine because I was feeling everything so strongly. By 11 we were ready to start pushing...so we thought! Your heart rate kept dropping and it was really scary. They finally had to give me a shot to stop my contractions to try to get your heart rate back up. They lowered my pitocin dosage and we started over. Finally we were ready to push, but again, your heart rate kept dropping. I would push and then lay on one side and your heart rate would come back up. Then I'd have another contraction and would push and have to lay on my other side while your heart rate came back up. Each contraction/push your heart rate fell. Finally at 12:09 on Friday, January 13, 2012 laying on my right side you entered the world. You had the cord wrapped around your neck and that's why your heart rate kept falling :( Daddy got to cut the cord, and they got the internal heart monitor off your head (you have a little scab right now from where it was :( I'm sorry, but the external monitor wouldn't pick up your low heart beat)

You were absolutely perfect! 7 pounds even and 19 and 1/2 inches long. Your coloring was amazing, you weren't screaming, just kind of whimpering...a very mellow and calm newborn. And your eyes were WIDE open. Daddy got to hold you first while the doctor finished with me. They got you all cleaned up and swaddled and the nurse brought you to me, but I still couldn't hold you yet, but I got to talk to you and kiss you!

When the doctor was done with me and lowered me back down on the hospital bed, Daddy brought you too me!! You were looking around and I'm so sure you knew it was me, your Mommy!



You are so wonderful and I love you so much!

-Momma

Dear McLane,

It's about 8:30 on Sunday night, December 8th. I was thinking you would come today for some reason, but you're still not here yet so maybe not :) Daddy and I went to the doctor last Thursday and the date to be induced has been set...December 20, 2012 at 5:00 am. So if you do not come on your own, you will be forced to next Friday :) You're actually due the 19th, so thankfully I'm not going to far past the due date! There can be complications if you stay in my belly too long. I really am going to miss all your movements! You have been (I think so, at least) head down the entire time but, you're laying on your side and you're curled up. Your back is on my right side and your feet are on my left side. You kick me and jab me with your either your feet or your knees all the time!! It's really neat to see it! It's like a bulge in my belly. Maybe you'll be old enough to see and understand one day when I'm pregnant with your brother or sister that will possibly be in the future.

This is your very first ever picture!! You were 12 weeks and 5 days! I think you were about the size of my thumb at this point. Daddy and I started calling you peanut. I wonder if it will stick. We called you that to everyone and there are some people that still call you that even now that you have a name! :)

This is your second picture. We were 20 weeks along. This was the BIG ultrasound! We got to find out if you were a boy or a girl!!! I had a feeling that you were going to be a boy! The lady who did the ultra sound checked you first to make sure everything was in working order. She saw that you have 10 fingers and 10 toes, your heart was working, as well as your tiny bladder, and things like that. The for the drum roll.......

BOY!!! 





This is your most recent picture. At 38 weeks. You are about as big as a watermelon! Your movements had really slowed down and I was worried so I mentioned it to the doctor at the last visit and they wanted to see you and make sure everything was ok. She measured you at 7 pounds and 6 ounces and 37 and a half weeks. So we were pretty much right about your due date :) We got to see you smaking your little lips and to see you practicing breathing. It was the neatest thing! I didn't want to get a 4D ultra sound because I want your face to be a surprise!! I had the ultrasound at 12 weeks because I was so anxious to see you and then we found out that you were a boy so I wanted at least your sweet little face to be a surprise.

Now that I've got this blog going, I just have so much I want to tell you about!! I want you to get to know me and your dad I guess you could say. Oh and Chewy and Cole. They are a big part of our family too! I have so much I want to tell you! I'll need to tell you about the reveal party we had for our family and close friends where we told them that you are a boy! I'll need to give you some pictures of the Chew man and Colitia! I need to get in the bed though. Sleep will be hard to come by soon :) It's totally worth it though, but since I know that it will be that way I try to get in the bed early and sleep as much as I can. You're really running out of room and I have to get up a lot to use the bathroom :( I hope I don't wake your Daddy up when I go, I know I wake Chewy up! Any way, I have been sick since Thursday and out of work, so I am going to try to go back tomorrow even though I'm much worse than better. I'm only working this next week and then not going back the 16th through the end of my 12 week maternity leave. Amanda and Cody are having Bryce on Janurary 13, 2012 if he doesn't come on his own! So you will have a friend who is really close to your age! :)  I love you so much already and I can not wait to meet you!

Mommy