Time to Update

Barb is here for a week, which gives me some time to answer a few of the questions people have been asking me. Regretfully, I do not have time to go into too much detail about any one question. Perhaps that is a good thing for everyone. ;)


What have we been up to:

Today we went to the beach with the girls. That was a lot of fun. However, I have a hard time detaching myself from the lifeguard inside of me. Yesterday we went to watch the sailing races at lakeside as well as going for a swim. Sadly I have become that girl I never wanted to become; yes it is true, I didn’t want to get my hair wet.

How is Wes:

He seems to be a healthy happy baby. He sleeps, eats, and poops. He is just starting to smile a little bit when he first wakes up in the morning.

Is he sleeping through the night:

Ummm he is only one month old….. So I am going to have to go with: No. Unless you can count not going to bed until 1:30 am and waking up at 4:30 AM as sleeping through the night.

How was the delivery:

I don’t know how to even answer this one without just making an outline and leaving it at that.
· 1:00 AM Wake up with horrible back pain
· 2:00 AM getting tired of the back pain so I steam roller Drew so he can tell that I am miserable.
Which is not an easy thing to do at 9 months
· 3:00 AM after a hot shower doesn’t seem to help at all we go to the hospital
· 4:00 AM the mid-wife on duty feels sorry for me but think that I am only dilated to a 2 ½ and you need to be at a four before they will keep you
· 5:00 AM I have to wait until 7:00 AM to see if anything changes by the time the Dr. comes in to see if get to stay or not. I try to walk around the hospital jump up and down anything to speed this up.
· 6:00 AM I am in too much pain to walk around only thing that helps is the heat pack, so Drew and I watch u-tube clips in the hospital bed. (He knows just what to do to help, show me clips of people in more pain than me, stupid u-tube how you entertain me.)
· 7:00 AM Dr is running a bit late, Mid-wife feels sorry for me and talk them into keep me and just to induce me because this pain doesn’t seem to be stopping. She breaks my water and the back pain instantaneously goes away. They start my IV.
· 8:00 AM I meet the Dr that will deliver Wes and she doesn’t think that I am in that much pain, well not anymore. (It seems that Wesley’s head was pushing on a nerve, when they broke my water it caused his head to move just enough.)
· 9:00 AM Golden Girls marathon: Woot Woot.
· 10:00 AM not much has happened but Golden Girls are still on TV
· 11:00 AM the first “holy shit, I hate you” contraction hits. Epidural please!!!!!!!!
· 12:00 PM First Epidural Drew almost passes out, I move and it doesn’t work, They try again still no good. (It doesn’t help the I work with and know they guys so that makes it harder some time. The call the Dr in Third try is a charm.
· 1:00 PM -5:00PM all kind of blends together but I never once yelled at Drew I know I’m shocked too. We both just played on the computer to pass the time
· 6:00 PM I find out that “pressure” is pain, and that the epidural doesn’t help with “pressure”
· 7:00 PM they check again to see how things are going it turns into an oh my we need to get the Dr here ASAP
· 8:00 PM Dr shows up at 8:20 we have a long conversation in-between contractions and pushing about the growing problems of STD in nursing homes. Wes is born and 8:45

How is Drew handily everything:

Drew is great, he even read up on how to breast feed while we were in the hospital. So needless to say Drew was the one that had to teach me how to do it. (Drew’s Note: I was board in the tiny room and read the POORLY written 30 second killer whale “how to” flier on the bulletin board.)



How am I handily everything:

I’m still here taking more photos than ever.

One month old

I know what you must be thinking. What, no puppies….. Well the puppies have a new found fondness for the bath tub and where playing in the tub the whole time I was taking photos.

Wes' New Pack

He loves it.

Miranda to Africa

Miranda is off to Africa today sad day :( It isn't like I will see her any less or more it is just that I talk to her umm five times a day. So I guess what I am trying to say is I am going to miss my sister and I now have an opening for a new phone buddy I will be talking applications now ;)



We felt that Wes may need his own life jacket and that maybe he shouldn't wear Zeph-Zephs. It is for infant and up to 30 pounds. I think it will last him awhile he still has alot of growing to do.
We went to the lake again yesterday but did not put the sails up. We just motored around, ate lunch and drew went swimming. Wes just slept for the most part.


The puppies got to enjoy some good old bone time while we went to the lake. I am glad that coaly does not know that her legs have bones otherwise we would have a problem.

Drew after puppies climmed all over him in the water.

and an added bonus pic just because

Monday...er...Tuesday

I woke up this morning at 6:30 ish to pokes in the ribs, and “Will you change the baby.” (Note the absence of a question mark. It was a rhetorical question in the form of a statement.) So I got up and changed the little guy, handed him back to Keri and crawled back into bed. As I drifted back in to snooze-land I was correct in thinking that today was the first day of the week, because of the holiday. My snooze inhibited logic failed, however, when it made the assumption that the first day of the week was still Monday. The thought process was as follows:

Today = First Day of Week
First Day of Week = Monday
Monday = Labor Day Holiday
Labor Day Holiday = No Work Today
No Work Today = Sleep in until at least 9:00

At 6:55 I was again being poked in the ribs:
Keri: “Aren’t you going to get up and shower?”
DrewBee: “But its Monday……”
DrewBee: “Oh, damnit…..its Tuesday, isn’t it.”
Keri: “Yea.”

I'm on a boat

This weekend I got the opportunity to be the crazy in-law screaming profanities at everyone. Yea for me. I don't know why I thought I would be ok with going out on the sailboat with Wesley. At first we were just going to keep the sails down and motor around to watch the races, one thing led to another and before I knew it we were under sail in the middle of the race. It is not very fun to be holding an infant and unsuspectingly hit a gust of wind. (By the way he fits Zephy's life jacket just perfectly right now!)
This is going to be my first video blog so enjoy. The song I used for this video was also our wedding song but, I thought it worked for this as well. So watch the video and then watch it again only to imagine a bride walking the down aisle.



I almost forgot photos!!

Grandpa and Wes


Grandma and Wes


Wes in Zephy's lifejacket


New hair


Heidi with the Life Ring

Two weeks old

Wes is two weeks old today. So far he enjoys eating, sleeping, making people change his diaper multiple times in one sitting and oh did I mention eating? After Drews family meets him this weekend I will slow down on the post (maybe) but until then….. more pictures. He is now 8 pounds even and is 21 inches long.

Drew and Wes Sleeping

His old man smile

sleeping with coaly

hanging out with both of his puppies

his hungry face