Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Newborn and Maternity Photo Shoots

My wonderful aunt Heidi took these awesome newborn pictures. It took a while to get him to fall asleep, but we got some great pictures I think. 
























My amazing friend Nicole Mitchell took my maternity pictures. It was a blast. Thank you!!










Crew is a lot cuter than my belly. I'm glad he is finally out. 


Thursday, January 10, 2013

11/24/12 Crew's Birthday

Crew was born on November 24th 2012 at 5:17 am
Weight 7lbs 14 oz
Length 20 1/2 inches

He was born 3 weeks early. Original due date December 14th 2012
I kept asking Crew to come early. I didn't want a December birthday, but I knew that I was going to let him pick his own birthday and not be induced. But a 12/12/12 birthday would be pretty cool too.

It all began Thanksgiving day...
Bryan and I had some major black Friday shopping we wanted to get done before Crew got here. We pulled an all nighter and by the end of the shopping we were very pleased with our purchases and also sick with how much we spent. We finally got to bed around 7 in the morning. Woke up around noon and started decorating the apartment for Christmas. I had to go to work that night at 6 pm (I work the night shift). At work I was just getting ready to eat my dinner, I reached down in the fridge to get my water bottle and POP! My water broke around 9 pm. I started freaking out and the one thing on my mind was... I thought I had 3 weeks left  of sleeping through the night and now those nights are over.
So Bryan came and picked me up from work and we got to the Hospital around 9:30 pm. We had an awesome nurse. She started me on the Pitocin and got the epidural soon after (Epidurals are sooooooo amazing). Then I had Crew 5:17 that next morning. Bryan was falling asleep during the pushing part. Can you blame him going two nights without sleep. It was a good experience and I thought everything went very smoothly. After Crew was born the only problem that he had was a low blood sugar (probably a withdrawal from not getting loads of sugar from me). That problem soon corrected itself and he was as healthy as a baby can be and super CUTE.

Waiting (Before the pain started)
Proud Parents

                                         Happy Family

Love at first sight
Grandma Spackman
Grandma Edmunds
Grandpa Spackman
Grandpa Edmunds
Three Generations
It was a party, Thanks for coming 
The first scrub down
Such a big boy for 3 weeks early
Rethinking wanting to get out of that warm place


Taking a nap with Grandpa
Getting a taste of his fingers
His first bath
He started to finally relax
My Champ
The next two are from my phone

We are getting ready to go home

He is so excited to go home and so am I