Happy 2 Months

I cannot believe Hendrix is two months old today. It just doesn't seem possible.

Two month stats:

Weight: 11lbs
Height: 22inches

Big boy he is! He should be as much as he eats.
Dr. Weed was very impressed that he gained 5 pounds in 4 weeks. When we brought him home from the hospital, he had lost 9% of his birth weight so they were a little concerned. But all is well in the weight gaining department.

We couldn't be any more blessed to have had two wonderful babies. I just knew that because graham was such a great baby, that the second would be a nightmare. But my fears proved me wrong. Hendrix eats well, sleeps well, poops well. Hardly ever cries. How did we get so lucky?!?

Jack Hendrix arrived on Monday, January 14

Our precious Hendrix was born Monday, January 14th at 2:28pm weighing in at 7lbs 6oz and 19 inches long. His arrival was certainly very hurried and unexpected. My c-section wasn't scheduled until Friday, jan. 25th but God and Hendrix had plans of their own....

It all started the Saturday morning before...I woke up bright and early sat morning with a crazy urge and a lot of energy to cook a full on breakfast. Eggs, bacon, pancakes, the whole nine yards. Mind you I had been on bed rest for the last week because my blood pressure was high so getting up and cooking breakfast was certainly a welcome change. As I am cooking breakfast, I have some leakage which I thought was discharge. I wondered if it was my water breaking but it wasn't that crazy gush that you always hear about so I go ahead and finish up with breakfast and then decided to get back in bed and rest.

I never had any contractions Saturday or Sunday so I just figured it was discharge and not my water breaking and nothing to worry about.

Come Monday morning I have my weekly appt with my OB at 11:15am. First thing we do is take my blood pressure and weight, as we always do. My blood pressure is higher than it was the previous week so OB tells me that she's going to send me to the hospital to have some tests run.

In the meantime, we carry on with the rest of the appt. she measures my belly, listens to the heartbeat and does cervix check. I tell her about what happened Saturday and she decides to do a test to see if I'm leaking amniotic fluid. OB leaves the room to run the test and five minutes later I hear her on the phone with L&D telling them that she is admitting me today for a c-section. My heart starts racing and I'm freaking out! Sure enough, she comes in and tells me that we are having a baby today! Then Here comes a nurse scooping me up in a wheelchair and hauling me to the hospital. I call chad and tell him and of course he's freaking out too and he still has to go home to finishing packing my bags and pack his bags. I called my mom and she's like WHAT?!? Everyone is in a state of panic and I'm panicking inside. Here I am all by myself getting my gown on, monitors slapped on, IV inserted. Madness all around. I just kept praying that chad would make it there before they wheel me to the OR. It's all happening so fast.

The contractions start with a vengeance and I can't get any pain meds or my epidural until they take me to the OR. You women that have your babies naturally are my heroes because I was having major anxiety with the contractions. I don't do pain. Thankfully Chad made it in plenty of time. They hauled me back to the OR around 1:30pm and gave me my spinal blockage which was AWESOME. I felt NOTHING which was completely opposite with graham. With graham, They had to keep giving me more and more epidurals to make the feeling completely go away.

The c-section this go around was so much better than the first time. Probably because I wasn't completely exhausted after pushing for three hours with G.

When Dr. H showed me Hendrix after she pulled him out, I was completely overcome with tremendous emotion. I wondered if it was going to be possible to love the him as much as I love graham but in that moment I knew. Your heart grows so much bigger and the love for your family is just insurmountable. Truly amazing.

I hated that my mom wasn't able to make it in time for h's arrival but it was amazing to share those first moments of h's life with just my husband.

Hendrix is 3 weeks old now and is such a wonderful baby. He hardly cries at all.
Graham is an amazing big brother and loves Hendrix more than he loves anyone, I believe. Ha! He's so protective and wants to be near him all of the time.

I thank God every day for my wonderful family.

Hendrix's Vintage Rock n' Roll Nursery

Hendrix's nursery is BY FAR my most favorite room in the house. A lot of blood, sweat and tears went into that room. Well, mostly the latter. The chevron ceiling is definitely what was the most challenging and I can tell you that it will NEVER EVERRRRRR happen again. But in the end it was totally worth it because it looks awesome!! My husband is such a great man to do all of the tracing, taping and painting. The ceiling took three weeks. And once that was finished we were able to put the rest of the nursery together.
The background behind the theme goes a lil something like this:
In my household growing up, we listened to my parents LP albums A LOT. And it was all mostly 60's and 70's rock so I grew up with a real appreciation of those decades and I still love the music of those days more than anything. I grew up listening to my dad strum on his guitar and grew up LOVING the Beatles. Mom and Dad had this wicked velvet painting of John Lennon that I absolutely LOVEDDDDD. So when mom and dad divorced, dad gave me this beloved painting as well as all of his albums. Fast forward many many years and the albums were still all at my mom's taking up space and the Lennon painting had spent its last ten years either under a bed or up in the attic.
Before we knew we were having another boy, we had a lonnnngggg list of girl names that we couldn't decide on but we only had one for a boy. And that was set in stone. JACK HENDRIX. Jack because it's a family name on Chad's side and Hendrix...well, yes...because of Jimi Hendrix, THE greatest guitar player OF ALL TIME.
So because of all of these great things we decided to do a rock n roll nursery so I could finally display all of the things that I loved most about my childhood. AND my dad gave me his awesome vintage guitars that we just hung tonight so I don't have pictures yet. But if u can picture it, they are hanging on the wall on both sides of the album display.

34 weeks

34 weeks...ready to have this baby. Swollen but blessed. :)

fall 2012 family photos

we had our annual family pics taken the first weekend of november.  we had so much fun doing them.  melissa reibe took them and she is great! 

32 weeks

32 weeks today. Large and in charge. And largely blessed. :)

We have been so busy here lately trying to get the nursery ready. We are doing a vintage rock kinda thing. I absolutely LOVE IT! I will post pics once it's all finished. If that ever happens. :)

Graham's Fall Pics at school

love this little dude.