Most Wonderful Baby

I love my little baby. We've decided to nickname him B.B. for Baby Brenden. My Uncle Jason came up with it a few days ago and Chris and I have decided that we really really like it. So B.B. it is. Brenden was so good today. We took him to Idaho Falls and he was so happy the whole entire time. He got hungry while we were at Sam's Club, but once we fed him, he was a happy boy again.

Our home teachers came over tonight to teach us and of course to see Brenden, and talk babies. One of our home teachers and his wife already have a baby and she sounds just adorable. And our other home teacher and his wife are expecting a baby boy in June, Chris and I are really excited for them. Hopefully they stay in the ward so we can meet their little guy and have play dates for Brenden and Aiden.

My mind keeps going around in circles of excitement and I just can't stop thinking and I just can't stop hoping for things that are to come. I'm really excited about possible becoming a Childbirth Educator. I blog about it all the time, I obviously think about it all of the time, and I spend most of my day researching Childbirth Educators and taking care of Brenden. I don't know how to possibly put it into words, but I'm just overwhelmed with excitement, just the thought of being a Childbirth Educator and knowing everything I know and went through with Brenden, it just seems to fit and that makes me happy.

The other thing I just keep thinking about is having another baby. I know, its too soon, right? But if the Lord sees fit, it will happen and he will provide a way. Being a mommy twice over would make me so happy. I know that Brenden is so young, but I want to have as many children as Heavenly Father could possibly bless me with.

My Life is Exciting!

I can not tell you how much I love our life right now and how much I love love love being a mommy to a great little boy! I can't believe that Brenden's going to be 2 months old on Sunday. It's amazing how time flies, unbelievable! I just look at this little baby everyday and think, Wow, I did that. I grew this tiny little being in my body for over 9 months. Its so amazing to me and I just want to learn so much more about the process.

I want to know what happens when. All the good and bad things that can happen during pregnancy like gestational diabetes, down syndrome, morning sickness, I want to know all about all of these things and more and what to do about them and how to try to prevent them. I want to know when each of the organs develop and how long it takes and how young a fetus can survive. i want to know about all the differences between natural births and c-sections and drugged births. I want to know the difference between hospital births, birthing center births, and home births and all of the statistics that go along with them. I want to learn about the best techniques, the right things to say to a pregnant woman. I want to have all this knowledge about being pregnant and bringing children in this world and I would love to share all of this knowledge with all the blessed mommy's to be that I come into contact with.

I am just so excited to learn and I haven't had this excitement about education since starting high school. I'm beginning to really know that this is the right thing for me. The opportunity for me to love my life of being a mommy and share all of my wonderful knowledge is just a dream come true to me. My excitement is endless!

Childbirth Educator???

I'm starting to truely seriously think about becoming a childbirth educator. Being pregnant and having a baby is the best blessing any woman could ever have. And she can do it over and over again. Its so wonderful to think that We can go through 9 months of having this baby in our body and a day being uncomfortable and out comes this little human being that is exactly like us. It just amazes me. I'm a new mom and every day I look at our little boy, I think, Wow, I made that, he was inside of me for months developing into this whole person. He's got his own mind and personality, his own thoughts, and things that he wants to do, he's got his own hurt feelings, and his own happiness, I think about how all of these things are just going to grow over time and how really wonderful that is.

It would be so great to be involved in other people's journey to become a mom. Whether they are experiencing it for the first time or for the eighth time. I think about the birth class that Chris and I went through and how much fun it was and how much we learned that we would have never learned from books or just from talking to our parents and friends. We took a hypnobirthing class and it was so wonderful knowing that we had the tools to do everything that we wanted.

I really want to think a lot more about this and to pray about it and see how I feel about it over the next couple of weeks. I'm not very educated in childbirth right now. All I know is stories that I've listened to and Brenden's birth story, but I think it would be so great to learn more and to be able to teach and be there for other mother's to be through their births.

Crazy!?

Am I really crazy? Quite possibly! I have a new baby that's only 7 weeks old and I'm already thinking about more and how I definitely want more and NOW! And I have a wonderful husband who thinks its a little early, but is totally on board with the idea. What a great husband I have. I keep telling myself that I'm crazy mostly because Brenden is only 7 weeks old and I am totally craving to be pregnant again, to be in labor, to have a little brother or sister for Brenden. I'm just craving everything. I think this time around I wouldn't mind the wait since I've already had a baby.

When I was pregnant with Brenden it seemed like everything was so far away. We were about 9 weeks along when we found out about baby and we thought, great, we're almost a quarter the way there, but from that point on everything went extremely slow, well for me anyways. Its seemed like all of the doctors appointments were so spaced out, we only had 2 ultrasounds, it took forever to find a doctor in Rexburg, and then we decided to go see the midwives, they changed our due date to almost 3 weeks later than it originally was, and when I finally did go into labor, it just didn't progress.

Now that I know what to expect, I know that the next pregnancy and birth will go so much better. I'll have Brenden to keep me busy during the pregnancy and hopefully no pitocin to get the labor started. I hear that pitocin makes labor a lot more intense and a lot harder to endure. So I'm really hoping with our other children there will be no need for the pitocin and I can just enjoy being in labor and enjoy giving our babies life.

I'm just so excited about being a mommy to lots of children. And I can't wait for them to start flooding our home!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We seriously have the best little baby in the whole entire world! He is just so cute. This is his St. Patrick's Day onsie. No pinching this baby today. Haha. He had a doctors appointment today, well actually mommy had her 6-week appointment today and we had told the midwife how we were worried about him because he wasn't gaining a whole lot of weight and she suggested getting him in to see the pediatrician. He was in to see his doctor within the next 15 minutes. He got weighed and our little guy weighed in at 8 lbs. 5 oz. A whole pound heavier than he was at his appointment last month. He isn't gaining as much as the average, which is an ounce a day, he's only gaining about 1/2 an ounce a day. But they said as long as he's gaining weight there's really nothing to worry about yet, but that we should keep an eye on it. If he doesn't start gaining more weight in the next few weeks we're gonna have to start looking into what our options are. But we're not there yet and they said nothing else was wrong with him. He's eating plenty and has much in his diapers.

We are just so in love with our baby and so glad that he is doing so well!

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

Baby Brenden's Announcement Invite

Not Enough Time!

So guess whose brother is having a baby on the first, and guess who has nothing to show for it?
That's right, me. Sure I could always use the excuse of just having a baby, but boy would I ever feel bad! I talked to him today and got some really good ideas. They don't have a booster highchair yet, and we happen to have an extra one and I was thinking about crib bedding, you can never have enough with little ones. So I'm going to borrow a pattern from a friend for the fitted sheet and dust ruffle and make a quilt. I'm thinking purple and green and maybe a little black. I'm having so many great ideas flow through this head of mine! Its great! I'm pretty excited about it.

I'm really excited to become an Aunt again, almost as excited as I was to become a mommy. It's really great knowing that Brenden will have cousins around his age to grow up with. All the pieces of life are really falling into place. I've got a wonderful husband, the best little baby boy, great in-laws, I love my parents and my little brothers (WOW, they're uncles now!), and I'm excited that my older brother is an uncle to Brenden and I get to his children's Aunt, I love the way that works!

I love my life and everything about it!

Life as We Know it

We have the cutest little baby boy. And he is sure the greatest baby. He 's not a cranky fussy baby, he's been sleeping through the night since he was just a few weeks old, He sleeps great during the day, he's generally happy, he smiles so well in his sleep, he's so great at holding his head up, he's got the strongest little legs, he can scoot all over the place, he recognizes so many things already. He's such a smart baby! I'm so happy that I get to be his mommy and take care of him everyday.

Chris is so in love with little Brenden. Its very cute. Not so cute when Brenden cries for almost an hour after his daddy scares him. Chris doesn't quite realize that he's still a little teeny tiny baby. He plays with him like he would a 2 year-old. Hopefully he starts to understand soon, mostly because he decides to scare him right before he has to leave for school or work and then I am stuck with this upset baby that cries for 20 minutes.

A little about our growing little boy. He's about 21 1/2 inches long and is still under 8 lbs. at 5 1/2 weeks. Its hard to believe that he'll be 6 weeks old this Thursday. Let's see, he's still in all of his newborn clothes. He's long, but hasn't put on any chub yet, we're still waiting. His feet are getting pretty big. His feet are about as long as my index finger, BIG FEET! He's got some awesome coordination. He's already to scoot across rooms, he can hold his head up on his own, he's got some great control over his hands, and he can focus on objects abotu 3-4 feet away. His favorite thing to focus on is our picture of Christ.

I just can't get over how amazing his development is!