1 Month

Wesley is a month old. Though we're not so sure about the growing big part, he is growing and changing. Our camera has some issues and never works when we want it too. Arghhh... but we have some pictures though they aren't great

1 Week Old

2 Week Old

3 weeks old


4 Weeks old

This is what he has been up to.

Accomplishments

• hold his head up
  
• roll from side to side
• rollover from his tummy (2 1/2 weeks)
• sleeps 5 hours at night

Likes

• cuddling with mom and dad
• swinging
• Reading with mom
• be swaddled

Dislikes

• baths
• being naked
• tummy time when i keep rolling him back over, after the second to third time he gives up and just cries

Nickname

• Bug-a-boo
• Wes

Biggest Challenge

• Our biggest challenge has been weight gain. At his 5 day check-up his weight was down to 7 lbs 7.5 oz. Since he had lost more weight since leaving the hospital we had to start supplementing. His current stats are 8 lbs 2.9 oz and 21 3/8 inches long. He still is not where they would like him to be. He has to have his weight checked every 2 weeks. Being an exclusive pumper is very taxing but we are going to try to keep him on breast milk as long as we can.

He is a very happy baby and we love him.

Wesley Garrett Adams

Wesley Garrett Adams was born on December 28 2009 at 7:20 pm. He weighed in at 8 lbs 2.2 oz and was 20 inches in length.

Despite the concerns and beliefs that he would come early, he hung in there til his induction date. Sunday night, we both felt a little anxious, nervous and couldn't sleep knowing that we would finally meet our little man. Monday morning, we checked in at 7 am and by 8 o'clock I was all hooked up to the monitors. We had very little faith in the resident, and I don't think he was too confident in himself either. (We had a previous experience with him in which we doubted him a good deal.) He wouldn't ever tell us anything, only agree with the nurse, who double checked everything and was awesome. I was dialated to a 3 and was having regular contractions 2-3 minutes apart, but nothing strong enough to get things rolling. They started me on pitocin and antibiotics. Whit and I dozed off and on through out the morning til she broke my water at 1230. About 1 pm I finally began to feel the contractions but they were not bad. Around 145 they began to get intense, and by 2 I decided it was time to get the epidural. After that I fell asleep. Within 45 minutes of pushing and watching the Golden Girls, Wesley finally made his appearance. The entire process wasn't as scary as we had thought, and was actually very easy. The worse part has been the tears healing.

Eviction Notice!!!

I am issuing notice for EVICTION. Tenant, Baby Adams, will have 30 days in which he can either gather his belongings and promptly vacate the premises, or wait until the final day. After which, he will be physically removed from the property.

He's being evicted due to breech of contract and destruction of property. Expansions only to the FRONT of the premises, within reasonable limits, were discussed. Not only have these limits been exceeded, but additions to the back and sides were also made!

Remodeling and gutting of the premises was never approved, nor was changing the initial layout and base structure. And due to property damage, there are now leaks in both the upper AND lower levels, the landlord has received numerous complaints about nightly disturbances.

After 30 days from this day that he doesn’t comply with the notice will result in immediate and forceful removal at my discretion.

The pumpkin mob

I'm loving the pumpkin hats, Whitney humored me long enough for a photo but isn't too keen on wearing it til next year with little Wesley. Olivier was held against his will and wouldn't take a group photo. Then he spent the rest of the evening attacking me. I think that he is more anxious for me to get back to life than Whit or I, though we are counting down the days.


Though its a little early to be carving pumpkins its one of the few Halloween activities that I can do this year. So we are carving twice. Here is round 1. We went over to carve with the Neros and made some yummy caramel apples. I prefer friendly over scary.

28 weeks and counting....

Here I am at 28 weeks. Though I don't think I am much bigger than I was at 20 weeks I must be cause the comments are starting to come. I chalk it up to karma cause I always told Audra how great she looked and laughed when she told me the comments that she got.

As far as an update goes, I am on a water diet due to kidney stones and feel as if I just might float away. I am taking lovenox shots thanks to family history of clots and rest. I am happy to say that I haven't bruised but instead have "love marks" covering my belly. Only 2 more months of rest and 3 months til Wesley makes his appearance.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Whitney! Now is it 25 or 26? I always get confused. I know its a little embarrassing when you don't even know how old your husband is. But in my defense, when we met he said that he was 23. So a few weeks later when his birthday rolled around I naturally added a year. So last year I thought we were celebrating his 25th birthday, nope he was only 24. Oops! I forgot to consider the "rounding rule".
But this year we did celebrate his 25th birthday and we were definitely going to have cake. (I had to make up for last year when I totally forgot and instead had a disgusting gluten free pie that we bought last minute.) When I asked Whitney what kind of cake he wanted this year, thinking yellow or chocolate? He said he wanted a gun cake. A gun cake? Yep. So I asked my sister Christina to help me out since she is great at making / decorating cakes. Not being a big fan of guns we also decided to make a fall / halloween cake since it is his favorite time of year.
To celebrate his birthday we enjoyed a free meal at Paradiso (gotta love the free meals) and just enjoyed spending the day together. Later we had some friends over for games and pizza. An hour after we ordered the pizza and still hungry we called, only to find out that they delivered to the upstairs apartment. Arghhh... So they rushed us out some fresh pizzas and the neighbors got pizza too. Whit went off to the midnight movie and I happily went to bed.

Dream comes true... just not mine

So I recently had a dream that I became pregnant while I was 6 months pregnant. And it just happened over and over again. I was eternally pregnant. For me it was more of a nightmare. I was relieved that it couldn't really happen. But today Christina shared an interesting news story with me.

Pregnant while being pregnant.

Aghhh..... But this is actually kind of cool and wouldn't mind it so much. Sure glad it can't happen past 24 days though.

Moving and shaking

I have felt our little guy move since about 18 weeks and have seen little movements. However every time Whit tries to feel the baby move nothing. This weekend we are just watching a movie and the next thing we know we see something sticking out of my belly. It was the coolest, trippy alien thing I have seen. So we spent a good portion of the weekend watching the belly move and Whit finally has felt baby Adams.

Hormones mades me do it

Hormones mades me do it, that's my story and I am sticking to it. Now this could prove that I shouldn't be allowed to make decision when pregnant, but it does have some nice advantages. First Whitney loves it (though he wishes that I would have gone shorter) and second it is by far the easiest hair-do that I have ever had. A quick comb though after the shower and viola. Whitney's has always wanted me to try a shorter Tinkerbell cut. Since becoming pregnant, I feel like my hair has become grimy. Ughh... So on an impulse and some convincing I threw caution to the wind and let them chop it off. I still am not use to it and wonder who is that stranger in the mirror. But I am sure it will grow on me. I still have to play around with it and figure out the best style.

What are your thoughts? Honesty is valued most of all.

Definitely not a crock.

I have been craving donuts like crazy. I am happy to say this insatiable craving has been satisfied. Not with donuts but a dang good second thanks to Betty Crocker. (Confession, the cake didn't even last a week.) It is sooooo good. Amazing actually, and it is under $4. Honestly need I say more. No more cake-less birthdays for this household.