one month old!

Aidan is one month old now! My how time flies! I love my sweet little guy, he brings me joy everyday!
One morning, Josh had him in bed with us and was looking at Aidan and said, "you have only been here for a month and yet it seems like you've always been here" It was so cute!!






Some things about Aidan:

1. 1. he hates being undressed
2. he is good at taking baths except for screaming when he comes out of it, but calms back down when he is all wrapped up in his towel
3. He likes to put his hands in the way when we are trying to feed him a bottle.
4. He grunts a lot when he is sleeping.
5. He has a very expressive face and I love just watching it.

I am so glad to have this little one in ours lives!

In other news, about 3 more weeks and I will be the last girl in my immediate family to become an aunt............my sister Mindee is due on Nov 10th!

one week

I can't believe that my baby turned 1 week old on Sunday!

Motherhood is sure a big challenge sometimes, but my little angel is worth it! How can you resist this?

I know he's just an infant and this will change, but he's ALWAYS ASLEEP! :) He hasn't been too fussy at night either.

Josh is a big help to me. We share feeding time during the night. Josh is quite the master at feeding and diaper changing. I swear Aidan screams while I change him, but with Josh he doesn't seem to. Silly boy!

Josh is a great father!

I love both the men in my life and am thankful for them everyday!

9/19/2010 Aidan's birth

I've seen some mom's post how the delivery and everything went, so thought I would share the same thing.

Well, Saturday had been a pretty bad day for me. I had tripped on my bedroom door frame around 6 pm and hurt my left toes pretty bad (had to ice them and everything). So I thought I was pretty much laid up for the night. I was also thinking this baby would be here later than his due date and I was just feeling miserable.

Well, I needed to go to the bathroom around 8 pm and noticed a drop of blood in my underwear. I starting freaking out and calling Josh to look at it because I knew seeing blood this late in the pregnancy wasn't good. He looked at it and said, "that looks very little to even worry about, everything that I have read says that if it's more than 2 teaspoons then you need to worry." So I decided to forget about it and we started watching TV.

Around 8:30, I started to get really bad pains, not like anything I had felt the whole pregnancy. I knew this had to be labor contractions. Josh took me upstairs to bed and we started timing them. The first 2 were 10 minutes apart and after that they were all 5 minutes apart and really bad. Josh then said, "fake contractions or real, I want to get you to the hospital!" (smart man)

We got to the hospital and they checked me out and I was at 2 and 1/2 cm. The nurse told me they would check in another hour to see if I needed to stay or not. ONE HOUR LATER, I was already to a 5!

So I got admitted around 9:30ish to Riverton Hospital. My parents arrived around that time and I remember once (even though Josh was there holding my hand) calling out "mommy I need you" to my mom because I thought I just couldn't take it anymore. As soon as they said I could get an epidural, I did. I can not see how any sane women could do it natural, those contractions are a beast!

Aidan arrived at 1:43 am Sunday, September 19. He was 9 lbs and 8 ounces (BIG BABY) and 21 and a half inches long. I actually tore all the way through (everything happened so fast, they didn't have time to do an episiodomy). It took me an hour to get stitched up (my doc was pretty much yelling at the nurses and had them call their director at home because he needed a certain tool to help stitch me up and they didn't know where it was) That was a pretty painful hour.

I am happy to finally have my boy here, I have wanted to be a mom for so long! (I am kind of cranky right now because Aidan has jaundice and is on lights and I hardly get to hold him....plus it's a big emotional thing for me)

I know everything will eventually work out though. I love you Aidan Joshua Bowe!

baby update again

I am still hanging out at 2 cm.... (hanging out--that sounds weird)
My doctor stripped a little bit of my membranes and I know that it's still different with every women so who knows when this little guy will join us.
I think I am starting to feel some kind of contractions, but they don't hurt too bad so who knows!
I am so nervous to have to start caring for a little one, but I am also SO EXCITED!

baby update

Another doctor's appointment, same story....
I am still 2 cm along. Doctor informed me that Riverton Hospital won't allow first time mothers to be induced until week 41, so baby boy will just have to come on his own before that if we don't want to help it along. So who knows when I will go into labor. I haven't even been getting any kind of contractions so...................baby will come when baby comes!
:) He just needs to hurry! I really, really just want to hold this little man in my arms!

baby update

I am currently dilated 2 cm and am effaced at 80%. When I left my doctor's appointment yesterday he said, " See you next week unless we meet in the hospital before that"

3 Wonderful Years

3 years ago today I married the man of my dreams!

Like every marriage we have had our ups and downs, but we have made it through because of love. I can't imagine me spending my life with anyone else than Josh! He just "gets" me like no one else can. He doesn't mind that I'm goofy and awkward (probably because it suits his personality too)
:) I just love this man so much!