Innie or Outtie?

Early this morning Asher's belly button thingy finally came off!!

When we were in the hospital we were told it would fall of in 7-10 days, his came of on day 17!

Right now his belly button still has some blood crusties in it, which I plan to wash off, but he is fast asleep right now, so I will wait until he is awake to do it.

When it is all cleaned I will post a pic, since I can't quite tell if it will be an innie or an outtie... looks half and half right now!!

But for now, here is a pic of the little man sleeping in his swing:

Busy Busy

Sorry for the blog slow down everyone. We have relatives in town and Asher and I have been visiting non stop since Friday!

Here is the little man in Grandma M's arms on Friday, 10 Days old!

Aunty Gerry and Asher:

Asher and Aunty Brenda at Breakfast on Saturday:
Today we went up to Grandma and Grandpa M's for home made soup and a shelter raising. Asher basically hung out with Grandma, Mommy and Stef but in a few years he will be able to help out too!

Here is the crew working on the shelter, Aunty Gerry looks a bit puzzled by the instructions!

And here is the little man lounging on Grandma's lap!

Shartin in the Tub!

Last night Gord and I gave Asher a bath. This time he wasn't exactly loving his bath like he normally does and was squeaking through the whole thing.

We were just finishing up, Gord went to grab the towel to wrap him up in it, since that always calms him right down, and I was lifting him out of the tub. Out of nowhere I heard him (Asher not Gord) Fart... Or rather Shart...

I think I felt it... before I heard it because he was squeaking away due to his dislike of the bath.

I quickly put his bum back into the water to rinse it off, and we wrapped him up in his cute hooded towel.

He was just starting to calm down and I was walking into the bedroom to dry him off when I heard it again...

This time is was louder and there was a lot more force behind it.

I looked down at the carpet to make sure it wasn't leaking through the towel and onto our new carpet, since it sounded pretty wet. Then I went back into the bathroom where Gord was to see how bad the damage was. Gord took one look and almost peed himself he was laughing so hard. Asher had Sharted right through the towel and it was not a small one either...

Gord and I were laughing so uncontrollably we couldn't figure out what to do. We needed the towel to dry him off and the other two hooded towels Asher has were in the wash.

We ended up cleaning his bum, and drying him off with the clean parts of the towel.

I'm not sure that towel will ever be the same. But at least it was yellow to match his mustard coloured poops!

Mommy and Asher Day

Today is Daddys first day back to work... so its just a Mommy and Asher day.

Sorry for the bad punctuation, for what ever reason when I go to make a question mark I get this: É and when I hit the comma key I get this: è. Does anyone know what is going on with our key board...


Asher slept very well last night, and Daddy was able to get lots of sleep! He slept for 3.5 hours, work up to eat and be changed, then another 2 hours and again another 2 hours...


He had some tummy time this morning and was awake for almost an hour before he was hungry and then wanted to go back to sleep again... and now he is still napping! He should be up soon and will likely be hungry!


He is a pretty darn good kid, considering everything he put mommy through before he arrived. I guess he is making up for it!



This afternoon the public health nurse is stopping by for a visit and then Great Aunty Char, Aunty B, and Colton will be coming by for a visit later too! Asher loves visitors!


Here is photo of the little guy this morning during his tummy time!

Visiting

Gord, Asher and I would like to apologize for the low productivity day in Government offices around Victoria today, Asher went visiting!

First we went to my work, where Asher was given a few gifts, including the cutest hooded towel that is in the wash right now so he can use it for his bath tonight, and a card that is filled with well wishes. What a great group of people I work with!!! Thanks everyone!

Then we walked down to my old work to visit Ronnie, Cindy, Liana, Dana and others! We took a picture of Cindy holding him since Sharon was away today and Cindy wanted to one up her LOL

After that we went to Grandma P's work for a visit too!

Over the weekend we also did lots of visiting. On Saturday night we went up to visit Grumpy M and Grandma M. Asher sure loves his Grumpy, he cuddled with him for hours, and mommy got a nice long break!

Then on Sunday Kris and Liana came over and so did Aunty Gerry and Uncle Jack!!! Aunty Gerry bought Asher the Diaper Genie, and she brought it all the way from Vancouver on the back of her motorcycle!!

Then once everyone left, it was time for Asher's first bath at home!

And since every ones fav thing about the little guy seems to be his hair, we took a picture of it right after his bath.

Then we went to Grandma and Grandpa P's for a visit. Asher got to meet Deb, Harold, Dia, Tim and Cheryl. Aunty and Uncle were also there with Cousin Kiana. Here is Uncle Glen with the cousins:

And lastly this morning we went to visit the doctor for his 1 week (6 day) check up. Asher has grown 1/2 inch since he was born and gained 1.5 oz. So he now weighs in at 6.25 pounds!

Just a few pics

All Cozy:
Coming Home:

Daddy and his babies:

Sleepin in his bed for the first time with mommy's old baby blanket:

Cuddles with daddy:

Cuddles with Aunty Tricia:

Cuddles with Grumpy:

How cute am I?

Birth Story!

Well here we are, all settled in at home and loving family life!

Since Asher is sleeping and Daddy is making breaky I figured it would be a good time to start writing the Birth story, and hopefully finish it too!!

Tuesday July 14, 2009 - My due date arrived!! Aunty Tricia and I had plans to hang out and go for a walk. So after having breakfast and some coffee we decided to call Tesia (another prego friend) and see if she wanted to join us for a "labour inducing walk".

We headed over to Tesia's place around 10am and went for a beach walk. When we came back around lunch time, we were all pretty hungry and for some reason all craving Poutine! We decided that since New York Fries is in town we could settle for A&W poutine so we headed into Langford for some lunch.

After lunch we went back to Aunty Tricia's place so Tesia could take Cousin Kiana's bassinet since her baby will be arriving shortly and need a bed!

We were all sitting on Aunty Tricia and Uncle Glen's bed playing with Cousin Kiana when I felt my water break!!! On Uncle Glen's side of the bed!!! Hehe sorry Big Brother! I headed for the bathroom, and ended up being in there for a good 20min since it wouldn't stop leaking. When I finally came out I was having some pretty major contractions. Aunty Tricia called Gord at work to let him know, and I called my doctor's office. While waiting for my doctor to call back I decided we needed to go... I had to get to the hospital.... Boy was I right!

I think Tricia should write a blog post about the car ride there.... clearly I was in transition for the first half of the ride, and during the second half of the ride and the walk into the hospital I was doing all I could to not push!!

We got to the hospital at 2:37pm and into the delivery room shortly after that. I started pushing as soon as they checked me and determined that I was good to go.

Gord came in the room shortly after, and was AMAZING!!! I could not have done it with out him... literally you feel like a crazy person because your body feel out of control. The way Gord talked to me and coached me through it, brought me down a level and focused me. Once I was in the zone and knew what to do and how to do it, within 3 contractions Asher arrived into the world! He arrived at 3:22pm, weighing in at 6 pounds 1 oz! (I think Grandpa P actually won the baby pool but I have to double check!)

His nose was a little flattened so they had to check his oxygen levels and we were giving him a bit of oxygen for the first bit after birth but within a few hours he was good to go!

The first night he slept quite a bit, but we didn't... too busy rehashing the unreal birth experience and trying to get the little man to eat (he just wanted to sleep).

The second night we finally started to get the hang of Breastfeeding!! For the first 24 hours we struggled to get him to latch, because he couldn't seem to figure out how to suck once he was on. Turns out his tongue was just too far back and we had to work with him to teach him to bring it forward when he sucks! Within no time he had it down!

We came home on Thursday night, it was a very gassy night for the little man. Poor little guy was hurtin. But we did end up getting a few hours sleep after a little gripe water, a diaper change, a feed and a swaddle!

Friday was a great day, he was a happy little man and got to go visit his Aunty Tricia and Uncle Glen! Then we went out to find some newborn clothes since his is such a little guy and none of his 0-3 months outfits fit!! We didn't have much luck so we will be headed out again today to see what we can find!

Anyways, there is the quick update/Birth story, I'm sure there's lots I missed. But overall we are all doing wonderfully! Asher is feeding and sleeping great, and right now is being burped by daddy! Life is good!