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A Hero's Sunny
A tale of tales
18 July 2011 @ 05:03 pm
Welcoming Jonathan Samuel Nelson
July 11, 2011
9lbs 13oz
21 3/4 inches
Sweet as pie <3
July 11, 2011
9lbs 13oz
21 3/4 inches
Sweet as pie <3
20 June 2011 @ 09:51 pm
I'm 38 weeks along and so there's not much more time before this littlest little man makes his arrival. I'm looking forward to not being pregnant anymore. :) It's been so smooth though, I have nothing to complain about. Found out I was 16 week instead of 12, basically skipped morning sickness, only gained around 20lbs so far, and he's been great all along. We're planning on having him at home, and so I'm looking forward to seeing how that goes.
25 May 2011 @ 02:09 pm
The days are hot lately (90's) and the heat for me being 35 weeks pregnant is not the most fun right now. I'm looking forward to having this little guy and hopefully being cooler soon. Its also annoying because Daniel's bedroom doesn't cool very well at all. We're in there playing right now and I'm sweating buckets. He doesn't seem to bothered by it though. So that's good. :)
Life is busy keeping up with a little man who's busy all day long. Thankfully he DOES take two naps a day and is very good, tenderhearted, and plays very well by himself but enjoys playing with Mommy too. A lot of times he loves just having someone with him while he plays. Hence, me on the computer and him playing. One of his favorite things to do is play in the tupperware drawer. He leaves the other cabinets and drawers alone except the ones that he's allowed to play in. So all in all, he's very easy to take care of - something which his very pregnant Mommy is very grateful for! :D
After a baby appointment yesterday, Hubby, Daniel and I went to the mall and watched the new Pirates of the Caribbean. I enjoyed it and it was fun going to a movie, except Daniel is really too old to go with us now. He ws a handful to keep quiet except when he was sleeping - which wasn't too much.
I've got a list of things to do before the baby arrives - get the rest of the birthing list stuff together, and prepare everything. Plus a list of things to get still - but I don't HAVE to have before he arrives - like another crib, bedding, and stuff.
And one last thing - one of Daniel and I's favorite thing to do these days is swim in our neighbor's pool. Its great exercise for me, wears him out, and is so relaxing.
Ta-ta for now!
Life is busy keeping up with a little man who's busy all day long. Thankfully he DOES take two naps a day and is very good, tenderhearted, and plays very well by himself but enjoys playing with Mommy too. A lot of times he loves just having someone with him while he plays. Hence, me on the computer and him playing. One of his favorite things to do is play in the tupperware drawer. He leaves the other cabinets and drawers alone except the ones that he's allowed to play in. So all in all, he's very easy to take care of - something which his very pregnant Mommy is very grateful for! :D
After a baby appointment yesterday, Hubby, Daniel and I went to the mall and watched the new Pirates of the Caribbean. I enjoyed it and it was fun going to a movie, except Daniel is really too old to go with us now. He ws a handful to keep quiet except when he was sleeping - which wasn't too much.
I've got a list of things to do before the baby arrives - get the rest of the birthing list stuff together, and prepare everything. Plus a list of things to get still - but I don't HAVE to have before he arrives - like another crib, bedding, and stuff.
And one last thing - one of Daniel and I's favorite thing to do these days is swim in our neighbor's pool. Its great exercise for me, wears him out, and is so relaxing.
Ta-ta for now!
18 March 2011 @ 04:21 pm
Daniel has been growing so fast in the last month. He's 10 months old now and speeding around the house crawling as fast as he can. He went from 0-60 in 2 weeks. He started with a little army crawl and then he decided that wasn't fast enough and got to his hands and knees in no time. From there he just shot through pulling up on everything, learning to explore and chew on his bed, following me everywhere, and barking his little "woof woof" bark and every dog he hears.
We have some dogs across the street, and downstairs, and he is infatuated with them and loves crawling to the window to look out and "woof woof" at them.
This is Daniel's little brother. :)
Little Jonathan Samuel is due July 2. I'm hoping for a little July 4th baby. <3 Daniel is looking forward to having a little guy to play with and have a little friend to share with. Daniel is extremely social and looks forward to anytime someone comes to the house, and I know he'll love having a little brother and playmate. I can't wait to pretend their twins when they get to be about the same size. :D Stephen and I are looking forward to a trip to see both our brothers in California and attend one of my best friend's wedding in Idaho. I'm so ready for a trip/vacation and get away for a little bit. We've finally got our suburban all ready for our 6000+ mile trip and I'm ready to start packing!
We have some dogs across the street, and downstairs, and he is infatuated with them and loves crawling to the window to look out and "woof woof" at them.
This is Daniel's little brother. :)
Little Jonathan Samuel is due July 2. I'm hoping for a little July 4th baby. <3 Daniel is looking forward to having a little guy to play with and have a little friend to share with. Daniel is extremely social and looks forward to anytime someone comes to the house, and I know he'll love having a little brother and playmate. I can't wait to pretend their twins when they get to be about the same size. :D Stephen and I are looking forward to a trip to see both our brothers in California and attend one of my best friend's wedding in Idaho. I'm so ready for a trip/vacation and get away for a little bit. We've finally got our suburban all ready for our 6000+ mile trip and I'm ready to start packing!
31 January 2011 @ 04:30 pm
So lots has been going on! Earlier this month Stephen and our friend Steve had a 60 mile canoe race from Austin to Bastrop. It was really fun to keep up with them and meet them along the way, and help try to keep them from freezing to death. It never got above 50 degrees and sprinkled/rained the whole entire day. It didn't help that the race started at 5am. :)
Daniel is growing like a little weed - so many things he's been learning recently. Waving, pulling up, figuring out how to crawl forward instead of backward. :P He's still working on that though. Eating like a little pig. <3 Sweet as everything though.
Christmas time was nice, in which we announced that come July, Daniel will be a big brother. :) Baby Fuzzy is due July 2, so it would be really fun if the baby was born July 4th! Yay!
We're planning a nice looong trip across the country in April - driving around 6000 miles! A crazy long way, but we're excited about it. We're heading to Idaho for my friend Denise's wedding and then visiting other friends along the way.
We're hoping to purchase a new car this week or next! YAY! I can't wait to have a car to drive again! It's been about a year since I've had a car. We're looking to get an '02-'04 suburban. We found a great little place to look for suburbans, so I'm excited.
Life is staying very busy!
03 November 2010 @ 10:44 am
Updated pictures! So we went to Family Camp in Big Sandy TX in October and thoroughly enjoyed getting a little vacation and camping outside! Daniel enjoyed the camping too, and as he loves being outside, it wasn't any problem at all camping with him. A couple nights it got a little cold, but he snuggled with us in bed and he was warm as toast. :)
Daniel is learning many things these days. He sits up pretty well and only topples over every now and then. He notices EVERYTHING and anything within reach gets touched and goes into his mouth. We're having to teach him that some things are "no". But mostly we let him explore things he can explore. He loves being in his jumper gym thing and will bounce away to his hearts content.
06 August 2010 @ 10:31 pm
The Daniel man and I went to visit my Aunt Lee today. (She's my Dad's older sister) She lives in Kingwood, so after Daniel and I got up, and after his first morning nap, we headed to her house. We had a great time visiting and looking at old pictures, and she and her granddaughter were excited to see Daniel for the first time (minus seeing pictures). Besides visiting, it was great because I came home with two new purses, a makeup bag, fun music cd's for Daniel, and pictures! Thank you Aunt Lee!!!
Jonathan was here for a little visit when we got home, and it was always nice to see him. :)
Then off to beat Ratchet and Clank for some good "down time" after putting Daniel to bed.
All in all, a good day!!
Jonathan was here for a little visit when we got home, and it was always nice to see him. :)
Then off to beat Ratchet and Clank for some good "down time" after putting Daniel to bed.
All in all, a good day!!
03 August 2010 @ 08:59 pm
Life is wonderful. I can't imagine life without Daniel these days - he's so wonderful I just love him more than I could ever say. He's a perfect little man, most of the time. :)
God has been providing for us along the way: we had car trouble with the clutch going out and had to replace it, but that's fixed. Then, due to a stupid mistake, the windshield had to be replaced, and eventually the hood too, but we bent that back into shape and it will do until we can get a new one. No hurry there.
A very big praise is, at the low time in funds, the Lord provided Stephen with a VERY nice raise! Praise God! He knew we needed it to help pay bills, and buy diapers. :-P
Daniel is changing daily and just today pretty much rolled over. He found his legs, knees today and is getting a lot more wiggly and moving around on the floor. Silly little man, he's so stinkin' cute. I pulled out some bigger clothes and put a 6 month suit on him and his newest onesies are 6 month. They're a little too big, but plenty long enough. My problem is that he's out-growing the length, not the width. :) One of his new clothes was really cute today - until he pooped and it leaked. :-/
I'm starting to memorize Psalm 119 with a group from church, and I'm enjoying going over verses out loud while I'm nursing Daniel. Hopefully they'll stick in his mind too while I meditate out loud. Also, he loves while I read the Bible to him while nursing, or even just sitting, rocking in my lap. The sun shines in the window and throws shadows everywhere that fascinate him. Its sweet. :)
He loves bath time, but I'm ready for him to be able to sit up by himself in the sink. He's getting too big for the spongie thing I have in there, but small enough that I don't want him to hit his head on the hard sink. I hope he likes water eventually. We've yet to go to the pool, but hopefully soon. :)
He's still very sweet tempered, slow to fuss, extremely loveable, very happy baby.
Stephen still loves his job. He works 3 days at the office, and 2 days at home.
Here's some pictures from the summer so far.
11 June 2010 @ 11:40 am
I'm sorry this is so long, I can't remember how to do a cut, so if anyone wants to remind me, I'll fix this for you!!!
Life is going well these days. Daniel seems to be on a pretty consistent sleeping schedule, which is really nice for me. He usually goes to be around 10:30, wakes up at 3:30 to nurse, goes right back to sleep and then feeds at 6:30/7:00 and goes back to sleep for a little while. This morning was nice because he went back to sleep then woke up and "played" quietly in his bed for a long while. :)
He's 4 weeks and one day, holds his head up pretty much like a charm, smiles are growing by the day, poops like crazy still, and sleeps on good schedule. He's as cute as a bug in a rug, even with his little baby pimples. :-P
So a little about the birth: On May 12th I had an appointment at 9:30 at Nativiti. As they checked me (me being 42 weeks) they wondered at me not having contractions as I was dilated 4-5cm. They said if I could start contractions they'd pop my water to get things going...so as they monitored Daniel I got some contractions going and they said to come back at 1:30pm to have a baby! Wow! I still was feeling a little uneasy about having a baby...and so while excited, not sure what I was getting into!! lol
At 2:00 Karen broke my water and contractions started to come a little more often and a little harder. I guess they were about every 5-10 minutes apart. Somewhere in the afternoon they gave me a labor tincture and they definitely got labor harder and more intense.
At 6:30 Megan brought me dinner of Chickfila and for once in my life, I couldn't stomach it. A while later I threw it all up - even though all I ate was a tiny bite of chicken. Erin came by to say hi, but hard labor was starting in and I couldn't really communicate or enjoy anyone being around. Sometime later in the evening we were told the girls were still there - much to our surprise, I really didn't think they'd stay, but it was soo sweet of them.
Meanwhile, I was laboring in the tub and that helped my back with the pain - although Daniel was positioned perfectly, I still had pretty intense back pain. There wasn't a whole lot anybody could do to help me because I didn't want anyone touching me except for me holding onto Stephen's hand. It was hard when shifting around the room because I could hardly get from one place to the other through contractions.
Around 10:40 I started pushing and it was a relief in a strange sort of way. I wouldn't call it nice at all, but being able to do something with the pain helped. It was like trying to push the pain away that was nice. Somewhere in there we were informed that a guy had arrived, did we know? Uhh, no! We thought it was Stephen's dad, but it was really Jonathan F.
I was back in the tub for the last part of Daniel's delivery and he was born at 12:03am on May 13th. It was such relief to have him born and as he was on my stomach I kept exclaiming "he's here, he's here, its over!" Right in line with his personality, he didn't really cry a whole lot, more like whimpering for a little while, so they gave him some oxygen for a little bit off and on, and eventually he gave a good cry. (but he doesn't cry much at all) His cord kept pulsing for 20 minutes and finally Stephen cut it.
After a couple hours and his first nursing session Jonathan, Megan, and Erin came in to watch Daniel get weighed, measured, foot-printed, and generally see if he measured up to being a good healthy little man. And he did. :) It was really special having them there with us - good memories. After an herb bath we packed up and spent sometime with Megan, Jonathan, and Erin talking about everything and them being able to hold Daniel. We left for home at 4am.
It was nice to be home - our little family. <3
Life is going well these days. Daniel seems to be on a pretty consistent sleeping schedule, which is really nice for me. He usually goes to be around 10:30, wakes up at 3:30 to nurse, goes right back to sleep and then feeds at 6:30/7:00 and goes back to sleep for a little while. This morning was nice because he went back to sleep then woke up and "played" quietly in his bed for a long while. :)
He's 4 weeks and one day, holds his head up pretty much like a charm, smiles are growing by the day, poops like crazy still, and sleeps on good schedule. He's as cute as a bug in a rug, even with his little baby pimples. :-P
So a little about the birth: On May 12th I had an appointment at 9:30 at Nativiti. As they checked me (me being 42 weeks) they wondered at me not having contractions as I was dilated 4-5cm. They said if I could start contractions they'd pop my water to get things going...so as they monitored Daniel I got some contractions going and they said to come back at 1:30pm to have a baby! Wow! I still was feeling a little uneasy about having a baby...and so while excited, not sure what I was getting into!! lol
At 2:00 Karen broke my water and contractions started to come a little more often and a little harder. I guess they were about every 5-10 minutes apart. Somewhere in the afternoon they gave me a labor tincture and they definitely got labor harder and more intense.
At 6:30 Megan brought me dinner of Chickfila and for once in my life, I couldn't stomach it. A while later I threw it all up - even though all I ate was a tiny bite of chicken. Erin came by to say hi, but hard labor was starting in and I couldn't really communicate or enjoy anyone being around. Sometime later in the evening we were told the girls were still there - much to our surprise, I really didn't think they'd stay, but it was soo sweet of them.
Meanwhile, I was laboring in the tub and that helped my back with the pain - although Daniel was positioned perfectly, I still had pretty intense back pain. There wasn't a whole lot anybody could do to help me because I didn't want anyone touching me except for me holding onto Stephen's hand. It was hard when shifting around the room because I could hardly get from one place to the other through contractions.
Around 10:40 I started pushing and it was a relief in a strange sort of way. I wouldn't call it nice at all, but being able to do something with the pain helped. It was like trying to push the pain away that was nice. Somewhere in there we were informed that a guy had arrived, did we know? Uhh, no! We thought it was Stephen's dad, but it was really Jonathan F.
I was back in the tub for the last part of Daniel's delivery and he was born at 12:03am on May 13th. It was such relief to have him born and as he was on my stomach I kept exclaiming "he's here, he's here, its over!" Right in line with his personality, he didn't really cry a whole lot, more like whimpering for a little while, so they gave him some oxygen for a little bit off and on, and eventually he gave a good cry. (but he doesn't cry much at all) His cord kept pulsing for 20 minutes and finally Stephen cut it.
After a couple hours and his first nursing session Jonathan, Megan, and Erin came in to watch Daniel get weighed, measured, foot-printed, and generally see if he measured up to being a good healthy little man. And he did. :) It was really special having them there with us - good memories. After an herb bath we packed up and spent sometime with Megan, Jonathan, and Erin talking about everything and them being able to hold Daniel. We left for home at 4am.
It was nice to be home - our little family. <3
