2 Months old

August 17th my baby turned 2 months old.  Here's a few things about Jaxon:

Weight: 11 lbs 6 oz (50th percentile)

Height: 22 inches (25th percentile)

Diaper size: Size 1
I can't believe how much babies change!  Jaxon is getting so big and a lot of fun.

 

I love his smile

Sleeps a lot better!! YEAH!!! Goes to bed before 10 and sleeps until 2 or 3 which is really nice.

Has discovered that he has a voice and tries really hard to talk

 

He doesn't really particularly like tummy time but he is starting to get really strong and hold his hea up better.

Went camping for the first time and was so good.  He would sleep from 9 pm to 3 am then not wake up until 6 to eat again.  We even stayed in the tent and as visited by a skunk.  That will be a whole other post. 

 

The Splash pad and other fun things

I decided to be brave and take all the kids out of the house by my self.  We were in desperate need of an outing or I think my kids would have killed each other.  Okay not really but we sure needed to get out of the house.  So I decided to take the kids to the splash pad since we had already had like 3 over 100 degree weather days already and this day wasn't going to be any different.  We had a lot of fun.  But I think next time I will make sure to bring a big umbrella or something.  The trees are very scarce and finding shade can be difficult.

Hunter enjoying a nice cold drink

They girls had fun playing together

They even had their littlest petshop toys to play with

Jaxon slept almost the entire time in the shade of a small tree 

Hunter went straight for the playground and didn't want to play in the water

The water would spray out the center and the kids would run away from it

Hunter finally decided to try out the splash pad.  He had a blast!!

The kids could control the water by covering some holes on the pole

Hunter being silly standing on the spray hole

Is this a "Are you seriously taking a picture of me" face or what!!

Getting all nice and warm after playing in the water

1 Month Old

My little Monkey Shine is 1 month old!!! Wow!  I can't believe how fast time is going by and how quickly he is changing.  Here are some things about Jaxon:

Weight: unknown right now (unofficially around 8 lbs according to Aunt Kristin's scale)

Diaper size: newborn

Still fits into his newborn outfits.

Loves to be cuddled in warm blankies.

Will get mad at me if I put him down when he wants to be held or is super hungry.

Can have a 4 or more hour stretch without eating during the day but likes to eat every 2 hours at night (anyone else see a problem with this?) So he makes his mommy super tired and non-functionable in the morning.

Has grown and changed so much already

Still loves his binkie

Likes to sleep in uncomfortable positions

His brother still loves him.  Hunter shared his special bears with him while he slept

Mommy still can't stop staring at him when he sleeps.
She loves to admire his tiny features since he is changing so quickly

Likes to sleep with his daddy

Still the victim of his mom's crochet hobby.

She thinks it is fun to try out her new projects on him :)

I absolutely love this time I get to be home with Jaxon.  I know it will end way too soon.  I love to sit and hold him when he sleeps.  I love watching his facial expressions as he dreams whether he pokes out his little lip because he is sad or seeing him smile and laugh.  

They grow up way too fast!

The first week of July

It has been a crazy week and it still isn't over yet.  

Sunday, July 1st 

We blessed Jaxon.  We had so many people come to show their love and support.  The circle was huge.  There was Brian, Jerry McBride, Grandpa Page, Rod Boyer, Steve McBride, Joshua McBride, Jason McBride, Scott Clark, Jerel Nielsen, Blaine Mann, Greg Wixom, and Chris Egbert.  I think I remembered everyone.

It was a beautiful day.  A little windy, but not bad.  After church we went to Heritage Park for a luncheon.  Jaxon crashed the whole time.  He even slept right through his diaper changes.

My little man all dressed up for the big day

 During the middle of the luncheon, we got to see the start of the Millville fire.  It is crazy how quickly it moved up the mountain.

After, we walked over to my mom's house where I had Natalie try to take newborn pictures.  I say try because he wasn't cooperating very well.  He wouldn't go back to sleep and he kept trying to eat the blanket he was laying on.  We did get some good ones, but I'll have to post them later because they are on Nat's camera still.  This one Kristin snapped with her phone and sent it to me.

We took the kids over to Brian's parent's house after.  Brian's sister Teri and her daughter Maddie were up from Arizona.

Hunter loves his little brother

Monday, July 2nd
Jaxon had his 2 week check up.  He is growing fast.  He weighs 7 lbs 6 oz and was 20 inches long.  He had his second PKU test where they pricked his heal which he did not like at all.  I then took him over to the hospital to have his second hearing test done since he failed the newborn screening at the hospital.  The ladies that took him just loved all his hair and were very greatful I had him asleep.  He passed without a problem.
Tuesday, July 3rd
Jaxon went to his first fireworks show which he slept right through.  
Wednesday, July 4th
He went to the Hyrum 4th of July parade which he slept mostly through except when the diesel truck with the train horn came by. 

Kristin bought matching outfits for our little guys to wear.  It's amazing the difference 2 1/2 month is for babies.  

Jaxon loves his binki (I am very happy about that) and Aiden is of course happy and smiling like always :)

Jaxon 2 weeks and Aiden 3 months

At the BBQ at Grandma and Grandpa McBride's house.  Hunter loves his baby.  He always is asking if he can put on hand sanitizer so he can hold "the baby."

We then went to Grandma and Grandpa Achatz's house for another BBQ.  We ended the night watching the Hyrum fireworks and Jerel's grandpa's house.
Thursday, July 5th
Friday, July 6th
Saturday, July 7th
The Cruse-in always falls around the 4th of July.  This year my dad actually put his 1976 (I think that's the right year) Mustang in it.  On the last day, all the cars parade from the fair grounds, down center street and cruise up and down Main Street  Each of the kids got to go for a ride in it with Grandma and Grandpa Achatz.  They had a lot of fun.

Watch Me Grow- Newborn

By using the same stuffed animal and taking pictures each month, You can watch and see how much Jaxon grows.  I wish I had known about this before I had Autumn, but unfortunately I learned about it just before Brooklyn.  So I was able to do this for Brooklyn and Hunter also.  Babies grow so much over the first year.  It is fun to be able to see how much they change.
It took a while for me to get him a little stuffed animal so he is actually a week old now.

My sister helped me take these pictures the day we came home from the hospital because babies change SO quickly.

I love baby feet

Check out that hair.  He has the most hair out of all my kids

Jaxon Ryder

He finally has a name!! Jaxon Ryder.  I don't know why it always takes us forever to finalize our kids' names.  Every single one of them came home from the hospital without having a name.  Now we can move on to planning his blessing which will be happening in a little over a week.  I better get planning :)

The other day, I gave Jaxon his first sponge bath.  He didn't like it very much.  His hair on top goes curly when it gets wet.  Kind of like Brooklyn's hair.  She had cute curly hair until she was about 3.  Now it is mostly wavy with a few spiral curls around her face. They get it from their daddy's side.  Brian's hair has a little curl in it, especially if it gets longer.  It curls around his ears.

June 17 Happy Father's Day

It has been a crazy past few days and weeks.  We were really hoping that I would have the baby between the 6th and 13th while Brian was off for a week.  But at each dr appointment I was getting frustrated because I pretty much stopped progressing past 2 centimeters dilated and 70% effaced.  My dr was out of town and wouldn't be there until the 12th.  I told him I was worried that I would go into labor while Brian was at work and hour away so he planned for me to see him on the 12th and we would talk about being induced on the 15th.  But after talking more with Brian, we decided that it would be better to be induced on the 18th then Brian would try to get the 3 nights off he was supposed to work.  So I went in on Friday the 15th to see if I was far enough progressed that I would be okay to be started on Monday.

At my appointment, he asked if I wanted to have a baby tomorrow which would have been Saturday the 16th.  Don't tempt me like that.  I wanted to so bad but tld him I had to make it through 2 more nights then Brian would be home for a week and a half to help.  So he asked if Sunday was okay.  I was good with that.

Sunday morning I had to wake up bright and early.  However I was already up at 4 because of a little man who wouldn't stop wiggling then I really couldn't fall back to sleep.  At 6:oo I called Labor and Delivery and scheduled to go in at 8.  Brian rushed home after work so we could get there.  My mom came over to watch the kids.  When we arrived, I found out that 4 other women had come in at the same time who were already in active labor, so I was placed at the bottom of the priority list to get started.  They called in another nurse so they could get me going.  Finally around 9:30 they started to get me hooked up and monitored.  Noorda came in around 9:40 to break my water.  He was all dressed up in his church clothes.  Of course he started to joke around saying that he wanted his patients to know he was serious his job.  I told one of the nurses that after I get my epidural I go pretty quickly.  So she she asked if we should expect a baby here by noon and I told her it just depends when I can have my epidural.  They hooked me up to IVs and pitocin to get contractions going.  I really don't think it was needed that much because after my water breaks everything gets going pretty good.  (I later found out that they usually turn it up every half our to get things moving but the nurse never needed to turn it up)

By a little after 10 I felt I was ready to get my epidural because contractions were pretty intense and bout every 2 minutes apart.  When I asked for my epidural, I found out it would be a little while because the anesthesiologist was at home.  Even though I was the last to get going, I was the first to ask.  So he had 30 minutes to get there.  I started watching the clock hoping I could hold on.

Around 11:00 the anesthesiologist walked in to get me going.  With my last 3 kids, they always had me in a sitting position to get my epidural, but this time he had me lying on my side, which was probably a good thing because I don't think I could sit at that point.  I had some VERY intense contractions during that time.  He kept telling me in a few minuted I would be comfortable but they just kept coming.  He then told me he would give me something stronger. He waited a little while longer noticing I was still in a lot of pain and then told the nurse that she might want to check me because I might be full.  So the nurse checked and YEP I was.  She called for the other nurses and my doctor.  They got me all ready and Noorda walked in.  Two contractions after starting to push, a beautiful strawberry-blond baby boy was born at 11:26 a.m.  weighing 6 lbs 14 oz and was 19 inches long.  He even pee peed on the doctor.

It was fun to have everyone come up.  Scott and Natalie and Kristin came and then Brian's parents and my parents came with the kids.  They were so cute.  Hunter was a little shy for a bit but the wanted to hold him.  The kids are super cute with him.

Everything has been going really well.  He doesn't cry much.  The first night at the hospital I had him stay in the nursery but had them bring him to me to nurse.  I fed him at 9:30 and at 1:00 they brought him back to me saying that he was wide-eyed but not crying.  So I fed him.  they brought him again at 5:00 and once again I was told that since he was awake they figured he might be hungry because he didn't cry.  I tried to get him to nurse but he wouldn't.  Shortly after he spit up a ton of brown amnoitic fluid.  He got it on his spit up rage, onesie, blanket, and my bedding.  He then fell back to sleep and I couldn't get him to nurse until a quarter to 7.  I decided to only stay the one night.  I don't sleep very well there and felt I would do better at home.  The nurses took him to get all his tests done so that we could leave. All his test results looked great except he failed his hearing test in both ears.  In 2 weeks I will take him back up for another test.

He makes the funniest faces and yawns a lot

Daddy was trying to make him smile

Funny story... his ankle ID bracelets kept slipping off his little feet so they got him some sockies to help keep them on.  Unfortunately they ran out of blue ones so he got pink ones instead

He likes his hospital binki

Waiting for the biliruben test results so we could get him changed to go home

It is sure nice to be home now  He still seems to have some of his nights and days mixed up a little but can go 3 to 4 hours sometimes without eating.  He is so much fun and can't imagine my life without him. Now if only we could decide on his name.