Thursday Thoughts of an Infant-based Nature

Adjusting to two is easier than it was with one.

My lack of paranoia this time almost makes me more paranoid that I'm not as paranoid as I should be.

Glad that our pediatrician doesn't treat me like I know absolutely nothing.

Getting a diaper bag ready to go takes 10 seconds instead of 15 minutes.

Lauren loves "bay Gav" (baby Gavin) but is very impatient with me. To entertain herself (and me) she flies around the house with my nursing cover as her cape.

Newborn giggles make me smile.

Being sick was worth it.

Foreign Objects

Foreign Object = something that is not supposed to be there naturally

Lauren loves foreign objects lately. Mostly of the metal variety. These said metal objects become foreign when she ingests them.

Seriously. I feel like a neglectful parent.

My parents brought her back home Wednesday afternoon, and she hadn't even been home 4 hours before this happened. My CTR ring was sitting on my dresser, didn't even think Lauren could reach it. I noticed her playing with it and didn't think much of it since she kept putting it on her finger. Getting her ready for bed we asked her to give it to us since we didn't want her to have it in bed. Well she put that thing in her mouth and swallowed it.

Now I wasn't so worried about the keychain getting stuck on the way down, but a ring is a lot bigger round, and this one had little points from the shield part of the ring. The Dr. on call recommended we take her into the hospital for an x-ray. Great. Of course this happened right at 8 so the nearby clinic and instacare had just closed.

4 hours later we had an x-ray with a perfect picture of my CTR ring making its way into her small intestine. We also had over 200 pictures on my phone from her taking "pitchus" of everything and everyone while we were there.

Now I am baby-proofing our house again for my foreign object obsessed 2-year old instead of the newborn we brought home the day before. At least now she has a hospital bracelet just like mommy and baby. :)

We Made it!

He's here! Gavin Ivan Christensen, 6lbs 10oz, 18.5 inches, 1:46pm, July 8th. Already he is a sweet baby, mellow and content-he just squeaks a little when he's hungry-which isn't very often.

I know I was being watched over, because Heavenly Father knew I couldn't take much more. I was tentatively scheduled to be induced on Monday but was warned that it was filling up fast so I might have to wait until Tuesday. Just the thought of waiting another day made me cry. We were supposed to call at 5 am to see if we could come in.

But, no coincidence, I think, I actually went into labor on my own right before we were supposed to call, so they had no choice but to let us come! Labor went well and pretty quick, another miracle as I really didn't want it to take more than 12 hours...and it didn't...just barely under 11!

He came perfect and tiny and we're so glad that he's here! I literally feel like a new person, aside from the obvious tiredness and being sore, I am completely ravenous and feel like I could run a marathon (well, maybe not :))! And bless that baby, he let us sleep 6 hours straight last night!

Lauren's not quite sure what to think. She wouldn't touch him and would only look at him for a minute. We'll have to see how she does when grandma brings her back home.

It's the Final Countdown...

3 days left! Wahoo! Next post will be cute baby pictures. Yay!

We've had fun the last few days with Chase's family here for the 4th. (Really I think they came hoping I'd go into labor on my own while they were here. ;))

We were pretty low-key which was nice. Cal made yummy smoked ribs and chicken then we got some pop-its and sparklers out for Lauren. She loved the pop-its and thought the sparklers were okay.

After we put her to bed and then camped out on our driveway so we could see all the fireworks around the neighborhood and the neighboring city. I caught Lauren peeking out her window through the blinds so she could see...so we let her outside to watch with us. She was quite impressed with them even though they were, "lou!" (loud)

Wednesday night we were at my sister's celebrating her birthday and Lauren fell off the swing. Which is very unusual; she's always so careful to hold on tight and pay attention. Anyway, she fell and crunched her chin which chipped her top four teeth and bruised the bottom ones pretty good. Thankfully they're not chipped that bad and we didn't have to make any emergency trips to the dentist since none of them were loose and still straight. I figure we might wait until she's a little older and then have them ground down a bit.

The other day Lauren found some of Chase's exercise bands and thought it was hilarious to put them on our heads and then take pictures. That's how we roll around here for entertainment!