Papa Joe Comes to Town

On Monday, December 5th Michael's dad came to town to see his first grandchild. He stayed with us until the 13th. We had a lot of fun spending time with him.

Here is Jonathan with two of his grandpas and his dad:

3 Albright generations:

While Papa Joe was in town we took Jonathan to the doctor for his two month check up. He was 22 1/2 inches (50th percentile) and 13 pounds 13.5 ounces (90th percentile). We sure do love our little chunky monkey. :)

Cute Outfits :)

I'm pretty sure this first one is upsidedown... sorry. Here are a couple of Jonathan's cute outfits. Man we sure do love him and he is growing up so fast!

Blessing Day

On Sunday, December 4th Michael blessed Jonathan at church. My dad, grandpa, brother Alex, and some friends were able to participate in the blessing. It was very nice. Here are some pictures of Jonathan in his cute outfit:

A little Lion King moment:

4 generations (Grandpa Harding, my dad, Michael and Jonathan):

The boys:

Jonathan with his great grandparents:

Me and my siblings who were able to be there:

Jonathan with Grandma:

Our happy family:

2 Months Old!

Jonathan turned 2 months old on December 3rd! We went up to Idaho for a family Christmas party, he did GREAT in the car. We had a blast with the family. Here are some pictures of the cute 2 month old:

Thanksgiving

On Thanksgiving morning we all went out and did a 5K. My sister's coworker's family does a Turkey Trot each year to benefit Zack's Place in Vermont. We wanted to participate and donate to the cause so we made our own course starting at my parent's house. It was nice getting out and doing a 5K before coming back and eating all the turkey!

Here is Niki doing the "swim move" trying to pass Alex:

And the winner was... Alex:

And here are some pictures of the little man in his Thanksgiving outfit:

4 generations! Here we are with my mom's mom, Grandma E:

We had a great Thanksgiving day. We had so much to be thankful for. My top three are family, health, and our faith.

Lately

Jonathan has been growing and growing. We have a lot of fun! He is a good baby and eats and sleeps pretty well. Here are some pictures we have taken lately.

This is a common occurrence when we try to burp Jonathan. He is more interested in looking around than putting his head on my shoulder:

I decided because he can hold his head up pretty well we should try out the bumbo... he did well for about 10 seconds then by the time we got the camera he had slouched over:

Here he is "playing" with his keys. I always try and get him to hold toys... I was pretty excited when he grabbed on to these and swung them around!

Here he is trying out his first "tummy time." First he just sat there sucking on his arm then he started crying... he didn't love it :)

He is just like his dad... likes to sleep with his head under the covers. This is how I saw him when he was napping one day... he did it the next day too.

Jonathan's first day going to church was November 13th. Here he is with Grandpa getting all ready to go (he's ready before Grandpa got his tie on!):

Then after I did a little photo shoot. I liked this one the best!

Jonathan hit his 6 week mark on Monday. Time really has flown!

One Month Old!

Can you believe it? He is already a month old. He is getting so big. He enjoys his mobile and he loves to look around. He is starting to coo and make cute noises. He also is getting good at holding his head up. And he is starting to smile at us!

Jonathan we love you!

First Walk

The following four posts are some firsts for our little man. We hope you enjoy!

Sunday, October 23rd Michael and I took Jonathan on his first walk! He loved it. By the end though he had his pacifier in a new way. :) We sure do love him!

First Bottle!

Back on October 27th we gave Jonathan his first bottle. He took it like a champ! Michael was really excited to be able to feed him!

First Halloween!

Here is our little man all dressed up for Halloween... don't worry he is not dead, just sleeping in the first picture. :)

First Time Working

Wednesday, November 2nd was my last day of work. :( It was also my first day back after I had Jonathan. I took him with me to work and he was an angel! Here are a couple of pictures of what he did most of the time I was there (the first is him sleeping on the couch in the Men's Basketball Office):

Updates!

Sad fact: we don't have the internet at our house. :( We have never really needed it because Michael and I both have jobs that require us to sit at a computer all day. I was able to update the blog at work... but as you can tell I have not been working therefore I have not been able to update the blog. I am up at my parents' house for the next couple of days so I will attempt to update you all on the last two weeks and three days.

Enjoy the next 11 posts!

Admitted/Delivery/Post-delivery

First of all... don't judge me for the terrible pictures I'm posting of myself. I'll tell you what... contractions HURT!!! So here is the story, from my point of view. Saturday morning, October 1st, I started having contractions. They were pretty short and not consistent so I didn't time them and we went about our day. We went to Michael's friend's house to watch the first session of General Conference. Then we went up to my parents' house to finish out the weekend. After the last session on Sunday (about 4pm) I called my sister-in-law Tina to talk to her about my contractions. She told me they need to be about a minute long and every five minutes for at least an hour for me to go to the hospital. Well they hadn't been a minute long and they were still inconsistent. My mom was laughing at me the whole weekend... probably because she knew I wasn't even close to the hardest part. As we were leaving her house, around 6:30pm, she told me she thought I would be heading to the hospital that night. Oh boy did that scare me!

When we got home we got the stopwatch out. The contractions picked up. We were only home for an hour before we left for the hospital. When we got there they told me I was dilated to a 4 or 5! That means I wasn't going to be sent home. I then proceeded to ask for an epidural. As soon as I got it, about a half hour after we got to the hospital, the pain went away!

Here I am just resting (I realize not looking good):

After I was dilated to a 10 and had waited for a little bit (about 6:30, Monday morning) they told me it was time to start pushing. Soon after I started pushing they told me Jonathan had had a bowl movement so there was a good chance he had swallowed some meconium. Because of this they would take him away as soon as he came out to get his lungs suctioned out so he wouldn't have that nastiness in him. It took them a little bit for him to get his first breath and breathe on his own. It was a little scary for a couple minutes. They decided to take him to the NICU to check him out and give him some fluids. I guess he also had low blood sugar. I told Michael to go with him. Here are some pictures he took:

And here he is after he got out (he was only in there about an hour). Sadly when he was all stabilized I still wasn't. I apparently was having a problem with bleeding. I didn't know any different, but I'll tell you what.. any of you that have had a "fundal massage"... that ain't no massage. It HURT!

Another very sweet picture of me. They told me I lost about 2 liters of blood. That isn't good. They had a perfect match for my blood type waiting for the doctors to request a blood transfusion. It turned out I didn't need one, but it sure was a scare for Michael.

I think that is all for the labor story. Enjoy the rest of the posts and pictures! :)