A Tripp down to the lake.

We spent this past weekend at Lake Keowee enjoying some sun and boating for the last time this summer.  The house is rented out pretty much through Christmas, so when a weekend became available we jumped at the chance to take Tripp there.  We were joined by Kenny's dad, sister Heather, and her daughter Callie. Ken's college friend and his wife and granddaughter joined us for the day Saturday and my parents and little brother Alex came over on Sunday.  It was a wonderful weekend spent with family and friends. (We sure did miss Nana, Aunt Jennifer, and Ashelyn though!)

Tripp really seemed to enjoy the weekend as well, sleeping an entire 9 hours on Saturday night!! What?! Talk about one scared momma.  I think I woke up at least three times to check on him. The lake sure tuckered him out!

First time in a cold pool!

Precious Calliebug!

First boat ride!

Happy Birthday Papaw!

The boat ran out of gas on the way to the marina

Our attempt to create a sail to aid the swimmers!



Pawpaw and Tripp tuckered out!

Hope everyone is having a great week! We are certainly looking forward to Labor Day weekend, college football, and the season opening for dove hunting! Kenny is heading out on Saturday to dove hunt with some co-workers, this is new to us!  We will be sure to post on how it goes!

Tripp starts school on Tuesday and I go back to work! Prayers appreciated, I am sure there will be tears... on my end at least!

Lately

We are doing great over here...growing like a weed and enjoying these last few days together before I head back to work and Tripp heads over to the infant classroom.

A milestone was hit today.  2 whole hours was spent sleeping in the bouncy seat!   This is the longest amount of time he has slept during the day not being in my arms. I am excited over here!

I reached a milestone as well! I scheduled our first babysitter!  Eek!  This will be the first time that I leave the little guy.  I scheduled a hair appointment, it is in major need of TLC ( I'm rocking an unintentional ombre look), and Kenny won't be home from work in time for me to leave.  So I am leaving Tripp with a good friend for about an hour. I know what you all are thinking:  "A whole hour? That is crazy! That is too long of a time period to be away from that sweet baby!"  I have been thinking the same thing, but with maternity leave coming to an end in T-minus 12 days I have to get used to leaving him at some point. So next week it is, and I tear up just thinking about it, but I blame that on the hormones and not on being crazy. Okay, maybe it is a little bit of both, but I am trying to keep the crazy in check and be somewhat of a normal person.  I'll be sure to let you all know how it goes. 

I was finally able to sit down, order some pictures, and more birth announcements.  We had a handful of announcements made from the hospital photo session.  The super expensive package only came with enough to send out to our family.  Thankfully there are sites like shutterfly, where I can paste in photos and info, and feel super proud of the finished product.

Here is a link to the birth announcement:

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0CZOHLdqzaM3jw&cid=SFLYOCWIDGET


This evening we are heading out to a cookout at a fellow residents house.  There have been a few medical students rotating through and their last day is tomorrow, so this is a farewell party for them! 

I will leave you guys with a couple pictures of the little man.

Looking cute, and pretending to be tired. 

One Month?!

Where have 4 weeks gone? One the one hand, it definitely seems as though a month has passed since the arrival of Tripp. On the other hand, it doesn't feel as though I haven't had a full night sleep in a month.  How is that possible?  How am I not a tired, grumpy, hag by now? Walking zombie? No, I don't feel like a tired hag or walking zombie.  In fact most mornings I feel pretty dang good. 

 It is amazing how we have been able to adjust to the lack of sleep, and both Kenny and I are people who would have previously claimed an inability to function during the day on less than 8 hours of sleep.

Time really is flying by. I can't believe he is one month old! 

We went by the clinic today to get his stats:

Weight: 9 lbs. 5 oz
Height: almost 21 inches

We have officially made the move out of newborn clothes.  He lasted 2.5 seconds in that size.  We are on to 0-3 month clothes!

Milestones:  This kid likes to scoot and roll.  The rolling is on accident and a result of scooting but we have quickly realized that we can't leave him on anything off the ground.  He has rolled twice from his stomach to back.  Of course, we were not able to get video of this since we weren't expecting it to happen.  Its a fluke I know, but still it was crazy to see him do it twice!

Tripp and I have a few more weeks of hanging out together before I head back to work and he starts in the infant classroom.  Thankfully we will be together just a classroom over from each other.  This is the only way I can fathom leaving him.  Putting a wall between us for 8 hours seems hard enough! Slightly neurotic, I know. :-)

Here is what you have really been waiting for.....the pictures!

He is HERE!

Well, most of you if not all of you know that our little man is finally here!  He is also the reason that I have not even thought about updating the blog until now.  :-)  Life is definitely all about him, and I am fine with that. 

We are so excited and happy that he is finally here and we are adjusting to life as a family of four. 

Even Bandit has taken to our little guy. 

He immediately goes and checks on him whenever he makes a sound, and whines until one of us comes over to make sure he is OK.  He even goes back and forth between sleeping in bed with us, and sleeping at the foot of the bassinet (so stinkin' cute). He definitely is in love with him for now, and we are so thankful for that!

The little man is growing like a weed, and we are thinking that we hit our first growth spurt last night.  We were doing 3-4 hours between feedings at night for a while, and last night it was right back to every 2 hours if that.  It was a long night, and I was so glad when the sun rose this morning! So glad he is growing, but man it takes a toll on mom! I definitely wouldn't do it for anyone else but him. 

In the past two weeks he has gained 14oz and we have officially out grown newborn clothes! I can't believe that he has all ready been here for three weeks!  Not sure where that time has gone. 

We have been posting a lot of pictures to facebook, but here is one of the family (minus bandit) right after he was born. :-)