piggies in the grass

mike, noah & i decided to head up to kirkwood last week to enjoy the beautiful sunshine and visit our favorite little custard stand. i crave their peanut butter & brownie or peanut butter & cookie dough literally all fall and winter long! missouri weather here lately has been so warm, it feels more like summer than spring. we love being able to take noah outside and let him feel the warm breeze & on this day put his piggies in the grass for the very first time!



 

 

one month old

noah at one month:

7 pounds 14 ounces

21 inches long

6th percentile for his weight

25th percentile for his height

is getting so good at holding his head up for longer and longer periods of time

is staring to make eye contact for brief periods of time, acknowledging us

smiling so much more

you really like to swing, you usually fall asleep within 5 to 10 minutes of being put in it

sleeping for 3 to 3.5 hours between feeding and eating about 4 ounces each time

loves to snuggle and sway or be bounced and be sung to, you seem to really calm down to "amazing grace" if you're upset


sometimes it's still so crazy to think that i'm a mommy. mike and i had to try for what i felt like was quite a while to have noah and even when we finally found out we were expecting it was so hard to believe it was true. i'll never take any of this for granted. motherhood has truly been the most beautiful & rewarding time of my life, sleep deprivation and all. i want to cherish every moment with my sweet baby boy, bottle it up, keep it close. he wont be this tiny forever, i tear up even thinking about it. but, there is so, so much to look forward to, so much more over the horizon. i'm looking forward to a life time of adventures with my sweet little guy.

the three musketeers

mike went back to work tonight from his four week paternity leave after noah was born. i'd be lying if i said i wasn't the tiniest bit nervous being home alone, especially overnight while mike is at work and i'm  all by myself with noah. most of all though i grew so accustomed to the three of us being together day in and day out these past few weeks that now i'm so sad that it's just noah and i while mike is off at work.








on a lighter note, noah had his one month check up at the pediatricians office today. he weighed in at 7 pounds 14 ounces and was 21 inches long. our little guy is growing so fast! he also had to get his second hepatitis b shot and only cried a little bit, mommy gave him snuggles right after :)


being a mommy is by far the most exciting adventure i've ever been on. the days are pretty routine right now since noah still pretty much sleeps in between his every three hour feedings. huge highlights are when we get smiles from him, it seems like there are more and more each day. he also just became big enough to really start enjoying his swing, he's usually out like a light within five or ten minutes of being buckled in. i feel so blessed to have such a happy & sweet baby boy and amazing husband.

hello, baby!

welcome to the world sweet baby noah!


born: march 15, 2012
weight: 5 pounds 6 ounces
length: 19 inches long

35 weeks & a date day with my love

the days are growing fewer & fewer that we'll be a little family of two. noah's due date was exactly one month from yesterday & it just boggles my mind how nearly nine months have come and gone! mike and i decided to go out for a little afternoon picnic in one of our favorite places. we also just found out that mike's work approved three weeks off of paid medical leave time when the baby comes. we feel so, so blessed that we'll be able to spend our first month as a new family completely together. 

noah's baby shower

noah's shower was this past saturday & we had such a great time. it was really nice to get together with friends & family that i haven't seen in quite a while and celebrate noah. little man definitely made out like a bandit!








me wondering where to even begin with everything that is now in the nursery haha

34 weeks!

it was so exciting to see how big noah has gotten since our last ultrasound at 21 weeks. boy, has he grown so, so much! it was so cute because he kept pressing his face up against my belly when the ultrasound technician would take images, so his little nose looks smushed down in most of the photos haha

right now he weighs in at 5.5 lbs and is expected to weigh about 7.5 lbs when he is born. i guess we'll have to wait a little longer to see, his due date is in just under six weeks . . . oh how time flies by, i can't believe how close we are to meeting our little boy!

little diy project: vintage suitcase book holder for noah's shower

noah's baby shower is right around the corner & i'm a sucker for anything handmade. i saw a really adorable vintage suitcase being used to hold wedding cards in a photo online & decided to replicate the idea for the books in lieu of a card idea for our baby shower.

i didn't think to take any step by step photos as i went along but the process was incredibly simple. i just picked a font i liked and made a "books" stencil from it, used an exacto knife to cut it out into cardboard & painted it an antique gold. i bought tiny clothes pins to hang it from ribbon on the inside of the suitcase. i also used a songbird stencil from here . . . http://livingtheswelllife.blogspot.com/2008/12/tree-trimming-tutorial.html for the little birds resting on the inner edge.

i know it kind of goes against "official baby shower rules" for me to do anything shower related to help, but i would literally be going out of my mind if i weren't helping a little. i've only done a couple small diy projects but plan on using them all in noah's nursery after the shower anyways so i'm not really breaking a rule as opposed to "bending" it, right? haha







p.s. a little sneak peak of our puppy shelly "shell-bell" in the background haha

currently

obsessing over: getting noah's nursery ready for his arrival in around seven weeks! we have so many little projects that we're doing in there that i feel a little swamped trying to get it all done. my sweet hubby will be painting the walls tomorrow a really sweet shade of light blue. and today i lured him into spray painting some old picture frames for me that will hold some adorable new prints to collage onto the wall. i also did a "framed fabric" embroidery hoop project that is all over pinterest right now, so cute.

working on: trying not to feel so swamped with all of the little details, as mentioned above. and just really enjoy the end of my pregnancy & the time that is left where it will just be mike and i as a family of two. we're so excited for noah to get here, i'm not sure whether these last seven weeks will drag on forever (because we want him to be here so badly.) OR if they'll fly by because we still have so much left to do before his arrival.

thinking about:how it's been really nice that mike has been off for the last couple of days. i'll be a SAHM with noah and am currently already gone from my job so sometimes the days get really lonely since baby boy isn't here yet to occupy my time. it's just really nice to hangout with mike, we're big homebodies so we like to relax, make dinner and have movie nights a lot when he's off. with his job he works a lot of evenings and overnights and then has to sleep most of the day before he heads back into work. so these days off are definitely precious.

anticipating: our 33 week checkup tomorrow & getting to hear noah's heartbeat, i feel so blessed that mike makes it to every single one of our doctors appointments. i'm also looking forward to a HUGE baby yard sale that mom and i are going to bright and early saturday morning. and then next week mike and i have another checkup appointment for noah and we're doing an ultrasound that day!

listening to: i've really liked mumford & sons for quite awhile but i've been obsessed for the past few days with "white blank page", i think mike might be getting tired of me playing it constantly haha



eating: probably my biggest pregnancy craving lately has been strawberries and peanut butter cups. they're so yummy! i'm leaning more towards the strawberries obviously and only treating myself with peanut butter cups haha

wishing: that mike & i could get away for a little trip before noah gets here. it's most likely not going to happen but he is taking a few vacation days at the beginning of march so i'm super excited to just be able to hangout together for a few days without him having to worry about work at all.

valentines day!

happy, happy valentines day to my love, mike! i can't believe this is our last valentines day together as a family of two!