8/1/2012 Crawling! Backwards

Mommy's

The Prince has been taking HUGE steps, especially when I help support his weight, but he's been doing that for at least a month. He's been rolling over on his back, with screams to accompany it, and we're searching for a walker since he's so ready to go!

Uncle J set him down on the carpet this past weekend, and was encouraging him to crawl. I never really knew how to work on it with him since he'd just scream and want to be picked back up whenever I tried. So I left it alone for a while. Then we moved into a spacious carpeted place on 7/6/12. So over the past few days, I've set him down and he pushes himself WAY up on his hands, and the pushes himself backwards! He covers a pretty good distance! His bottom tooth just keeps pushing in, it looks bigger every time I see it!

He's a very happy baby, all laughs and giggles and talking and even fussing and yelling at things. He cries when he's hungry, sleepy, or needs a diaper change. We've got to keep up with giving him water so he doesn't cry when he's pooping. He's had problems in terms of it being very hard.

Last checkup you were 16lbs and some change, (mommy's horrible about keeping up with this stuff!). And you LOVE being outside. Sometimes when you're fussy I just walk outside with you and you immediately stop fussing and just look around. We've been out in thunderstorms and you don't even jump! It takes really loud noises (or anyone laughing!) to scare you

Daddy's

Birth!

Mommy's

Not Kamen Rider though lol.

He gave the finger within an hour of birth. K. Barlow was there as witness. Dad Blue was holding him and made a comment about it not being his nose and Prince started screaming until he apologized lol. If I remember correctly that was shortly after we realized he was sitting there giving his dad the finger lol.

On mommy's end I was so overwhelmed by everything they were doing. They wanted to stitch me up, have me push out the placenta and hand me the Prince all at once. I was trying not to scream in his face over those damn stitches. I could feel it and it hurt! They kept telling me no I couldn't it was just the anesthetic, but yes I could! I also apparently spattered and splattered the nurses and had blood EVERYWHERE. They told me to push so I pushed like I did with Prince. Everything just kind of exploded out at that point.

I could feel myself tear when I pushed Prince out. S. told me much later that I turned purple. It HURT!  There was no breathing through that! And I let loose a few good yells.

The drugs they gave me through the IV had me so loopy, at one point I was telling S. how I could see the pain lol. And I don't know whose bright idea it was for K. Barlow to come so damn late into labor. It was a distraction I didn't need! I remember there being a knock on the door, and of course neither S. nor I were keeping up with our phones at that point, so they just decided to pop up.

Speaking of distractions, they had me doing something (the doctors) and I remember the thought in my mind after Prince had come out that I couldn't hear him... and it was so huge, so scary that I just focused on whatever it was they had me doing. When I heard him cry it was the best sound ever!

I felt so empty afterward... like there was an invisible weight that was there but not there, it made it hard for me to breathe if I was standing or sitting unsupported.

He was beautiful! Still is. Everyone stops us and tells us how handsome he is. I can't believe he's 5 months already! Time is flying too quickly <3 :(

Daddy's