Just keeps getting better...

We have continued to be blessed! James second week home was as great as the first. There were even some nights when he only woke up once during the night!

James had his second week apt with his doctor. In one week James went from weighing 8.10 lbs to 9.10 lbs. One pound in a week!! He has no problem eating or gaining weight! That puts him in the 73% for his weight. He measured 21 1/2 inches which put him in the 68% for his height. I can not remember his head measurement but I remember it put in the 31% for his head. The last few days he has been fussy with gas. Since it has been consistent for a few days I am going off of dairy to see if that helps him. It will not be fun for me, but I love him so much I am willing to do anything to help him out.

On Friday my friend Ashley came over, she had made James a blanket. She also wanted to take some pictures of him. I think they turned out great.











Than my friend Jessica offered to help me take a few pictures and also make a birth announcement. She and Kambree came over on Sunday to take a few pictures as well. I was really happy that she got a couple of the whole family. It was at the end and James was done with pictures, so we will get a few more in a couple days. Enjoy!































We are just loving life right now!!

Never thought...

I just have to say I never thought I would be one of those spouses/people who talked about my child's bowel moments. I am not even sure why it is so interesting. I apologize now if I tell you how much James pees or that when he poops it startles the dog. I just can't help myself :)

Week 1

We survived our first week home. It is amazing how much things change with a cute little guy around the house now. First we were really lucky with the pregnancy, labor and delivery and now we are super blessed to have such a happy baby.

James eats every 3-5 hours. Which means mom only has to get up twice in the middle of the night. Also with grandma here, mom gets to sleep in just a little bit too. Not to say we are not tired, but we are getting sleep. Jon is getting lots of practice at changing diapers, and changing them quickly. Little James has no problem peeing, and has done so several times during a diaper change.

On Wednesday we went back to the hospital for our check up. James was just a few ounces short of his birth weight. On Friday we went to see his doctor to get circumcised and he weighed 8.10 lbs. In under a week he has passed his birth weight. He did pretty good after his procedure, and is healing well.

Overall everyone is happy and healthy. And per request of his Aunt (Megan) here are some pictures with clothes on!




He likes to have his hands on/by his face



The picture is a little blurry but he makes this funny face where he sneers at you. He always looks so serious, hopefully we can break that soon.



Grandpa and James



Grandma and James, he is a noisy sleeper, but also has cute faces



Again sleeping with his hands by his face. Sometimes he falls asleep and has his right fist under his cheek. It looks like he is lost in thought, and every time I go get the camera he moves. One day I will get a picture of it.



Father son bonding. When James is awake he is very alert.

One of these days I will get more pictures of mom and son, but for now we are just enjoying each others company.

James Remington Revo

Wow are we lucky!! First off not only did we make a pretty darn cute baby, but I had a pretty easy labor.

To start off I was supposed to be induced on Monday Feb 7. But at my doctors appointment on Thursday my doctor thought I would go into labor by myself before than. I was doubting him since I was not feeling ANYTHING! I learned my lesson, I will trust my doctor a little bit more.

I had a wonderful day on Friday, I spent the time doing last minute cleaning that I wanted to get done. Jon got home and we went along like any other day. We went to bed at our normal time, around 9. I got up to go to the bathroom (don't worry this is the first of personal details that you really don't want to know :) at 10:30 and on my way back I noticed I was a little wet. That is right my water broke!! I was just really happy it didn't break while in bed. I got Jon up and he slowly pulled things together. See I have a friend who was going to watch her, but I had not pulled any of her things together. Also I had to throw a few more things into our bags. We headed off to the hospital with Jon driving. On the way Jon rubbed his eyes, and his contact fell out. So that means we had to pull over and deal with that. Next child Jon will not drag his feet this much.

We got to the hospital at 11 and they had to check me over before they would keep us. It took an hour for them to figure out I needed to stay. At midnight I was at 1 Cm, I know hardly anything, but my water did break so they had to keep me! At 2:00 they measured me again and I was at a 2. By 3:30 I was starting to hurt and wanted the epidural, and I was at a 5. After that Jon and I got a small nap, which was much needed!! At 5:30 I was at a 10! But wait that was not good enough. I was positive for GBS (not a big deal) but they wanted to make sure I had all the medicine I needed before he made his arrival, meaning I had to wait. The doctor came in at 6:30 to check me, and I had just finished all the medicine. Now they were getting things ready and I was told to hold off as long as I could. About the time I couldn't wait they were ready. 10 minutes later James arrived. Please do not be a hater that for my first child labor/delivery only took 8 1/2 hours total!

James Remington Revo born February 5, 2011 weighing 8.6 Lbs and 20 1/2 inches long. Jon followed James with the camera while the doctor finished with me. He had a great set of lungs and came out perfectly healthy. They wanted to watch us in the hospital for 48 hours to make sure James was not affected by the GBS.

We were able to come home Monday morning and had my parents waiting at the house for us. I am up and moving, my feet did swell a little which is slowing me down. But other than that I feel great. James is eating and sleeping really well. He goes about every 3-4 hours. Which is really nice because at night he only gets up twice.

We are very blessed to have this sweet spirit in our home. We are blessed that everything went well and there were no complications. I am very blessed to have a husband who is willing to change diapers and might I add changed all in the hospital when it was the gross stuff. We are blessed to have the love and support of family and friends. We are excited for this journey in life, and can not be happier!!



Getting cleaned up













Getting my first bath



I love his face, he still does not like baths









He looks just like his daddy







Meeting Grandma and Grandpa



Finally going home

Getting Ready

I thought I would update everyone on what is going on. The latest post have been about the house. I would like to thank my nesting period for that. I ask Jon the other night, why we waited so long to get the house fully organized. We could not come up with an answer, but I am happy that things are finding there place. With that the house is 95% in order, but we are at a happy place for now. This may be to embarrassing for me but, I am not sure if we have ever lived in a place that has been so clean for so long. I am doing so good at keeping it clean. That is the hard part.

With James... we have been walking multiple times a day. Sage really enjoys that! As of today I am 38 weeks and 2 days, so he could come any day. I just would like to help him, so when he is ready he will have no problem. I know there are multiple opinions about this but I will be induce on Monday Feb 7. It is exactly at 39 weeks. In case you are really curious at 36 weeks James was weighing roughly 7.5 lbs. I will be having another ultra sound Thursday to check his weight. The doctor was kind enough to agree with me that I did not want to have a 10 lb baby. But all in all we will see what happens. Also with that it moves my count down from a week and 5 days, to just 5 days. We are getting so excited!!

Now we are just playing the waiting game, and trying to enjoy our final days alone. Since it will never be again in our life. I can't wait!!

I just want to say how grateful I am for Jon and all his help, support and love during this process. I know he is going to be a great dad!! I want to thank all our family for their prayers and support as well. We are so lucky to have so many great people in our lives.

Once James comes I will try and get pictures up as soon as I can. I know everyone will want to see him, and if not I don't care cause I want to show him off :)

So Long 8th Ward...

We moved into Pasco 8th ward last April. About June rumors started going around that the Stake was going to change the ward boundaries. They were supposed to announce the changes in our Stake Conference in September. Well since the rumors started you could feel a change in the ward. There has been a lack of out reach and trying to befriend. It was starting to seem like the established families stayed together, and all the new move-ins (like us) all banded together.

Well Stake Conference came and went and no change. Than the rumors really started to go around. Last Sunday it was announced that there would be changes and the meeting would take place on 1/30 (today). You would not believe what people started saying, everyone started to speculate what the changes would be.

I decided I did not want to go, being 38 weeks and having to sit uncomfortably for an hour and a half did not seem worth it. I watched the neighbors kids and Jon went to get the goods.

Here is what happened- We moved into the 10th ward. The up side is the building the 10th ward meets in is 5 minutes away, instead of the 15 minute drive we were doing before. The down side is instead of 11:00 church we have moved to 1:00. Hopefully I can do to church next week, I can not wait to see who moves with us and what the new ward has to bring. What is most exciting for me is that the rumors should be over, and most likely we can start feeling like a ward family soon!!

Linen Closet

I finally have a linen closet!! This was our last "big" project before James gets here. And Jon is very happy about that. I might add that Jon is now master closet maker. He is so talented and does an awesome job. I think he secretly likes it, but he wont admit to it. I can't wait to fill the shelves! The awesome thing about this closet is that the shelves are adjustable. So as our needs might change the shelves can too! Jon is so smart!!

James Room

Since we got the closet done, I have been working very hard to get things put away. I am still waiting for the closet to be completely finished, but I think I have things in there place. I also want to hang up a couple pictures, but I am having a hard time deciding. I love going in there and siting in the chair and enjoying it. I look forward to when I get to rock James in the chair, and the joy he will bring into our lives. But until then, we can only dream. (I must add- pour Sage she is in a rude awaking once he comes).




The view from the doorway.



Looking at the wall with the crib and changing table.



A close up of the crib with his name on the wall.



One side of the closet. 98% of the clothes came from my baby shower and friends. In which I am very grateful.



The other side, and yes we are still missing two shelves :). And if you look really close you see the car seat in the hallway filled with blankets and things to take to the hospital when he comes.

Baby Closet

We did it! Or should I say Jon did it! We made our goal, to re-do the baby's closet. It took a little longer than we wanted to spend on it, but it turned out great. I should also confess that we are not 100% done, we need to get one more board and cut it in half to add two more shelves, and we need to get one more closet rod (for the bottom half). Jon did all the hard work, now it is my turn to organize everything, or at least try to. I also did not get a before picture, if you really want to know it was a wired shelf at about 5'10, that ran all the way across. Not very reasonable for storing things.



This is the side that needs two more shelves added to it.



This needs one more closet rod added to the bottom.

Baby Shower

I decided that I wanted a baby shower in Portland, instead of in Pasco. It is almost sad that I have lived here for almost a year, and I still have very few friends. Since I know more people in Portland, I thought it would be more fun, and I was right.

Brooklynn and Rebecca threw me a great shower! We played a few games, had great food, and of course opened presents. I am so lucky to have amazing people in my life. It was really fun to see people that I do not always get to see. Also I will add that James is going to be a snappy dresser. I got so many cute outfits.

After the shower Brooklynn and my mom took time to go shopping with me to Target. Jon and I decided that no tax was a great deal. We had planned to buy everything after the shower of what we needed. Before we left we had few items, or we can say we bought all the "big" things. It took us I think under 2 hours at Target, and I am pretty set now. Well at least with the 'necessities'.

Before we left for Portland



After we unloaded everything



This next weekend we plan on getting the shelves done in James room, that way we can put everything away. Once we do I will take better pictures of the room and post them on here.

So EXCITED!!

Cleaning the yard

A few weeks back Sage destroyed one of her beds. We left it outside in her dog house. Than it snowed for a few weeks. Long story shout, it finally was a nice enough day to clean up all the stuffing. We started out by picking up with our hands, well that was taking to long. So Jon had this brilliant idea... use the shop vac! I think we are the only ones who have vacuumed our backyard. It worked great and did not take to long!

New Pantry!

First off I want to start out saying we do love our house. There is just some upgrades that we will be making. I think you can say I started nesting. One day I opened our pantry and sat and stared at it. Jon came home and I told him we had to build new ones right away! I could not handle them anymore. The picture does not show how bad they really were. They were cheap wired ones. You could not stack very well, and the space was just all wrong..



Man I am lucky that Jon is such a handy man. I drew up plans for the pantry and he built them perfectly! It did take us 2 days to build them, but they turned out great. We decided to paint inside the closet, which I think added to the awesomeness. Jon's favorite thing is there is now a space for the vacuum, it is no longer a wandering thing. The next goal will be new shelves in the baby's closet, hall closet and than the front room. Eventually we will get them in our bedroom, but we are alright for now.