4 month check up

We took Connor in for his 4 month check up today.

Stats:

Length: 25.5 (68%)
Weight:13.3 (15%)
Head: 16.2 (19%)

& No shots because...they found a double ear infection. So he is now on antibiotics and will go back next week for his shots!! Poor guy is just having a hard time with all of this. But the doctor did say go ahead and feed him...not only that but he said feed him anything we want besides peanut butter, shellfish & eggs. As long as it is a consistency he likes and take it slow introducing them. He also said he doesn't need to eat all night like he is so as soon as he gets better we MIGHT try to fix that. We will see how strong I am. He is so cute and it is so sad to see him so miserable. I hope he feels better soon.

Sick Baby

Sick babies are not fun.



Connor had a little cold for a week and I thought we got lucky that it never turned into a bad cold. Then 2 nights ago he started coughing a ton and it looked like he couldn't catch his breath when he would cough. So we took him to the doctors and sure enough he had Croup.

So the doctor gave him a steroid shot to help reduce the inflammation in his airway and we left. We have been doing lots of steamy showers and "sleeping" sitting up in a chair to help him sleep better. He gets up every 1-2 hours all night and will only go back to sleep if I feed him because he feels so bad. He is so sad and miserable when he wakes up coughing. I hope this ends sooner than later!! I feel so bad for sick babies!

Here he is watching a rudolph christmas movie I put on for him the other day...He loves TV and I really needed to get some cleaning done...bad me. I only left him there for about 10 minutes.

4 months

4 months old:

Connor is already 4 months old! He has his 4 month doctor apt. on Friday so we will see how round 2 of shots goes!!!
-Goes to bed around 9, was sleeping until 2 but has been getting up at 11-12 lately, then 2 or 3 then 5 or 6 then 7ish...anyway...What is sleep?
-Loves talking in the middle of the night when he wakes up before he starts screaming...then he just sits there and smiles at me when he sees me...he knows that is the only way to redeem himself at those hours
-Hates tummy time...he may never roll over
-Loves talking and sometimes likes to smile...does not like to laugh...He is usually very serious
-Grabs everything you put in front of him and puts it right in his mouth
-Still drools like crazy...his clothes are always soaked
-Eats every 2 hours during the day...I am ready to start solids to see if I can stop nursing him so much
-He hates getting dressed
-He loves when people sing to him
- He does not like the dark
-Still is swaddled every night...we put him down not swaddled tonight so we will see how that goes!
-He loves toys with big eyes especially his baby Einstein playmat because it has a whale with big eyes and an octopus with big eyes

Sleep?

Last night I was up with Connor every 2 hours. During my 2 hour stretches of sleep I was having crazy dreams. One was about this free give away everyone was getting. It was a free trip to Disneyland and all you had to do to get it was get 8 hours of sleep in a row. I was like there's no way I could ever fool them about getting 8 hours of sleep! Haha. It was so random but so true! My poor baby just doesn't like to sleep and I might die from not sleeping or just always be grumpy...maybe one day he will decide to sleep. At least he redeems himself when I hear him laying there talking to himself in the middle of the night..it is really cute. And at least Michael takes the shifts starting at 630 after I feed him for the 4th time!! How do people do this without a husband?

3 Months Old

Connor is already 3 months old!
-He is such a good baby.
-He goes to bed at 10:30 and sleeps anywhere from 4-6 hours...last night 7.
-He talks non stop. We took family pictures today and he talked the entire 45 minutes
-He loves to suck on his hands. His index finger is always bright red
-He started laughing and it is the cutest sound ever
-He loves to stand up
-He loves to take a nap cuddling me every day around 3 or 4 (Favorite part of my day)
-He loves to talk to a certain pillow we have and his octopus toy
-He loves to skype his cousins
-He is always trying to sit up especially when he is in his car seat
-He loves to be put down every now and then and just look around and talk
-He sleeps in his car seat as long as the car is moving but must be taken out as soon as the car stops
-He still has to be swaddled or he won't stay asleep
-He blows bubbles all day...so he is always drooling
-He LOVES to be outside...I am so sad winter is here
-His legs are so skinny... pants always look like ganster pants on him

2 months

Here are some pictures of Connor at 2 months old.

Connor

2 month stats:

weight: 10.96 pounds
height: 23 inches
head: 15.25

Time is going by so fast. I can't believe how big Connor is getting. A couple of weeks ago he had his 2 month appointment and got his shots. After his nap he screamed for almost 2 hours...it was sad. He goes to bed around 1045 and sleeps for 4-5 hours usually then 3 hours then 1 or 2 hours after that. I will take it! It is much better than before. He talks SO much now and giggles. It is so cute. He likes his mom and knows when I am not holding him. He is so cute!!

Playdate

Chelsea and Scarlett came and saw baby Connor for a few hours on Sunday!! It was so fun. Thanks for taking the time to come and see us!!! We had so much fun playing! And Connor got to play with his Aunt Lauren and visit his Grandma and Grandpa Farrell too!

Connor and Scarlett

Playing together

Chelsea and Me with each others Babies

Aunt Lauren and Connor

Things Connor loves/hates

Things Connor Loves...

His Dad

His Cousins

His Nanny...she saves him from his mom and spoils him rotten

His bath time...he falls asleep in the bath and the shower!

His play mat

The Hot Tub...he falls asleep in there too...His swimsuit is HUGE on him

Things Connor Hates...Being wrapped! He always gets his arms out!

Fun with cousins

Connor had so much fun when Emily came to visit with Aimee and Jack. Nanny took them all to the Dinosaur Museum and Connor slept the entire time in his seat. Aimee loved to try to calm him down by saying "don't freak out, i'm here, it's ok." It was really funny and cute. We had so much fun with them and were sad that they had to leave us.

Connor at 2 weeks old

My sister in law Emily took some cute pictures of Connor when he was 2 weeks old. They turned out so cute! Thanks Emily.

1 day old pictures

Connor would not stop screaming during these pictures so we didn't get very many good ones. I can not believe how different he looked that first day of life!! These were actually taken minutes before we found out he was sick and they took him away from us.

Baby Connor

He's finally home! After 11 days and 10 nights in the hospital baby Connor is home. Labor was great and was the easiest part of this whole process for me. I guess you can't have everything easy, right?! We were so lucky that we were able to stay in the hospital with him the entire time he was there! We got a room right across from the nursery which made it nice for his night time feedings. I am so glad we delivered at a small hospital so we could stay there and he got SO much attention from all of the nurses. I think he misses them all. He is a really good baby except when it is time to eat then he thinks it is time to scream at the top of his lungs. He likes to sleep in his swing the best so that is where we let him sleep so we can get some sleep too. We love having him home and we are so happy that he is feeling better! Here is a picture of him after his second bath in the hospital. He had a ziplock bag over his arm to cover his PICC line.

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Picture from Yosmite, CA




The baby blessing in Nor Cal.

Is it really over?

I'm officially done with Nursing school FOREVER! I never want to think about school again and I am so happy!! Here are the girls and boys that I survived the last 2 years with at our pinning ceremony! I will miss seeing them all at 530 for clinicals and at school all of the time! But I am happy to be done! Other than that Baby is making me fat...or I am making me fat and we are happy we only have 2 months left until he comes!! I can't believe it, it still seems unreal.. until I see pictures of myself or I see my reflection!

Already March!

Sorry we have no pictures! Time is flying by lately. It is almost april which means I am almost done with nursing school!!! I can not wait. The good news is Baby Boy is moving around like crazy lately. The bad news is that I gained more weight than I thought possible at my last doctors appointment. Some more good news is that I finished all of my night clinicals and I only have 1 full day clinical left!!! Laura and my cute nieces came for a visit for a week and we miss them so much. I love walking up to Addison telling Michael to wake up!!! We miss all of our family and friends and wish they would come visit Utah more often!! If anyone has boy name suggestions send them our way...the only problem is we know everyone keeps their favorite names secret so people don't steal them, but we'll still take the o.k. list name suggestions.

January

We started a new year and are so excited for it! I started my last semester of nursing school and Michael is working hard, enjoying his job, and studying for GMAT. I start my PM clinicals this weekend so wish me luck, and if you wake up in the middle of the night feel free to send me a text encouraging me to stay there and not go home and go to bed! This semester really is going to be my most exhausting one with pm and am clinicals and 3 nursing classes. But there is an end in sight! We are excited to get these next 4 months over with! Happy 2011!!! We miss all of our friends and family and hope when school is over we will be able to see more of everyone! Come visit us please!

Decemeber

Merry Christmas

Christmas was so fun this year. The girls came with all of the babies, but we missed Greg, Emily, Aimee, Jack, and Ryan who is on his mission. We spent part of the day with my family and part of the day with Michael's family and his grandparents who came over for Christmas! It was a great break and so fun to be with everyone!

November

Happy Thanksgiving

Michael and Chris Paddle boarding.

Michael and dad cleaning dive gear

Mom relaxing

November was great! We got to spend Thanksgiving in Cayman and we missed a huge snow storm while we were gone! It was a perfect get away full of sun, scuba diving, reading, swimming, napping, paddle boarding, seadooing, kyaking, family, and fun.