2 months

Jared is 2 months (more like almost 3 months with how fast I am at posting). He is just adorable and LOVES attention. If you give him the attention he wants, he will smile and coo like crazy and I just love it. He weighed 10.3 pound and was 22 inches. We found out he has torticollis. Basically he has weakened neck muscles on one side, if left untreated, his head will only turn to one side. When torticollis occurs at birth it is usually because of the position the baby was in the womb. We went to the physical therapist and it was relieving that Jared has a mild case, in fact, the physical therapist said it was one of the mildest cases she has seen. I am so grateful for a pediatrician who noticed it early on so we can help fix it before it gets worse, and that Jared doesn't need any more physical therapy as long as it doesn't get worse. He is just my sweet little boy.

Jared has slept several night 5 hours straight, and one night he even slept six hours straight which was just heavenly. Now if I can just get him to take a nap longer than 15 to 20 minutes while not being held would be WONDERFUL, any suggestion? I guess naps and sleeping through the night are just the typical newborn struggle for me. At least I was a little more prepared with Jared than I was for Will. I am so grateful to have two wonderful boys.

2 months

His sad face

Great Grandpa

My kids are so lucky to have such wonderful great grandparents! I can definitely see why Joe learned so much from his grandpa and wanted Will's middle name to be named after him. He is just so good with my kids. Will still talks about great grandpa's lawnmower and how he wants to help him again. We sure love great grandma and great grandpa!

Jared Oliver

4 days old

I am pleased to say that Jared was born on July 8, 2011 at 1:15 pm. He weighed 6 pounds 8 ounces and 18 inches long. I think the 18 inches is probably not accurate unless he grew 1.25 inches in three day!  It is so nice not to be on bed rest anymore and to be able to walk around without contracting.  I am truly blessed and learned so much from the bed rest experience especially from the many people that offered service to me and my family.  So here is the lengthy story for my benefit to help me remember, feel free to skip the next long paragraph.

On Thursday July 7 I had a feeling that it was getting close. I went to bed that night and for some reason I couldn't sleep, I was having non-painful contractions but that was nothing new.  In reality, I just knew he was going to come the next day and was pretty apprehensive. At 5:00 am Joe got up for work and I told him I didn't think he should go to work that day. Since I still wasn't having painful contractions yet we decided to have him go to line up and see from there.  Within a half hour I was having painful contractions about six minutes apart. My wonderful mom came over around 7:00 and I knew I needed Joe to come home. We made it to the hospital around 9:00 am and right after I got there painful contractions started coming every minute.  I have to admit I was about in tears when they said the anesthesiologist was in surgery and they didn't know when he would be done. They gave me some fentanyl to help ease the pain; and luckily they actually caught the anesthesiologist before he went into surgery. I finally got my heavenly epidural. The contractions slowed down with the epidural, so they broke my water around 12:00 pm. I warned them that with Will after they broke my water he came pretty quickly. I was right, and before they were going to check me I felt pressure from him trying to come.  Jared heart rate became erratic and they said that indicated that I may be fully dilated. I definitely was and you could hear the nurse that they needed to hurry, and she joke he was so close he would come out with one push.  Eight minutes after I started pushing my beautiful little boy was here.  I remember holding my little boy and having it feel so surreal and how sweet he was.  I loved when he looked at me with his sweet and innocent eyes. He nursed immediately which was a nice surprise.  I also couldn't get over his hair, it was just so shocking; especially since I expected a bald baby.  It was so wonderful to hold my tiny little guy and to see him safely here.

He is a sweet little baby with tons of hair. He loves to be held and enjoys his bathes.  He started rolling over from his belly to his back around two weeks.  It was so cute he would lift his head up and put it to the side to help him flip over.  Now that he weighs more he can not get himself to roll over as often.  There are several thing I have forgotten about newborns, one of which is how noisy of sleepers they can be and the cute little noises they make. He is now six weeks and he is starting to look at toys more.  He is aware of Will's voice and Will likes him as well.  Will is always trying to give him hugs and kisses or wants to hold him.  He is just too cute so I have to post tons of pictures, love this little guy!



 

First real bath



1 month old











2nd Birthday

I know I say this all the time, but really my little boy is growing up so fast.  I can't believe that I have a two year old.  I remember thinking about how much Will changed in his first year and not realizing how much he was going to turn into a little boy in this next year.

Will loves to talk now and is repeating everything.  I am continually surprised by what he know and remembers.  One day Joe was playing with Will and Will came in with some piano music to show me what daddy taught him.  Joe asked him where the fermata was and he correctly pointed it out, then Joe asked him what it does and Will's cute little response was "hold it out." He still remembers this weeks later.  Will is also a good counter. One day I pointed out the number one and then Will said "two" I thought I would continue on and said "three", Will then said "four" and we counted all the way up to nine. I guess I don't realize how much he is listening to what we are saying.

As I have mentioned in other posts, Will is our little helper.  He loves to help us clean, mow the lawn, do the laundry and so many other things.  I love that he is starting to use pretend play and is finally starting to like to color (especially with sidewalk chalk).  Will loves to swim and being outside.  If you know Joe, this next one won't be a surprise ;) but Will loves Lagoon.  I think I might have another enthusiast on my hands telling me all the facts once he gets older.

We finally put Will in a toddler bed a little before he turned two and I am in complete shock how well he handled it.  We didn't have to do anything, we just put him in bed and he fell to sleep.  So far we only had one night that we had a hard time keeping him in his bed and a little over a month later I wonder how long this is going to last.  Sometimes I wonder if he thinks that he can't get out of bed before we come and get him because we can hear him on the monitor, and if we don't come and get him he will stay on his bed until we walk in the room.

Will loves to be silly. Anything that he thinks makes others laugh or thinks he is being silly he will do over and over again. I just love that little boy's giggle.  He is also a very sweet little boy.  Since I have been down on bed rest he would change where he normally plays so that he could play by mommy.  He also tried to take care of me by feeding me with his fake food and real food.  One day he noticed that I had some tears on my face and he ran to go find a rag and came back and wiped away my tears. He is just my precious little boy.

Here are some pictures from his second birthday party back in June.  He loves the show Word World so I wanted to have that theme, however, I figured it would be much simpler to have a barnyard theme instead.

The invitation

It was so fun with his birthday this year because he was more aware this year.  One night when we put him to bed the week before his birthday, we could hear him randomly saying Happy birthday grandma and grandpa. I"m not sure why it is grandma and grandpa except that we have celebrated birthdays at their homes lately.  I just love this little boy and I can"t wait to see the changes and growth he does in this upcoming year

Day out with Thomas

Will is starting to really like trains, especially Thomas the Tank Engine, so I could not wait to take him to a Day Out with Thomas at the Heber Railroad.  I had a blast, it was so exciting to see how excited he was about all the activites.  They had Sir Topham Hat there and I thought he would be scared to go meet him, but I was completely wrong he had a hard time waiting in line until it was his turn!

Riding on "Thomas the Tank Engine"

Will was besides himself when he got to see Thomas and could wait to ride on the train.  It was so much fun to spend a couple of hours with my boys having fun. What a lucky girl I am, it was just one of those perfect afternoons! 

Who needs toys when your a big boy!

If you know Will then you know that he loves lawn mowers and vacuums. Anything that mommy and especially daddy does he wants to do to. I just love how he wants to be just like his daddy.  He always wants to help his daddy build and fix things.     

Sometimes I wonder why we buy him toys, he would much rather play with cleaning supplies like a duster, cooking supplies, and tools.  He is definitely my big boy, he is growing up so fast.

Smile

When I ask Will to smile this is what I get lately. What a silly boy; he never fails to make me laugh!