Andrew had his one month check up this morning with our favorite Dr. W! The good news is Mr. Andrew was given a raving review and is one healthy little dude. Or should I say, not so little dude! He has grown like a weed in the three weeks since we last saw Dr. W! He gained over 2 1/2 pounds and grew 1 1/2" in three weeks! Craziness! Dr. W said that he is exceeding expectations for weight and height gain and that he's doing superb. Love it! Now if only we could get into a good sleep routine at night. He will sleep 2 or 3 nights in a row for 6 hours, but then the next night he will wake up every three hours. Last night was one of those every 3 hours kind of night...yawn! Really though, I can't complain. He's such a good and sweet baby. He really only cries when he's hungry or has a sore tummy. Other than that he's pretty content! Thank goodness! :)
So Andrew's stats as of today:
Weight: 9 lbs 10 oz. (50%)
Height: 23 1/4" long (97%)
Head Circumference: 37 cm (25%)
On a funny note I looked up his weight for length percentage...he isn't even on the chart! He's so skinny for his length! Guess he's going to take after Gray Gray...we yet again have another long and lean baby!
As compared to his sisters at their one month well visits:
Caroline (at 6 weeks)
9 lbs. 1 oz.
22 3/8" long
Katherine
9lbs. 6oz.
21 3/4" long
The girls went with me to the doctor's appointment and they were so funny. Caroline was per her usual self and just played with the toys all in her own little world while Katherine wanted to watch everything that was going on and talked to Andrew the entire time. It was so sweet. She loves to care for other people and loves everything to doctor does...maybe we will have a doctor on our hands in the future. ;) Of course Dr. W was quite interested in Katherine's broken arm. She sure does get a lot of attention with a bright blue cast! ;)
Adios until next time! :)
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Katherine and "the arm"
Just home from the hospital and all splinted up.
How we spent the majority of the night...*yawn*
Waiting at the surgery center.
All fixed up with a nice blue cast!! (We were shocked she didn't pick PINK!)
Sibling Pics October 2012
Andrew the day before he turned 4 weeks old!
Andrew at 4 weeks old (LOVE his expression here because he is looking at his sisters. I think he's saying "Y'all are CRAZY!" I agree!)
Big sister love.
Katherine and Andrew
Caroline and Andrew
Such sweet kiddos!
The big sisters!
I love the girls in this one, but Andrew looks like he's had about all he can take. ;)
Days of our Lives
So sometimes I begin to feel like we live in a semi-soap opera...without the people coming back to life, murders, cheating and general sleaziness, etc. This week was "one of those weeks." We started off the week with a wonderful day at CC (homeschool group) on Monday. We managed to finish a few errands and then head home for much needed naps all around. Tuesday we had a little bit of a wild day because we had to go get a bunch of hand-me-down clothes for Mr. Andrew from a friend of ours. We also were privileged to have Miss Ana come and visit for the day since her poor brother was in surgery to fix...get this...his TWO broken arms after a bike accident. Poor guy! I remember thinking as I spoke with Nora, his mom, that "yup, I betcha we'll be experiencing a broken arm or two with Miss Katherine since she seems to have to learn things the HARD way instead of just learning from what we tell her." Yeah...just hold that thought for a minute. Tuesday night we also had couples group and by the time I got home I was so worn out that I passed out immediately...only Mr. Andrew had other ideas. So after partying all night with Andrew, we laid low on Wednesday. We did some homeschool work, washed some clothes and generally just vegged. Then comes Thursday. Since I had revived myself a bit from the vegging day on Wednesday, I woke up Thursday ready to rock and roll. I got the girls up and dressed in their "Big Sis" shirts, hair done, breakfast fed and then got Mr. Andrew up and dressed. I was determined to take sibling pictures of the little guy before he loses his "newborn" look...which is fast departing! He's growing like a weed! Anyway, as I am getting ready to go outside to take pictures, Caroline comes up to me and says "Look Momma, I chewed my shirt." WHAT?! Sure enough, Caroline had been chewing on the collar of her shirt while I was feeding Andrew. SO now her shirt collar is ALLLLL stretched out and has a ginormous (pretty sure that's not a word) wet spot on the front of the shirt. Wonderful... So I strip her shirt off, rinse it out with water and chuck in the dryer just praying it will dry fast enough before Mr. A falls asleep or gets into a fussy mode. I think this should have been a warning as to how the day would go...
Anyway, the shirt dried fairly quickly and we all went outside for a photo shoot. I managed to get quite a few sweet shots of all three kiddos together and just two of them together in various forms, but I did not get a SINGLE picture that was decent of Mr. Andrew by himself. Bummer. In every single one he either looked like he was about to spit up or was just generally ticked to be subjected to the sunlight and camera lens. Oh well...guess we will try again soon. :) We then did homeschool, which was ridiculously challenging for some reason. Katherine didn't want to do anything, questioned everything and Caroline kept whining and fussing about EVERYTHING. Finally around 1pm I just gave up on school for the day. We had accomplished enough for one day, so it wasn't a total waste, but it definitely wasn't what I had planned! I put the kiddos down for a nap around 2:30...yeah...NONE of the kids would go to sleep! Caroline is always easy to get down and Andrew typically sleeps most of the day, so this was definitely unusual for those two...not so much for Katherine. Finally everyone went to sleep around 3:45 and I collapsed on the couch for about 10 minutes. Then I was up and starting dinner. Chris came home early which was a wonderful surprise!! We ate an early dinner and then decided it was SOOO nice out that we just HAD to take a walk! Remember the thought I told you to hold a minute ago about the broken arm...yeah, here it comes! So we are all in the garage, Caroline is helping Chris pump up the tires on the jogging stroller, Katherine is putting her bike helmet on (I have no idea why) and I am putting Andrew in his car seat and stroller. Katherine takes off out into the driveway and Chris tells her to come back and stay right with us...as if she would listen to us... So she's just running around in the driveway right beside Chris's truck and then she takes off to the "forest" as she calls it on the other side of the driveway toward our neighbor's house. Chris calls her back and she does reluctantly come, but decides to take a detour through the grass instead of just straight to us. Well the detour goes right by the one tree in our close front yard which also happens to be her FAVORITE tree to climb. Of course the kid has been warned at least 50 times NOT to climb anything without Chris or I there to spot her...but do you think that stops her?! NOPE! So she climbs up in the tree...while Chris is telling her to get down. She starts coming down and then gets scared about 2 feet off the ground. Literally 2 feet, maybe even less. So she yells "Daddy" and then JUMPS off the tree. Chris was about 20 feet from her, but obviously couldn't get there in time because she just jumped. She lands on her arm and is immediately up saying "OW, OW, OW, my arm hurts really bad." Chris and I look at it and it's OBVIOUSLY broken from far away. So in we go to pack it with ice and make up a sling. Chris takes her to the ER where they confirm that it is in fact broken...in two places. She broke both bones in her forearm. So they send her home in a splint with instructions to see a Orthopedic Surgeon in the morning to get it set. Luckily one of our dear friends is also an orthopedic surgeon. So we talked to him while in the ER, he looked at her X-rays from home and told us, he would see her at 9 in his office the next morning. He also said "nothing to eat or drink after midnight." He knew he would have to knock her out to set her arm, otherwise it would be terribly traumatic for a 5 year old! So we put the sweet kid to bed, who was still pretty nonchalant about the whole experience...and she slept...for a little less than an hour. Then she was up for the rest of the night in pretty bad pain...and dying of thirst...but she couldn't have anything. Try explaining that to a 5 year old who is pretty much not listening to anything you say to her in the middle of the night...fun times!! Finally she and Chris headed off to see Dr. John around 8:45am. They called at 10:30 and said that they were headed over to the surgery center and it was scheduled for 12 noon. So I quickly got Caroline squared away with GrayGray and then Andrew and I headed for the surgery center. We got there around 11:30 and Katherine was quite the conversation piece in the center. EVERYONE came to see her and talk to her. They also all asked how she hurt her arm and by the end she was so sick of telling the story that she would say "do I HAVE to tell you? It's getting annoying!" The nurses could not get over how cute she was...meanwhile Mom and Dad could see her head swelling with all the compliments. ;) Finally around 1 they took her back...after one very defiant moment when she spit the "happy juice" back out at the nurse...that's Katherine! The anesthesiologist said that she was the calmest child he has ever put to sleep...and she woke up just as calm! No crying or anything, which is apparently VERY rare with children. We were so proud of her! The actual setting and casting only took a few minutes, so within an hour we were already back in recovery with her wide awake and demanding food. Yup, I'd say she's back to normal! Even groggy she was giving out orders. ;) We left very shortly after she woke up and were home around 3pm. She inhaled some chips and salsa and goldfish when we got home and then we ALL took a much needed nap. After our nap she wanted to go to Friendly's for dinner. So we piled into the car and headed to Friendly's. She got chicken fingers and the much anticipated "create your own" sundae with gummy bears, oreos and M&Ms. She was one happy chick! I was just happy the anesthesia didn't make her sick, because it makes me ridiculously sick. She was completely fine!
We all slept like babies last night and Mr. Andrew even got in on the fun and slept for a whopping 6 hours straight! Way to go little man! :) Mommy greatly appreciated it. :)
So there's our wild and crazy week! Let's hope for a more sedate week this week. No broken bones, sleepless nights or wild and crazy attitudes. ;)
I'll post pics of the kiddos shortly.
Anyway, the shirt dried fairly quickly and we all went outside for a photo shoot. I managed to get quite a few sweet shots of all three kiddos together and just two of them together in various forms, but I did not get a SINGLE picture that was decent of Mr. Andrew by himself. Bummer. In every single one he either looked like he was about to spit up or was just generally ticked to be subjected to the sunlight and camera lens. Oh well...guess we will try again soon. :) We then did homeschool, which was ridiculously challenging for some reason. Katherine didn't want to do anything, questioned everything and Caroline kept whining and fussing about EVERYTHING. Finally around 1pm I just gave up on school for the day. We had accomplished enough for one day, so it wasn't a total waste, but it definitely wasn't what I had planned! I put the kiddos down for a nap around 2:30...yeah...NONE of the kids would go to sleep! Caroline is always easy to get down and Andrew typically sleeps most of the day, so this was definitely unusual for those two...not so much for Katherine. Finally everyone went to sleep around 3:45 and I collapsed on the couch for about 10 minutes. Then I was up and starting dinner. Chris came home early which was a wonderful surprise!! We ate an early dinner and then decided it was SOOO nice out that we just HAD to take a walk! Remember the thought I told you to hold a minute ago about the broken arm...yeah, here it comes! So we are all in the garage, Caroline is helping Chris pump up the tires on the jogging stroller, Katherine is putting her bike helmet on (I have no idea why) and I am putting Andrew in his car seat and stroller. Katherine takes off out into the driveway and Chris tells her to come back and stay right with us...as if she would listen to us... So she's just running around in the driveway right beside Chris's truck and then she takes off to the "forest" as she calls it on the other side of the driveway toward our neighbor's house. Chris calls her back and she does reluctantly come, but decides to take a detour through the grass instead of just straight to us. Well the detour goes right by the one tree in our close front yard which also happens to be her FAVORITE tree to climb. Of course the kid has been warned at least 50 times NOT to climb anything without Chris or I there to spot her...but do you think that stops her?! NOPE! So she climbs up in the tree...while Chris is telling her to get down. She starts coming down and then gets scared about 2 feet off the ground. Literally 2 feet, maybe even less. So she yells "Daddy" and then JUMPS off the tree. Chris was about 20 feet from her, but obviously couldn't get there in time because she just jumped. She lands on her arm and is immediately up saying "OW, OW, OW, my arm hurts really bad." Chris and I look at it and it's OBVIOUSLY broken from far away. So in we go to pack it with ice and make up a sling. Chris takes her to the ER where they confirm that it is in fact broken...in two places. She broke both bones in her forearm. So they send her home in a splint with instructions to see a Orthopedic Surgeon in the morning to get it set. Luckily one of our dear friends is also an orthopedic surgeon. So we talked to him while in the ER, he looked at her X-rays from home and told us, he would see her at 9 in his office the next morning. He also said "nothing to eat or drink after midnight." He knew he would have to knock her out to set her arm, otherwise it would be terribly traumatic for a 5 year old! So we put the sweet kid to bed, who was still pretty nonchalant about the whole experience...and she slept...for a little less than an hour. Then she was up for the rest of the night in pretty bad pain...and dying of thirst...but she couldn't have anything. Try explaining that to a 5 year old who is pretty much not listening to anything you say to her in the middle of the night...fun times!! Finally she and Chris headed off to see Dr. John around 8:45am. They called at 10:30 and said that they were headed over to the surgery center and it was scheduled for 12 noon. So I quickly got Caroline squared away with GrayGray and then Andrew and I headed for the surgery center. We got there around 11:30 and Katherine was quite the conversation piece in the center. EVERYONE came to see her and talk to her. They also all asked how she hurt her arm and by the end she was so sick of telling the story that she would say "do I HAVE to tell you? It's getting annoying!" The nurses could not get over how cute she was...meanwhile Mom and Dad could see her head swelling with all the compliments. ;) Finally around 1 they took her back...after one very defiant moment when she spit the "happy juice" back out at the nurse...that's Katherine! The anesthesiologist said that she was the calmest child he has ever put to sleep...and she woke up just as calm! No crying or anything, which is apparently VERY rare with children. We were so proud of her! The actual setting and casting only took a few minutes, so within an hour we were already back in recovery with her wide awake and demanding food. Yup, I'd say she's back to normal! Even groggy she was giving out orders. ;) We left very shortly after she woke up and were home around 3pm. She inhaled some chips and salsa and goldfish when we got home and then we ALL took a much needed nap. After our nap she wanted to go to Friendly's for dinner. So we piled into the car and headed to Friendly's. She got chicken fingers and the much anticipated "create your own" sundae with gummy bears, oreos and M&Ms. She was one happy chick! I was just happy the anesthesia didn't make her sick, because it makes me ridiculously sick. She was completely fine!
We all slept like babies last night and Mr. Andrew even got in on the fun and slept for a whopping 6 hours straight! Way to go little man! :) Mommy greatly appreciated it. :)
So there's our wild and crazy week! Let's hope for a more sedate week this week. No broken bones, sleepless nights or wild and crazy attitudes. ;)
I'll post pics of the kiddos shortly.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
2 weeks old!
Can you believe that Andrew is two weeks old today?! I sure can't! It feels like he has been here forever, but at the same time, it's hard to believe he's already two weeks old! Time is flying! The girls are still absolutely smitten with "baby brother". He is a very good baby still and really only cries when he's hungry...I keep waiting for the screaming that characterized his big sister Katherine's infancy, but so far, so good! If only he would sleep like Caroline did! He sleeps like a CHAMP during the day and can sleep through ANYTHING. I'm talking screaming sisters, loud crashes, anything. It amazes me. But night is a completely different story! He slept the night before last for 6 hours straight...I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I was crossing my fingers that he would repeat this last night...but no. He was up every 2 hours and then had his longest stretch from 5am to 9am...which of course I did not get to enjoy in my bed because big sister Caroline was wide eyed and bushy tailed at 6am sharp! Oh if my kids would sleep at the same time we'd be in hog heaven! :)
Andrew is still gaining weight like a champ and eating pretty much every two hours around the clock. He doesn't seem to be too sensitive to anything I eat which is a totally blessing. I remember not being able to eat salads with Caroline and I think pretty much everything upset Katherine's stomach. So far, so good with Mr. Andrew! He is almost too big for the newborn diapers, so we are moving on and up into Size 1 diapers. His newborn outfits still fit him pretty well, but some of the 0-3 month outfits are finally beginning to be "wearable". They still swallow him a bit, but not nearly as bad as last week! Amazing how much he can change in just a short time. :) He still looks a lot like Katherine did as an infant, but I am starting to see his "own" look taking shape. Chris and I were discussing last night how he has his own "smell" and it is even rather masculine. Funny how the girls always smelled kinda sweet and girly and yet he smells like boy. Makes me think that God is just that cool to think of the tiniest details like how one smells! I don't think I will ever fully wrapped my head around HOW detailed our God is! So cool! And for those of you concerned that he might end up with brown hair...it's looking highly unlikely. Every day his hair get lighter and lighter and his eyebrows and eyelashes are SO blonde, I have a feeling he will have hair similar to Caroline's before it's all said and done with. *Sigh* Guess I will be the lone brunette in the Hughes household. Talk about sticking out like a sore thumb! HA!
Well here are some pictures I snapped this morning as Katherine practiced her Timeline for home school. We are all about multi-tasking these days. :) Enjoy!
Andrew is still gaining weight like a champ and eating pretty much every two hours around the clock. He doesn't seem to be too sensitive to anything I eat which is a totally blessing. I remember not being able to eat salads with Caroline and I think pretty much everything upset Katherine's stomach. So far, so good with Mr. Andrew! He is almost too big for the newborn diapers, so we are moving on and up into Size 1 diapers. His newborn outfits still fit him pretty well, but some of the 0-3 month outfits are finally beginning to be "wearable". They still swallow him a bit, but not nearly as bad as last week! Amazing how much he can change in just a short time. :) He still looks a lot like Katherine did as an infant, but I am starting to see his "own" look taking shape. Chris and I were discussing last night how he has his own "smell" and it is even rather masculine. Funny how the girls always smelled kinda sweet and girly and yet he smells like boy. Makes me think that God is just that cool to think of the tiniest details like how one smells! I don't think I will ever fully wrapped my head around HOW detailed our God is! So cool! And for those of you concerned that he might end up with brown hair...it's looking highly unlikely. Every day his hair get lighter and lighter and his eyebrows and eyelashes are SO blonde, I have a feeling he will have hair similar to Caroline's before it's all said and done with. *Sigh* Guess I will be the lone brunette in the Hughes household. Talk about sticking out like a sore thumb! HA!
Well here are some pictures I snapped this morning as Katherine practiced her Timeline for home school. We are all about multi-tasking these days. :) Enjoy!
Caroline holding Andrew. She LOVES her baby brother.
"Mommy I kiss Andrew's hair."
"Mommy you need to get some sleep! You look scary!"
Just chillin with my sis Caroline.
"Don't make fun of me, or I'll stick my tongue out at you!"
Baby feet!
Working on my neck muscles...this is HARD WORK!
Sittin like a little man!
I'm so sweet. :)
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