Best Spear One Baby Shower Ever!

Today was our work baby shower at Blue Mesa in Addison. Our PPC (that's right, we have a PPC, be jealous), really outdid themselves. We ate the yummy buffet for lunch and then opened lots and lots of presents! After opening presents, we ate delicious homemade cupcakes from my coworker Kelly. Chris came and helped me open presents and got to meet/say hello to everyone. Here are pics from the babys' new presents, I'll upload pics from the shower shortly.

The piece of paper taped to the wall is our new stroller from Spear One! We also received washclothes, diapers, bottles, pacifiers, suction cup bowls, sippy cups, spoons, diapers, a cart seat cover, baby toys, a Pooh book, bath towels, and baby socks from Spear One! Mike and Karen gave us an adorable Polo onesie, I'll be surprised if my brother doesn't steal it :) Ms. Jacque even made a surprise visit and gave us a Target gift card. Hank and Lee gave me an awesome Dallas Cowboys PINK shirt, and a "Who Needs Sleep?" shirt, so cute!I cannot wait to wear them! We are so excited!

Cutest Monster Onesie and Tuxedo Bib from Devin
Rangers Bib from Spear One

Baby's first piggy bank from Brooke :)

Knit hat from Meghan

Diaper cake made by Julie

First year monthly onesies made by Julie

Super cute wall hanging from Brooke

We are so blessed, thank you to all of my wonderful co-workers for all of your well wishes, sweet words of encouragement, and the gifts to welcome our little man!

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Week 28

Best Baby Shower Ever!

My sweet girlfriends hosted a baby shower for us last Saturday, July 31st, at 12PM at Christina's in Frisco. Hostesses were Kristen Cahill, Rita Holland, and Melanie Royle.

We started with a lunch of chicken and beef fajitas, cheese enchiladas, rice, beans, and all the sides! My favorites! After lunch we opened tons and tons of presents, our family and friends are SO generous! Clothes, car seat w/ base, extra car seat base, Pack-n-Play(with 3 sets of sheets), baby cradle-n-swing, newborn rock-n-play sleeper, baby bath, high chair, more clothes, swaddle blankets, washcloths, bibs, shoes, socks, a diaper cake, a diaper motorcycle, a homemade blanket, baby monitors, two sound machines, two diaper bags, a lime green bumpo(I really wanted this!), a wipe warmer, a picture frame, a target gift card, a super cute elephant, a Ranger's pillow horse, and Baby's first Mr. Bear just to name a few items(see pics below). Mom gave us the finished Calvin and Hobbes comfortorter and it is adorable. She's completed the baby's bedding and it all looks fantastic. This baby is so loved already! After presents we played a game of diaper guessing(if you haven't seen this before, it's where a candybar is melted into a diaper and you have to guess which candybar it is by looking at the diaper contents). It was hilarious and really gross, all three of us pregnant girls wouldn't touch the diapers. So funny! After the game we had delicious red velvet, double chocolate chip, and white chocolate raspberry bundt cakes. They were so good! All in all the best baby shower ever!

Our hostesses were just incredible, everything was absolutely perfect. I am so lucky to have the most amazing girlfriends!

Thank you from the very bottom of my heart to all our loved ones who came out(and those who sent their best wishes) to welcome our precious baby boy into the world.

Here are some of the pics, I'll also include a link in case you want to look at all of them.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/omdphoto/sets/72157627194449189/

Week 27

Quick naming(or lack thereof) update

As you can tell from the weekly pics, we're having a hard time with names. We've opened the playing field back up and here are the front runners:


Miles
Finn
Asher
Kai


My favorite is now Miles :)


Last weekend we went to Baby CPR class and we learned some really good things(all of which I can't remember now of course). Here are the ones I remember:


1) Never shake a baby(this was in all caps).
2) No more using baby powder when changing diapers.
3) No lotion until after 6 months, baby will have dry skin either way.
4) I am not good at baby CPR, thank goodness Chris is. I was called out by all three nurses independently and called out by name one time. We were practicing on dolls but this is taken very seriously(as it should be).
5) Most of the dads in the class were better at swadling the babies than the moms(me included!).
6) After the baby is born, people who come over to the house and stay longer than 20 minutes are no longer considered "visitors", they are considered "helpers". You are supposed to put them to work(cleaning, vaccuuming, etc.) - not so sure about this one but it did crack me up. The lady had 5 kids and she was super serious about this one.
7) Babies can get a 3rd degree sunburn from being out in the sun for just 15 minutes. No sunscreen until after 6 months.
8) The average newborn needs to eat 8-12 times in a 24 hour period for the first few weeks. Y'all do the sleep math on this one, not great.
9) There were a lot of older couples in the classroom, proof that people are waiting until later in life to have childen.
10) 75% of a baby's weight is in it's head. That's why it falls over and out of the crib once it figures out to lead with it's head(I think you have to see the reenactment that goes along with this one to fully appreciate this stat.
11) We did learn Baby CPR and what to do if a baby is choking. Just re-read my list and thought to myself, it reads as if you didn't actually learn baby CPR :)


I haven't been sleeping much, I wake up around 4AM and can't go back to sleep. I am getting a lot of good baby bonding time and reading in. I felt him stretch the other day and it was so cute(I'm assuming it was stretching since I felt him on the top right and bottom left side at the same time). He will most likely start getting hiccups this week, this really cracked me up :) I've been eating healthier and keeping a food journal to try and cut down on sweets. I "feel" like I'm doing a better job, ha! We go back to the doctor on August 9th to do the glucose test, so we'll see how weigh in and sugar levels go.


We received our first registry gift from my Aunt Connie and Uncle Bob! I haven't opened them yet, I'm waiting until this weekend but it's one really big box and one small box. The cool thing about this is that they gave us our first wedding present as well, so it meant a lot to me that they were our first baby registry gift as well :)

Week 26