Mr. Bumblebee

William was a bumblebee for Halloween. We celebrated in Edna (basically we put him in his costume and laughed at him for about 30 mins) as much as you can celebrate Halloween with a newborn! William had his 2 month check up on Monday. He was 24 1/4" in length and 12lbs 1oz. He is in the 90th percentile for height and 75th for weight.


Hangin with Uncle Jake

Laughin with Weesie, Uncle Clay and Spanky

7 week update

Well, I can't believe that William is almost 2 months old. He changes so much everyday! He has started smiling and laughing and "talking." Its so cute, I definitely spend hours out of the day just staring at him. He is now wearing 3-6 month clothing because he's so long. He can't wear his 0-3 footed jammies anymore...tear....sniff. Here are some recent pics. Weesie and Papa came to visit this last weekend. William's smirk
William's laugh
Pumpkin jammies are awesome...look at that curly hair!?

We thought it was funny that he had his fingers interlocked...very advanced
hand holding.





Wearing my cool new shades!

All Dressed up for church.

Taking a nap with Papa.

Chillin with G-Wizzle
Taking a nap with Weesie...I see a pattern here :)



Now, you should all go to fullthinktank.com and read Lee's take on parenthood.

Video - 5 Weeks

Pics - 5 Weeks

William Rolls Over

Drumroll please.....

He's Here!

Wow...the past few weeks have been such a crazy, amazing, scary adventure for us! William arrived at 7:01 am September 8th weighing 7lbs 12oz. (quite a bit lighter than expected :) and measuring 21 1/4". He is beautiful and perfect and we still can't believe he's here! My recovery has been wonderful...praise the Lord and I am feeling close to normal.

So, we realized Wednesday afternoon that Ike was coming right for us. Lee drove down to our house late that night and packed us all up to get ready to evacuate to his parents house in Jersey Village. We had to stay in the hospital three days and were finally released at noon on Thursday the 11th....that is when the craziness ensued! William and I were being wheeled out of the hospital when I realized I wasn't feeling quite right. I was a little nauseous but was so excited to leave the hospital I decided to ignore it..plus traffic was getting really bad with people evacuating and if we didn't leave right away we would be stuck for hours. Well, we got about two blocks before I "lost my lunch" in a bag and traffic was so bad that there would have been no point trying to pull over anywhere...fun times. So I spent our first afternoon sick in bed, we think it was from the pain medicine I was on combined with motion sickness. But, after that I felt much better.

We rode out the storm and two nights without power in JV before heading on to Edna for a week. William has had a busy little life already! We got to come home on Saturday and found our house with little damage...lost some shingles, our fence and had a little bit of water leaked in through the windows and attic.

We are thankful that William is here and that he's safe and healthy. God has answered our prayers and blessed us immensely. We got to spend some great time with both of our families and didn't have to give birth during the hurricane! Thank you all for your messages and prayers, we appreciate it so much.


Just born! Long arms, legs, hand and feet!!


Hey Dad!


Bath time!


My coming home outfit is way too big :)


Hanging out with my best bud Hudson.

Precious...

My first trip to Academy

William and Dad

Just chillin...

Touchdown!

D Day - 9.8.08 (aka Delivery Day!)

So my suspicions that William has gotten a lot bigger over the last two weeks have been confirmed! At our last appointment three weeks ago (34 weeks) William was estimated to weigh 5 lbs 12oz and his head was the size of a full term baby and overall body length was three weeks ahead. On Tuesday, (37 weeks) we got another ultrasound...Lee and I took bets going in on what he was going to weigh. Lee guessed 7lbs 1oz and I guessed 7lbs 6 oz...we thought it was impossible to grow much bigger than that. Well, William is weighing in at a whopping 8 lbs 1 oz. with three weeks left of packing on the pounds. We've heard that these weight guesses can be really off...but the dr. feels very confident of William's size because his length measurements are so ahead (not to mention I am quite large right now)especially his head..as I've mentioned before :)

So...all that to say we will be going in for a c section on September 8th at 6:30 in the morning. Our dr. feels that the chances of me being induced and then going through hours of labor only to end up having a c section are really high and that the risks involved (i.e. baby breaking a bone, baby breaking one of my bones, baby getting stuck..etc.)are not worth it.

That is the plan, unless God decides that's not best and I go into labor early! We will keep you all updated here as soon as William arrives. Can't believe he'll be here in a little over a week...ahhh! Lee and I really appreciate all of your prayers...keep em coming!