2 weeks

Miles is 2 weeks old today & doing great.  He went to the doc today & he weights 8lbs! They were really happy with his weight gain, he does have a little bit of reflux but it's really not that bad, I am hoping that it will go away all together soon.

These past 2 weeks have been so great, thanks to family & friends.  My mom stayed to help for a few days after Miles was born & then Mom & Dad took Lucy home with them for a few days so Cody & I could rest & be with Miles.  It really was such a great gift b/c Cody ended up being super busy with games & I would have been going crazy staying in the house & being totally sleep deprived with a crazy 2 year old & newborn.  Lucy of course had the time of her life at Grammy & Pa's & Miles & I rested a lot & hung-out with Cody at night.  We also had lots of great friends bring food almost everyday, I could definitely get used to having someone show up at my door every night at 6pm with a hot meal!  We feel so blessed by the way everyone has helped us welcome Miles into the world!

Here are a few pics from the past couple weeks:

First Bath

With Grammy & Pa - classic Pa baby hold

Tea parties with the doggies at Grammy & Pa's

Lots of love for Grammy

Hannah & Drew came in on Saturday & brought Lucy back with them.  They were so sweet & did lots to help.  We woke up on Sunday morning to an amazing hot breakfast - Thanks for everything Aunt Hannah & Uncle Drew! 

Hannah & Drew with the kidos.

Now for some sweet pics of the new guy:

Awake!

Little Christmas baby

Lucy Meets Miles

Now that I am caught up all the events of this past month I can get to our life as a family of 4!!!  Baby Miles was a huge part of our conversations for the past couple of months, Lucy would request to pray for him every night & as we transitioned her room into a "big girl room" we would take all the baby things to Baby Miles's room.  I know that she knew something was up, but I'm not really sure how much she understood.  

I was so excited for Lucy to meet little Miles!  We waited until we were settled in our over night room for her to come & I could hear her outside the door saying, "Baby Miles where are you?"  It was so sweet & she did better than I could have imagined meeting little Miles.  They love each other. 

Miles waiting for Lucy - he got her a book about being a big sister & a little brother doll - so sweet of him!

First glance at Mommy & Baby Miles

Checking everything out 

First look at her new baby brother

brother & sister

Lucy got Miles a little sock monkey

First time to hold her little brother

The 4 of us about to head home

Could not have done all this without Grammy 

 When we got home we had a little birthday party for Miles.  Lucy & Grammy made blue cupcakes & Lucy was super excited about it, it was so cute!

so excited to eat the blue cupcakes

Loving on Baby miles during the happy birthday song

Happy Birthday Miles James, we look forward to celebrating so many more!

Thanksgiving

We had Thanksgiving at our house this year because it was too close to my due date for me to travel anywhere.  I was super excited about everyone coming but so sad that we would not be at my parents this year, I love holidays at my parents house.  Anyway, everyone was so sweet to make the trip up here, even Grandma Shack made the trip & we had lots of fun with her.

  We had a great time until the infamous stomach bug started getting to people & then people started dropping like flies.  Really, one minute you would be fine & then the next minute you had the stomach bug.  Thankfully, Lucy & Baby Wyatt never really got it & for most of us the bug only lasted about 24 hours.  It was sad b/c we all really wanted more hang-out time, but it will definitely be a Thanksgiving we won't forget.  Mom & Dad didn't get sick till they got home so they were so great & took care of everyone.  Thanks Mom & Dad for all the help & for making Thanksgiving happen.

I didn't get too many pics & definitely didn't get pics of everyone that came, maybe next time...

Lucy made name cards for everyone - thumb print turkeys! 

All the way from North Carolina!!!

Grammy, Pa, Lucy, & Wyatt

So happy to meet Baby Wyatt, he is the sweetest!

Lovin Aunt Hannah & Uncle Drew time ;)

Lots of fun with Uncle Drew

And of course, Cody got to introduce the guys to spike ball

We are so thankful for our family & everything they mean to us!

Lucy Jane

 Another thing we did before little Miles was born was take some sweet pics of Lucy Jane.  I'm not really big on maternity pics, but I did get a few cute ones with Lucy & me.  My friend, Rachel, took the pics & got some really good ones of Lucy.  It has been so hard for me to take pics of her lately b/c she hates looking at the camera & she is so fast, so I am thankful to have some good ones of her at this age.

Rachel took this pic & had it displayed at different places for my party - it went with the theme!

Party For Miles!

I am going to catch-up on blogging during the next couple of days. Even though these are things that happened before Miles was born I still want to blog about them so I can look back & remember them.

My sweet friends threw us the best party for Miles!  They wanted to do a couples shower but we had to call it party b/c the guys were not too excited about attending a couples baby shower, so we convinced all the boys that it was a party & everyone had a great time. 

The theme was camping & every little detail was so cute!  I am so thankful for friends who would go to so much work to give us such a great party & celebrate Miles.

For dinner we had BBQ sandwiches, beans, chips, etc.  The sandwiches were wrapped us so cute with brown paper tied with twine & had wooden utensils attached to them.

 Loved the table decor, esp. the wooden candles!

Dessert table - mini gooey pumpkin pies, brownies & s'mores on a stick

S'mores on a stick- they were amazing!

Gooey pumpkin butter pies...yummy!

Thanks to Jason we also played a little game - it was like the newly wed game but about babies.

Great friends who made this whole thing happen!  We are standing in front of an old canoe were all the gifts were displayed.  Also, each guest brought a letter for Miles's room...more on that later.

Miles James

Miles James Blair

Dec. 6, 2011

7.7 lbs

21''

1:21pm

We are so excited that Miles is here!  So far he is the sweetest little guy ever & we are in love!  He already has a little cold, poor 2nd kid, yet he still is sleeping & eating pretty well.  We are so thankful for a smooth delivery & a healthy little guy.

He was really due on Dec. 10th but we (I) was more than ready to have him here, I felt like he was running out of room in my tummy, it was getting pretty painful!  I was almost sure that he was going to come at 38 weeks like Lucy, especially since I was having tons of contractions, but I guess they were just braxton hix so we decided to go ahead & induce.  On Dec. 5th we had Mr. Christmas tree for Young Life, it was a hit & a great way to finish another semester of Young Life.  Mr. Christmas Tree ended a few hours later Cody & I went into the hospital to get things started.  It really was perfect timing b/c my Mom was here to help with Lucy & we were able to have a nice weekend with some special memories with just the 3 of us for the last time.

Here are the first of many pics to come of our sweet little boy:

LOVE

 LOVE

Welcome to the world Miles James.  It's going to be a wild ride!