The Winds of Change????

For what seems to be for ages, or at least the past month, Abigail likes to think that daytime is really nighttime and nighttime is really daytime. So as you can guess, she likes to stay up at night. Not just for an hour or two, but more like 5 to 6 hours straight. I've been reading this book "Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Child" and it says not to let infants be up for more than two hours. Now how are you supposed to put an awake child to bed? Seriously! Anyway last night may have been a break-through. We put her to bed at 10:30 and she woke up at midnight. (that was expected) She finished eating at about 1 am and seemed tired. I put her in her crib and of course she decided to wake up. I let her cry it out for 5 minutes, comforted her, tried feeding her some more, put her back to bed, and let her cry 10 more minutes. Finally I picked her back up and rocked her. She liked that and fell back to sleep. Instead of putting her back in her crib she slept in my arms. (it's not something that I want to have to happen every night, but oh how peaceful it is to have your little one sleeping in your arms) She slept from 2 am to 9 am with a little fussing/eating at 6 am when Reid had to get up for school, but she never fully woke up until 9. How splendid it is to have gotten some sleep! This isn't her last night but when she is sleeping she can sleep through anything... What a cutie!

Happy Halloween!
It's finally here which means that Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years is right abound the corner! Oh the holidays.
This year we celebrated the festivities by going to Lena and Scott's house the night before. We played the Wii and had lots of pumpkin food and popcorn balls (I haven't had a popcorn ball in years!). Way good food by the way you two!
Halloween day we got to sleep in a little (thank you Abigail). We went over to Doyle and Chelsea's house and carved our pumpkin. As the carving took place, the Georgia unfortunately lost to Florida, but we need not remind ourselves of that. The Port family joined us and boy are they one cute family; they all dressed up! Way to make all your costumes Mandi!
Abigail didn't go trick or treating, but she did get to take pictures with Olivia. Here are some of the pictures... (sorry they are backwards)






Does anyone have any suggestions as to what we should do next year as a family dressing up? I would greatly appreciate the input! Thanks

1 month 2 years

It still seems like yesterday that we came home from the hospital with Abigail; I can't believe it's been a whole month! Things are starting to settle down and getting a schedule with somethings, we haven't gotten her sleeping on a schedule yet though :( Other than the fact that she wakes up 2-3 times a night, she has been such a sweetie. We absolutely love having her!

As for us this past month, things have been pretty good. I love staying home with Abigail and wish it never has to end. I am afraid that when I go back to work, I am going to miss important things in her life, when she rolls over, when she first giggles, starts crawling...

Reid on the other hand, has been crazy busy with school! This past week he had 4 test and was gone a lot at school to study. We are still looking for a job for him. Reid interviewed at In 'n Out this morning, we'll know by Saturday if he is hired. Costco is also hiring this week and we hope to get an interview with them as well, cross your fingers for us!

Not only is Abigail 1 month, but tomorrow Reid and I will be celebrating our 2 year wedding anniversary! Time has really flown, and it has definitely been a blast! 2 years and many many more to come!

APJ

Wow it's been a while... sorry guys. You just gotta love it when the Internet stops working and then you try to re-install the wireless driver and end up deleting the whole computer and having to restart. That's one thing that has happened to us since the addition to our little family. We have really enjoyed the past 3 weeks (I can't believe we've had Abigail for 3 weeks!) with all the help from friends and family, the visits from everyone, and of course just having our little sweetheart. For all those who were around during the first week or so, thanks for putting up with me. Based on what everyone says about labor and delivery, you think that part is going to be so hard. I thought it was great and wouldn't mind doing it again in a few years (that's probably because of the wonderful epidural I had). I never prepared or even imagined that the recovery would be as hard as it was for me.
It's only been three weeks and poor little Abigail has already been on a bunch of medications (okay just two). After about a week and a half, her right eye had a lot of gunk coming out of it and so she had to have ointment for that. She also has a yeast infection in her mouth called thrust that she has been taking medicine for. Hopefully the yeast infection will pass soon.
During the first week of Abagail's life we did some photo shoots with a couple of people (by the way, thank you Emily and Marie.. the pictures are just wonderful!) Emily Thorton took some great photos of Abigail and Reid and I. Here are some pictures that she took and to see more of her work check it out at http://www.imagesbyem.com/ Great stuff!

Also Marie Long took some great pictures as well. I don't have them yet but you can see them at http://thatsawrapphotography.blogspot.com/ it is under the post "8 days old". What a cutie! Other than that things have been going well. Still trying to figure out this parenting thing, but I don't think we'll ever get the hang of that. Reid is a great dad and always finds time to help out even though he has a very full and busy school schedule! He is so wonderful with Abby and I fall even more in love with Reid when he takes care of our little bundle of joy.

Oh I almost forgot! I gotta make this official!

Abigail Paige Johnson

Born on Wednesday September 16th 2009

At 4:56 pm

She weighed 7 pounds 6 oz

And was 19 inches long

Introducing.....

Reid & Susie welcomed Abigail Paige Johnson into this world at 4:56pm on Wednesday, September 16th, 2009. Susie got to the hospital at 7am, ready to be induced therefore the labor only lasted about 10 hours. Everything went really smoothly and Susie makes it sound like a piece of cake! Reid was there through it all and even got to cut the umbilical cord. When Abigail first came out, she wasn't breathing, so the doctors took her away and quickly brought her back when everything was normal. The whole family is doing great and Abigail has to be the cutest newborn ever! I have never seen Reid & Susie so happy. They will be great parents. Congratulations Reid & Susie! We are so happy for you guys!

Is she here yet?

So I think we have everything ready for Abigail to come and I've been meaning to blog but lets just face it, life happens.

I really wanted to put some pictures up of the crib and hopefully soon I can put some pictures of the crib up with someone in it.


I think the set is really cute, pretty much I just picked out what I would want to sleep with. I don't know how long it will last but I'm thinking if we have a boy next, he can use it too. But that's about it.
I need to take a picture of the 40 week mark, but here's last week (39 weeks)

So I know I'm lame and I don't even have any cool excuses as to why I haven't blogged.
Reid and I are getting really excited for the baby to come, which by the way we have a name for... Abigail Paige.

So here are some progressive pictures... Ashley and I at 28 weeks
Me at 34 weeks
36 weeks
37 weeks38 weeks

Not much of a difference between the last four but oh well.
I'll try to get more details of what has happened since the end of June, but wont lie, the next post might be after the baby is born.