Our Beautiful Boy

Poopy Diapers

We've been teased already about becoming parents who talk about their babies poops and so I thought why not blog about it right? Actually my mom just sent us a video link about fathers and their babies pooping and it was just too hilarious to not post on here. Enjoy...

p.s. Josiah is doing wonderful and for the past 3 nights has only woken up for his feedings twice in the night which has been such a blessing. He is such a good looking boy and a wonderful baby whom we continue to fall more and more in love with in each passing moment. We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE being parents! Oh yeah, and he poops all of the time!

Home from the Hospital!

Our new family is now home from the hospital as of about 4 o'clock yesterday! Josiah continues to fill our hearts more and more with love. It's so amazing how much you can love someone at first sight. God has truly blessed us with a beautiful son!

We got to experience our first night as a family at home and it proved to be a memorable one. Josiah finally decided to go to sleep around 5:30am. We are breastfeeding him and are still waiting for my milk to come in so our poor little guy hasn't been able to get enough to eat from me. Around 5am we decided to give him so formula to help supplement and it worked like a charm. We are praying that tonight would go a lot smoother and that soon enough I would be able to be enough food for Josiah.

Josiah slept great today during the day, but after a night like last night that was to be expected. We made our first venture outside today to go to our friends Tim and Nicole Lee's wedding. We have been looking forward to this wedding for sometime now and went back and forth on if we should go...we decided to go and it went really well. Josiah hung out in his carseat for the entire ceremony and slept. We decided not to go to the reception and just headed home and started feedings :)

Here are a few more pictures for everyone to enjoy...

scrunchy face

daddy and son

our first family photo

all stretched out

slight grin

so precious

ready to head home from the hospital!

male bonding time!

Josiah Timothy

He's finally here! Josiah Timothy, 8lbs 1 oz, 21.5 inches long. He gave mom all she could handle, but she was a trooper and made it through everything without an epidural. It has been quite the day. We got to the hospital at 6:00 AM and Josiah was born at about 7:30PM. Tanna was fighting the pain the whole time. It makes me wonder which one of us is really tougher. (My vote is for her). Here are some pictures. We look forward to introducing him to everyone.

Well, the time is here. We are at the hospital in the delivery room. We got here at about 6:00 AM this morning and have been waiting it out in our room at OSF. For Tanna's sake, I won't put any pictures up until after the baby is born. I thought about taking some pictures of me looking very freaked out, but I am too lazy to get the camera out of the backpack. We'll leave that until the star of the show actually arrives later. Stay tuned and I'll try to keep things up to date as we go.

Crib is Finished!

The Crib is completely finished and I must admit that my husband did an amazing job...I'm so proud of him! You might notice from the pictures that it is still in the garage but I just couldn't wait to see what it would look like with some of the bedding on it! I went upstairs and unpacked one of the boxes of baby stuff so I could get to the sheets and the bumper so I could bring them down to the garage to try it out. I walked into the garage with full hands of a bumper and a set of sheets and made the comment to my wonderful husband not to laugh at me for what I was about to do. He of course couldn't resist to laugh and I of course couldn't help but laugh at myself either! (we are not going to use the crib until after we make the move out to South Dakota in April)

Here are some beautiful pictures of the finished product! All we need now is our little guy to join us in this world! Yes, he was supposed to be here yesterday (the 15th) and has not shown up yet...we'll let you all know as soon as he comes!

Enjoy the pictures!

My hubby with his masterpiece!

He made drawers on it! I love it!

This was my project that I was going to build and paint...I ended up just painting!

Toy Box!

Not so Proud Owners...

Some of you may have already heard the news and yes it is true...Brett and I are now the "Not so Proud Owners" of a minivan! All we need now is a "soccer ball" and "proud parent of..." stickers to add to the back and then we will be set. Oh and I guess it would be nice to complete the need for the minivan by having our baby boy join us in this world! We are incredibly excited for our little guy to enter our family but as for the minivan...well let's just say that we are teasing ourselves about it, so please feel free to tease away! :)

His look says it all!

We had another doctors apt. today and things are progressing along. As for having him on his due date we will have to wait and see...only three days left! Please pray that he would come on time...or before is fine too!

Brett and I have been busy working away at projects we are wanting to finish before the baby comes, along with beginning to pack up all of our stuff for the big move back to South Dakota in a month. Praise God we have a house to move into when we move back and it's only a couple of miles from Brett's parents and our good friends the Permans!

Here are a few pictures from the last few days...Enjoy!

about ready to pop! 39 1/2 weeks

I've been making birp rags!

Instead of buying a nursing cover I decided to try and make one myself
here is my finished product. It's even reversible!

Almost Finished Crib!!!

The crib is almost finished! My wonderful husband has been working hard in the garage to get the crib finished before our little guy enters the world. I think we've decided we won't actually use the crib until after we move but it will be nice to have it all done before I have our baby (we put up the pack-N-play in our room for the few weeks we are here after he is born).

Here are some pictures of Brett setting up the crib for it's first run through to make sure everything fits and works. He is currently in the garage now taking it back apart to add the drawers to the bottom and then to begin to put the stain on. I can't wait until it is completely finished! He is doing such a great job, I'm so proud of him!