Christmas Video

Brien got a new video camera for Christmas. Enjoy!

Christmas Pictures!

Coming down the stairs and seeing what Santa brought!

Checking to see if Santa ate the cookies and drank the milk

Christmas makes Reid sleepy!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas!

A Very Snowy Day (well 2 actually)

We got A LOT of snow! I would guess around 2 feet, but it's hard to say with the drifts. Cole was very excited to go out and play, but Brien had to shovel a path first because the snow was up around his chest! Reid was not a big fan of his snow suit or the snow.

Making Christmas cookies with Daddy

Yes, we stayed in our pj's all day Saturday!

The view from inside the house. It snowed several hours past the time this picture was taken!

The neighborhood

Cole helps "shovel"

"Take me inside!!"

Diapers...check, Wipes...check, Sleepless Nights...not so much!

I'm probably jinxing us by writing this, but little Reid is quite a sleeper! Last night he slept 8pm - 4am, ate then slept until 8am!!! We've had quite a few nights like this and some where he wakes around 1am also. Did I mention this was in his crib in his own room? I am amazed at this little one. If you recall Cole was just about the opposite on that, not sleeping through the night until he was 7 months and with lots of sleep training.

We also had Reid's 1 month appointment on Tuesday. He weighed in at 9 lbs 14.5 oz. and was 21.5 inches long. 50% for both.

And just for fun, a few pictures:

Happy Halloween!

Cole paints his pumpkin

Helping Daddy carve a Jack-O-lantern

Mickey
As you can see he promptly smeared his black nose all over (including on my shirt - see below).

Baby Pumpkin


Having a treat after Trick-or-Treating!

Reid Steven Christesen

He's here! Reid arrived on Wednesday, October 28th (Mommy and Pop's birthday) at 5:28pm. He weighed in at 9lbs 2oz. and measured 20.5 inches. He scored an 8 and 9 on his APGAR and is just perfect! We got home late last night and are all doing very well!

Pop - 10/28/56
Me - 10/28/81
Reid - 10/28/09

Another baby update!

We've had a few false alarms over the past week. Well only Monday and Tuesday of last week. We made 3, yes 3, trips to the hospital and were sent home all 3 times. The first 2 times I was assured that I was in early labor and to come back in a few hours, (otherwise I probably wouldn't have kept going back) but the 3rd time they told me it was false labor. I essentially had contractions about 2 minutes apart for 26 straight hours. I've been having contractions ever since, just not time-able.

At the hospital for the 3rd time

I went in for my 39 week appointment this morning and am 3 cm. The dr. seems to think the baby will arrive in the next few days. I guess we'll wait and see!

*I was 3cm when I went into labor with Cole if that's a predictor of anything.

38 week appointment update

Apparently little Reid is more cozy than I thought. He moved from a -2 station to a -3 (that's up further) and since he's so high now, I am only 1cm. I did however go from 50% effaced to 80%.

Busy, Busy, Busy

We have been BUSY! Friday we went to the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. Cole was more interested in running as fast as he could through the zoo rather than looking at the animals, but he had a blast.

Monday we spent the morning at a Corn Maze. It's a good thing Daddy came along, because Cole and his friends (and their moms) would still be wandering through the corn.

On Tuesday we visited the Aquarium. Cole's favorites were the jellyfish. He was not, however, a huge fan of the dolphin show. He kept saying, "let's get out of here and walk somewhere else."

This morning we went to the pumpkin patch with our playgroup.