The First Month

WOW!!!! It has been a month since our little man came into this world. I can't believe how quickly time has gone by. We still have not made it out of the house by ourselves or done anything besides doctor appt's. There have been a few first since we have last updated. He had his first full bath, he is starting to like his bath's and man does he sleep good after those bath's. Yesterday he had his first bottle. He took it like a champ, I have to admit I was a little heart broken that he took it so well with no trouble at all. We took a few walks last week, on one of those walks we walked to the local cupcake store and purchased a reward for our walk. I will have to post some pictures later, as we have not loaded them from the camera to the computer. We spend most of our days eating, sleeping, an occasional cry when we need to eat or have a diaper change. We will post again later.

Spring is Here

    Today is the first day of spring and what a beautiful day it was. The sun was out and shinning and the weather was warm most of this week. Peter, Colin and I went for a walk this week. I pushed Colin in his stroller and Peter walked Rusty. I am sure Rusty was thinking "Man this is the longest mile ever", it took a lot out of me to walk that mile as it was the first real exercise I have done in a while. We had a kinda busy week for us this week. On Tuesday we went up to my work so I could get a couple of things. It was nice to get out and talk to some actual adults for an hour during the day, it has felt like longer then 3 weeks since I have been off of work. On Friday, Peter's mom came to see us, it was nice to have company during the day. Friday night I went to the craft show with Julie, Julie's mom and Ethan. Colin has yet to go anywhere besides a doctor's office or his Grand Me`Me house, hopefully we will get out in the next couple of weeks once flu and cold season is over.
    Now, I can not believe that my baby boy is 3 weeks old today. Today was my actual due date. I was thinking today how if my baby boy had stayed put I would probably had gotten a little more sleep but I would not change it for the world. I have enjoyed my last three weeks with my little man and would not change any part of it. I am enjoying motherhood and can't wait to see what else it has in store for me.

Getting use to life

   So we have been home for almost two weeks. For two weeks Colin and I have been inside my parents house trying to stay away from the public and all those germs. This past Thursday, Colin had his newborn check up at the doctor. My little boy is growing way to fast. He is now 6 lbs and 14 oz and is 20 1/4" long. He is already growing like a little weed. The doctor seemed very impressed with his weight considering he is a breastfeed baby. I was orginially concerned going into the appointment about his weight because he feeds every 4-5 hours and typically they feed every 2-3 hours. I was afraid that he would not be gaining that much weight and they were going to tell me that I had to feed more often. So I was very happy with his report and that we could continue on this schedule that we are currently on. Other than his doctor appointment and going to his Grand Me`Me's for Sunday dinner Colin has only seen the inside of his Me`Me's and Grandpa's house.

   Peter has gone back to work, work, work! So he had to go out of town on Wedensday and Thursday this past week and he thinks he is going to have to be out of town again this upcomming week. It is not to bad right now since we are at mom and dad's but Colin seem to not sleep as well on Wedensday night. We will see how it goes this week while Pete is gone. I am not sure how I will manage the dogs and Colin when he must go out of town but I am sure it will work it's self out.

   So I had to go out and buy diapers this weekend for the week. So Julie came over and picked me up Saturday and we went to Sam's. Wow! I never would have thought that Sam's would be my enterainment for a Saturday. It felt good to get out and about even through it was only to Sam's. It was weird that Julie and I were alone to go shopping, that probably won't happen again anytime soon. We enjoyed our time together and then Julie came and hung out for a little while at mom's and dad's.

   Now what I am sure you are really looking for on this site. More pictures of Colin. I attempted my own photo shoot. The outfit he has on is the one that he had on when we left the hospital. Man has he grown into it just a little bit. Also I am posting a picture of his crib that is great grandpa built him. We can't wait to get in our own house and set up his room so he can enjoy his crib, dresser and bookshelf that his great grandpa made.

This was taken at about 5 days old

Colin with his wreath that Julie made for him!   

Colin's crib

Pictures from the Hospital

Our Amazing Nurse and Wonderful Doctor!

Just a few minutes after birth

One of our first family pictures

I am ready to go home!

Meeting my puppy Rusty or maybe Rusty meeting me!

New Addition

Well I have decided to start a family blog since we have so much going on these days. I also thought it would be a great idea to allow family and friends to know what is going on in our lives as things seem to be changing daily around here. I figured it would also allow everyone to see pictures of our new baby boy and watch him grow as we learn and discover new things. My plan is to hopefully update this blog often.

So let me catch everyone up on what has been going on in the Krefting Family. Well 9 days ago Colin decided that he was ready to come into the world. I had just finished shopping with my mom and had come home to take a little nap. When I thought this is weird I had just gone to the restroom a couple of minutes before. Well I guess my little man wanted to have a February birthday like his daddy. So after about 4 hours and a trip to Babies R Us, I decided to call the doctor to see what I needed to do since I thought my water had broke. The on call nurse told me I need to go to Labor and Delivery and they would run some test to see if my water had broke. I got off the phone with her and told my mom she might want to hold off on dinner as I have to go to the hospital and get checked out. Pete jumped off the couch and I told him it would be just a little bit as I wanted to take a shower just in case it was my water that broke because I knew it would be a while before I could get another shower. So after my shower, Pete and I took off for the hospital. Because Colin has his own agenda I had to call work to let them know what was going on (see I was on call for work this weekend). I also had to call Julie and let her know what Colin had decided to do, see Julie was to be induced that Friday but because the hospital was full she had to wait until Monday. So after they ran some test they told me my water had broken and that I was having contractions we would be having a baby soon. WOW! I was not expecting this as I still had so much to do before he was to come and also I thought that the contractions would be painful. So I called mom and dad and they came up to the hospital along with Julie and Clint. We hung out for a while then the nurse came in and said that my actual doctor was on call for Sunday so we would just spend the night and they would watch me and start the medication to increase the contractions in the morning.

Sunday  February 27, 2011

Well at 7am Sunday morning they started my medication. I had a wonderful labor and delivery nurse. She had been a nurse for about 30 years she said and she knew a lot of tricks to help my labor go so smoothly. I also had a wonderful anesthesiologist who gave me my epidural in one stick and it worked wonderful. So with Peter, Julie and my mom in the actual room and my dad behind the curtain at 12:42pm my beautiful baby boy came into this world weighing 6.7lbs and 18.5” long. Peter was able to cut the umbilical cord and I sent him with to watch Colin as they took care of him and then took him for his first bath. Once we got up stairs to our room we had a few visitors and then we had so time by ourselves just the three of us. It was a wonderful experience and I will treasure that time together. Well on Monday afternoon Colin got to meet his first friend Owen Vandiver (Julie’s third boy). We got some pictures of them in the nursery together and it was great to have some company and good laughs. Never would I have thought that we would have children less than 26 hours apart.

We came home from the hospital on Tuesday afternoon.  I wasn’t sure how our coming home would be as this would be a big adjustment for Rusty and Savannah. Well as I could have told anyone Rusty smelled Colin’s carseat up and down and then went about his business. Savannah was a little more curious but after about 10 minutes did not seem to really care either way. Tuesday night was rough for Colin and I as he had to get use to the cradle and being in a new surroundings. We had an appointment at 9am on Wednesday at the pediatrician’s office for a weight check. I mean who gives a new mom a 9 am appointment. We were rushing to get out of the house but lucky for us the office is only 10 minutes away. At the office Colin had lost a little more weight and was down to 5.11 lbs and was looking a little yellow so we had to go get labs drawn. I know for most new mom’s this would have been a tear jerking episode and I even thought to myself what is wrong with me I am not even upset or crying about what they must do to by baby. Well his lab level was up so the nurse called and said place him in a sunny window a couple times a day and we will recheck the levels and his weight tomorrow. Well to make a long story short it was high the next day so we continued the sun in the window treatment ( which has been hard because it has been cold and rainy here). We went back Monday and he was back to his birth weight and his color looked better.

Peter went back to work on Thursday so that has been a little bit of an adjustment being home all by myself with Colin especially because I can’t do the little things like shower until someone get home to watch him. We are currently on a good schedule so I am not going to complain about that. We eat between 9:30pm and 11pm and then get up between 2-3 am and then again around 7am. So I am getting a few good hours of sleep at night. Overall I am enjoying my alone time with my little angel but I will be glad when flu and cold season are over with and it gets a little warmer so we can get out for an hour or so each day. Well little man is getting up so I must go for now.