An Easy Baby

What a day today!  We had this baby over today that my mom was watching...it really made me grateful for how great Logan is.  This baby was not only a shrieking banshee, he also had a rather impressive fountain of spit up nearly constantly going.  My mom did 2 loads of laundry in a day for this one child...to top it over the shrieking never ceased.  Well, okay it did for the 5 minute nap and minimally with eating.  The decibal the child would reach still sends shivers down my spine.  Haha...while Logan was eating I could swear he took he arm to cover his ear with it....priceless.  Now I've learned Logan barely whimpers to let me know he needs something and basically never spits up.  What have I ever been complaining about.  I can even get him down for his naps in the pack n play.  My mom's "no fair" when laying him down for his nap just settled the deal for me how great I have it.  LOVE love love my boy!!

For news in our lives...we got a piano.  Guess...what did we get?  The ugly piano that plays beautifully OR the gorgeous piano that plays like crap.  You may have guessed it...the second one.  Well, we were happy with our find...afterall who can beat free.  Then my dad went online and found an even better deal for hardly much more money than free.  This piano is beyond gorgeous, the guy simply wanted it off his hands quick for a move.  It has a fun story attached to it as well.  SO...hopefully soon to come are pictures of the beauty.  Oh, I forgot to add my dad let us have a choice between the two which we would want to have move with us.  I am just thrilled to have a real piano that can play.  We just picked up this second one today...I'm still on cloud nine...never thought we'd get a chance like this for a number of years to be piano owners.

No car yet...I'm officially starting my job tomorrow.  I'm excited and yet not excited at all at the same time.  Having these months off of working has been absolutely wonderful, yet I am excited to finally start a real RN job of which I have been working forever towards.

One of the first times in the jumperoo

...he loves it!

Already a couch potato, he gets GLUED to the tv.
He can be somewhat fussy and the light up screen puts him dead silent.

more tv time...waking up from a nap

post tummy time...he rolled over multiple times.

2 Months

We recently went to his 2 month old appointment.  He's essentially average in every way (50% in all categories) which is perfect for him.  He's officially 11lbs 9oz.  It's crazy those 3 shots they get.  I thought I would have no problem with medical things done to my child, but it's actually quite challenging having him get upset about it.  He recovered great, minus the expected fussy-ness the rest of the evening.  

We're gearing up for halloween.  It's fun dressing him up in a bat outfit for "normal" outfits.  Halloween we have a raccoon outfit which is fitting for where we live.  Just the other day Jimmy was driving to work and saw 3 raccoons on the road.  He nearly hit one of them.  With this woodsy scene he'll fit right in...next getting raised by wolves.  Jimmy can be scary enough to him sometime, haha...you'll understand the day we can post one of his videos of Jimmy's way of getting Logan to smile :)

In our lives Jimmy's vehicle has officially taken a full size leap into the grave.  I had a job interview that day that got cancelled last minute, so I thought I'd change my time into checking in on Jimmy's car and getting it tuned up by Jiffy Lube.  Well...as I went to turn it on in the garage it wouldn't start.  The idiot lights came on, but no sound from the engine.  My mom and I pushed it out of the garage...I had to REALLY crank on the shifter to get it in neutral.  We attempted jumping it, but to no avail.  It eventually came down to towing the vehicle and finding the transmission was entirely shot.  We're now on the hunt for a vehicle...although I have my doubts how soon we'll be getting it.  We'll see...hopefully sooner than later with I hope a job starting up soon for me.

Logan is absolutely wonderful and perfect in every way.  He is a great eater and complains very little.  Although he definitely capitolizes on any time with us, but he's hard to resist anyways so life is great!  He just learned to roll over from his stomach to back on September 28th...it seemed a one time deal as he's yet to figure that one out again for a while.  He smile and coos in his play time with us all the time.  We're both excited to see him continue to interact more.  It's just adorable.  My favorite time is his baths still with all his crazy splashing, but also him at dinnertime.  Jimmy just has come home from work and they seem to have a little love fest together.  

Baby Blessing...a while after now that his eye is cleared.

glimpse of Halloween outfits

smile :)

building up his energy for the splashes

More smiles...

My favorite jacket on him...

at the ocean with dad

Baby Blessing & More

Our little man is officially 6 weeks today!  I can't believe the time has gone by this fast already.  Just this past week he has started cooing and smiling at us.  It's absolutely adorable.  Although I must say it's funny that we've been waiting for this forever and suddenly now that he's able to engage us...he ALWAYS wants to engage us if he's awake.  He a big time talker.

As for the baby blessing it was absolutely wonderful to have Jimmy's family come out.  It was so fun and made it such a special experience to share.  Jimmy did a great job with the blessing.  I am so proud of him.  He is such a great father.  Having his family here it seems crazy how three months really seems a lot longer when there's miles of distance apart.  Overall the weekend couldn't have gone better.  It was cram packed with going and feeding ducks, kayaking on the lake, and going to the ocean.  Wouldn't have changed a thing in the end.

Lately I've been super busy attempting to apply to jobs in between caring for Logan.  The job market up here is rough.  I made a few phone calls and the HR people have made the process sound a bit more challenging than Utah.  SO...I've been focusing my effort more on nursing homes.  We'll see...keeping my fingers crossed that a job that crosses our path will work well for our little family.

and pictures...

The family at the baby blessing

Our darling little family :)

Fun at the ocean burying Jeff Shaver

Burying Ms. Abby for the 20th time

Our little man at the beach for his first time

We're working on getting a picture of him smiling on our main camera...we have several on our phones, but find we need to have our good camera more at the ready.  Can hardly wait to share more of his cuteness as of late.  Love this little guy!

The 1st Couple Weeks

Following the last post everything, we all have gotten much more into a groove.  There's still the lack of sleep part of things, but I think both Jimmy and I have found times for naps etc. to work with it.  Generally I only seem to get Jimmy up when Logan is having a particularly hard time going back to sleep.  It seems pointless otherwise to get him up.  Just wish I had some magic way Jimmy could feed him, but until then this seems to work.

It's been SUPER hot up here.  We've been off and on in the 100's this past week.  It wouldn't seem a big deal, but the place we're sleeping in has no air conditioning.  Thankfully to Robert and others sleeping elsewhere we've been able to sleep in the house that is air conditioned.  Logan seems to be far more of a heater than any of us.  He's almost always just in a diaper and we're struggling to keep him swaddled as it only heats him up.  Ultimately he just gets incredibly flushed when swaddled.  At night that's the only way to keep him asleep in his crib otherwise he tends to need to be snuggled up with someone.

Jimmy has nicknamed him "my little tree frog".  He resumes this position with his feet and arms tucked in on Jimmy's chest every time he's cuddled up with him much like a frog.  It's terribly cute.  What's also terribly cute is the amount of sharing Logan has taken on with Jimmy.  It seems that past couple days every time I hand him to Jimmy to get changed there's some sort of excitement.  Either he has gone number 1 or number 2 mid diaper change all over Jimmy and the area.  Last time he was cuddled up with him he managed to sneak number 2 out of the diaper onto Jimmy's pants and of course spit up accompanied that.  Really Jimmy has been good and broken in with baby goodness :)

As for things around the house...Jared, Katie, Naomi, and Christina all leave for BYU this Wednesday.  It's going to be suddenly super quiet around the house.  Jimmy has the many upcoming and by the sounds of it more promising interviews.  It's all getting the two of us excited for the upcoming baby's blessing.  We're super excited to have part of Jimmy's family come up and celebrate with us.  It's been too long for us being away from them when we used to see them all so often.

Oh, and before I forget Mr. Logan did have his pediatrician appointment.  He officially has regained and surpassed his weight he was at birth.  He is now 8lbs 15oz.  Overall everything checked out normal, so that was somewhat a relief as I was feeling unsure about how our feedings were going.

Well, we made a special trip for the library to post pictures and hopefully a video...enjoy!

This was one of the first days we caught his eyes wide open :)

Caught Jimmy off guard just post the evening bath.

Some "play" time.

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Trying out the kiddie pool on one of the hot days.

A face of a baby not knowing what's about to come :)

He Made It!

Logan Grayson Shaver finally arrived!!  He was born on August 3rd at 4:49am.  He weighed 8lbs 9oz and was/is 21 inches long.  It began really on August 1st I noticed I was having contractions with absolutely no pain.  They were coming ever 5 minutes.  I tried walking and doing everything I could to get it to turn into something.  They persisted to my OB appointment the next day.  My doctor discussed getting induced the following Wednesday/Thursday which had me somewhat excited that at least there was an end to this pregnancy.  The contractions continued the same all the way til the following day until 4pm.  I went to go and take a nap, just as I went to lay down the contractions really started kicking in gear and were coming every 2 minutes.  Jimmy and I went on a walk following dinner and around 8:00pm we decided it was time to head to the hospital. I still was not sure if we were going to get admitted, but certainly had my fingers crossed.  We spent more time walking and around 5cm dilated I got some IV pain meds followed by an epidural which was a dream.  We spent the rest of the night watching the Olympics and napping (well I napped, not Jimmy). If anyone has to deliver a baby at the end of a night, I couldn't have dreamt up a better time than with the Olympics happening.  Around 3am I was fully dilated and we went onto pushing (once the doctor arrived, hence the delay of delivery time).  Ultimately it was 4 contractions of pushing and he was out.  The whole experience happened so fast and still feels like a dream.  They put him right on me and I got to just hang out with him for the first hour.  I couldn't have asked for things to go any better...no complications, and a small tear.

The transition home has been a challenge to say the least.  I know God meant for me to have an easy baby because I certainly don't see how mother's make it with hard babies.  However, Logan has been simply adorable and just a wonderful blessing already in our lives.  He has caught onto feeding remarkably well and is is just smiles.  That all makes it sound like I'm lying about the need for an easy baby, but the challenges came with my personal recovery.  Apparently afterpains are worst than delivery pains, no one told me that was possible.  The emotional roller coaster has also been eventful which is a whole story in and of itself.  Jimmy has been the best help.  Once again it seems we're being watched over.  Jimmy not having a job has been the best blessing and he's really made this transition possible.  I have no idea how single mothers do it!  I hate knowing our little man is going to grow up so fast.  In some ways I would love to freeze time now, well except for maybe the sleepless nights.  Well, now that I have talked/written everyone's ear off and maybe shared more than some would ever want to know.  Onto the fun part....pictures!

Logan's 1st Picture

Our postpartum room

Logan's 1st bath

He loves being somewhat wet and cold

All wrapped up.

Logan loves his time with dad swaddled in the wrap.

My mom was serving cake for dessert and thought it would fun to celebrate his birthday.
There are 3 candles for the number of days old he is.  Jimmy took the liberty of helping him blow them out...fanning his body in front wouldn't work as hard as we tried... just kidding.  Delicious cake though.

Love the bunny slippers this is post bath one of the night's.

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We finally got a shot with his eyes open.  He typically loves just having the one eye open checking
 things out, so we were double lucky to get both open.

Waiting for Logan

Let's see what has been happening as of late. Well...as all our projects and "to do" list ran low, we started taking our boredom out on the dog's around the house.  Gotta love baby waiting time, as this was all prior to Logan being born.

Alice, the annoying house pet who deserved to be turned pink.    In reality we were hoping to turn Henry pink, but the agreement was we had to do a test run on Alice with the food coloring before Henry.

If anyone knows Jimmy, they know he LOVES donuts.  Portland's touristy attraction I have never checked out we finally got.  It was plenty delicious.  We went for the mild selection without the cereal as topping, etc.

The Voodoo doll donut is at the top left and other crazy one to note is the
 bacon maple bar on the right which was surprisingly VERY delicious.

4th of July Pregnancy in the Wings and Waves

Well it's time again you guessed it, blog time! Let's see so the wallet is lost for all eternity or something to the affect. I'm thinking some small animal or dog ran off with it but I have no evidence to prove this theory


Oh yeah just a little blurb on the 4th of July. We ended up going to Seaside with Whitney's siblings, grandparents and went to the beach. Seaside does the 4th of July the illegal way I'm proud to say, and illegality puts on way better show than ground bloomers.


If you haven't seen Whitney lately and are wondering what she's up to, the picture below is a story within itself.

Look what Jimmy did. (38 weeks)

Yep, the boy is still kicking and being oh so bothersome when Whitney tries to sleep. For some strange reason he likes her ribs. We have no idea when this little monkey is coming, no contractions, and we've had no desire for the doctor to check on the dilation! (Don't worry one day he'll come out, maybe when he's five.)

 So, we went to Wings and Waves in McMinville, it's a aerospace museum and water park in the same group of buildings. We went with Whitney's family it's was pretty swell to go down bunch of water slides that were attached to plane on the roof. My favorite was the green one, due to it seeming like you were in a twister or a toilet bowl. The whole place was an indoor water park, but for some reason all the water was salty.

What the plane on a building?!

Yep, it was recently my birthday and it sure was an awesome one this year! We had red velvet cream cheese cake, that cake was divine and not so fattening at least I hope! So We ended up eating too much of this cake, even those sometimes it comes back to me in my dreams! (I ate it my dreams too).

Thanks again for all those who gave me a birthday present, it was appreciated surely!

I'm blowing out candles, not doing anything else