Christmas 2008

Here is the first post with pictures from Christmas. I don't think I will have the patience to post all the pictures in one post so we'll see how it goes...

Merry Christmas!

Hangin' with my PaPa Max
Taking a little siesta

Aunt Karah and Doug making cookies

Another little nap...little guys like me sleep a lot!

Christmas morning in my new Christmas PJs

Snuggling with Mommy Christmas morning

This was my "perch" watching everyone open presents - pretty sure when I'm older I won't be allowed to sit on the coffee table!

What a silly face!

Aunt Karah drinking some hot chocolate...yum!

Santa's little helper is ready for a nap

So sweet!

Daddy makes a perfect pillow

Merry Christmas from the Lewis'

Some Christmas pictures

Here are a few pictures of Hadley in his new hat (from a teacher at Eric's school), and some other cute pics. There will be plenty more in the days to come!

1 Month Old

Hadley Max Lewis is one month old today! Happy Birthday, little man!

Finally more pictures

So I've been a little busy and haven't posted new pictures in a while - sorry! Here are some from the last week or so. Hadley is growing and changing every day it seems. We weighed him this past weekend and he was about 8 pounds 3 ounces. Enjoy the pictures!

Look at my chubby cheeks!

Just chillin' in my bouncy chair

Nap time

Meeting my great-grandma Lewis

Bath time in the sink

More bouncy chair time

I do love my bottle! (Such squeezable cheeks!)

Zzzzzzz

This is the life!

Mommy & Hadley's Day 'O Fun

Today I attempted my first outing alone with Hadley. Overall it was mostly successful. We had to go to the hospital to have the second part of his PKU screening done. Since that involved a needle prick we were not real excited about it, but he did very well - only cried for a minute. Once we got that taken care of we had to go buy diapers (because someone seems to be zipping through those like nobody's business!). So we went to the grocery store to pick up diapers and a couple other things. At that point Hadley was still doing really well - no fussing or anything. Unfortunately mommy made the mistake of making one more stop at a drive-thru and that was the breaking point. So one of us cried all the way home after that (I'll let you guess which one!). But once we got home and had a nice warm bottle all was right with the world again. So I would say we did pretty good for our first trip. I will add this, however...tomorrow you will most likely find us both in our pj's all day!

P.S. - Nanny I can't wait to see you! I hope you feel lots better soon!

Exhausted

I am absolutely exhausted! This taking care of a baby thing is great, but it is completely draining.

By the way, yesterday was Hadley's two week check-up at the doctor and everything looks good. He has gained weight like he is supposed to and is now at 7 lbs 6 ounces. I don't think they measured his length correctly so I won't even bother to include it on here. The doctor said everything looks good and he is doing everything he is supposed to be doing.

Getting ready to go for a ride in the car into town.

At the dr office..."this place is different, I wonder what's going on here."

I've Been Tagged

I was "tagged" by my friend Erin with an interesting selection of questions to answer...
TYPE ONLY ONE WORD FOR EACH ANSWER. IT'S HARDER THAN YOU THINK!!!

1. Where is your cell phone? table
2. Your significant other? Eric
3. Your hair? disheveled
4. Your mother? hard-working
5. Your siblings? fun
6. Your favorite thing? laughter
7. Your dream last night? nada
8. Your favorite drink? Diet Coke
9. Your dream/goal? happiness
10. The room you're in? office
11. Your fear? unknown
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? home
13. Where were you last night? home
14. What you're not? rested
15. Muffins/donuts? donuts
16. One of your wish list items? camera
17. Where you grew up? Abilene
18. The last thing you did? lay Hadley down
19. What are you wearing? pj's
20. Your TV? TLC
21. Your pet? barking
22. Your computer? Compaq
23. Your life? blessed
24. Your mood? content
25. Missing someone? yes
26. Favorite pastime? sleeping
27. Something you're not wearing? jewelery
28. Favorite Store? Target
29. Your summer? long-ago
30. Your favorite color? green
31. When is the last time you laughed? last night
32. Last time you cried? 30 minutes ago
33. Who will/would re-post this? friends :)
34. Four places I go over and over: WalMart, changing table, bathroom, kitchen
35. Four people who e-mail me? Mom, Eric, Carole, What to Expect
36. Four of my favorite foods? grapes, chips/dip, tacos, McDonald's
37. Four places I would like to be right now: sleeping, holding Hadley, couch next to Eric, sleeping
38. Four people I tag? Jennifer, Melissa, Ronnie, Robin

New People

This shirt is special because it was the one mommy gave daddy when she told him about me.

Meeting my cousin Emma.

Meeting my cousin Bailey.

Cousins - Emma, Bailey, & Hadley

Aunt Dina lovin' on me.

Supper time - yum!

This is the life!

Daddy giving me a sponge bath - not my favorite thing right now.

My Aunt Karah came to see me! (See my doggy in the window - he barks a lot!)

Eating again - and wide awake

My Heart

The title of this post is two-fold. First, and foremost, my heart now belongs to a little man named Hadley Max Lewis. He has completely stolen every bit of it and filled it with the most amazing feelings of love and happiness and contentment I could ever know. I never knew before that it was possible to feel so completely infatuated with someone so little and so new. I could spend hours just looking at him and holding him and cuddling him. I am amazed every time I look at him by the fact that we did this...Eric and I...we did this. Wow! He is part me and part Eric. What an amazing thing. And then God gave us this perfect little being to love and cherish and take care of. It just makes me wonder what I ever did to be worthy of such an amazing gift. My heart is overflowing.

The second meaning of the title actually has to do with my physical heart. Some of you know about the goings on of the past week and some of you don't, so I will try to give a brief summary of them. Last weekend I begin to feel like I was getting a chest cold. I got a cough and was having a little trouble breathing and my chest felt congested, so I began taking some cough medicine. By Sunday I was really struggling to catch my breath and at times struggling to just take a breath. So Eric finally convinced me to go to the emergency room. Luckily, my sister was here and stayed with Hadley while we went for what we thought might be a couple hours. That couple hours turned into three days spent in the hospital. After doing breathing treatments, an EKG, a CT scan, multiple blood tests, and who knows what else, they discovered that I was experiencing congestive heart failure due to the massive amounts of fluid in my body (see earlier posts regarding swelling), my greatly elevated blood pressure, and fluid filling up my lungs. So Sunday night I was admitted in the ICU where I stayed until Tuesday afternoon. During that time I had lots more blood work, lots of medicine, an echo-cardiogram, and had about 15 pounds of fluid drained out of my body. Needless to say, it was not the best way to spend a couple days. On Tuesday afternoon I finally got moved into a regular hospital room and was able to see Hadley for the first time since Sunday. Not seeing him was probably the hardest part of this entire ordeal for me! Late Wednesday afternoon I was finally released from the hospital and came home where I have not spent much time away from my little man since. (I had to make up for the days spent away from him!)

On Thanksgiving Day we had a house full of people from both Eric's family and mine, and we had a great time together. This Thanksgiving we definitely have a lot to be thankful for.

Pictures

We have obviously been taking lots of pictures (can you blame us?!?) so I am sharing more. Mostly I am posting lots so Nanny and Papo can see their grandson because I know how anxious they are to come love on him!

More Hadley pictures

Here are more pictures since we've been home.