3 Months Old

We have had a lot of fun this month with all the changes in our little man and our first family Christmas. Here are some pictures of the last month

I reached 15Lbs this month and had to buy bigger pants, here is my first picture in my medium G-pants. 

This is my first money!!! Great-Grandma Francisco sent me $20 for Christmas. I sent her this picture and a nice thank you card. 

I loved having Dad home for a couple of weeks, here we are playing on the floor

I am getting so big, I love standing on my feet

This is my Great-Great-Grandpa's drumstick i held on too it for mom while she was putting some stuff away. I liked the feel of it, i just might be a percussionist when i get bigger.

Mommy told me how important it is to be a triangle player in an orchestra maybe i will give that a try

I am saving the rest of this bottle for later!

I slept 7 1/2 hours last night but i was still able to get my right arm and left leg out of my blanket, I was sure happy to see mommy and daddy when they came to get me.

Nap time in my swing with my new monkey blanket that came in my stocking on Christmas

These are my new PJs from Uncle Aaron and Aunt Chrissy, I think i look really cute.

Thanks for the great month everyone, I am sure happy and healthy and look forward to the month to come. 

Love Carson.

Cuteness of this week

I can't believe how fast he changes... This week he has really started to smile. He looks like Blake but we know he is my son because he rolls his eyes and learned to stick his tongue out before he learned to smile. lol
Here are some cute pictures and video from this week...

Monday morning he was laying on his blanket having an insightful conversation with Maxwell the monkey.

It got very intense (I LOVE this picture)

Then he yelled at me to let me know that Maxwell was not the best conversationalist.  

So I came and talked for Maxwell and Carson was content. 

Watching his mobile in his swing on Wednesday evening

And the best one of all Thursday Morning

please excuse my messy house.

Blessing Day

December 4th, 2011
Carson Allen Francisco was presented to the Elders of the Church and given a name and a blessing. I am happy to announce that his name is still Carson Allen Francisco, not that i thought Blake would change it but I had to tease him about it. We were sad that no family could make it to the blessing but understood the circumstances and were very grateful for the friends that stepped in to be our family. The Hansons(friends from Cedar City that now live in Portland), Wilkonsons, Wheelers, Diehls, Gibbsons, Placteds, and Bishop Knudson. We also need to thank Jackie and Jim for the very cute Blessing outfit that the purchased for him and Grandma Elna for the beautiful white blanket that she crocheted for him. Somethings in the blessing that stood out to me; the first thing was Blake showed gratitude for having him here with us, he blessed him with Health: that he might be able to play sports, i know that this is something that is important to Blake that his little boy be healthy enough to do the things that he could not as child. He was also blessed to know the path which he might take, to serve a mission and marry in the temple.

I wanted to explain a little bit about what a Baby Blessing is for those that might not know. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints the members present their children to the Elders of the church and give them a name and a blessing. The church does not choose their name their parents do. This is just a time that it is stated for the records of the church. After the naming the father or priesthood holder gives them the blessing they feel inspired to by the spirit. This is not a baptism, we do that when they are 8 years old.

Here is a video of Carson in his blessing outfit and then just some fun pictures i have taken in the last week i hope you enjoy. The song that is playing in the background is Lady Antebellum's "If I Knew Then"

Jamie

PS: any typing errors in this post are from Carson he is asleep on my lap and his little hand keeps shooting up and pushing my mouse and keyboard.

2 Months old

5 days old coming home from the hospital

2 months old look how I've grown

Nap time

date night with mommy and daddy playing ddr he was not happy just watching he wanted to play

he got a perfect score

all ready for church

 Our little man is 2 months old!!! which feels crazy to me i can"t believe how fast time is moving and how much he has changed. He is more alert and loves to be a part of things. he wants to be at the table when Blake and I eat, is not content to watch us do something like play DDR he wants to be held and moved around(he is way cute trying to stand and bounce on your lap when music is playing)
He surprised even himself the other day and rolled over from his tummy to his back, i turned him back over and he tried to do it again but got stuck half way over and then got mad and started screaming. He has not attempted to roll over since.
He still loves taking a bath in the sink and kicks his legs.
He is a good little eater(with his bottle)and has gained at least 4 pounds in the last two months.
He is also a pretty good sleeper he goes to bed about 9:30pm sleeps until 1:00am and then sleeps from 1:40am to 4:30am, then he spends time in his swing until 7:30 or so. Because he takes a bottle(actually he prefers it and really does not nurse, i pump for him and give him every opportunity to  nurse, he just does not take it) I get up with him ant 1:00 and Blake gets up with him at 4:30 which allows both of us time for some good sleep.

well that is all for now. we look forward to the next 2 months which will be spent enjoying the holidays in Oregon and getting ready for our move to Utah which will take place the first week in February.
Jamie

Carson One Month Old(have your volume on)

3 weeks old and first bath

Friday night was a difficult one...
I woke up to what i thought was Blake crawling back into bed at 12:30am and our conversation went like this... Jamie: Did you just feed him
           Blake: Yes I just feed him
           Jamie: I did not hear him cry ( i was upset with myself for not hearing him and a little upset that
                                                                 Blake had feed him because i did not get to nurse him)
            Blake: You must have been sleeping hard
So I layed there for a minute mad at myself for not hearing him and getting up with him and since he had just eaten i had better pump(yuck). So I got out of bed and went and pumped. Half way through pumping Carson starts crying so i get untangled from the pump tubes and go and give him his pacifier. He sucks happily on that for a minutes so i go to finish pumping. About two minutes later Carson is SCREAMING, something neither Blake or i had heard before, turns out he has a good set of lungs when he is angry. I go racing in there and Blake comes wide a wake. I grab Carson from his bed but he is still screaming. now i am yelling at Blake.
             Jamie: You just feed him right!!!
             Blake: No, i have not feed him
             Jamie: What do you mean, you said you just feed him!
             Blake: the last time i know he ate was 9:30pm(apparently Blake lies in his sleep)
So Blake, Carson and I made our way to the kitchen to warm a bottle up and i finished pumping.
Poor guy he is hungry in his bed, he tells me so and i go in and give him a pacifier, I would be angry too. But it is good to know that he won't sleep through a feeding anymore, which was a problem in the hospital.

Saturday night...
Carson decided that he did not want to sleep in his own bed, instead he wanted to sleep in the chair with mommy and would only cry if you put him in his bed so mommy was up until 2:30 am with him and when i told Blake that he got a turn around 12:00 he told me that he could not be cause i had the goods.(again bad sleep talking) this ticked me off because Carson was not hungry he just did not want to be alone and Daddies can cuddle too! so when the poor guy(Carson) started screaming at me at 2:00 because i was not getting his bottle fast enough i went and gave him to Blake anyway so i could have two hands to get what he wanted. Blake then feed him and i pumped so we would have some in the fridge for any outings later. I was so tired and angry by this point that Blake told me to go to bed and he would take a turn with Carson. Turned out that Carson still did not want to sleep in his own bed so Blake got to sleep in the chair until his next feeding, I then nursed him we put him in his bed, told Blake not to even blink wrong for fear Carson would realize he had been set down, and we both went to bed for a couple of hours. He finally slept in his own bed. Sunday i had a headache but over all we were okay and decided he was still cute and we would not sell him to the Indians.

Sunday night...
Carson nursed really well at 9:30 took a little more from a bottle to top him off. He got wrapped up and set in his bed where he slept for three hours. then at 12:30 i got up and he did not want to nurse at all pure lazy... so he had a bottle of breast milk, wrapped him up and he slept in his own bed for three hours, I pumped and went to bed for two. 3:30 he woke up nursed and went back to bed for another three hours at 6:30 Blake got him up changed his diaper and i nursed him again he then fell back to sleep until 9:00 which meant i actually got to take a quick shower and do my hair at a reasonable hour.
If only all night were like this one he was so good and was such a big boy, nursing so well and sleeping in his bed.

at 9:00 he was not really hungry yet but he was a wake so we decided to try our first sink bath since he seems to be healed nicely. I took his clothes off which he does not like so he cried a little i then set him on his sponge in the sink and he looked at me like *wow this is awesome* as the water enveloped his little body. He was so happy and content the whole time he had a bath it was only when it was time to get out that he squawked a little.

This is him laying in the water

So we may have our moments of hair pulling but over all we are all adjusting to family life and enjoying it. the biggest lesson i have learned this past week is don't take anything Blake says in the middle of the night too seriously.  

At his last weigh in on Thursday he was up to 7lbs 2oz, he is more alert, can lift his head to look at you when he is on his tummy and he pulls lots of cute faces and makes lots of grunting and animal like noises in his sleep, i call him a little sheep or my little man, Blake calls him Captain because he is charge of this ship now.

Carson Update 2 weeks old tomorrow

One week old! we love seeing the chubby cheeks 

Proud Dad

Just hanging out in my sack on the Boppy

Ahhhh Relaxing while having a bath

When the bath was over

All dressed and ready for the day.

Today while giving Carson a bath, he was doing great. he liked having his face, hair and hands washed. But when I moved the towel away to wash his belly oh did he let out an angry cray at me. He was not happy. Once his belly was washed and covered back up, he was happy to have his legs and feet washed and was tuckered out.

Today we also had our first tummy time on the floor. My little man picked his head up and turned it the other direction and set it back down. What i strong little neck he has.

We are working on breastfeeding sadly we don't have that down yet so feeding time during the day goes something like this...

1. Change diaper

2. Practice breastfeeding for 10mins or so

3. bottle feed pumped breast milk

4. burp and cuddle until back a sleep.

5. spend the next 20min pumping so we have something to feed him next time.

I will be so glad when we can eliminate the pumping process and just breast feed. the nurses and lactation specialists say that it could take up to two weeks after his due date(10/30/11) for him to really breastfeed. Until then we spend time practicing and we go see the lactation specialist once a week.

Well i think that is all for now

Love you Little man Carson

Mommy  

Pictures

First family Photo

September 24th,2011

Went in the box September 25th,2011

Superhero Carson 

Hanging out in the box

Yay made it out of the box

September 27th,2011

Going Home!!

September 28th, 2011

Carson Allen Francisco’s Story

On Thursday September 22^nd, 2011 I ended up at the Doctor’s office at 2:40pm. I had had some spotting that I thought was probably normal being in my third trimester of pregnancy but they wanted to make sure that everything was okay so they had me come in for an exam. They told me that my cervix was tight, my water had not broken but that it looked like I had a yeast infection which Is common in pregnancy. They told me how to treat it and sent me home telling me that I could come in on Monday for my next appointment or that I could skip it if I wanted. I went home and spent the rest of the day hanging out and playing my Zelda wii game(haha).  Blake came home from the pharmacy and we went to bed after a movie and some talking about 11:00pm. At 1:30am I woke up with kind of a start and noticed that I had liquid between my legs. Frustrated with myself I got up and changed my pants and laid back down to go to sleep at this point I was starting to notice that my lower back was hurting a lot more then what has become normal for me in the last few weeks and I continued to leek small amounts of fluid during the pain. Fighting with myself as to wether or not it was worth it to call the hospital (after all I had just seen the doctor and she had said everything was fine… maybe this was just part of the yeast infection) I knew that if I called the hospital the only legal thing they could tell me is to come in for an exam. So at 2:30 I woke Blake up and asked him for his opinion…being half asleep he was not very good for it. So I asked for a blessing to help me sleep and make it through the night. He did give me a blessing I told him I was going to go back to bed and sleep. Just then my pain spiked again and again I lost fluid. I went to the bathroom and Blake(finally awake) grabbed the phone. They told us to call our doctors office on call number. Blake told her what was going on and she asked to talk to me. She did not sound like she thought I was in labor but when I told her that the pain had woke me up and that when it peeked I just pulled my hair trying to breath, she told me to go to the hospital and get checked just in case I was in labor (haha ya right). I was upset because I knew Blake had to get up in the morning and got to his rotation and they were just going to send me home telling me I had a yeast infection and to get some sleep, but we went. On the 30min trip to the hospital I realized the pain was coming every five minutes pretty much on the dot. Now I was really scared, I was only 34weeks 5 days pregnant. We got to the hospital and they went to check to see if my water had broken they went to take a sample but laughed when they got between my legs and said yep your water is broken we don’t need a sample. They checked my cervix and I was dilated to a 4… A 4!!!! How the heck did that happen, I thought. It was now 3:30-4:00 in the morning I was admitted and moved upstairs where it took 2 people and 4 tries to get my epidural in the nurse told me I was getting color back in my face apparently before the epidural I was turning a nice color of gray and having a really hard time remembering to breathe.

                Side note our “Preparing for Childbirth” classes started two days before I went into labor, therefore I had no idea what to expect or how to get through this. We did not have a bag packed and Blake went home after I got epidural to grab some “stuff” (clothes, Camera…)

                By 10:30 in the morning my epidural was not working very well and they had to help me breathe through my contractions because I could feel them with some great intensity, I don’t want to know what they would have felt like without it. Trying to figure out what was wrong with my epidural the nurses decided to check me and realized I was dilated to a 9 they called the doctor to come check me and decide on my pain management. She came and checked me and asked me to give her a push and see what would happen. It was now 11:00 in the morning I gave a push, Carson came down the birth canal and she told me that we did not have time to mess with me epidural, I was going to have a baby. My reaction… I burst into tears (he is too early and I am too scared for this) the doctor hurried to get ready for his delivery and Carson Allen Francisco was born at 11:30am.  So 10 hours after waking up with what I thought was a urine leak and a bad yeast infection I gave birth to a beautiful 6lb baby boy.

                Because he was breathing and turning pink I got to hold him and cry while they cleaned him up a little and then Blake got to walk him down to the NICU where he is now.

                Baby Carson is doing great he is breathing and regulating his own heart and keeping warm all by himself. These are big tasks for such a young guy. Because he spends all his energy on these things he is not eating very well and has a feeding tube. He will be in the NICU until he can eat on his own, also his jaundice levels are getting higher and he will probably have to spend time tomorrow under the lights but 80% of babies born at his gestation have to do that so he is doing GREAT!!! And we look forward to his growth and are so glad that he is so healthy and strong.

We Love you little man

Jamie

in the delivery room before he was taken to the NICU

in the NICU after he had been poked a few times and Daddy had given him a bath. 

that is daddies finger he is holding

First time i got to hold him after the delivery room

What a cute little man we have

Birthday: September 23rd, 2011 11:47 am

Gestational age: 34 weeks 5 days

Weight: 6lbs 1oz

length: 19 1/4 in

The Very Scattered Update

Sorry no pictures or cute scrapbook this time.

I saw the doctor on Tuesday, everything is going well. Our little man is moving

and grooving all over the place these days especially at night.

His heart rate is great and i finally put on some weight (good for him bad for me)

The only place i ever wanted to see a number that high was next to the box labeled IQ

not weight.

Haha all well

As for Blake and I

We are doing great he is almost done with his second rotation.

Which is great because it means i get the car back!!

It is really hard to be stuck at home all day long, I sew and cook(when it is not to hot)

I try to go on walks but never make it very far, thank you round ligament pain.

It will be nice to be able to go to the library and store when i want to.

We are getting really excited to fly out tomorrow morning for Zach's Wedding!!

I will post more after our trip, hopefully something a little more exciting with pictures.

Jamie

Monkeys!

So I am hoping that Carson(our son) likes monkeys because he is accumulating quit a collection of monkey items thanks to his mother's(me) like for them.  

This is Blake before setting up Carson's new bed. I love that the bed easily breaks down to such a small size so it can travel to grandparent's homes with us.

Here it is all set up! It has a changing table and it is a play yard as well.

These are the Monkey blanket and monkey bibs I have made for him. With my new sewing machine. the machine allows me to embroider letters so the bib says "Mommy's little Monkey"

Of the 8 outfits we have bought for him so far 4 of them have monkeys on them.

Blake says we need to start looking at other animals. like a horse!!!!

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