Carson James Prudhel

We are so excited that Carson is here!! He is absolutely perfect and such a joy in our lives!

He made an early (and quick) arrival on October 3, 2010 at 9:43pm. He weighed in at 7 lb 7 oz and was 19.25 inches long.

My OB had another Dr. covering for him on Sunday, so they called him to come in, but he still hadn’t arrived when the time came so they had to pull in another Dr. to “catch”. That Dr. delivered his head and then the other Dr. walked into the room just in time to deliver the rest of him. This caused a lot of confusion on discharge day when trying to figure out which Dr. was supposed to be on the birth certificate but it all got worked out!!

We are all doing well. We got home from the hospital Tuesday morning. So far he has been a great eater and sleeper.

Here are a few pictures.

           

Finally Have the Nursery Decorated

With 4 days till my due date, we finally finished putting the nursery together!! Here are a few pictures of how it turned out.

 

I also made baguettes today. I made some plain, but these are stuffed with hot Italian sausage and provolone cheese. First time I made stuffed baguettes and haven’t tried them yet, but they look pretty!

37 Weeks

Crib & Dresser

So, we got our crib, mattress, and dresser last night. It’s starting to look like a nursery now instead of an office! Now we’re just waiting on our glider which should be here in a couple more weeks. Then I’ll figure out how I’m going to decorate it.

Random Updates

This is really late…but over 3 weeks ago now, we purchased a new vehicle. These pictures are pretty lousy since I was too lazy to back the car out of the garage to take pictures…pretty sad! We ended up with a Nissan Murano. I sold my civic last week. I really like the new car I’m just having a little issue adjusting to the change in gas mileage!! To go from 34 mpg to 19 mpg…although I knew this was the case…still makes me choke a little!!

 

Our new sectional was delivered on Saturday, so our family room is now close to functional. Steve’s office area was setup behind it. We’re looking for a short screen to put behind the couch to better hide the office area and the mantle should be installed sometime in the next week or so. Eventually we’re going to have a desk custom built that will go with the room, but we put that on hold for the time being. We also installed “in wall” speakers for our surround system since the stand mounted ones weren’t going to work with the sectional.

   

Now that the nursery is cleaned out, we were finally able to put together the Mamaroo that my sister got for us…thanks Susan!! We’re using this instead of a bouncer/swing. We’ll see how it goes. It’s pretty cool! We tried to get the cat to “test drive” it, but she didn’t want to have anything to do with it!

We installed a closet organization system in the nursery…which has yet to be “organized”…but we’re getting there. The crib and dresser will be delivered tonight, so then it won’t look like quite the disaster area it does now.

 

I think that’s it for now…

3D/4D Ultrasound

We had our 3D/4D ultrasound this morning. We did confirm we are indeed having a boy. And we got some cute pictures of his face. He wasn’t being super cooperative. He really thought his hands needed to be up by his face…along with his feet sometimes. And about half way through he got bored with the whole thing and fell asleep.

Apparently he wanted us to see how big his foot is…that’s what this last picture is showing.

You can watch the video of the whole session at the following link:

www.AnticipationBabyView.com/PeekABabyCA/Baby1007241141.asf

29 weeks

Here is my 29 week belly pic. All is going well minus my reaction to the glucose test last Friday. About 45 minutes into my hour wait, my blood sugar took a nose dive down to 67, I almost passed out and got really nauseous, so they admitted me to the ER and kept me there to monitor me and the baby for 2 hours until my blood sugar came back up to 92. All is well though and my Dr. is not concerned, so I decided I wouldn’t be either :) We have our 3D/4D ultrasound on Saturday, so I’m hoping to get some good images/video…hopefully the baby cooperates!!