A busy summer!

Well, I've been meaning to update the blog for a while, but something keeps me from doing it...Oh yeah, Baby JACK!

I just can't seem to tear myself away from him long enough to do a blog post about him!  He's napping now sooooo here's what's been happening for the past 3 months...

May 9, 2011

Jack is finally here!!!

I went into labor on May 8th, Mother's Day!  Jeremy was a great support and my mom was at my house waiting for Jack's arrival. Jeremy and I left for the hospital around 1 in the morning. We got checked in and I was 5 cm! Time for the epidural!!!!!! I got to about 9 cm, but the doctor thought that I would need a C-section since I had been at 9 for quite a few hours and the baby wasn't moving down. So, at 1:21pm on May 9th, Jack was born! He weighed 6 pounds, 15 ounces and was 18cm long. What a day!

We had many visitors in the next few weeks...

My mom (aka Grandma) was already here for Jack's big arrival, my dad and Candace came up shortly after he was born. My teacher friends Kerry, Rachael, Kelly, and Jennifer came to see Jack (ok, and I guess me too!) at the hospital.

Jeremy's family came up a couple of weeks after he was born for Memorial Day weekend.  His mom (aka Nana) offered to babysit so we could go out to dinner with Ryan and Heidi.  It was our first time leaving him and it went really well (all 2 hours of it!). 

Quite a few friends came to the house to get there first face-to-face visit with Jack, and lucky for us, they brought food!  We were so thankful for the meals and the sweet gifts from everyone!  Our family is very blessed and our little baby boy is VERY loved! 

I've been going to the postpartum lunch at the hospital every Tuesday since he was 2 weeks old.  I've missed a few, but I really look forward to getting out of the house with Jack and talking with the other new moms and seeing their babies.  It's so nice to be around people going through exactly what you're going through.  I'm sad that next week will be my last lunch because I'll be going back to work! 

Jack has changed in so many ways already! One thing that has stayed the same is that he's completely adorable! He is just the best thing ever!! 

Here's a slideshow of just 50 of the thousands of pictures we've taken of Jack...Enjoy!!!

A picture slideshow by Smilebox I have been posting pictures to my shutterfly site and uploading videos to my youtube channel.  Please visit either site to see what's been going on! :) http://melic62.shutterfly.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/ThomsFam PS- You can click on any of the pictures on the blog to make them bigger :)