Lots of Smiles & A Yawn!

Jack's smiling a TON more and I finally got some on camera!

Aren't these the cutest little footed PJ's?! I just love the feet!!

8 Weeks Old!

So we've done a lot in just one week! For Jack's 8 week birthday (Wednesday, 8/10), he slept his first 8 hours through the night! WOW! I was so stunned! Woohoo! He had been sleeping 6-6.5 hours for the past 2 weeks and then 2 nights of 7 hrs and then a whopping 8! It just happened so fast! It's amazing how effective scheduling his days have worked for us! What a blessing!! So the last 2 nights we've bounced between 7-8hrs so lets hope he keeps it up!!

I'll probably write more about our effective scheduling during our fabulous days together soon! I want all new moms to know that to give your baby the gift of sleep is the best thing for the entire family as God intended!!

4 Weeks Old!

8 Weeks Old!

Finished Nursery... Almost

We finally got up the wall decals and such like 3 days before Jack was born! Just in time! I still have some empty picture frames to fill with new baby pictures of Jack and we still want to paint the "J" above his crib a dark brown to match the rest of his furniture. Other than that, his nursery is a joy to be in! I love looking around it every time we nurse! I love my rocker, swivel, recliner chair even more every time I sit in it!

Every time I read the bible verse on the wall, God reveals something more to me. We pray for everyone we can think of while we read our baby boy devotions out of a book a friend gave us!

Also, can you believe how full Jack's book case is already!? It was because my sister's threw me a shower and asked everyone to bring a baby book and lots of people even wrote little notes inside the books, and would you believe it... NO DUPLICATES! I plan to make it a habit for us to pray for the person who gave us the book each time we read it!

And of course, we have little matching hooks to hang his super cute little blue bath robe! (Which we haven't used yet, I've been using the hooded towels right now because they are easy, but the blue bathrobe just looks so cute because it's so little... so it's kind of part of the decor! HA!)

Thank you everyone for all the gifts you gave us to make this nursery possible!

7 Weeks Old!

Yes, my baby boy is already 7 weeks old! Wow, it went fast but each day feels slow! He's made some incredible developments only since being home 1 month!

1 - He is now 11lbs! He was 7.2lbs when we left the hospital at 2.5 weeks old! Go breast milk, GO!
2 - He now sleeps 6-6.5hrs every night! Thank you, Jack! ~Love, Mommy
3 - He can hold his head up very well already!
4 - His legs are constantly moving and pushing and tucking under him during tummy time
5 - His eyes are a light grey still... I'm hoping for blue but if he gets his Daddy's dreamy hazel eyes, I won't be complaining!
6 - He is now smiling in response to me now, but I can't seem to recreate them consistantly yet
7 - He is now looking and batting at his hanging toys on his play mat!
8 - He does famously with his 3 hour feeding, wake time, and naptime routine all day long! Which makes mommy's day much more predictable on getting this done.
9 - He LOVES being outside! He looks all around during his 1hr long walk with mommy every morning and his 30 minute walk with daddy in the baby bijorne in the evening!
10 - He is starting to relax and enjoy the water more during his 2 baths a week, too!
11 - He passed his newborn hearing test with flying colors, so now when Jack cries, AJ says to him "Son, don't cry, I know you can hear me now so listen!"
12 - There is pretty much a song for every daily event,... we make them up for everything and amazingly, so does AJ... even more than I do!!
13 - Real Daddys can't resist a little baby talk to their sleeping babys they want to kiss and hold all the time!
14 - He still ikes his pacifier (thank you hospital...) but at least we now have a cute little lamb attatched to it to hold it in his mouth!! We call him "Lambo" (we mixed "Rambo" with "Lamby" to make it more masculin!)

There are so many things going on but those are some highlights I thought I'd share! Breast feeding is so fun and so much easier than I thought it would be! It's SOOOO much more convianient than pumping in the hospital (which I did for 2.5 weeks in the beginning!)

Enjoy the pictures! I have more coming of his nursery finished with pictures up and the decals too!

Phew... God Is Good!

JACK CHRISTOPHER BACHMANN

Born June 15th at 1:19am

7lbs 13oz

20.5 inches

Well, wouldn't you know it, right after my last post (Sunday, June 12th) my water broke on Tuesday morning at 4am (June 14)!! There is a lot to tell but to sum up a very long story, that will probably trickle out as I have time to tell it (in between being a new mommy)...

Jack was born with a heart mumor which needed correction. He was diagnosed with Puminary Stenosis (wikipedia gives a great description of it that we used...) within 12 hours of his birth. So off he went to Children's National Hospital in DC that very same day and AJ and I were off to spend the next 17 days by his side with LOTS of crying, LOTS of praying, and LOTS of support and encouragment from friends and family. Jack was finally able to come home, totally fixed and would require yearly check ups for his heart probably for a good portion of his life, on Saturday, July 2nd! We finally got the joy of being new parents and bringing our son home from the hospital! I can't tell you what joy and tears were shed praising God for that moment we were told we could go home!

Jack is doing great and even gained over 1lb in the first week home! Good ole' breast milk, God's miracle, perfect nurtrition! We have more pictures coming,... LOTS! So stay tuned as I get in a routine and start blogging more so you can meet our little boy and learn to love him as much as we do!

To see Jack's first pictures at 3 weeks old, see my amazing little sisters blog! They are amazing!

Thank you to my little sister and my sister-in-law for their posts of making Jack's condition known to the world to have them pray for us. Our prayers were answered and God's powerful hand was witnessed in our son's life that we all will remember and praise The Lord forever!

5 More Days

Well, we've made it to the home stretch! Only 5 days to go before my estimated due date of 40 weeks!!! The nursery is done (stay tuned for photos of it all completed), we have to put the car seat in the car and pack my overnight bag and we're off! I figured while I'm having contractions far apart and getting so excited I'll pack my bag to distract myself!

Please pray for us, that our new son would come in God's timing, healthy and with minimal complications to us, him and the hospital staff. Only God knows the arrival date of this one and AJ and I are strengthening our faith and prayer life during this incredible time! We can't wait for everyone to share in the joy we'll have!

Here are some pictures from his 35 week photoshoot to hold us all over!

Maternity Pictures

So for our last trip before Baby B arrives... we headed down to Raleigh, NC for Memorial Day weekend! It was SOOO nice to be a guest for a change! I really wanted to enjoy some picnics or bbqs but was in NO shape to host on my feet. So THANK YOU to my brother and sister-in-law for hosting us all weekend and feeding us plenty!

My sister-in-law, Jen, has been doing amazing things with her yard-saling skills! She is always finding the best stuff! And if yard sales weren't enough, she has gotten into amazing thrift store finds! Check out the toys and cutestest dresses she finds for pennies on the dollar!!

So, not only did we eat great food (while keeping my swollan feet up...), we went to the pool! Baby B got his first swimming in! Hopefully, he's on the right track! I've got to start him early!

Here is a plug for the cutest, and newest neice to the Wise clan! Charlotte!! She was in a bumble bee suit with matching hat! LOVE IT!

Elle kept making sure that Baby B was still in my tummy and that he was having a good time. She tried playing with him and hugging him a lot in the pool. I think she's going to be teaching him how to swim before I do!

Jen also took the time out to take some maternity pictures of us before the baby comes! She did a tremendous job and we are SOOO thankful to have a bunch of photographer enthusiests in our family! Check out my little sisters amazing skills she's turned into a amazingly popular company, with her new born and my newest newphew, Camden!!

Jen, these turned out beautifully! Thank you so much. Now I feel like there is officially no more perks to being pregnant, the good pictures have been taken... NOW COME OUT BABY B, I'M READY!!!!