Bradley & Grandpa

It has been great to have my parents staying with us this past week. My mom has been here since last Saturday (she flew over from Appleton) and then my dad has been here since Wednesday. He drove over after hunting in northern WI.

Most of the week we just hung out around the house with our little Bradley man. One day we had the photo shoot, two days we worked on making Christmas cookies, one day we went out for a nice brunch, one day was Thanksgiving, and then another day we were down in Waseca.

I am so glad that we finished off the basement since it is nice to have visitors, even for a week at a time, and not feel like we are all on top of each other.

An Early Christmas Celebration

This year we all decided to celebrate the immediate Weber family Christmas over Thanksgiving for a multitude of reasons:

~ Christopher was home on his 2 week leave from Afghanistan

~ Melissa is pregnant and due in early January, so she will not be traveling away from Kansas City in December. Need to make sure she is close to home in case that baby comes early.

~ All of the Weber kids would be in Waseca for Thanksgiving. :)

We went down to Waseca on Friday after Bradley's 2 week check up and spent the night hanging out with the family. On Saturday we celebrated Christmas with lots of appetizers, games, and of course plenty of presents. Since my parents were visiting us from WI during Thanksgiving they also came down to Waseca on Saturday to join in on the fun. Here are some pictures from the day.

Meeting cousin Emma

Since the whole family was in Waseca to celebrate Christmas, Bradley was able to meet his cousin Emma. Boy O Boy, was she sure excited to meet him. As soon as we walked in the door, she said Oh Bradley and ran over to get him a present they brought for him. Then after she helped him open his gift, she went over to the couch, sat herself up there, then popped her hands on her lap and said "Lap, Lap". It was really cute. So of course this was the first of many times over the next day that she insisted on holding him.
She does really good, but is still getting used to being gentle. It was good practice for her as she will have a little brother or sister joining the family in about a month or so.

Welcome Home Christopher!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Today we are super excited not only to have a wonderful Thanksgiving meal, but more importantly we were able to see Christopher!! He flew in from Afghanistan this afternoon for his 2 week leave. His fiance Katie came up to the Cities to pick him up, but before they headed back to Waseca, they stopped over to say hi and to meet Bradley. We will get to spend more time with him tomorrow when we head to Waseca to celebrate Christmas with the Weber family.

Already buddies

I can not say that Bailey has taken a liking to Bradley, but I will say he does tolerate him. We have laid Brad on Bailey and she will stay nice and still, letting hime hang out. What a good dog.

Other than that, so far she does not pay too much attention to him. If anything she looks slightly depressed like she is not getting enough attention from us. We are definitely trying to continue to play with her and give her the attention she needs, but with it getting colder outside...we have not been able to go for as many walks as we did over the warmer months.

New born photo shoot

Today we had a photographer come to our house to take some new born photos of Bradley. Her name is Cyndi from Sole Exposures. She was the photographer for Amanda's wedding and then did my maternity photos for us. Since Brad is only a week or so old, she was nice enough to come to our house for the shoot versus us driving out to her studio.

The shoot went really well. We did a lot of naked newborn photos, which of course since we had all his clothes off including his diaper... he got a little cold and relieved himself. The first time it was while Jon was holding him and then next was when I was. We all had a good laugh because we were expecting him to do it, it was just a matter of when.

Cyndi also took a Christmas card photo for us. Obviously since these were professional photos she has a mark on all the photos, but here are a few from the shoot.

If you like her work, here is her website for more information: http://www.soleexposures.com/

A few pics from our first week home...

First Bath at Home

Bradley is not a fan of getting his diaper changed, he cries/screams every time...another thing he was not a big fan of was his first bath. Since he is still healing from his circumcision and his cord stump is still attached we can only give him a sponge bath versus a full bath, but never the less he is not a fan yet.

Our little peanut

So this second photo needs a little explanation to go along with it... We were talking about how little Bradley is, but it photos its hard to tell. So my dad said we should put something in the swing with him to show the size comparison... Well garage logic Jon grabbed a PEN and laid it on him, but the rest of us were thinking something along the lines of a stuffed animal or something. We all laughing so hard, since Jon grabbed the first logical thing he saw to compare size & thought nothing of it. I was laughing so hard, I peed little...yup dang post pregnancy incontinence. Anyway, that is why the second picture is so blurry since I could not hold the camera steady due to the laughter.

Our stay at the hospital

We ended up staying at the hospital for 2 days after Bradley was born and they went by rather quickly. It was kind of nice to hang out and relax in bed for 2 days with nothing to do but watch TV, having people visit, having your food brought to you, nurses checking on you constantly, and of course just spending time with Jon and our new little man. Although I could have done with out the post labor pain and Jon probably could have gone without sleeping in the ched (chair/bed).

Since it was flu/H1N1 season, there were some restrictions on visitors, but we still had plenty including - both sets of grandparents (obviously), Megan, Christie, Kirsten, Sarah, and Kris. They all brought Bradley wonderful gifts, which we can't thank them enough for.


The nurses made sure to go through all the "how to's" with us, which was super helpful, including how to diaper, bathe, feed/nurse, etc. Both Jon and I have taken care of infants before, but its just something when it is all of a sudden your own child and you are the sole provider for this little thing. They assured us that he is pretty limber and we really can't break him. :)


Here are a few additional pictures from our stay...

Weblet's a Boy!!

Well as it turns out Friday did not come soon enough... Weblet did want to come on it's own and came exactly on its due date - November 12th!!! And as it turns out Weblet is a boy!

Here is how things happened~

I woke up at 2-2:30am to go to the bathroom and the contractions started strong right after that and were being really consistent at 5-7 min apart. I laid back down in bed but sleep was not an option. Jon knew right away that something was up as I was trying to breath through the contractions, but they were very intense. So after an hour or so of timing them, we called the on call nurse, who then contacted the on call doctor (which just happened to be my OB that night, yes!). Knowing how far I was already progress my OB just called the hospital right away to make sure they had room for us, which they did. However, Jon still had to shave, pack his bag and get all his work out of offices set. We were finally on our way to the hospital at 5:00.

The nurse checked me once we got in and I was already 8cm, so they transferred me to a labor room. My doctor arrived and since she did not have any other patients to attend to, was with us through the rest of the process. Due to the intensity of the contractions, I opted to get an epidural right away, and by the time that whole process was done it was 6:30, I was 10 cm, so she broke my water and we started pushing. Things were going well for the first hour progressing with each contraction. We did have to use some pitocin to keep the contractions regular. But about an hour in the baby's heart rate was staying low after each contraction a little bit longer, so talked about using the vacuum to assist and get him out quicker. However, there was some additional water behind the baby, so she thought if she released that it might help it come out faster as well. When she did this the baby turned and then she could not quite tell which way it head was anymore. So that took a little bit. She also did have to give me an episiotomy to make a little more room. After that she got the vacuum in place, the baby came out within the next 2 pushes. And it was a BOY!!

Bradley William was born at 8:15 on his due date, weighing in at 7lbs 4 oz and was 19 inches long.

40 Week Update

Well I made it...the doctor did not think I would get all the way to 40 weeks, but here I am. A little frustrated, but Weblet must really like its home and I know it will happen in time. It has to...
Everything is still looking good, still 4 cm dilated, fully effaced, and baby is way down in the pelvis. So the discussion got brought up again at my appointment in regards to inducing labor... but for me instead of starting with the pitocin to induce the labor, she would just break my water and see what happens...then maybe have to use pitocin. Either way, Jon and I were unsure if we really wanted to mess with a natural thing...it is supposed to happen on its own and obviously my body knows what is supposed to happen as I have progressed this far already.

My doctor said that if we wanted to go to Ridges Hospital they could induce the next morning or wait until the next week or if we wanted to go to Southdale hospital they could potentially schedule us for Friday sometime. So we left the appointment with some options ~ wait or schedule???

After some discussion at home we decided that we did want to go to Southdale and given that it would be on Friday it would work well for both of our families and then lastly she was just going to break my water.... so I called the doctor back and she checked with the hospital and we got scheduled for Friday November 13th at 7:30am. It's going to happen soon!!!!

Fall clean up

It's hard to believe that it is now November, especially with the weather we had today... sunny & 65. It was a perfect day to work on cleaning up the leaves in the yard. We did this last weekend as well, but some of our maple trees just don't want to drop all of their leaves.


We have a pretty good leaf pick up system, Jon works on pulling out the leaves from all those hidden spots and away from the fence and I use the lawn mower to mulch up the leaves and then add the bagger and go around again to pick them all up. Then we add them to the garden, where Jon turns them into the soil to make our garden nice & nutritious for next year. :)

We also put up the Christmas lights on the house because its a much easier task when it is warm and we are not freezing our hands off. Plus it is normally my job to do and I have a feeling I might have my hands full in a few weeks and am not going to be thinking about putting up Christmas lights outside. :)

39 Weeks

and still waiting....

My appointment this week was again good, heartbeat around 120-130 so same as it has been for a long. This week our Dr. did bring up the option of inducing us on Thursday since it would be 39 weeks. She said that it would be because of how far progressed I was and that they would rather have me at the hospital when I into labor versus being at home and potentially having the baby before I can make it to the hospital. Either way, at this point Jon and I both feel that, although hard, we can wait and let Weblet come on its own. Plus with induction labor can be more difficult and have that chance of things not going as planned. Either way, the waiting game continues....