Week 2 - My Favorite Pictures

Just a swinging...










Sleeping










Could someone please turn off the lights!!










Dino-Mite

Father’s Day

So, we had a great visit from my dad and stepmom, that's Dandy and GrandDawn to all the grandkids.  Right before Gideon was born, we all decided that it'd be great for them to come up on Father's day weekend to meet their new grandson, and visit with all of my siblings too.

So, they arrived on Friday, and spent the afternoon holding Gideon, and watching him sleep.  Gideon actually was still in the bili-bed until Friday afternoon, so we had to wait a little bit until the nurse called and said he was good to go before we could pick him up very much, but once we got the okay, we took him off the bed and let them hold him for a while.  Naturally we took several pictures.  I'll add them here later, have to download the camera to this machine...

After that, Dad and I played some Set Cubed, while the ladies napped, then we all went to Babies'R'Us to get some portraits of Dad and the baby to go with a portrait we still had of Dad with me for his Father's day gift, a Generations 3 photo frame showing all 3 generations of Dalton men.  We also had his baby announcement photos done then too, but I'm not posting that picture... you'll all have to wait until you get one in the mail.  Anyway, the photos turned out great, mostly because Dandy was eating Gideon up :)

How great is that picture?

Dad spent Saturday visiting with my other siblings, and meeting his other new grandson, Westley, whose picture I'll need to snag off Paige's site.  Meanwhile Tammy and I ran around getting the photos and frames picked up for Dad's Father's day gift.  Okay, Tammy went into Babies'R'Us, then stayed in the car while I went into Target and Thing's Remembered... she's still not supposed to exert herself too much.

On Sunday, Dad & Dawn, Dawn & Don, and Cara, Eric, and Davin all came over and brought a wonderful brunch to our house, and we all just hung out and took lots of pictures of people holding Gideon.  I'll get those up here soon too.

A major Thank You goes to Dad/Dandy and Dawn/GrandDawn for coming into town and making my first Father's Day extra special...

It was my best Father's Day ever.

Dad’s New Toy ….

New Daddy thought that since the air conditioner quit and the car seat wouldn't fit that it was time to say goodbye to his car.  He has always prided himself in driving his cars into the ground, so it was a change for him to say goodbye when the car had several "good" years left.   I am the opposite considering I have had several cars since I started driving.  My parents came over and I sent him car shopping with my dad and told him that I trusted his judgment just wasn't ready for a minivan, not meaning to pick on the minivan people, I am sure I will be joining your club in the future.  :-)

Here is a picture of his new toy.  

Good News

This is my first blog since our little one has arrived, Proud Daddy has been taking care of all the posts/updates.

Well he finally arrived! The delivery went very well.  I can say I didn't really have time to get nervous, it took less than 2 hours for us to check in, settle in to the room and c-section to be completely over and holding our little one.  A moment that I will never forget.

I did have some complications on Friday night, but thankfully had a very aggressive doctor that didn't take any chances.  I had started hemorrhaging, and without going into the gory and scary details, everything turned out ok, just had never been so scared in my entire life.

We are happy to say that Gideon is over his jaundice too and is no longer required to lay in the bilirubin bed anymore and I can hold him anytime I want, so we are making up for the three days we could only hold him to feed him.

I am very biased when it comes to him, but I can say without a doubt that he is the most handsome little guy I have ever seen!

Welcome to our world little one!!  

More baby pictures

I know I have a biased opinion but Gideon is the best looking newborn I've ever seen.  I know behavior is apt to change in the following week or two when we get him home and he's feeding on the real milk, and we don't have the nurses to help us watch him, but right now he is so easy to calm down when he's upset, and just such a great baby.

 We've seen the stories of mom's who try feeding the baby and have no luck and get upset and worried... basically any book about newborns or babies has an entire chapter about how it's sometimes difficult to get the baby feeding naturally.  This baby is not the one they are talking about.  We've had no problems there either...

 Okay, I'm going to post this extra picture then edit this post some more.  It looks like he's saluting :)

 

He’s HERE!

8 lbs. 12.5 oz. and 21.5 inches long!

The long wait has ended, and Gideon Clayton Dalton has arrived. So, here are some first pictures for all of you to enjoy.





We're here at the hospital for a few more days, so anyone in town that wants to visit, just call us first to make sure we don't get overwhelmed.

He's doing great, and I'll have more pictures up here soon. Right now my favorite is the one of Tammy and Gideon looking at each other. I'm going to head back to the room now, but look for more info here soon!

-Josh (and Tammy and Gideon)

6 days and counting…

Well we are down to the countdown, we went to the doctor on Friday and the c-section is scheduled for this Friday at St. Joseph's in Kirkwood.   I have a ton of emotions going through me right now - excited, nervous, scared......  

I can say that we are officially ready, my sister walked into the nursery and asked if we went to Babiesrus and just bought one of everything.   There are a lot of benefits to waiting to later in life to have a baby and having lots of friends.

I am glad we are down to the countdown, I haven't been a very happy camper the past couple of weeks.   I use to be great with email and returning phone calls.... now I am so tired of the internet and I have became horrible with returning calls, I haven't been in a very good mood and I have decided I am one of those people that would rather not talk than to say something wrong.   I started to get back into reading to keep my mind off of every thing, well needless to say if I read before I go to bed I have dreams about what I have read.... no more suspense books!!  Movies do the same thing too me.... last night I had a dream that Josh decided not to show up at our wedding ( Marlow I told you I would dream about the movie )

Gideon is still moving as much as ever, our doctor keeps telling us an active baby is a healthy baby.   Well we are having one healthy baby.

Time Flies ….

It's been a while since I have updated the blog so I thought I would include several things in this one....

May was a semi-busy month for us, isn't it funny how life can be hectic and yet you can still have extra time on hands.

I have been on house arrest most of the month of May and work had planned a shower so Josh was drafted to come in my stead. We received lots of really cool things that we still needed and I can say Josh loved opening all the gifts as you can see by the pictures.

Gideon received a very special gift from Uncle Don and Aunt Dawn. When we were cleaning out the attic at his moms house, Josh found the rocker that his mom used for all of her kids. It was painted black & white and was in pieces, I don't think a single part of it was put together. Don offered to refinish it for us and I didn't have a whole lot of hope that it could be done, not that he couldn't do it, but what he had to work with wasn't a lot . Needless to say the rocker was delivered last week totally restored and is beautiful. Josh was speechless as was I. So even though his mom isn't here to share in our little one's life, he will have a part of her in his room. Somehow saying "thank you" didn't seem enough.


This was the weekend that my godchild, Kevin graduated from SLU High. It was a joke between me and his mom that this would be one of the first major events that I missed of his life..... little did we know that Gideon would delay his arrival so I was able to attend. I sat in the handicapped section at Powell Hall, which is rather comfortable :-). I can say due to the hormones in pregnancy I had tears seeing him graduate. I still remember when Angie was pregnant with him... He graduated with a 3.69 average for all 4 years of high school!! Congrats Kevin!! So proud of you!!



We are still waiting and unless I go into labor beforehand, our c-section has been scheduled for June 6th. I was teasing Josh that I almost wish he would wait till the seventh of June and then his birthday would be 06-07-08 , but I am sure by next week I will feel totally different. We are so excited for him to get here!!

The last week and Mother’s Day!!

So I have survived another week, anyone who knows me knows I am not a homebody, never have been.   So the past three weeks have been rather hard not going anywhere or doing anything.   I can say that the weeks have went rather quickly thanks to some great friends & family that have either called to chat, brought me lunch or just stopped in to visit or just sent an email to say "Hi".  

We are on the downhill now, my doctor is officially back in the states and I have his first appointment on Monday.   My contractions are becoming more frequent, about 4 an hour. So hopefully this little guy will behave his self until at least Monday. 

Mother's Day is this weekend and I dont know if its being in the house or being pregnant or what but this year I am so glad I have the mom I have.   She has called or came by everyday, brought me all my cravings (chocolate donuts and ice cream) whenever I have needed them, ran to Babysrus to get the last couple of necessities, mailed all my ebay packages and listened to me complain about feeling so helpless and have encouraged me to hang in there that he will be here before I know it. 

One thing I have realized in life that our moms can be our best friend or the person that nags us to death, but I can honestly say that I dont think I could of made it the past couple weeks without her or have even wanted too.

So Happy Mothers Day to all the moms!!

Doctor Visit

Things went well today at the doctors office,  I haven't dilated anymore.  I am having to take the Procardia every 4 hours instead of every six hours.   I have been having some contractions, but not enough for them to consider it labor.

We have 6 more days until my doctor is back from Europe and will probably be taking me off of the Procardia, so next week could be a very interesting week for us.  I can say that I will be very happy when he is back in the states.  

Josh has been great during the whole "house arrest" time.   He wakes me up every four hours during the night to give me my medicine and to reset the alarm for next time.   He moved the mini crib into our room tonight and rearrange all the furniture to fit without the room being wall to wall with furniture.   People are not kidding when they say that little people come with a lot of stuff.  We have spent the last year "merging" both of our stuff and just when we thought we had "extra" room, we had to start making room for our new addition stuff.

My new camera came in so I have had lots of time to figure out to work it! So be prepared for lots of pictures in the near future.

 I can say that I am loving the weather.   I sat outside on the deck tonight and could not believe how nice it was.   The grass & trees are so green right now.    I love this time of year, so if I am going to have to wait, its nice to be doing it in perfect weather.