Jonah

Via request, here are some close up pictures of Jonah. My friend Christina took these pictures and I thought she got some good shots. Thanks Christina!! :)

With no further ado:
haha this last one makes me smile! :)

Playing Catch Up

Jonah is 2 weeks old today!! It has flown by and I've neglected the blog. Here are three posts to tide you over for a little while longer:
(start with the bottom one and work your way up)

Jonah's first week at home:

First thanks to Grandma Johnson who was here to help the first week Jonah was born!! It was so nice to have the help. It was especially nice to have someone who could pay attention to Jackson. He loves his Grandmas.Speaking of Jackson, everyone asks how he is doing adjusting to having Jonah at home. He is actually doing really good. He has his days where he has just acted out to get the attention and his moments when he isn't nice to Jonah, but most the time he is very soft with him. I love my big boy!He loves to do what Jonah is doing. If he is in his bouncy seat, Jackson wants to be in it. If he is in his swing, Jackson wants to be in it. So here are both my babies:Brothers!I think Jackson wore Donna out while she was here. One morning I got in the shower and Donna was watching Jackson. They had his show on and Donna layed on the couch to catch a few more z's. Well she passed out and heard Jackson crying out for mommy. She went in the kitchen and found this:After Justin got home from school he asked Jackson what happened with the eggs and he replied, "Eggs pop pop!"
OHHHHH boy.... but he sure is cute!

Halloween!

Luckily our ward had their Halloween Party on Friday evening before Jonah decided to make his way into the world. I really wanted to go because I knew Jackson would love it this year, plus I was excited about our costumes and wanted to show them off! :)
The whole family: Jackson was our chocolate chip cookie and we were the chefs.
Trunk or Treating was done in the halls of the church due to rainy weather. It was so cute seeing him go up to people and get his treats. He loved it!And this picture just cracks me up. Donna was here and she was wondering what she was going to go as and Justin told her to be the person who eats the cookie because she always says to Jackson, "You are so cute, I could just eat you up" So she spread some chocolate on her face and acted like she was going to take a bite out of him. I just love the look on Jackson's face and how goofy everyone looks. Don't worry, she didn't really go to the party with chocolate on her face!

Labor and Delivery

For those who don't care about the details of the birth, you can by pass this entry... however if you are a girl, you probably want to read it! :) (At least I like to hear other peoples stories)

I was having a lot of contractions most of the day on Friday but they were never consistent. Friday night we had our ward Halloween party and I was determined to go to that. I wanted Jackson to have a fun Halloween, so I was hoping I wouldn't go into labor before the party. We were able to go and while there I noticed that the contractions were getting pretty hard and I was almost certain they were the real deal. We got home and I told Justin that I thought we needed to go to the hospital. I started to time them about an hour before we went and they were pretty consistent at 7 mins apart. We got to the hospital around 8pm and once we got to the hospital they started to slow down and I thought, great they are going to send me home. Luckily they checked my progression and I was dilated to a 4, so they knew the contractions were doing something. They called the Dr and he said they could admit me and if I needed pain meds in the night I could get them, then he would come in the morning and start me on PIT.
We got in our room at 10:00pm and hoped we could get some sleep. Justin fell asleep around midnight. I of course couldn't sleep because the contractions were getting PAINFUL! I finally decided around 1am that I needed something for pain. I called the nurse in and she checked me and I was at a 6. She then gave me some drug through my IV and it did some weird stuff to me... I started to go psycho and loopy. I was saying the weirdest things and felt so out of it. Justin called the nurse in and told her I wasn't acting normal and she said this drug occasionally did this to some patients. (It was weird because the whole time I remember what was going on, I just couldn't control anything). About an hour later the anesthesiologist came in to give me the epidural and I remember just freaking out because I knew I was still pretty loopy from this other drug. I was shaking my head and saying, "No, I don't feel normal. Is it okay to get the epidural? I don't feel normal." I was afraid to get it and have something go wrong and me not being all there. But I got it and finally the other drug started to wear off.
The nurse checked me after giving me the epidural and I was at an 8. I don't think the epidural ever truly kicked in because I still felt quite a bit of pressure and pain during my contractions. I finally called the nurse in and told her I was feeling pressure, she checked me and I was fully dilated and ready to push.
The Dr got there and his head was right there (with all his hair!) I pushed through 3 contractions and he entered the world at 4:42am.

You can't see it very well here, but the scale said 6lbs 4 oz... our little guy!
Proud Daddy: Mommy in love at first sight:(I look horrible... I think that is because it was 4:42AM and I hadn't slept at all, oh and the fact that I just gave birth!) :)

Our Halloween Treat

Welcome to the world Jonah Theodore
Born at the wee hours on Oct. 31st, Halloween morning. (4:42 am)
Came in at a whopping 6lbs 4 oz

He has a head full of dark BLOND hair. I love it!The first snapshot of our family of FOUR! (Jackson's shirt says "I'm the big brother")Jackson was able to come visit twice while we were at the hospital. In the afternoon he got to show up in his Halloween Costume! Justin was saying since we didn't think Jonah was going to be here on Halloween we didn't get him a costume, but I told him his costume is his birthday suit! :)
Jackson was quite distracted at the hospital so he didn't hardly pay attention to Jonah; however we tried to get a picture of the boys in their Halloween costumes... that lasted all but two seconds before Jackson announced he was "DONE!"We came home yesterday afternoon. Here is Jonah ready to leave (we were ALL ready!!) And loving life at home as a family! Jackson was a lot cuter with Jonah once we brought him home. I had put Jonah down on the bobby pillow and Jackson wanted to have a turn. He laid on it and asked for his "B-B" (blankie) so he could be like Jonah. I love my two BOYS!! (Actually I love my 3 boys!) :)

Fall Pictures

Have I mentioned that I love fall?! Because I do. I love the brisk weather and beautiful colors. I love going out in long sleeves or a light sweater. I love the smell. I love the decorations. I just love fall!!
Unfortunately our fall in Memphis this year has not been that great. The majority of the days have been cloudy and rainy. Finally we have had a few decent days and this morning Justin didn't have any classes or tests to study for so we went and enjoyed our fall day. We decided to go to the pumpkin patch (which ended up being lame this year because all the pumpkins were basically gone since we waited the last week of Oct and because it was a week day we were basically there alone and they weren't doing any fun rides or activities... oh well, Jackson loved it because he could run around a play and they had a bunch of cars and bikes and tractors to ride on!)
We got a couple of good pictures:
Jackson wouldn't look at the camera, but I LOVED the background of this old barn.
And a couple of just the cutie pie:He finally said, "CHEESE" and gave us his squinty eyed grinHappy Fall YA'LL!