Jack had his first sponge bath at home on Monday. I thought that he was going to scream, but he seemed to enjoy it or at least be content and stay awake during it!
Mom fumbled a little...he is so small! (I didn't drop him, just had to figure out how to make everything work!) I can't wait until we can do the real baths and play on the water!! It will be so much fun and we can pull out the cute little tub and all the bath toys!
I can't believe that our Little Jack is already 6 days old!! He is so beautiful and I wouldn't even trade the sleepless nights and the fact that he decided to poop and pee on Mommy instead of Daddy!!
I wanted to share some more pictures because this is my blog and I can do whatever I want with it! Technology really is amazing when it comes to being able to share things with loved ones that are far away!!
Here is our little sleeping Jack, which he is during a large portion of the day...the night has been a little different! 
He even likes sleeping on Daddy's lap, while Daddy is making fun of Mommy's blog template colors.
We just absolutely adore the little guy! Thank heaven for little boys, right? :)
[Posted by Travis]
Hey there everyone in Misty's blogosphere! (Look at me, I'm blogging -- weeee!)
So while Misty's out playing with the dog, I'm going to post some pictures of our baby boy, Jack. Of course, the first thing I had to do was to get rid of the awful pink-and-purple template for this page (Misty might correct me and tell me the colors are "cranberry" and "amethyst" or something like that). Doesn't this color scheme look much better?
Anyway, here we go....
As you can see, Jack weighed 3598 grams at birth and was not happy to have his picture taken at that particular moment. Just to throw some more numbers at you, he was also 49.5 cm from crown to foot at was born at time coordinate 20071025T1725-0600 and geodetic coordinates φ = +41.7569°, λ = -111.8223°.
And here is our very first family picture. Misty's bed was elevated about 4 feet off the ground and our nurse was short, so this was about as good as we could get.
Here's a close-up of his mug. He kinda had the newborn funny-looking-ness about him still, but he's still cute. It's pretty neat that he'll go from crying with quivering lips and all, to sleeping soundly in my arms in just a few minutes.
This is probably my favorite picture that I took at the hospital. I took it without flash, and the soft tones that result just say to me "motherly care, contentment, peace, and love" (not the hippy kind of "peace and love," mind you).
Here's Jack getting ready to go home from the hospital. The scary thing is that even though he looks so small, he'll outgrow this car seat before we know it!
Unfortunately, I don't have any good pictures with his eyes open. He (currently) has dark blue-gray-hazel-brown eyes. He gets the blue from his mother, and everything else from me. I have yet to figure out exactly what color my eyes are, as they're different every time I take a close look. My drivers license says "Brown", but then again it also says 180 lbs -- nope, not anymore! I'll be watching Jack's to see how his change as he grows up, along with his hair -- both Misty and I were toeheaded during our preschool years.
Well, I guess that's all I have to write. We have a few more pictures, but these were the most worth sharing. If you want a larger version, or to look at the rest of them, ask Misty. You could ask me if you wanted to, but they're on her computer anyway. So anyway, thanks for your congratulations and positive comments so far on the baby. Jack's a good baby, and we can tell he already loves his mommy and daddy, and we're very happy and blessed to have him with us.
Our sweet, little baby has arrived! John Isaac "Jack" was born on Thursday, October 25th at 5:25pm. He weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches long!! iHe was a little stubborn coming into the world, but he's here! (I always win! He has been such a sweet baby so far and we are excited to get to take him home tomorrow!
Pictures will be coming as soon as we can download them!! He is a cutie! He was even voted the cutest baby in the nursery...(there were only 3 babies there)! :)
Ok- So, tomorrow is the day that we call the hospital and they tell us when to come in. I have been getting ready for this little boy to come for months and still have things to do! I made a bunch of wall decorations out of those cheap picture frames at Michaels and some other things to hang. I have washed his clothes and rearranged them according to sizes. The car seat is installed, the bassinet ready, stroller up and running, baby bouncer ready to bounce...I'm still trying to figure out how to stop the swing...but all in all, I think that I am there.
Then Travis said, "Wouldn't it be funny if he came out and was really a girl." I was dumbstruck!! First of all "if he came out" seems to be a little less dramatic than I am thinking it is going to be, but what if he is a she? What would I do? I have taken the tags off of and washed everything!!! I went back to look at the ultrasounds and I am pretty sure that he is a he considering the 3-D pose with "extra parts" hanging down...but they say that they are sometimes wrong...
Needless to say, if we do have a little girl, she will probably be wearing a lot of blue, we will not be circumcising her and she will be enjoying a very green room with safari animals, whether she likes it or not! But please know that we are not bad parents...just too trusting in technology! :) The next post will most likely answer these very questions!!
Love ya'll!!
I just thought that I would share that our little Jack will probably be coming a little sooner than planned! At my last appointment my blood pressure was still elevated and the doc wants to try and get him out before I develop Toxemia...so on Thursday...yes, this Thursday we are setting the date and I will be induced!!! Ahhh!!
We're not too worried because he is considered full term now anyway. He will not be too early and this means that I get to dress him up for Halloween!! :) I think we are going with a "Jack"-O-Lantern!! Wow, we are so clever! Good thing that I spent all those years in college!! :)
Since when do you get to tag more than 1 person in the game of tag, Beth? Just kidding! Here I go!
1. What I was doing 10 years ago....
Well, I was a senior in high school...wow...am I that old? I was singing in our high school's all girls vocal jazz choir "MissAlayneous". Tons of drama there!! Way too much estrogen! I would always hang out with my very best friend, Kamaile and we would sing "Summertime" in the bathrooms and down the hallway because it echoed and sounded very cool!!! (We actually had Choir practice in the boys bathroom often! Our choir director was a guy and it really helped to hear how all the notes blended!) I was working with adults with disabilities and a Special Olympics coach for the Evanston team! I was also the co-director of a 4th and 5th grade choir that was directed by my very awesome voice lesson teacher Ann Guiliani-Curry!
2. What I was doing 5 years ago....
I was in college up at Utah State starting my Special Education classes and studying my butt off...well...not literally...obviously! I was writing to a dear missionary and hoping that he wasn't falling in love with a little Iowan farm girl with pigtail braids and several teeth missing!! I think I was living in Old Farm at that time with some very fun and crazy roommates. I was 22 years old and my bathroom was decorated in rubber duckies!!
3. What I was doing 1 year ago...
I would have been just into my second year of teaching special needs preschool and loving it much more than the first year!! It takes a while to figure out what you are doing with those little ones! I'm sure that I had already set up my Halloween decorations and they had been up for a month...it probably drove Travis crazy!!
4. What I was doing yesterday....
Yesterday, I cleaned the entire house from top to bottom and mowed the lawn. The neighbor came and yelled at me because I am 36 weeks pregnant and shouldn't be doing that...what she doesn't know is that the lawn mower is self-propelling and I was really dragging behind it! I have been practicing with mowing the lawn because Travis makes fun of me because my lines are not straight....I can't wait for next week when I totally mow the lawn in wavy lines!! My aunt and two cousins came and we made cards and laughed and chatted! It was tons of fun!!
5. 5 ways I would spend $100 million....
1. Pay off debt
2. Buy my future son a 6 foot tall stuffed giraffe
3. Buy Travis a big screen tv, telescope and a weather station
4. Eat the expensive meal at a restaurant once
5. Put the rest in an IRA, money market, or education fund
6. 5 Locations I would run off to....
1. Glacier National Park... there are tons of waterfalls!!
2. Ireland... pretty, pretty, pretty
3. Austria... to sing "The Sound of Music"
4. Canada... just so I can say I've been to Canada
5. Iowa...to see the Tulip festival in Pella
7. 5 Bad Habits....
1. Biting my nails
2. Not putting the toilet paper roll in the dispenser
3. Popping my knuckles
4. Judging myself
5. Being crabby at times
8. 5 things I like doing...
1. singing when nobody is listening
2. scrapbooking
3. reading
4. Spending time with my hubby
5. Hiking when not pregnant!
9. 5 favorite tv shows... (We don't have tv right now)
1. House
2. Bones
3. CSI
4. Cold Case
5. Are you smarter than a 5th grader
10. 5 things I hate
1. snakes
2. spiders
3. teryaki sauce
4. People who don't use their blinkers
5. rude people that work at the grocery store
11. 5 greatest joys at the moment
1. My dad made me bracelets out of electrical wire once...I was on cloud 9!
2. Getting married
3. Driving around in my cute green car
4. Finding out that I was pregnant
5. Seeing my husband at the airport after he had been gone to a conference for 5 whole days!!
I have nobody to tag....yet!
