So, it's official! My little Jack is no longer a little boy! He has passed in into Big Boyhood. This became official when he learned the words "pop" and "poop"! A proud day for every boy!
Pictures are really coming! I know I will find time someday!
So, I need to get me some of these to get me through the "can't quite fit into my pre-pregnancy pants" phase!
We suffered through the chaos of family pictures last week. I always try and do everything that I can to make the picture session as painless as possible. Travis and I had even written out what size of each pose, the layout and who would be in each pose. I scheduled pictures for a time that I thought Jack and Charlie would be happy and somewhat calm. Well...Jack was wild and wanted to sprint through the mall, Charlie did not like being on his tummy and there was a downpour of rain as we walked into the mall, so we had rain speckles all over our clothes!! The photographer was very willing to take more shots, but she had no creativity...and neither did I. Needles to say, the pictures turned out cute, but we are going to try a great photographer in our ward to do our next pictures!! 
So, I had every intention of updating the blog today with a gazillion pictures that we have taken over the last 3 weeks, but alas, the camera cord is missing! Travis bought me a small desk for my happy lappy, Sparticus, and it is to be the blogging station...a new laptop may even be coming soon! I am afraid that my little helper, Jack, may be the cause of this missing cord.
So, here are some updates that I don't have pictures for.
First of all, Jack is now smart enough to unlock the sliding glass door and open it!! There were 2 days in a row where I got out of the shower and he was playing in the back yard! Our solution was to put the baby gate up so that he can't slide the door open. (I have a very smart and creative husband.) Jack is definitely his father's child!
One very exciting thing that has happened is that Charlie has a butt crack now! Being born 3 1/2 weeks early did not give him any time to put some fat on his bones! But, now he is a little butterball and I fear may be a quite plump little one if he continues to eat as often as he does! Jack sure loves his little brother! He aways talks to him...very closely and always makes sure that he has a blanket...unfortunately our air conditioning unit is too small for the house, so we often have to defrost it leaving the house ridiculously warm!
So, hopefully I will come across the cord soon and can share some pics of my cute boys!!
Misty says she's "too tired" to post a blog entry about our new addition to the family, so she asked me (Travis) to do it for her. Yeah, right, I say -- come on, how hard can delivering a baby and nursing him be?! :)
Okay, so first the vital stats. Charles David Moesser was born at 2008-06-11T14:07-0600 (that's 2:07 PM MDT Thursday if you're not an enginerd like me) at the Logan (Utah) Regional Hospital Women's Center. If you want to know the latitude and longitude, check my blog entry on Jack's birth. He weighed in at 6 lb 2.2 oz (2784 g) and was 19.5 inches (49.5 cm) long. By the way, if you didn't know, I work for an aerospace company that does business with NASA and the scientific community, so I'm used to reporting numbers sometimes in both imperial and metric units -- usually, though, it's hundreds of thousands of pounds and metric tonnes, not ounces and grams. He was delivered by James P. Benedict, MD, as was Jack.
Misty was induced at her doctor's order, at a gestation of 36 3/7 weeks (by ultrasound measurements), so little Charlie was technically born premature by 4 days. Probably because he was born "medium rare" instead of "well done," he had three brief episodes where he stopped breathing in his first four hours of life. Luckily, he was being observed by the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurses at the time, because they're always concerned about lung development on premature babies. His O2 saturation dropped below normal levels, and he started to turn "dusky" when the nurses had to pat-start his breathing again. He was admitted to the NICU for observation. His blood work initially seemed to indicate that he might have been fighting an infection, but this later turned out to not be the case. So we still don't know exactly why he stopped breathing those times, but otherwise he was a completely healthy baby boy, and was discharged from the NICU after only 19 hours and not having another apnea episode. He spent the remainder of our 48-hour post-delivery stay with us in Misty's room or in the well-baby nursery. We left for home around 3:30 PM Saturday.
Jack, what do you think of your baby brother Charlie? Well, no, this is actually what he thinks of his peanut butter/tortilla roll-up, but we can pretend.So, the decision has been made and we have scheduled the induction for Thursday! So, my July baby is going to be a mid-June baby! I have to say that I am excited to almost be done, but a little nervous because he will be a little more than 3 weeks early. The doc doesn't seem too worried though. Jack was 2 weeks early and just fine...but all babies are different. I think that we are ready! My great friend, Annie, is going to come and stay with Jack here at the house. We thought that it would be easier for him. I bet he is going to have fun playing with her girls!
I'm also pretty sure that the hospital has internet, so we can post pics when we get them! So, keep your eyes open for pictures of Baby Charlie coming soon!!
So, the doctor has informed me that our baby boy is going to get an early start in life outside the womb! I was praying that I could talk him into inducing me sometime between 38 and 39 weeks along. That is how far along I was with Jack...and pregnancy with Jack was much more pleasant! Well, when I was at the doctor last Friday, he said that he wasn't going to let me get past 37 weeks, which is on the 15th...AHHHHH!! So, Baby Moesser #2 will likely be here in about 2 weeks. My body is very excited, but as I make the list of things to be done, I am terrified!
We need to paint Jack's room, clean the house, wash everything from car seats to clothes. Luckily, my wonderful friend, Annie, is going to come and stay with Jack and I don't think that we need much more for the baby! I think that Travis is happy that I didn't procrastinate in getting the things that we needed! Travis is almost done with his thesis...and I think that the doctors plans are great motivation for him to finish!! ;)
So, hopefully there will be a post with a cute little squished and alien looking newborn (we all know that newborns are a little funny looking)! We are excited!
