5 weeks and growing!

Mr. Luke is 5 weeks today. He had his 1 month check up last week and he is doing really well. He was 5lbs and 8.5 oz and 19inches long. He has been doing well and over the last few days he has been having what I think is a growth spurt. He is up longer periods of time and just wants to eat, eat, eat! He is a big smiler and loves to already try and talk about how things are going.

My friend Lisa flew in from Texas last week to come see us and sweet Luke and get a lil' bit of Panama as well. Below are pictures from Lisa's visit and photos of Luke... we had a wonderful time and hated to see Lisa go.

So I will try and be good about keeping an update at least every month about Mr. Luke!

Here comes baby!!!!

Ok, so a much needed update! As you all probably know baby bean is here and his name is Lukas Andres! He decided to arrive on February 13th, his Great Granny's 92nd birthday!! What a wonderful day for him to come.

Alex and I were very surprised on that Saturday. I had woke up around 4:30am that morning and just felt weird. I was uncomfortable and couldn't sleep. I paced the floors of our place for about an hour and then tried to lay back down, but nothing was comfortable. We headed to my doctors office around 9am to have him check me out. We then found out I was going to be heading to the hospital as I was already 4cm dilated. I think I was in shock at first when he said it.

I was all pretty much packed and ready to go ... Alex and I headed to our house and then packed me up and drove to the hospital. We had a bit of a detour as it was the start of Carnivals in Panama. They had streets closed and so we ended up on quite a tour of the streets just to make it to the hospital. We arrived around noon and all the excitement started. I felt really good and relaxed. I didn't have any extreme laboring pains. Around 2pm I was administered my pain medication. They told Alex they were only giving me a light dose as I was progressing quickly and they wanted to make sure I could feel my contractions and were able to push. So when I reached the full 10 cm, I felt EVERY bit of it. I was wheeled into delivery around 4:05pm and Lukas arrived at 4:28pm!! I did less than 20 minutes of pushing and ahhhh he was here.

EARLY and tiny!! Little man weighed 5lbs 20z. and was 18 inches long. But everything was perfect with him and the doctors said he is tiny but very strong.

We stayed in the hospital till Monday, Feb. 15th and then headed home with our new sweet boy!

We are both loving every minute of it and just adjusting to our new schedule. The transition has been going pretty smoothly. Kemah is in love with her new brother. She loves to give sweet kisses to his toes!! I know before we know it Luke will be chasing Kemah around the house.

Below our some photos of hospital, Lukas's birth and just being home!

33 weeks and growing!!!!

So baby boy is doing well!! We had our appointment on Thursday at my 32 weeks and 6 days and my goodness if this bean isn't much of a bean anymore. He almost gained 2 lbs since the December appointment! I was thrilled since I had gotten sick at the end of December with a sinus infection and well was afraid that I hadn't nourished this baby boy enough. Well he weighed in at 4lbs. and 2oz. And from this week on they gain approximatly 1/2lb. a week till birth. At this rate we are going to have a plump little man on our hands and I am wondering how I can stretch my belly much more to fit this chunker in there! :) So the doctor says that if I haven't given birth by Feb. 25th he will be inducing me. So of course we are thrilled and excited and also just anxious to have our little boy here all safe and sound. I have been still feeling pretty good other than my sinus infection at the end of December and well you know the HEARTBURN that is now a permanent fixture in my life! Oh well guess I'll have a hairy little monkey on my hands!

I am working on his bedroom.. at least I got Alex to get his crib, dresser and changing table all put together. We are also anxiously awaiting 3 boxes from Nana and PawPaw Bandy to arrive. Here is a look at his crib!


Kemah is also so excited and wondering why she can't play with the new squeaky bath toys or the stuffed animals in the baby's room. I also just know if she could talk she would be saying 'hey are you guys taking me for a ride in this new hot stroller thing?' Anyways she has been doing really good and listening so well to me. Also after sleeping almost 8 years with her momma she is officially a BIG girl now sleeping all by herself on my side of the bed in her dog beddie! She loves it and I love that it was so easy to adjust her!

Well I will be updating again in a few weeks after our next appointment AND will be taking a disk this time because the machine would still not save our sonogram pics to my flash drive. So we will have a good profile pic of our little man for next round.
Lots of love to everyone!