Dr Appointment

I went for my 6 week appointment and everything checked out fine. We'll both be sad to say good bye to Dr. Ladd - she did agree to have her picture taken with our little guy today! He is looking pretty good with his big boy pants on and shoes! After the appointment, we decided to eat dinner at the Cheesecake Factory rather than sit in traffic. If we had had the stroller with, it would have been nice to stroll around the mall for a few minutes as it was raining outside!

goodnight,

The Heidts

ps. thank you to auntie kaye for the information about when palm sunday is. Too bad I already forgot the date again! I think some of my brain quite working/evaporated when I was pregnant...

William and Dr Ladd


William does his lamb impression after his bath tonight- baaa

Technically, how long is sleeping through the night?

Today, William is 6 weeks old! To celebrate, I am going to see the OB/GYN doctor that delivered William at 3pm. Kind of funny, I was seeing her at LEAST every week before he was born - I kind of miss her! We are bringing the camera with to get a picture of William with the doctor that delivered him that hopefully doesn't include poop this time ( he pooped all over her as he was being born...that's right, I'm remembering that story for the teenage years! And I have the picture to prove it!)

William decided to celebrate by sleeping extra long. He has been going down to sleep at about 10 and sleeping to 3:30am - 4:30 am before waking up. Not bad for a newborn (about 6 hours), but last night he slept until 5:30am! We'll see if it was a fluke or the real thing in the next week or so, but I am excited. Unfortunately, I did not get to enjoy the 7+ hours of uninterrupted as I woke up cold and wet at 3:45 am and then laid there waiting for him to start crying so I could feed him and change my clothes. We'll try for a nap sometime today!

In other news, we are going to try and baptize William in Rochester at Gloria Dei after the service on Palm Sunday. The date you ask? Think about who you are asking! At least I know my own phone number now (most of the time). I'm not sure how the whole baptism thing works with people attending. Hopefully, someone will read this and feel sorry for me and e mail me with the proper etiquette for planning a baptismal ceremony. Right now, anyone who is interested in attending should let me know so I can pass on more details. That is unless you are a grandparent - then you don't have a choice!

time for a nap, crabby baby

Update

This afternoon I took William to the doctors office to get checked out - we thought there might be a problem, but there isn't. Everything is fine! We learned that William is now weighing in at 13 pounds 7.25 ounces with his diaper (wet) on. That is incredible knowing he started out at 8 pounds out of the hospital. Tomorrow he will be 6 weeks old which means he has been gaining almost a pound a week. That is a lot for our big, little guy!

goodnight,
the heidts

ps and it isn't like he has any more hair now to help him tip the scales. The hairline recedes a little every day...

Reunion?

Okay, so I got an e mail from a high school classmate with the website with information about our 10 YEAR CLASS REUNION. That is more than scary! The website has some information about some of the people I went to high school with. Just doing my part to pass things along to people. If you are a high school classmate or someone who wants to know who my high school classmates are, click the link below...

http://jmclassof1997.myevent.com/

Scary...

Oops! How could I forget?

Yesterday wasn't a busy day, we were just having a lot of fun (and I admit, I took a nap...)! I am appreciating how William's day is falling more and more into a schedule. We aren't quite there yet, but I think we are getting close. When I think we have it, I'll let you know. Until then, I'm not saying what we are doing because I don't want to jinx it...

Yesterday, we went out for a walk and went to Michael's just to hang out. We both were able to grab a nice afternoon snooze and then have a great bath time with John when he got home (from the Y again!). I have to say, I thought this bath stuff would be a lot more traumatic and harder! However, William seems to enjoy/tolerate the bath time quite well. He only cries sometimes when we take him OUT of the tub and he is cold!

On todays agenda:
I am going to try and get us out and walking, a haircut appointment for me, dentist appointment for John and maybe a call to Gloria Dei to work out some more baptism details...here are some pictures of our little guy in the tub yesterday and wearing his shoes!

I am getting SO strong!

Tubby time!



Singing in the tub!


My shoes DO fit!

The return of...

I believe Wyatt Erp the 2nd has come to our house for a visit. Seems like I can't put William down for a moment or even move him from place to place without him spreading his last meal all over himself, me, the floor, etc. I have 2 wet burp clothes sitting at my feet, his floor mat has been wiped down twice today and I have had to clean his car seat and bouncy chair at least once. He has been in 3 different outfits and I had to change out the towel in the bathroom we use for diaper changes because it was so wet! Blech! My last complaint is that William only slept for 5.5 hours last night during his first snooze. What is up with that? He did go back down and sleep for another 3 hours as usual, but that put him up at 6:30 am (AM!!!) instead of the 7:30 he has been doing for the past week or so.

In happier news, we managed to clean our bathrooms today, pull weeds in the front yard, do a load of laundry, go for an hour long walk, and spend some time chatting together! William has become a big chatterbox in the last week. I need to see if I can find our digital voice recorder or something because it is too cute. John is still working on how (I think he is?) to put video of William on the internet. Today, for the first time I think, (think) he giggled out loud for the first time. He has laughed out loud several times before, but always in his sleep. We'll keep watching it and hope it turns into a consistent giggle soon - that will help me forget about all the spit up I have been wiping lately.


ps For those of you who don't know, Wyatt Erp #1 would Mike McGarry...

John's pictures ..&Kelly's

We just found some baby pictures of John on a CD we forgot we had....several of me got e mailed to me last night! Here they are for comparison! Too bad I don't know how to set up an actual poll thingee like I have seen on other websites...

John & Mom

John's hospital picture


Kelly a few minutes old


Kelly and Dad


Kelly & Dad, Kelly in swing