1 Month Old

Cohen is now 1 month and a week old. Time has gone fast! He is still doing great. He is starting to really show some personality now. Here are a few things about him so far:

*He eats about every 2 hours in the daytime and usually has 3-4 ounces. At night he normally eats twice during the night and also eats 3-4 ounces then.

*He loves cuddling and especially after he has eaten.

*He loves being rocked with his fuzzy blanket before naptime and after he has eaten in the middle of the night.

*He loves to spend time in daddy's lap while he plays XBox.

*He is a great baby and on the go. He sleeps through alot and is good while we are out and about.

*He still loves his binky (pacifier). We are trying to transition him from the newborn Soothie ones to the regular pacifiers. He still prefers the Soothie though.

*He is starting to like his baths a little more. If the water is warm and the washcloth is warm and covering him from the moment we put him in, he is usually pretty good with it.

We have booked our flights, we will be in Iowa starting June 30. I will be staying with Cohen until July 10 and Jerimiah will be flying back on the 6th so he can come back and work. We are looking forward to this trip very much!

Sara, Jerimiah and Cohen

Our Little Man

Cohen is two weeks old and doing awesome! We went in for his 2 week check up on Wednesday and he is up 7 pounds and 1 ounce and grew one more inch to 19.5. The dr. said he looked great and he wouldn't need to go back until his 2 month check up. He is still doing formula and is eating now about every 2-2.5 hours. He started at 2 ounces each feeding but just yesterday and today we have moved him to 3 ounces because he was still hungry after eating the 2. He normally sleeps at least 1.5 hours after eating and is awake a little as he starts to get hungry again. At night, he is usually able to go a bit longer so that is nice to get some good stretches of sleep in between feedings. Nina (Jerimiah's mom) finally is home for her 2 week stretch at home. She works 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off up at the North Slope of Alaska for an oil company. She had left the Tuesday before Cohen was born and came in on Thursday, which was his original due date (May 14). We gave him his first real bath tonight and he loved it! He just layed there and relaxed for awhile. He was very cute! He even needed his binky. We can't not leave home without having that with us, which we learned the other night at Papi and Nina's. But after searching through the diaper bag, we found it and Cohen was much happier. Nina will be home until the 26th and then my Dad and Brenda are coming down the 29th for a few days. It will be nice to have them here and see them again. Jerimiah and I are working on finally arrangements of coming to Iowa at the end of June/beginning of July. I am very excited since I have not been there since last summer. And one of my first stops will be the Pizza Ranch! :) I will leave you with some pictures of our little peanut.

May I Introduce to You...

Cohen Lee Kindrick

Cohen Lee Kindrick decided to come join us 2 weeks earlier then expected. He was born on April 30 at 7:54 in the morning. He weighs 6 pounds 15 ounces and is 18.5 inches long. He has beautiful blue eyes and just a little bit of reddish brown hair.

We got to come home yesterday, Saturday, and it was great to get to sleep in my own soft bed. Hospital beds are no fun, especially when they are waking you up ever so often to check this, that and everything else.

He has really been a very good baby so far. I am up early today with him after feeding him, but he is back to sleep already. Last night, Jerimiah was awesome and got up with him, feed him, changed him and let me get some rest. He is a great daddy! Cohen hasn't really taken too well to the breast milk so we have been bottlefeeding. We are going to keep trying but we will just see how it goes. Let me share with you the crazy story of the 11 hours before he was born.

This past Monday was my last day at school because my blood pressure had gone up and the dr. asked me to wrap things up at school so I could rest until the baby was born. So Tuesday and Wednesday I was at home resting. On Wednesday afternoon I needed to run to the eye dr. to try some new contacts so I went there for a short while. Jerimiah worked all day and got home at 7 PM. We needed a few things from the grocery store so we ran up to the store that is about 5 minutes fom our house. We were shopping away and all the sudden I felt like I needed to go to the bathroom. Not thinking anything was different then my normal million bathroom trips, I started walking to the front of the store. All the sudden I felt a gush a water and I was a little bit concerned. I went to the bathroom and I was soaked. I cleaned up the best that I could then headed to find Jerimiah. He was looking at some magazines so I walked up to him and said, Um...I think we better get going, I believe my water just broke. The look on his face was priceless. I headed to the car and Jerimiah finished paying and we headed home to call the dr. and to grab the bags to go.

We were at the hospital about an hour after my water broke and they examined me to make sure that it had fully ruptured and it did. They got me all set up in a room and I was very fortunate that my dr. was the on call dr. The nurses called her and they got me all my IV's and started me on a slow poticin drip to help the contractions. At this point I was 2.5 cm dilated and still just 80% effaced. The contractions started getting worse, so they gave me 2 shots of pain medication, but that did not help. About 3 AM they finally gave me my epidural and was then able to sleep some. The dr. came I think it was around 7 sometime and we started pushing. And at 7:54, Mr. Cohen was born. He is doing great.

He is a very good baby so far and is beautiful. We will try to update more often now and get lots of pictures of him up.

Okay...I know it has been awhile

I know, I know. It has been almost two months since I have posted anything. We have been crazy busy plus we have moved! Yeah! We finally closed on our house on March 27 and got to move in the next day. It was a crazy weekend and I was so tired to go back to school on Monday. It has been so nice though and we have so much more room to actually move around and put things. Also, I finally got to put all Cohen's stuff up and his nursery is ready to go at this point! Jerimiah's dad painted the room for us as soon as the moving company had everything unloaded and were finished. It is a sage green color and looks wonderful with his jungle theme items. I had a baby shower at school the following Tuesday and the ladies there also helped fill things up in the room. It was a blast.

I will be 35 weeks tomorrow. It is hard to imagine that we will have a baby in just a few short weeks. I start my once a week check ups tomorrow and I go in for an ultrasound next Monday to see what position he is in and to make sure that he is not getting too big with me being diagnosed with the gestational diabetes. He is still moving and kicking around like crazy. I can't really tell if it is his bottom or head that is right under my lungs, but I'm hoping it is his bottom so that I do not need a C-Section. But, just like his momma, could be. I was a C-section and Jerimiah was natural. So we will just have to wait and see what the ultrasound shows.

Our kindergarten went to the Houston Zoo last week Friday. We had beautiful weather and the kids loved it. I had plenty of parents go, so we could split the kids up and not have to walk in one big group. We spent from about 10-2 there and was a lot of fun. It was nice to be there earlier in the day because most animals were up and moving around.

Anyway, I will start to post some pictures I have taken lately. I will add more with the house as we organize and clean better. Things are still being thrown around and moved as we figure out where everything will go. I will start with a picture of me that I think was taken at about 32 weeks. I know it was Spring Break and I think that's how many I was then. Also, I will put some of Cohen's nursery. We still have some things to decorate with that are at Jerimiah's parents, but they are baby shower gifts so I have to wait for 2 more weeks when we have that at my house. Here they are, I will add another picture of me tomorrow, hopefully Jerimiah will take one if I ask. :)

28 Weeks

Things just don't ever seem to slow down here lately. I had a four day weekend and it was so nice. But, it was filled with many different things. We have been looking at houses for about the last month or so and had put an offer in on a foreclosure. It has been about 2 weeks since we put the offer on it but still have not heard anything. But, on Friday we went to look at about 5 more houses and found one that we loved. It is an older home, built in 1980, but was totally remodeled in November through January. It is very cute and just enough space for what we need at this time. It is in a more developed neighborhood also so there are advances of having trees and things like that. Well, we put the offer in Friday afternoon after looking in the morning and we heard back from our agent at 5:30 that night that they had accepted and he had already moved the paperwork on to where it needed to be. Saturday and Sunday, Jerimiah worked and I rested and today we were filled up again. A week and a half ago I found out that I have gestational diabetes so this morning I met with the dietician to come up with meal plans from now until May. What a pain this is going to be. I also will need to poke myself 4 times a day to keep track of my glucose numbers. Then, this afternoon we were off to the house to meet our agent and while we were there the inspector did his thing and the air conditioner man checked all that out. Earlier this morning the pest control guy had been there so all that is taken care of already. The close date we are shooting for at this time is March 6, as long as all goes well the reat of the way. We are very excited. This is an answer to pray as we now know where we will be moving when the apartment lease is up. I will post more pictures after we get in a settled. My first big project when we move in is to set the nursery up and I am way excited!! That's all for now.

Sara and Jerimiah

26 Weeks

It is hard to believe that this is the 26 week. I go to the doctor tomorrow afternoon for an appointment. They will be doing the diabetes test and I really hope I pass because I do not want to have to take the 3 hour test. After this appointment I will be starting to go every 2 weeks instead of every 4. That's all for now.

Sara and Jerimiah

It's Time for an Update

So, I guess it has almost been a month since we have written anything so I will update. Nothing too much has been going on beside the same old same old.

Christmas was nice. We spent the night over at Jerimiah's parents and then had Christmas Day with all the Kindrick's. Christmas break was spent running errands and getting things done during the day that I can't do while I am teaching during the day. Jerimiah and I checked out a few new apartment complexes as we are trying to figure out where we are going to live when our lease is up at the end of March. We still don't know, pray for us that we can get this all figured out.

Jerimiah and I both went back the first week of January and we are still getting into the new schedule. He has classes on Tuesday and Thursday all day and has been working as much as possible at Home Depot on the other days. They are finally rotating weekends so he will actually have this coming Saturday and Sunday off. I am very excited about that!

My dad and Brenda made a long weekend trip down to visit the first weekend of the new year. It was nice to see them again and have them visit. Me, my dad and Brenda visited the San Jacinto Monument and the Battleship Texas over in La Porte. Jerimiah had to work that day so he did not join us, but we did visit El Jarrito Mexican Restaurant when he finished work. This was where we had our rehearsal dinner and my dad loves it. I think it will be a stop each time he is in town. :) That is okay with me though because it is great food.

This past weekend, we got our nursery furniture. Yeah! Except now it is all piled up in our dining/office area as we figure out where our next move will be. I have been the cleaning/organizing queen Jerimiah says, so this is killing me that it is just stacked up because we also have the bedding for it and so now all I want to do is decorate and organize. Oh well, that time will come soon enough.

Also, I plan on having Jerimiah take a picture of me at 24 weeks. My kids at school are not shy about it and there is a little girl in my class that tells me everyday that my belly is bigger. They are so honest at 6 years old!

Well, that is all for now. Hopefully it won't be another month before there is an update.