I know, it has been awhile...

Four Generations

Cohen and his bath.

Great Grandma Bensema and Cohen

Great Grandpa Bensema and Cohen

First airplane trip. He did awesome!

Sorry everyone who checks in on us. We have been crazy busy it seems and I finally decided I better update. My goal from now on is to try and blog at least every other day. Please keep me accountable.

Our trip to Iowa was awesome! We enjoyed the weather and people there so much! It was nice when we stepped outside and did not automatically start sweating. I got to catch up with alot of friends and family and it was great bringing Cohen around the old stomping grounds. We enjoyed our time at Grandpa's house and Cohen really starting developing a new trick. Smiling and talking alot! He is quite the little chatter box now and it is awesome! Alot of times at night when he is done eating we will lay him back in the crib and he just starts chatting away. He loves his mobile and starts to kind of yell when it stops so that we know to restart it. It is adorable! He is getting stronger and growing like a weed.

He had shots the end of June and boy did he not like that. Neither did mommy and daddy. He screamed for a good portion of the day and we did alot of rocking and snuggling.

I am on the count down for school to start. Having the extra month off has now put me in the situation that I am ready that much quicker. I love being home with Cohen, but I figured out that stay at home mom at this point is not quite what I am ready for. It will still be very difficult those first couple days away from him, but I am ready to get back to my room and get it set up for the new school year. That is one of my favorite parts. I get to have my OCD moment and usually get made fun of by the other teachers for having things so particular. You would never guess I have this problem if you look at my bedroom and the mess it is, I guess the classroom is different though. We are having some kind of jungle theme so I have been checking out the teacher's stores this week in hopes of finding stuff.

In two weeks Cohen and I will be making a second trip up to Iowa. My dad was part of a singing group quite a few years ago and they are doing some reunion like concerts lately. They had the first one back in March, but being so close to my due date, I was not able to go. Well, they are playing at my dad and Brenda's church on August 9 and dad(being the great guy that he is) is helping out by flying me up. I rarely missed a concert with them and I often would go early with dad and help, or at least try, with the set up and such. I am very excited! Well, I will stop for now but I hope this becomes more regular in the next weeks. Good night!

Sara, Jerimiah and Cohen

It's 101 outside!!!

So today marks the seventh day of record breaking heat in Houston!!! 101 degrees and dry!!! The yard has started to die, and not just ours. Everyone on the street it seems has a dying yard. Except for the guy accross the street, FRIKIN' LANDSCAPER!!! The limes in the lime tree aren't doing to well either, and on top of all of this!!! A water main busted today and our water is out! Although the tech did call and explain it should be back on today.






Yep that's right!!! It's out and AWESOME!!!! Yeah there's a few cheap laughs and a thin plot... SO WHAT ROTTENTOMATOES.COM!?!?!?!? Who cares? Not me.

Our House

The Kitchen
Dining Area

Dining Area

Cohen's Room

Cohen's Room

Main Bathroom

Living Room

Our Bedroom (and new furniture :) )

Our Bedroom

I finally have some pictures of the house to post. We (actually mostly just me, Sara) have painted almost every room. The only thing left is the bathroom in our room and the office. The bathroom is going to get done next Friday when Auntie April keeps Cohen over night and the office, well I'll leave that one for Jerimiah. We eventually would like to get a spare bed for in there so we will probably just wait to paint until we get that. Hope you enjoy the pictures and everyone is welcome anytime to come by if you are ever in Houston!

Can't sleep, so I'll blog...

On my way to spend the night at Nina and Papi's house.
TOne of my favorite things to do: taking a nap with daddy.

Stretching out big in my crib.

Oh mom, I hate when you make me wear this hat...

For some reason, I went to bed and could not fall asleep so I thought I would get up and work on the blog. I hope ya'll like the new look. It took me awhile to figure out the part with our name, but after much trying, I finally got it! We didn't have to much going on today, just the normal Saturday things. Jerimiah had to work from 3 to close so Nina and Papi came over and we had Pizza Hut and just hung out for awhile.

Friday night, Jerimiah and I had a date night. It was great! Cohen went and spent the night at his parents house and we got a full night's sleep! It felt wonderful but was glad to have the little guy back this morning when Jerimiah went and picked him up. They even brought mom her favorite breakfast, sausage and cheese kolaches! Yum!

We are counting down the days until Iowa. I am very excited to be able to spend time there and to see people that I miss. I think Grandpa is pretty excited to have us there also and can't wait to bring Cohen to Interstates and show him off. I've starting my packing lists and this will be quite different then before with having to back for a baby also. At least his clothes are little and we can stuff then in different places in the suitcase. We are are T-minus 16 days and counting. Yeah!

One last note, Happy Birthday to my sister! Hope your day was great and wish we could have spent it with you!

Love Sara, Jerimiah and Cohen

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.