Growing Like A Weed

Cullen says Scott is growing like a weed. It's what Andrew (who was his Best Man) always said about his daughter Rebekah when she was little. Scott is growing fast though. He's up to 9lbs and 7oz already. That's up 2 lbs from his birth weight. (Sorry, but I have no idea what percentile that is... the doctor didn't say and I really didn't care enough to ask.)

Today Scott and I are having our first library adventure. So far, he is sleeping well. He tends to sleep pretty well between 9 and noon everyday though, so it's not really surprising. I just have to make sure we're finished with the errands before he wakes up in another half hour or so.

This past weekend Scott got to meet his Grandma and Granddad. Cullen's parents were in town for a quick visit. I think he likes them :) Although, I also think I discovered that company of any kind after dinner time for Cullen and I seems to mess with Scott's ability to sleep. Meaning, it's harder for him to fall asleep and he wakes up more. Guess we'll try and limit evening visitors next weekend.

Next week we'll be having our first overnight visitors... Great Grandma and Grandpa Gardner. I can't wait to see them! They are going to be here at the perfect time too... besides the evening visitors thing, Cullen is going to be heading back to Lancaster for a business trip next week, about the same time Grandma and Grandpa get here. How convenient. Then on Friday, while they are still here, Patience goes for her yearly shots. It will be very nice to have an extra pair of hands at the vets office!

In other news... we grown ups, who had recently decided to retire from youth ministry are back. The youth director resigned a few weeks ago and another couple at church stepped up to take on that role. However, they left a hole where they had been teaching youth Sunday School. Cullen and I have agreed to help with youth Sunday School and we'll be switching off with another couple. We're all pretty excited about it right now and excited to get to know the youth at our new church better. Pray for us in this endeavor.

He's Here!

Scott Honor Keen was born on Thursday early in the morning at 12:53am. He's perfect- weighs 7lbs 7oz, and 19 1/2 inches long. He is nursing well and sleeping well so we are happy about both of those things. He sleeps between feedings pretty much all night long, which is great.

We made it to church yesterday, so he spent his first Sunday in the Lord's house. Today we are out and about... "visiting" Daddy's office, then we'll do a bit of shopping before his first visit to the pediatrician this afternoon.

Cullen will be home from work today and taking half days Tuesday and Wednesday before returning to a "regular" schedule on Thursday and Friday.

So all in all, things are going well. Off to visit the picture page and upload lots and lots and lots of pictures for your viewing pleasure.

Still Waiting

We are still waiting on this little one to make an appearance. Hopefully, it will be soon... or else the midwife will start pestering me to schedule an induction. We will go in for an ultrasound and NST on Wednesday just to make sure everything is still good if we don't have a baby before then. So, what sounds like a good day for a birthday now that 2-4-6 is past? 2-10, 2-11, 2-12, 2-13... I'd personally rather avoid Valentine's Day on Tuesday, but we'll certainly take what we get.

For the record- NO, I am not miserable. Just patiently waiting for a baby to get here. And I'm confident the baby will get here at exactly the right moment. (Someone asked me that the other day... and needless to say, it got on my nerves a bit.) Cullen also gets to face questions everyday at work. Though those questions are more just observations and not as annoying. You know "Still no baby?"

Patience had a good birthday this past Wednesday. She turned 15. I really never expected her to survive so long, but I'm certainly not complaining (Cullen might be though :)

That's all the randomness for today. Here's hoping I can write about all the cute things Leapfrog's doing the next time I come in to the library.

The Waiting Game

I'm back at the library. No baby news yet. Cullen and I enjoyed the SuperBowl with some friends last night... so now we are both tired today. I'm not sure why I'm tired, besides the whole baby thing though, since I slept really late this morning. I made my usual SuperBowl cake. But, I tried something a little bit different this year. I'm not eating chocolate, so I left off the chocolate frosting and Cullen helped me attempt to make brown buttercream frosting. Okay, so the football cake was an interesting slightly brownish shade of gray. It tasted great and is almost gone already.

I've decided this morning that it's a strange feeling to be sitting around waiting for a baby to arrive. I have plenty to do to occupy myself, so it's not a problem and I'm not complaining yet... but it is a weird feeling. I wonder when this little person is going to get here.

In other news... Cullen installed the new fan in the bathroom over the weekend and put up some of the towel racks. That bathroom project will get finished someday.

And Patience is going to be 15 years old on Wednesday! That's 105 in dog years. Wow. Can't say I ever expected, when I got her nearly 15 years ago, that she would live this long. I'm glad though. There's something nice about having a "guard dog" sleeping fairly close to you all day long. I was visited by some people from a religious cult like the Jehovah's Witnesses this morning and Patience was laying by the front door. She so wanted to go outside and smell them. Cullen suggested I have her sneeze on them and then they might go away faster :)

Happy Monday. Hopefully we'll have some baby news soon!

From The Library

Here's my first post from the library. But I've dawdled and only have 8 minutes left online. Oh well.

Had my weekly appointment yesterday. Still no baby, and I didn't let her check me. So there. Leapfrog will be here soon. Cullen says today, everyday now.

I've been enjoying my time home this week... well aside from being sick with a cold and sleeping all day Sunday, almost all day Monday and a bunch on Tuesday. Yesterday I was up all day though and feeling much better. Not 100%, but colds take a while to get completely over.

Oh yeah, and we met our new neighbors. They have a 6 yr old son, and a 2 year old dog. Those two are very entertaining playing together in the backyard in the afternoon. The whole family seems really nice... definitely a huge step up from living next door to a group home. And since their house was a group home they have plenty of stories about things like emergency lights and soap dispensers to try and renovate away. It's fun to see all the houses in our neighborhood gradually being redone and to know that EVERYONE is having to get rid of green bathroom fixtures and not just us.

Well that's all the news for today. Hopefully next time I'll have a baby in tow!