10 Months

I don't believe how fast this year has gone by. It's just like you were born and we blinked and now your 2 months shy from being 1. You are getting so big. You are so much fun to be around. You have learned a lot within the past few months. You words are moma dada, dog, doggie, bye-bye, dirty. You are catching on with Where's your belly. You have touched it a few times now since this past week. You tilt your head when someone is talking to you like Abby (our dog) does it is so cute. You wave bye-bye and come here. You love going to the park with your cousin Caleb and play on the swing and in the hollow tunnels so you bang on the inside. You like the slide too but not as much.

Friday was your first time mowing the grass with your Papa. You were not happy with me when we had to go.

You love all kinds of animals. You really liked feeding all the animals on you great grandpa's farm. Nothing really seems to bother you. Even when all the cows moo when we bent down to feed them.

These have been the good times when you really interact with everything that is going on. Mommy's so excited to be spending all this time with you now, it's really a blessing on how everything works out. We love you so much

xoxo Mommy and Daddy

The Heintzman's Latest

So not much has been going on ok maybe it has and there is no excuse for me not to blog. So Matt started his job on Monday and so far so good. He seems to be enjoy it so far. I started my new job Monday. Staying home so far so good on that too. It's been kinda weird not going to an actual job, but everything has really been the same since I'm doing everything I did before except I'm not working a 40 hr week on top of that. Grandma has really been enjoy the extra time with Jackson and so am I, and now I'm also watching my 6 year old cousin Caleb. I have been taking and picking him up from school everyday. I tell you what this kid is a HAM!! He is so hyper but adorable. I will not have 2 kids with this big of an age difference between Jackson and Caleb. Jackson is doing more new stuff everyday. He has really started lifting his chest up like he was going to start crawling and today he actualy lifted his butt up too (for about 2 seconds). This child is actually starting to like laying on his belly. He started the other day saying daddy instead of dada. And yesterday he said mommy instead of mama. I am loving every minute of it. Well hopefully I'll have so more pictures soon.

The Latest

Everything has been going good. Jackson is doing new stuff everyday. He started this whole screaming laugh thing a couple of days ago don't know where that came from, and last night he started making his smouch face when all of the suddon he started blowing spit everywhere. He loves doing that now.

He just made the transfer to 3-6 month jeans, yes I said 3-6. This child's bottom half is never going to catch up to the top half.

He really loves to suck on his toes now. He has become a lot more flexible now.

He has a nice goose egg on the side of his head today. He was sitting up on the changing table when he starting leaning over to the right before I could catch him he hit his head on the side of the table. He cried for awhile and so did mommy. It broke my heart. I couldn't believe it. I felt so horrible for awhile even though he was fine and laughing 5 mins after it happened. He's such a trooper. I have been sick all week and still feeling really bad. Tuesday I had some kinda flu I guess and Thursday I came up with a cold. Today I felt the worse. Matt did find him another job making a little less than before and it is first shift. Before he was working 2nd shift and I would go into work for a little bit before he had to be at work at 3:00. So we decided it would be best for me to stay at home with Jackson and help my mom take care of my Grandma. It was a decision that we had to make because I couldn't bring myself to put him in a daycare and I know that my mom really needs my help with my grandma. I have been helping her at night since she broke her leg, but it is getting to the point where someone needs to be with her during the day. I am excited to be able to stay home with Jackson now. Friday is my last day at work which is sad because I know the girls will miss me ;) and I will miss being around them too, because they are all family to me. But I will bring Jackson down to visit because he loves it there, I don't know why, just kidding :)

20 Random Facts About Me:

OK thanks Megan for this. Before Jackson I could think of all kinds of stuff to say about me but now all I think about is him
1 I love being a mommy
2 I love being a wife to my wonderful husband he's the best
3 I shop almost everyday
4 I hate being alone
5 I adore animals especially dogs
6 I love baking
7 I use driving as a stress reliever
8 I love my alone time with Jackson every night
9 I love taking random pictures of Jackson
10 I think I'm a little obsessive compulsive too, Megan
11 I am always late along with Alicia (I will be late to my own funeral)
12 I can't go a day without seeing my parents
13 I love it when I get home and Jackson smiles at me
14 I love when Matt cooks for me he so good at it
15 My favorite color is pink
16 I love that I hang out my cousins and family the are my best friends
17 My favorite candy bar Kit Kat (but I try to keep the baby weight off)
18 I lost 35 lbs since I have Jackson (that was from before pregnant weight)
19 I've been getting my nails done ever since I was 16 (I'll be 25 in Jan)
20 I'm afraid of crickets

I have to throw in the Jackson finally rolled over for the first time while I was at work on Wednesday the 17th, but later that night he rolled over for me!

Our Little Stinker

Ok so I know it's a little early but not by too much. Being a first time mom you get so excited about the small things. But since day one I said, "He's so stinkin' cute", "Your Mommy's little stinker" So I found a Skunk costume for Halloween, and now he is so stinkin' adorable. Ok so I got a mailer and saw this cute little costume and me and Matt agreed that this would be his first costume. So here it is.

You know it comes to the point when you realize that Oh My, I said I would never do this to my child and here I am doing it anyways.
Oh Well Welcome to Motherhood!!!!

1 WEEK!!

I don't believe it has already been a week. I think he's changed so much. Everything is going good. I think we are getting the hang of the whole mommy & daddy thing. It's so weird how some things come so natural. We are trying to get a routine down. So far he is sleeping pretty good. Last night was ok he had a tummy ache and all he wanted was to sleep on my chest. So I nap on the couch while he was in my arms the whole night. But after all said in done it really didn't bother me. He loves his swing & bouncing seat. He doesn't like the sponge bathes. He cries so funny he starts off with his quiver lip cry and then it gets deep and he almost sounds like the evil laugh like a villain. It's so cute! This weekend we went to Great Grandma McCormick's to show off the newest addition. I was really glad that she got to see Jackson. That was my only fear that something would happen since she is so sick that she wouldn't get to see him. He has had a lot of visitors come and go and he likes the attention. He has already went out on his first shopping trip. Which he slept most of the time. But all in all we are doing great. It's so exciting. We love being parents. It's the best gift of all to have a happy, healthy, and good baby. God has truly blessed us! Oh and I'm really excited because I have lost 12 pounds so far from my before pregnancy weight yeah!! I hope everyone is doing well and I will try to get you updated.

Welcome Jackson Part 2

Welcome Jackson!!!!

I'm so excited to announce the birth of our baby boy Jackson Matthew at 8:00 pm June 20, 2007. 8 pounds 2 oz. and 22 inches long. We along with everyone else is so excited about the arrival of him! Let me start off be saying thank you to everyone who has been keeping us in your thoughts and prayers! Thank you to all the visitors who stopped by to share in the wonderful occasion. Thank you to Alicia for updating everyone on our progress. So Weds. morning I went to the doctor and my blood pressure was 141 over 88. Which they don't like it to be 140 over 90. And my doctor said let's go ahead over to the hospital, there is really no need to hold off. It took her 5 times to tell me until I finally believed her. So we went over a little bit after 11 am and they started a so drip about noon. About 1:20 she came over and broke my water. 6 clock they gave me my Epidural and then it all came so quickly. By 6:30 they had me push a little bit because his heart rate drop into the 80's which it had been in the 140's-150's but it quickly jump right back up. At 7:00 I started pushing and at 8:00pm he arrived. His umbilical cord got wrapped around his arm and was pushed up around his neck. So that is why his heart rate had dropped. But everything is great. He is healthy and I'm doing better than I thought I would. We are just so excited to finally see him. Everyone seems to think that he has Matt's eyes, chin and facial expressions. He has my nose and lips. But as I said before he is so stinkin' cute!! This has got to the best feeling in the world. Matt is doing an excellent job of being a father and husband. He hasn't left his side for one second. And he hasn't left my side for one second. I couldn't imagine going through this with anyone else. Matt I'm so proud of what you have done and become. I love you and Jackson more than anything. The best feeling in the world is to carry a child for 9 months and bring him into this world with someone you love! We returned home on Friday morning with both doctors giving us the big ok. In a few days you will be able to see his pictures at the Clark Memorial (http://www.clarkmemorial.org/). But hopefully you will enjoy the slide show I made. More pictures to come!!!!!!