Our Little Wolfe Pack

We had a lovely time with Logan's first Christmas. It was a busy time and kind of tiring, but we had a wonderful time. We know Logan won't remember, but these times are full of wonderful memories for Nathan and I.

On Christmas Day Nathan's family came over for the morning. Nathan got a great digital camera that I know he is going to take a TON of wonderful pictures with. His family left sooner than we had planned so we stopped over to Aunt Me's house to spend time with some family.

The day after Christmas we went to my parents house and had a great time with my parents, Kyle, Sarah, Tommy and Piper. Mom and Dad surprised all of us with a new TV for each couple! Flat screen 37" HD! Craziness!! We were all very excited! We had a great dinner and saw some family from my Dad's side.

Saturday we went to Aunt Me and Unlce Frank's house for the Deller family get together. It was a lot of fun to see everyone and see all the kids. Ty is amazingly cute when he holds Logan - he is so sweet with him.

There are so many pictures so this is the easiest way to upload them:

Hunt Family Christmas:
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Deller Family Christmas:
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Wolfe Family Christmas:
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We got a ton of snow on Friday! Logan's Daycare was closed so it ended up being a snow day for mommy too! Nathan made it to work okay and thankfully they let him come home early so we were able to spend some family time together. It was fantastic! On Saturday we decided to bundle Logan up and take some cute pictures out in the snow. He was rather confused about it, but that is okay. We can just picture this time next year when he is wanting to play in it! That will be quite a sight to see!

Our trip outside was quite an adventure as you will see in the pictures. I sat my butt in the snow... big mistake. Especially since Nathan was having problems with the camera and I was sitting there for MUCH longer than I anticipated. THEN - we make our way back onto the porch only to discover we locked ourselves out! Our front door has one of those locks that it can be unlocked on the inside, but locked on the outside. oops! Then Nathan went around to the side door of our garage and tried to fit through an old doggie door that was there - after kicking out the big piece of wood that sealed it. (I wish I had known that - it would have been a funny picture.) hehe Finally he kicked the whole door in and managed to get the big garage door open and we were safely back inside our nice warm house!

I will be sure to post a bunch of pictures from Logan's first Christmas... or at least a link to a bunch of pictures. Sometimes this thing takes forever to load pictures!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

There is a little baby girl who is fighting so hard to stay alive and be strong for her mommy and daddy. This little girl's story has touched my life in ways that are hard to describe and in ways many won't understand. She has strengthened my faith in God, brought us back to church... all these things have strengthened our marriage and makes me be a better mom to Logan.

This beautiful girl is running out of time as the doctors have found this one glimmer of hope and I pray that this glimmer of hope turns into the miracle they are so desprately searching for.

She has pulled through so many things the past 5 1/2 months. She has touched thousands of lives... all over the word. Just from the words her loving father has written about her almost every day of her life.

Please pray for Kayleigh and that God grants this family their miracle!

http://kayleighannefreeman.blogspot.com/2008/12/121808-1041am-glimmer-of-hope.html

My mom took Logan to see Santa yesterday! She got him this new - totally cute outfit while they were there and changed him, but forgot his socks! Oops! I think it is a really sweet picture!

I'm not sure what Logan asked Santa to bring him, but with the way he has been eating it is probably formula! :-)

Logan had his 4 month check up today. The doctor says he is doing great! His umbilical hernea is gone - now he just has an outie belly button. The flat spot on his head is getting better - she said to just keep doing what we are doing so that is the plan.

He weighed 13 pounds 1/2 ounce (50th % when age adjusted for being a premie and 26th % not age adjusted)

He was 24 1/4 inches long (50th % when age adjusted and 44th % not age adjusted)

His head is 16 1/2 inches around - also 50th % age adjusted.

He did real well with his shots - or at least as well as can be expected. The first one he barely noticed, but the second one was a combo one and it took a little longer and he screamed. But as soon as I picked him up and gave him some love he was happy. Plus I showed him the REALLY bright kitty painting on the wall - which he loves whenever we go there - and he smiled at it so it was cute.

By the time we got back to daycare (just across the street) he was sound asleep. Barely woke up when I took him out of his carseat and laid him in his crib. Chances are he'll sleep a lot today (hopefully he still sleeps a lot tonight!)

The doctor was pleased with how much he is eating - saying he is a good feeder. She was really pleased with how well he sleeps at night and hopes that continues (ME TOO!)

So that is about it! Once perfectly perfect baby boy!

Hope you are all ready and excited for Christmas and the New Year. I know for us it is a very special time (as with Piper, Jordin and Dane) to have Logan celebrate his first Christmas! I thought I loved Christmas before... I love it even more now!

Logan is doing great. He has his 4 month check up next week, but seems to be doing great. That darn flat spot on his head doesn't seem to be much better, but hopefully it will improve without the need for a super cool helmet! His nasty, smelly, hypo-allergenic formula is still working well for him and his umbilical hernia is all but gone! The day after thanksgiving he had a check up on a real bad cold he had and weighed in at 12 pounds 4 ounces! It is hard to remember when he was a teeny 5 pounder!

He has now started the teething process. A couple hard spots up front, but no teeth to see for sure. He is a drool monster though. I swear I thought we had WAY too many bibs before he was born - I was wrong . The kid goes through 3 or 4 a day at least (between drool and his never ending spit up fest.)

With all that - he is still a VERY smiley - VERY happy baby. He can roll from his belly to his back, but since he isn't a huge fan of tummy time he won't do it too much. He get get about half way over when he is on his back.

Below is a link with a bunch of great photos from Thanksgiving and beyond. Kodak does it different now so the captions are above the pictures and if you see a "..." it means there is more to the caption. Just hold your mouse over that and it will pop up. I hope you enjoy!

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So - being the oh so loving mom I am I had have to post these pictures. They are stills from a video we took the other day. Logan was fussy and during the whole video I'm singing to him and trying to calm him down and make him happy and the original video is only like 45 seconds long. I'm sorry, but he makes these pouty faces and they are hilarious to us. I had to share a few:

Logan spent the night at Grandma and Grandpa Hunts house and was there for the first big snow of the year! They caught a few great pictures with him!

Well I must say - Logan put us through the ringer last night. And by us I mean ME! Nathan tends to sleep through most anything unless I wake him up. There have been a handful of times where he woke up before me.

They say that babies sleep patterns regress around four months. It seems Logan may have started a bit early. Last night we went through Logan's bedtime routine and all was well. He woke up at 11:30 - fussy as can be and by 11:45 he insisted on being fed (totally not normal). Nathan got up and fed him. Such a great hubby I have! Then at 1:45, 2:30, 3:15 and finally 4:00 he was awake and FUSSY! The first three I guess I shouldn't say he was awake - just eyes closed and fussy. I would pick him up because all my efforts to keep him happy in his crib didn't work and he would be quiet and asleep in a few seconds. The moment he was laid down it was all over and he was crying again. He ate again at 4:00 and thankfully slept again until about 6:40 and Nathan (who was already up) took him so I could sleep in a little while longer. It was a long night. I am hoping he will sleep better tonight. I know we all could use a good night of sleep.

He is doing so well though and getting so big. He has had a bad cold for a while now and just started breathing treatments on Friday. They seem to be helping him. At his doctors appt last week he was 11 pounds 12 ounces! He is getting so big. A far cry from his 5 pounds starting weight. :-)

Logan was so cute yesterday afternoon. He was sitting on Nathan's lap and all of sudden Logan saw his kicking feet and was just so amazed by them. He even started reaching for them and I was glad to get one caught on the video camera! He even grabbed at his rattle a couple times yesterday! YAY!

Don't have much to report. Logan has bronchilitis. Basically a really bad cold. He has a little wheezing that seems to be a bit better today. We raised up his crib mattress so his head is a little higher up which is a good thing. He is sleeping a lot better. He went to bed around 9 last night and slept until 5 this morning - took a bottle and was out until I woke him up to go to daycare at 7:45.

I hate having to wake him up. There is nothing cuter than unwrapping Logan from his swaddle and watching him stretch! He is so flippin cute when he stretches. It cracks me up. He gets this little scrunched up face and it is adorable. I am loving those little moments with him. I think tomorrow morning I will record it and post a video. It is too cute not to share!

Here is Logan dreaming about eating! It was cracking me up!

I can't belive Mr. Man is three months old now! He is getting to be so big!

This past weekend we had great fun. Went to Ikea on Saturday morning with Nathan's family and then we met up with Kyle, Sarah, Tommy and Piper for Christmas pictures! They turned out so great and Logan was absolutely adorable. Tommy was such a big boy and Piper was completely perfect with all smiles and happiness. We got a great one of the three of them and a few great ones of Logan.

Sunday we had a 6 month birthday party for Piper at mom and dad's house. A great time was had by all.

Logan has been sleeping really well. The vast majority of the time he only has one feeding during the night. We put him to bed around 8:30-9 or so and he is awake between 7 an d 8. He is up to eating 4 oz a feeding. We'll probably try to up it this weekend and see how he does. He is still spitting up, but not quite as much as before. It is just hard when he goes through formula like crazy and it costs SOOO much. I wish he was on regular formula rather than this double the price hypo-allergenic stuff. Oh well. Whatever is best for him. I am looking forward to him growing out of the milk protein intolerance though - that is for sure.

Here are a couple of his Christmas pictures!

This was a great weekend at the Wolfe house. Friday night we went over to Aunt Me and Uncle Frank's for some "trick-or-treating" - Logan slept through a lot of it, but was very cute in his halloween outfit that Aunt Me and Uncle Frank had given him when he was still at the hospital. I didn't in a million years think it was going to fit him! He was SO tiny at the time, but while it was a tiny big baggy on him the length worked and he was cute as can be.

On Saturday Nathan and I spent a lot of time cleaning the house and took turns going to the grocery story because it seemed we kept forgetting things we needed. Mostly me. I baked a very nice German Chocolate cake for Nathan's birthday party - two layers and everything! Fancy right? :-) haha Then we had family over that afternoon to celebrate Nathan turning 28!! Such an old fart! His birthday is actually tomorrow.

Sunday we let Daddy sleep in and Logan and I hung out downstairs. Although we finally did go wake him up close to 11 (which was really noon - with the time change!) Then I went on my laundry doing spree. Good times. Logan took a three hour nap in the afternoon and Nathan and I decided we deserved a nap as well! It was nice! Then we played the new Nintendo Wii game he got for his birthday. It was just a really nice relaxing weekend.

OH - and the deal of the weekend. This really nice children's clothing consignment store was having this sale where you could fill a bag for $7! The bags are kind of small so I filled THREE bags and had 22 outifts!! SCORE! Logan has a ton of great new outfits that should last him a while since many of the clothes he wears now are still newborns. Such a little monkey! Here are some pictures from our weekend of fun!

On Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings Logan has to be awake by 7:45 in order to get him all ready and to daycare so I can be to work on time at 8:30. (The other days my mom comes to the house so I don't have to worry about him being awake.) I love going to wake him up. He typically is up between 8 and 8:30 anyway so he is starting to sort of wake up.

I walk in his room and open the curtains on each of the windows and say, "Good Morning Logan" and he shakes his head back and forth and goes back to sleep.

No thank you mom...

I walk over to his crib and say, "Hey little monkey - time to wake up!" This time I get one eye open looking at me and then he shakes his head again.

Five more minutes... please!!!

I unwrap his swaddle and he curls up in a stretch and the open eye closes and the closed eye opens.

Really? Seriously? You are going to make me wake up?

Then I scratch his belly and ask, "Are you ready to get up?" By this point both eyes are open and usually I get a yawn, but today I got a big smile!

Fine - I suppose it can't be avoided now... I'm up! I'm UP!

I picked him up and cuddled in and was asleep before we got back downstairs.

Oh - mommy is nice and warm... I'm sure she won't care if I go back to sleep!

Such a lazy little monkey I have!

I was sitting in the living room this morning holding Logan as he smiled in his sleep and realized what a great blessing this little man is. To know that there was a very good chance he could have died after birth just makes me appreciate every second we have with him. He is so happy and so healthy now that thinking of our time in the NICU seems like a distant memory now. I got to work this morning and was looking back at some of the pictures and it is just shocking to see how much he has grown and changed. Nathan and I thank God every day for Logan and can't imagine waking up each day without him across the hall.

I'm SO tired!

We had a very busy week last week between doctors appts and parties and such. Logan had his daycare halloween party on Thursday night - pictures below - it was so cute to see all the little ones dressed up.

Friday night - Logan's Grandma Wolfe came over to watch him while Nathan and I did some cleaning in preparation for our house guest on Saturday.

Saturday afternoon the whole family got together to meet Raelynn's little boy, Dane and also some of them had yet to see Logan since he was in the NICU. It was a great time. That night Nathan and my mom took Logan and Dane while Raelynn and I went to the New Kids on the Block concert! It was a LOAD of fun. It really was a great show and we had an absolute blast! Although we didn't get home and to bed until close to 2:00 am! Raelynn and I were both up at 4:30 feeding our boys - good times! They stayed until Sunday morning before heading home.
Nathan cleaned out our garage - it is officially a two car garage now with two cars actually in it!

YAY!!

Should be a quieter week this time around. Halloween on Friday and then hopefully a little birthday party for Nathan on the weekend. Good times!

We were a little later, but Logan's 2 month check up was today.

HE HAS BROKEN INTO DOUBLE DIGITS! YAY!

10 pounds 4.5 ounces and 22 inches long!

He had all his shots and was a trooper. Granted he cried at first, but the nurse was so fast I was able to scoop him up real quick and he calmed down pretty fast. Grandma came to meet us at the doctor's office and took him home for some good 'ol grandma style love. Hopefully he won't have any reactions to the vaccinations and feels better pretty quickly.

Tomorrow night is his halloween party at the daycare center! He is going to be a giraffe! Can't wait to post pictures of those!

It was quite the ordeal, but we finally made it to the orchard today! We had a great time! Here are a few pictures form our trip. I don't think Logan was able to enjoy it too terribly much because he slept pretty much the whole time - whatever works though!

Mom, Dad and Logan in the pumpkin patch. A nice gal offered to take our picture - Logan just started crying as she snapped the photo

Got Logan all propped up around some pumpkins

Cuddled up with Daddy

Daddy left Logan in the middle of the pumpkin patch!

Logan is smiling a ton! He was giving Grandma some major smiles yesterday afternoon. We tried to catch a smile on video, but it didn't happen. He is so cute though! Please feel free to ignore the silly lame baby talk!

I have not forgot that I have this blog! I'll start posting again soon! :-)

Had my regular check up today and everything is going great! My BP was a touch high, but my OB was fine with it. Last week a different doctor - the one who does my insulin - said my amniotic fluid level was a bit low and that I needed to drink even more water. So I have been. My OB said when she got his report my level wasn't low - it was just on the lower side of normal. Low would be less than 5cm and I had just over 8cm. She did a quick ultrasound today and said everything looks great and I have over 10cm now so nothing to worry about. I was able to cancel my appt for Friday's fluid check at the insulin doctor's office. YAY! To sum it all up everything is going great!

I go back next week for just a routine check. I have my standard non-stress tests twice a week though.

Your baby now weighs about 4 3/4 pounds (like your average cantaloupe) and is almost 18 inches long. Her fat layers — which she'll need to regulate her body temperature once she's born — are filling her out, making her rounder. Her skin is also smoother than ever. Her central nervous system is maturing and her lungs are continuing to mature as well. If you've been nervous about preterm labor, you'll be happy to know that babies born between 34 and 37 weeks who have no other health problems generally do fine. They may need a short stay in the neonatal nursery and may have a few short-term health issues, but in the long run, they usually do as well as full-term babies.

Still here on the couch!

Life is good - Logan is doing great... keeps passing all the non stress tests with flying colors. My blood pressure has been staying in a pretty good area so I'm doing good too. I'll be 34 weeks on Wednesday so we are getting there. That was the first goal of the doctors... get me to 34 weeks. I'm hoping for 36 weeks now!

On Wednesday I have a tummy check to see how I'm measuring, Thursday I have another non stress test to see how Logan is and on Friday I have a quick ultrasound to check my amniotic fluid level because it was a little low last Tuesday. Not scary low - just a little on the low side. To help that issue I have been drinking water like a mad woman. That is about all you can do to help the fluid level. We'll see how well I've done.

I have been working from my couch and trying to get things done "at the office" and watching a lot of really random television shows. Mom has been taking care of me and getting me to and from my appts every day. Nathan has been great - picking up all the extra stuff that isn't on his normal to-do list. And Dad has been helping finish up a lot of the little house things. It has been a great help!

So that is about it from here!

Well - my circumstances have changed a bit. I am on bed rest... for the duration of this little pregnancy journey. My blood pressure has gone up a bit. Then if it gets a bit too high like it did on Friday - they send me over to labor and delivery triage. Of course when I'm there my blood pressure was just fine and dandy. Go figure... I'm still on bedrest though. Luckily it is modified so I can get up to move around from time to time and I can sit up as long as my feet are up.

So that is my latest. A good time, no? Today is my first baby shower and I'm very much looking forward to it. I'll of course be taking it easy.

Mom and Dad came over yesterday and my gosh between Nathan and my parents they did an AMAZING job of doing many of the final touches on rooms in the house. I am so happy to have the little touches that make a house a home. This afternoon our piano is making its way from Nathan's parents house to our house! I"m very excited!!!

Well back to laying down I go!

Had my first non stress test this morning - I'll go again on Thursday for another one. Logan is doing just fine and dandy. Was fun to sit and listen to his heartbeat for over a half hour. I click a button every time he moves and they montitor to make sure his heartrate goes up when he moves... as it should. I guess they take his average heartrate and then in order to "pass" he has to get it twice where he goes 15 beats above average. He passed so that is good. This obviously isn't a standard pregnancy thing - but I'm super special because of the diabetes diagnosis.

I'm hooked up to the dopplar thing and another thing monitoring anything going on with my uterus and have a button in my hand and I need to drink a lot of water so I'm holding a glass of water too. Half way through they decide to take my blood pressure. It was a bit high (I'm thinking... duh I'm trying to concentrate on Logan moving, pushing a button, holding a glass of water... a lot going on!)... it was 144/84. Anything over 140/90 is considered high - so it isn't TOO high. To rule out anything with pre-eclampsia (REALLY high BP in pregnancy) they sent me for some bloodwork. I'm thinking everything will come back fine. I have no other symptoms of pre-e so we'll just wait and see. They asked if I had had any unusual swelling (the swelling feet is pretty normal) and I said I didn't, but they checked my weight to make sure it hadn't gone up a bunch since my last appointment (water retention)... nope - the opposite in fact. I was down two more pounds. My total weight gain currently is 2 pounds. So... if Logan weighed 3.5 ish pounds at 29 weeks I personally weigh less than I did when I got pregnant. Funny how that works.

We'll see what I hear back from the bloodwork probably tomorrow. Tonight are baby classes and tomorrow is meeting with a daycare option... Thursday is another non stress test and my 32 week OB appt, Friday is calls to pediatricians... Saturday is a focus group... and Sunday is my first baby shower! ...busy week ahead of us! Just means time is going to go by even faster!

This past weekend was nice and relaxing though. We had a great 4th of July party and the weater couldn't have been better. I was loving it! Saturday Nathan did a lot of work outside and I did a little work inside and outside. He did a TON of trimming of the crazy bushes in back and some limbs hanging over the house so now we have a TON of yard waste. Dad is coming over on Wednesday with a chainsaw and we'll get rid of a lot of that. Sunday we had Tommy's 2nd birthday party!! I can't believe the little guy is two already! He is so smart and just fun to be around. Watching him and his cousin Bennett it was entertainment in itself. I personally liked when Tommy got in the little pool with his regular clothes on... about 20-30 minutes after he got changed out of his bathing suit! CLASSIC! Such a happy boy and it seems like he loved all his presents so that is great! We got a present too - DIAPERS! Kyle so graciously (accidentally) bought newborn diapers for Piper! OOPS! So now we have a pack of those and her left over size 1 diapers! YAY for us!

Good Morning!

Hope all is well with everyone. Things here are going really well. I swear I feel SO much better this month than I did last month. It is amazing how Logan being in a nicer position makes life much easier. I haven't had any kicks to the ribs or anything like that yet. But as my brother said... the key word is YET!

Logan schedule of sorts seems to have changed a bit this week. He is more active during the day than he has been previously. I was so used to him moving more in the evenings after work when I would lay down and such. It was a mental adjustment for me. But when we were praying last night before bed Logan gave his daddy a good hard kick to let us know he was participating! I love when that happens.

Only 9 weeks to go... seems crazy to me. I think it is going to really be more like 7 weeks and then he will be here. I think he'll be a mid-ish August baby. We shall see though!

The diabetes thing is going well. Still playing with the insulin doses to get me on the right one, but the doctor and I think we are really close. My fasting numbers are just 1 or 2 points high. SOOOO close! The diet is going just fine and dandy. It does get a bit annoying and repetitive at times, but really not a big deal.

I can't wait for our showers to start so we can start getting Logan's room together. I'm anxious to do that! I am still trying to convince myself that he is actually going to come out... I keep thinking - oh I'm just pregnant - that is different than actually having a baby. I suppose I should really work on changing that mindset and quick because the coming weeks are going to go by FAST!

That is about it from the land outside my belly... here is Logan's update:

This week, your baby measures over 16 inches long. He weighs about 3.3 pounds (try carrying four navel oranges) (or probably more than that since he weighed about that at 29 weeks!) and is heading into a growth spurt. He can turn his head from side to side, and his arms, legs, and body are beginning to plump out as needed fat accumulates underneath his skin. He's probably moving a lot, too, so you may have trouble sleeping because your baby's kicks and somersaults keep you up. Take comfort: All this moving is a sign that your baby is active and healthy.

Me and Kelsey when she was visiting from Romania. I was just over 29 weeks.