Sebastian Update

Well, we had a wonderful day yesterday. Sebastian gave me a wonderful birthday present and continued to make great improvements on his "Bubble" machine. It is similar in purpose to a CPAP machine for adults as it makes sure that the pressure on his lungs remains constant so that they can stregthen and mature. I'm sure a doctor or nurse would explain in much better detail and specifics, but for those of us non-medical people, that's the best I can get to explaining it. He is learning that he doesn't like to have the "Bubble" machine on though so he is finding ways to pull it off. Here is a pic of him getting ready to pull it off until Grandma caught him, so he pulled a "Who me?" The machine looks scary, but he will hopefully be off of it soon.

He made his first arts & crafts project on Thursday night with one of the nurses. Here is the birthday card our little guy made (with a little bit of help...)

We are getting ready to head back over to the hospital now to spend the day with him again. We can't answer our phones in the NICU but can reply to text messages, so if we don't answer our phones, you know why. I will try to update again later today after we get over to the hospital and get the latest update on our little guy. Here are some pics from Wednesday before he was transported over to the NICU.

Little baby feet :)

The proud daddy

Sebastian and Uncle Bryan (aka: Uncle B)

Sebastian is here!!

Our son, Sebastian Michael, joined us at 4:06pm on Wednesday, 3/3/2010. He was eager to help me celebrate my birthday so he joined us about 5 1/2 weeks early. He was 4 lbs and 13 oz, 17 inches long. Overall he is doing wonderfully just needs a little extra help with his lungs. The doctors and hospital were fully ready for him which was wonderful, and now that I have been discharged I can spend time with him. He is in the NICU at Sutter Roseville Hospital and will probably stay there for a couple of weeks. They are great there and we have all of the faith in them! Anyways, we will continue to send out updates and post pictures, but for now, here is our first family photo.

Hospital...

So... we are at the hospital now in what has turned out to be a very unexpected day! They are trying to get my contractions to stop but if they can't, or if there is another complication with placenta previa, they may have to deliver today or tomorrow. They are keeping me in the hospital overnight tonight no matter what, but we just want a healthy baby so we are listening to and doing whatever the docs say right now. But let me tell you.... hospitals are boring :-) Thankfully they have WiFi :) It looks like they will be putting me on bedrest for the duration, so netflix subscription here I come!!

Mark is doing well... a little bit of a fish out of water since there is really nothing he can do to help but be there for support, and not eat in fornt of me... But we are both hanging in there, just waiting to see what all of the tests & time show.

We'll post more once we know more...

Kayla Lily Cobb has arrived!

On Tuesday, February 23rd at around 11:30pm, Dan and Amber's little girl made her appearance :-) She was 7 lbs 15 oz and 19 inches long. Both mom and baby are home now and all are doing well. Here are some of the pics :-)

Kayla shortly after birth

Kayla heading home from the hospital

Kayla sleeping

Leave me alone...

And a fun pic of Allan to leave everyone with...

It's Beautiful Here!!

So, everyone now and then with the crazy California politics, economy, taxes, asinine laws and bad drivers, I ask myself, "How come we decided to move back to California?" Then we have weeks like this. Where it's mid-February, 70 degrees outside, sunny and gorgeous!!! And everything is definitely worth it! After all, the drivers here aren't quite as bad as in Washington, DC. I mean, with the last 2 cities I have lived in, I could be burried under 3+ feet of snow right now, not out putting stakes up in the backyard to try to figure out what we are going to do with the landscape. One drawback of the nice weather... it makes it really hard to study for the ecrtification test that I am taking next week.

On an unrelated note, I found my first gray hair yesterday, which was immeadiately plucked out. All of my friends had told me to expect them to pop up during pregnancy but I had escaped them so far. Luckily, my hair has enough blond in it that it can pass for highlights :-)

Mark finished painting our master bedroom and we put everything back to rights over the weekend. It's nice to be back in our room rather than sleeping in the guest room while our room was covered in plastic. We will put up some pictures soon, so keep an eye out...

More Baby Wyitt pics coming tomorrow

I have a couple new baby Wyitt pics ready to upload, I'll try to get those posted tomorrow for all to see :-)

It's been another crazy month!

Hello again! Well, I thought I would be able to update on a weekly basis, and then I guess life happened. It turned into tomorrow, then tomorrow, then tomorrow. And I knew that if I posted I better include pictures since that is what the family really checks the blog for anyways... Oh, well, I'm updating now...

So January started out crazy with work for both of us. The first full week of January had us both working long hours, then that Thursday I drove down to San Jose to attend a work meeting on Friday, drove back home Froday afternoon so that Mark and I could attend our first birthing class that evening, and then on Saturday, we drove back down to San Jose with my parents to get together with Aunt Heidi & Uncle Don for a late Christmas. It was exhausting, but we had a blast (and Mark got lots of great ideas from my uncle on landscaping the backyard...).

The following weekend we had a housewarming party now that we are almost completely settled into the new house. We still have some painting to do, but that's lower on the priority list. Mark and my father painted some accent walls downstairs which turned out great. They also transformed the nursery from a bland, white room into a great nursery. Here are some of the pics of the nursery... Just need to add the finishing touches with the bedding, artwork and curtains.

I think he did a great job, and I think I did a great job finding the curtain rod with the airplanes :-)

For an update on baby :-) Everything is going smoothly so far for which we are very thankful for. An uneventful pregnancy is a great pregnancy. The docs thought that I might have developed gestational diabetes, but thankfully they were wrong. Apparently I have "very impressive" sugar counts which means I can keep eating all the fruit I want, which is one of the main reasons we moved back to Cali... Other than that, we have been going to our birthing classes and getting ready for the little guy. Here are a couple of pics from the latest ultrasound and the "belly" pics. The first ultrasound pic is him saying hello to everyone (or get away from me, your choice...). Hope you enjoy and we'll post more soon...

28 week ultrasound

27 weeks belly pic

30 weeks belly pic