Valentiens Days trip

We weren't planning anything big for valentines day but I decided with how stressed Brady has been with work that we could take a really quick trip to St George. Brady's grandpa hasn't seen the baby yet and Brady has been saying we needed to go down, so after he got off work at midnight I told him as a surprise that we are going to St. George. I had everything packed and we jumped in the car and drove. We got to St. George at 5am so we stopped at walmart and got a few things we needed, I'm sure the workers were wondering what we were doing at five in the moring with a baby. ( I know I think that at 3am when I'm at Maceys) We then went to the McDonald's parking lot to use their free wifi to book a hotel. We then headed out to Zions but on our way found out it would be 25 for a park entrance fee and decide it wouldn't be worth it so we went back to visit his Grandma at work. She is one of those cute sample ladies at Costco. I had called to tell them we were coming down but his Grandpa hadn't heard my name so they knew someone was coming down but not who, so that was kinda a fun surprise. We then made plans for dinner after she got off work and we went to snow canyon it was beautiful. We took a hike and explored a little. Then went back to the hotel and went swimming and cleaned up for dinner. We went to dinner at this cute Mexican restaurant and got to visit with Brady's Grandparents it was fun to get to know them better. We made plans for breakfast Monday before we made the trip home. We feel asleep pretty fast once we got back to the hotel from all of our travels. Then we went to breakfast and headed home. We got home with enough time for Brady to take a nap before he had to go to work at 4pm. It was a fast trip but we got that nice break from the daily grind.

Titan's Baby Blessing

Titan's baby blessing was 2/6/2010 Brady did the blessing and he did a great job, it made me cry. He later told me that he had kinda planned what to say and what he said in the blessing was not even close so the sprit had let the whole blessing. I'm so grateful for my wonderful husband who could give our baby a special blessing. We had food after at the house and invited friend and family to come. I was a little stressed about how many people who would be in the house but it turned out to be comfortable. Thanks to all that came and helped on that special day.

My New Best Friend

Sorry to all of my old best friends but you'll have to move over for my new best friend. If your nice about the change maybe I will share my new best friend with all of you. My new best friend is diet coke, diet dr. pepper and diet pepsi with lime. I know it is sad to have a realationship with something you consume, we all saw what mcdonalds did to me a few months ago. This relationship however has helped me lose ALL the BABY weight and i'm not sure I could have done it alone. With all of those late night shifts having a brand new baby and being tired the "diets" helped me keep my sanity so for all of you looking for a new friend I would recomind the "diets" to be part of your life.

What we have been up to you ask...?

The Summers have been really busy doing nothing...I've been working freight shifts for the last month so I go to work then Sleep till 2pm when Brady gets home from work shortly after. Then we go car shopping on ksl or go test drive a car (thanks to me totaling the Mercedes on the 23rd last month) We finally found the car it the picture above and audi A8 and bought that so hopefully we will start doing more with our lives. We have also been hanging out with my family a lot and must say I love it!! I love my family they are the best and its been so fun to be friends with my siblings. Brady has been working and being the best dad. I am amazed how good he is with Titan he watches him at least 30 hours a week and he is doing great! Titan is enjoying life he has started hating his car seat cover because he really wants to look out at the world around him so we get yelled at if we forget to uncover him. He has rolled from his back to his side its pretty cute, since he sleeps on his side (which I find odd I didn't know babies slept on their side) he decide being on his back was not working so he pumped his right arm and right leg till he got to his side. He also has started "talking" quite a bit and if you talk back he will just cut you off and talk over you kinda cute.

Life at the Summers

Well its been over a month since the last post. Life has been great for our little family and I feel so blessed every day. I had to go back to work after Thanks giving I only work four days a week and my boss is great to schedule me around Brady's schedule which is why I feel so blessed because even if I cant be with my little guy I know he is in safe hands that I trust more than anything else. I also happen to have great parents in-laws and siblings who are willing to step in and watch Titan if the need arises, I really don't know how people have babies away from their families. Titan Sleeps from 10pm to 4am or longer which is great since I wake up for work about 4 so I get a good nights rest!! Lucky me. I also feel blessed that my dog Attlee gets along with us having a baby really well I was worried that we would have a lady and the tramp situation where she didn't feel loved, we did get her fixed though so no puppies. Attlee is very careful around him, i cant wait till Titan is older and they can be best friends. Brady is a great dad and loves Titan so much i love watching him play with Titan. Titan has started cooing and watching things move he is getting so big he was 9lb 2 oz at his last appointment and has started wearing size 1 diapers and 0 to 3 month clothes.

It's been two weeks!!

It has been the best and hardest two weeks I've had in a long time. I'll start with the hard stuff. When Titan got home we had to take him the next day to get his heel pricked to check his Billi Rubin levels (also know as Jaundice if it gets to high) well we got the call saying his levels were to high and he would have to be on a Billi bed. It looks like a tanning bed. Before I had my own baby I didn't think it was a big deal to have the baby on a tanning bed for a few days, but let me tell you it stressed me out to no end. I called my sister in law crying her little girl that is just 18 days older than Titan had to be on the bed for three days so she understood. Not only could I not hold him, the only time he could be off the lights was to eat. This became frustrating because we were not very good at nursing at the time and any time I kept him off the bed I felt guilty thinking he needed to be on the bed so he would get better. The same day we got the bed I found out that he had lost 10 ounces since birth and my doctor wanted me to supplement with formula so I felt like I wasn't do a very good job as a mom. I also think the emotions of just having a baby made me a little crazy.

The best stuff is Titan only had to be on the bed for 48 hours. We have been able to get better at nursing and hope to keep improving. He has gotten back to birth weight and a little more he was 6lb11 oz on Friday so we hope to keep the weight gain up. I love being able to stay home with him. It is amazing how much I can love this little guy!!Too bad I will have to go back to work. That stresses me out having to balance Brady's work schedule with mine...wish us luck but I know people do it all the time so I'm sure it will work out. As for sleep he is all over the place and wakes up anywhere from an hour and a half to four hours at night but its completely random.

Titan Robert Summers

Our little Titan decided that October would be the best month for his birthday, guess he wanted to be like his daddy who loves having his birthday in October. We were able to bring him home Sunday October 31st and It has been fun so far but we have only had one night of being home so far we shall see how it goes. Now on to the whole story of how it all happend, if you dont want to know I would skip this section. Dont worry it wasn't bad.
It all started early saturday October 30th at 2 am, I had three fears when it came to having a baby, Number 1 going into labor alone (with Bradys work schedul that wouldn't be to hard) Number 2 going into labor in the night, Number 3 having my water break ( I just really didnt want to make a mess anywhere) So as luck would have it all three of my fears happend, and to my suprise it wasn't bad at all. My water broke at 2 am with a little pop, I got up to go to the bathroom not being sure exactly what the pop was, that is when I felt my first gush of fluid. It only got my pants wet so my floor is still clean!! I didn't get any contractions at that point so I tried to go back to sleep but was far to excited for that. Brady had just got off work at 2am and had about an hour drive home so I decided to call him. He knew exaclty what my call ment at that hour why else would I call him. Once he got home we chated for a bit and I decided to eat since I wouldn't be able to eat for awhile. The we decided to try and get some rest since I still hadn't had any contratctions. I sent a text off to my boss since I was supposed to be at work that morning letting him know that I wouldn't make it in. I kinda slept on and off till six when the contractions started. I tried to time them but they were all over the place so I just decided to take a shower knowing I had a long day ahead of me. I called my doctor at seven to see what he wanted me to do. He said to go ahead and come on in to the hospital. I woke Brady and he showered and we stopped to get him some breakfast. We got to the hospital at about eight. They took us into the treeagie room to make sure my water had broken and everything else they check to make sure your read to go. We spend quite a bit of time in there because the test that would tell if there was amniatic fluid being released wasn't working. I was dialated to a 3 and effaced to 90 percent. While we were waiting my contractions got worse and they emited me at about 1130. They had the annisitoligist come in to place my epidural almost as soon as I got to the room. That worked out to be very nice timing because when my contrations started getting really bad the drugs kicked in. So I am lucky to say that for me the contractions never got to the point of scaring me from having more children. So then we played the waiting game for me to fully dialate so we could start pushing. They also started me on Pitocin to help contracts go faster and that turned out to be to much and they turned it off because it was speeding me up to much, next time I think I'll opt out on not having the patocin in I dont really need it. That only took at few hours and we watched never been kissed good movie. At 320 we stared pusing with the nurse, the doctor came at 345 and we just had a pushing party. The doctor said that it took most first time moms two hours to push the baby out so my goal was to be faster than that. With pushing from start to finish it took 1 hour and 10 min!! ya us!! He had alot of the "cheese" skin cover on him since he was two weeks early. He was 6lbs 10 oz 18 inches long born at 4:32 10-30-10. We stayed at the hospital for just under 24 hours from the time he was born. I loved all the ladies at the hospital that helped me out it was a very nice stay and we are so lucky to have out little guy!