Reid's Room

It's been fun to decorate and paint a new room in the house.  I was also fortunate enough to have my friend Anne Johnson make my baby bedding and my sister-in-law Kelsey make us a bunch of prints for the room. We like how it all turned out!  Reid seems to like looking around his new room too.

Reid's first bath

At the Pratt house we use the Tummy Tub for the first several months of life.  Reid warmed up to the tummy tub pretty quickly and enjoyed his first soak.  I forgot to mention in my Christmas post, poor guy has the worst baby acne ever!  He's had it for weeks now!

Christmas & New Years

Christmas came so fast this year with Reid being born on the 5th.  Thank goodness I got all our decorations up before he came and 98% of my Christmas shopping done, because I had NO time!  We had a very low key Christmas and spent the entire week with just our little family.  While at times is was a bit lonely, it was also really nice to spend that time together and relax.

The Sunday before Christmas.  Reid and I stayed home, but I had to put his little Christmas sweater on for some pictures!

Christmas Eve jammies from Grandma Kathy.  Hayden wore them all day long!

She also baked my grandma Cowan's rolls with me

Our neighbors the Tansey's gave Reid a cute santa outfit

Christmas Eve family pictures before dinner

We had California Chowder, rolls, and honey baked ham

We read the nativity story while Hayden acted out Mary's part (she loved this if you can't tell)

Opening Hayden and Reid's Christmas jammies from Grandma Anne.  Paul got me these cute ones and I got Paul some as well.

Leaving out treats for Santa

Christmas morning!  How tired do I look?

Hayden had a great time opening all her presents.  She got way to spoiled by her grandparents and mom and dad!  Some of her favorites were her Doc McStuffins outfit, her car, shopping cart, paintable tea set, and legos.  She got lots of fun stuff that kept her entertained for weeks after.  My mental picture of Hayden for Christmas 2013 will be her sitting in her car while pushing her shopping cart around!  Paul and I are worried we are helping her prepare for life as a homeless person.  She really likes living out of a car and keeping all her precious belongings in a shopping cart!

Reid was such a great little baby.  She laid down on a blanket and kicked around while we opened presents.  He got tired and took a nap for the last part of it while we made swedi hotcakes and green smoothies.  The day flew by and I even got a nap in!

For New Years we headed to Oxford Mississippi to spend Monday through Thursday with Paul's brother Russ and his family.  Hayden had so much fun playing outside in coveralls with cousins (wish I had gotten pictures of this!) One morning she asked me, "what are the boys doing are we wrestling or just playing today?"  She loves being with them even if they are all boys :)  We rang in the New Year with quite the firework show.

Life With Reid

We came home from the hospital late on Saturday and we were on our own until Wednesday when my mom flew out to help.  She was suppose to come on Tuesday but weather kept her from coming on time which was disappointing to say the least!  But we kept busy.  Monday was his pediatric appointment (weight 8 lbs 14 oz, 21.7 inches tall, head 37.6 cm) and Chiropractor appointment.  Tuesday we went to have his tongue and lip tie corrected, Wednesday we picked my mom up at the airport, Thursday we went to lactation appointment for help and to make sure he was getting enough milk (back at birth weight 9 lbs 5 oz after one week!), and Friday we went to meet Santa!

My mom was a great help, it was nice to have her here to hold Reid and help with the extra things that I wasn't getting to like dishes!  But Reid fooled us all while my mom was here.  He slept 6 hour stretches and went back to sleep each morning so I could sleep in, he was great!  I didn't need my mom's help at night and right when she left he decided it was time to start nursing every 3 hours again and not go back to sleep after nursing in the morning and sometimes in the middle of the night!

While she was here my hands started to get really weak and numb!  After about 3 weeks I got really worried and found out it is common to develop carpol tunnel after having a baby.  He's 6 weeks old now as I write this and I still have it a bit, especially at night!  This has not been fun at all!

While my mom was here we gave Reid his first sponge bath.  He of course did not like it, even with a heater blowing right on him!

Lots of afternoon naps with dad!

Love the burrito baby

One afternoon on day 8 we finally played around with our camera and got a few more newborn shots

Like I said, Friday we got to meet Santa and Mrs. Claus the Chiropractors office.  They were so cute with our kiddos and let Hayden pick out a toy.  Of course she picked out another tea set.

She got to eat pizza, decorate sugar cookies & make a craft!

The Christmas festivities continued with making gingerbread houses of our own.  It was hard for me, but I let go of control and let Hayden decorate it the way she wanted to.  

It's never fun having family leave.  My mom was greatly missed when she had to leave.