Haydon's first weeks at home

Here is some catch up from the last few weeks. Haydon has been a busy guy meeting some of his aunts, uncles, and cousins. We are settling in and getting more rest at night.

Aunt Jill

Caitlyn could not wait to hold him. Madi was indifferent.

Uncle Craig

Aunt Holly, Rylan, Caleb, Jacob with Haydon and Papa

The boy cousins on my side of the fam. With this group you cannot get a good picture of all of them at once.

Aunt Holly

Aunt Holly and Caleb

another attempt at a group picture

Jacob with Haydon

Jacob and Caleb with Haydon

Ice cream buddies, Rylan and Caleb

Papa with his mini me

Rylan has been such a good big brother and a great helper since we got home with Haydon. A few days after being home, he walked in the living room to inform us that he would now be calling the baby Haydon and not Jimmy Pockets.  We knew he would come around on the name but it actually happened sooner that we expected.

Rylan checks on his brother and holds his hand in the car.

Rylan wanted a burp cloth for his shoulder.

Play time in the floor. Haydon follows Rylan and recognizes his voice.

Meet Haydon James Dudley

 

Monday morning on the way to the hospital. Excited! It was so strange to have everything scheduled this time. 

Pre-op room. My sweet husband taking pictures of me.

Here he is! Rylan does not like this picture. I don't think he was ready to come out. 

Jordon got to hold him and walk around while I got closed up. Again it was strange because with Rylan they took him out of the room so quickly and Jordon went with him while I went to recovery. 

Meeting big brother

Hanging out with all the grandparents

Snuggle time

Grammy and Rylan checking out baby brother

Rylan wanted to hold Haydon. Be still my heart!

Haydon, the thinking guy. Don't mind dad's sexy legs!

I have no words for this one :)

Rylan is still set on his name being Jimmy Pockets and he will correct you if you call him Haydon. He did almost call him Haydon before we left the hospital. 

My sweet boys!

Getting ready to go home from the hospital. All the nurses loved his baseball clothing. 

He looks so tiny in the car seat. The ride home went really good. I thought we would have to stop at least once but he slept the entire way. 

Selfie! 

Sweet sleepy baby! W have similar pictures of Rylan and they really favor each other in these pictures.

 It has been a whirlwind week even though we knew when everything was happening this time. It was strange bring a two days old baby home. 

We had a weight check with our pediatrician today (Friday). He got a good report; has lost a little as expected but we are getting into an eating routine. Rylan went home with Grammy from Fort Worth and they are coming back today. I am ready to have them with me since Jordon is going back to work. 

The destruction continues...

Kitchen is almost complete demolished or as Rylan says "Daddy is tearing up the house."  

Let the demo begin!!

The dumpster has arrived! So now the true demo can begin. 

First bathroom to go

Kitchen appliances are out and the cabinets are next in the list to go.

Jimmy Pockets - 35 Weeks

 

There he is!! No he does not have a name yet and if he did we are not telling anyway.

 

Rylan wants to name his brother Jimmy Pockets. We have no idea where he came up with that name. He told everyone even the doctor that was the name. I am afraid that he is going to be so disappointed when we don't name the baby Jimmy Pockets or that the nickname might actually stick! Although Rylan hates nicknames so maybe he won't stick with it for the baby.

 

I am hesitant to even write this blog because I went back and looked at some of the post just before Rylan arrived and I don't want to jinx anything. I am just amazed at how well this pregnancy has gone; don't get me wrong it has not been a walk in the park but overall good. 35 weeks and still going smooth. We go back to the doctor next week for another sonogram and check up. We still can't believe it that I could carry a baby for a second time and much less this long!!

Summer 2015

The past year has been a whirlwind and I have not made time to blog much! I plan to get back into blogging because we have so many great things in the works.

There must be something about the summer heat that makes Jordon and I take on major decisions. We got married July 23, 2015, bought our first car together July 2006, August 2008 we bought our house in Lubbock, August 2011 I graduated with my master's degree and found out we were expecting Rylan, July 2013 we bought our second vehicle together, and last summer we decided to move to sell our house, move to Comanche and both start new jobs. I probably missed some things in that list but those are the majors ones.

Summer 2015 is no exception; we just bought our dream home and will undergo a renovation on it and baby boy #2 will arrive in late August!

Here are some pictures of the house and land. We are so excited to start demo and putting it back together. One of my first trips home with Jordon, he told me if he could live anywhere in Comanche it would be in this house on the hill even though he had never seen the inside of the house. It is a great accomplishment to make this a reality for us and our family. Now just can't wait to get in there but first a lot of renovations :).

from the highway

front of the house

 

east side of house

east side again

south side of house

master bedroom; wood floors and windows with great views

 

hallway to bedrooms

I am so excited about this! Laundry shoot to the laundry room on the lower level

kitchen

kitchen

living room; hopefully the that wall will go

living room

dining room

downstairs den and laundry room

den with fireplace

den view

lower level; soon to be play room for the boys

I need to take some more recent pictures since the grass is green and there has been a little clean up inside the house. I will take pictures as I can once the handyman (Jordon) starts demo.