Finally Sleeping well....

So...since last week Luke has been sleeping sooooo well!!! I hope this isn't a fluke and he really is getting used to this. So far we have been getting him ready for bed around 9:30-10pm ( I know...pretty late...but he is a night person) We give him a bath (every other night), change his diaper, put his lotion on, read him a bedtime story and then I nurse him and put him down in his crib. On good nights he will go for about 6 hours from the time I put him down and then he wakes up to feed and then I put him down again. From there he sleeps another 3-4hours! So its been GREAT!!! Here he is sleeping...so cute!!!
Update: So most nights he sleeps well but some nights he will get up every 3 hours or so...but that has only happend twice in the past couple weeks. BUT now he sleeps his 5-6 hours and then wakes up at 4-5am will go to sleep and then wake up an hour later...then I put him to sleep, put him down and he goes down for an hour again...this happens until 8am. So we will see how this goes ;)

New Year...2010

We had a great Christmas holiday and unfortunatly David had to leave again. So he was gone for 2 of the 3 holidays, but atleast he was home for Christmas! For new years eve we decided to keep it low key and we went to Beth's house to celebrate with everyone. And I was able to sleep there since they have an extra room downstairs (which is now labled Auntie and Luke's room..lol..) Here is a picture of Jaime playing DJ Hero. Everyone was taking turns as we all waited for midnight.
All the kids tried to stay awake but all the girls ended up falling asleep and the boys stayed up. My baby Luke fell asleep as everyone was counting down from 10...by the time they got to 1 he was out! Lol...here we are at 12 midnight. I figured since he fell asleep right as the new year was coming maybe it means he will sleep well this year! We will see.

Here he is the next morning. He actually slept REALLY well that night! He woke up a happy little boy =) He was all full of smiles and talking up a storm! What a way to start the new year. it was great to wake up to this little boy's smiling face.

Jassy slept over too and she brought over her cool Disney waffle maker so here is what the kids got for breakfast on New Years morning. They not only looked good but they were yummy too.

Here is another picture of Luke on New years day. Starting to get a lot better with his tummy time and showing what a big boy he already is. This is the year he is going to turn 1!!!!

Luke's first Christmas and 2 months

December...one of my favorites month. This year especially because it was our baby Luke's first Christmas!!! December 25th was not only Luke's first Christmas but it was his 2 months too! Here is his picture celebrating both =)

Now to talk about our December. Baby Luke grew SO much in one month. From his one month to 2 month he got soooo big!!! He also started smiling a lot more...don't you love his smile! David was gone again for the first part of December and got back halfway through. We took advantage of this time before the crazy holidays started. So we went to Vacaville and checked out Candy Cane Lane with Luke. We think he liked the lights. Lol...

Then comes the Christmas holiday and our crazy schedule of trying to see everyone!!! On Christmas Eve we had two parties to go to. The Redeker party in Elk Grove and then the Racelis party at my parent's house. We also opened presents with the Berry Family that afternoon before the two parties... Luke wore this outfit below. It was my favorite one, he looks like a little boy! ( I know he is, but he didn't look like a baby...lol)

At the Redeker party Luke got to meet his Great Grandad for the first time! Here they are hanging out at the party. They are 93 years apart!!!!!
After the Redeker party it was off back to Cordelia to get to the Racelis party so everyone could meet Luke there too. Here is Lolo and Luke...when we got there EVERYONE wanted to get a picture with Luke. He was like Mickey Mouse. My mom said we should have started charging people and made some money =)
That night we actually stayed at my parent's because the next morning (Christmas morning) we were going to be heading to my sister's house to open presents with the Roses family. But first before we headed to the craziness of our gift exchange we opened presents as a family for the first Christmas. David, Luke and I opened presents from each other. We all got awesome gifts but David and I's favorite gift was baby LUKE! Here is Luke Christmas morning and with one of his presents...the highly talked about Seahorse.

After our little family gift exchange we got ready and headed to Beth's house for the gift fiasco...there were presents EVERYWHERE. My poor baby fell asleep while we were opening presents, but he got a lot of neat things.
After opening presents with the Roses family it was off back to Fairfield to David's parents house for the Berry family get together. While the family played instruments of Christmas songs Luke hung out with his Great Grandma. It was really cute because she was singing to him and he was liking it.
Then the next party awaited us Christmas night so it was back to my parents house in Cordelia. Again more presents and family. It was a great time. Here is a picture of Luke with his Aunt and Uncles that are mestizos like him =)
And after 4 parties and 2 family gift exchanges our Christmas holiday was over. Here is our last family picture from all the holiday fun.
And if you think we are done....we were not. The day after Christmas my family decided to take family pictures by one of my sisters friends who is a photographer here in Vacaville. We all wore brown, tan or cream. You can check out her work at http://www.photographybycrystallynn.com/

Here is my baby boy's cute outfit.

On Dec. 28th poor baby Luke had his 2 month appointment with his 2 month shots =( It was so sad to see/hear him get his shots...I think he took it better than me! At that appointment we did find out that he was 24.5inches (90th percentile) tall, 16 inches for his head circumference (90th percentile) and 14.6lbs (95th percentile!!). That day he was a little more tired than usual but by the next day he was back to his old self which was good because it was the day we were going to San Francisco for our annual family lunch in the city. We went to The Palace Hotel in SF and ate at Garden Court. The hotel was downtown and the restaurant in the hotel was GORGEOUS!!! Here is all of us stopping for a picture on our way to the hotel.

We got inside The Palace hotel and they had the city of San Francisco in Gingerbread! All the kids loved it!

Look at that big tree and nutcrackers!!! And don't forget that BEAUTIFUL ceiling! It was a sight and I'm so glad we ate there!

The view was not the only great thing about this place...but the food was amazing!!! For lunch i had a filet steak and a crab cake that was almost ALL crab! My dessert was even better! It was a Black and White creme brulee with some fruit on top. YUMMY in my TUMMY =D We couldn't stop taking pictures. Here was our view from our table. We took LOTS of pictures but here is a picture of me and my sisters and the two babies of the family, Laci and Luke

After we ate we needed to walk off all that scrumptious food that we ate and to check out Union Square's decorations. Look at my cute baby boy with his Rocky, all bundled up for a walk in San Francisco. It was his first time to the City!

We got to Union Square and took the usual family pictures with the tree and Macy's. David had to work unfortunately so it was just me and my baby.

Then it was time to walk to the mall downtown and here is an action shot. lol...
We go to the mall and went to the Vera Bradley store. While us girls were looking around/shopping this is what happend to Luke and my dad.
After spending some money we decided it was time to go home. I hope Luke had a good time for his first time in the city. Next time we will go with Daddy too!

Luke and his first Halloween/Thanksgiving and 1 month

So the first couple weeks with Luke= NO sleep!!! David and I didn't know how people did it! Then we all started getting used to each other and things got much better. It was hard for me b/c since I had a C-section I really couldn't move around too much and needed to rest to heal myself. David was a BIG help! He actually was the official diaper changer for the first couple weeks! And we lived downstairs for the first couple weeks too since stairs were a no-no for me. Here are some first pics at home:A couple days later it was Halloween. Baby Luke was 6 days old and Beth was having a party, but we were so tired and Luke was so little that we passed on the party and spent his first halloween at home as a family. We even did a little photo shoot with him.

Here is him with his "pumpkin bootie".

So here are some pictures week by week of Luke's first month.

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4 One month went by quickly and Luke started showing his smiley personality. This baby would smile when you talk to him and then he would talk back to you. But of course when I wanted to take his picture for his one month he didn't. Isn't he a cutie?

Actually I take it back...here is a semi smile! The next day after his 1 month was thanksgiving! Luke's first thanksgiving...unfortunately it was also David's first trip since Luke was born but luckily he came home early the night after thanksgiving. We went to Grandma and Grandad's place for thanksgiving with the Berry's and then to Auntie Beth's for a Roses thanksgiving.

MIA

wow...so I've been missing in action for sure! Sorry everyone but the last couple of months have gone by so quickly!!! And so much has happened since I was 36 weeks pregnant! Some interesting things that have happened since then. I actually braved going to the Niner/Rams game at 38 weeks pregnant. It was fun but I was a little nervous that I might go into labor...but I didn't.

His due date of October 15th came and passed and then we were in the middle of all the October birthdays. We were hoping he would come out and fill in the gap. We had a little get together at Uncle Ronnie's house.
Here is me trying out the "preggo pizza" at Skipilini's a pizza place in Concord....it didn't work =(

Here is the last picture of me before I had Luke. This was taken on October 22nd.

Luke Aaron was born on October 25, 2009 at 9:25pm. He was 10 days late! At 41 weeks I had an NST and we scheduled an induction for October 26th, but this little boy didn't like to be told when to come out and had his own plans. So in the early morning of October 25th my water broke and we went to DGMC. Unfortunately after laboring all day from 7am-8:30pm and getting the epi at 3:30pm I had to have a C-section due to failure to progress. I basically didn't dilate past 5cm. When Luke came out we found out why...he was 8lbs 15.5 oz (so I tell everyone he was 9lbs) Here is some pics of us at the hospital when he was born: