Well, today Malakhi and I went with Cory to pick up a load in the big truck. So today was his first time riding in an 18 wheeler! He slept most of the time. The vibration from the truck just puts him right to sleep, and he slept really well. I wish he would sleep that well at night! haha. He was awake for a little while. He was lookin around and just taking in everything. 
It was great.
Malakhi is also a month old today! On Thanksgiving we weighed me then me holding him and he is about 9 1/2 lb now. I can tell he is getting bigger. Ofcorse when I noticed it it seemed to me like it was just over night that he grew.
So how was your Thanksgiving? Ours was pretty good. We had lunch at my grandparents house. They fried the turkey and it was soo good! My grandma put some kind of spicy rub on it that added good flavor, but I didn’t really eat the skin. Cory said it was hot, so I just took his word for it. Afterwords we got Jeremiah then went to Cory’s Mom’s for dinner. She hadn’t gotten to see Malakhi yet. She drives an 18 wheeler also, but she is gone for a lot longer. It was nice getting to spend time with family. Though I hate some comments that people tend to make about babies. I never realized before I had my own how annoying it is! The one I hate the most is when someone says “stop pinching that baby!” when he is crying. Every time he cries when other people are around I have to hear that. My grandmother does it the most.
Another thing I’ve come to find annoying…children wanting to sit and stair at me while I try to feed Malakhi. I guess it’s just because it’s something different, but I hate it.
My newest most amazing skill? Typing one handed. lol! Most of the time that I’m on the computer now I only have on hand to use. The other one is preoccupied with the baby. Usually feeding him. I’m starting to get pretty good at it! I’m even able to capitalize without much trouble.
Anyways, Malakhi is doing very well. As of last Friday he weighed 8lb 5oz. Two weeks ago I had to go get my WIC updated. Well they also had to check baby to make sure he is healthy. When they weighed him he was still one ounce under his birth weight. I still don’t think it was that big of a deal, but they freaked out about it. I was upset about it then (still am a little) but no reason to rant about it now. He eats when he is hungry and he isn’t fussy all the time, so I see no need to worry about it.
Up until last night, sleeping has been fine. Feeding him every 3 hours isn’t so bad, though, every hour like it was last night isn’t quite so easy. I’m guessing it’s just a little growth spurt making him want to eat more. I just hope that it only lasts one night.
Malakhi Orion, born October 29th, 2009 at 2:01pm. 7lb 8 oz, 20in long.
So yeah, I’m a little slow getting this out…but oh well. I think I have a pretty good excuse! lol.
Details (possibly TMI, so don’t read if you don’t really want to know):
I woke up at 4am on the 29th with contractions. I had been having braxton hicks before so I figured it was that and tried to go back to sleep, when I couldn’t I started timing them. They were about 8 min apart. I decided to get up and take a shower to see if they went away, they didn’t (I decided to shave while I was in there too, lol). I went and laid back down. That’s when I noticed my panties were getting wet…I texted my mom and said “either my water broke or I have lost control of my blader”. I wasn’t sure cause it wasn’t like a big gush, just a little every few min. She said it could be my water and I should go to Labor & Delivery. That’s when Cory woke up. I told him what was going on and I swear that was the fastest I have ever seen him get out of bed! lol.
We left the house at 7am, was checked in at 7:15am. (I pre-registered only the day before! lol, I was cutting it close) Everything went great, had him at 2:01pm and I didn’t have to push for very long. I don’t know how long…but I’m sure my mom could tell me. It was her and Cory in there with me. I think I had the waiting room completely full! lol
I didn’t have any pain meds or anything like that. I did start to ask for something because they kept telling me I was still at 9 and that it wasn’t time to push and I just couldn’t help it, I needed to push! lol, so they checked me again and said, ok, it’s time. *major eye roll between contractions*
I managed to only dig my nails in Cory once and that was while I was actualy pushing. I did keep turning his fingers blue and purple though. lol.
END of TMI. lol
So this was the best birthday present ever. Yeah, my birthday was the 29th.
Alrighty, at some point I will actually have a little something about me in here, untill then, this is all ya get. :P Sorry. O and there will be a picture too. For now I'm going to work on this layout. It's almost done. :)
