Our Little Man

Max William Carpenter

March 24, 2010

11:15am
7lbs 150z.
19 in

chubby and blond... we're so in love!

Feeding the Ducks

"WOW!! Look at the water!"

Living in Idaho Falls can be pretty awesome. Down by the river, known as the "Green Belt" there are tons of ducks and geese. They're a little aggressive when it comes to feeding them. They totally demand bread, and if you don't have any they hiss and squawk at you. Jayne and I went to feed these wild animals with Darick's parents today. It was fun, but I was a little nervous Jayne was going to be carried away. I mean look at the size of these fellas, and if that isn't enough, they would win out on numbers, it's like 100 to one.


The army of birds.

Jayne LOVES it when grandma and grandpa come to visit, she sits on their laps, hugs them, follows them around, asks them funny questions and totally forgets she has parents. She adores grandma and grandpa!

Here's a nice view of the temple from across the River... I love it when the weather warms up, and I can come out of my winter hibernation :)

Knit Skirts

I love baby girls. I love to dress them up, do their hair (the little bit they have), cuddle and love 'em. I love to see those chunky thighs, and cute dimpled knees. With that all in mind I decided to make some cute skirts out of soft knit fabric for the Baby Fair in April. These are just a few... (seriously, I think I'm making about 50!)

The colors available are: Brown, Tan, Hot Pink, Teal, Grey, Purple, and White. I think this might be my favorite project yet! Or maybe its because I've been so wrapped up in boy things, it's refreshing to make things for a baby girl again.

I didn't picture all of the colors together, because the other skirts still need finishing touches, like elastic, flowers or buttons. But they are going to be seriously cute!

Take 2

Are you tired of all the pregnancy posts this week? I promise, next week I'll post some projects... but for now here's a new double the pregnancy picture of Courtney and me. We were both pregnant when I was pregnant with Jayne, and we're in the same boat again. This time I'm 8 weeks ahead of her. So in the following pictures I'm 36 weeks 5 days, and Courtney is 28 weeks 6 days. Courtney thinks she huge, but this is her 4th pregnancy and my 2nd... she's not the "Ginormica" she thinks she is, I think she looks cute pregnant still. Not awkward pregnant like me. However, I was having an awesome hair day... seriously.

"We're still pregnant?!"

Look at those bellies!

"The tummy hug"

36 Weeks

Maybe there's a little too much skin in this picture, but it's my blog right? He's totally pushing up on my right side too... well maybe a less exposed picture next week

So I'm now 36+ weeks, here's the good and the bad...
Good things:
*hopefully only 2 more weeks to go.... but possibly 4, and I pray not 6?
*I'm almost completely ready, he could come today and I think I would survive
*I only have a couple more Dr. appointments... sometimes it bugs me having so many
*I can still walk up stairs
*I can veg at night with a good excuse
*Darick does dishes every night, not just when we run out (dishes are his job- I cook dinner)
*I have rediscovered how much I love pebbled ice from Sonic, and have a cup very often

Bad things:
* I just started to get stretch marks :( hopefully they won't get too bad
*It sort of hurts to move at night, I get really bad nerve pain in my back, and often my leg just drops out from under me, so I limp around, and walk by things I can suddenly hold on to if needed
*I still have a few projects I want to get done, we'll see how it goes
*My feet are super sore all the time, especially my toes

Jayne's Birth Story

This is my sister Courtney and me last time we were pregnant, we're both pregnant now too. It's tho only picture I have of me being pregnant with Jayne (well there's like 8 pictures that we took, but they are all in these clothes within minutes of each other) I just wasn't into taking pregnancy pictures then, I'm not really into it now either, but thought I should document this pregnancy more. In this picture I was 32 weeks, and Courtney was 36 weeks, she had Eli one week later.

Ok so now onto Jayne's debut into the world

When: June 18th, 2007 at 2:37am

What :Pretty Baby Girl

How: All natural

Stats: 7 lbs. 8oz, 21 in. long.. with some hair

I think I was in denial when I was in labor with Jayners... I knew I was having a baby, but completely ignored the fact. It all started The Thursday before. I went into the doctor for my weekly checkup, and the doctor checked my. I was 3cm dilated and 80% effaced. The doctor told my that he could strip my membranes and put me into labor if I wanted. I was really done being pregnant, but my mom was coming down the following week, and she wouldn't have been very happy if I had the baby before she got there, well on purpose. The doctor said that he didn't think I would make it to my next appointment, and I left merrily on my way. I called my mom and told her all that happened. She was planning on coming down like the following Friday, but changed her mind and was going to come Tuesday instead. So that Saturday I knew I had some cleaning to do, and pretty much crawled around the house all day scrubbing at all the little corners. My mom called me that day and said she was coming after church the next day. Yahoo! I thought. So instead of taking things easy, I did jumping jacks, jump roped, and jumped on my bed for a whole movie. I went to bed very tired, and had an awesome sleep. Sunday morning came and I was having contractions, but not painful.... just tight in the tummy. Church started at 1:00pm and I had things to do there. So I went, and all through primary I had contractions pretty often, every time I stood up, sat down, and in between. About every 7-10 minutes. Then I went to Sacrament meeting, and my friend who was also pregnant sat by me. She was really funny because she was keeping track of my contractions, now they were every 7 minutes. She told me I was in labor, but I had things to do. You see, that Sunday was June 17th, Fathers Day 2007! And Darick's dad was up visiting because my sister in law had her baby the Wednesday before, and so my parents in law were coming over for dinner. Then we were going to play games. So When I got home from church I got down to business and made calzones. Then after dinner we all sat down to play games. It was pretty fun, during our game of Settlers of Catan my mom in law Terri asked Darick what he was doing.... keeping track of my contractions, which were 5-6 minutes apart. It was about 8:00, and my mom rolled in with my little sister in tow. We finished up playing our games, and my parents in law went back to my sister in laws house. At about 9:30 I drove my mom and sister Nancy over to Courtney's house to see baby Eli. Nan hadn't met him yet, and my mom didn't remember how to get to Courtney's place from mine. We stayed about an hour, but by that time I was sort of getting uncomfortable. So we all came back home. I took a hot bath, to ease the contractions, and it totally made them worse! By 12:00am, they were like 4 minutes apart and lasting 1 min. but I didn't want to go to the hospital yet, I just didn't want to be in the hospital in labor, when I could be at home. But by 12:30 Darick went to go wake up my mom. She came upstairs and said "Honey, you're having a baby. We need to go to the hospital" So we started to get ready to leave. With a cup of pebbled ice in my hand we left for the hospital around 1:15am. My contractions were 3 minutes apart and lasting for over a min. We got to the hospital in Rexburg at 1:45am. I was unloaded, and brought to the "labor room" The nurse casually came in to check me, after all this was my first baby. I was dilated to 8cm, and moved in between contractions to the "Delivery Room." By that time the nurse was trying to get an IV in me, and had poked my about 10 times in each hand. But every time I had a contraction, which pushed the needle back out.. I was checked again and was now at a 9. The nurse yelled out to the hallway to get my doctor. She finally got the IV in, but just then, before she could tape it down my water broke. It sounded like a "POP!" and the needle flew out of my hand and the nurse was sprayed with blood from my vein. She said, "well, you aren't getting an IV." checked me again and yelled that the head was crowning, and to get the doctor in here! At the time I didn't want to be touched by anyone, Darick just stood by me. I was thinking that I wanted to be really nice to the nurses, because I've seen those baby shows and all those crazy ladies yelling at everyone, and this situation was NOT their fault. Well My doctor came in, and he looked like some HOBO off the street. He was wearing faded blue jeans, and forest green shirt, and really old tennis shoes. He basically put his arms into his robe thing, put on gloves and caught Jayne. I didn't push at all! She was born less than an hour after we got to the hospital. I then enjoyed a turkey sandwich, cause I was super hungry! and we stayed for 3 days. I've LOVED every minute with Jayners.

Baby Boy Overalls

I think I must be on a boy kick, all my ideas and projects seem to be loving boys. I think babies look really cute in overalls, especially BOY babies. So I used my pattern making skills I learned last semester and came up with these sweet duds. I think they'll fit 0-6 mo? We'll see how long our little man can wear them... when he gets here.

Oh did I mention they are reversible? And I thought that two little buttons on each side would be just as cute as one big button. I think I might make another pair and add more pockets, and maybe some knee pads? Oh Boy!