One Month Old

So Brandon is One month old today. How exciting. Everyone always says how fast time flys by when you have a little one and man I belive it now. I Can't belive it has been a month already.

Things are going great here. We are finally getting the hang of being parents. We are so excited for Brandon to start smiling and all that fun stuff. So far he has had a couple big smiles but as everyone says 'they were just gas smiles' however, I dont belive it. I think he is smiling at me. He is doing pretty good and keeping his head lifted up when we have him held up to our shoulders. Still has a hard time getting his head up off the floor when we have him on his tummy. But that willcome with time.

I am still quite sore. I have done some reasearch online and found out that if you have an oddly shaped pelvis as I found out in delivery that I do, it is very possible to fractor your tailbone during delivery. I am 99% sure that I have done this. I am in so much pain when I sit down. Mostly in the cars. and getting up from a sitting position puts a lot of pressure on my tailbone and it hurts like heck. Only thing is there isn't anything the docs can do for it. My doctor told me to sit on a cusion (like I hadn't figured that out).. ha ha.. But oh well. I will just keep taking my Ibprofin and hope for it to get better soon.

We had a fun night last night. Our friend Keifer (dani's friend jessies, step brother to be) is going into the Army so we went to a going away party for him last night. Good Luck to him. Then after that we went over to Candy and Jeremys house and visited with Candy and Jeremy, Kristin and Peter and their boys and Candy's friends Angie and Luke and their boy. It was a fun night with all the kids there.

I have me and Brandon's fist playdate this Tuesday. We are going over to my cousin Kristins house.. she has a little boy Sam who is almost 3 and she just had a little boy too.. Charlie who is 3 days older than Brandon. Also my cousin Carley is going over there too with her boy Devon who is 2 and she has a little girl Norah who is about 4 months old now. Not that the little ones will be playing at all but we will have a chance to talk and compare what our babies are doing and all that fun stuff. Plus it will be fun to get out of the house for a couple hours.

Well I better go before Brandon wakes up from his nap. I have 100 more things on my todo list before he gets up again. Talk to you all later.

Danielle

Brandon's Baptism

So Brandon was Baptised this past weekend at All Saints Catholic Church. It was a very nice service. Brandon was not a fan of getting the water poured over his head but other than that he was great. He also went to his first church service on that same sunday before the Baptism service. He did great in church. Barley made a sqeek.

We then had everyone over to our house for a light lunch after the Baptism. IT was really nice to share this time in Brandons life with our friends and family who were able to make it.

Brandon got some very nice gifts too, a couple crosses, one for the wall and one is on his dresser. He also got his First Piggy Bank. We already filled it with all our spare change.

It turned out to be a great Sunday. After everyone left our house, (it happend to also be superbowl Sunday) so our friends Kelly and Steve came back over and we watched the Superbowl together and Steve and Kelly brought over some of the fish they recently caught and we had a fish fry. It was really good.

That's all for now.

Danielle

Brandon Paul Sandmeier

Sorry It has taken me a week and a half after he was born to post something.. We have been Busy Busy Busy..

So Brandon Paul Sandmeier was born on 1-21-2010 at 12:06 am. He was 7lbs 5oz at birth and 20 1/4 in. long. He had a rough start into the world but it was all worth it and Everyone is doing great.

We got home from the hosptial on Friday afternoon and have been enjoying out time together while Jason has some time off work. He goes back to work tomorrow. So that will be interesting to see if I can handle all this on my own while he is out at work. I am sure we will be fine.

We had our second Doctors apointment today to make sure Brandon was gaining some weight. We had brought him to the doctor last week, for his first check up and because he was starting to act different. He wouldnt eat, poop or pee. He was very sleepy all the time and we were concerned. So we found out that Brandon was deyhidrated and hadn Jaundice. They brought over a lighted bed and belt for him to wear so that we could use phototherepy to make him all better. We went to the doc today and he is 2oz heavier than his birth weight so all is back to normal now. He is eating much better and Now has no problem in the pooping department. ha ha.

We had our first road trip this last weekend. We headed out to Aberdeen to visit Grandma and Grandpa Sandmeier and Uncle andy and Aunt Lynn. Brandon did great. He showed everyone how he barley ever cries and he is such a good boy.

Now that we are home we have been letting him lay in his crib or on the floor in his boppy pillow all day cuz he was getting held all weekend at the Grandparents. But that's ok. We enojoyed showing him off.

Mommy and Daddy even got to go out on friday night to enjoy a beer (or two) with Uncle Andy. I hadn't had a beer in at least 10 months (probably a bit more) and it was WONDERFUL.. However we only stayed for two beers and since it was the first time we had left Brandon we missed him already. So we headed home. Jerry and Mary were very suprised to see us home before 4 am (which is about when we used to come home when we went out in Aberdeen) Things changed a bit now.

Well Brandon is starting to wake up. It is time for him to eat again.. (seems like it always is) So I better wrap this up. I will post some very cute pics of him next time.. (maybe even later on today, after MY nap time.)

Talk to you all later

danielle