Kendall 

I’m trying to add some pictures, let’s see if I can add them!

My little Kendall is now three months old!  He is 12 lbs and 4 ounces now, (or he was at his last appointment), near the end of January!   He is truly a joy to have.  He is getting much better at sleeping in his bassinet now.  I think I will keep him sleeping in there until he pretty much outgrows the bassinet.  I like having him close by at night so I can check on him without waking him.  He is just like me in the sense that he likes to go to bed late and sleep late.  He will sleep in on the weekends which is really nice.  We had his pictures taken about a week ago, as soon as I learn how to upload them, I will put some on here.  He made us work for a smile though!  He started smiling on December 22nd, just in time for Grandma and Grandpa Norris to come for Christmas.  He had a wonderful Christmas with his Grandparents and his Aunt Mary.  This past weekend Grandma Norris and Aunt Mary came to see him again.  They had to drive through a terrible storm to get here, but they made it safely. 

In two weeks Kendall will be baptised.  Did I spell that right?  He will finally meet his Uncle Mike and Aunt Sarah for the first time.  They will be his Godparents.  Last night, we went to church and Kendall started to cry after communion, (apparently he was disappointed that he too didn’t receive a wafer?), so I took him out to the lobby.  I know no one wants to listen to a crying baby when you are trying to hear the sermon.  At the end of Mass, Dad came out and brought his bag so we sat on the couch in the lobby and fed Kendall as another little one was baptised.  That was wonderful to see!  It also gave me a sense for how long the baptism would take.  I know that is probably an awful thing to think of, but when you are dealing with a little one, it is a nice thing to know because keeping them happy can be a challenge!  We were fortunate that a couple of church members came right to our house to do the baptism class!  (A Pre-Jordan class is required if you are Catholic)  They were so wonderful, they explained everything for us and Glynnis wanted to hold Kendall, and she must have the magic touch because he sat with her for almost a whole hour; happy as a clam!  (She has four grandsons, that must have something to do with it!)  Her husband Steve also did all of my classes when I was an RCIA candidate 5 years ago, so we were very familiar with him.  I can’t believe I’ve been married almost 5 years now!

I promise to get some pictures of the little guy on here soon!  We will have to get some baptism pictures on here as well in a couple weeks!

Take care and keep warm!

On October 25th, we were finally blessed with the birth of Kendall.  It was a little stressful, but everything went very well.  I woke up at 7:30 that morning.  I was getting ready for work and I was in the bathroom and I felt a “pop,” and I thought it might be the water breaking, so I called my husband, and my mother of course and told them I was going to the hospital because I thought today “might be the day”.  I had just finished all of my school work the night before, so today was a perfect day!  So, I drove myself to labor and delivery, where David met me, and a little while later, we were informed that “yes, the water had broken”.  So I was admitted to the hospital, even though it was about 9 am now I still hadn’t felt any contractions, so the doctor showed up with some Pitocin and said we would now get the “party started”.  Mr. Kendall had different ideas though.  He was moving around so much, they couldn’t monitor him with the external monitor, and they tried the internal monitor also and it wasn’t working.  Everything started happening rather quickly and I was now feeling contractions.   Now the resident doctor came in and explained they were having a hard time monitoring him and he was having accels and decels in his heart rate, so they were trying to determine if he was in distress, but they weren’t able to tell.  So, we were proceeding with a C-Section now.  I had made the decision a couple of weeks ago that if they had to go with a C-Section, I wanted general anesthesia, just in case they had any problems, being I have had so many surgeries.  They were worried that Kendall might be a little sleepy because of the anesthesia, but they were able to get him out fast enough that he wasn’t affected at all (good doctors!).  I woke up a little while later in recovery and they finally handed him to me!  He was with his Dad while I was being finished up in surgery.  He is beautiful!   All 6 little pounds of him!  I just couldn’t believe I was finally being able to see him for the first time.  Here was this little baby boy who I’d been carrying around all this time and I had wondered what he would look like and be like when he finally arrived. 

He seems to like just about everyone who holds him.  He hasn’t automatically started crying yet when someone picks him up.  He can be hard to comfort sometimes, especially when he wants to eat or needs to be changed.  He doesn’t like to be “swaddled,” he is a human furnace just like his Dad!  He doesn’t like to sleep in his bassinet much right now either.  He pretty much wants to sleep with Mom for now. 

Our “pests” seem to be responding well to him right now too.  We are amazed at how well Jamie (dog) has taken to him!  He loves him, except when he is crying at 3 am.  Jamie watches over him.  Wants to comfort him with kisses!  The cats, whom I thought would pay him no attention, are very curious.  So, I am not sure what the cats are up to.  The dog is genuinely accepting of him though, which is what we were hoping for.

We are enjoying finally having Kendall here, even if he is a little loud and unruly at times    He is loved more than he will ever know!