The Brintons:When Two Becomes Three

Friday, June 3, 2011

April ♥

April was fun! Jax turned three months! Holy coy!!! Time flies by so fast! I get stuck with a dilemma because I don't want him to get older but I get so excited for the future milestones! Speaking of we had a few more milestones in april! On the 10th he started sucking his fist! Its so cute! I keep thinking he will find his thumb and it will turn into thumb sucking but he still insists on shoving the whole fist in his mouth! He takes a pacifier too so thats nice :) The second that drops out I hear the loud sucking sounds and know he has moved on to the fist! I was a thumb sucker, so I'm sure that it will come eventually :) On the 27th we had a huge one! He rolled over for the first time from front to back! Uh oh! Now comes actually having to strap him in things and putting him smack dab in the middle of the bed so he doesn't roll off! He is sleeping so well! He will go to bed anywhere between 8 and 10. He'll usually wake up at 4 to eat and then back to sleep until Mommy wakes him up! This kid would sleep in all day if he could! I am enjoying that while it lasts! He is a great napper during the day too! He'll sleep anywhere too so that is nice! I'm not confined to the house all day! I don't have him on much of a schedule, he kinda just does his own thing and for now that is working for us! At the end of April he started grabbing things. I know its not much, but I love seeing his motor skills develop! He has a little monkey blanket that Carly bought him that he loves! He just grabs it and chews on it all day long! (Yes it frequently gets washed ;) )

Jax also had his first easter this month! I think it was definitely funner for me than it was for him! I can't wait until next year so he'll understand what is going on! We also had his baby blessing this month! It was so fun to have the whole family together! Grandma and Grandpa came down from Utah and Corey's Mom and Stan came from Safford! We did it at my parents house which is totally the way to go! It was such an amazing blessing and I am so grateful to have a worthy priesthood holder in my home! I am missing pics from this so I'll post them later.

As far as Corey and I go, not much is going on! Corey is just trudging through school and we are both working! He loves his job and is grateful that they can work so well around his school schedule! I am just working and hanging out with the fam a lot! I cant wait for the day we are both done with school and can be a semi normal family!!!

Heres some pictures from April!!!

Getting ready for Church :) not very happy lol!

Meeting Miss Jessi for the first time!

At Lindsey's birthday breakfast! Kamryn just loves him!

Mommy and Sax :)

Happy Easter Jaxsen Taj!

@ Cuncle C's Baseball Game!

Baby Announcement

Drivin with Grandpa ;)

March :)

March was full of firsts! Jaxsen is growing like crazy! On March sixth we had our first smile! I have never been so proud lol! The first month was of course filled with those cute dream/gassy smiles but its not the same! Corey and I decided to go to Stake Conference with my family. We hadn't been back to church yet because he was so little and it was the middle of cold season, so we decided we should probably go! We were in the middle of one of the speakers and I was just playing with him on my lap. All of a sudden he looks at us and totally smiles! We waited for him to do it again (in case it was a false alarm!) and he totally did!! I was so excited, it took everything I had to stay quiet lol!! The fun thing is, every smile since feels just as exciting to see as the first! My mom is convinced that it was because we were finally at church and he was so happy to be there! Over the next couple of weeks he started jabbering :) He gets a huge smile on his face and makes the cutest noises ever! How fun it is to be a mom! He honestly fills me with so much joy and happiness! I don't know how I ever lived without him!!

March 30th wasn't the funnest first...Shots :( That was definitely a sad day! The second that lady stabbed him he looked at me like how could you let her do that! Then the crying started! And of course its not the normal cry. Its the i'm not going to breath for 15 seconds and then cry, cry lol!! It was not a fun experience! We have about two more weeks until we get to experience that again. Eeks! Wish us luck!

Corey and I both had our birthdays! That was fun :) Corey's mom was in town so we just hung out and did some shopping! Corey got his sound system for his car and I got money to get new jeans! Still haven't used it lol! I think I'll wait at least another month ;) I went back to work and it is going so well! Sydney just loves Jax and its the cutest thing! She is constantly checking up on him to make sure that he's okay. He would cry and she run over to see what was wrong. Syd loves helping burp and change his diapers! It certainly makes things a lot easier to have a little helper around! I'm so sad that I only have a few more months left with her :( Luckily we are always by their house so we can stop and hang out anytime!

Here's a few pics from March!

His smile melts me every time!!

Jax loves his Grandparents :)

Thank you Aunt Tricia and Syd for the outfit!!

The Three Musketeers!!

February ♥

February was full of new adventures! I had the whole month off and it was spent getting to know my new little man! I went through about two weeks of postpartum crazy emotions and then things started to get a little more normal! I was finally back to myself and able to fully enjoy our precious baby!! We had fun doing his newborn pictures! I had a friend come and take them and she did amazing! He was definitely difficult to say the least! He would fall asleep and we would start and he would wake back up screaming crying lol! It was lovely! We of course had to do a few no diaper pics and you can only imagine what happens when a three week old is not wearing a diaper! Not only did Daddy get peed on twice but mister Jax decided he needed to poop on him also! Corey's got the worst of luck when it comes to that! I can not tell you how many times he got peed on while changing a diaper in those first two months! Jax just knows where his food comes from, so he doesn't mess with Mommy :)

Grandma's and Grandpa are just adoring the crap out of this little kid and so are the aunts and uncles! Its amazing how such a little person can bring such joy and happiness to so many people! Collin will walk in from a bad game or Grandpa and Daddy will come home from a hard day at work and the second they see him its like a complete 180!! He has magic mood healing powers I always say! Its so fun to see all the men in my life melt over this little guy! He truly is special!

February was huge for me! I have been on the waiting list for Nursing school for two years. Everyone gets in so its not competitive, but it is a long wait! I finished all of my pre and co requisites last spring, so I have had this last year to just work and get ready for the baby. There are a few different colleges that are apart of the Maricopa Community Colleges Nursing program. My first pick was Chandler-Gilbert, because the Nursing Program is located on the campus that we live on. So it would be a two minute drive. Well they threw me a curve ball and cut the spots open from 40 to 20 so I was convinced that I was going to get in with my bottom picks and have to drive at least an hour if not more to get to school everyday. Well huge blessing!! I get the email and It turns out I got accepted to Chandler-Gilbert!! I was seriously so shocked! I couldn't believe it. In that small moment I knew that the Lord was mindful of me and my baby and supported my decision. It is a huge blessing to be so close! My mom is so amazing and is going to watch Jax while I am in school. So she is my second enormous blessing! We are so grateful to have family so close and willing to help us get through these next few crazy years!

Here's some fun pics from the first month!


Who says there's No Crying In Baseball?


Daddy's Future Football Star

The Brintons

Jax and Grandma!

He's not the center of attention in any way!!

*Best Buds*

Jax with his Cuncle-B

<3 This Boy

My two favorite boys <3

Here's a little sample of his first bath :) He hated sponge
baths, but is a total water baby now! He loves it!

Friday, March 4, 2011

January 29, 2011 The Next Best Day Of Our Lives!

Wow what an amazing day!! Jaxsen Taj Brinton was born Saturday January 29, 2011 at 11:31 am. He was 8 lbs 3 oz and 20 1/4 inches long! We just love him! Here's how it went...

The night before~
Friday was pretty normal all day. I wasn't feeling any painful or regular contractions. My mom had been sick all week and I knew I couldn't do this whole birth thing without her. She was feeling better by Friday and I had by that point gotten everything ready that I could, so I finally felt like I was prepared. I had put off trying anything to make him come until then, other than a walk or two during the day. Friday I started downing pineapple just to see and went walking all day basically! We went to the mall and to a few stores and even walked around the neighborhood. Hayli cut and colored my hair that night and I went home and hung out with Corey. Still nothing in the contractions department. Around 11:45 we went in to bed and about 20 minutes later GUSH!! My water broke! I immediately woke up, jumped out of bed yelling to Corey my water broke and ran to the bathroom! Did Corey wake up? No! After yelling to him from the bathroom three more times he finally woke up. And of course the first thing he says is "Are you sure?" Am I sure? Of course I am sure! Look at the huge puddle next to you on the bed!! He spent the next twenty minutes running around the house like a chicken with his head cut off. Meanwhile I am still trying to convince him that my water really broke! I was surprisingly calm and in no pain whatsoever. I had been telling him all week to have his stuff ready by Friday. Did he? Of course not! Despite my telling him multiple times this was happening soon, He was convinced this child wouldn't be arriving until his due date! We called the parents and after grabbing everything we could remember, we finally hit the car! The whole way to the hospital I was as happy as a clam! Still no contractions and the best part... they couldn't send me home!

Hospital~
We arrived at the hospital, towel between my legs and got checked in around one. They sent us to Triage and got all of my information. The nurse kept saying IF your water broke, and we'll check to see IF it broke. IF? Seriously? Like I don't know for sure that the constant gushing is my water breaking and not me peeing my pants every few minutes! I know they have to double check but give me a little credit! Surprise surprise it really did break! After coming to that conclusion they finally set me up in a room! They checked me and said I was 1.5 cm dilated and that it would be quite a while before this baby came. Around 2 o'clock I was still not painfully or consistently contracting. They gave me Cytotek, a pill to induce labor around 2:20 and by 2:30 I started feeling the contractions. The first hour was painful but bearable, the next two were the absolute worst hours of my entire life. I have never felt so much pain! I seriously thought I was going to die! The worst part was, the nurse came in about half way through and said I still wasn't really in active labor. So here I am thinking I am going to have to do this forever! She said they typically give an epidural around 4 cm. Since my water broke they were hesitant about checking me and said they would do it every 4 hours or so. At the end of hour 3 she came in and asked on a scale of 1 to 10 how bad the pain was. I told her if this isn't a ten then I don't want to know what is! I asked her to check me and surprise surprise I was a 4! (these nurses didn't realize I have the Norton gene of fast progressing labors! Thank you grandma and mom!!!) She asked if I wanted anything for the pain and I said Epidural Please!!!! A few minutes later a little piece of heaven on earth arrived!! And no it wasn't Jax! In walked the anesthesiologist with my epidural! From that moment on I knew I wasn't going to die :) For the next few hours labor was quite a pleasant experience!! I sat there watching my contractions on the monitor and feeling absolutely nothing! It was quite amazing! Around 9:30 am the nurse came in to check me once again. She gets this shocked look on her face, looks up and says wow your at a ten! Again... thank you mom!!! The doctor had a scheduled C-section so she told me that we weren't going to start pushing until the doctor was out. So an hour goes by! I was going crazy!! By 10:30 she decides I can start pushing... Finally!! Well little did we realize I could have started an hour before and been just fine with the timing of the doctor! I ended up pushing for an hour and all because I wasn't doing it right!! The sweet nurse as nice as she was, wasn't very helpful in the department of critiquing and telling me what I could do different. I Finally figured out what I should be doing and 15 minutes later our prince arrived! At least I'll know for the next one right?!?! Lets just say the next child I will be requesting an epidural on arrival and I will know how to push correctly! But that won't be for quite a while!!

Jaxsen~
We were taking bets on who this boy would look like! I was convinced he was going to come out looking just like his dad! Blonde hair, green eyes and white as a ghost (No offense on the skin babe!). Yes I have dominant features but all three of my brothers and sisters had blonde hair, green eyes, and light skin. Well halfway through pushing we hear the nurse comment on his dark hair. Wait what?!? Come again! Did you say dark hair? That she did! 30 minutes later he comes out with dark brown hair, red skin and the potential for dark eyes! The best part is, he has Corey's nose and it looks so cute on him!! His face and facial expressions look just like his dad and I love it! So he turned out the be the perfect mix! Mom's hair, eyes, skin and dads nose and cute face! Wait did I mention hair? He has hair everywhere! His back is covered and he even has hair on his ears! Its so funny! I was quite hairy as a baby and Corey can grow a beard in an hour so I guess it makes sense! We just love this boy! He is the pride and joy of all of his grandparents and he has his aunts and uncles wrapped around his finger! He even got my dad to change a few of his poopy diapers! That is completely unheard of! We are so happy to have him finally here on earth with us! He truly is amazing!