Marcus's Wild Ride

My First Month Birthday

2008-02-03T12:33:00.000-08:00

It's been awhile since I posted last. Mommy and Daddy have been busy selling their old house. I've been busy too. I started eating a little more, sleeping a little more at night, staying awake a little more during the day and developing an attention span. I've learned to like my bouncy seat and playmat.

I reached a big milestone last week when I celebrated my one month birthday on January 29, 2008. Mommy and Daddy bought me an ice cream cake (Mommy loves ice cream cakes). Mommy and Daddy told me that I will like ice cream when I'm old enough to eat it. Mommy took pictures and Daddy helped me blow out my candle.

But this wasn't my first birthday cake. Mommy and Daddy got me cakes for my first week and third week birthdays too.

My Before and After Shots

2008-01-25T15:29:00.000-08:00

Mommy put together some "before and after" pictures from my in utero photo session. What do you think?

My First Photo Shoot

2008-01-25T14:45:00.001-08:00

My last blog posting was also about having my picture taken. Mommy and Daddy take lots of pictures. Mommy took me out yesterday to have these pictures taken. I slept the whole time, but Mommy was really happy with the pictures. The photographer even put Mommy in a couple. Enjoy! I'll tell you all about being born later...

My Birth Day

2008-01-25T13:21:00.000-08:00

As most of you know by now, I decided to be born more than two weeks early. I was due on January 13, 2008, but that was too long for me to wait. I was getting cramped and uncomfortable and from what I understand Mommy was getting kind of uncomfortable too. The day before I was born, Friday, December 28, 2007, Mommy was supposed to go to work, but she had a doctor's appointment and it was REALLY SLOW because no one was working the week between Christmas and New Year's, so she decided to take the day off.

Mommy went to the doctor's that day and they looked at me and listened to me and said that I was doing fine. The midwife wasn't expecting me any time soon, but told Mommy that with babies, you can never really be sure. So Mommy went and did some shopping and got Daddy's car serviced and then went home. She thought she started having contractions in the afternoon, but wasn't sure. Mommy's a little neurotic so she started writing down the times of her contractions starting at 4:38 pm. Mommy thought it was false labor, but the contractions kept on coming. They were still far apart, but they kept coming. Daddy was working late and when he came home at 11 pm, Mommy said that they may need to go to the hospital, but she still thought it was probably false labor and told Daddy to go to bed. So Daddy went to bed. Mommy kept writing down her contraction times and they kept coming.

Around 3:15 am, Mommy got Daddy out of bed and told him it was time to go to the hospital. Daddy got out of bed really fast and was in the car ready to do in less than 10 minutes.

When Mommy got to the hospital she asked for an epidural and they told her it was too late and that I was on my way. Mommy was really not happy, but after a few (drug-free) hours of pushing and lots of yelling by Mommy, I was there.

Mommy says that Daddy did a really good job, too. Daddy was so happy and proud and started taking pictures...

I broke Daddy in really good and pooped on him when I was less than one hour old! But Daddy forgave me and did a good job feeding me later that day.

Two days later Mommy, Daddy and I went home.

My In Utero Photos

2008-01-25T12:58:00.001-08:00

Here is my previous blog post with my in utero photos.

Mommy and Daddy tried to get some pictures of me yesterday and interrupted my afternoon nap. I was not too happy and didn't cooperate at first.

I heard that Daddy doesn't like pictures much either. After Mommy moved around I became a little more cooperative.

This still wasn't good enough for them and they wouldn't leave me alone! There's not very much room to move around in here, but I moved a little bit more...

Then, I knew they meant business because Mommy drank a lot of ice cold water and I put my hands down and gave them a good picture of me.

Mommy and Daddy learned that I like to suck my thumb

and chew on my arm.

I sure hope they have some toys for me to play with.

Mommy and Daddy also learned that I have Mommy's mouth and Daddy's cheeks.

Mommy and Daddy were happy with their pictures and finally left me alone and I went back to sleep.

My New Blog

2008-01-25T11:22:00.001-08:00

There is so much to write about since my last blog posting, so I thought I would start trying to catch up, but when I went to my old blog, it didn't work anymore because I didn't post anything recently. You think they would give me a break because I was just born and all, but, no. I'll have to talk to Mommy about not posting for me to keep up my blog, but in the meantime, Mommy found me a new blog, so here we go...