Baby Boy Gabat

We welcome with love and open hearts our li'l man!

Brenner Jose Gabat

Born February 23, 2012

10:20pm

6 lbs 3 oz

20 in

Daddy is thrilled!

He's roughly 20 min old here

My mom and sis watched you come into this world.

I am so blessed to have had the most amazing support around me as Jay and I brought life from love. Jay, my mom and my sister encourage me, support me and let me complain throughout the entire process.

My dad and brother anxiously awaited the news outside and rushed in at the first opportunity to meet our man.

Jay and I had not finalized his name yet so we laughed until midnight as we came up with every name possible. We rejected every name that Pops suggested!

You caught us off guard Brenner. You arrived 3 weeks early. I spent the day in complete denial that I was in labor. I was cleaning like a crazy woman at 6am, while contracting but was still convinced it was Braxton Hicks. I called Grammy Pammy and she said "SIT STILL!" I made your dad aware of what was going on and he agreed, he took over Avery's care and I laid in bed. If I was holding still contractions were completely random and spread out, once I stood up gravity kicked in and contractions amped up. At 4:45pm I spoke with Auntie Ali and told her that I thought this was it. She said to start tracking the contractions. I wrote down 4:54pm, 5:01pm (7 min apart) and from 5:01 on they were 3 min apart and only grew in intensity. We were not prepared!

We arrived at the hospital at 7:30pm, I was dilated to 4-5cm and 90% effaced. By 10pm, I was an 8. I had a slight cold and asked for a tissue to blow my nose. With that I had intense pressure, the nurse called the doc and you arrived at 10:20pm. 1 1/2 pushes, seriously!!!!

Avery came to meet you!

You have already brought us so much joy!

We have had our first night at home and you are completely nocturnal, we are so sleepy!

Please sleep a little tonight!!

Do I look pregnant???

So this is what 9+ months and 30 lbs. looks like...

According to today's ultrasound lil man is 6 lbs. 5 oz., head down and ready to go. Now we wait.

Excited to bring some life out of love!

And...

Maybe I'll buy some self tanner tomorrow

(Side note: I delivered 3 days after I took this pic!!!)

The Dr. says...

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those that mind don't matter and those that matter don't mind."

Dr. Seuss

Not a bad way...

to start the day!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

xxoo

Valentine Day Preparation

Baking cookies for our Valentines...

Worker Bees

This pregnancy has come with a strong amount of crazy on my part. The last couple of weeks I have either been hanging pictures at 6am, cleaning like a maniac, insisting on large task completion OR so tired I can hardly move. I have a day of non-stop crazy and then a day or two worth of recovery from the crazies.

Knowing that my friend was coming to paint a headboard on Avery's wall, I decided that her entire room needed to be painted. Jay very clearly told me no, and that I needed to chill out and not overwhelm myself. He even refused to help, a poor attempt on his part to persuade me NOT to paint. (Seriously, you try to tell a 35 week, nesting, pregnant woman what she can and can't do and see how it goes! haha)

I headed to Lowe's picked out pink and yellow paint and decided that my 35 week pregnant body would paint the room.

My parents, especially my mom, panicked at the idea of me climbing a ladder and reluctantly arrived at my house to assist on my painting project.

Thank God for their help! After a day of nonstop painting, I understand why everyone was trying to talk me out of it.

My parents left at 5pm, leaving me one entire wall to finish, and one wall that was in need of second coat. Thank you Mom and Dad for all of your hard work!

I put Avery to bed and kept painting, determined to finish. My reluctant husband, bless his heart, came upstairs, grabbed a roller and helped to complete the task. Thanks love!

It was a biatch of a project, but in the end I am so glad it's done,. Her room looks amazing, it is a total girly girl room. Love it!

"Hey pregnancy insomnia....

eff you!"

It's 3am and I have been in bed awake for 3 hours now. I finally threw in the towel and came downstairs to drink water, eat Lucky Charms and, I guess, blog.

I thought that I was doing well the past few nights, but the insomnia has struck again...sigh...So I am productively blogging and eating to avoid going crazy and to give Jay some peace. Turns out that when I can't sleep, I feel that he should not sleep either. Poor guy, I have been poking him for the last 3 hours to get him to stop snoring.

I would turn on my DVR'd episode of Jersey Shore, but worry that might wake my household. I've heard soft cries from Avery's room roughly every hour or so this evening, so I need to keep my wakefulness as stealth as possible, she seems to be having a hard night's sleep as well.

Sigh...I miss sleep...and my waistline....double sigh...