Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Too Busy Living...
That's what I tell myself when I get mad because I haven't updated my blog...I am just too busy living in the moment and enjoying every second with our precious girl. I cannot believe I am so far behind! I really want to keep it updated so that I can have a journal of Raelyn's life. I did take a little time to turn all of my pregnancy entries into a book so that we can look back on the journey from the very beginning. Now that the book is complete I am determined to get the blog updated. I have kept a list of what has happened each week so at least I have somewhere to start. My goal is to have this thing updated by the end of next week (we will see if that happens). :)
Thursday, July 25, 2013
First Week Home
The first week home was definitely an adjustment for all of us. Kip took 3 weeks off from work to be home with us which was a HUGE help. We had a lot of visitors and our friends and family were so sweet to bring us food so that we didn't have to cook.
We took Raelyn to her first doctor's appointment on Tuesday, May 23. Dr. Barnhart said she looked good but had lost a little bit of weight (I think it was a difference in the scales) so she told us to come back the following week to check her weight. She did so good at the doctor's office and just cried for a second when she got her shot. That afternoon we had Julie, from Pictures by Julie, come and take some photos for us. She was so patient (which was great because Raelyn decided to scream for about an hour before we could get her asleep for the pictures). I know Julie stayed at our house a lot longer than she was planning to but we love how the pictures turned out.
That evening and the next few nights Raelyn continued to be fussy and after talking to our friends who had just had a baby we decided that she might not be getting enough milk. So, we gave her a bottle of formula and she seemed a lot happier and slept longer. From that point on I decided to start pumping milk for her and feeding her bottles because she always fell asleep nursing (even if we tickled her, took her clothes off, put cold water on her, etc.). Bottle feeding was not the most convenient thing for me as I felt like I was attached to a breast pump but it was nice that Kip could help feed her. We stayed busy during our first week home and Mommy and Daddy even had a date night that Friday. We went to see Hangover 3 and Mimi watched Raelyn for us.
We took Raelyn to her first doctor's appointment on Tuesday, May 23. Dr. Barnhart said she looked good but had lost a little bit of weight (I think it was a difference in the scales) so she told us to come back the following week to check her weight. She did so good at the doctor's office and just cried for a second when she got her shot. That afternoon we had Julie, from Pictures by Julie, come and take some photos for us. She was so patient (which was great because Raelyn decided to scream for about an hour before we could get her asleep for the pictures). I know Julie stayed at our house a lot longer than she was planning to but we love how the pictures turned out.
That evening and the next few nights Raelyn continued to be fussy and after talking to our friends who had just had a baby we decided that she might not be getting enough milk. So, we gave her a bottle of formula and she seemed a lot happier and slept longer. From that point on I decided to start pumping milk for her and feeding her bottles because she always fell asleep nursing (even if we tickled her, took her clothes off, put cold water on her, etc.). Bottle feeding was not the most convenient thing for me as I felt like I was attached to a breast pump but it was nice that Kip could help feed her. We stayed busy during our first week home and Mommy and Daddy even had a date night that Friday. We went to see Hangover 3 and Mimi watched Raelyn for us.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Raelyn Jean Good
We chose Raelyn's name on the way to visit family on Christmas Eve (we had just learned we were having a girl and I was putting Mounds candy bars in gift bags to give to everyone to share the news). There were several names we liked for a girl but we just hadn't found the perfect one (partially because we had our boy name nailed down and I thought we were probably going to have a boy). So, how did we come up with her name?
When Kip and I first started dating we used to talk about what we would name kids one day. My mom and I took a trip to the beach I think and we were talking about baby names (that's what girls do...daydream about the future and name their unborn children long before they are ready to actually have kids). The names I liked have changed so much through the years. On the trip, mom and I wrote down some ideas and one of them was Raegan. I came back home and Kip said he had thought of a name we could name a girl one day and guess what...it was Raegan! 8 years later, I realized Raegan was a pretty popular name and decided it wasn't my favorite. Kip still liked it better than the other names I liked.
We knew we wanted Jean as the middle name in honor of Kip's mom, Barbara Jean. I wanted to try to get Lynn in the name because that is my dad's name. I had always liked Rae as a middle name or some part of the name. On our car ride to Giles County I told Kip instead of Raegan maybe we could do Raelyn (there was a girl on The Voice names Rae-Lynn a couple of years ago and the main character of one of our favorite shows, Justified, is Raylan). I kept throwing out ideas and he said he had made his decision and knew what he liked but he wouldn't tell me. About a week later we were at Applebee's I told him that I liked the name Raelyn Jean the best (I had been writing all of the names down and typing them in different fonts to see what I liked) and he said that was also the name her liked. So, we had a name for our baby girl...Raelyn Jean Good.
Anyone who knows me knows that I am pretty open and keeping things private is not one of the easiest things for me to do. I told Cassidy the name but decided to keep it a secret from everyone else. I know plenty of people who have waited until the birth to share the name but you would have thought we were the first people to ever do this. Everyone kept asking what the name was! Kip wouldn't even tell a guy at the golf course who asked...it was our secret! I finally told the doctor the morning we went in the hospital but told her if she was delivering the baby she couldn't say her name because my mom didn't know. All mom knew was that the name had 6 letters and one of those was an E (I had put 3M strips on the wall to hang her name and needed mom's opinion about which style of letters to buy so I showed her the E because it was in all of the names we liked).
Finally, when she was born the secret was out...welcome to the world Raelyn Jean! (Pronounced RAY-lin not ray-LYNN)
When Kip and I first started dating we used to talk about what we would name kids one day. My mom and I took a trip to the beach I think and we were talking about baby names (that's what girls do...daydream about the future and name their unborn children long before they are ready to actually have kids). The names I liked have changed so much through the years. On the trip, mom and I wrote down some ideas and one of them was Raegan. I came back home and Kip said he had thought of a name we could name a girl one day and guess what...it was Raegan! 8 years later, I realized Raegan was a pretty popular name and decided it wasn't my favorite. Kip still liked it better than the other names I liked.
We knew we wanted Jean as the middle name in honor of Kip's mom, Barbara Jean. I wanted to try to get Lynn in the name because that is my dad's name. I had always liked Rae as a middle name or some part of the name. On our car ride to Giles County I told Kip instead of Raegan maybe we could do Raelyn (there was a girl on The Voice names Rae-Lynn a couple of years ago and the main character of one of our favorite shows, Justified, is Raylan). I kept throwing out ideas and he said he had made his decision and knew what he liked but he wouldn't tell me. About a week later we were at Applebee's I told him that I liked the name Raelyn Jean the best (I had been writing all of the names down and typing them in different fonts to see what I liked) and he said that was also the name her liked. So, we had a name for our baby girl...Raelyn Jean Good.
Anyone who knows me knows that I am pretty open and keeping things private is not one of the easiest things for me to do. I told Cassidy the name but decided to keep it a secret from everyone else. I know plenty of people who have waited until the birth to share the name but you would have thought we were the first people to ever do this. Everyone kept asking what the name was! Kip wouldn't even tell a guy at the golf course who asked...it was our secret! I finally told the doctor the morning we went in the hospital but told her if she was delivering the baby she couldn't say her name because my mom didn't know. All mom knew was that the name had 6 letters and one of those was an E (I had put 3M strips on the wall to hang her name and needed mom's opinion about which style of letters to buy so I showed her the E because it was in all of the names we liked).
Finally, when she was born the secret was out...welcome to the world Raelyn Jean! (Pronounced RAY-lin not ray-LYNN)
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