Trip to Texas!

This past weekend, we took August to Texas for his first trip. He did amazing! We only had to stop twice to feed him. He slept the rest of the trip! Couldn't have asked for anything better. We had a great time and August got to meet lots of cousins, aunts, uncles, and friends. He already can't wait for his next trip to Texas :) Double trouble!!

And this isn't everyone yet

Mom and Dad with their grandkids

Drake and SkyeSkye

Grandma Billie, August, Jill and Skye

Grandma Billie holding August for the first time. August is her 36th great-grandchild!!!!

Can anyone say chaos???? Or were we just dreaming that we could get a picture of all the kids? This lasted all of about 1/2 a second.....or probably less.

Me and mommy!

All tuckered out after our drive to Texas

I LOVE MOMMY!

This is a really interesting photo. We have recently discovered that August has something very unique about him. If you look closely at his left eye (you may have to increase the picture size) you can see that the top half of his eye is brown. We wonder if it will stay this way?!?!

2 weeks old

Well, once again I am a week behind in getting pictures posted. August is really 3 weeks old today...but here is a 2 week old picture. Maybe next week I will have his 3 week old picture up :0) At his two week old appointment, he was 22 in. long (this is the 91%tile) and weighed
9l bs. 1 oz. (63%tile). He is almost to his birth weight.

YIKES!!!! I am 2 weeks old already???

More of August

Daddy feeding me my first bottle!

Asleep after my bathIs there a baby in there???

Now that's the most beautiful boy I've ever seen :)

Family time

Grandma Joy and her grandsons

Sweet thing!

Our little rock star

We finally got his name up. Darren and I had a fun time painting the letters.

Cowboy time

One week old! January 21, 2009

I havn't been good about updating the blog lately and August one week birthday came and went. Seeing that he is almost two weeks old now...that means I am really behind. Poor thing had his circumcision on his one week old birthday. He did pretty good with it. Thank goodness for Tylenol :) He spent most of the day sleeping.

August Tyler

So sorry that it has taken me so long to get more pictures up. I can't believe how much time it takes to take care of a newborn. August is doing great. He has his nights and days mixed up so he thinks its pretty cool to be awake all night long :) Last night was great though! He actually slept for 5 hours straight! That sure did make Darren and I wake up with a start though :) A week ago we would have been complaining that we only got 5 hours of sleep. Today, we were jumping for joy that we GOT 5 hours of sleep. Funny how perspectives change. Thanks so much to everyone for thinking of us.

Hmmm.....lookin a little tired here. We might have to do a do-over on this one :)

Listening to mommy and daddy talking to me!

Me with Memaw and PawPaw

Me and Aunt Jacinda

Me and my friend Natalie

Me with Grampy and Grammy

Chillin in my swing

Me and PawPaw

Me and my frind Dan

There is a lot of this going around in our house these days....zzzzzz.....

Chillin with mom. It's great to have a full tummmy :)

Me and my friends Thor and Rex

Introducing August Tyler Hartman!!!

On Tuesday morning, Darren and I went to my doctor's appointment. They did an ultrasound since I was past due. On ultrasound, we found out that my amniotic fluid was very low, so....they sent us striaght to the hospital to be induced. We got to the hospital on Tuesday at noon and by 1:30 the Pitocin was started. My doctor got to the hospital and broke my water at 9:30 and by 10:30 I was wanting that epidural. At 12:50 I was fully dilated but the baby hadn't dropped far enough down so they just had me wait it out and let the contractions do their job. By 2:50 on Wednesday morning, I started pushing and at 3:14 am Wednesday, January 14th, the most beautiful little boy I've ever seen was born. We named him August Tyler Hartman. Welcome to the world little one!!! Maybe I shouldn't say little since he weighed in at a whopping 9 lb. 3 ounces and 22 inches long!



On our way home! We are excited and nervous at the same time :)We put socks on his hands because his fingernails were soooo long!

All dressed up and ready to come home!

Is somebody talking about ME?????

First bath!

WOW! My doctor said that I had a Texas sized baby in Colorado :)

Wow! What a feeling! Holding August for the first time. I call this LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT!!!

Our first family picture together. Our family of two has FINALLY grown!

This is what I looked like before going into labor. 41 weeks is long enough!

Is that still a smile?? Oh yeah, that's because of the epidural :) This is real close to delivery. Almost there!

Very proud papa!