some new pics

Just wanted to share a few pictures that we just uploaded to the computer. Everything is going good here! I get to go see Beth Moore live this weekend with my church ladies, can't wait! Brandon and Jaxen will be together all day Friday and Saturday without Mommy... but it will be worth it!!

6 weeks!

Greetings! Jaxen is 6 weeks old today! I can't believe he's already that old! Doesn't seem like more then 2 weeks ago that we went through the process! I had my 6 week check up and everything went well.
Jaxen is getting bigger and bigger each day! He is smiling and cooing when he is in a good mood. We are trying to introduce a bottle with my milk to him so Brandon can help with feedings and because I have a ladies retreat to go to next weekend and would like to leave Jaxen here with Brandon. We've tried a few different types of bottles with no success. Last night Brandon did get him to take 1 oz. out of a different bottle and we jumped for joy!!!
Our '01 Chevy Blazer bit the dust last week on the trip my dad and I made to Indiana to introduce Jaxen to his extended family. There was no way it would make the 6 hour drive back home, so we sold it as is to one of my cousins up there. There is a trustee in our church who is good friends with the owner of a Kia dealership here in town, he pulled some strings and got it worked out for us to get a brand new 2009 Kia Optima at wholesale price. The dealership didn't make a penny off of us which is an absolute blessing!!! God provides! We are dreading the monthly payment but we also know it is much safer for our family right now.

2 1/2 weeks

Things are going really good here in St. Charles at the Shatto house! All of our family has been and left now so it is finally down to the 3 of us. We are so thankful that our family was able to come and spend time getting to know Jaxen and help us out around the house. Jaxen is doing amazing! I just can't get enough of him! Every time his eyes are open I just can't stop talking to him! When he sleeps I find myself just staring at him cause he's so darn cute! He's eating really well. Right now he is eating eery 3 hours for 30 minutes. He sleeps so good at night! He only wakes up to eat and by the time he is done eating he is already back to sleep! As of right now I don't mind getting up every 3 hours during the night and spending time with him, I know that I'm the only one that can feed him and give him what he needs!
Brandon is doing amazing! Did I mention in my last blog that the day Jaxen was born he gave me a beautiful necklace that has Molly's, Toby's birthstones in paw prints and Jaxen's birthstone is a little boy with a baseball hat on. He is such a great dad! It is so sweet to see them nap together! He is great at changing diapers! He diffinetly takes his turn! Seeing him with Jaxen makes me fall in love with him over and over again!

My little man!

Now introducing Jaxen Kayne Shatto weighing in at 6 lbs 11 oz and 20 in long! Jaxen was born Thursday night at 7:20 p.m. after a wonderful 12 hours of labor! Brandon and I are on cloud 9 as you can imagine and so very happy and thankful to have a healthy baby boy! My labor was absolutly wonderful... we started pitocin at 7:15 a.m., broke my water at 8, got an amazing epidurl at 11:30, started pushing at at 6:15 p.m. He is eating great and sleeping even better! He is absolutly perfect and I couldn't be any happier to be this tired!

Whoohooo!

I had a Dr. apt today and I am still at 1 cm dilated but I am now 60% thinned out! That is a pretty big change since Thursday when I wasn't thinned out at all. So now that I have made good progress on my own my Dr. is moving my induction up from 6 p.m. on Thursday night to 6 a.m. Thursday morning. One of my only questions to him was "Can I eat a donut before I go in that morning?" And he said yes! So sometime Thursday we will be holding sweet baby Jaxen in our arms!!!! If you are on Facebook we will be updating status' through out the day on Thursday, so stay tuned...

Being Induced!

I had my ultrasound on Friday morning and they found that my amniotic fluid is lower then my Dr. would like for it to be. That being said he is going to send me in Thursday night to start the inducing process!! I'll have a Dr. apt Tuesday at 4 p.m. and I'll know more after that!

Dr. Apt

I had my weekly Dr. apt this morning. There is absolutly no change since last week. Which is a huge bummer!! Still dilated to 1 with no thinning. He is sending me to get an ultrasound tomorrow morning. My stomach is measuring 3 weeks behind my due date so he wants to make sure that Jaxen is still developing properly. He wants to make sure I haven't lost any amniotic fluid and that Jaxen isn't too small. I'm excited to get to have an ultrasound...we haven't seen Jaxen for 20 weeks so I'm anxious to see him again! I'll post again and let you all know how it went when I can!