Seth is almost 2 months old

Hello Everyone,

On Friday Seth will be officially two months old, it's so crazy that he is that old already! We will also have another pediatrician appointment on Friday so we can see how much weight he has gained which is probably at least a pound. He's got some chubby thighs and double chins, we love our tubby baby!

He is the mayor of smiles town, each day he is smiling more and more and staying awake a lot longer which is really fun. He is responding to music more and we are having fun making up songs to sing to him among the favorites are "Baby Train", "Running a baby Marathon" and "Going to see Daddy", the album will drop next month : )

Seth is getting more control over his limbs so his movements are getting some control to them and his head control is crazy. He's not really rolling but his legs hold him up when he is leaning against something.

Last week when my mom was here for her visit, Seth got to meet all of his great aunts and uncles. Jeremy's Aunt Donna and Uncle Dave were awesome and let us use their house as the destination for the party and everyone bought food and it was an awesome time. Seth was so excited he had an explosive poo! It was a great party and everyone had a great time. Please enjoy all the new pictures!

I will post up his new stats after the doc visit on friday. I'll have to weigh Louie and see which one of them is heavier, I think Louie is winning that battle currently.

Seth is 6 weeks old!

Seth is 6 weeks today and we are celebrating with a "paralyzing snowstorm", that's Fox's words not mine.
He had his first round of immunizations, and has grown 3 inches and gained about a pound a half. So now he is 22 inches and 9.5 lbs. We have another doctors visit in two weeks and I'm pretty sure he has gained more weight, he's getting a little belly and some chubby thighs.
I had my postpartum visit and found out that I lost 30 lbs, and I'm only 10 lbs away from pre-baby weight, and then just like another 50 from my ideal weight ; ) The doctor gave me a clean bill of health, so I am all back to normal which is good.
Seth has started to smile, I will get a picture of one of those smiles one of these days. He has also started moving a lot! He climbs all over his dad and he's a maniac at tummy time. He can push off of our hands and scoot across his blanket. I'm pre registering him for Harvard next week, because this is all clearly signs of genius! Enjoy the baby pictures!

1 Month Old!!!

Seth is now 30 days old. In addition to be super duper cute, he can blow spit bubbles, smile a little and eat like a maniac. He is now weighing in at 8lbs. 8 oz and 20 inches, and is doing well. He is getting a little pot belly and his lungs work very well.

He had a big field trip to the King of Prussia of mall with his Grandma Lori and me on Sunday, we got to use his stroller. It looks really easy to steer those things, but they can be tricky : )

Seth's parents on the other hand are not doing so well, I called Mc Lovin , Mc Muffin the other day and it took Jeremy a half hour to change his profile pic on facebook and then another half hour to figure out where to put in his status message. We are officially parents, we can't remember characters from the popular kids movies and can't figure out social networking sites.

Tomorrow Seth will get start with his immunizations, so around 11ish we will have a very cranky baby : (

We heard today that he will be cranky for a few days after his shot so that does not sound too awesome.

9 days old

Seth turned 9 days old today! His birthday present is to not have to go to back to the hospital and get his jaundice checked it finally came down and is regular now. He is adjusting to life at home well, he cries, poops and is constantly adorable what more could we ask for! His baby noises are getting louder, and he almost smiles sometimes but i don't think he knows what it means yet. The countdown begins, Aristotle believed that babies do not have souls until they laugh and that this happens at 40 days. Seth has a soul but it will be interesting to see if he laughs before or after the 40 day mark. Here are some baby pictures! Will post more soon, requests have been made

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Lauder Out!

Seth William David Lauder

12/26/09

5:41 pm

7 lbs 13 ounces

19 inches long

officially cutest baby ever documented

26 weeks and counting.......

Hi,

Before i forget, Gramps (Lloyd) had a birthday on Sunday and Grandma Lori had a birthday the week before. Happy Birthday soon to be grandparents!!! There's a picture of Gramps awesome birthday shirt below.

so today I turned 26 weeks pregnant, if that's a thing. We found out a few weeks ago, we are having a Seth William David Lauder or we could just say a boy. The ultrasound went really well, he has a face which is weird, just cause I feel like I haven't done anything that important over the last six weeks and this guys in there growing a face. I've been growing also, so much that a strange man on the street was surprised that i wasn't 9 months pregnant with twins. Ah, strange men yelling about how big you are and comparing your size to their ex-wife, naturally I thanked him for his much appreciated opinion.(NOT)

Jeremy is doing well, we still look at each other every few days and say, oh crap were gonna be parents, which is still a funny thought. Jeremy has finally gotten to feel kicks from this guy, who apparently is practicing karate in there, where did he learn those moves?

We started registering which is so overwhelming, I don't think we are still quite done yet. Babies R Us was not as fun as I thought, staring at a wall of pacifers for twenty minutes does not equal party time. It was fun looking at things that are all small for babies, but all the choices are overwhelming. How did people function before there were five aisles of wipes? Below are some pictures we took, can you guess who's belly is who's ? Oh, and there are pictures of Seth.

oh, no I didn't just rob a little league soccer team of there ball, that's all Seth and that's all Jeremy and his very pale belly.

For Robert

I wanted to dedicate this post to my younger cousin Robert. We are blessed with family members that have a much better way with words than me so I wanted to re-post what my cousin Christina wrote on her blog, because I think it is much better than anything I could ever say.

Love,
j&j

Here is Christina's really eloquent post:

http://justforscoons.blogspot.com/

Texas, Pennsylvania and Canada

, first I have to dust off all the cobwebs on this blog it's gotten very dusty lately.

Okay now that I got all of that cleared away. I will catch everybody up on the adventures of 1.5 Lauders and a Simpson.

I went for a visit to the Lone Star State, to see my Momma, Boofie, Aunt Margaret, Trey and Christina and I got to fall in love with Christina 's nephew John Patrick. I think I should see a baby every few days, it makes me feel better about being fat and having swollen ankles and having to go to the bathroom all the time. Texas was great, I got way too spoiled but I can't argue with a grandmother to be and a great grandmother to be. We ate sugar free ice cream every night and twice we got ice cream twice in one day, it was a great visit, lots of relaxing and the best part was I got to be there when my Mom got her new job offer! She has been there for over a week now and loves it, so congratulations MEMA!

So after Texas I was back in PA with my main man, the one and only J.Lauder, who by the way totally shaved his beard off and got a nice haircut. there are rumors circulating of some sort of beard tribute in the works. Right after I got back from TX and Jeremy picked himself off the couch where he stayed all week because he couldn't live without me (NOT!!!), he totally worked his butt off the whole time I was gone.

Then I came back from for a week and was whisked away to Fergus, Ontario! I spent a week with Tricia, Keith and Kalie while Jeremy built houses in Owens - Sound, Ontario. We went to Niagara Falls, the Scottish Festival , the greatest buffet ever and much more. Canada was nice and cool it was refreshing not being in oppressive heat for a week. Jeremy and I took a side trip to Toronto and had an awesome time. I totally recommend the Royal Ontario Museum.

Now this weekend, I am going with Liddy to Western Mass. to babysit her niece for a couple of days. We will be riding in style in her new Volkswagen Passat.

I will be posting pictures on facebook of our travels. That's it for the blog now.

Oh, and a big congratulations to Crissy and Jon on their new baby Tyler! Bridget, Liddy and I got to meet him last night and he is quite the ladies man. Very cute and smells very nice.

bye, talk to everyone later. Stay tuned we get a second trimester ultrasound in a few weeks.

Baby Blog, Now with Video!

Babies and Beards: Episode 1 from Bob Sweeney on Vimeo.

Monster Sandwiches and Pillows and maybe a beard

Hello Everybody,

Hope everyone is doing well out there. We have been busy, we started classes, went to Vermont and somehow worked our way through the first trimester. Tomorrow the baby will be 14 weeks old. If science is right then all the morning sickness means the baby will be smart and if my heartburn is any indicator the baby will have a full head of hair to cover that egg head.

Earlier this week Jeremy and I went to Vermont to pick up some equipment that will really help the business. It's a one color automatic press that will really help us be able to print on new and exciting things. But the best part of Vermont was the Red Onion and their sandwiches, please enjoy the pictures below of said sandwich.

This is what Jeremy looked like after his sandwich, I think it made his beard grow more.

Jeremy has started teaching a screen printing class here at our studios and I started a sewing class and I made a pillow. I will attempt at some point to make baby clothes. Here is my pillow:

Lastly, we have a few birthdays, Uncle Josh was June 27th, Aunt Melanie is today July 2nd and Poppa Jeremy is July 7th and then Auntie Liddy is on July 16th! So lots of birthdays.

Well, goodbye and if it's your birthday Happy Birthday.

-j

Denied Medicaid but there is still dancing

Hey everyone,

Hope you are all doing well, we are one day away from being in our 12th week, which would make us 3 months pregnant. So that is neat, and it also makes us one week away from the much coveted 2nd trimester, I have heard tales that it's often called the honeymoon trimester, one can hope.

So, we got disappointing news the other day, we were denied Medicaid, because we are so wealthy. But we have a plan b and it's called Health Center #2, they will continue to treat us at no costs and we will continue with our pre-natal appointments as planned. From what I understand when we go to give birth they will file an emergency application for Medicaid to cover the birth and the baby. We have to get more information on that part. Once the baby is here they will be covered by my insurance plan which does not include pre-natal. Okay enough of that.

Now for the fun stuff, we found a mix tape that is one part Phil Collins and one part Prince. So that made up for not getting medicaid.

Enjoy our pictures below which include the afore mentioned mother of all mix tapes, a beard , and two bellies.

So in closing, we will post again soon.

Mix Tape

beard

belly #1

belly #2

I flew to close to the sun

So for two days I didn't get sick and I think I got too arrogant, because it came back yesterday and today. But I'm feeling better after a long nap today.

I'm going to turn the internet off for awhile, because I keep finding these articles that make me cry a lot, and I should just stop reading things. At this point Career Builder makes me cry. Okay now typing the word makes me want to cry, so I hope everyone had a great weekend.

Baby Pics and Important Announcements

Hello Everyone!

Look it's a baby!



The baby is a dancer, it did the robot and the moonwalk when we saw it earlier today it was adorable.

So we are 2 months and 1 week along. So that makes the baby the size of a green olive, so it's like having the makings of a martini in my belly.

Announcement one : The heartbeat is 168 which is good and the dr. at the sonogram said the baby looked healthy.

Announcement two: I have a nice pelvic bone which is good for child birth, so yay for us!

Announcement three: mustard and meatball sandwich is amazing! Today was my first real craving and I think it's marking the end of feeling nauseous, I think morning sickness is close to being a thing of the past!

So that is our update for the day, next Dr. appointment is July 7th, we thought it would be a nice way to celebrate Jeremy's birthday.

-j

1st Doctor's Visit

We had our first doctors visit today. It was not very fun at all, there was a mix up with my blood. Apparently the last time I gave blood there was a girl named Jessica Simmons there and they labeled it as her blood, so I had to give more blood. That was the most exiciting part of the visit. The doctor poked me and I had to give them more pee. Tomorrow should be more fun, we will get a sonogram and find out how old the fat baby is. So we will know what piece of fruit to compare it to it. That is all from preggo land.

No baby news today just our feline baby

I caught Louie taken a nap in his favorite position. He begged me to put the onesie on him but I said no, cause it's for the baby. I just laid it on him so he could see what it would look like. I don't think it would fit him anyway. The pictures are below. We will post new belly pics soon, cause it's growing : ) . Sonogram next week.