Daddy Time

Darin is the world's best baby bather! Check out this great video I made of him giving Kai a bath...maybe I should give up social work and pursue a career in Film???

More Daddy Pictures...

Thanks Grandma Judy!!!

My mom has been staying with us since Kai was born and has been doing the cleaning, cooking and takes care of Kai between night feedings...She is leaving tomorrow, and I am not sure how the adjustment to being a mom without my mom is going to go, wish us luck!

Happy Easter Baby Kai!

Kai's first Easter was pretty exciting!!! I really, really wanted Kai to have Easter candy...he loves Easter candy on his two day birthday. :)  We went to Target and every single bit of Easter candy was gone except 4 bags of M&M's, but Kai doesn't like M&M's, so we went to Smith's, and they only had plastic eggs left...I'm not sure if it was post-pregnancy hormones or what, but I almost started crying, I was so upset that Kai's first Easter was going to be a bust.  We drove home, and I was really upset, so Darin asked me if I wanted to stop at Rite Aid just to see if they had any.  We walked in and their were two full aisles of Easter candy...I ran to Darin and hugged him as tight as I could, on the verge of tears, I kept saying: Yeah!  Kai's Easter won't be ruined.  Needless to say he loved all of his Easter Candy.  

Darin's Mom used to buy him a chocolate covered marshmallow egg with his name on it every single Easter until she passed away, so it was really important to him that Kai have an Egg with his name on it.  My mom is here taking care of us, so she made sure he got his little egg. :)  Kai loves Easter!

Darin's brother and sister-in-law came over to visit on Easter, and we had a cake with candles and ice-cream to celebrate.  Brianna and Garrett loved hanging out with Kai, and Brianna kept telling everyone: "Time to give Baby Kai to me".  She would tell me: "Mindy, please tell me when you need to take Kai somewhere, and I will carry him to you, I am big enough to carry him whenever you need me."  It was so fun!

We love being parents.  Everyone told us before Kai came that the first two weeks are SOOOO hard, because you don't sleep at night, and your just exhausted.  We have been up a lot at night, but I have loved it...I miss him while we are sleeping, and once my milk came in, he really started sleeping well and he's so happy!  

Kai Ray Patterson

He's here!!! Kai was born Thursday, April 9th, 2009. He weighed 6 pounds 10 ounces and he's 19 inches long. He is such a good baby, we couldn't be happier!

Our due date isn't until next Saturday (April 18th), but I went in for my regular doctor's appointment on Wednesday and she told me she wanted to induce me the next day because she still didn't feel like he was gaining enough wait, so she set up the induction and I went back to work. I worked until almost 10pm just trying to get caught up...When I left work I started having the worst back pain ever, and was up almost all night with back pain. When we got to the hospital at 7 am they hooked me up to the monitor and told me my contractions were 5 minutes apart and within 30 minutes they were 2 minutes apart. I was REALLY excited to see the anesthesiologist about a half hour later. :) We were in labor until 7:00pm and then I pushed for 23 minutes and he was out...

We are loving having him here, and are getting excited to take him home from the hospital. I have never loved anything as much as being his mom...but watching Darin be his Dad is a definite close second.

Any day now...

Well, my official due date isn't until next Saturday...but my Doctor said 2 weeks ago that I could have him any day now...so I'm getting a little anxious. Darin finished his classes last week, so we are totally in baby mode.