Happy New Year

Warning: This is a big post with lots of pictures! But well worth your time, I can assure you!

Well it's been a while since my last post! Luckily, this morning my baby has decided to sleep in his crib and not my arms so I am free to update my blog. Yay! We will see if I can update my movie blog. I feel like I have a million movies to blog about but I've had no time to do it. Anyways, for Christmas we went down to Arizona for 10 days and it was great! We got to see a bunch of family and the weather was awesome. It was actually unusual because it was so nice for winter. Tristan did great on the drive down and up. He loves his car seat and he slept the whole way. He is growing way too fast and I already miss my tiny lil baby that he was. He has already overcome his first cold (which was the saddest thing ever). He is also starting to understand that we talk to him. If you can get Tristan's eye contact and talk to him, he smiles like crazy. Even when you don't have eye contact, he smiles like crazy. He loves to be naked and have his diaper changed. And he is so cute, he will "talk" to you. I am enjoying motherhood and I know this is what I'm supposed to be doing. By the way, at 6 weeks, he no longer fit in his newborn clothes. I am so sad! But the 0-3 month clothes on him are still kind of big.

Cross eyed!

We got to speak to Elder Tanner Bryant on Christmas day! He was really excited to talk to all of us and we were as well. It was so much fun and we miss him!

Tristan got his first motorcycle ride... well sort of.

He also met Taz! We wish he could've met Zuka.. :/

Tristan and I went out on a date together with all my friends and their kids. It was so much fun! I love all those girls and you know who you are! I also love your lil ones too :)

Can you see the bobcat???

There he is! I had never seen one before out by our house, so it was cool!

Tristan loves his baths! He just chills in the warm water.

He's happy to be with daddy!

 Tristan and his lion at 3 weeks old. This outfit was a little too big for him (can't you tell?).

Before we left for Christmas, there was a huge snow storm! It was actually really cool and Scottie had to go to work in it.

 I love this picture.

Tristan fell asleep like this! It was hilarious!!

I missed taking a picture of Tristan on his 1 month mark.. darn. But this is his 6 week picture! He's getting so big.

And this is his cool "T" that my mother-in-law made for him! I LOVE it! And he looks super cute next to it AND it matches his room.

Tristan helped me take the dogs outside! He looks so cozy.

He feel asleep like this. He just likes to fall asleep sitting up I guess.

You can't see it but he loves his musical mobile in his crib! I took the dogs outside once and came back in to him smiling and "talking" to the mobile. It was adorable!

He is almost 3 weeks old in this picture. Tristan looks so small compared to the couch.

These were taken on my phone but he has a matching onsie, sleeper, and blanket! He happened to be wearing the onsie and sleeper and I put him on his blanket. So the question is, can you find Tristan? Haha.. I'm so funny!

He also loves to either sleep or eat with his hands on his face (usually covering his eyes).

I love his eyebrows in this one.

Happy boy when he's naked! (well almost naked).

Well there you go! Hope you enjoyed all of my pictures! And we will see when I get the opportunity to update again. Wish me luck.

Welcome to the World

After 9 months of this (sorry I couldn't get the blog thing to cooperate with me, the pictures look all funny):

This is 39 weeks and 5 days

We receive this:

Tristan Bryant Woodruff

born November 25th, 2010

at 2:41 pm

6 lbs 1 oz

19 inches long

It was such a blessing that he was able to have come safely. My story is long but I will try to summarize it.

So on Wednesday, my water apparently broke around 5:00 pm but I wasn't quite sure that it had broke. At 10:00 we went to the hospital and were admitted because it had broke. They started me on pitocin and my body reacted to it really well. I was dilating very quickly. The problem was it was stressing Tristan out. His heartbeat dropped so low once that 4 nurses came running in (I was sleeping and when they came in I had no idea what was going on) and started working on me and the baby. They threw Scott a C-Section outfit to get dressed in because they thought I would have to go into an emergency C-Section. Luckily, we didn't have to and we got Tristan's heartbeat back up. I can't tell you how scared I was for my child. I just kept thinking of how I didn't want to lose him. At the time we did not know why that happened they just thought he was somehow sitting on his cord. Later when it was time to start pushing, it was also stressing out Tristan and his heartbeat would drop. We waited a long time because the doctor had to go deliver other babies (and I mean like 4 hours waiting while Tristan was basically sitting in the birth canal...talk about uncomfortable) but it was a good thing because his heartbeat stabilized and he wasn't as stressed out. The doctor had to use forceps (which tore me up pretty bad) but we got Tristan out safely. When he did come out, we figured out why he was stressing out so bad. His cord was wrapped around his legs 3 times and that's also why I couldn't push him out without the use of forceps. He did have muconium in his lungs so the NICU team was there to get it out of his lungs once he was born. He also wasn't breathing properly and had to go to the NICU for 4 1/2 hours. But Tristan is healthy and is doing great. I am doing just fine and I'm so grateful for our many blessings that Tristan was able to come safe and sound. We are so blessed to have him! It was an awesome Thanksgiving Day.

To me Tristan looks just like Scott. He has got the same eyes and even his hairline matches his father's! Haha!! He might have my bubbly nose but we're not for sure yet. I love my little man - he is the cutest and most perfect adorable baby I've ever seen!

See how he has his daddy's hairline?! So adorable

Tristan has these funny scowls he makes. Scott can imitate them quite well.

His first bath

Milk Drunk

 Me and Tristan off to his first doctor's appointment.

He gained 9 ounces!! Dr says he looks great and healthy

1 week old

I love my little one