Merry Christmas

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas Day. Our parents came over to help us celebrate Jacoby's first Christmas which was nice since we haven't been out of the house in days due to the weather. Hope you enjoy some pictures from today.

Mommy and Jacoby

Jacoby (notice the writing on the shirt)

Grandma & Grandpa Gellner

The Gellner Family

Snow sucks...and more baby photos.

Seriously, worst storm in 60 years or something like that. I have tried for several days to make it to work, but the two snowplows that the city own and nowhere to be seen. My latest hobby is watching our digital thermometer to see if we can get closer to freezing. today it has gone up 5 degrees in 2 hours, so hopefully the thaw is on and the weather forecasters are off on another snowstorm tomorrow. Hopefully it is all rain and we can be done with it!

The kid? Oh he is doing pretty good I guess. His latest hobby is fussing through the nights again, so it is a little frustrating because we thought we had a good thing going last week when he slept for three consecutive nights. We'll figure it out, but man, seriously...how many outfits can a baby pee through in a day. Maybe that should be our next poll.

Keep you fingers crossed for the big melt so we can make it out for Christmas Eve. in the meantime, here are a couple more photos of my little boy...

Our little dude quietly contemplating his next move

Cousin's Johanna and Adelle and their real-life dolly.

Uncle Travis and our little Pope.

We spend many long evenings staring at our Christmas Tree

Pooh Bear after a pot of honey

Snow please go away!!

I really wish this snow would go away. I am starting to go a little stir crazy from being home so much. The highlight of the day has been getting the mail. Too bad it is Sunday and there is no mail today. I don't ever remember a time having so much snow for so many days. We got 8 inches of snow on Saturday. It was snowing when I got up at 5:30 (thanks to Jacoby) and snowed for over 12 hours.

Speaking of Jacoby, he did really good for 3 nights only waking up once or twice. But the last 2 nights have been a different story. In fact he is crying right now. Here I thought he would sleep for a while, oh silly me.

Dr Jacoby and Mr Hyde

Well, just a day after Stacy and I celebrated our first evening where Jacoby slept in his bassinet soundly through the night, he decided to change the rules on us again last night. Fussing, hungry, tired, wants to be held, does not want to be held, kicks his socks off?? So basically 7 hours of sleep Friday and 2 last night gives us and average of 4.5, so congratulations to those of you chose 4-5 hours sleep this month.

Still though, the kid is gosh darn cute and I just can't bear to sell him to the gypsies just yet, but we shall see how tonight goes. So far he seems pretty mellow. Fingers crossed.

On another note, even on lack of sleep and a driving snow storm, we still found a way to get ourselves a Christmas tree (thanks to Megan and friends for picking one up for us and braving the stupid Portland drivers). Lights are up and we will slowly add ornaments as the mood strikes us...at 4 am.

Well, off to bed, gotta find a way to get to work tomorrow!

Mike

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Jacoby is 5 days old....

So in a way it feels like it has been a lot longer. We are all adjusting to each other and managing to get some sleep. The last few nights Mike and I have slept in shifts. So far it seems to be working. Mike sleeps for 3 hours while I am up with Jacoby and then I get to sleep for 3 hours while he is awake.


Today's goal is to work on getting Jacoby to sleep in his bassinet for more than 30 minutes. Yesterday I tried laying him down on the floor while he slept in the living room. He actually slept for over an hour. I was so very happy, it allowed me to go thru all the mail that was piling up.


Thank goodness for Grandmas. They came to our rescue on Friday and Saturday. Mike's mom was here on Friday and then my mom was here yesterday. This allowed me to take a nap on both days and for Mike to sleep and play a little Call of Duty. I think he is going thru game withdrawals. Thank you for all your help Grandma G. and Grandma O.


Jacoby is actually sleeping right now on a blanket on the floor. Yeah!!! What a wonderful experience this has been. There definitely have been some frustrating times but all well worth it.

Daddy, Lilly and Jacoby all chillin' on the couch watching a basketball game. Yes, Jacoby has already watched a game with day even before we left the hospital.

This is one of the nurses, Kristin, that helped bring Jacoby into the world. This was taken on the day we left the hospital. She was awesome. She really fit our personalities and was so helpful. Mommy and Daddy have to admit the we miss her. To be honest all our nurses where great.

This one was taken this morning. I needed proof to show Mike that he can sleep without being held. :)

It's a boy!

Hi everybody,
sorry for the delay in the updates, but as you may have guessed from the title, Stacy and I had a little baby boy, on Tuesday the 2nd of December at 5:14 pm. The whole event started at around 4:45 am when Stacy woke me up and told me she thought she felt contractions. Talk about natural caffeine! Contractions were only 5 minutes apart at that point, so we high-tailed it to the hospital and got the party going.
Here are the vitals: Jacoby Dustin Gellner, 7 lbs, 5 3/4 oz, 21 inches. He definitely has his daddy's skinny arms and legs and pointy elbows, and big feet! More to come, here are some photos to whet the appetite...

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