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Nicholas Benton is here!

  • Nicholas_2
    After 31 hours of labor (starting from the very beginning, or 19 hours from when we arrived at the hospital), our beautiful son is here! He made his entrance into our world at 12:54pm on September, 16, 2007. He weighed in at 7lb 2oz and is 20" long. His head was 14". Lots and lots of hair (we'll try to get some better shots of his hair!) As you can imagine, Nick and I are extremely thrilled, exhausted, and relieved that he's here; safe, sound & living! Thank you for everyone's support. We'd like to especially thank Jen our Doula, Rita & Kim (the rest of our birth team), Dr. V, the great nurses at UM, and our families. Enjoy the photos! More to come!

NBK 12/16/07 to...

  • Sleeping_on_my_mommy
    This album contains pictures of Nicholas from 12/16/07 until... He turned 3 months old on 12/16/07. On 12/11/07 he weighed 14lbs 4oz. On 12/26 he weighed 15lbs. So he gained 6oz in 15 days. For those of you doing the math, that's almost 0.5oz per day (0.4oz per day). Although he's only 3 months old, he's wearing 6 months clothes, as well as some 6-9months clothes! What a big boy! His baptism was supposed to be on 12/16 but had to be rescheduled due to a winter storm that blew through! We rescheduled it for 12/30 (see pics in a separate album!)

Pictures of our Twin Girls...

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    These photos include ultrasounds, pictures from the hospital, and at the funeral.

NBK 11/16/07 thru 12/16/07

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    Nicholas turned 2 months old on November 16, 2007. He weighed 12lbs 13oz and was 23" long. He has almost doubled his weight and has grown 3" since birth. The pics in this album are from his 2nd month to his 3rd month, or to confuse people, his 3rd month home with us!

Pregnancy 2007: Due in September!

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    We discovered we were expecting for the second time on January 18, 2007. I had gone to the LAPOM meeting and decided I couldn't wait any longer to test. This is just one of the MANY tests I took - it came up positive so fast Nick had to read the instructions to make sure it was ok! Boy is he an engineer!

NBK Summer 2008

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    Pictures of Nicholas from May through Summer 2008

NBK's Baptism

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    Nicholas' original day to be baptized was on his 3 month birthday, however, a winter storm blew through so we had to reschedule. Thankfully, Fr. Karl said that we could do it on December 30th. Nick and I chose Rita as his Godmother and Steve as his Godfather. We thought it fitting since they were our Matron of Honor & Best Man at our wedding! People in attendance: Grandma & Grandpa D., Aunt Monica & Mike, Kim W., Bridget & Dan, Uncle Steve (of course & Family), Rita (of course), Auntie Beth & Uncle Jim, Doug & Kathy B., Great Grams & Papa K. Dan & Lisa joined us for the celebration at our house afterward.

NBK March 2008

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    Pictures of Nicholas from March...including his 1/2 birthday, St. Patty's Day, and Easter!

Our Other Girls (Chloe & Gracie)

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    Before we became the proud parents of daughters with wings, we have two girls living with us. The furkids. Chloe Marie was born on January 6, 2003 to Karen Prescott of Kurlypups. She got her name from a numerology book at Borders - it's Greek. Gracie Lou was born on October 30, 2005. She got her name from Sandra Bullock's character in "Miss Congeniality." It's not Greek. Her momma was Chloe's Aunt and her daddy was Chloe's uncle. Does that make them cousins?

Nicholas' 2nd Month!

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    Nicholas turned a month old on October 16th! My how time flies!

Nicholas' 1st Boo!

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    Halloween 2007! Nicholas Benton is 6 weeks, 3 days old! He had a BIG day! First, he went with Mommy to UM for her post-partum visit and he got to see Dr. V. again! Then, it was home to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters and to visit with the neighbors. A BIG THANKS to Frank, Pam, Derek & Ashley for the "Baby's 1st Boo!" outfit, and to Heidi for the Chili Pepper costume.

NBK April 2008 to...

  • Mmm_1st_time_having_a_graham_cracker_8
    Pictures of Nicholas from April, including his First Greek Easter!

Nicholas' 1st month home!

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    Here are pictures from our first month home with Nicholas.

NBK January 2008 to...

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Memories of the Twins' Pregnancy (2006)

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    We painted the nursery the first week of July. Well, we is probably stretching it. I did the corners and the edges of the room, around all the doors, the closets and the window. Nick did all the rest! He also assembled all of the furniture, which we bought at IKEA. I wish we had more pictures of me, but we didn't think about taking them until my mom went to Italy and we thought she would miss out on my progression.

Nicholas' First Christmas

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    Nicholas was 3 months old for his First Christmas. We have so much to be thankful for this year...obviously, the #1 gift we received was in the form of our earth child, our rainbow baby! Nicholas got a LOT of presents and had a lot of fun being held by different family members. Mommy & Daddy loved having him here! It was definitely a Christmas to remember!

NBK February 2008

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July 23, 2008

He's on the move!

July 2008 is Nicholas' month!  He's accomplished SO much already, and there's still a week to go!

He's now crawling ALL over the house, and pulling to a stand on EVERYTHING, including Gracie's crate and our big screen tv.

He LOVES to try to get the dog toys, and it's almost like there is an EXTRA incentive to get them!

So in short, he's accomplished the following/reached these milestones in July 2008:

  • TWO Teeth!  Bottom two middle!
  • Tummy to sitting in crib
  • Pulling to standing in crib
  • Crawling (not army crawling - real crawling)
  • Cruising around his toys, especially his Leap Frog table that we got from Sara (thank you Sara!)
  • Saying: Ma-Ma, Da-Da, Ka, Na-Na, and other various babbles
  • Likes to feed himself goldfish crackers and cheerios!  Oh, and he LOVES to feed Gracie & Chloe!
  • Laughs at the dogs, constantly!  They're his amusement!

I'll post a video as soon as I get it uploaded, and...I'll also post pics of our trip, as soon as I can.  We've been a bit busy, as you can imagine!

I'm headed to BRU (Babies 'R Us) tomorrow to get Baby Proofing supplies!

ETA: here's the video, as promised! Now, he's fussing a bit and it's b/c he was starting to get tired, but...b/c he wanted his binky SO bad, we got him to crawl on camera.  I'm sure they'll be other instances but this was the FIRST time we caught it on camera!    

July 23, 2008 at 09:34 PM in Breastfeeding, Dogs, NBK, Parenting, Videos, Weblogs | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

July 15, 2008

The countdown begins...

Nicholas will be one in just two 2 months!  Oh my goodness!  I can hardly believe it!  Where did the time go?

Tomorrow my Rainbow Baby will be 10 months old!  I'll try to have pics up soon!  I promise - I know a lot of you are asking to see them!

July 15, 2008 at 08:36 PM in Breastfeeding, Family, Food and Drink, Friends, NBK, Parenting | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

We're back!

We're home!  We arrived home from Maui yesterday afternoon.  Traffic getting home wasn't as bad as we thought it would be, thanks to us avoiding I-275N and Pfizer being closed in AA - US-23 will never be the same, now.

We had a wonderful time and Nicholas is such a good little traveler!

When I get a chance, I'll post some pictures from our trip.  I've got some videos too, but I need to upload them before I can share them.

Hopefully I'll get time to do that before the end of the week!

July 15, 2008 at 12:36 PM in Daycare, Family, Friends, Holidays, Love & Marriage, NBK, Parenting, Photos, Travel, Weblogs | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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    One More Day... *This morning, I am going to step over the laundry, and pick you up and take you to the park to play. *I will leave the dishes in the sink, and let you teach me how to put that puzzle of yours together. *I will laugh when I feel like crying and take a deep breath when the day and all the worries of the future feel too overwhelming. *I will smile every time your beautiful eyes look into mine, and every time you speak I will listen attentively, for your voice is music to my ears. *This afternoon, I will unplug the telephone and keep the computer off, and sit with you in the backyard and blow bubbles. *I will jump in puddles with you and make mud pies until we are both covered in our creations. *I will not raise my voice or grumble under my breath as I try to focus your attention on the task at hand or call your name for the second time. *I will not worry about what you are going to do when you grow up, or second-guess every decision I have made where you are concerned. *This evening, I will let you stay up late while we sit on the porch and count all the stars. *We will have a water fight at bath time until my clothes are completely soaked and our laughter is deafening. *I will hold you in my arms and tell you the story about how you were born and how much I loved you from the very beginning. *As I run my fingers through your hair, I will simply be grateful that God has given me the greatest gift ever given, and I will tell you over and over how much I love you. *I will think about the mothers and fathers who are searching for their missing children, the mothers and fathers who are visiting their child's grave instead of their bedroom, and mothers and fathers who are in hospital rooms watching their children suffer senselessly, and screaming inside that they can't handle it anymore. *And when I kiss you good night, I will hold you a little tighter, a little longer. I will thank God for you, and ask Him for nothing, except one more day..............
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