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A random post
Christmas was good!
We started out on Saturday the 20Th and headed to Nebraska, it took us 7 hours because of the icy roads, and blowing snow.
We did Christmas with my dad sat and Sunday. Headed to my moms on Monday did Christmas with her on the 24Th and then went to Columbus to my Grandmas for Christmas day and headed back to Iowa through another ice storm on Sat. the 27th where we had to abandon my car and load baby, dog and bags into the truck( ean drove a truck home he bought for his dad). My car couldn't make it up the Hills.
We then made it to Joellyn's house Saturday evening. We did Christmas with her and Trista Sunday morning, Grandma Seaba Sunday for lunch and Grandma Caskey and Papa Caskey Sunday Afternoon.
WOW that was a quick rundown of our very busy very fun week of Christmas!!
Chasen finally got to meet his Great Great Grandma Florence.
here is our 5 generation picture. Grandma Flo was so excited and so proud!

After that long week I went back to work yesterday. I'm very exhausted. I know in my last post I said Chasen was sleeping through the night.....that is no longer the case. Last night he was up at 2am and 5am. The 5am KILLS me because then I can't go back to bed before work and I am NOT a morning person.
Today I took him to the Dr. at 7am b/c he has thrush ( a yeast infection of the mouth) I was joking with my boss that as soon as I came back to work he would get sick, but I didn't think it would be the first day!
He has a gel you put in his mouth 4xs a day and it should go away.
Grandma Bud is here all week with uncle Jackson watching Chasen then he goes to daycare on the 5th :(
Have a Happy and Safe New Year!

I'm still working on the New Year letter....it may happen.

Silent Night

Santa came early to my house and I got the best gift ever.....
SLEEP
Chasen went to bed last night at 9:30 and got up at 6am :)
That is eight and a half hours of sleep!!!!!!
Who knows it may never happen again but it was amazing!

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night:)

Shaken not stirred

The 5 P's of motherhood (my motherhood)
Pee -- being peed on, cleaning it up, but not having time to do it myself :)
Poop -- cleaning it up and obsessing about if he has went enough or to much is it a weird color/consistency.... seriously its werid.
Pump -- pumping is my 2nd job
Play -- reading, singing, bouncing, swaying, Shaken not stirred
Praying -- for sanity, strength and guidance
Pass-out -- That's what we do at 8pm if possible

Our First Christmas

A post from Chasen

Tonight we celebrated our first Christmas as a family!
Mommy finally got the Ottoman to match our new living room furniture, it even opens to hold all my toy's and blankets!
Santa brought me bubble bath and toys to hang from my car seat!
Daddy got some clothes and a "honey due" list beer mug
Because Im such a hand full mommy did not get around to making a Christmas letter but here is our christmas photo.


I heard her mention that she may get around to New Years cards....but maybe she will do a Christmas in July letter. Either way I know she will be writing about me because Im so cute and all ;)

Lets Play!

Chasen is changing daily and he loves to play! He has a book with baby faces and he loves to lay and look at them and talk to them, we are following toys and like toys with lights, he even grabbed at his first toy today. He can hold his head up forever and can turn on his side. But he does get over stimulated the he gets this pouty face and cries,its kinda cute. He is also falling asleep with out having to have a bottle. he cries and tries to fight sleep but after about 5 min and some rocking/shaking he falls asleep. He is starting to have a "social" smile, which we have yet to capture on camera. He smiles when I talk to him and he smiles at his baby friends (in the book). He also likes it when mommy watches MTV and we sing and dance to the videos, and if mommy stops moving I scream!!! .... Hey Im just helping mommy keep the weight off:) He is almost sleeping through the night. He goes to bed around 10:30-11 then gets up between 3:30 and 4:30 then again at 7:30. Not to bad!!

he loves bath time

and this is how he likes to sleep He also likes Kevin here is a video of him riding kevin .... of course Ean had everything to do with this, your not surprised, I know.

We will be great pals someday soon!

growing and growing

Remember this outfit...I came home for the hospital in it and it was kinda big, well mom put it on me today and Im to long for it!

A Baby Changes Everything.....

I think this explains exactly what it feels like to become a parent:

Prepare.
Ready for a miracle?
Nobody’s ever ready for a miracle.
Ready for a baby?
Ready or no, it’s coming sure as Christmas.
Just like the first big drop at the start of a rollercoaster
-- You know its coming, it’s what you signed up for, your locked in, you’ve counted the clicks as the car cranked higher and higher
You know what’s coming,……….sort of.
You what’s coming and your EXCITED and TERRIFIED and you’re short of breath and you feel ready to scream
and you can’t wait
and you hope it never comes
And you hope it comes soon and you….
And……and…..and……….Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Yeah, you’re never quite ready,
And you can hardly wait.
Terrifying. Terrific.

If you like it you should check out the book it came from
A Baby Changes Everything by KK Wiseman, Tim Nichols, Craig Wiseman
And Check out the song by Faith Hill.

Everybody is happy when baby sleeps

So yesterday Chasen screamed allll day, after every feeding, he also threw up after every feeding. He is still taking his acid reflux meds so I know that's not it.
Im pretty sure he is allergic to something I am eating because he isn't like this all the time.
So I had heard from several people to try mixing bottles half breast milk half formula. So For the last 3 feedings I have done that and the kid hasnt screamed!!

I recommend consulting your Dr. before trying this, Im calling mine this morning just to make sure its okay!

Happy Firday!!
Joellyn is coming to babysit tonight too, so Ean and I are going on a date....to walmart and target to get groceries and finish christmas shopping! and we may even go out for dinner :)

Happy 1st month

Thumbs up


Dec 4th was Chasen's 1 month birthday, he shared it with his aunty alyssa who turned 20.

Chasen went to his first basketball game. Jackson plays on the 8th grade team and we went to cheer him on. He did pretty good and enjoyed all the lights.

We came home from the game to eat cake and celebrate Alyssa's birthday and Chasens 1 month and much to our surprise Kevin had reached, and ate the cake. we still put candles on it and sang to her. :)

We came to Nebraska for thanksgiving and to celebrate Alyssa and Jacksons birthdays.
Chasen did really well on the car ride down. We only had to stop once.

this post was a little late but I had to get the pics in there.
Chasen still isn't sleeping right and his mom is about to loose her mind.....I'm ready for Christmas because there will be other peole around to help with him and them my mom comes for a week while I go back to work!

this pretty much sums up my days and nights

A message to Chasen

Chasen Michael if you don't start sleeping better at night you WILL be an only child.

last night he woke up for his 2am feeding and stayed up until 4am....sorry kid but the bar closes at 2am....you don't have to go home but you can't stay here....
Mommy and Chasen slept in the living room so daddy could get some sleep, if he continues to do this when I got back to work I don't know what I will do, sleep while I pump at work...probably not, its kinda hard to sleep and pump...I've tried.

I sware if someone came to my door last night at 3am I would have given him away.
Okay maybe not but he is grounded!

We made up this morning when he woke up all smiley and then we had a photo shoot!
I will have to wait till Ean gets back with his computer to upload the photos, I also have pics from his one month bday that he shared with his aunt lissy, who turned 20!
I get to have a visitor today!! Melissa is coming over at 1 :)
and Kasi is coming over on Sat. and we may go have a bloody mary if Ean is home to watch Chasen:)
ahhhhh to see people

Laugh with me...or at me which ever!

So I though I would share with you how my day is going so you could have a good laugh.
First of all im running on nooooo sleep, Chasen has his days and nights confused because of our long car rides and sleeping 6 hours during the day, so he was up from 9pm to 1am fussy and sleeping for like 15min then up and crying, it was baaaaad.

any way on to today....

Chasen and I just did hhmmmmmm...about 30 some laps around the island in our kitchen. I was pushing him in the stroller :)
It was the only thing that would make him stop screaming, I would stop for a little bit and wash a dish, or put something away, then he would cry and we would walk some more. Kevin is scared of the stroller so he kept running around the house whining.
ahhh yes...good times!

also I thought of something else that I never shared with the world.
The day Chasen was born my then 13 year old brother was holding him for the first time and after a few minutes asked if anyone else wanted to hold him and my sister siad
"oh bubba, you can hold him longer"
and Jackson said
"no, someone needs to take him cause I just really wanna squeeze him" :)
how cute is that!??!

well,
happy tuesday

Where everybody knows your name....

So we have been patients at our Dr. office for exactly 3 weeks and I have seen 2 of the 3 Doctors, the receptionist, I sware, knows my voice when I call in and EVERYONE has heard Chasen scream! The nurses know us very well too.
I guess that's what happens when you have children.
Since Chasen was born we have been to the Dr for his 2 week check up, once for the GERD thing, a follow up for the GERD and ANOTHER follow up for the GERD and I went for mastitis ... thats 5 times in case you weren't counting.
Chasen hasn't even had his shots yet..that's in Jan. sometime and Im sure we will be back before then.
But I hope we aren't.
Ean has even went, unwillingly to get his flu and tetanus shot. He just thought he was going with for Chasens check up but I had scheduled him an apt. to get his shots and he was pretty surprised! (insert evil laugh)
I really think they should have a punch card or a frequent flyer type deal at the Dr. office...
or the vet for that matter.
Kevins bill alone was $250 (worth it though cause we love him, and that seizure thing was really scary)
any way I'm on antibiotics for this mastitis and if my one boob that is plugged doesn't drain on its own I'm gonna have to go get it drained, so if that happens the whole breast feeding thing may come to an end. Mastitis is REALLY painful. That and Im not producing as much milk so we are using up the stuff I started to freeze for daycare.
At least they do make formula and my kid wont starve.
I want to keep breastfeeding 1. for Chasens benefit and 2. the weight loss.
I would like to take this opportunity to toot my own horn (all though I ha vent really done anything) I have lost 35lbs since I had Chasen and I only gained 20. Now none of this has to do with me exercising or eating healthy it has to do with breastfeeding and not having time to eat enough lol.


on another note we were supposed to head to NE today but it looks like we will be leaving early tomorrow morning.
I hate when things like this dint go as planned. I'm kind of a plan freak...only for certain things.

Chasen weeks 2-3

So week 2 was my first week alone with Chasen and by Friday I had lost it. Chasen started to not sleep more then an hour at night he wouldn't let me put him down during the day, I wasn't able to eat till ean got home because every time I layed him down he would scream. So by Friday I was at the end of my rope and at 2:30 after hours of screaming I put Chasen in his car seat and we went for a drive, the only way he would sleep. We drove around for and hour while I cried then I realized I could go through the drive through at hardees and actually EAT something! When I got home he started crying again and I called Ean and told him he had to come home early because I didn't think I could do it any more. He casually says oh, well my mom will be there in an hour and she is gonna babysit so we can go on a date.
"WHAT??!" why didn't you tell me this earlier, my prayers have been answered!!
so Ean and I went on our first date!

Joellyn had the same problem with Chasen where she couldn't lay him down without him screaming she mentioned that Garin had had acid reflux. So over the weekend it got worse and he was throwing up after every feeding and I was having to sleep with him on my chest which means I wasn't sleeping because I was scared I would roll over on him. Finally on Monday after I was covered in puke I took him to the Dr. and they diagnosed him with baby acid reflux, prescribed him so zantac and we are doing better. He sleeps with a wedge so his head is elevated and he has mostly stopped puking after his feedings.
We both go back to the Dr. tomorrow, Chasen goes for a weight check because he had lost 4oz and I go to get antibiotics for mastitis. Hopefully this will be the end of Dr. bills for a while, between Kevin and chasen we have spent around $350 this month.
Kids are expensive.
In other news Thanksgiving was good we were in north English for 5 days and it was so nice to have grammie help with chasen and I know she enjoyed it too!
Ean has a roofing job in ashland neb. so we are leaving wed. morning for my moms! I'm excited because i get to celebrate Alyssa and Jackson's bdays with them :) but I'm nervous about the 5hr car ride with chasen and Kevin...we will have a full car.
I've updated with several pictures, 1st bath, 1st bottle, ect...check them out http://documented.smugmug.com/Caskey%20babies

What the heck just happened???

Wow i know its been a while,but chasen has baby GERD (thats a whole post in itself) Im sick and life is busy.
So let me begin with yesterday morning, Its 6am Im sick with the chills and a fever, Im on the couch (at Joellyns) nursing chasen who keeps throwing up all over me this went on for about 45min then we both fall asleep, Kevin comes out around 7am and is whining because he has to potty, I told him to go tell his dad and he went back in the bedroom and whined but wasn't loud enough to wake dad. So after 10 min or so of listening to him whine I decided I would get up and let him out.
Well he heard a truck started barking and then started running around running into stuff, I couldn't really see him because I was trying to get out of the couch while holding chasen, but once I could see him I knew something was wrong because he was sprawled out on the floor shooting around like a pinball in a pinball machine I yelled for ean as Kevin shot down the hallway running into the walls, he ended up in Joellyns bed room and Ean and I figured out he was having a seizure, ean held him so he didnt hurt himself any more and he just kept shaking, vomited and pooped all over. Joellyn took Chasen while I call the ER vet, we ended up taking Kevin to the vet to have them do blood work and they found nothing, no toxins so he didnt get into anything, They said that sometimes dogs will have epilepsy and they will put them on meds if they have more then one seizure a month so we are to continue to monitor him and bring him back if he has another one.
It was so scary and so sad because he looked so scared as he was having his seizure, of course I was balling and though he as dying but so far everything has been good, he did throw up last night but I think he is okay.
we were joking that maybe it was a pseudo seizure for attention since he doesn't get as much attention any more ;)
I have been sick since Friday and now realize that I have mastitis. FUN FUN. I go to the Dr. tomorrow to get some meds. as for right now im sitting here with cabbage on my boobs, they say it helps.....whatever it takes.