2 month stats

I am a bit behind with posting once again. Everett turned 2 months on the 25th of Jan. We went for his check up on the 26th at 8:15 in the morning (We were even on time). We did not have to wait and everything went well. The doctor said we are doing everything right. What a relief to hear since I spend most days thinking what am I doing wrong. Here are his stats...
Length: 24 and 1/4 inches (90th percentile)
Weight: 11 lbs and 12.7 ounces (53rd percentile)
Head: 22nd percentile.

Yes, it looks like little Everett has is Opa's (Cherise's father)pin head. Auntie Heather would be so proud since she had one too. The doctor said Everett is long and lean and its perfect. I am sure he was looking at Tristan and I thinking where did that come from since I am not tall and Tristan is not lean. Hopefully he will stay that way.

Everett is very talkative and loves to have conversations with his toys. He will now sit in his bouncer for about 10 minutes and continues to love his swing and his gym. He is not fussy at all during the day unless he is in the car which he hates or I go run errands so he can't nap. Night time is still rough sometimes. It is hit or miss. But he sleeps all night once he goes down and has since 5 weeks. We are really lucky with that. Now if only I could sleep at night. He also refuses to take naps longer than 30 minutes which is probably why he sleeps all night. So since I don't sleep at night and have no time to catch up with a nap during the day.... Yes, I am going psychotic. I hear him crying or making noises, but it is not him. Tristan woke up the other night to see me standing at the door listening for my son across the hall. He had to force me to go back to bed and told me that the monitor would not lie. If there is no noise through the monitor then he is not making any noise. So where did I hear these noises from??? Who knows, but it happens tons and has for the last month. So yes, I am officially nuts and I have no memory. I loose everything, can't remember where I just put it, or what I just wrote down. I am hoping my memory will come back to me when I get some rest.

I have not put up any pictures of my cutie since he was 5 weeks at his blessing. Hopefully I will have plenty up soon of the last few weeks. He is such a sweetie!

Oh and I was supposed to go back to work tomorrow, but I will not be going back til March 7th thanks to a very nice man at Kaiser HR who told me to just ask my boss for a personal leave of absence. Luckily she granted it!

Everett's blessing

Everett's blessing was on January 3rd. My brother Fred was in town and it worked out nicely that my whole immediate family got to be there. It was all the siblings minus Heather, but Scott and the kids came so they represented for her. Tristan's father and brother also participated in the blessing (that is his whole family). It is funny to see how small Tristan's family is and how large my family is. Here are some pictures of Everett in his cute little blessing outfit.





Everyone who was there for the blessing

Luedtke family pictures



Me giving Everett a bottle in the parking lot while waiting to take pictures


We took these pictures of our little family after church using the timer and a tripod. Tristan did not want to put his church pants back on so he is in addidas shorts. It was my first sunday back at church, and Everett's first Sunday at church. Tristan took Everett home after we took pictures. By then only the last hour of church was left and he was getting cranky. I stayed to play the piano for primary and then Tristan had to come all the way back and get me. This Sunday we just had, we planned better. We took two cars in case somebody had to take the baby home early. Everett made it longer this time. He did not go nuts until there was only 30 minutes left of church.

New Years and Everett at 5 weeks

The day before New Year's Eve my brother Fred and his wife Carol and their four children came to town. We had fun hanging out with them and Scott and the kids at my parents house that night. Then on New Year's Eve Scott's family, Eric's family, Fred's family, us, and my parents all met up at the cemetery (we missed you Heidi). We wanted to see Heather's marker at the cemetary. It is beautiful, and the message on it touches me. That is exactly what Heather cared most about in life was that her children new she did all she could to stay with them as long as she could. That she did not just give up and say I would rather die so I can be out of pain. She fought and went through surgeries and treatments even when her doctor's had given up. All because she wanted to keep fighting for her children. After the cemetery we went to Eric's house and had tons of chinese food and played games. Everett was unusually good that night. He fell asleep while nursing at 7pm and slept until 1am at Eric's house. It was so nice because Tristan and I were able to talk and play games. We had so much fun. I nursed Everett at 1 am and we did not even get home until 2am. Boy was it hard to get up at 4 and nurse again. I don't have any pictures of New year's Eve and we did not do anything on New Year's day, but enjoy the following.

Everett at 5 weeks


Everett and mommy


Everett and mommy both asleep


Heather's marker. It reads: May my children know "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my coarse, I have kept the faith"




Pictures of all of us at the cemetery

Christmas with Everett

A few days before Christmas Tristan's grandpa Terry came into town and we were able to have them come over and see Everett for the first time. They live in Utah, so it was nice they got to see him when he was only 3 and a half weeks.

Here is Everett with his great Grandpa Terry.


Here is 4 generations of Terry men


Christmas Day also happened to be Everett's one month mark. We had Christmas Eve at our house with Grandma and Grandpa Terry. On Christmas we were with my side of the family plus the Mitchell family at Heidi and Chad's.



Everett on Christmas checking out all of his Chistmas presents from Grandma and Grandpa Terry. They got him way too much stuff!

Everett with Aunt Heidi. He wore his cute cord overalls she bought him for his baby shower. He looked so handsome.


Our new little family on Christmas. (I could not get that one piece of hair to cooperate).


Exhausted the day after Christmas from all the festivities.


Everett and mommy


Everett and his cousin Isabella

Everett and Aunt Mayra


Everett at almost 5 weeks old taking his first bottle from daddy. He did ok, but did better the next day with the doctor brown bottles. I have been to scared to try any of the other nipples/bottles since he is doing so well. His daddy sure loves him.

Way behind so catch up! (Mon. Jan 11)

I am way behind on my blogging. Everett is almost 7 weeks old. Sorry. I am trying to either clean, do laundry, cook etc while he is asleep, or I try to nap. Unfortunately I never fall asleep while he is napping or if I finally do, he wakes up shortly after. Everett is not a napper. I am lucky if I get one good 2-4 hour nap in a day. He mainly just cat naps. At night he would do his 2-4 hour stretches. Now he is sleeping for 5-6 hours at night. It is wonderful. But once again, I can't fall asleep. I end up getting to bed about an hour after he does (clean up, shower, get ready for bed etc). Then it takes me an hour or more to fall asleep. So I miss alot of the sleep I could get. I need to just shut off my brain and my nerves, but I am having a hard time still.

Here is my plan on catching up. I am going to post one picture of Everett at 6 weeks old. He is smiling. It is pretty close up so he does not look as cute as he is in person. I took it while trying to get him to smile back at me, so it is low quality. Then each day this week I am going to catch up on Christmas/4 weeks old, New Years/5 weeks old, and his blessing which was on January 3rd. Then I can post some really cute pictures of him when he turns seven weeks and you can see what he looks like now.

He smiles up a storm, coos and makes so many noises that keep getting louder and louder, and he loves to stand. He won't play for very long on the floor with me, but he will lay there and play with Tristan for a long time. He just wants to eat when he sees me. He likes his swing now as long as he is not already fussy when we put him in it, but he still does not like his bouncer. We are loving having him in our family. He is so sweet even though he is still pretty fussy despite his reflux medicine and my non dairy diet. It has helped a lot, but from 5pm til 11pm when he goes to bed is rough.