Thoughts on being a new mom

SO I'm sitting here while Noel is in the swing, going back and forth because she starts crying if she spits out her pacifier, sigh...

I thought I would write a little bit about how I'm feeling..

I do not like newborns, yep they are real cute but that's about as far I'll go.

I don't like not knowing what she needs/wants.

I don't like that they don't much at all.

This whole stage has been hard, although I knew that it was going to be before she was born. Don't get me wrong I love her to pieces but I have had numerous crying spells because she won't stop crying and I feel like a super crazy person. 

Well I better go get her because she's just starting to wake up in the car seat and if I wake her up she's usually much happier than if I wait til there's wailing from the car seat.

On another note, Noel is 7 weeks old today!! And I think she had given us some real smiles, so that is pretty fun ;-) 

Welcome Noel Marie!

Noel Marie Wendzel was born on Christmas Day at 7am!!

So I started this post quite a while ago and just now am updating it, phew! Right now the lovely lady is sleeping and I'm sitting with the computer dimmed way down in bed as she is sleeping and has been for awhile, I'm really hoping she stays asleep for awhile and for most of the night as she's been really sleeping this afternoon.

I still can't quite believe that I had a Christmas baby, but I seriously love it!!! And its also so crazy that the little peanut is going to be one month old on Thursday!! What?! How does time go by so fast?

The birth went so amazingly well, I am still so thrilled about it! We got to stay at home and it was so amazing!! I couldn't have asked for anything better! Emily was great, Ruth was amazing and my mom was spectacular!! Jared did awesome as well, and was sooo helpful! Jared even cried when she was born, how precious!  I will write more about the whole birth story soon but right now I am going to post some super adorable pictures of Miss Noel :-) Enjoy!

Merry Christmas Eve Eve

Its almost Christmas Eve!! I'm currently feeling annoyed that there are 2 shows recording and I don't like either one but don't really know enough about the TV and how to fix that. So the curse of oak island is on, which I think is just a dumb show and they will never find anything. oh well!

Christmas Eve is tomorrow!! I seriously love this time of year! :-) Still no sign of Rice Baby coming...Except that he\she is right up in my ribs at this current moment. I did have a few real contractions on Saturday! But now there has been nothing, which is slightly disappointing but yet good because I kind of just want to get through the 3 days of Christmas festivities.

 Tomorrow brings going to my moms and opening presents with her. I even bought cinnamon rolls for the morning, we shall see if I get around to making them!

We gave my goat friends a couple Christmas trees today which was fun to watch them chow down on! 

The nursery is coming right along! it looks so good!! Dawn, my mother in law, came over today and painted the room and its done! I am so thankful! And it looks sooo good! My dad is hopefully gonna come over this weekend or early next week and paint the animals on the wall! Progress! YES!!! Now to have a baby for the nursery! At least the baby won't use the nursery right away. I'm feeling pretty ready. I have over 30 cloth diapers and have been reading up on them. I think its gonna work out quite nicely! I have quite a few different kinds but all seem really great! I got a great deal on a pack and play the other night, so now I have two one for here and one for at work with my mom. 

Well thats all I can think of to write about, but 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Maternity Picture Post

Could be 2 weeks or less!!

So I'm tired, I had to go Christmas shopping today which is one of my least favorite things to do. Blah! Which might seem strange because Christmas is my favorite season!! :-)

Oh well, I think we got just about everyone done! I think there are maybe 3 more people on the list that we need presents for, but knowing that seems much more bearable! yay!!

Oh and now I'm 38 weeks and 2 days along so really just about anytime we could get to meet this little baby! WOOHOO!!!! I can hardly believe it! so exciting and crazy all at the same time! In a way I want he/she to stay in until after Christmas but yet I could be ready now too. But seeing as its not up to me to decide, we shall see what happens! :-D

We had some maternity pictures taken yesterday so that was fun! I'm excited to see them!! :-D

We are still having warm temperatures and I'm loving it!! I would even be totally ok with a green Christmas. I know that most people disagree with me on that, but I'm ok with that. I would however like the temps to be in the 20s at night so that my dogs won't be so darn muddy when I let them outside to go potty. But we've been getting better at going out on leashes. I think its supposed to get a little colder tomorrow.

Jared is currently working on the barn wood for what will look a barn around the crib in the nursery! Hooray for some progress! I picked up some paint colors yesterday to see what I might like, so thats progress too. We are gonna do a sky blue on the top and green for the grass on the bottom and then my Dad will come over and paint fun farm animals on the walls! Its gonna be great! I'm still in search  of a nice wooden rocking chair and a wooden antique/vintage high chair.

Well I think thats about all for now,  I should go figure out my least favorite question of the day - Whats for dinner? ugh.....

Less than a month!!

OH MY GOODNESS!! I can hardly believe it that in a month or so I will finally get to meet this little active babe thats in my belly! SOO crazy!

I'm trying to think of what else is new or has been going on....I had a lovely shower from the women's ministry at our church. I am also going to have a shower with work friends in a couple weeks, so that will be nice!
Our septic is new and back working!!!! I don't think I had ever been so excited about taking a shower at our house, lol!
Our Thanksgiving was so great, it was just Jared, me, my mom, twins, Bob, and Drew and Catie. It was so nice and laid back. Just perfect! My mom made the turkey and bought pies at Food Dance. I made mashed potatoes and Catie brought green bean casserole and some carmel apple dessert. Both were really tasty!
All of the Christmas decorations are up! We even got our tree but that needs to get decorated still but the twins want to help and since they are slackers on their homework, they are doing that instead of helping decorate. Maybe Tuesday, at least the lights are on it and it smells so wonderful! I just LOVE Christmas!

I'm also really thinking how cool it is that I will be having a baby around the same time we celebrate Jesus' birth. What a cool thing :-)

Well that is about all for now. Here is a special birthday shout out to my SIL Corie :-) Happy Birthday!! Since I know you will eventually read this! Hope you've had a fabulous day!

Basement update

So the rather unfortunate news in the Wendzel house is that we have to get a whole new septic system :-( boo!!

I'm thankful tho that both our parents live close so that we can shower there, and do laundry. And that we can still flush the toilets and wash our hands. And that it happened at a pretty opportune time since Jared gets a bonus from the farm at the end of the season. It sounds like all the septic craziness will be happening early next week. And the ground won't be frozen yet and they said that our fence will still be ok. Sigh of relief!

I'm excited that Jared and I are going to Chicago this weekend!  Yay!! Chicago style pizza and a couple nights at the Hyatt should be so fun! And we are going to a steak place that is so good! I am looking forward to it! 

We put the crib up last night!! It's really starting to feel real!! So crazy that in less than 2 months or so we will get to meet he/she!!! :-)