Aaaaaand We're Back!

Hello blog readers! I must apologize for my lack of posting!  Doctor's orders: no going upstairs.  Given that our PC is upstairs, I've felt a little out of touch with the real world (okay, the internet...) just using my iPhone.  It's been a tough, yet exciting two weeks in the Marcelle house.

My surgery went well... minimal bleeding, minimal damage to the uterine wall.  I'll have a few follow-up appointments in the next few months and a follow-up ultrasound in 2 months just to make sure everything is healing properly.  The doctor removed a few fibroids... the largest was 7cm, two were around 4cm, and a few smaller ones. I spent 2 days in the hospital.  Nick brought Kaelan up to see me for a few minutes so that was nice.  Besides the pain, the hardest part of all of this has been not being able to hold and pick up my baby.  It's been 2 weeks since the surgery and I can officially hold him as long as I'm sitting down and I'm able to give him his bottle - which is fantastically awesome - and I can sit at the table and feed him his solids. 

Let me take this time to give my husband some major props... he has been AMAZING.  He does 100% of everything for Kaelan, 100% of the housework, and 100% of the yard work (although I must admit, the yard has suffered a tad).  Nick is such a good daddy and takes such great care of Kaelan... we're both so lucky to have him around!  He also takes good care of me... bringing me whatever I need or want, holding the bowl or bag while I got sick over and over the first day home from hospital, picking up things if I drop them, running errands after Kaelan is down for the night... I'm so blessed to have this wonderful man in my life!  A big thank you to both of our mothers for their help and meals.  Thank you to everyone who has helped out with babysitting, dinners, desserts, etc.  It truly means the world to us and we greatly appreciate you!

I think this picture sums up what Nick has been up to the last few weeks...

Now on to the fun stuff!!  Kaelan has been quite busy the last two weeks...

We had a professional photo shoot at The Woodlands Waterway over 4th of July weekend... here are a few sneak peeks I got... can't WAIT to get the final images! :)  Crystal of Crystal Lynn Photography (http://www.crystallynnblog.com/) did an AMAZING job.  Our little guy was not very loose with the smiles that morning but I know she was still able to capture some great images of our little guy.

We have our first tooth! You can just barely see it on the bottom.

Kaelan is getting more and more mobile with each passing day.  We're headed to the store this weekend to buy baby gates for the stairs.  He is starting to crawl... for now, he can only scoot backwards, but he scoots himself ALL over the game room!  That started Saturday.  Then this evening he officially worked his way up onto hands and knees and started rocking back and forth.  The video is a little silly - ignore mine and Nick's excitement in the background... we really are silly first-time parents. :)

Here he is working his way up...

And yay!



That's it for now, I need to resume my position on the couch. :)  I'll try and post more photos soon... we have some cute ones from my dad's retirement party and my mom's birthday party!