Slowly but Surely

Yeah! 3 weeks old yesterday and only got up twice last night!!!! Yippee! He is such a good boy and so happy and content. He is reaching out for objects and grasping onto things, smiling (or gas?) and copying us with what faces we make to him. The girls are such a huge help with entertaining him, holding and dressing him. Oh and Kylie loves to put his hair in a mohawk! Poor Max...he has no idea what he is in for growing up with 2 older sisters. Patrick goes back to work next Tuesday :( What a true blessing it has been with us both home for the last month together to bond with Max. We will always look back and cherish this time we have had with him.

Routine Smoutine

We have already come to the conclusion that yes Max is stubborn and does things on his schedule, so I don't know why we weren't surprised when we were wanting him to sleep in his bed he wanted nothing to do with it. But now I guess he is ready in his time, he will sleep in his crib at night now wanting fed every 1.5-2 hours. Small steps, but I think we are slowly getting there. Yesterday his Uncle Chris from Chicago came and did a photo shoot with him, Max did awesome. Even managed to pee on daddy!!!!

Can anyone say Spoiled????

Whew! It was alot easier to sleep with him in :) Haha! Max is doing awesome as long as someone is holding him, which isn't too hard to do being that cute. He is wide awake from 9p on and boy is he tired come morning time! Oh well all part of the fun and games! But what do you expect being 5 days old. The girls have been a huge help and love playing dress up and bath time with him!!

may we introduce Max Donover Gerke

Finally Max has arrived with much anticipation to say the least on Thursday January 3rd at 8:36pm weighing in at 8 pounds even and a little over 19" long. It was a long day of laboring until the doctor's broke Heather's water and shorlty thereafter Max arrived with many family members awaiting to snuggle him. He is such a dream come true to so many hearts. His hair is blondish, brownish, reddish and CRAZY! He is nursing perfectly and working on getting his days and nights back to normal (to say the least we haven't slept for a couple days!) Sorry for the delay in letting you know, the wi-fi wasn't working at the hospital, as I know you all have been waiting to hear from us. We are home now, getting settled and trying on new outfits with his big sisters :)

No Room at the Inn

Round 2 for Inducement and this one is happening for sure...no ifs ands, or buts. The hardest part today was scheduling it and finding an open room at the busy busy hospital, but it is set in stone. We go in at 10am on the 3rd to have and meet our little boy, finally...unless he decides to naturally come into the world on his own. But since so far his track record is pure stubbornness, in which case we highly doubt it. We have 6 days to get the house in order, relax and enjoy the girls til our little Max comes!!! It has been a long, trying and emotional roller coaster but we have finally made it and soooo incredibly grateful for all of your love, thoughts and prayers. We wish everyone a safe and Happy New Year!

No Christmas Baby

With 45 minutes left of Christmas, I can confidently say Max didn't want his birthday on this day. With complete expectations that he would have been here earlier in the month, we felt kind of "empty" over the last few days. I know its weird because he is here with us in Heather's belly and doing awesome, and we can't explain our feelings which were clearly built on expectations that we thought we were going to snuggle him on Christmas.
Contractions have been nuts over the last 4-5 days as close as to a minute and a half apart. We spent Friday evening at St. Ann's and was sent home due to no cervical change and to walk, walk, and walk. The contractions are more sporadic but defiantly getting stronger and more intense as they told us is expected in the early stage of labor that we are in. We have a doctor's appointment on Thursday for a check up and to discuss inducing. Can we say tax deduction??? hahahaha :)

Stubborn Little Max....

Max is defiantly our son, being he is sooo stubborn on not coming out. Heather had contractions all weekend up to 5 minutes apart and no labor yet. Today we had a check up and Heather is 1 cm dilated and completely effaced....the doctor felt his head (as weird as that sounds). So with our luck we will be spending Christmas in the hospital. Which is a funny family story because last year Kylie sat on Santa's lap and asked for a baby brother for Christmas. So she thinks Santa is playing a trick on her and delivering her brother this Christmas just for her!!! Its funny how we worked so hard on getting pregnant, staying pregnant, growing a healthy boy and now we are working so hard on seeing him! So off to walk, walk, and walk to get labor started!!! Love you all~