Halloween 2012

Miles' first Halloween. We were happy to make it out to the Chatfield Pumpkin patch this year with our little one to share it with. Although Miles had no idea what was going on we all had fun roaming through the pumpkins and enjoying the warm fall weather.

We were fortunate to have Matt's brother and sister-in-law visit us right before the holiday with their new baby and Miles' cousin, River. She was by far the happiest and most mellow baby we have ever met. We wanted something festive to decorate our porch for the holiday so we all visited our local nursery to pick up some pumpkins for carving. We were quite successful artists! Sadly the pumpkins started to fall apart within a few days and we were only able to place candles in two of them for trick-or-treaters. Good thing I got a picture while they were fresh!

 

 

Matt was at school on Halloween so I had my little helper, Miles, help me pass out candy to the trick-or-treaters. Miles was so curious every time the doorbell rang. He was in aw with all the people in costume that continued to arrive at our doorstep. We probably had 75 trick-or-treaters. And all of them said they liked my cute baby.  Not bad for our first Halloween in our new home. Next year we will be the ones out there hitting the pavement in the neighborhood. Overall it was a fun time.

Miles Andrew Olsen is Born

On September 10th, 2012 at 3:14pm Miles Andrew Olsen was born. He was 7lbs. 14oz and 20 inches. It was not the easiest pregnancy. With being high-risk because of gestational diabetes and hypertension we took many precautions. We were so lucky to have a team of doctors and nurses during the pregnancy to keep me calm, confident and help me through the entire adventure. Since I was being induced a week early we were able to choose our delivery date. We felt the 10th was a perfect date for our new Virgo baby!

 

The hospital staff was fabulous. Our experience at the Swedish Hospital was amazing. During the delivery process I had issues at the end as Miles heart rate was jumping around and there was talk of a c-section. the Doctor decided to continue to try a natural birth. 

 

Once the baby's head peaked out he got stuck against my pelvis. Seconds later the entire nurse staff was in my room as Matt was to stand on the sidelines while four nurses were pressing on my stomach and the doctor pulling with a vacuum on the baby's head to quickly get him out safely. As soon as he appeared in the doctors arms, I waited to hear him. She cleared his lungs, mouth and nose and they quickly took him to another set of nurses at the baby station in the room to assess his condition. I remember I finally heard him cry and I knew then that he was alive.  

 

 

Once he was stable they let me hold for a minute and then Matt and Miles were taken down to the ICU because he needed oxygen and an x-ray. The doctor saw his arm was not moving and she knew she had strained the arms to get him out. The x-ray showed no fractures. Thank goodness. He didn't move his arm for a couple of weeks and since he has slowly been improving and gaining strength in his arm. We are hoping for a full recovery. He is a perfect little blue eyed baby that has filled our heart with more love than we knew we had. Matt love being a Dad. We are truly happy!

 

 

New Home

After seven months of searching and three home offers later, we purchased the perfect home for our growing family located in a nice suburban neighborhood of Aurora Colorado.

It was a stressful process all coming to a head as we neared the delivery date of baby MoJo and the long financing from our bank drug on much longer than needed or anticipated. One week before we were to deliver our baby we finally closed on our new home and were able to be first time home owners. It was close, as I had a high risk pregnancy with issues that almost led me to have the baby before we got financing form the bank and could move in.

I must say it was one of the most stressful situations of our lives. If I had the baby early we would not have been approved from the bank because I would have been an inactive employee. We couldn't let that happen so I worked really hard to make it to the delivery date by trying to stay clam. It was not easy but in the end it worked out just in the nick-of-time.

We love our new home. We have now met many of the neighbors who all are extremely friendly. Many of them are around our age and 5 families have a new child one year or younger. Perfect friends for Miles to grow up with. We are so grateful for our new home.