1st Birthday!!

Jasper turned one last week!! AWWWW!!! The time has gone by so fast it's totally insane and it makes me feel old! Jasper had his 12 month well check up so here are the stats from that.

Weight: 17 lbs. 15 oz.
Height: 28 in.

He's just a little guy! I have just loved watching Jasper grow and learn this past year. He has a great personality! When I saw him for the first time I said "Oh my gosh, look how beautiful he is.....I WOULDN'T trade him for any girl in the whole wide world!" That is still true to this day. Jasper gets so many compliments when we are out running our errands. For instances....."He is so cute!" Also at every doctor's appointment his pediatrician always says to me "He's a dang cute kid, are you sure you want to keep him?" It just makes me laugh and also makes me feel good that I have such a handsome little boy.

Jasper has learned alot in a year. Here are some fun things about Jasper.

*He walks around the house with a smiling face and sometimes he will clap while he is walking. It's just darling!

*He has the cutest smile

*He makes the funniest sounds along with facial expressions

*He can wave

*He loves music (just like his daddy)

*He dances to music

*He loves his brothers (Mason and Aiden)

*He's a mamma's boy

*He can say "mama, what's that, no and dada"

*When you ask him what certain animals say he growls.

*He loves to eat chocolate, donuts, cookies, well pretty much anything sweet (which makes sense since when I was pregnant with him I craved all kinds of sweets)......can you blame him, though?

*He can go up and down the stairs by himself

*He loves to be outside

There's a few for now!

Jaspers' Birth Story

We got to the hospital at 11 am on Saturday September 3. I got checked in and fill out paper work. They took us to the room that I would be delivering in. The nurse got me all hooked up to the monitors and iv's. I was dilated at a 2 and 70% effaced when they checked me. My doctor came in at 11:45 am and he decided to break my water. Jon and I started to watch some DVDs that we brought from home since we knew it would be awhile. After my doctor broke my water the contractions started to get more intense on me.At  3:30 pm I got my epidural. Which wasn't pleasant at all!! The anesthesiologist had to do my epidural twice. The first time that he did it he ended up getting spinal fluid and made my whole right side jolt. The second time that he did it he made my left side jolt alittle bit but then it went away and it was all ok. My epidural was really weird this time too. 1-Jon wasn't able to give me a blessing before I got my epidural since we both forgot to bring the oil with us 2-It was only working on one side really well for a long time 3- I was having sharp pain on my right side (from my contractions) 4- It started to wear off towards the end, so the anesthesiologist had to come back in to up my dose, which helped for a little while. I don't remember what time it was but they came and checked me again and I was at 9 cm so they called my doctor and my doctor decided to have me wait for an hour so that the contractions could push the baby down more into the birth canal so that I wouldn't have to push for 30 minutes. My doctor got there around 7:45 pm and noticed that the baby was facing face up. He had to take forceps to turn him around so that I wouldn't tear. While he was doing that it was painful since my epidural was wearing off and I could feel pressure in my butt (which never happened with my other two boys) and I could also feel the contractions. After my doctor turned the baby the right way I pushed 1 and a half times and out came our baby boy. Jasper Cole Barney was born at 8:06pm weighing at 8 lbs 1 oz and 20 inches long. Right after he came out I seriously felt better. I didn't tear which was nice also. Out of all my kids he was the first one that I got to hold first. Jon didn't hold him until almost an hour after I delivered him. He is such a good baby too! I love him so much!! We all know that I really want a girl but when I finally heard Jasper and saw him I told Jon that I wouldn't trade him for all the girls in the world. I am so glad that we had another boy!