12th Month

Hadley Tate Jackson, you are such a loving, energetic and strong willed baby. I love every minute of watching you explore and learn new things.

At 12 months
- you weigh 21 1/2 pounds.
- you are 29 inches tall.
- and 3 days, you took your first steps and never looked back!
- you absolutely LOVE water.
- your favorite food is applesauce and green peas.
- you clap your hands when others do.


Here are a few pictures from Hadley's first birthday party. He had such a great time with all his friends and family!

Hadley's first birthday cake!

Exhausted after the birthday bash!

Hadley's Biggest Milestone Yet

August 29Th our little Hadley accomplished his biggest milestone yet...his FIRST birthday! It was a very happy and emotional day in the Jackson home. That bitter sweet feeling came back all over again. This time last year our 4lbs 2oz little fighter quickly became a very fragile 3lb 6oz little fighter. He was living in an incubator hooked up to a monitor. He had and oxygen tube and feeding tube in his nose and an IV in his head. Each time we looked at his innocent little face we felt like our hearts were breaking and growing all at the same time.
Hadley is now one years old and growing stronger every day! Where has the time gone?? Our tiny baby isn't so tiny anymore. He's come so far! We have never been so proud of one person. He truly is a fighter.

Hadley Tate Jackson
Mommy and Daddy love you more than anything! You have blessed us more than you will ever know. You melt our hearts every time we hear your sweet voice say, "Mama" and "Dada." We can't help but smile when you smile. We can't help but giggle when you giggle, and we can't help but cry when you cry. You are our everything!!
We love you around the world and back again!
Love,
Mommy and Daddy

The past 3 months

It has been WAY to long since I've blogged...I think I say that at the beginning of each blog :/
The past three months have been and little busy for us. Lots of birthday parties and baby showers. My sister-n-law Bronwyn and her hubby Josh welcomed their new little bundle of joy on June 29Th.. Cooper Jackson Gray!! He is such a sweetie. Bron and Josh are both so good with Hadley and love him so much. It is really great seeing them with their own little one. Hadley had surgery on July 23rd to have tubes put in his ears and he has been doing wonderful since!

Hadley Tate is 11 months old now and I still feel like I should pinch myself everyday! Brandon and I cannot get enough of that little guy. He has such a big heart and loves to be around people. He melts my heart every time I see those big blue eyes and his huge smile!

At 11 months you can:
- Stand up all by yourself
- wave bye bye
- say Momma and Dada
- say bye bye and Tye

You weigh 21 lbs and you are 29 inches long

Your Favorites are:
- taking a bath
- swimming
- mac-n-cheese
- green peas
- Popsicles
- playing with your best buddy Tye Monkey

8 months old already!

Well today is Hadley man's 8 month birthday! It is so hard to believe how fast the past 8 months have gone by!

At 8 months you love to:

-crawl ALL over the place

-give kisses

-hold your bottle

-growl (like a dinosaur)

-be outside

- & SMILE!!!!

In the midst of all this month birthday excitement ;)...I passed 2 final exams for the end of my spring semester! 3 1/2 more months of school and I will officially be a Graduate! I am absolutely exhausted and so ready to be out of school!!! Not to mention my Husband is more than ready as well. On the plus side... NO MORE NIGHT CLASS!
That's all I got! Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!

Where has the time gone?

So it has been 4 months since I have wrote on here...Shame on me!

Mr. Hadley is doing wonderful!!! In February he got RSV and spent a week in the hospital. Other than that things are great! Hadley is growing so much everyday. It brings a tear to my eye to think that he is almost 8 months old! It's hard to believe that my 4lb 2oz baby is almost 19 lbs now. We are enjoying every single minute of being parents! It is the most rewarding thing in the world. I could lay in the floor for HOURS and watch him play and roll around. He is such a little ball of energy and he is so close to crawling. Speaking of the little WILD man......I'm needed!

--Amorey

Growing Like A Weed

My Little Monkey is growing up so fast! He is doing awesome. When we left the NICU they told us it would take about a year for him to mentally catch up to his age. He will be 4 months old at the end of December and he rolled over ALL by himself last week!!! He makes us all so proud!!! He LOVES to stand up in your lap.(hates sitting down) He is such a happy little boys and almost always has a smile on his face!

He had his 3 month pictures done and we just got them back! The one above with the cross is one of my favorites! His Aunt B (Bronwyn) bought him this outfit the day we found out we were having a BOY!!! This picture was suppose to be a surprise for her but I already spoiled that. OOPS! I am so lucky so have such a wonderful sister-n-law who would drop anything she was doing in a heart beat to help me out with Hadley, BUT I am even more LUCKY to have a sister-n-law that is my BEST FRIEND! Love you B

--Amorey

Baby Hadley's Surprise Entrance!

So I have had this blog for quite a while now. It is definitely time to get it started! I decided I would start it off by letting you all know about Mr. Hadley's SURPRISE entrance into this world!

I was 31 weeks and 4 days pregnant on August 25, 2009. I started having contractions at 8pm that night. They started out 20 mins apart. I called my Dr. at 9:45 to let her know what was going on. She told me that if they were still that close together or closer in about an hour then we need to head to L&D. By 10:45 we decided to get our things and go to the hospital. When we got to the hospital the contractions were 4 minutes apart.(these were not braxton hicks) They immediatly hooked me up to the monitors and my contractions were VERY strong and 3 minutes apart. I was in a state of shock and scared to death! That night the nurse ended up giving me two shots of terbutaline to stop my contractions. It didn't work. So they gave me demoral to relax my body & it worked!!!! I stayed over night and left at 9 the next morning. Wednesday(the day I came home from the hospital) went great! No contractions! Thursday...Brandon went to work and I got woken up by a HORRIFIC pain in my lower stomach and back....yep you guessed it CONTRACTIONS again! The first one was at 10:00am, then again at 10:15, then 10:25, then 10:32. I called Brandon, he rushed home got our things and jetted to the hospital. The whole way there I am completely panicked! I had a bad feeling that Mr. Hadley was coming a lotsooner than we planned. We got to the hospital and my contractions were 2 minutes apart. They put an IV in(well after they blew 9 veins) and gave me demoral...it did nothing. They gave me 3 terbutaline shots...didn't work. Last resort was magnesuim sulfate. EHHH! Friday morning at 8 I was taken off the mag drip because it was becoming toxic to my body and dropping my oxygen levels. I was still having contractions every 2 minutes. At 1pm Friday my Dr. came and checked me and sure enough I was 1 cm dialated...not good! They moved me to a bigger room so there would be enough room for the NICU team. When we got to the new room the Dr. went to break my water and I was already 2cm dialated. (It had only been 10 minutes since she checked me last) She broke my water.....and my contractions completely stopped!!!!!!!! Yep the mag drip finally kicked in. I was so upset and kept saying, "we could have waited it out." All of my family and friends were in the room with me to keep me calm. There was a moment of awkward silence and it only took that moment for me to lose it!!!! I was scared to death of not knowing if Hadley would be able to breath, or if his eyes would be damaged from his oxygen levels, and the list goes on.... Brandon was right by my side every minute and we prayed together non stop!!! after 3 looooong days of hard labor Hadley Tate was born Saturday morning at 5:12 am weighing 4lbs 2oz 17 1/4in long! He came out screaming!!! Which mean't my little guy was breathing! They suctioned his lungs right away and passed him to Brandon and I. We held him for 3 minutes and he was taken to the NICU at 5:18am. Hadley stayed in the NICU for 22 days. He is a VERY strong, healthy, happy Little Guy!!! Looking at him now you would never be able to tell he was 8 weeks premature!

Hadley 2 days old.

Sorry this was so long...It is so easy to get carried away!

Much Love,

Amorey