2 Months

Well my baby is now 2 months old!  Time is flying by.  I don't really notice how much he is changing until I look back on pictures of him in the hospital and his first month of life. He is starting to look more like a little baby, not so much of the newborn look. He was a champ at his 2 month checkup, but was not a happy camper a few hours later.  He wasn't his normal smiley, happy self.  He cried at the slightest thing, and just wanted to eat and cuddle (which was fine with me).  He is healthy and growing so I'm happy.  Here are the stats: 


Weight: 11 pounds 5 ounces (40 percentile)
Height: 23 1/4 inches (64 percentile)
Head: 16 1/8 (75 percentile)


Here are some facts about Mr. Henry:
-He is super smiley after he eats and has a diaper change.  He is also very smiley early in the morning at his feeding anywhere between 4 and 6 AM.  
-Last night he went 8 hours between feedings!  It was a miracle.  
-He is starting to notice his hands and he likes to put them up in the air or in front of his face.  He also likes to eat them.
-He is starting to loose his cute fuzzy baby hair.  It makes me so sad.  He has a receding hair line and random bald spots on the sides and back of his head.  I still think he looks handsome though. 
-He loves when Clark comes home from work and as soon as Clark talks, Henry will smile the biggest smile.  I love it. 
-He still only grunts and fusses a little when he is hungry or tired.  Rarely does he do a full out cry or scream.  
- He still spits up like crazy.  I've been trying to cut out dairy products, but I'm not always the best at that.  There is milk or some sort of dairy product in everything.  It's hard to completely cut it out.  His pediatrician said I should eat dairy again to see if it still bothers him so I've been eating it in moderation.  He still spits up but it doesn't seem like it is as much as it used to be.  It is more annoying for me to change his clothes and burp cloths all the time.  But it doesn't seem to bother him at all.  His pediatrician (who I love by the way, he is awesome) said Henry has reflux, but it's not painful for him like it is for other babies.  
-He is our sweet blue eyed baby.  Still can't decide what color of hair he will have.  In the sun light I see reddish tints, but his eyebrows and eyelashes are brown.  


-I started this post so long ago and I'm finally posting it.  He came down with a nasty cold on Monday night.  He started with just a little cough and Tuesday it turned into a stuffy congested nose and a nasty cough.  I took him to the doctor and it isn't anything serious like RSV or pneumonia it is just a cold.  We have a humidifier going and I have to suck out his boogers all the time.  He sleeps a lot more and hasn't been eating very well.  Hopefully we make it through his first cold.  


-We blessed him on Father's day so when I load those photos onto the computer I will blog about that.  It was a great day and Henry & Clark did awesome.  I'm so proud of my boys.  

Cute blue eyed baby.  He likes to have his hands in fists and he will stretch his arm out and it looks like he is giving you a fist bump.  Or he will have both arms out like Frankenstein.

I promise he has other clothes than this striped outfit.  It seems like he is always wearing it when I take pictures!

2 months old!  He is so big

I took this picture to give to Clark for Father's Day.  Henry thinks his dad is pretty cool.  

Oh Henry

I plugged my iphone into my computer to update it and I seriously had about 100 pictures of Henry on my phone!  We bought a nice camera, but my phone is usually handy and easier to quickly snap a picture.  Henry is almost 2 months old!  He has his 2 month check up on Monday and I'm a little nervous for the shots.  I just don't want him to be fussy the whole day. He is a pretty tough baby, so I'm sure he will be fine.  
Our summer so far has been pretty uneventful.  Henry has accompanied me on a few shopping trips which he slept right through (typical boy), we've been up to Logan a few times to see family, he met his girlfriend Laila, and he spent a few nights up in Bear Lake at the cabin over Memorial Day weekend.  I bought him a little swim suit so maybe in a couple months we will make a trip to the swimming pool!  


Here are a few of the many pictures from my phone.... If you follow me on Instagram I'm sorry you have probably seen all of these pictures and you are probably sick of seeing my child.  But for those who haven't seen his cute face, enjoy!  I sure enjoy looking at him all day everyday :)

Love those lips!  He wasn't even a month old in this picture.

So little

Mother's Day

We moved to Kaysville that week and we had A LOT of stuff so we finally got it all moved on Mother's Day.  We had to get a picture of our home for the last 18 months and Henry's first home.

nap time with Dad.  Clark works long hours all week so Friday night he crashes.  Poor guy.  Henry loves to nap with his Dad

We made it to Logan for Max's last soccer game.  He has become quite the soccer player and I'm pretty sure his team was basically undefeated (but do they really keep track when they are 6)

He's going to take after Clark and be a Mr. Fix It

Love me some naked baby time.  Henry also loves getting his bum changed and having a bath.  He likes being clean and naked.

Getting ready for his date with Miss Adelaide

He slept through the whole thing!

The next day I met my friends Jennifer, Janna, and Kelsey in Bountiful at Nielsen's frozen custard for dinner.  Henry slept through that too.  Thanks again Janna for dinner (who knew they didn't take credit cards.  I never carry cash or my check book. Henry & I owe Auntie Janna dinner)

He found his thumb.  When he is hungry and I'm fast asleep he will suck on his hands for a good 30 minutes and grunt before I actually wake up to feed him. 

I thought he kind of looked like me as a baby in this picture.  I always had big eyes and flared nostrils!  We have a home video of my Dad coming home and whistling and I hear it so my eyes get huge and my nostrils started flaring. 

Now this picture he looks more like Clark.  He is a good mix.  

The little man is awake now so I better go.  He is starting to grunt so he must be hungry.  

One month

4 weeks... 30 days...730 hours

That is how long we have had Mr. Henry.  4 weeks doesn't seem like that many but when you think about it in days and hours it's a lot!  We have loved every week, day, hour and second.  

He has started smiling a lot more and is generally a pretty mellow baby.  If he is fussy it is usually just because he is getting hungry, needs his diaper changed or needs to burp.  He sleeps around 3 hours at a time during the night.  There were a few times he slept 6 (that was his first week home and hasn't happened since. bummer).  During the day he is awake more than he used to be.  When you burp him he will hold his head up and has a crazy strong neck.  However, it gets tired and he will often slam it into my shoulder, collar bone, or face.  He loves this little infant rocker we have that has a calming vibration.  He could sleep in that for hours, and has slept in it at night sometimes.  He does love his cradle that Clark made though.  He spits up A TON after he eats.  Sometimes I wonder if he even has any milk left in his belly.  And sometimes it will come out his nose.  Sad I know.  He doesn't seem super upset about it.  It bothers me more than it bothers him.  I need to ask his pediatrician about that.... He seems to be gaining weight so I guess it's fine.  I got on the scale with him the other day and according to that he weighs 10lbs.  So he has gained 2 pounds since his 2 week check up.  To me he seems so big, but everyone comments how little he is.  And in the last couple of days he has started to lose his cute fuzzy hair.  He has an old man receding hair line so now his forehead looks huge!  It is so funny.  I really don't want him to lose his cute hair, so hopefully it grows back.  Oh and he loves the car.  If he is fussy, as soon as we start driving he falls asleep.  He also likes going for walks in his stroller.

We love our little guy so much and I'm already worried about how I will ever love another child this much!  

A True Blooded Aggie

"Show me a Scotsman who doesn't love the Thistle, Show me an Englishman who doesn't love the rose, Show me the True-Blooded Aggie from Utah who doesn't love the spot (clap, clap) where the sage brush grows"

Clark and I are now both Utah State Alumni!  Clark technically graduated in December 2011 but walked in May 2012.  He received a dual major in Entrepreneurship and Economics, so he has two diplomas which makes him extra smart!  It took me all these years to finally know how to spell Entrepreneurship correctly.  Helping Clark type all of his papers and helping with projects I have the spelling down.  I could spell it in my sleep.  He really worked so hard these last few years and towards the end I think he really started to love his major!  They did all sorts of cool projects during his last year with new innovations and you could tell that was right up his alley.  Now if only he could get a job actually doing what he loves.  I'm glad to say he does have a job now (thank goodness, I won't have to write anymore depressing blog posts!).  He is working for Morgan Pavement in Clearfield.  The owner Todd Morgan is good friends with the Pierson's so he said he would give Clark a job if he wanted one.  They wanted to be able to give him an office job, but there weren't any openings yet so Clark is working on the patch crew and if anything inside opens up, they will move him.  It's nice because he can learn about all the different areas of paving and if he does move to an office job he will know all about the company.  He works LONG hours and his in the heat all day and his skin is now the color brown (he is starting to look like the "tanning mom" ha ha), but he seems to like it so far.  The other day they worked from 3am-4pm and yesterday he worked from 5am-7pm.  I could never work those long hours.  He already has 40 hours this week.  But overtime will be nice!  Henry and I have moved down to Kaysville so that we can see our husband/dad more than just on the weekends.  Clark started working a couple weeks ago and we stayed in Logan and Clark stayed down in Kaysville at his parents during the week.  It was no fun driving down to stay with him for a few days and then driving back up to Logan.  So we are now staying in Kaysville with his Parents until we can get a house.  It will be nice for us to save up some money for a couple months.  But it will be even better when we actually have a place of our own.  From living at Cambridge Court being on site managers, to living with my Grandma, and now living with his parents, we haven't had our own place for a long time.  We are very appreciative of those family members that have let us live with them though, it has helped us greatly!  It will just be nice to have our own home.  We will miss Logan since that is where we first started dating and that has been our home for the past 5 years.  We will still visit since I have my family up there.  

Now for the part that everyone wants.... photos

Clark and his friend Justin.  One day they will be business partners and make millions :)

One of Clark's favorite professors giving him his diploma and a hug!

So excited

Happy Family

The Pierson Fam

Old Main & the quad

The Business Building 

We had an after party at my Grandma's house.  Clark's sisters bought him a pinata because it was Cinco De Mayo.  The little kids all had a few turns hitting it and then it was Clark's turn.  He destroyed it in one hit.  

Henry Clark Pierson

Well I guess it's about time I blogged about the little bundle of joy that arrived 2 weeks ago!  He took his sweet time getting here, but we love him just the same.  I honestly thought he would come on his own and boy was I wrong.  


Here we are on Easter Sunday wishing he would come since he was 1 week over due at this point.  The day before I had walked all around Baby Animal Days and on Sunday we walked up Old Main Hill, but nothing worked.  He was being stubborn.  

Apparently Adrienne really likes my belly.

 Monday morning I was scheduled to be induced.  The hospital called me at 7am and told me to come in at 7:30.  I had been having contractions all Sunday night, so I didn't sleep at all.  They were about 20 minutes apart so not enough for me to go in, but close enough that I didn't sleep much.  But I was determined to get the baby out of me in a timely manner. 

Still in good spirits.  Obviously this picture was taken between contractions since I'm still smiling.  Honestly I wanted to try and go natural (or as natural as possible).  But when you are started on Pitocin going natural goes right out the window.  They started me on pitocin at 8:20am and I was dilated to a 3.  Four hours later with pretty intense contractions that were seriously 2 minutes apart, I was only dilated to a 4.  Lame.  So at 12:30 I decided to get an epidural because I was tired and I didn't want to have those crazy contractions forever with no progress.  The epidural was nice for like the first hour.  Then it sucked. The little guy's heart rate was acting crazy so if I laid on my left side his heart rate would drop.  I also had to have oxygen or his heart rate would drop.  They informed me that when you are "over due" your placenta gets old and doesn't work as well, so that is probably why his heart rate was being finicky.  Oh and my doctor came in and broke my water after I had the epidural and they said it had a greenish tint (gross I know) which meant he had probably already had bowel movements inside the womb.  This is bad because he will ingest the meconium when he goes through the birth canal so they said there would need to be a respiratory therapist there when he is born to make sure he is breathing okay.  At this point I'm wondering why they let you go a week overdue if it causes more problems.  So because of all this, I was stuck lying on my right side so that Mr. Henry's heart rate would be normal.  That meant all the epidural juice was collecting on my right side, and nothing was working on my left side.  So I could mostly feel everything.  At first I thought it would be nice because it was taking some of the pain away, but I would still be able to feel when to push.  That was at like 5pm.  I didn't start pushing until 11:15pm. So for most the day I was in pain from hunger, in pain from lying on my right side all day, and in pain from contractions on my left side.  By 8pm I was getting bugged.  That's about the time they told me I had a fever so I needed antibiotics through my IV right away and my baby would be going straight to the NICU after he was born to get him on an IV with antibiotics.  Apparently a Maternal Temp (that's the official name) is a bad thing and they worry about their being an infection that could have been passed to baby, so they don't take any chances and the baby is taken to the NICU.  So when 11:15pm rolled around we were taking bets on when he would arrive.  The nurse said I could be pushing for hours, but I was not going to let that happen.  I guessed he would be there at 12:10am, the nurse guessed 12:12 and Clark guessed 12:15.  He arrived at 12:16am on April 10th 2012.  A nice even day (I'm weird and I like even numbers so it was perfect).  I only pushed for about 50 minutes.  After 16 hours of labor, I was ready for him to be here!  He was born 7lbs 70z 21 inches long.

As soon as he was out I asked the doctor "shouldn't he be crying" and the doctor said no because they had to suction out the meconium before they wanted him to take his first breath.  So I couldn't do skin to skin right away and hold him because they had to suction out all the gunk.  Clark was able to cut the umbilical cord though, so that was good.  Then it felt like they were working on him forever!  The poor little guy.  When they were done they let me hold him for just a minute.  Then they took him down to get a bath and all cleaned up.  They brought him back to me to hold for just a minute then he had to go get all hooked up to the IV's.  

First Family Picture

Down in the NICU

My poor baby with an IV in his head for the antibiotics.  It was so hard to hold him with all the cords and monitors.  We are glad those are gone! 

Handsome little guy.

He was born on Tuesday and finally able to leave on Friday.  He gained weight, never lost it so his Pediatrician was very happy.  We had his two week appointment yesterday and he is now 8 lbs 4 oz and 22 inches long.  So basically he has almost gained 1lb in 2 weeks.  I love my little chunky monkey.  

This is totally a Clark thing.  When Clark was little he would hold his ear and suck his thumb.  

I just took this picture.  He decided to sleep for a long time so I could blog finally!  He is so kind to his Momma.  

He needs to eat so I don't have time to proof read.  I hope I don't have too many errors, but if I do I'll blame it on "new mom brain" formally known as "pregnancy brain"

Sitting, Waiting, Wishing

Well I'm still pregnant.  I figured my little guy wouldn't come on his due date, but I'm getting so anxious to see him I can't stand it.  Really I don't know how they calculate due dates, because I feel like they are usually inaccurate.  I'm hoping he will be an Easter baby.  If not they will call me on Monday morning at 6am and tell me to come in to be induced.  I really don't want to be induced.  I wanted things to happen as naturally as possible.  But as long as my baby is born healthy, that's all I really want.  


Since baby isn't here I'm going to Baby Animal Days with my Mom, sisters, and nephews.  If you don't know, Baby Animal Days is a fun thing in Cache Valley during April.  You go out to the American West Heritage Farm and you get to hold all these adorable little animals.  They even have baby Black Bears.  I don't think you can hold those.  I'm hoping all the baby animals will make my baby want to make an appearance.  

The only picture I could get of Baby Animal Days.  Look at that cute little Chick! 

Hopefully my next post is about baby Pierson's arrival!  If the snowstorm didn't entice him to come maybe having an Easter birthday will.