One Month Old

Kherington is one month old today!...man, she's getting old! She is very long and skinny. She had graduated from newborn onsies to 0-3 month onsies (only because she is so long). The rest of the 0-3 months clothes still swallow her up. The first two weeks after she was born she spent so much time awake. Not necessarily crying, just awake and looking around. Then just in the last couple days she's been sleeping, waking up to eat and going back to sleep...i believe that means growth spurt.

Nights are interesting. The first couple weeks I just didn't hear her, but Ryan would wake up to everything. If I did wake up, I'd rollover and tell Ryan to get a bottle or make her to stop crying (I don't remember that one, but Ryan does). I've gotten better though. I like the current system. She gets put to sleep in her crib, wakes up at 2-3am and 6-7am to eat. If she doesn't go back to sleep, Ryan takes her and I sleep until I wake up (yesterday that wasn't until almost 11am). Hopefully by the time I go back to work, we can convince her that she doesn't want to eat at 2-3am.

Some things about Kherington:

• She now sleep in her crib (aka pack n play) for the first 3 hours of the night
  
• Poos by herself - no more poo pellets to help it come out
• Doesn't mind sitting in a wet or poopy diaper
• Has left her mark on every couch cushion even when we use the changing pad (fyi: girls pee shoots too)
• Enjoys all of bath time - not just getting her hair washed
• Takes both a bottle and a pacifier
• Likes to sleep on her stomach...too bad she is supposed to sleep on her back
• Has strong neck muscles
• Has a cute cry when she jolts out of sleep and is hungry (she doesn't even get her eyes open before the cry starts)
  
• Is a pretty chill baby

So our lives pretty much revolve around her now. It's hard to get motivated to do anything knowing that I really only have like a 2 hour window between finishing feedings and starting the next one.

The Grandmas - thanks for coming and taking night duty!

Shout Out from Kherington

Kherington: "Hi everyone! Thank you for all the comments on the blog. I'm glad I made it here healthy and strong. I look forward to meeting everyone soon."

The Day Our Life Changed for the Better

On April 23, 2009 at 1:58 pm, the Glover Family changed for the better. We went from a married couple to a family of three. Yes, that is right, we had our first child, a little red-haired girl. Her name is Kherington Taylor Glover. She roughly weighs 6 lbs (they weighed her three times on two different scales in a matter of minutes and each reading said something drastically different: 5 lbs. 13 oz, 5 lbs. 15 oz, and 6 lbs 8 oz.) and measures to be 19 inches long (with some long toes and fingers). Both mom and Kherington are doing great.

We are so grateful for this remarkable experience in our life. We appreciate all the help and support everyone has provided us and advice or lessons taught to us throughout our lives that will be pertinent in us raising our own child. Thank you so much. Enjoy the pictures!!!

The Glover Family


Crazy Hair Right After Being Born


After being cleaned and beautified

Grandpa Glover - Grandma Glover - Grandpa Dixon

March Madness!!!

As many people already know, my favorite time of year has finally arrived, March Madness!!! Since this is my last year before actually working full time, I decided to go all out and watch as many games as possible (thanks to Erin for giving me permission to do so and putting up with this passion of mine). I have setup myself on the couch with a couple of computers and TV to watch at least three of the four games going on at once. Below is evidence of how it looks.

(Click on the picture to see in bigger size)

We will see which teams can pull any upsets and who will be the lucky four to go to Detroit this year. Good luck to all in their brackets and as a shout out to my favorite team:

GO PURDUE!!!!

Still Alive

Yes, we are still in Provo, still working and going to school and still don't have updating the blog at the top of our list of things to do.

Let's see...since Christmas, we've had a couple adventures...

Ryan changed our car's tire in the snow

A new grocery store opened up in Provo that had peppers on sale for 50 cent a pound (I got like 24 peppers for $3.50)

Ryan has been working and studying...trying to stay ahead so his scheduled in cleared for March Madness (starts this Thursday)

We finished the photomosaic puzzle that Michelle gave us for Christmas (those things are hard)

Ryan randomly brought home some roses for me

We celebrated Logan's 23rd birthday. His birthday cake of Choice: Strawberry ice cream with vanilla cookie crust (apparently he has dad's taste buds)

Went out to the Melting Pot in Salt Lake with Brett and Kourtney. Typically Ryan and I are a waiters dream...in, out, tip and the waiter can turnover their table. I must say we spent way more time here and enjoyed spending time with friends and no baby. There was a family next with a baby that was in the corner of the restaurant and it was very loud...i'm starting to think that our quiet day's are almost over.

Those are all the pictures that I have handy, but we also went down to Dallas for a weekend, went through the Draper Temple open house, have had a number of couples in the ward over for FHE, visited family, Ryan played on 2 basketball teams (intramurals and church), visited with family, and actually bought a couple things for the baby.

The baby is getting stronger. It currently has it's feet jammed up my ribcage which is not the most comfortable thing ever. It moves a lot during the day, but it pretty quite at night, which is hopefully a sign that it will be pre-adjusted to my sleep schedule. The official due date is still April 24th, but it fits better into my plans to have it the beginning of May (the ultrasound said May 3rd)...definitely doable...that give us another month and half before life changes forever.

A Recap of the End of '08 and the Beginning of '09

While we haven't blogged in quite sometime, we have been busy over the last few months with enjoying the holiday break and getting back into the swing of life. First, we spent our holiday break up in Seattle this year. As depicted from the picture below, the Seattle weather ended up being the weather we were trying to get away from----SNOW!!!! Despite our very packed and slow drive to and from Seattle, the break was a blast!!!

We ended up spending time with almost everyone in Erin's family for the holidays. Some activities included playing basketball at the church, playing snow football, giving the homeless sack lunches, the botanical gardens in Bellevue, a tour of the Boeing Factory, going out for Maggianos, Thai, Chinese, and even for the new Costco hotdogs available only in Washington, a couple of movies (Bedtime Stories & Marley and Me), and just tons more food, games, and memories made. While I can write a ton about the events, I think the pictures help show how much fun we had.

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As we have begun to get back into the swing of things, we have enjoyed this time to especially prepare ourselves for the big event in our lives occurring in only three months. It is amazing how times flies by fast. I'm currently in my last semester at BYU and have an light load compared to most semesters. Erin is getting back into the swing of things with work.

We have still made sometime to continue both of our hobbies. Regarding Erin's love for cooking, we made some delicious ribeyes over the past weekend with twice baked potatoes, some excellent fruit smoothies and orange juice with our new Blendtec blender, and have even decided to venture out in making our own bread---starting with cinammon swirl for french toast. Regarding my love for college basketball, we have been able to watch many games, especially since football season has wind down. The main ones of course of the Purdue Boilermakers.

And finally, here is the long awaited picture of the "baby bump".

Happy New Year!!!!

As much of you have been anticipating any big updates in the Glover Family, you will have to stay tune for our blogging Monday. You will be updated on how the holidays went, what we are up to right now, and even some pictures. Look back tomorrow.