little boys pants..

I was interested in sewing about 2 years ago. My grandmother bought me a starter sewing machine (one of those on the go ones), which lasted about a month, then Allan bought me a singer traditional for a late xmas gift. I've done a few things up until a year ago. Then it became my "go to thing". Whenever I was feeling upset, sad, or had a lot on my mind, I would sit at my sewing machine and just go for hours. I know do all kinds of things...dresses, bibs, burp cloths, and so forth. I've been really nervous about doing clothing for my boys until a few months ago. I came across a tutorial for pants and completely fell in love with them. I actually made an entire weeks worth of shorts for Burklee back when we took a little family vacation. And then today, took another wack at it for Bartelbe. Here's the link over at Made. And here a few of my examples...

I actually have quite a few different designs for Burklee but for some only photograph the red striped seersucker ones. 

normal?!?!

So its been 3 weeks since we were blessed with our 2nd boy. There have been many differences between the two. I remember being overly excited and completely sleep-deprived in the first couple of weeks with Burklee (my 2 yr old), but this time..I had horrible postpartum depression and would cry over anything and everything but at the same time I'm feeling really good about how much sleep I'm getting. Bartelbe sleeps for a good 4-4.5 hrs, wakes up, eats, gets changed, and then sleeps again for another 3 hrs before getting up for the day. Our lives are actually getting back to normal. Allan wakes up and heads to work. I wake up, get the boys up and ready for the day, work on sewing/crafts/etc., allan comes home from work, naps in the afternoon (if I'm lucky), do a little house work, read to burklee, Allan comes home and we have family time until baths/bed.

the story..

I told you I would post the entire story of Bartelbe's birth but unfortunately there's no horrible birth story here. My mom had kept Burklee for a few nights before we had Bartelbe and Allan and I went up to the hospital at 10am in hopes of having our boy by noon. I had a c-section with a spinal so I could be awake for the procedure. Things went surprisingly fast this time and we heard his little lungs for the first time at 12:21pm. Allan was in charge of taking pictures again so he went into the next room while they started on his first assessment, weighing, washing, etc. I was able to hold him real quick before they headed into that next room. We spent a long time deciding on what to name him. It was between Carlyle and Lethareo and we ended up going with Bartelbe Lethareo Charles Jackson.

Bartelbe and Lethareo are from movies both Allan and I love. Ever since Allan and I started dating, movies has always been our thing. My mother gets onto us because we're constantly quoting movies in our everyday lives and most of the time, no one understands us, but us! And as meaningless as it sounds to have heard those names on movies, we put that past us and decided we loved them no matter what. Yes, "lothario" means something that most people do not approve of but our son's name is Lethareo and it fits him perfectly already. Charles comes from both Allan and my grandfather's name. Allan lost his grandfather before we met but I'm always told that I would've loved him. And I know he meant a lot to Allan.He's always telling me stories about him. My grandfather passed last year and it has been one of the hardest things I've dealt with. He was the strongest and most sensitive man I've ever known. He was not afraid of telling you what he truly thought and he would spend hours with Burklee on his lap watching Wheel of Fortune and football.

We spend two days in the hospital with such great help from our nurses and left on Thursday with the help from my mom. And we've been lounging ever since.

We appreciate everything everyone has done for us in the past couple of weeks. It really means a lot to us!

And thats our little story of Bartelbe.

Bartelbe Lethareo...

So we had our little boy on Oct 4th at 12:21pm weighing in at 6lbs, 11oz and 19 inches long. His full name is Bartelbe Lethareo Charles Jackson. I'll have the full story a bit later when I have more time for an actual update but here are a few pictures. (just to warn you: you will see his little boy parts and me breast feeding but its too beautiful not to share.)

Like I said, I'll finish the full story a bit later.