Scheduling Conflicts

It's funny how we've adapted to this so quickly and how fun it has been. It's not often you get to re-design the flow of your days and nights. In order to give you an accurate idea, I'll start at 1:30AM - right after Jimmy Fallon!


1:30am - Jimmy Fallon is over so I (Courtney) head to bed. Nathan has already brewed at least one pot of coffee at this point and is ready to stay up all night with the Noodle. I head to our room and pop in a movie to fall asleep to. I have to put a movie in, if I don't then I end up laying there listening for Sevyn's crys.

**From 1:30 to 6:30 or 7am, I sleep and Nathan keeps Sev from waking the neighbors while watching random shows on TV and purchasing lots of books for $2 on E-bay. It is amazing how awake he stays!

6:30 or 7am - Nathan wearily (and heroicly) strolls into our bedroom, he has a freshly diapered baby and a freshly made bottle. He drops off the Noodle and all her necessaries and passes out on the couch in the nursery. It is so nice of him to leave the bed for me and the baby, and it is hard to sleep around the baby sometimes because she is in and out of sleep at this time.

**From 6:30 or 7am to 2:00 or 2:30pm, Sevyn and I watch a movie (usually the same movie 3 times, so we can watch the begining the middle and the end, we fall asleep here and there) and we go through a couple of bottles and 2 diapers and Nathan gets the sleep he deserves!

2:00pm or 2:30pm - I get out of bed (OMG, I can't believe how weird that looks!!! It is not as glam as it sounds) and go wake up Nathan. Depending on how much spit up there has been through the morning, Sevyn and I either clean up in the tub or get a new bottle going while nathan wakes up.

3:30pm - Nathan and I put the noodle into the swing and relax together. Sometimes (ok most of the times) we watch a movie - what can I say, we love the movies - and sip coffee and eat something random. Today we had turkey sandwiches for "breakfast".

5:00pm - A few nights out of the week, I start dinner for the fam and Nathan hangs out with Sevyn or does the dishes. Lastnight he went to the store for us and got all the fixings for a full on awesome breakfast. Pancakes, Eggs, Bacon, OJ - the WORKS!

7:30pm - We hang out with the fam and start another couple pots of coffee!

After 9:30 things get a little fuzzy because it's getting late for me physcially but mentally I am wide awake and Nathan is just entering into his prime time so to speak... We have a really good time together during these times though - the Noodle is asleep for the most part and so Natha and I chat and laugh and watch any shows that we have recorded from eariler...And then it begins all over again...

I can't wait till we get our stroller - I am craving some outside time and we really like to just bum around together! Sometimes we go into town during the day - sometimes we have doctors appointments or we need milk and doughnuts (at 3am) or we just want to go somewhere.
It looks weird, and it sounds funny, but that is our life right now and we actually really really like it!!!

More of our baby

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

If you are a night owl or have some sort of DVR...

Watch the Late Show with Jimmy Fallon...It is hilarious and it's funny to think that this is our generations late show.
For a while I just thought I was not as comedy savvy as I thought I was (watching the other late shows) then I realized it was because my parents thought they were funny...That was their show, this is ours!
Go Jimmy Fallon - you are hilarious.


Also side note - I just did spell check and for the first time it said in bright green letters "No misspellings Found"...Killer!

Things we do while our baby cries (She has Colic)...

So last night, we went for a drive at 2am. Why? Well because sweet little Sevyn loves the car and falls asleep instantly when we go for drives! SO Nathan and I were playing 20 questions (one of our favorite games) and we were doing people (Sometimes we do people sometimes we do animals)...

Anyways, I was guessing and I was up to like 38 questions - I usually never get it within 20, Nathan is kind enough to allow me some extra questions - So all I knew was it was a woman, she was young, and a celebrity of some sort and she was blond...All the other questions I asked got me nowhere. Then Nathan said, "Maybe you should try to guess what makes me famous, that will help".

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So I asked "Is she an actress?" He said "Sure"

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I said "Is she a singer?" He Said "Sure"

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I said "Is she considered good looking?" he said "Sure"

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...Sigh - "This is getting me no where" I said. "This person is not famous for anything!"

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"EXACTLY!!!" said Nathan...

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It was Paris Hilton. Funny.

Sevyn's 1st Bath!!! BYe Bye ugly belly button thingy!

Make a Smilebox scrap pages

Sevyn's first few days...

Make a Smilebox photobook

Baby Day! Feb 17th 2009

Well, she's here! Sevyn Cherise Christensen! She was born on February 17th, 2009 and weighed 8lbs 8oz and was 21inches long! Despite her size, it turns out she was early and spent her first 36 hours of life in the NICU because she couldn't breathe on her own. Her lungs didn't make a hormone needed to inflate them for the first time. She's all better now - And she is totally awesome!

The morning of February 17th was not like any other morning we've ever had!Here are the pics from it!

At this moment, I am cut openand have no clue! C-Sections are the greatest invention ever!

Here's our baby! Lookin good right off the starting block.

One of our nurses took all of the O.R. pictures - she got some great ones!

Here is Sevyn getting all weighed in and measured. Can you believe she is a new-be in this pic?

I know we are her parents but come on - you've never seen such a good looking kid 2 minutes out of mom!

Our first family picture...What a feeling! I think in addition to falling in love with Sev, I fell even deeper in love with Nathan - It's the craziest moment!

This was right before the took her into the NICU - I was a bit of a wreck for a little bit...I didn't get to see her for way too long after this. She did however get in some great daddy time. I was thankful for that!

And so, those are the first few moments of Sevyn's life and our new family's life!