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So I am testing out my new camera phone.  Here are a couple of videos of Grayson.  Plus a Picture.  Enjoy.

Scott & Ashley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDI5wqxGswM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBWzOAaA-W0

We are so blessed to have a happy little boy.

Wow, it is so hard to believe Grayson is almost 3 months old. He is doing well and we are actually doing ok ourselves.  Grayson is so happy, eats well and isn’t too bad at sleeping.

So to catch everyone up on the past couple of months. For those of you who didn’t hear, labor was good. I wouldn’t do it again tomorrow but I think having contractions for 3 weeks had me some what prepared. But the epidural didn’t hurt either. The funny thing is Scott and I were up late Thursday night making plans for the weekend and where to go to watch the games. We had seen the doctor Wednesday and scheduled the inducement for next Friday (9/18). So we were prepared for Grayson to come the following Friday. We actually overslept that morning. Scott was late for work running around. My mother was coming over to take me out for the day and when I stood up I knew something was different! My water broke and by 10:30am we were hooked up and ready to get things started at the hospital. We had a great nurse that really looked after me. I never had to ask for anything. I really think that made all the difference. Right as the pain started she already had the epidural ordered and ready. Timing was perfect. We had a little delay around 6 that night. I had stopped dilating and the doctor suggested we might have to do a c-section. The pitocin was at its max and he didn’t want to continue with it. He said he would give me 2 more hours, so the nurses stood me straight up and I started to dilate again! Our family came in for the last time around 10:00 that night and a shock to us all Grayson was born at 10:59pm. Thank goodness because the epidural had run out! We were all prepared for a long night of pushing. But once I got the hang of it we were good to go. Linwood and Margaret drove up. My mom and Emmett were there and so was my dad and Nancy. Everyone got to see baby G right after he was born.

Grayson immediately started on a schedule, sleeping and eating every three hours. We have been very lucky to have such a calm baby. But don’t let him fool you when he is ready to eat or doesn’t want to do something he will let you know and the entire neighborhood. He screams like a girl. Linwood said Scott did the exact same thing as a baby. He looks so much like his daddy.

I had to go through all his clothes and move him into 6 months. They swallow him but he is so long that length wise we had to move up. He is sleeping in his crib most nights. He has a small problem with acid reflux so some nights are better than others for us. Which brings us to sleep. Wow, no matter what they say to warn you, you really don’t get it until you are there! I am learning how to exist on a few hours of sleep but it’s hard. Thanks to our family, I can go over there once a week to get some sleep. I also am learning how to do everything with one hand while holding him in the other. I should have practiced that for 9 months! But he is the love of our life and when he looks at you with that smile your heart melts and tears come to your eyes. We just love him so much.

Here are a few funny facts for Grayson at 11 weeks:

Nicknames: Baby G, Bugs.

Weight and Height: When weighed a few weeks ago he was a little over 11lbs and 24 inches.

Favorite things: Staring at ceiling fans, kicking and standing up. Music, pacifier and sleeping on anyone’s chest. He has also started to notice the big tv and all the wonderful colors.

Least favorite things: Bouncy seat and lying down flat. Also hates sitting down when he wants to stand up!

Tricks: He is aware of everyone and everything around him now and follows you walking around the room. He loves to stand up and is very strong. He is already picking up his head and moving it to the other side to see who is talking. He pushes up during his tummy time. He is actually smiling (not gas) at everyone and occasionally laughs. He’s favorite time of the day to play and laugh is 5:30 am. We still wonder if he is “our” baby!

Evil nemesis: GAS! Wow, didn’t know something that small could produce that much gas! And Coco stealing his toys.

We have a bunch of pictures to catch everyone up on.  I promise now that we are getting use to all of this we will do a better job updating baby Erb.

That’s the 5am smile!

Thanks to you all for the cards, gifts, dinners and your prayers. We love you all.

Happy Halloween!!!

We know it’s a little early but we wanted to wish everyone a Happy Halloween.  We promise more pictures of Grayson will be up shortly.  Hard to believe he will be 6 weeks old tomorrow (10/23).  Hope you enjoy the show.

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Scott, Ashley, & Grayson

Grayson’s First Bath

Hard to believe that Grayson is already a week old.  Hard to imagine what we did without him. He is awesome.  Here is a quick video of his first bath…enjoy  More to come.

Here is the link if the video doesn’t work on this page - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeqvFYrZp7k

Scott & Ashley

Welcome Grayson Scott Erb!!

First of all, I want to honor all the men  and women who gave their time, sweat, money, and lives in the attack on 9/11.  While unfortunately, I do not remember exactly where I was during the attack, I will always remember this 9/11.  I am very happy to introduce my first born, the heir to the Erb throne, Grayson Scott Erb.  He was born at 10:59 pm last night.    He weight 7 lbs even, and measured 20.5.    He is PERFECT!!!  (not biased one bit).

Ashley is doing great.  She was a true champion last night.  I am the luckiest man in the world.  Thank you Ashley for 1) marrying me, and 2) giving me a son.

Here is a link to a lot of pictures.  Ofcourse we will have more, but if you are on this site they you don’t mind.  Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers.

http://www.babyerb.com/Birth/index.htm

We love you all.

Scott & Ashley

Another week! 37 weeks, baby is growing and growing.

Now we wait for baby Grayson. Another week for him to grow and grow, how great! The past couple of weeks I feel like have been some drama filled days. Hospital visits and many phone calls!  Sorry everyone. I have been so blessed to have had such an easy non-complicated pregnancy. So I can handle a few weeks of discomfort! I know I am not the only first time mom out there that has some drama the last few weeks before labor. I just feel bad for everyone else especially poor Scott.

So this week I have had some strong contractions since Monday night and just knew Tuesday when they were getting so close and more intense that we were heading to the hospital. BUT then they stayed that way all day and all night. Wednesday morning when we got to the doctors office (after hearing what was going on) Dr. Ross was apologizing coming into the room. I am sure he is always watching his back when dealing with pregnant hormones all day. He said he hates that he had to stop the labor last time and now we are in limbo. But we all know he had to for the baby’s sake. I said I would put on my big girl pants and deal with it. No problem.

Good news is he can feel the baby’s head and we continue to dilate a little every time. Contractions don’t get any closer but they don’t stop either. So everyday we get closer. He said it isn’t normal but also not abnormal. Some women just have contractions the whole time their body and baby are preparing to labor. They can’t induce since he is technically still early until 39 weeks. So we just wait, could be tonight or 2 weeks from now. Like I said I will have a great story to tell him or better yet when he is acting up remind him I was “in labor” with him for 3 weeks!

I also just found out there is a full moon tomorrow night so maybe just maybe the gravitational pull will help break my water and move me forward! We shall see if the old wives tale is correct. Let’s hope so!

But until then we all are anxiously waiting, and resting.  But don’t be surprised if he waits to come Saturday evening when Alabama is once again playing in Atlanta. You know how us “Erbs” love to spoil Alabama games!!!! Or Scott is probably correcting me and saying the “new Erbs”!  (I am, SE) haha

We made it to 36 weeks, Yea!!!!!

We made it. For those of you who once again didn’t hear we made another run to the hospital. Gotta love the pre-labor test runs! Scott says he is just testing out each Labor and Delivery room to see which one he really wants. Room # 2 is too close to the nurse’s station they woke him up too early and # 8 had bad cable. Let’s hope we don’t make anymore test runs! Next time we leave with a baby.

So Friday morning we had another doctor’s appointment and after checking out he decided to send us down to L&D to stop the contractions again. After new meds they were able to stop the contractions but for only 2 hours. The new medicine was better at least no shakes but horrible headaches. After letting the contractions go for a few hours, they stayed the same but no pain this time. So the doctor made the call that he didn’t think the contractions would turn into labor and took the chance of coming off the medicine. Thank goodness! Still having contractions 2-3 minutes apart but still not painful. So they decided to send us home with more meds to take just incase. Again he said if labor contractions with pain started before Tuesday they would have to try to stop it again. BUT come Tuesday we were good to go.

So here we are. I can’t tell you how much better we both are sleeping not trying to time and wonder what we needed to do. After leaving the hospital Friday I was so confused and starting to get frustrated. But after hearing everyone out and somewhat understanding what they were doing, I’m better.  SO Now we just wait! The nurse said they had one lady that they finally stopped her contractions after 2 weeks, she ended up going past her due date and they had to induce her- that will probably be us! But the longer the better.  I am probably more relaxed now than Scott. Poor Scott is constantly asking what’s wrong; do we need to go to the hospital? We have another appointment this Wednesday morning, so we will see again what is going on.

We were able to make the baby shower this weekend which was just GREAT! We got to see everyone and had tons of laughs. After stressing out this past week it was great to sit back and have some fun. Plus homemade ice cream, great gifts and adorable kids don’t hurt either! Thank you all for a wonderful shower.

Found some funny pictures of my belly thought y’all might enjoy. It is growing….

35 weeks. Baby Grayson is just ready!!!!

So, some of you may have heard about our fun weekend. For the rest who did not here is the whole story. We got our first test run for the hospital and a taste of labor!

When we went to the doctor Wednesday he told us the baby had dropped early and labor could be days or weeks away. So we started to finish up all the little things we felt we needed to do. I didn’t feel good Saturday and slept most of the day. Sunday I woke up rested but still had a funny feeling. We went to church and I was very uncomfortable moving and shifting the whole time. We decided to walk around Wal-Mart and pick up some groceries to see if the change in activity would stop the tightening. It didn’t. We grabbed some lunch came home and started paying attention to the pain now. We decided if it was labor contractions we shouldn’t wait for the 5 min rule if they wanted to stop them so we called Dr. Ross and he said come on to the hospital. The contractions were only 10 mins apart but my back was really hurting and such. Everyone has told me “oh you will know when you are having contractions”- I guess I didn’t! Even though I kept telling everyone last week, he’s coming early, I just having a feeling. I guess I was just in denial Sunday.

Poor Scott was thinking along with me that I had read so many books that maybe I was just thinking I was in labor and wasn’t. I didn’t want to go to the hospital! We took our time packing the rest of our hospital bags and folding laundry, Scott was even stopping at yellow lights. When we got there, they hooked me up and sure enough they were contractions coming every 3 mins. Also I had started to dilate. So they started the meds to stop them. Dr. Ross said 36 weeks was ok to deliver but anything before that he would stop labor. We were a few days shy of 35 weeks. Only one week and 2 days!

I must have asked the poor nurses 10 times “are you sure these are contractions?” and they kept saying “yes”. The medicine stopped the contractions for about 20 mins and then started again fairly quickly. This time every 2 mins but with some different pain this time. But trying to be strong (or stubborn), I caught myself holding onto the side of the bed a couple of times, asking what’s going on. Scott was following the contractions on the screen and I’m looking at him in wonder –why is this is hurting so bad now! You know the nurses were laughing at me. It’s labor silly, there’s pain. I was still in denial, I thought they were stopping this, why the pain. This was even after the Demerol shot they had given me earlier. Ok no need to ask anymore -I now knew this was a contraction! Take my breath away. And it was just the beginning of the whole process! Help us all when we really get there!!!!

They gave me more pain meds through the IV which seemed to just make me sleepy. But with more meds throughout the night- they slowed the contractions down somewhere around 2-3 am. Dr. Ross came by that morning and said we could go home. They were slowed to 2-3 contractions an hour (with no pain) and now we wait again. They sent us home with some more medicine to help keep them stopped. Also with instructions to rest and see him in a few days. (That is the hardest part for me) Contractions are still coming but nothing like before. Baby Grayson is just ready!

I didn’t want Grayson coming early but at the same time I was thinking “a week” we are doing all this just to wait a week, lets go ahead and let him come. But I know from all the books that one week is so important in little boys and the development of their lungs. So we will wait and do it again. At least I now know what a true contraction feels like and the beginning pain. For a first time mom this is the part I think I was most anxious about. Not knowing. So Baby Grayson may be here next week when we are 36 weeks or he may wait another month and go full term. We will see what the doctor says Friday….

WOW!!!! Only a month and half to go. Well we hope, but we are packed just incase!

Here we are at 34 weeks and I think we are ready, but are you really ever ready for a life changing event? We finished our birthing classes plus took a tour of the hospital to see where to go and what to do. Let’s just say we are more prepared than we were 3 months ago. The nursery is ready- well almost!

They say Grayson is about 5 1/2 pounds. But really we won’t know exactly how big until the little guy gets here. But I can tell you he can kick with those big feet! This weekend I had some strange things happen. So we are packed and ready. Went to the doctor this morning, and he has dropped already which is a little early. But everything is good. No other early labor signs. Doctor says if we can make it to 36 weeks then we are good to go. Before then they will try to stop labor. When we go back for our next appointment they will check to see how far along we are.

Grayson still moves around a lot and has recently been getting the hiccups on a daily basis. It feels kind of funny when they are way down low. He gets so excited and active whenever there is loud music. Break out the drums and see me jerk around from all his kicks. He has a set schedule when he stops moving at night and then when he wakes and is the most active in the morning. It’s so funny I can tell you what time it is within minutes by his movements. I know this will change when he gets here but one can only hope!

Here are some pictures from our shower. The ladies here in our neighborhood had a baby shower for us the other weekend and it was so wonderful to get to meet so many kind women. Plus Grayson got so many wonderful gifts. I joked about walking him up and down the street every hour in a new outfit showing him off. Thank you all so much!

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