2009

What an amazing year 2009 has been! This is the first year AJ and I have been in the same city since Bloomington! It has been so great to be together finally! We have had a lot going on this year, but we wouldn't have it any other way....and what a way to end the year with the birth of our son, Wyatt! He is absolutely perfect and has brought so much joy and love to us.
Here is a recap of all our excitement for 2009:

March 2009: AJ matches at UofL for Internal Medicine residency (yay! we're finally going to be in the same city!)

April 2009: Find out we're expecting our first baby!

May 2009: AJ and I buy our first house together in Louisville

June: AJ finally moves down here and we moved into our new home. AJ sells his house in Indy.


July: Have our first ultrasound and find out we're having a boy! AJ starts intern year at UofL.

October: Baby showers for Baby Wyatt




December: Wyatt John is born! AJ's first real Christmas tree! First Voelkel family Christmas!




Looking forward to all the many memories yet to come in the next decade!
Happy New Year everyone!

3 weeks

2 weeks

Well our little guy is now 2 weeks old! Can't believe how fast time is flying by! We love him so much though and he amazes us every day!
Here are his two week pics:

Here he is enjoying his activity mat

This Saturday we had some visitors..........Jake, Kelley and Olivia made their way down from Bloomington....boy how Olivia has grown since we saw her last! She is so adorable though! Wyatt enjoyed the company!

Kelley with Wyatt

Beautiful Miss Olivia and Jake with Wyatt

And here's how we spend most days....on the couch watching tv with little Wyatt snuggled up on us :) I LOVE these guys!!

One week old

Our little guy is now 10 days old!! Time flies by so fast!
These are some pics we took of him on his one week birthday on the 11th. We're going to try to get a pic every week in the same spot to track his growth. Speaking of growth....on his one week birthday he had a dr. appt where he weighed in at 7lbs 12oz (he made it back to his birth weight....he had dropped to 7lbs 3oz when we left the hospital) and he has already grown a 1/2 inch, so he is up to 21in long!

Introducing.....

Wyatt John Voelkel

December 4, 2009
3:13 pm
7lbs 12oz 20.5in

Well our little guy is finally here!! He came 2 weeks early, which worked out great for us!! My water broke around 10:45pm Thursday 12/3/09 (we had only been asleep about an hour at that point). We were able to take quick showers, pack our bags and then got to the hospital just before 1am. They confirmed that my water had broke and I got an epidural and pitocin was then started. Thank God for epidurals!!! Even though mine wore off twice and I had to get two more bolus to get me through delivery! I could never imagine doing that without an epidural!! (neither could AJ!) After a little over an hour of pushing he made his appearance at 3:13pm...what a true miracle! After some bonding time with the three of us we had our visitors come and meet him....I know it just killed them to not be there during it all!!

Our last picture of just the two of us!

Last belly pic

Enjoying epidural

AJ and I with our moms

He's here!!

Getting ready to leave hospital


Getting ready for my first bath


Too cute!


Our attempt at pics of him in his Christmas stocking....this is the best one...didn't go quite how we thought it would! (i'm sure you can imagine!)


GO HOOSIERS!!


Voelkel Family Christmas '09

Also, we need to announce the winner of the Bebe Pool....I hope everyone who wanted to guess was able to before he was born (sorry Jake I had to delete your guess since you decided to guess AFTER he was born!!).....we weren't expecting him to arrive 2 weeks early!

The Winner: Wyatt's Aunt Christa
Second Place: Grandma Voelkel
Third Place: Becky

I still can't believe Randy had me going to the 30th of Dec!!! I couldn't imagine!

But we are home and doing great! AJ is able to be off for 3 weeks with us.....such a blessing!!
Wyatt cannot wait to meet everyone!