Jaundice

Here is a picture of my boy getting a suntan before he left the hospital. You don't want to burn that new soft skin do you! I also told him Superman is so much cooler than Batman.


Zach had to go under these special lights to help treat his jaundice. He was under them for his second night of his life. He seemed to really enjoy it. :)

The Baby has arrived.....

Our Baby is here...



Introducing:

Zachary Hudson Pietzold
Born at 6:28AM
8lbs 15oz
21" Long
15" Head

He is so beautiful and perfect.

Thank you Lord for our Son!

What a day so far 78 hours and counting....

Well we have been here for 78 hours with no baby still. Here is a picture of Lisa and her breakfast. Not bad. Well the day started with another ultra-sound. We found out that she had gained some more fluid in the sac but still we just didn't know what to do. We could go home and come in each day for test or we could have a "C" section or we could try and break the sac and hope that would start labor. But if that didn't work then we would have a "C" section for sure in 24 hours from that time. With the concern of little or no water in the sac we decided to have her sac broken. This meant that there would be a lot more poking and prodding. Well by the 4PM we had the sac broken and the pitocin started for the third time. Now we are all praying for labor pains!

Pedicure time....

So we are still waiting. It might be another 12 hours before the Labor will even start. :(


But in the mean time Mandy, Lisa's Sister-n-Law, gave Lisa a pedicure and finished it off with the Burts Bees peppermint foot lotion from Karyn and Paul. Thanks guys!

Text Twist Addiction

Well as we sit here tonight I am reading to Lisa all the fun comments that friends, family, co-workers, sports stars, prisoners, government officials and Hollywood socialites have sent us on our blog or in emails. Thanks for checking our blog and commenting back.

A little unknown fact about Lisa is she has a serous addiction to Text Twist. She doesn't like to lose either and so when taking this picture she was telling me to put down the camera and help her win as she was a little distracted from me taking the picture over her shoulder. Me on the other had I can't spell and will always lose.

Had to help out the Hospital Tech Guy...

So in our room there are a lot of technology stuff and and some fun noises. Well one of the noises was very loud and sounded like a cricket but was confusing the nurses and Doctor. But I was like I have heard that before. Hmmmm. Then the sound would go away. I then thought I saw a hidden little vent and I looked through it and there was a UPS and a computer behind this little hidden cupboard. Well I figured out that the UPS had died so I had to convince the Nurse to send someone to replace it or if the power failed then the computer and monitor system would as well. The old one was white and had a sticker on it telling them that is was installed 3 years ago. Well the Network guy came and looked at it but didn't know what to do so I told him I use this product and this one is dead and needs to be replaced. I thought about telling him I have a friend that loves to replace UPS batteries that could help. (David) So a little while later he came back with a brand new one and replaced it. I was not to impressed with their computer staff for not knowing what to do with the UPS. I hope the Nurses know what to do with a Baby. :)

The world wide web is very small sometimes...

There is only so much Internet that can be surfed.

When the baby pops out it will get to decide PC or Mac!

A new day....

So this morning we got woken up at 6:30 AM on our new ultra comfortable separate beds to get ready to have our ultra sound. They were going to check to see how much water was left in the bag that surrounds the baby. If we had a normal amount they would send us home and wait a couple of days. Normal they tell us is 8 to 10 percent water. Well after the ultra sound we were told that we only have 1.8% water and that we were not going to be leaving. The problem is that the baby just does not want to leave its nice cushy home. I keep telling the Baby that we just got done building a new home for Him/Her but that just isn't doing it. They gave Lisa something to help her cervix to soften. That will take 12 hours starting at 10AM. That means at 10PM they will then induce again and hopefully that will but her into Labor.

Here are a few pictures of what our day is like.

The Baby just won't come....

So we are just hanging out and waiting. We gave the baby an eviction notice today but He/She is refusing to move out. So we are stopping the "pitocin" for the night to get some rest and have an ultrasound in the morning. What a roller coaster ride!

The Baby will be here soon!!!

We are at the Hospital. This morning we went to the doctors office on a normal check-up. We had them twice a week for the last couple of weeks. The doctor did some test and had reason to believe that the bag of water had a small tear in it high up. So that means Lisa's water didn't break but was open for infection. So he sent us to the Portland Providence Hospital to get induced.

Here is some pictures of our room. Just like a hotel room.

Lisa's Belly

It is amazing how much Lisa's belly can stretch and grow. We have been amazed at seeing our little one move around and try to stick out in two different direction at the same time.


My cousin Johnny asked us who had the bigger belly Lisa or me!

Baby Pietzold High Stakes Raffle

Take a guess of when our Baby will arrive. The due date is 8/21/07

Jeremy and Lisa’s Baby High Stakes Raffle

	Gender	Weight	Date	Quadrant
Mandy	G	8 11	8/28	1
Ginger	B	8 8	8/30	4
Tim	G	8 6	9/3	4
Kirsty	B	8 4	8/24	2
Amy	G	8 5	8/22	1
Cliff	G	9 10	9/2	2
Luke	G	8 3	8/20	4
Charis	B	9 13	8/24	2
Micah	G	7 12	8/26	2
Kaleb	G	10 13	8/26	3
Jeremy	B	7 9	8/23	4
Lisa	B	7 6	8/26	3
Jamie	G	6 10	8/21	1
Madison	B	7 6	8/19	2
Phil	B	7 7	8/27	4
Nancy	B	6 12	8/22	4
Jacob	G	7 10	8/27	2
Jamey	G	7 0	8/22	4
Courtnie	B	7 6	8/25	2
Scoring:
Weighting	35	15*	40**	10***
Closest Bonus		10	20

(Quadrant: 1-early morning 12AM-6AM, 2-morning 6AM-Noon, 3-afternoon Noon-6PM, 4-evening 6PM-12AM)

* subtract 1/2 for every ounce away
** subtract 3 for every day away
*** Right: 10. One off: 5 Two off: 0

More Tile

Counters and Stairs

Here are a few more pictures of our house.

New Updates....

Well I know we have not done an update in a long time. We have been so busy with actually working on the house every night until 11PM or later that there has not been time. So here are a few pictures. It would be better to jump down towards the bottom and read up. That way you will see the pictures in order. We are just hoping to get the house done before the Baby comes in August.

Kitchen floor plus some....

So the tile floor. It has taken us a month to finish the tile floor down stairs. It is a very large area and we picked a very tough design. I have to give all glory to my brother Jake and his family for letting come up every night after work for four hours a night and all day Saturday and after church on Sunday for a month. The tile is in the shape of diamonds and then offset two inches with little two inch squares that we cut to fill the offset. It looks great but takes a long time to do. We then did a different pattern with in it around where the dinning room table will go. Did I tell you it took us a month after work to do this.

Last Friday we gathered 7 people together to help grout and it took us 4 hours to do it. Thank You for everyone that helped. For every person that would not have helped it would have taken us another two hours on Friday night.

So thank you thank you Jacob, Jamie, Jamey, Courtney, Mom and Dad, John and Jeff for all your help on our tile floor.




<-- Jake and I laying the tile one night

<--Aunt Lisa watching Madison so Jacob could help me tile.

<-- Thanks Jamey for you help with the cleaning of the grout lines. That is tough work.

<-- You got to love the gloves.

<-- Jeff having way to much fun and thinking about Karlson's later that night.

<-- The sponge crew. That water is cold!
<-- Jake the tile man and the brains behind the whole thing

<-- John the bucket man. Must had carried 500 gallons of water that night. He has been working out at the gym so he was in shape for it.

<-- There is nothing like spending a month on a project to slap mud down on it

<-- Its a killer on the knees

Front Porch...

Mark is helping me with my front porch. It is great to have friends that have talent to help out and Mark has built a lot of decks. Here Mark got his Dad Tim to come and check out his work. Tim jumped in and mixed up the concrete while Mark worked the hose. Thanks for the help guys!

Bamboo and Trim...

Lisa's brothers Tim and Luke came up for a very long weekend and helped install the Bamboo floor, sub-flooring and hung all the inside doors and started to put up trim. It was great to have them come and help. They are so good at what they do and fast. I don't know how I would have done it with out their help. It would not look as nice that is for sure. Thanks Guys! I hope to have you up again soon. :)

Cabinets installed

Here are some of the cabinets that were in those boxes.

Here are some of the cabinets that were in those boxes.