Hospital Stay and Going Home!

Andrew Fleharty getting ready for his trip home! Thanks, Sarah, for the adorable onesie! I just love monogrammed things!! You did a great job on this one!

Baby Profile

First Bassinet

Pops and Grandma came and visited at the hospital and then came to Hobbs for the rest of Drew's first week. They brought this balloon and these flowers to the hospital. Some of the flowers are blue hydrangeas, which were our wedding flowers!

Proud Dad!!

Check out Matt's awesome hat! Thanks, Kilgores! Embrace the cheese.

Mom & Drew

Pops and Drew

Grandma & Drew

Grandpa, Drew & Dad

This hat is SO cute. It has "Texas" on one side and "A&M on the other side. It's a newborn hat, but Drew's head was too big for it from the start!!

Grandpa & Drew

Pops & Drew

Sweet sleepy face

Hospital Door

Door Decor by Grandpa!

Puffy newborn face!

Holding his paci

Dr. Owen

She's great! So worth the drive to Lubbock!

Daily Dose 'o Drew

Sleepy Trio

(FYI Matt was posing. He was really awake)

Daily Dose 'o Drew

Here's my snugglebug in his Pack 'N Play newborn napper. Thanks, Chaunie and Malinda for the P'nP!! We love it!! Oh, and you can see here that Drew holds his pacifier! He usually keeps one hand on it to make sure it doesn't fall out. Seriously. That cracks us up! We initially weren't going to use a pacifier at all. We filled out all the forms at the hospital and indicated that we didn't want him to get a paci in the nursery. From what I've read, not using a pacifier is better for newborns as they are learning to eat. Well.....that lasted all of about one day!!! We found the miracle of the paci and haven't looked back!! Matt calls pacifiers "epidurals for babies!"

Mini-Pops

Pops and Mini-Pops

Daily Dose 'o Drew

I have sooo many pics of Drew to organize and post...and I'm getting behind each day! So until I get caught up, and maybe after, I will try to appease Drew's fans with a daily pic ;0)

Andrew's Arrival!

Family of 3 - First Picture Together

Pouty Face

Dad taking Drew to the nursery to get checked out for the first time.

Mom and Dad get ready to meet Drew!

Grandma & Pops meet Drew in the hall on the way to the nursery for his check up!

Meeting Grandma and Pops

Daddy & Drew (Don't kill me later, Drew! This was too cute to not post)!

Getting cleaned up

First Born!

Uh, oh...is that a Hook 'Em??

Happy Daddy & Drew in nursery getting checked out!

Andrew Luke Fleharty was born today, January 26, 2010, at 1:43pm. He weighed 7 lbs 5 oz and is 20 inches long. He has a full head of dark hair and we won't know about his eyes for awhile. Right now they are navy blue. He was born via c-section because the doctors were concerned about his heart rate during labor. I'll spare you all the details :) We LOVE him and of course think he's very handsome (even Matt said he's cute and he thinks newborns are ugly - ha)!

Love,

Matt, Cindy & Drew Fleharty

P.S. We have much more graphic pics of the actual surgery. If you're interested let me know and I will email them to you! They are pretty gross :)

Checked In!

We are checked in and all hooked up! Drew's bday will be tomorrow! I'm not sure how the day will go so I'm not sure if we'll be blogging, but we'll be sure to let you all know when he arrives!

Hobbs Shower!

Wonderful Hostesses!

Bridgette, Andrea, Begie, Me, Mom, Chaundra, Malinda

We have been so blessed to meet such great people since we've moved to Hobbs! It's hard to believe we've been here almost 4 years! Bridgette and Begie work with Matt and have been so sweet to us since day 1 in Hobbs! Then, we met Andrea through some friends and she has been so fun to get to know! She's hilarious and actually helped get me my student teaching gig! Chaundra and Malinda are my fellow fabulous fifth grade teachers and they seriously make every day at work an adventure! I love those girls!!! Thank you all so much for making this such a great shower!

I'm really not THAT prissy! I'm showing how the stroller can turn with two fingers :)

Mom, Malinda, Gay & Marla

Me and Chaunie

Mom (!) and Grandma (!!)

Bridgette & moi

Smell the diaper game...

Diaper cake made by Begie!

It had cute trinkets all over it, but I have already got those all in the nursery. She also gave me a wine glass that is painted with "Mommy's Sippy Cup" and she hid a bottle of wine in the middle of the diaper cake! Too cute!

Corsages made by Begie

Chaundra & Grandma

Too cute!

I really feel ready for baby Drew now that we have a car seat and a Pack 'N Play!!! He has a way home from the hospital and a place to sleep!

My next project is to learn to make cakes like this!
Well...maybe after learning how to take care of a baby!

Bridgette, CJ & MP

Andrea & Vicky

Thank you, everyone!!

Shower in a Box!

Matt's sweet family from Illinois got together and sent us a "Shower in a Box!" It was such a neat idea and so thoughtful of them, especially since we don't get to see them very often. Matt's aunt Jo handmade this adorable blanket, and I'm sure she put the border on the other 3 blankets too. She's very talented! We got lots of useful things, including razor blades (!), and received a lot of gift cards that will come in handy as we are getting everything ready for baby Andrew! We are going to Lubbock on Monday and plan to put those gift cards to use! Here's a picture of our little family and the shower-in-a-box!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

We wish we could thank you in person!

Love,

Matt, Cindy & Drew

National Championship @ The Rose Bowl

Matt's "Hook 'Em" at the Rose Bowl!

Molly's New Year Resolution

Molly's going to get in shape in 2010! Here she is on the treadmill...with no leash, etc.! We were cracking up over this!!!! Go Molly!!!

Sweet Hubby

Me: "Hello?"
Hubby: "Whatcha doin?"
Me: "I think I'm having a contraction on aisle 5 at Wal-Mart! Not really, but dang this cart is heavy."
Hubby: "I'll be right there."

Then he came and pushed my cart.

Love the hubby!!

Christmas Katelyn

Just wanted to make sure everyone saw my cute happy little niece, Katelyn! She's having a Merry Christmas!