Parenting is Great!

Only a few short days into parenting, but below are a few less than obvious indicators that we are parents. Jacob is going to spend another night in the hospital, but we have faith he will come home soon. Jaundice is annoying... nonetheless, he is very healthy outside of this and he is an amazing blessing.

We've become parents:

• We've sleep in the hospital on a chair that folds into a bed. Comfort level negative 50.


• We cheer for poopie diapers (get rid of the bad jaundice "bilirubins")


• Crying is cool, burping is acceptable, farting is bliss.


• Our baby recognizes our voice and turns his head to see us.


• We've looked at one another and said, look what we have created.


• We've had a complete stranger say "I knew that was your baby," when we looked into the nursery.

We're so excited, we want to bring Jacob Terry home. Patience and healing... let's make tomorrow the day!

All the best,

- Adam, Melissa, Jacob and Duncan

The Tuesday Update

Hello everyone!

We wanted to post an update about our boy.  We are still at the hospital and Jacob is still in his "light cave".  He is eating well and his bilirubin count went down as of this morning.  They will do another test around 3 and hopefully it will have gone down again and we can head home this afternoon.  That way, Daddy and Jacob can watch the Twins in high definition!  He will likely get sent home with a bili-blanket in order to continue to help him break down those bilirubins!  He is such a joy and has been a trooper through this whole thing.  

We are praying and crossing our fingers that today he will finally be introduced to his new home!

All of our love~

Adam, Melissa, Jacob and Duncan

Doesnt get much better than this...

I am pretty sure of it.

Jacob Update!!

Hello everyone -

First off, I can't thank everyone enough for all of your love and support! We are so blessed to have great friends and family! We really want to thank our neighbors, Joe and Lisa, for helping out and taking care of Duncan the past couple of days.

I also want to thank my mom for hanging out with him today and doing some of our laundry!! Yay, I don't have to fold clothes!

Jacob is doing well. He is still in his "light cave" because he has the jaundice. His "bili" count was pretty high, so he will have to stay and extra day. I will be discharged later, however, we get to stay in the room that we are in so that I can continue to feed him. He only gets to come out every 3 hours for 30 minutes. So, we don't get to see him much, but he doesn't look as yellow as he did yesterday! We will keep you all posted as we get more information too!!

We love you all!

Adam, Melissa, Jacob and Duncan

Welcome Baby Jacob!

Alright, here he is! Pictures and a video below. The video is a really huge file - but too cute not to leave up for a bit. We can't express how thrilled we are to be parents, more so; how supportive our friends and family have been. Thank you so much.

Jacob - 7 lbs 10.5 oz and 20 inches long

A tired, but happy and beautiful mom.

Daddy gave the first bath :)

He's so cute!

I talked about this in the original announcement post. We walked in after dinner to see this. I melted. They are both so amazing...

Visitors are welcome anytime this weekend. We will be heading home Sunday afternoon, but feel free to call if you'd like to stop by.
Much love
- The Delveaux Family

Video - Enjoy

This file is huge, so we'll only be leaving this up temporarily.

Much love!

Jacob Terry Delveaux

What? No pictures? Yet... not until I get home tonight, so stay tuned.

I wish you could see what I do right now. Melissa is so tired, she fell asleep holding Jacob while her mom and I ran to the cafe. This is a beautiful sight.

Jacob Terry arrived at 11:09 AM weighing 7 lbs, 10 1/2 oz. He was 20 inches long. Mom and Jacob are doing very well. It's been a long night! We watched the Twins comeback win with the Ertl's and caught a nap before I got the "go-time" wake-up at 1:30 AM.

We arrived at the hospital at 2 AM and were being monitored to estimate when Jacob might come. The staff here is crazy good. We've been up all day and the excitement of being parents makes it really hard to sleep! Oprah's on... maybe that will lull me to sleep.

Tonight I will be sleeping at home and getting Duncan used to the scent of the baby. He's a great dog, should be no problems. Pictures and more to come.

Much love,

- Adam, Melissa, Jacob and Duncan. Welcome Jacob, what an amazing blessing.

Doctor Visit - Weekly Now...

We're coming into the homestretch of pregnancy, we now make weekly trips to see the doctor and monitor the progress. Melissa has been doing very well, the nights have gotten a little uncomfortable - but she handles it like a champ as always. I've offered her to wake me up if she can't sleep... little did I know what I was signing up for. A small sacrifice for all she has been going through.

At the doctor we got a cute onesie that says "Parkview Special Delivery" (name of our clinic). It's super cute. Dr. C said everything looks awesome! Here's the kicker...

Baby's head has "dropped"! Baby is preparing himself, herself, itself for the real world. Baby is getting ready, but that's all the progress so far. After the doctor, we went to Buffalo Wild Wings (Melissa really wanted to go).

This weekend we continue to do baby's laundry and get the room all set - we're waiting to get some wall decor until baby arrives.

Hope all is well, much love!
- Adam, Melissa, Duncan and Baby

Booze Hound Sports Fans!?

This past weekend we had the baby shower in Minneapolis hosted by my fabulous sister-in-law at her house. (Okay, my brother lives there too!) It was so much fun. The food was as great as the company. I had a lot of good friends from work come as well as some friends we've made over the years of living here!

We started off with some food and chatting. Then, we played some games. The first game we had to guess what food was in the unlabeled food jars. Of all people, I got the most correct. I even beat out some of the gals who are mom's!! Then, we played a game similar to Balderdash for all you board gamers out there. The rule of the game was to guess what events lead up the the night of baby making. The person with the most votes won a prize and the person(s) who guessed the actual events that lead up to baby making also won a prize! None the less, most of the stories consisted of some type of sports game and alcohol (WI roots), whether on TV or at the actual game. So, interesting that everyone thinks that we are alcoholic sports junkies!! The crazy thing of it all is the person who actually got the most votes. That would be my 4 year old niece!! Melissa (my sister-in-law) asked her what she thought Auntie and Uncle like to do. In her mind, we did the dishes, played with Duncan and went to bed to sleep.

After some red cheeks and lots of laughs, we opened some gifts. We got a lot of great things from books and toys to clothes and butt paste for those diaper rashes! One of my good friends made a diaper tree. Check it out!

We thank everyone who came out and brought some wonderful gifts for the baby. We are very blessed to have such great friends and family!! I go this Friday again for my 36 week check up. I will keep you all posted on anything new. It could be any day now!!

Love,
The Delveaux's

Home for the Weekend

Long overdue post, apologies...

We went home last weekend for the Baby Delveaux shower. We are so blessed to have an amazing support system of friends and family. First, a huge thank you to our mothers for hosting and getting everything together - you both were terrific. Second, it was phenomenal to see everyone there.

Being a boy, I ran off with the other boy (Jack) to have lunch and a beer at Titletown - soooo good! Good food, great beer, terrific company. Coming home I was a bit overwhelmed to see everyone. Neighbors, friends, friends of the family and family - what a great turnout. I shared then how fortunate we are to have such great support - it was cool! I saw my Aunt Karen and her family who I haven't seen since Uncle Cliff passed away in summer. I think about them often and they are such a strong family, it was great to see them all doing well. Our prayers continue for their strength and comfort.

Melissa showed me all the fun gadgets, what they did as well as how to use. I am still learning. I didn't need any teaching about the toys! Only to share :( Again, thank you all of coming and all the love and support. Baby Delveaux is coming into a great family.

I also had the privilege of going to Lambeau field again! Mom and I went to see the Packers take care of the Vikes. This was big for my football ego as I have been bragging my team up around the office. If we lost, I may as well have turned in my badge. Below are a few pictures of the game... dynamite! Tailgating (only like this in GB), Aaron Rodgers before his TD, final score (ahem, who won?) and Rodgers happily jogging off after victory!

Thanks to everyone for making our GB shower so amazing.

Much love,

- Adam, Melissa, Duncan and Baby Delveaux

Big weekend!

A lot can happen in a 3 day weekend.  We finished some minor touches in the babies room.  Adam put a dimmer switch in the room and go a little shock.  He forgot to turn the power off again before trying to put the switch back in the wall.  Oops!  

We cleaned a lot upstairs and moved some things around.  We patched up the air mattress only to discover that there was another tiny hole very close to the first one we fixed:(  So now we have to fix that one.  Hopefully that will be it!

We went to Kevin and Melissa's on Sunday for a bit and hung out with the kids.  I had to teach my dork of a brother how to use his iPod with iTunes!  He was like a little kid once we got songs on it.  They are all doing very good!

On Monday, we went to the fair.  Holy food!  We had corn dogs, pronto pups (which are just like a corn dog with flour breading instead of cornmeal breading... and still just as greasy and good), cheese curds, Sweet Martha's Cookies...yum (little warm chocolate cookies with ice cold milk), wine ice cream and apple cider freezies.  I think that was it and trust me, that was nothing compared to what we could have had.  They have everything from pickle juice popsicles to gator on a stick.  Yes, they have almost 40 foods on a stick.  Deep fried candy bars and home made rootbeer.  If you can think of it, they have it.  Talk about gut rot!  It was fun though!

The biggest news of all...we sold the truck.  We knew we had to adjust with a growing family.  So, we are going to buy Adam's mom's car from her.  (with the stipulation that she fixes the motor in the driver window!!!hehehe)  It only seems to work when it wants to!!  Just kidding, we will love it!  

We go home to GB this weekend for the baby shower!  We are looking forward to a longer weekend so that we can spend a little time with family and friends.  We will fill you in after with some pictures.