Saturday, December 22, 2007

Santa Baby















































































Tuesday, December 11, 2007

8 weeks old!








Everyone comments on how dark his skin is. I don't know if you can tell in this picture, but he does have a really good olive complexion. Laney had really pretty skin when she was first born too.









Look at that face. I'm in love! <3












I put him on this blanket to see how much he's grown. I'm gonna do this every week and compare them!

We took him to the dr. when he was 4 or 5 weeks old, and he weighed 10lbs. When we weigh him on our scales here at home, it says 11, but I think he weighs more...he's a big boy! He's growing alot faster than Elijah did. The same clothes that he wears now, Elijah couldn't fit into till he was 3 months old.

Friday, November 23, 2007

Snuggly little Elijah...

My husband graciously stayed home with the kids this morning so I could go with my mom at the crack of dawn "black friday" shopping. He went with me last year and decided that he couldn't possibly take that again, so....here's how his morning went after I left.

Elijah woke up at around 5:15 crying and was completely unconsolable. Mike figured that he'd go back to sleep if he just put him in our bed...which worked for about 20 minutes, till Elijah decided to get up and wander the house while daddy was sleeping. So Mike wakes up to find that Elijah is no longer in bed with him. He thought for a second that maybe he had put him back in his crib, so he went in there to check on him and couldn't find him. He searched the living room and kitchen and noticed that the gate to go downstairs was open. Hoping that he would find him upstairs, he continued to search till he found this scene in the girls' room.

Notice what is under Chloe's leg...yeah, that would be Elijah's head :)















He got out of bed with daddy and climbed into bed with his sisters. I can't believe he didn't take advantage of having free reign over the entire house...he must've been really tired. Luckily, my brilliant husband thought to take pictures of it for me to see. I just wanted to snuggle my little Elijah man right up when I got home. :) He's such a sweet, snuggly little boy!














My handsome guy...my "knight in shining diapers" is what I like to call him :) I seriously cannot get enough of this child. :) Of course, I love all my kids like that, but it's something about this age.




































And here's a picture of Isaac with my dad, who he's named after. Isaac's middle name is Robert, which is my dad's first name. He looks alot like my dad...well, he looks alot like me, and I look like my dad, so...ya know...
















I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Friday, November 9, 2007

Isaac had a dr. appt. on Wed. and he weighs 9lbs. 7oz. He still has a little bit of jaundice, so the dr. told me to put him on formula for 24 hours and just pump. He did NOT like it one bit! I cheated a few times and nursed him. He got his levels checked yesterday and they're coming down, so I can resume nursing him! yay! :) While he was taking a bottle, the girls, of course, wanted to help feed him. We gave Elijah a try, but it was a disaster...:P
















































































































His first tub bath


I took some pictures of him this week...he's 3 weeks old! My baby's growing up ;)



























































































































































Sweet little profile




























I had to take this one of all his hair, before it falls out...and I know it will :P























































No more pictures!!!!

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Brotherly love and bonfires

My 2 boys!!! :D










Kisses from bubba












































Aww...snuggles

























Elijah is starting to pay a little more attention to Isaac...he tends to like him a little more when Isaacs eyes are open. :) He's still a little rough with him, but what else can I expect? He's a wild man! I'm not sensing any jealousy at all from Elijah, which is something I worried about, but he's adjusting great!

We went out to the Kates' house last night for a barbecue and bonfire. The kids all had a great time! They didn't want to leave...they never do when we go out there, so that's nothing new. :P Lori and Nate were back from Colorado, so we got to see them and their 2 precious boys.


Here's a pic of Jono and Elijah by the fire...





























































Sisters =)

















Lori's baby boy Zach =)

Sunday, October 21, 2007

The birth story

:Warning--this is long!:

We arrived at the hospital at 5am. They got me into a room and started my IV fluids. I was there early so that I could have 2 rounds of antibiotics before my midwife broke my water. I hate penicillin...it burns!!! Anyway, my first dose was supposed to start right when I got there, per the orders of my midwife, but they didn't get it started till about 6:30 and the doses have to be 4 hours apart. So my midwife came in at around 8ish and saw that they didn't start the medication till late, so she decided to break my water then (assuming I wouldn't have the baby by 10:30...which was when I would get my second dose). She just wanted 2 doses in before I delivered. Anyway, when she broke my water, she checked me and told me that I was still about the same as I was in the office...4 and about 50-75% effaced. She said that if I wasn't dilated any farther by around noon, then she'd start pitocin. So I started walking the halls. I had to come back to my room every hour to be monitered for 15 minutes, and then I had to be back in at 10:30 for the second dose of penicillin. I walked and walked as much as I could and wasn't feeling very strong contractions. I got into the tub at one point, but just felt that it was stopping the contractions I was having, so I got back out. I had a feeling I'd have to use pitocin. The nurse checked me at 11:30 and said that I was the same, so she started the pitocin around 12. I had originally intended on going completely natural (no epidural), but while we were walking the halls, the woman in the room next to me was about to deliver and had just gotten there and had no time for an epidural and was screaming at the top of her lungs. When I heard her scream like that, my eyes started watering and I literally almost threw up right there in the hall. I decided then and there that I didn't want to relive that again like I had with Chloe and Elijah. So I said that I'd go as long as I could without an epidural, but I definitely wanted one before I delivered. I labored in my room without one for about 4 hours(I had to be monitered constantly since they gave me pitocin) in the rocking chair, and the contractions honestly weren't that bad at first. Mike, my mom, Mike's mom and dad, and all of my kids were in the room while I was breathing through my contractions...having them there was actually a really good distraction. After a little while of being on pitocin, I started really needing to focus and breath through my contractions. I was stuck at a 4 for a while, and finally made some progress around 3:30. I started feeling more pressure, so the nurse checked me and said that the baby's head had dropped alot and I was now at a 5. The nurse told me that if I wanted an epidural before I delivered that I should probably get one then. She thought that since his head was so far down and this was my 4th baby, that I'd progress faster. So I told her to go ahead and let them know I wanted one. The anesthesiologist came in and started it around 3:45. The first time she tried to get it in, she hit a vein. It hurt horribly bad...it was a sharp shooting pain down the bottom of my back and through my right leg. I thought she was gonna paralyze me...seriously...it was so scary. So she pulled it out and started at another spot. In the meantime, I'm having the most horrible contractions yet. I was squeezing Mike's hand so hard (out of fear and pain), I'm surprised he still has feeling in it! Once she got it placed right, it worked like a charm. After laboring with the epidural for about 45 minutes, and I was finally complete and ready to push. I pushed 3 times and out he came at 5:16pm! My midwife was wonderful telling me when to slow my pushing down when his head was crowning and when his shoulders were coming out so that I wouldn't tear...and I didn't tear at all!!! This is the first one I haven't needed stitches with...and he's the biggest baby I've had! This was probably the best labor and delivery I've had. When he came out, they put him on my chest and I saw the parts right when Mike announced "It's a boy!!" I couldn't believe it!! I had another boy! I loved not knowing!! It's well worth the wait! He has so much hair! Way more than my other kids did. I play with it all the time...I love it!!!! He weighed in at 8lbs. 1oz. and is 20in. long! He so sweet. He is such a good baby. He never cries! Hopefully he stays this way! :) I just love him so much and he is definitely the most wonderful completion to our family! God has blessed our family so much, there's just no way to put into words how thankful we are to Him!!

He's nursing like a pro and sleeping really well at night. Mike's parents left on Friday...they were such a wonderful help to us all week! I don't know what we would have done without them! They stayed with the kids while we were in the hospital and got Laney off to school every day. Elijah is such a handful, he's enough to make anyone crazy. But they survived him! Chloe is absolutely in love with Isaac and can't get enough. She constantly asks about him and wants to hold him. Laney is crazy about him too! She's a little more careful with him than Chloe is. Elijah doesn't really even seem to notice that anything has changed. He'll look at him and give him kisses when we ask him to, but other than that, he just pretty much ignores him. I'm so glad we had another boy so that they'll have each other to play with.

Here's a picture of him with my midwife.


















And a couple I took the last day we were in the hospital.

































Here's one of the kids with Mike's parents

















He has to be on the bili-blanket for a while to clear up his jaundice. Hopefully it won't be too much longer.
















Wide awake!


















Here he is after his bath today...he's just so snuggly :)







































Wednesday, October 17, 2007

The baby is here!!

Our baby boy Isaac entered the world on Monday October 15th at 5:16pm. He weighed in at 8lbs. 1oz. and is 20in. long. He's so handsome and we're so happy he's here! He has so much hair (well, for one of our kids) which almost surprised me more than the fact that he's a boy. :)

Friday, October 12, 2007

3 MORE DAYS!!!!

Well, my midwife has agreed to break my water this coming Monday, the 15th. October 15th is a good birthday, right?! :) She checked my cervix and told me that I was a tight 4, so I asked her if it would be possible to do it this coming Monday. I thought for sure she would say no, but she said she had to call the hospital and if they had room, then she would. The 5 minutes she was gone doing that were the longest ever...I prayed and prayed! She came back in and said that they had room for me, so I go in at 5am on Monday. I can't believe this baby will be here in 3 days!! It seems so unreal! Mike's parents are coming in on either Saturday or Sunday, and they said this week actually worked better than next! So that makes me feel better! Chloe is so excited...I'm sure Laney will be too!

Friday, October 5, 2007

37 weeks...full term!!!

I had a midwife appt. today. My blood pressure was a little high, so they had me lay on my left side for a while and re-checked it and it went down...whew! The baby's heartbeat was in the 180's! I asked her if that was normal...I know that it's not in the safe zone...and she said that if the baby was moving (which he/she was) then it tends to go up like that. So 2 scares today. But I did get good news...I asked her to check me because I've been having some painful contractions here and there and she told me I'm at a 3!!!! I knew the contractions had to be doing something! I'm only 50% thinned out, but 3cm is good enough news for me! She said that next Friday at my next appt. she would check me and if I was dilated any more, then she would schedule me in to break my water the following Friday or the Monday after that...whichever worked better. She's doing this because I told her I really wanted my mother-in-law to be here for it. So we're gonna call Mike's parents tonight and see if Friday the 19th would be okay for them. If it would be better for their jobs that we do it on Monday, then we'll do that. But I'd really like them to be here the night before I go in...so we'll see. I have get my antibiotics for groub b strep 4 hours before she breaks my water, so I'll go in really early in the morning to get that. They didn't even check me for it this time, or with Elijah, because I was positive with Chloe, so they just automatically give the antibiotics. I hate it...it burns all the way up my arm. Did anyone else have to have it? Did it burn really bad? Sometimes I thought it was worse than the contractions. So anyway, I guess we'll be doing alot of walking and other stuff ;) this week to get things going a little more.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Let the nesting begin...


The belly at 36 weeks. Yikes!

3 1/2 weeks and counting! This is the only baby I haven't wanted to have early. I'm not ready! I told Mike that this will probably be the one that I do have early. I've been nesting like crazy though. All of the closets have had a makeover and underneath the kids' bathroom sink has been cleaned out...wow, it needed it too! I've washed all the baby boy clothes and put them away...I've still yet to find the baby girl stuff. I don't know what I did with it...I guess if this is a girl, we'll just have to do some major shopping :)
I told Mike the other night that this baby moves more than the girls did, but a little less than Elijah, so I said, That either means it's a rambunctious girl or a...? And Mike said "A normal boy?" :P He's so wild...here's another video of him showing off all his energy :)

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

My crazy boy!!

Here's some videos of my funny man.








Okay. So I tried to retake that thinking that maybe he'd pay a little more attention to me....no. This is what I ended up with. :P







Laney's lost tooth!

Laney's tooth has been really loose for a while now. She was so scared to pull it, and it was hanging by a thread, so I told her to keep wiggling it and it finally came out tonight. She was so proud of it...she had to call Mamaw and Pa-Pa in Colorado to let them know :D She said she's gonna show all of her friends tomorrow at school! :) Here's her new grin...














Cheeeese!!!










And one of Chloe :)


















Here it is!!

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