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. :)

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!

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.

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 :)

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!!

Ugghhh...

I'm so tired of being pregnant! I'm so incredibly happy that this will be my last pregnancy forever! I just know that God has let me have a not so good pregnancy so that I won't be missing it when it's over :P I can't sleep at all, I have horrible pains in my lower abdomen, I constantly feel like I have a bladder infection, this baby kicks in places no other kid has kicked before (how can it get its foot or hand in my hip bone, I'd like to know :P), and the list goes on and on. I know, I know...I shouldn't be complaining. Pregnancy is a very awesome thing to experience and it's such a miracle. I just want to see my baby. Here's a pic of my belly at 33 weeks.
















In other news, Laney is still loving school!! YAY! She had to miss a couple days a while back when she had pink eye, and she was so upset! She really likes her teacher and she's made a few friends that she talks about. Right when she gets home, Mike and I bombard her with questions about how her day went and what they did and stuff. She gets annoyed with it at times. :P Chloe really misses not having her here to play with. It's really sad to hear her playing with her ponies by herself. :( And Elijah really isn't at the stage yet where he can play with her. I'm glad that she'll be able to start school next year. She's really excited to go, now that she knows how much Laney likes it.