Thomas' B-day

Last year Rusty and I were out of town for Thomas' B-day so we felt just a little guilty...this year we were going to have the family over for the morning to play. Unfortunately, if you read the last post, that didn't happen. We are all quarantined. My mom was nice enough to watch Hannah so we could take Frances and T to the mall. We went to Build a Bear, ride the merry go round, and the train. After lunch, we went home. After dinner, we had cake and he opened presents. He seemed pretty happy.

i mean really

It has been a pretty long week and Miss Hannah and I have clocked in a lot of time at the hospital. On Wed night Rusty and I took Hannah to the emergency room (thanks mom for rushing over and I am very happy Rusty came along too because little did we know we would be staying) because we didn't like the way she sounded. Since the other two have asthma, we saw she was having some issues and didn't like the retraction that was going on in her neck....little did we know. Anyway, anytime you go to the emergency room and have one that is having trouble breathing they move you through quickly and when you have an 8 day old baby, they really move you through. When they put us in our room, they had her hooked up to check her vitals and luckily saturation levels, etc were fine even though she looked like she was having issues. The doctor said they wanted to do a few tests just to make sure that she didn't have rsv. Well she did so poor little thing had to get xrays. They also said we were staying. It appears that right now is rsv season so the usual floor we would have been on was full and they put us in a room that is used for surgery observation (calling it a room is being generous- it was really a little bigger than a closet). The good thing is the hall was quiet (except for the second night we got a screamer- poor guy looked about T's age and screamed all day and all night). The one big problem was there wasn't a bathroom so I had to get the nurse every time I had to go or if someone was in there from respiratory (don't know if that is how you spell it), etc checking on her, I would have them watch her while I ran to the bathroom (awesome). Anyway, we were sent home on Friday (luckily that meant we were home for T's b-day Saturday). Today we had a follow up and the doctor said things are still going along well. I am thankful we realized something was up and were able to get her to the emergency room when she did.

round three...Hannah Golden Grant

We headed to the hospital to be induced on the 18th (were there at 5 am). We were in a room around 6ish and they started the iv and pitocin (no idea how to spell it). Things went very slow. The doc came in again around 12:30/1 to break the water and that got things moving. For about 45 minutes the contractions (the big boys) were about every 2-3 minutes and I said epidural time please. Well it was almost too late for that..... by the time the doc got in there for the epidural it was almost too late- the contractions were coming every 45 seconds and lasting for about a minute. They said usually once they break your water you dilate about 1 a hour (went from a 2 to 10 in 1.5 hours so you can imagine how fun the contractions were). The epidural kind of kicked in (the doc had just finished and basically walked out the door when I told the nurse I needed to push). Quickly my doc got over to the hospital and about 4 pushes (two to turn her because apparently our girls like to try to come out sunny side up and two for her to come out). Must say easiest delivery.

Final fat girl pic



look at the chins.... she looks large, but was only 7'8 (our kids have chubby cheeks and yes she has her daddy's dimples)


the kids are big fans of their sister!


cute little feet!

Snowed In....

The first day, I could kind of handle, but as each day goes on, I am going stir crazy. It wouldn't be as bad if I was just trapped in the house, but I am trapped in the house with two kids and a sick husband (not to mention I am the size of a house and I am basically a ticking time bomb who will pretty soon have a little one attached to me so these are my last few days of getting stuff done) and still trying to work. Anyway, here are the pics from this week. Yep, you aren't seeing things, Thomas basically was in the same thing each day. I gave up the will to argue with a 2 year old so snow flake pjs (and by day 4 the paci was allowed out of the room to attempt to keep him using an indoor voice). Luckily, Frances can chill watching some tv, I am hoping we can find something that will have the same effect on T.

Day 1- note happy kids and yes they were in actual clothes



Day 2 - still in good spirits (at least the kids were) stayed inside (made cookies)




Day 3 - more like ice skating now (as you can see he is still in pjs)





day 4 - snow/ice is melting and we are melting down







We did get it together by lunchtime....thank goodness Dominos made it to the house (I did get two calls because two of the entrances were iced over) ...and please note the kids were dressed!

Fat Girl Hanging Out

Well, nothing much going on here...just a fat girl sitting on the couch getting larger. Rusty headed up to Winchester, KY for a wedding and I am on kiddo duty. As soon as I figure out my new phone, I will post pics of our exciting day at the mall. Yes, had to get out of the house with these two crazies. I met mom, Christine and the two kiddos at the mall so Frances and T could get shoes (of course miss thing picked out some purple sparkly shoes that light up) and then rode the train and merry go round (he rode them- she was not having a great day thanks to early wake up calls from mr man so didn't join T and the cousins). T had a virus for a few days last week and then an ear infection so he is more a train wreck than usual. Hopefully my next post will include Hannah.... but I think she has a little more cooking to do.

FROGS!!!!!

Well done Frogs!

Happy New Year

Happy New Year! This was a calm new year. We had a few friends over for bacon explosion. Good stuff. We attempted to go to bed early....I was going to, but started taking down decorations and had to finish and then thanks to the 4 hours of fire works by our neighbors, I had T up for a bit. I was pretty tired so I actually let him in our bed (that is one thing I won't ever do except for the morning because don't want that to be a habit). That did not work well because he was moving all over the place, luckily midnight hit and the fireworks stopped so back to bed for the little man.

We had a great 2010 and are very excited for what 2011 will bring. Things were pretty busy last year. We lost a few loved ones and of course found out that we were pregnant with Miss Hannah. Can't wait for her appearance (yep- cankles in full effect). Rusty will hopefully race in his Iron Man in Aug (if his knee holds up). Miss Frances will start school (free school!) and mom will be watching Hannah for us until she kicks her out (her stay depends if she is like Frances or Thomas). My college roommate and Eric will finally get married (I think they have been dating 12 years now so about time - that is just so California) so we will be heading to Mexico in April, we are having family pics in August and I am heading to Ft Worth in Oct for homecoming (can't believe it has been 10 years). I almost forgot to mention that I will be heading to the New Kids concert (Yes, I am aware that I am 32).

Hope everyone had a good new year and we wish you an even better 2011!