B’s Birth Story

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2 am on Thursday May 14, 2015:

Left the house with water having broken earlier (about 7 pm) and having had only a contraction or two. Glad to not have traffic to drive to hospital. (Could take 2.5 hours in prime weekend afternoon traffic!) (6 days past due date)

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Sometime between 2:30 am and 6:48 am: a happy(ish) lady with an epidural in the same room T was born in with one of the same nurses 19 months later. Contractions started being about 3-5 min apart in the car and I got to the hospital at 2:30 already at a 5 or 6 cm. Got an epidural around 3:00 since I had done bloodwork the week previously. It worked great except in one spot! So after an hour or two I could feel contractions there, which was unfortunate but probably helped me push. He was born at 6:48 am. Phew! So glad to be not pregnant (or in labor) anymore!

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Shortly after 6:48 am: Us with baby B!

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B getting cleaned up in the nursery.

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The upside of a nighttime labor: no traffic

The downside of a nighttime labor: no sleeping that night for anyone!

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Cutie pie face!

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With a proud daddy!

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First pic as a whole fam!

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Someone is happy to have a baby to hold!

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Nena!

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All their grandkids! We are so glad Nena and Pappaw were here!

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Our silly three munchkins! E wanted to hold him the whole time they were at the hospital. T walked around eating snack sticks. Typical.

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Resting in his bed with the blanket all three kids used and a burp cloth made by Aunt Kathy.

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Coming h0me the next day!

Maternity/Family Pics

Before baby B was born, we took some family/maternity pictures. April is Tulip month here so we went to a park and took some pictures with the tulips.

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These two are so sweet together! She is like his second mommy.

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He is so precious!

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The whole fam!

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The boys in their matching shirts!

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Daddy’s girl!

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Me and my sweetie!

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Me and little B baking inside at 38.5 weeks!

Apparently I am a monthly blogger now…

Apparently I am also a phone photo dumper blogger. Since my last post that was an update and lots of phone photos from about a month ago, I have had to pay for my website again for the next year, so I figure I better use it since I pay for it. Haha.

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So E has finished a month at her school and is still doing well and liking it. It helps a lot to have a little friend there! Here is the picture we had taken for her for school. They basically ask for the equivalent of passport photos.  I thought she looked so pretty and grown up in it! She loves purple!

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One day after we took her to school, we went over to the park and sidewalks by the water and went for a walk with little brother. It was a chilly day but nice to see the boats and the cats that hang out on the rocks by the water.

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We went to the mall for lunch one Sunday after church and E and I had a little dessert. Frozen yogurt is a little lower in carbs than ice cream or custard so I shared one with her.(null)

 

We have gotten to see baby #3 a few times lately. He is doing well. Measuring at 6 lbs 10 oz as of 34 weeks, according to the ultrasound machine. Which isn’t huge but isn’t small either. Both my other kids were about 8 lbs 12 oz. Thankfully, my amniotic fluid level has gone down since controlling my gestational diabetes through diet (it was too high) and I have also lost about 7 lbs. so that is good.

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Cutie tootie likes to eat yogurt with corn flakes in it. But he makes a huge mess! Sometimes mommy doesn’t have the patience for that and just feeds it to him herself. But sometimes he gets to play. And then he gets a bath.

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We had planned to celebrate Easter with some foreigner friends in a big forest like last year, but some people thought the weather might be too chilly, so it got moved to the indoor location, which was our house! We didn’t mind hosting since everyone was bringing everything, they just needed our space. But it was a busy day, and at the end, after everyone had gone home, I started looking at Facebook and realized I didn’t get anyone to take  a picture of our whole family. C and I had already changed into comfy clothes. So I got a pic of the kids. T likes smiling for the camera these days. He likes eating pears too. He actually likes to get food and walk around the house eating it, but I really need to stop letting him do that because I find apple peelings that he didn’t eat laying around!

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Some of the moms and I walked all the kids over to a nearby park for an egg hunt after lunch since we weren’t in the forest all day. E spied an egg up high.

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E was excited about her school outfit this day and wanted a picture of her Elsa shirt and Elsa socks.

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On Wednesday last week I had a doctors appointment. She has two offices, one near our old apartment, and one that is more on this side of town but still takes 40 minutes or so to get there. Well I drove to the one on this side of town, only to find out that she was not there that day, she was at the other office! Gah! Also, the store I tried to go to that was nearby closed down last week! Double Gah! So I had to reschedule my appt for Friday and this little guy came with me. He did well and sat in his stroller and ate apples during the appointment. I treated us by going out to lunch afterwards. #selfieinanelevator

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He was excited to get a balloon all to himself. Usually sister gets the balloons.

 

Happy First Birthday to T!

October 10 was T’s first birthday! We had been back in the country for about a week and tried to figure out how to celebrate at a time when none of us were sleeping all that well yet, we were freshly missing family and friends back home,  and Mommy was coming down with a cold.

We started out with breakfast at home!

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Then we went to a big baby store in town that has a little play area for kids. We were going to buy T’s presents and let the kids play a bit.

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Then we headed to lunch at Shake Shack. (Mommy will look for any reason to go here!) But seriously, I figured since T had been eating hamburger meat so well lately, he would enjoy eating an extra hamburger patty from my burger and some fries. (No, we didn’t go to ChickFilA, that is just one of their place mats that I had in my diaper bag.) Turned out he wasn’t interested in the hamburger so mommy got to eat a double, and he just had fries. bday3

Family pic before nap time!

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After naps, we ordered KFC for dinner. Mommy didn’t want to cook today and T wanted chicken nuggets!

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After dinner, we had him open presents and we also talked on the phone with Nena and Pappaw. Big sister helped with the wrapping paper!

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He got a little barn with door that opens, a walking toy, and a toy garbage truck.

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Now for the cake!

I think he is crying because he wants to hurry up and eat it. Or because he has no clothes on. :)

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He did like the cake, but he didn’t devour mommy’s homemade cake as much as he did the bakery cake a few weeks prior.

T is a happy smiley sweet huggy little boy and we love him so! Happy 1 year T!

Random Summer Pics

Okay folks, you have made it through all the posts from the summer! This last one is just random funny pictures that I wanted to include but don’t get a whole post to themselves.

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We checked out our storage unit one day. Found some treasures. Found some things we wondered why we kept. :)

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T started crawling when he was 11 months old. This is the space in front of the townhouse we stayed in.
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E discovered she likes jello while we were home this summer. She also likes Luby’s. Like her momma.

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Cutie pie in leg warmers!

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These two spent lots of quality time in the car together. E likes it better when he is right next to her. Isn’t this sweet of them holding hands?

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I ate a ton of these this summer! Yum!

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Sweet baby in a swing!

Visiting California

We were so glad to get to go to California for a week to visit family. C’s grandparents live there (the kids only great-grandparents), as well as two aunts and one cousin. IMG_6435

Playing with Cousin Ian.

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At lunch with Granddad.

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And Nanny.

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Group shot!
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Looking at a calendar with Nanny.

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When we visited them last time at their home, E was 16 months old and she liked riding on Nanny’s scooter. This time Granddad had one too but she was a little shy about riding on it. On the last day, she finally did. She was given this costume for her birthday, and she wore it almost the whole week. Of course everyone in their assisted living facility enjoyed seeing the little princess going everywhere.

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There are lots of artists on this side of the family. E enjoyed painting with Granddad.

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Reading with Granddad.

We had a great time visiting family!

Railroad Museum

On one of the days of our beach trip, we headed into town to check out some of the local attractions, including the Railroad Museum.

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It was so hot outside looking at train cars, so these two waited inside and snacked.

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My dad was a railroad engineer for 40+ years. He worked for Union Pacific at the end, so this is like trains he has driven. I’m glad E got to see these with Pappaw.

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Sitting in the caboose.

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Beach Part 2

Most of the time at our beach house trip was spent with my parents and C’s mom.
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Nothin like a little morning snack with your cartoons.

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Everybody playing spades.

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C had a drawing lesson from his mom who is an artist.

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Gigi brought a little mini birthday party for E.

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My lovely momma!

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Here you can see the wall of sea weed!

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The artists

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Doing a little 3D beach painting with sand.

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By this day, the seaweed wasn’t so bad.

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Here is a picture of the house we rented. It was only a block or so away from the water.

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Hats are required!

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Texas is so muggy our cameras kept fogging up when we would go outside.

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On the last day, my dad took E fishing, and she caught something!

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And at 11 am on the way home, this is what happened. So tired from a week at the beach. Mom was just about this tired too!