Welcome Baby William!

Yes, the time finally came! Actually, William came right on his due date! That was a nice surprise. My water broke at about 1:30 am and he was born at 1:18pm weighing 10 lbs 12 oz and 20 1/2 inches long. Maybe I will post the whole story later...I thought I would just get pictures up right now, but if you are dying to hear the whole birth story right this minute call me! I will tell you! To keep it short, I labored for 12 hours, including 2 hours of pushing, then after no progress and a very stuck head I got a c-section. All of my questions about what my body can do were answered in the experience and I feel at total peace with how things turned out, even though I really wanted a regular birth. I am grateful that everything worked out the way it did and I feel very blessed. Most importantly we feel an overwhelming love and gratitude for this beautiful baby. We love him so much. So here are some highlights from the last week.  

This is a day or two before he was born. Man, was I tired. And yes, that is a basketball under Kyle's shirt....its still too small!

Here are my two labor supporters (Kyle and my Mom). I wouldn't have been able to get so far without them. 

Proud big brother. James really loves little William and is anxious to hold him and to take care of him
and to share with him! 

First family picture with our new little one.

I think I have this exact picture of James...I think they look so much alike!

First outing to doctors appointment at 4 days old.

We are so glad to have him finally here. So far he is a very sweet and mild baby. He sleeps really well at night, so much that I think I am resting better than I was the last month of pregnancy! He is mellow and happy and sleepy. He's growing and eating a lot! I am recovering really well and I'm so grateful to have my mom and Dan here to help take care of the house and the meals and James (and to keep us entertained:)) It has made this recovery so much better. What a blessing! 

Latest Update

I had to put this one in.  James is eating a cracker with just mustard on it! He could-and does-eat mustard plain. Yuck is all I have to say. He got that from his daddy. Also, we are working on his smile for cameras! He is finally getting it! This was his face when I asked him to smile :)

This is my shadow. The bottom bump is James at my legs. Just thought that was a funny image.

Kyle has started his own window washing business in our area for the summer. He has been quite successful so far and we feel very blessed in that way. So, as far as an update with jobs go, Kyle has applied to about a billion jobs and we are still waiting to hear from most of them! We are hopeful, but a little unsure as to what the next few months could bring! We could be anywhere...he's applied to places in CA, AZ, CT, NY, NC, VA, NJ umm....and bunch more I think. So, most of the time we choose to look at this waiting time as an adventure! How fun! Anyway, in the mean time Hopefully window washing will continue to take care of us until we know what's next!

So, BIG news is Kyle graduated this last week! It was actually on our 5th anniversary too, so that made for a busy and memorable day!

Here is Kyle in the very back row. He's the one about a head taller then everyone else. :) Their major was the very last of all to be called up, so it made for a lot of waiting, but it was great to see him accomplish such a wonderful thing. Thank you to all of you who have supported our family in millions of ways so that he could do this and I could be home with James. We have been very blessed along the way. 

Here is the happy graduate! Yay Kyle! To see a 1 minute video of Kyle's graduation click here!

Here is me today...I'm almost 35 weeks. The pregnancy update is that I have a healthy baby, but I am measuring big! So they wanted to do an ultrasound to measure the baby and get a better idea. As we expected, this little boy is measuring at about 38 weeks right now. So he is about 7.5 lbs! It is hard to tell for sure, but they project him to be between 10 and 11 lbs by the due date. I guess we will all just have to wait and see! We are getting so excited to welcome this little boy into our little family.

Easter

 For Easter we went to our friend's house and had a wonderful time. This is the same friend that is letting us borrow their nice camera for a few months!!! I am so excited to learn how to play with it. Here are a few pictures that I've taken...so much better than the point-and-shoot. We will enjoy this while it lasts!!

Easter outfit

For the little Easter egg hunt he found about 5 eggs, then decided he
didn't want any more, he was content with what was inside them!

Playing at the park...and I was playing with the camera. :)

James says he is Buzz Lightyear when he swings like this and he says, "To infinity and beyond!"

Pregnant picture

So I am doing a special blog post because at least once a day I go through this conversation:

Random stranger: "Wow, when are you due?"
Me: "Mid June, I still have three months left."
Stranger: "Is is twins?"
Me: "Nope, I'm just big. I have big babies."

Then I leave the conversation feeling like I am an abnormal giant carrying a giant baby. So for all of you who think I am big now...let's compare!

Me today at 29 weeks along...no I didn't shower or fix my hair...just look at the belly.

One day past due with James.

So, compared to myself I am right on track:)

Just sayin'.

Feb 2011

Here is James feeding Woody. He is getting into a new pretend stage that is so fun. He loves to take care of all his toys by giving them naps and changing their diapers and they all talk to each other, of course. He has also had conversations between spoons, m&m's, fruit snacks, and all the regular toys too. The conversations usually go like this, "Hi, I'm blue spoon." "Hi" "Take a nap! Night night." "Shhhh he's sleeping." "Wake up!" And he does this over and over. 

This was a video of James singing happy birthday for Kyle's birthday last week. He did a lot of practicing, then we heard it about a billion times that day.

This one is in here to document Kyle's beard he's had for a month or so....I finally talked him into it! And I think it is staying until summer. 

Here's the News!!

Well, here's the news!! Its a boy!!! Due June 17th. We are so excited and James seems excited for a baby brother too! We feel so blessed. Who knows what makes one pregnancy stay and others fail, but we are glad that this little boy is strong and healthy. 

Starting again...

So, it has been a long time since I've blogged...mostly because I used to always post videos, but now I can't get them to post so I have less motivation to post pictures. Don't know why. Anyway, I decided to not try to play catch up from the last few months, or I will never post again. So we are just starting from what I got off my camera today! 

At Christmas we flew to Denver to be with my family, which was really fun. James thought it was so fun to ride in the plane! This is the only picture we have of the trip because my wonderful sister Megan became the photographer with their new camera for the whole trip...maybe I will post some of those later. Maybe not :)

This is a funny trio of toys that James has decided must be together and must be played with at all times. Buzz light year, Bob the builder, and James the Pirate (James named the pirate). These three have spent many hours together riding in the boat and falling off and getting hurt, then kissing the hurt spot to make them better. They also collect items that are found on the living room floor!

This was just a classic picture...I had to put it in.

So you can pretty much get James to do anything if there is ice cream at the end! He asks for it for every meal and amazingly can be full of everything else, but have plenty of room for ice cream! There is no better way to make his day then to give him ice cream.....hmmm this reminds me of someone. :)

So that is all for now. At least it is something! I'm making progress.