Grandma and BobBob are here! They are entertaining my children for me!! :) I thought I should take advantage of this opportunity and blog.
I finally got some pictures uploaded to Shutterfly. I have Freddy's birthday through Jim, Julie and Molly's visit done. I took a couple of videos today, I will try and get the rest of my pictures and some videos uploaded too. Here are those videos from today:
Lucy loves to take care of brother. He isn't so thrilled with her. She tends to over love him, with too many hugs and too much face touching. He does like it when she sings to him though.
This video is probably really boring to anyone besides me, Oma, Grandma and Lucy, but here it is anyway. ;)
Grandma brought Lucy a project. (Lucy gets very excited if you tell her you have a project for her to do.) They colored the papers, then Grandma cut it out and together they glued and taped until they had boats. Making the boats entertained Lucy for much longer than playing with the boats did. :)
Monday, March 30, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
The Plague
We had that evil illness that has been going around. :/ Lucy threw up first on Monday afternoon and the last time was late Saturday night. It was AWFUL!!!!!! She was so sick, she even spent Thursday night in the emergency room. She was so dehydrated (she hadn't had a wet diaper for more than 24 hours) that our pediatrician wanted her to get IV fluids. I woke up Thursday morning and was sick all day, so between that and Freddy we decided I should stay home while Dave took her in. Grandpa went too to keep Daddy company. They went in a little after 9pm Thursday night and didn't get home until 7:30am Friday. I hardly slept at all while they were gone so we had a very tired family Friday. Dave took some pictures during the ordeal on his phone, so if we can figure out how to get them onto the computer I will post them. Meanwhile, here are few other pics from the week.
This is from Monday night, the first day of illness. things didn't seem so bad, Lucy still wanted to play even.
This was Tuesday. When she started asking to take a nap I knew she was really sick.
Later on Tuesday. Dave was kind of liking her not feeling well at first. She hardly ever stops to snuggle with him any more and she wanted to be held a lot.
Dave thought I little fresh air would do her good. So here she is in her jammies, bathrobe and moccasins.
This was Sunday, recovery. The awful face she appears to be making is because she is saying "cheese" while I take her picture. And yes, those are pigtails in her hair! :)
Lucy is much better, I am much better, Freddy is fine. Dave never got it lucky for him, but Oma has it now. :( Dave has been the best father/husband ever through this! While I was sick he kept the kids downstairs so I could sleep/be sick in peace. He brought Freddy up only when he needed to be fed and continued to deal with and clean up Lucy while she threw up. On Saturday he rented a carpet cleaner and scoured the whole house, he even took the couches completely apart and soaked the cushion covers and everything. He did the best job taking care of us!
The only other good news from last week is that Dave took Freddy to the doctor's when he took Lucy, and Freddy has gained another pound. As of Thursday afternoon he weighs 10lbs 10oz!!!!! No wonder my arm hurts when I hold him for long.
One last thing, I added a link to the blog my sister-in-law, Gina has started. If I haven't already mentioned it, Gina and Rick are expecting a baby!!! She is due at the end of August or beginning of September (her doctor gave her two different due dates and I am not sure which one is the right one), so Freddy will have a cousin only 6 months younger than him! I am sure they would love to have anyone interested read along about their pregnancy. You know who you are blog stalkers! ;)
This is from Monday night, the first day of illness. things didn't seem so bad, Lucy still wanted to play even.
This was Tuesday. When she started asking to take a nap I knew she was really sick.
Later on Tuesday. Dave was kind of liking her not feeling well at first. She hardly ever stops to snuggle with him any more and she wanted to be held a lot.
Dave thought I little fresh air would do her good. So here she is in her jammies, bathrobe and moccasins.
This was Sunday, recovery. The awful face she appears to be making is because she is saying "cheese" while I take her picture. And yes, those are pigtails in her hair! :)
Lucy is much better, I am much better, Freddy is fine. Dave never got it lucky for him, but Oma has it now. :( Dave has been the best father/husband ever through this! While I was sick he kept the kids downstairs so I could sleep/be sick in peace. He brought Freddy up only when he needed to be fed and continued to deal with and clean up Lucy while she threw up. On Saturday he rented a carpet cleaner and scoured the whole house, he even took the couches completely apart and soaked the cushion covers and everything. He did the best job taking care of us!
The only other good news from last week is that Dave took Freddy to the doctor's when he took Lucy, and Freddy has gained another pound. As of Thursday afternoon he weighs 10lbs 10oz!!!!! No wonder my arm hurts when I hold him for long.
One last thing, I added a link to the blog my sister-in-law, Gina has started. If I haven't already mentioned it, Gina and Rick are expecting a baby!!! She is due at the end of August or beginning of September (her doctor gave her two different due dates and I am not sure which one is the right one), so Freddy will have a cousin only 6 months younger than him! I am sure they would love to have anyone interested read along about their pregnancy. You know who you are blog stalkers! ;)
Monday, March 16, 2009
My First Day
Today was my first full day alone with both kids. I was all set to brag about how well it went when my nice day came to a terrible end.
Lucy is sick. :( She has had a few colds, and the flu once, but I've felt very lucky because she has avoided most stuff that goes around. Until today that is. She has been throwing up since late afternoon. :( Why oh why does her first vomiting sickness have to happen now?!?! I am a bit worried about Freddy getting sick and I am very worried about me getting sick. It's probably too late to matter but I won't let Lucy touch her brother and I am scrubbing my hands as often as possible. Keep your fingers crossed for me!
I did manage to have a fairly nice day up to the vomiting. I got to take a shower this morning, we went to the Diner, we even went outside to play this afternoon. (It was about 60 here today.) I am sure it was just a fluke that it went that well.
We did get some bad news today, a very good friend of the family passed away. Harriet and Ganny had been friends since they were little girls. Harriet lived around the corner from us and Lucy and I loved stopping by to visit with her. She always had a cookie for Lucy. Harriet will be missed by all of us.
Lucy is sick. :( She has had a few colds, and the flu once, but I've felt very lucky because she has avoided most stuff that goes around. Until today that is. She has been throwing up since late afternoon. :( Why oh why does her first vomiting sickness have to happen now?!?! I am a bit worried about Freddy getting sick and I am very worried about me getting sick. It's probably too late to matter but I won't let Lucy touch her brother and I am scrubbing my hands as often as possible. Keep your fingers crossed for me!
I did manage to have a fairly nice day up to the vomiting. I got to take a shower this morning, we went to the Diner, we even went outside to play this afternoon. (It was about 60 here today.) I am sure it was just a fluke that it went that well.
We did get some bad news today, a very good friend of the family passed away. Harriet and Ganny had been friends since they were little girls. Harriet lived around the corner from us and Lucy and I loved stopping by to visit with her. She always had a cookie for Lucy. Harriet will be missed by all of us.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Doctor's Appointment
Today was our first experience with taking 2 kids to the doctor's at once. Lucy went for her 2 year check up, and Freddy went to be weighed. Get this, he weighs 8lbs 11oz!!!!!!!!! He is only an ounce under his birth weight! He gained over a pound in the last week!!! I knew he was doing well with nursing, but that is just crazy! They weighed him on two different scales to be sure. That puts Freddy in the 90th percentile for length and 95th for weight.
Lucy has grown however she is still a bit midgety. She was 24 pounds and 32 inches tall. That makes her between the 5th and 10th percentiles for height and between the 10th and 25th for weight. She may look like her father but she takes after me in the height category. :)
They are both healthy and doing great. Lucy is a bit um, crazy tonight. She had no nap and had to get two shots. :( She needs to go have her blood drawn, Dave decided he didn't want to go through that this afternoon so we need to do it tomorrow or Friday. :(
I apologize for not having any new pictures or videos to post. We are still working out the kinks in our new wireless computer set up and I don't have my camera connected properly yet. Hopefully I will get to fix that soon. It seems to be a lot harder to accomplish things on my to do list now that I have twp kids. ;)
Lucy has grown however she is still a bit midgety. She was 24 pounds and 32 inches tall. That makes her between the 5th and 10th percentiles for height and between the 10th and 25th for weight. She may look like her father but she takes after me in the height category. :)
They are both healthy and doing great. Lucy is a bit um, crazy tonight. She had no nap and had to get two shots. :( She needs to go have her blood drawn, Dave decided he didn't want to go through that this afternoon so we need to do it tomorrow or Friday. :(
I apologize for not having any new pictures or videos to post. We are still working out the kinks in our new wireless computer set up and I don't have my camera connected properly yet. Hopefully I will get to fix that soon. It seems to be a lot harder to accomplish things on my to do list now that I have twp kids. ;)
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Lucy turns 2!
I can't believe Lucy is 2!!!!! We have had a busy day full of presents, balloons and green cake as per her requests. The time change last night didn't do any of us any good, and that added to the very full day and no nap means Lucy is being put to bed right now by her Dad. I think she had a very nice birthday. The rest of us are probably not going to be up too late either. Freddy had his bath, and the presents are picked up enough that we can walk through the living room.
Tomorrow Dave goes back to work. Lucy has really become even more of a Daddy's girl this week so she may have a hard time tomorrow. My parents are here for the week though so she may not even notice that Daddy isn't here. Until tomorrow night that is, Dave and Kim are going on a business trip. They have to go to a meeting in Connecticut with their work computer program guys. They will be gone until Tuesday night, thank goodness my parents are here!
Freddy wants to eat.
Tomorrow Dave goes back to work. Lucy has really become even more of a Daddy's girl this week so she may have a hard time tomorrow. My parents are here for the week though so she may not even notice that Daddy isn't here. Until tomorrow night that is, Dave and Kim are going on a business trip. They have to go to a meeting in Connecticut with their work computer program guys. They will be gone until Tuesday night, thank goodness my parents are here!
Freddy wants to eat.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Videos
Here are a couple videos of my beautiful children. These were taken on Saturday, the day after Freddy was born. It was Lucy's second time seeing him.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
He's here!
I finally have the chance to get on the blog, sorry it took so long.
Here I am as we are about to head to the hospital on Friday morning. I can't believe how huge I was!!!! No wonder my back (and everything else) hurt so much.
We arrived at the hospital at 7:30am. They took me straight to a delivery room, had me change and then we waited. And waited and waited. At about 9:30 they finally got me hooked up to the IV and started the Pitocin. I soon started to have some very very mild cramps. Every 45 minutes the nurse came and turned the Pitocin up a little. This went on for a few hours, while I did everything I could to stay distracted and to try to get things going. We walked up and down the halls, read the newspaper, and tried to think up things to talk about.
After a few hours the midwife came in to say that if things don't progress it's okay, we could shut off the medicine and send me home. We could try again Monday. :( We decided to give a while longer and see what happened.
Because I was being induced I had to be hooked up to the monitors the whole time, fortunately they had wireless ones so I could walk around. Not long after we talked about sending me home, the monitors showed a drop in the baby's heart rate. I had to get into bed and lay on my side while they messed with the monitors. His heart rate went back and they figured out that for part of that time the monitors picked up my heart instead of his, but his had dropped a little so they shut the Pitocin off. I had started having slightly stronger contractions before/during this time and even when they shut the Pitocin off the contractions kept going which meant my body had started doing it on its own. Yeah, but getting painful! At this time the midwife checked me and I had dilated to 4cm (I was at 2 when I went in) so we now knew I was having a baby that day and not going home!
So the contractions kept getting stronger and stronger. I was determined to stay upright as long as possible to let gravity do its thing and help me out. I did my best but pretty suddenly the contractions got very INTENSE, and I decided I wanted an epidural. I sent Dave out to tell the nurse and the midwife. The midwife came in and said she needed to check me before I could get the epidural but she asked if I wanted something to take the edge off while I was waiting for the anesthesiologist. I said "yes!" :) So the nurse gave me a little bit of Nubain while the midwife checked me. That is when it got really exciting. She said (to paraphrase because I don't remember exactly, I was distracted) "um, no epidural, the baby is right there, it is time to push." I also remember hearing her tell the nurses to get a doctor and the pediatrician (when Lucy was born her shoulders got stuck and they had to use the vacuum to get her out so the midwife wanted people there in case that happened again), and to give her the thing to break my water. Then they were telling me to push and he was here!!!!!
Frederick James arrived on Friday, February 27th at 3:16pm. He weighed in at 8lbs 12oz, and was 21 inches long.
I went from almost being sent home to having a baby within about 5 hours. At some point shortly before things picked up steam, I had been checked and they said I was at 6cm. I kind of lost track of time by this point but Dave said that less than an hour after they said I was at 6, the baby was born. A very different experience than the one I had with Lucy!!
Time to leave the labor room and go to our family room. I was feeling pretty good, hurting but feeling good.
Baby Brother was born early enough that my parents, Dave's parents and most importantly Lucy got to come in that evening to see him.
Lucy absolutely loves him!!!! She is fascinated with him. She wants to hold him, see him, and touch him all the time. Even now after 5 days
she still likes him.
She is incredibly cute with him. I have videos but they will have to wait. I am up way past my new bedtime to get this done. Whenever the baby isn't eating I have tried to give my attention to Lucy. Fortunately, at least so far, Freddy is a really good sleeper. He has been falling asleep around 7-7:30pm and then being mostly out for the rest of the night. He wakes up enough to eat every few hours but he doesn't get wide awake or start screaming like Lucy did. Two nights ago I realized i was sleeping better now than I had in the last month.
Freddy is such a different baby than Lucy was! He is a very good eater, within an hour of being born he was rooting and latched right on, first try. He is very laid back, he only cries if I don't feed him quick enough or if you take too long changing him. He has a few very alert times during the day and then he sleeps well during the night. I am holding my breath, crossing my fingers and knocking on wood while I write this. I am waiting for it all to change. :)
Before I go to bed I just want to write about his name. He is named after his uncles (who are named after their grandfathers). Frederick is my brother's, my uncle's, my grandfather's and my great-grandfather's names (on my Dad's side). James is Dave's brother's, father's and grandfather's name (and he there are about twenty other James on that side too). As to what we are calling him, I am calling him Freddy, Lucy however has been correcting people and telling them that his name is Frederick. So call him either, we are still calling him Baby Brother, Brother or just The Baby.
It is way past my bedtime. I will write more and post videos when I can.
Here I am as we are about to head to the hospital on Friday morning. I can't believe how huge I was!!!! No wonder my back (and everything else) hurt so much.
We arrived at the hospital at 7:30am. They took me straight to a delivery room, had me change and then we waited. And waited and waited. At about 9:30 they finally got me hooked up to the IV and started the Pitocin. I soon started to have some very very mild cramps. Every 45 minutes the nurse came and turned the Pitocin up a little. This went on for a few hours, while I did everything I could to stay distracted and to try to get things going. We walked up and down the halls, read the newspaper, and tried to think up things to talk about.
After a few hours the midwife came in to say that if things don't progress it's okay, we could shut off the medicine and send me home. We could try again Monday. :( We decided to give a while longer and see what happened.
Because I was being induced I had to be hooked up to the monitors the whole time, fortunately they had wireless ones so I could walk around. Not long after we talked about sending me home, the monitors showed a drop in the baby's heart rate. I had to get into bed and lay on my side while they messed with the monitors. His heart rate went back and they figured out that for part of that time the monitors picked up my heart instead of his, but his had dropped a little so they shut the Pitocin off. I had started having slightly stronger contractions before/during this time and even when they shut the Pitocin off the contractions kept going which meant my body had started doing it on its own. Yeah, but getting painful! At this time the midwife checked me and I had dilated to 4cm (I was at 2 when I went in) so we now knew I was having a baby that day and not going home!
So the contractions kept getting stronger and stronger. I was determined to stay upright as long as possible to let gravity do its thing and help me out. I did my best but pretty suddenly the contractions got very INTENSE, and I decided I wanted an epidural. I sent Dave out to tell the nurse and the midwife. The midwife came in and said she needed to check me before I could get the epidural but she asked if I wanted something to take the edge off while I was waiting for the anesthesiologist. I said "yes!" :) So the nurse gave me a little bit of Nubain while the midwife checked me. That is when it got really exciting. She said (to paraphrase because I don't remember exactly, I was distracted) "um, no epidural, the baby is right there, it is time to push." I also remember hearing her tell the nurses to get a doctor and the pediatrician (when Lucy was born her shoulders got stuck and they had to use the vacuum to get her out so the midwife wanted people there in case that happened again), and to give her the thing to break my water. Then they were telling me to push and he was here!!!!!
Frederick James arrived on Friday, February 27th at 3:16pm. He weighed in at 8lbs 12oz, and was 21 inches long.
I went from almost being sent home to having a baby within about 5 hours. At some point shortly before things picked up steam, I had been checked and they said I was at 6cm. I kind of lost track of time by this point but Dave said that less than an hour after they said I was at 6, the baby was born. A very different experience than the one I had with Lucy!!
Time to leave the labor room and go to our family room. I was feeling pretty good, hurting but feeling good.
Baby Brother was born early enough that my parents, Dave's parents and most importantly Lucy got to come in that evening to see him.
Lucy absolutely loves him!!!! She is fascinated with him. She wants to hold him, see him, and touch him all the time. Even now after 5 days
she still likes him.
She is incredibly cute with him. I have videos but they will have to wait. I am up way past my new bedtime to get this done. Whenever the baby isn't eating I have tried to give my attention to Lucy. Fortunately, at least so far, Freddy is a really good sleeper. He has been falling asleep around 7-7:30pm and then being mostly out for the rest of the night. He wakes up enough to eat every few hours but he doesn't get wide awake or start screaming like Lucy did. Two nights ago I realized i was sleeping better now than I had in the last month.
Freddy is such a different baby than Lucy was! He is a very good eater, within an hour of being born he was rooting and latched right on, first try. He is very laid back, he only cries if I don't feed him quick enough or if you take too long changing him. He has a few very alert times during the day and then he sleeps well during the night. I am holding my breath, crossing my fingers and knocking on wood while I write this. I am waiting for it all to change. :)
Before I go to bed I just want to write about his name. He is named after his uncles (who are named after their grandfathers). Frederick is my brother's, my uncle's, my grandfather's and my great-grandfather's names (on my Dad's side). James is Dave's brother's, father's and grandfather's name (and he there are about twenty other James on that side too). As to what we are calling him, I am calling him Freddy, Lucy however has been correcting people and telling them that his name is Frederick. So call him either, we are still calling him Baby Brother, Brother or just The Baby.
It is way past my bedtime. I will write more and post videos when I can.
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