Bubba Baby

Elaina LOVES Emmett.  She is always trying to kiss or hug him.  She tells us that he is cute (or tute as she says it).  She was so happy when Trey laid him in bed with her the other night.

She also had to pull her little rocking chair up next to Josiah that he said he would give to his baby brother.  Notice that she is sharing her blanket with him.  She is very protective of her blank blank. 

Josiah also loves his brother, but he doesn't hug and kiss on him.  He likes to hold him for about 2 minutes 30 seconds before he is ready to get up and do something else.  Of course I don't have a current picture of him holding him because I have to help him. 

Fun Day

Monday night I decided that I have been letting the kids watch to much TV.  I have had it on for "back ground noise" for me but the kids have gotten in the habit of watching it way to much.  They will zone out watching cartoons and I decided that we were going to start turning the TV off after breakfast. 

So on Tuesday I put my plan into action. They played games for a little while and then we went outside shortly after breakfast and the kids had a blast playing.  They played on the swings, rode Josiah's jeep until the battery died, and just ran around playing. 

After playing in the backyard for a while I thought about going for a walk, but Emmett wanted to eat.  So we just went to the front yard and Josiah rode his bike and Elaina tried to ride a little battery operated 4 wheeler that no longer works.  She got really upset when the recycle truck came by and Josiah was on the sidewalk across the street.  I ran pulling her 4 wheeler up the drive way screaming bubba.  I had to reassure her that he was ok as long as he stayed on the sidewalk. 

The kids also played with chalk.  Josiah drew them a hopscotch board and they played with it for a while.  He also drew and A on the driveway and told me to look at it then he drew a bunch more and the an O and U. I didn't get any pictures of playing in the front yard. 

After playing in the front, we went inside so I could fix lunch.  The kids wanted to go back outside so they went on the backyard.  When  I peeked outside to check on them this is what I found. 

Josiah was trying to climb up the outside of the playset.  I also realized that Elaina can climb up the rock wall now.  She had a blast going up in and the down the slide. 

When the the recycle truck came by it spilled a bunch of Styrofoam peanuts.  Of course it was super windy so they blew everywhere including all in our yard.  I told the kids that we would paint after naps if they picked them up.  So Josiah went inside and got a cup to put them in and they both ran after the peanuts picking them up.

After they brought them to me I thought that they would have fun painting with them, so I told them we would do that after they got up from their nap.  I was right they had a blast.

It was really cool to see the different designs and textures that they got for them peanuts.  I love watching them get excited when they discover new things.

The turn off the TV plan was a success.  The kids didn't even act like they missed it.  Of course they got to watch it at breakfast, lunch, and right after nap, but it was just a little while at a time and we turned it off the rest of the time.  I must say it was really peaceful not having it on all day.

My sleepy family

Sunday morning all the kids wanted in our bed when they woke up.  If Emmett wakes close to the time that Trey is going to get up I put him in our bed for some Daddy snuggle time.  Josiah usually wants to lay in our bed for a while after he wakes up; sometimes he wants to watch cartoons and other times he just lays and snoozes a little in our bed.  Elaina, on the other had, never wants to go to our bed when she wakes up; she always says no living room.  But this time for some reason she wanted to go lay in our bed.  I think it might have been because her bubba baby was in there. 

Of course Josiah didn't cooperate when I tried to take a picture.

Then after they got up he wanted me to take his picture, and I thought he was going to cry if I didn't.

Elaina said "follow me" and ran to open the pantry to show me what she wanted for breakfast.  She looks happy in this picture, but she was actually yelling no at me because she didn't want me to take her picture. 

Play Time

The kids love playing outside.  We got Elaina a bubble machine with her birthday money.  Both kids love playing with it.  These pictures were taking last week when Emmett was asleep so he missed out on the fun. 

Elaina popping bubbles

Josiah choose a different method to pop bubbles

Elaina's new favorite toy.  So far she is following the rule that no getting in swing if Emmett is in it.

Dressed up in his Power Ranger Costume

Which meant Elaina had to wear her Minnie Mouse costume.

Coming home!!

Here are some pictures that we took as we were getting Emmett ready to bring him home. 

He was not real sure about the whole getting dressed thing.  And he really didn't like the car seat.  (Thankfully that has changed)

Daddy getting ready to carry him out to the truck.  He had a bright sunny day to come home.  Josiah came home in the pouring rain and Elaina a dreary overcast day. 

Trying out his bed for the first time.  Unfortunately he doesn't have his blanket because it tore up the first time we washed it and is being remade.  But he likes to be swaddled so he wouldn't be using his blanket right now any way.  Neither of the other two liked to be swaddled so he is the first one we get to swaddle. 

I am so thankful for this little addition to our family.

Meet Emmett

Emmett made his way into the world Monday, May 13th.  He birth was much different than my other 2.  You can read about those here and here. 

I went to my check up Monday morning hoping that we would have a baby that day.  Trey and I were so nervous, well anxious might be a better word.  I had dropped the kids off at a friends and they were happy to play with their friends while mommy went to the dr.

My appointment was at 9:45 so I made sure that I picked up breakfast after I dropped the kids off and went back to the house to meet Trey. He had practice that morning at 6 so he was coming home to take me to the dr as soon as they got off the field.  We ate our breakfast and gathered my bag and off we went to the dr.  We were laughing that we were more anxious with #3 than we had been with the 1st two.  My previous appoinment (a week before) the dr had basicly told me it could be any day.  I was 90% and 4cm; so that is partially the reason for us being anxious.

Well, the doctor seemed a little shocked that I was back for this appointment.  He listened to the heartbeat and measured my belly and made a comment that if I was 39 weeks he would send me down to have the baby now.  Our hearts sank, 2 more weeks of this it could be any minute or 2 more weeks was not what we wanted to hear.  After he checked me he said that I was 90% and 4.5 cm.  The the what to do discussion began.  He tried to call the dr on call for delivery and talk to him, but he didn't answer his phone.  He said that the baby would be born today or tomorrow; you could tell that he knew it was time based on his experience as a dr, but I wasn't presenting by the book like the hospital likes.  He decided to send me down to the hospital er to hook me up to a monitor and see what the contractions were doing.  That also would give him time to talk to the on call dr.

So we went down to the er to get get hooked up to the monitor.  The contractions were pretty regular, but were not really painful.  The only thing that was painful was laying in the bed for an hour being still, bc when I moved the monitor would lose the heartbeat.   The plan was after an hour they would come recheck me and we would go from there.

Well after the hour there was really no progression, but the dr said that we could go home and try to do the things to induce labor, go for a walk etc.; or we could go ahead and be admitted and they would break my water, but if I didn't progress that they may have to use pitocin.  We decided that with my history of fast deliveries  it would be better to stay.  So the dr admitted us and baby was on the way.

I guess it was around noon when we got admitted and settled into the room.  Then we had more waiting and questions to answer.  It was really neat to find out that my nurse had went to SAU and worked at the hospital in Magnolia for a while.  After we got into the room and knew that we were going to have a baby today, Trey and I both relaxed. 

We laughed and posted on Facebook, around 2:00, that it was alot different this time waiting on baby than it was waiting on the dr the previous to times.  Everything was a lot calmer and there was no pain.  Throughout the whole process I really didn't have any pain.  I was uncomfortable from staying in one position for so long, but nothing was ever painful.  The contractions were getting a lot closer and a little stronger as time went by, but were not painful.  

Around 3:15 or so, I got an epidural.  Trey was impressed with the size of the needle they used for the epidural.  I did get a little sick from it as my blood pressure and heart rate dropped.  By the time I realized I felt sick to my stomach and called the nurse try said that I looked really pale.  By the time the nurses got in there I was feeling a little better but babies heart rate had dropped.  They gave me oxygen and rolled me on my side and everything returned to normal and we had no more issues. 

They came back in around 3:30 and checked me again and I was at 7cm and decided to go ahead and break my water.  The dr came in around 3:45 and broke my water.  I think at this point I was laughing at how my feet would flop around if I tried to move them.  So this should tell you by this point I was not only still not in pain, but feeling relaxed.  I was excited to find out if we were having a baby boy or girl and knew it wasn't long till he or she would be here.

They checked me again at 4:00 and I was at 9cm and they decided that it was time to get ready.  The doctors (there was a resident working with the dr) and nurses all got ready and told me it was time to push.  They asked if I could feel any pressure or anything when I had a contraction, which I didn't, so they said they would tell me when to push.  

The nurse said that she wanted me to get three good pushes per contraction.  So I would push when they told me to.  Trey said that looking at the monitor that they weren't really waiting on contractions that they just had me pushing the baby out.  I know it was really tired towards the end bc they were not giving me time to catch my breath much less rest between pushes. 

 

At 4:32 our baby was born and Trey quickly told me that it was a boy.  The nurse was laughing that he beat the doctor at saying its a boy.  Emmett James weighed 8 lbs. 7oz and was 21 inches long.

We were blessed with a healthy beautiful little boy.  I am so thankful that God has given us 3 wonderful, healthy, beautiful children.  Josiah and Elaina were both so excited to have a new baby brother.  Josiah was happy that it was a brother and Elaina is always kissing her bubba baby (as she calls him).