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2010-12-13T17:19:00.001-05:00

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"Emergency" C-section video

2010-08-28T23:13:00.006-04:00

I couldn't help but laugh!! http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7000271/

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Have it your way!

2010-08-15T22:18:00.000-04:00

Burger King and Birth: Have it Your Way!
by Laura Lund, HCHI
www.BirthNaturally.org
Copyright 2007. All rights reserved.

Let’s say you’ve decided to go out to eat. As you’re driving around you see a few different options and you choose to go to Burger King. You wait in line and when it’s your turn you say:

1.“I’ll have whatever she had” (pointing to the woman who just ordered);
2.“I’d like a number 3 meal”;
3.Or maybe you want to customize it a bit and you say “I’d like a number 3 with no mayonnaise, no pickles, heavy tomato, and cheese.” No problem, right? They should be able to handle those variations (although you’ll probably have to repeat your instructions at least once).

What would happen if instead of ordering something on the menu you said, “Hi, I’d like a fillet mignon steak, cooked medium-well, a baked potato, steamed asparagus with hollandaise sauce, and garlic bread. I’d like that served on fine china and I’d like to sit at a private table for two with candlelight and a white linen tablecloth.” Would the Burger King employee say, “No problem, ma’am, we like you to ‘have it your way1’?” Unlikely, since that isn’t the type of service or food that Burger King normally provides. They don’t even stock that kind of food and probably don’t have the equipment or knowledge how to prepare it, either.

The Burger King employee would more likely say, “I’m sorry, ma’am, we don’t have those things here.” Or maybe he’d say, “Um, I’m sorry, ma’am, but this is Burger King. We only serve fast food, not gourmet food. If you want gourmet food you should go to the sit-down gourmet restaurant across the street. Otherwise, please order something on the menu.”

Now, at this point, you could decide to go with one of the first three options and stay at Burger King. Or, if you decide that you really want that gourmet meal, you’ll find a restaurant that caters to delivering that type of meal as a normal matter of course.

The reality of hospital births is that hospitals are not generally set up to cater to the individual desires of each woman that comes in to give birth there. Certain requests can usually be accommodated without a lot of fuss or bother, like requesting Burger King to hold the pickles and the lettuce. If a woman comes in wanting to wear her own clothes or listen to CDs or turn off the lights, no one usually cares about that.

Other requests come closer to requesting fine dining in a fast food joint. If a woman comes in declining a routine IV, choosing to eat and drink as she desires, opting for monitoring 10-15 minutes per hour instead of all the time, declining pain medication, avoiding pitocin or other interventions to “speed things up”, getting into the tub or shower even after her water has broken, and pushing in an alternative position such as a squat, some doctors, nurses, or midwives are going to have a difficult time feeling comfortable with those requests. A few of those choices are against typical hospital policy and the rest of them are likely to be very different from the types of births most hospital care providers and nurses usually attend. They may not be prepared to support that type of birth and they may not feel comfortable with those sorts of requests.

Now, it’s not really your problem if your requests make anybody else uncomfortable. The birthing mom is the boss, period. However, as you make choices regarding your baby’s birth, including what you would ideally like to have be a part of that birth experience, you need to make sure that you are wisely choosing a care provider and birth location that are conducive to the type of birth you’d like to have. Hospital birthing moms may find that they need to exert more effort in communicating their ideal birth preferences and they may find that they need to make concessions regarding certain aspects of those birth preferences. A hospital birthing mom may find a compromise that is still ok or good enough for her while also allowing her doctor or nurses to feel more comfortable. For example, a woman who may not have wanted any vaginal exams may find that she’ll agree to having one upon admission and one prior to pushing since her doctor feels very uncomfortable about not doing any. If she feels ok about that compromise after considering the benefits and/or risks of that course of action, that’s fine. It’s her birth experience.

Moms who choose to give birth outside of a hospital typically find that they have many more automatic birthing options—like having a caterer or personal chef come to your house and deliver a meal that is customized for your tastes and desires. A woman who desires to give birth without any routine interventions (no IV, no continuous monitoring, no vaginal exams, no episiotomy, etc.) and wants the freedom to do pretty much whatever she likes during her birthing time without anyone batting an eye (walk, use the tub during labor and/or birth, eat, drink, adopt whatever positions suit her, wear her own clothes or even no clothes, etc.) would do well to consider birthing outside of a hospital, where that type of birth is pretty much the norm. A woman who wants the postpartum period to be more relaxed and low-key (no routine procedures for the baby, no separation from the baby, etc.) may also prefer out-of-hospital birth. Planned home and birth center births have been proven to be at least as safe as hospital births for most women and babies.2 There is a very large body of research available documenting the safety of out of hospital births.3, 4

The bottom line is that you can, for the most part, have it your way. You need to decide for yourself what “your way” is, exactly, and where and with whom you’re most likely to be supported to give birth in the manner that best suits you. Are you more likely to have your ideal birth in a high tech hospital with a surgeon (OB/GYN) attending? Are you more likely to have your ideal birth in a smaller community hospital with a family practice doctor or CNM attending? Are you more likely to have your ideal birth at an alternative birth center or at home with a midwife attending? These choices are aspects of your baby’s birth that you directly control that have an enormous impact on what kind of birth experience you ultimately have. It’s really very important that you carefully research and consider all of your options and choose the option that you feel most comfortable with, whatever that may be.

If a woman decides that an OB/hospital birth is her best option does it follow that she should just choose any old random OB that happens to be on her insurance list? Are all OBs the same?

I’ve attended births with OBs that respect a woman’s wishes and strive to meet those wishes even if they don’t personally agree with all of her choices. These OBs offer their opinion and the facts and then leave it to the woman to decide.

I’ve attended births with OBs who use fear, misinformation, and anecdotes to manipulate a woman into complying with his wishes and desires. After all, he’s the expert. He’s the one that went to medical school. This type of OB typically feels strongly that the only birth plan a woman should have is “Go to hospital. Have baby.” He believes birth is dangerous and needs to be carefully monitored and manipulated in order to be “safe”. I’ve heard this type of OB say to a mom whose progress has stalled for a few hours that she’d better start dilating again or else she’d have to have a c-section. After waiting an hour I heard this OB say “this is just Mother Nature’s way of telling us that it ain’t gonna happen this way.” He then proceeded to inform the mom (who was in tears) that c-sections are actually better and safer than vaginal birth anyway (not true!)5, 6, so she shouldn’t be upset.

Which type of OB more rightly deserves the trust of his patients? Which OB would you rather have? How can you tell which type you have right now?

Well, for starters you can ask lots of questions. Find out what s/he thinks about natural birth (birth without interventions or medication). How many of his/her patients give birth without IVs? How many need, in that OBs opinion, to be induced? How many need, in that OBs opinion, c-sections or episiotomies? How many give birth in “traditional” positions such as semi-sitting vs. “alternative” positions like squatting? How does s/he feel about a birth in an alternative position? How does s/he feel about intermittent vs. continuous monitoring?

As you have this discussion with your care provider, watch his/her body language and be careful with your own wording. You want to ask the questions in such a way that you aren’t leading his/her response (you want your care provider to be honest rather than just tell you what you want to hear, which doesn’t help you). You want to ask open-ended questions “how do you feel” instead of yes/no questions. Of course you will want to avoid asking questions like “How often do you cut episiotomies?” Because s/he’s likely to respond with “only when they are necessary” which, again, tells you nothing. Instead you might ask “About what percentage of first-time moms do you think end up needing episiotomies?” (or c-sections or continuous monitoring or IVs, etc.).

Henci Goer has some excellent ideas for questions to ask and how to interpret a care provider’s responses in her book The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth.

If a doctor says that 80% of first-time moms need episiotomies and you are a first-time mom, what are your chances of “needing” (and receiving!) an episiotomy if you choose to use this doctor? Are you comfortable with those odds? Can you trust that doctor’s judgment on whether or not that episiotomy is truly necessary? Do you want to be in a position where you have to wonder whether or not an offered intervention is needed? Choose your care provider carefully! Obviously there are questions that can and should be asked if an intervention is offered, but it is much easier to avoid unnecessary and unwanted interventions if you do some legwork before the birth and choose a care provider that doesn’t routinely offer or perform them!

Every woman is individual in what would make a good birth experience just as every person has their own individual tastes and preferences for what they want to eat for dinner. There’s no one right kind of birth just as there’s no one dish that will satisfy everyone’s unique appetites. The bottom line is that you, the consumer, need to make sure your birth choices (all of which impact your ultimate experience) are likely to result in the birth you desire. You can’t go to Burger King to get a gourmet meal, but maybe what you wanted was a hamburger, anyway. Just make sure that what you order is satisfying.

Laura Lund is a Hypnobabies childbirth educator, founder of UCAN Birth support group, and doula in Provo, UT where she lives with her husband and four children.

Copyright 2007 by Laura Lund. All rights reserved. Laura gives permission to print and distribute this article freely.

Notes

1.Have it Your Way” is copyrighted by Burger King Corporation.

2.Johnson KC, Daviss BA. Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives: large prospective study in North America. BMJ. 2005 Jun 18;330(7505):1416. PMID: 15961814 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

CONCLUSIONS: Planned home birth for low risk women in North America using certified professional midwives was associated with lower rates of medical intervention but similar intrapartum and neonatal mortality to that of low risk hospital births in the United States.

3.Anderson RE, Murphy PA. Outcomes of 11,788 planned home births attended by certified nurse-midwives. A retrospective descriptive study. J Nurse Midwifery. 1995 Nov-Dec;40(6):483-92. PMID: 8568573 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
This study supports previous research indicating that planned home birth with qualified care providers can be a safe alternative for healthy lower risk women.

4.Olsen, O. Meta-analysis of the safety of home birth. Birth. 1997 Mar;24(1):4-13; discussion 14-6. PMID: 9271961 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

CONCLUSION: Home birth is an acceptable alternative to hospital confinement for selected pregnant women, and leads to reduced medical interventions.

5.Kolas T, Saugstad OD, Daltveit AK, Nilsen ST, Oian P. Planned cesarean versus planned vaginal delivery at term: comparison of newborn infant outcomes. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2006 Dec;195(6):1538-43. Epub 2006 Jul 17. PMID: 16846577 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

CONCLUSION: A planned cesarean delivery doubled both the rate of transfer to the neonatal intensive care unit and the risk for pulmonary disorders, compared with a planned vaginal delivery.

6.Wax JR. Maternal request cesarean versus planned spontaneous vaginal delivery: maternal morbidity and short term outcomes. Semin Perinatol. 2006 Oct;30(5):247-52. Review. PMID: 17011394 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

INTERPRETATION: Although the absolute difference is small, the risks of severe maternal morbidity associated with planned cesarean delivery are higher than those associated with planned vaginal delivery. These risks should be considered by women contemplating an elective cesarean delivery and by their physicians.

If you don't know your options, you don't have any. ~Korte & Scaer

Mothers need to know that their care and their choices won't be compromised by birth politics. ~Jennifer Rosenberg

2010-08-15T22:13:00.002-04:00

Just some articles I found on safest ways to deliver your baby.

http://www.consumerreports.org/health/conditions-and-treatments/pregnancy-childbirth/maternity-care/maternity-care-quiz/maternity-care-quiz.htm

Everything you need to know about birth plans:

How to research hospital procedures:

Start with a tour of L&D very early in your pregnancy. Take your copy of what you printed out and ask lots of questions about what procedures they routinely do. Make notes and write down any unanswered questions for later research and to ask your doctor. Ask friends that you know have delivered there what their experience was like, even if they have a different outlook on birth then you have. Ask if there are any nurses that especially like attending a natural, med-free birth, and write their names down.

Next, read The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birthby Henci Goer. You should consider this mandatory reading when planning a hospital birth. This book goes through many different hospital procedures and policies. It is an excellent reference book and has an index in the back. Another suggestion is Born in the USA by Dr. Marsden Wagner. In each of these books, there are loads of other suggestions in the back for further reading. One last must-have resource is ICAN (International Cesarean Awareness Network): http://www.ican-online.org/ There is also a list of resources on this board as well.

Do not only ask questions to your doctor. Allow your doctors answers to be validated by your own research. If they are not, then you can switch providers at any time in your pregnancy. Really, you can.

Keep in mind that even if you feel comfortable with the way your doctor handles labor and birth, there is no guarantee that you will have her when you go into labor. You really are at the whim of the L&D nurses. Usually the doctor is only there to catch the baby. Also, you might be with a doctor that you have never met before simply because they are on call.

Making the actual birth plan:

Use language that makes it clear you are in charge. Be aware that you are paying them for a service, and that you are in charge of your own body, as well as your baby's.

Do not use the phrase "Please allow....." or "We request that..." or other similar phrases that puts you in an inferior position. You should use phrases such as "I will..." or "I do not consent..." That may be hard to do, as we do not want to offend anyone, but actually being short and to the point makes your message clear.

Keep it simple:

Although the site I mentioned has a lot of options, your final draft needs to be only one page, bullet/list format. Go over the final draft with your practitioner and have them sign it. Mine was longer then one page, however, I put all the normal stuff on the front, and the emergency c-section stuff on the back. You should have several copies that go with you to the delivery. Your rough draft is more for informational purposes that you use as a guide to ask questions, find out what you are most concerned about and to see if your doctor and hospital are compatible to you.

I want to help you!

I am willing to answer any questions you may have regarding birth plans. Feel free to ask any questions or even post your birth plan and I will review it. Others are welcome to comment as well. If for some reason you do not get a response, please send me a pm.

One last tip:

A doula is included in the following sample plan for a reason. She is a person that knows the ins and outs of the hospital culture, and can help you and your partner stick to your birth plan, as well as inform you of things that you may not be aware of during labor. She also is trained to help you deal with pain natually and acheive a natural birth. I, as well as many other women, feel that a hosptial birth NEEDS to have a birth plan AND a doula, even if you have a C.N.M.

Cesarean vs VBAC

2010-07-31T23:49:00.004-04:00

Someone posted this on FB and just thought I would share. I think this woman is a very strong woman for standing up for what she believes in even though these intelligent drs tell her otherwise. Just amazes me how in todays world with all this technology, research on everything, people still think VBACs are not safe. I mean the research about it... It's all over the place how VBACs are actually safer than a repeat c-section, I don't understand. Oh and I can vouch for the calmness of the baby after being born naturally in water. Each of my babies were the same way.http://vimeo.com/5648654

More about labor

2010-05-05T22:18:00.003-04:00

A friend found this article, I'm glad to read that I'm not lonely in my thinking but sad to see how common this is. I wonder if more women knew they had choices, if the induction and c-section rates would be lower??? I know how hard it is when it's the end of the pregnancy. You want to hold that little one, you want your body back, you want to be able to sleep without having to wake up several times during the night to pee, be able to bend down, (and for me personally, to be able to stand up without shooting pains in legs and can barely stand up without taking 10 mins to get over the pain) but is this about baby or mom?

http://mommynewsblog.com/when-is-it-ok-to-induce-labor/

We finally did it!!!

2010-05-04T21:36:00.002-04:00

We made it to Disney!!! After 2010 being filled with RSV twice, puking kid for 2 weeks, car accident resulting in ticket and fees up the wazoo, plus no car for close to 2 months, we finally made it to Disney World!!! We had a blast! The boys were terrific, Piper was sooo good! I can't wait to take them back! Of course it won't be for another 4 years or longer but I'm already looking forward to it! Jake and Tyee loved Star Tours, that of course was their favorite part. Luke loved meeting the Little Einstien crew. He refused to go up to any of the characters, he would cry if they came to him, but he RAN up to Leo, Anne, June and Quincy and gave them a big hug! It was so cute!!! Piper enjoyed playing with the dolls, whenever the boys would see something girly they brought it over to her and she just lite up with joy! So we bought her a doll and she refuses to even touch it lol. She also didn't like the characters, she even pushed Leo's hand away. The resort was awesome! I think the room was bigger than our house! It was a wonderful vacation! One we will always have fond memories of!

My Baby is 1

2010-04-19T21:17:00.002-04:00

Piper's birthday was on Friday, the 16th. It was such a sad day. I realized, that's the last first birthday we will be celebrating till grandkids! Her first year has been so much fun! Knowing she is our last I treasured every milestone. At the tiny age of 1 she has no teeth, wouldn't take a bottle till she was 8-9 months (which I am very proud of btw), has never had a bottle of formula (refused that as well!) refused a paci, delayed solids till she was 6 months, has been my smallest baby and yet is 20lb 8oz at 1! She has decided to wait on walking yet started sitting up at 5 months. She loves daddy and crawls around the house babbling dadda, she will say momma but she loves her dadda. She giggles at her brothers when she is sitting in her carseat. She sits behind the passenger side, still rear facing and I'm not so sure I'm going to turn her around anytime soon as she is able to see all her brothers and each one can make faces, talk to her and she will babble back and giggle, it's so cute to listen to her giggle! She loves cars! I was so excited to be able to buy a doll when we found out we were expecting a girl after 3 boys, but all she does is stick her finger in the eye then throw the doll and goes right to the cars! It's cute though to see her push a car around the house. I decided to get her a pink one, but guess what! she still perfers good ole fashion hot wheels! I'm looking forward to watching my little girl walk around in a dress, twirling around, playing dolls but I'm also so sad she is past her "baby" stage. I will cherish the next few weeks that she is still a baby crawling around and crying for mommy and daddy to pick her up! (although soon enough she will be walking around and crying for mommy and daddy to pick her up lol)

Just a few

2010-02-23T13:30:00.002-05:00

Just a few to start it out.
http://www.theunnecesarean.com/blog/2010/2/21/acog-on-fallibility-of-obstetric-judgment-and-mode-of-delive.html

http://www.rememberthemothers.net/

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,830142,00.html

I'm not a Hippy, nor am I a Diva... who am I?

2010-02-23T13:02:00.004-05:00

I know who I am but I think people get me confused with those in the physiatric ward. I'm tired of people telling me I'm crazy for having natural births or a homebirth. I've decided I'm going to start posting info that I find on here for reasons natural births are a passion of mine. I think what annoys me most is that people feel free to tell me how crazy I am and yet I have NEVER EVER made a comment towards anyone about their choice of birthing. To each their own, but it can be hurtful when people tell me their opinions about my choice and outcomes when they weren't even present. For the record, NEVER screamed during any of my 4 births, NEVER tore, NEVER asked for drugs, NEVER had anyone assist in my child entering the world the way they were meant too. How is that crazy???? Everyone of my children have been completely healthy, calm and perfect when they were born. Isn't that what we strive for? So why am I crazy for birthing a perfect child? All of which barely even cried when they were born (because of the calm way in which they entered this cold world). I'm not hear to preach (ok maybe slightly preach my reasons for going natural) or say this is the only way to birth a baby, or that someone is a wimp for using drugs during labor, I'm just tired of being told the way I birth is crazy. Seriously if one more person makes a comment I think I'm gonna punch them in the face!

Ok well I probably wouldn't.... ok I wouldn't at all! But the stereotyping is awful, I'm either a hippy or I'm ruining the world because I don't recycle. I've never been one to fit in and I'm still not one to fit in, whatever. I am who I am so stop judging me. I make choices that work for MY family. Just the way you make choices for your family.

So where did this all come about? It's been brewing for a long time! But just had to recently hear another comment, where I bit my tongue because if I had opened my mouth, I'm sure I would have been the one to come off as a crazy, hippy lunatic. So get used to my new posts about Breastfeeding, natural childbirth and all that holistic stuff. (and no I'm not a hippie, I wear make-up... GASP!)

The kids have been Elfed again this year!

2009-12-13T19:13:00.002-05:00

The kids had a blast elfing themselves again. Downside was when it says JibJab, Luke thinks it was saying Shut up so he would yell SHUT UP at the computer lol!

http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/vB6iaybC1vD5BSLQ

http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/NY7nJEu886uDqdAT

http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/3kyPPbkSXSVloLbC

http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/JC3NpSFlnRzbjyirSEHh

2009-11-17T21:54:00.002-05:00

I'm not very good with keeping this up to date! I'm always on facebook and that seems to be my update lol. Things are going well. We still haven't sold the house and seriously considering an addition. We're keeping the house up till March and in the meantime looking into what we need for the addition. I wanted to avoid this stress but I guess Heavenly Father has other plans for us. We love the area so I guess it will be worth it. I hope it will be anyway!

Jake and Tyee are loving school and they are doing awesome!! Both teachers say they are above average and Tyee's teacher was surprised I thought about holding him back because of his late birthday, she said he is so ready and ahead of the game! I'm so glad we decided to send him to kindergarten! Now if we can just get him to behave on the bus! He's had 3 strikes now and is separated from the boy he was sitting with and getting into trouble with so... so far he's been behaving. The last issue was him and the boy scratching each other's face... FOR FUN! Thing is I can totally see Tyee doing this and thinking, "what did we do wrong? We were just having fun!" Silly boy! He does know now that its behavior that will not be tolerated.

Luke is getting so big! He's been such a fun toddler! He adores Piper to pieces! He can not get enough of her! He gets a boo boo and it's a kiss from Piper is what he wants. It's precious!!

Piper is getting so big too! At her 6 month check up she was 17lb 8oz. Funny thing is she's actually my smallest! lol. I make good milk! She's been such a good baby! I have been so blessed! (I admit I'm gearing up for her toddler years though!)

So that's about it! Busy with school and everyday life!

Has it been that long???

2009-08-09T19:21:00.002-04:00

So we've had a busy summer, doing what? Not sure really just keeping busy doing fun stuff. Going to the park, to the shore, playing outside. It seems everyone is enjoying their summer! Jason had off this week for vacation and the kids really have enjoyed daddy being home. We ended up not doing all the fun things we had planned but we did go to the shore and go to Crystal Cave (still haven't downloaded those pics) Jake and Tyee ran right into the ocean! They love the shore! Luke on the other hand ... it took him till the end of the second trip to actually get in and not cry. His cousin Katelynn brought him in and got him to fall in love with the water! Funny thing is he LOVES the water, but I think the waves were intimidating... Don't blame him!!

So we have decided to send Tyee to kindergarten this year. We do feel he is ready. He has a late birthday but just makes the cut off date and we thought because he was so young starting, that maybe he needed more time to grow, but after much thought we decided he is ready and holding him back would hold him back in learning. He is eager to learn and has been learning quickly! He's nervous but getting excited! I can't believe I will have 2 in full day school! It's going to be quiet around my house this year! Though I am looking forward to some time with just Luke and Piper. We're going to work on getting into a routine. I'm not much of a scheduler so hopefully we get into one once the older boys are in school. Luke will be attending story time at the library, I'm sure he will enjoy that! Jake and Tyee will be doing soccer this fall, Tyee is more excited about it than Jake, but I know it will grow on Jake. When Jake did it in prek, he had an awful coach so I think that really made an impact on him. Hopefully this year he'll get someone that lets the kids be kids and enjoy practice and games. Piper is growing so fast! She still wakes up once a night but nurses right back to sleep. She's a great napper during the day as well. We've thought about getting her into the crib as Luke has decided he's a big boy now and sleeps in the bottom bunk of the boys beds. But it's just so much easier to have Piper in our room! Why mess something up that works great!

As for our house it's still up on the market. We've had lots of people come look at it the last 2 wks or so and everyone has said they like the house, some say too small but we did have 2 that really liked the house enough to consider putting an offer in on the house, but nothing yet. We're still hoping soon, hopefully soon someone will love our house enough to put an offer on it!

So here are some pics from the begining of the summer or middle of the summer.

Yes, he's walking down the slide lol

Silly Tyee

She was not happy, but I love this dress!

Jake put Piper to sleep then Jake and Tyee fell asleep too

Luke loves looking for Piper and always making sure she knows he loves her

Interview with the Monsters

2009-07-08T10:20:00.003-04:00

1. What is something I always say to you?

J: LUKE I mean JAAKKKE

T: Tyee help Piper

2. What makes me happy?

J: whenever I tell you I never lie to you

T: helping you

3 what makes me sad?

J: when I don't listen

T: when I don't do good things

4. How do I make you laugh?

J: when you make funny faces

T: you tickle my belly

5. what do you think I was like as a kid?

J: 8, you liked Zelda

T: a girl, played dollies

6. how old am I?

J: you have to tell us how high we can go... 13

T: 61

7. How tall am I?

J: 13 inches

T: 90 ft

8. What is my favorite thing to do?

J: play with me

T: play with Piper

9. What do i do when your not around?

J: go on the computer and hang out at home

T: hang out on the computer

10. what am I really good at?

J: helping us

T: playing Super Mario Brothers

11. what am I not really good at?

J: cleaning up

T: playing Zelda

12. what is my job?

J: playing on the computer and being a mom

T: clean up and being a mom

13. what is my favorite food?

J: watermelon

T: lukey bear soup

14. what makes me proud of you?

J: cleaning up

T: cleaning up

15. what something you and I play together?

J: the animal game

T: you and me playing "bow chicka wow wow" (he's obviously getting bored lol)

16. How are we the same?

J: we both have the same hair

T: we both have hair

17. How are we different?

J: we don't like the same animals

T: we dont like the same animals

18. If I were a cartoon character, who would I be?

J: the princess from Zelda

T: spiderlady

19. How do you know I love you?

J: cuz you treat me good

T: i dont know because we have hair

20. Where is my favorite place?

J: a type of resturant.. maybe Chatterbox.

T: at Land of Make Believe

Bad Luck?

2009-06-13T21:23:00.004-04:00

I swear, if it weren't for bad luck we wouldn't have any luck at all. At least that's how I've been feeling lately. Still trying to sell the house... still no luck. Found a leak in the ceiling, our water pump is acting funny. Just feeling like everything is falling apart on us. We've lowered our price on our house in hopes to get people in here, and we succeeded in that, but it's always too small for them. I'm not sure what they think when they see the price and pictures with room measurements, what do they expect?? I'm not really sure what more we can do. I guess continue to have faith that it will work out.

Other than that things are going well. Piper is getting so big! She's been smiling up a storm! Schools out this Thursday the 18th and I guess we're in for a wet summer this year. Looks like we'll be spending alot of time at home inside this summer. We're planning a trip in Aug. I think we may go to Mysitic Seaport in CT. Possibly taking the kids whale watching and the aquairium. We may also go to Hershey Park. And for sure going to the shore this year! We haven't made it down there in a couple years and I miss the shore! Hopefully we'll have some dry days to be able to do that.

Just a bunch of pictures!

2009-06-05T22:08:00.004-04:00

Jake just looked like a big boy that day. I couldn't believe I was sending my 6 yr old off to school.... yeah I know it was May hehe

The kids with their Build A Bears. Piper is actually wearing her bunny's outfit haha
She didn't get a coming home outfit since she was already home but this one is my favorite!

Tyee LOVES snuggling up with her!

Jason lost his ring almost the next day!!

I just love this pic!

Luke has decided he is a big boy now and can get his won cups! Hope he takes alot longer to figure out how to pour it! ahhhhh!!

So far I think this is the most baby acne she has gotten and it might have actually been that she grabbed her face and pinched herself to make those marks.

One of our first family pictures! The actual first was right after giving birth and I hate the way I look!

He just ADORES her!! He is always saying me me me! to hold her.

Just some outfits that I had to make sure I got pics of since we most likely wont be using them again :(

Well that's all the pics for today. I wanted to get some up of the birth... not graphic ones just ones that I thought were cool or special but it's late so I'll try that another night!

My home waterbirth

2009-05-03T15:20:00.005-04:00

Well as most know we named our little girl Piper Jo Hanna. She's still absolutely perfect! 16 days after she was born she now weighs 8lb 2oz! So she's definitly growing!

The boys still love having her around! It's been so much fun watching them with her. They love her! She fits right in!

I'm doing very good! I think this has been my best recovery yet... well Tyee's recovery was perfect too, but it was nice to be home the whole time. I've written Piper's birth story so figured I would share it. So here it is.

I was having cramps starting on the Friday before she was born. They lasted all weekend and on Easter Sunday I actually thought I was going to have the baby by the next morning. Contractions were at one point 3 mins apart lasting at least a min long. But then they completely stopped. Still had cramping on Monday, some on Tuesday and Wed I had an appointment with Roxie, mostly just to check me to see if I had dilated and check the position of the baby because I was having alot of anxity about baby getting into position. I was 2 1/2cm, 50%, -2 station and she asked if I wanted her to strip my membranes. After a few days of cramping and on and off contractions I said yes. Boy did that hurt!! I had it done with Luke but it didn't hurt like this did and I told Roxie that too lol. So Thursday April 16th, Jason had to get up early for work because he had to drive to Fairview for some training (of course making me nervous that I would need to call him during that time and here he would be over an hour away) So he left for work and a couple hours later the boys climbed into bed with me. I got up to go to the bathroom and lost my plug. First time ever that I even noticed that I lost my plug! I was having contractions but were very mild, I could talk through them, walk, deal with the kids, yada, yada, yada. So I took all the boys to the dr so Jake could get his allergy shots. While there the pedi was asking if I was still having ahomebirth and that the hospital was a good place as well and asked if Roxie was going to be there and asked my due date. He's all for natural births, loves the idea of waterbirths and loves Roxie, but because homebirths are not very popular and he's had to rush in several times for emergencies of course he was skeptical and worried about homebirths. So after the dr's we went to my sisters, the kids played outside, we had lunch, and I was still having contractions so I decided to go home as my mil was coming up for dinner that evening with her sister and sister's husband (visiting from Tenn.). Got home cleaned the house (sorta), cleaned the bathroom, and still having contractions. They arrived and I told them right away I was having some mild contractions and apoligized for all the toys on the floor, I was not about to bend over and pick them up lol. Jason finally got home and I told him I thought we would be sending them home shortly after dinner and that's what happened. At 7pm they left, then called back to say there was a house fire down the street, Jason started getting the tub ready and I texted my midwives and my sister and they started heading up. My contractions were 3-5mins apart and 50 sec long but were turning into steady 3 mins apart 1 min long. I was nervous about them not making it so I didn't do much but sit on the couch. I didn't want to make my labor any shorter then it seemed like it was going to be. The boys were terrific while I was in labor. Jake and Tyee would come over and want a hug but if I was having a contraction they backed off and waited, then would ask if I was having the baby lol, I told them yes tonight she was coming! They were sooo excited! I wanted sooo bad to get in the tub but I was fearful of it making my labor progress rapidly, I declined. Jason had the boys put on jammies, then the back labor started, that was horrible! Jason rubbed my back for a good hour staight! At one point I got up to kneel on the floor and lean on the chair, I was feeling pressure but I tried my hardest not to push. Jason continued to rub my back and Jake came over with the flashlight and shown it down low and said "mom I'm making sure she comes head first for you." lol, very innocently. (that goes back to when she flipped breech, the boys thought it was fun to shine the flashlight on my lower belly ) So in the mean time they were all heading up. Of course they were all busy so they had to get their backups in order or get kids. So by the time they actually started showing up and were able to get through the house fire mess it was 8:30pm. Teresa was the first to show up with Mercedes, then Roxie 10 mins later, then Judy about 10 mins after Roxie. I was getting nervous because I could feel pressure before anyone was here. When they did arrive Roxie checked me, I was 10 cm!! I asked if I could get in the tub, but they wanted to make sure they could get the heplock in first so as soon as they saw blood they could start me up on pit. (as I'm prone to hemorraging) Finally got in the tub at 9pm. It felt soooo nice and relaxing, I wished I had gotten in sooner! Pretty much right away started pushing. I could feel her coming down, then go back up. And it seemed to keep happening with a few small pushes. During one contraction her head was right there, so I put my hand there and didn't feel a head, it was her membranes. That was such a weird feeling because I had expected to feel her hair. I pushed her head out and Roxie told me to just let it stretch, then the next contraction she told me to push, I said I can't but next thing you know I felt her body exit me and the water break as she slid out at 9:09pm. She was pretty blue and had the cord wrapped around her shoulder and I think because of that there may have been a little tug on the placenta that made a gush of blood come right away. So they shot me in the butt with pit. or that methajone stuff. I just sat and held her in the water, she definitly was a girl! and as much as I wanted to delay cord cutting alittle longer, they were concerned about the bleeding so I let them clamp (it was still at least 2 mins after so it was still somewhat delayed) Jake came over and cut the cord. You could tell he was sooo proud to get to do it! Judy took the baby while Roxie helped me out of the tub into my bed, I delivered the placenta and she massaged my uterus. Judy came in and gave me more methajone (sp?) and pit so I was cramping pretty bad with that, but no hemorraging!! I tried to nurse her but it was hard, she didn't want to latch right then and I was in so much pain, so after the massaging (which was at least 10-15mins) I nursed her and she latched right away. While I was being massaged, Jason weighed her, she was 7lb 2oz, 20 inches and just perfect! And I didn't tear!!The midwives and Jason cleaned the tub and everything and the house was back to normal in an hour. I just layed in bed holding and nursing my new little one. Who still didn't have a name lol. When everyone left by 1am, the house was quiet, the boys were sleeping, Jason was sleeping, the baby was sleeping and I was up almost all night cramping! I made sure to take motrin with the methwhatever pills after that! Later that day we decided to name her Piper Jo Hanna.
I couldn't have asked for it to go any better!! It was an amazing homebirth! The 2 reason's I'm glad I had my first 3 in the natural childbirth friendly hospital was because 1- Roxie didn't do homebirths then and 2- I hemorraged badly with Jake, with Tyee they were still trying to figure out what helped me to stop hemorraging and by Luke they had it down pat! I would have loved to be able to sit in the tub after giving birth and just hold her in the water for a few moments, but I guess that's where my situation is unique and even if we decide to have more, I'll probably have the same issues and will never get to experience that part of birth. But overall I was very happy about having my homebirth and feel completely blessed to have 4 beautiful children and 4 wonderful waterbirths! I couldn't ask for anything more! I am soooo blessed!

She's here!!

2009-04-17T12:52:00.002-04:00

She was born last night on April 16th, at 9:09pm. She weighed 7lb 2 oz (we think) the midwife says she usually takes 1/2 lb off, not sure why but that would make her 6lb 10oz. I personally think she's closer to 7lb. Anyway it was an awesome homebirth!! Jason caught her, she was still in the bag, it broke as her body was coming out and Jake cut the cord, YES JAKE!! He's such a trooper! He was super excited about it. The boys were amazing during the birth! And they keep saying how cute their little sister is! Now for a name... Well her middle name is Jo Hanna, I'll get back to you when we figure out her first name!

Am I really 39 wks?!?

2009-04-15T22:30:00.003-04:00

So I guess it depends on what due date you go by, I could be 39wks 1dy, or 39wks or almost 39 wks lol. Anyway, I don't have much further!!! I can't believe it!! It's kinda bitter sweet, I can't wait to meet this little person that's been giving me such stress yet been so gentle on me this pregnancy and this is my last pregnancy, I know I'm going to miss her moving around inside my belly. I feel so much better tonight after talking to my midwife. the baby has been kinda floating around some and I just get nervous that she's not going to get into position correctly and just make labor so much harder. The boys were in position and no worries about them moving out at 18 wks and I knew things were moving along even at 36 wks. So this little one has sorta thrown me for a few loops. I almost thought we were going to have an Easter baby. I started getting cramps on Friday night that lasted all day Sat. with mild contractions then Sunday they were becoming more intense and consistent. At one point they were 3 mins apart and 1 min long! I had contacted my midwife to let her know and sure enough they started spacing out and becoming mild. Still was dealing with it all day on Monday and then Tuesday they pretty much stopped. So my midwife told me I could come in tonight (wed) and she would check me and see the baby's position. And YAY she's exactly where she needs to be, 50% effaced, 2 1/2cm maybe almost 3, and -2 station. Can't tell you how relieved I was to know she was in position. I've been stressing so much about that! I don't care if I go to 40 wks I just wanted to be sure she was ready. My midwife told me she does not think she will be moving out of the pelvis and that was what I was worried about. Ahhh the stress is gone. Now I'm crampy and having contractions again. I don't think it will be too much longer but who knows! she fooled me on Sunday!

Oh and I've been losing weight. so far this pregnancy I've only gained 16lbs! Well it was up to 20 then apparently I lost a few. Not sure how that happened but I actually weigh less now than I did at the end of Luke's pregnancy!

38 weeks tomorrow!!

2009-04-06T08:36:00.002-04:00

Wow I'll be 38 wks tomorrow! That's only 2 weeks till I'm 40 wks! I can't believe it!! I went early with all the boys, Jake 6 dys early, Tyee 7 dys early and Luke 8 dys early. So if I follow pattern I could be holding my little girl next Sunday! I personally think her actual due date is closer to April 25-26 not the 21st, but what's a few days anyway lol. I think we're all prepared. Since I don't have a room to set up or a crib all we've really had to do is wash clothes and put them in the dresser. We've done that, although haven't taken tags off the new clothes just washed the hand-me-downs we got from Tina and my sister-in-law Heather.... just in case she is actually a HE! Although I'm really feeling like it is a girl and have for quite some time so I'm sure she is ;) I've done alot of cooking and preparing for meals for after the baby is born. I think I just about bankrupt us just getting food prepared for afterwards lol. But I seriously won't have to cook for WEEKS! And any shopping from now on out is basically for milk and bread and produce so I'm feeling VERY prepared in that department. I have 4 trays of baked ziti, 2 big trays of lazana, chopped chicken ready for different meals, ground turkey with onions precooked and frozen for different meals, enchilada pie filling, mexican cornbread filling, .... I think that's it. But Tina has already stocked us up with lots of frozen veggies and little pizzas and such and Teresa and Mercedes want to make a few meals for us to freeze as well. Then not to mention the couple of people from church that most likely will be making us dinner ... I definitly won't be doing real cooking for weeks!!! At least!! Good thing we have a huge freezer!

So Jason and I found a big house, new construction, not finished but livable, that went under forecloser that we think we can almost afford. I told Jason if we were able to get this house it would be a lifetime of finishing it and furnishing it lol. It's a 5 bedrm, 2 1/2 bath, full basement, 3 car garage, office, wrap around porch, more rooms on the first level that we have no idea what we could do with them! It really is sad to see this beautiful home that the previous owners were not able to finish. I'm sure it won't stay on the market for long, if we had our house sold we'd definitly put a bid on the house and work our butts off finishing the house. We did have an open house on Sat. and there was a couple that came through and they said they did like the house, but no offers yet. We are also waiting on a single mother with 2 children to take a look at our house when she comes to visit from Fl. Of course she's coming when the baby is due so I'm kinda hoping she makes her arrival before the lady comes.

That's really all that's been going on lately. Of course besides the normal everyday stuff with the boys and school and Jake starting T-ball. They are getting more and more excited about their sister coming. They will actually be attending the birth (they have for each birth) Jake is looking forward to cutting the cord. He's such a trooper. We've talked alot about birth and some of the amazing things and some of the gross things so I think he's prepared, he remembers Luke's birth so I know he'll be great. Tyee is the type that is pretty good about it all. We watched some births on YouTube, decent ones, and they really were amazed and thought it was so neat and I think helped them tons to look more forward to seeing their sister be born. (don't worry I'm a very quiet woman in labor so there's no screaming and yelling, I might say it hurts but the boys are also aware that it will hurt mommy but it will be ok) I'm so proud of them! I think it goes to show that children can handle more than we think they can, they are strong people, we just don't give them enough credit. So that's about it! I think I'm ready for this little one but then again, are we ever truely ready!! LOL

She's an acrobat

2009-03-26T22:24:00.002-04:00

I had an appointment with my midwife last Friday and she mentioned the baby was head down but a tad off to the side and recommended a maternity belt. So Sat. I was cleaning on hands and knees all day to try to get her to center herself, then off to buy the maternity belt. Used it all day Sunday and Monday and had another appointment on Tuesday with my backup midwife (I'm planning a homebirth). As she was feeling my belly she said she wanted to do a quick ultrasound because the baby felt head up. So as soon as she put the wand on my belly there it was head up! Sheesh!! Figures it had to be something with the mw that oks the homebirth! So we scheduled a version. As much as I wanted to wait because I knew she would flip, I also didn't want to upset the back up dr and mw because well... it's hard for homebirth midwives to get a back up dr. That night Jason gave me a blessing of comfort and I feel confident that she will get into position and stay and have a healthy labor and delivery. So that night and the next day I did breech tilts and thought I bet she turned when I was wearing the belt, and put the belt on upside down lol! Then the next night went to see my other midwife and she was feeling my belly saying she really thought the baby was head down and couldn't tell so we ran down to her office to do a quick ultrasound and yup she was head down!!! YAY no version!!! I was sooo relieved! I would have done it so I wouldn't have to worry about a breech birth and I know the back up dr would have delivered a breech baby especially since this is my 4th but I really wanted a homebirth and everything as natural as possible. So everything is back to normal again and she better stay put!! Of course I'm worried she's going to flip again and I won't notice it. I'm sure it will all work out whatever happens, I have faith.

So other than that everything has been going great! This pregnancy has been great! No discomfort like with the boys. It's been amazing! My prayers have been answered! Now we just need to finish preparing for the homebirth!!

Dream house

2009-03-08T19:18:00.002-04:00

So our dream house I mentioned in my last post has some major issues so that would be why they were asking so little. They still have an underground oil tank that apparently was leaking and leaked oil in the yard and the wetlands behind the house.... not something we want to mess with nor would we have the money to mess with. But since we still have not sold our house it's not a big deal anyway lol.

So lets see what's new here, Jake is doing terrific in school!! He comes home everyday with a mini book that he can read. Well I was thinking he was just memorizing what his teacher had read to the class probably several times. We were at his dr's appointment and I had him read 3 books just to see what he knew (we read books at home, but it's usually Jason or I reading them, we never think to ask him to read lol) He did awesome!! There were just very few words that were too big for him to get but I was in complete shock how much he really did know!! Then I started to realize, he's really growing up!! Yeah I know he just turned 6 but wow, my little boy is becoming a big boy! His teacher says he is wonderful in class and works soooo well independantly, she says he is one that gets the math so quick (must get it from daddy lol) she could have a classroom full of Jakes! He just finished Basketball which he really enjoyed! He will be starting T-ball in April which he can not wait! He is also getting super excited about a baby sister! It's cute to see how he notices all the babies around and comments on their silly face or how cute they are. and is always interested in how big she is.

Tyee is doing great in preschool. He really enjoys going but surprisingly he is really shy. Tyee is not the shy one, I always thought it would be Jake but they both have proven me wrong! What do I know?? I'm just the mommy! lol Technically he could start kindergarten next year but he has a really late Sept bday... 9/27 and the cut off date is 10/1. So I really think I'm going to keep him in prek another year, if we can afford it. As of right now we can't so I will probably be homeschooling him till kindergarten (wish me luck!) He does really well with recognizing numbers and letters and we have officially memorized our phone #! He is an amazing artist for his age! Even Jake will comment how well Tyee colors and draws. As many pictures that he colors and draws it's soooo hard to pick the best ones to keep!! He is soooo excited to be getting a baby sister. He talks about her alll the time, he is always kissing my belly and joking that he's smacking her butt (we talked about how the baby is poisitioned in my belly so he knows where her little tooshie is and likes to pat it... not actually smack it ;) He also is so much fun watching him notice babies and talk about how cute they are. Mostly his cousin Sami and Luke.

Luke is just getting so big!! He is my biggest guy so far! We call him our little monster. He's been obsessed with Little Einstiens and that's all he wants to watch... allllll the time!! I've tried limiting it but he is one stubborn little man! And boy can he throw a tantrum lol. Not used these kind of tantrums, Jake and Tyee never did these type if hardly at all. but I think we've figured out what works if we have the timing right. As long as he's not hurting himself or anyone else we let him lay down and cry and sometimes he even kicks his legs. Then he's over it and forgets why he was even upset and gets up and starts laughing! He's really going through a fun stage, a very tough one when we have to go out but at home or at the park or somewhere that's ok for him to run around, it's been fun! He enjoys patting my belly and saying baby and sometimes even lays his head on my belly, too cute! At my last midwife appointment he actually had to get up on the bed while my mw checked for the baby's heartbeat. He just HAD to be included and tell the mw there was a baby in there. So much fun!!!

Jason's been doing great! Keeping busy with work and part time job with Gerd and with church. He tries to spend as much time as he can at home with us and when he does the boys LOVE IT!!!

Me, I'm just big, fat and pregnant lol. She gets the hiccups ALOT! Just like Jake did. She's also a roller just like Jake was, Tyee and Luke were more of kickers and stretchers. I can't believe I'm 33 wks almost 34. That's 6 wks left!! And if I follow pattern and I'm a wk early like with the boys that's only 5 wks!! Wow it's going really fast! We actually have nothing ready. Some ladies from church did throw me a shower and I got lots of cute clothes and a tandum stroller! My sisters got me a swing and LOTS of clothes and toys and onsies! Overall we really made out great!! So I guess our big projects are making room for her clothes and figuring out where she's going to sleep (ok so chances are it'll be our bed lol). It kinda stinks that we can't decorate a room for her, or even a space for her. Maybe some day. I don't think it will really feel like we're having a girl till she's actually here lol. (And if you've only had more than 1 or 2 of the same gender, you'd understand what I mean. I don't think anyone with the first ones being both genders can completely understand)

So I guess that's about it for us lately. We're all excited about a girl joining our family, the boys doing so well in school, Luke getting so big and things actually going smoothly for us considering how the economy is so horrible and adding one more child to an already small house lol. We're keeping our heads high and we know things will work out.... eventually but will work out.

Pity Party

2009-01-27T13:45:00.003-05:00

Wow I didn't realize how long it's been since I've written in my blog! So I guess lots has happened since then. Nothing super exciting but we did find out the gender!! We had the u/s on Dec. 1st, and asked the tech to take toilet shot and put "It's a boy!" or "It's a girl!" So the end of Dec we opened the envelope and here's the pic!

It's a baby GIRL!!!

There's no mistaking... It's a Girl!

So needless to say we were shocked! Excited of course! Jake yelled "I knew it!" Tyee just looked at us like.. yeah I knew that already! It's so cute to see how excited they are about getting a sister. Everything pink they see they think they need to get it for their new baby sister. I went out looking at girl clothes and found myself looking more towards the boys stuff lol. I've been very blessed in the clothes department because my sister Tina who just had a girl in May is handing down some girl clothes so YAY!!! And THANK YOU!! We went through all the boys clothes, we had about 3-4 bins from 0months-18months, and either gave it to friends who are having boys or dontated it. It was kinda sad looking through all the cute boy clothes realizing we'll never be using them again. But I guess it's time to fill them with girl clothes lol!! Of course getting rid of all the boys clothes I started to think, "what if the ultrasound tech made a mistake and it's a boy? We're gonna be in trouble!" Good thing I kept my most cherished boy outfits!

So other than that exciting news, Christmas was fun, we had started a Christmas fund last year so we wouldn't feel too strapped for money this year and it worked out GREAT! The boys got new bikes and the Wii, which they are super excited about! Now we have to try to keep Luke off the big boy bikes... he's not liking that lol. Of course with all the snow we've been getting we haven't really been able to take the boys out to ride their bikes, but in the spring they will sure enjoy it! BTW, I'm ready for it to stop snowing!! I love that the snow covers the ugly dirt and dead grass but it's been wayyyyyy to cold for me!!

So here's the pity party lol! We're still trying to sell our house, which we were well aware it would take us at least 15 months (that's the average in NJ at this time). I'm starting to get the nesting feeling and we really don't have a place for another child, it's already tight as it is. I would put her in Luke's room but there's no room. His room is the playroom because Jake and Tyee's room can only fit bunkbeds.... just barely (which is actually the same size as Luke's room). So we found our dream house!! It totally needs work and updating but it fits our budget and there's soooo much room to grow into this house! We wouldn't even have enough furniture to fill this house. I never thought we would even get close to a house like this, it was more than I would ever ask for, more than I ever dreamed of! It's a cap cod style, with 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2 car garage, a cute (needs work) little tiny sunroom off the kitchen (which also needs a ton of work... like gutted work!). Finished basement with a half bath down there. and a 5th bedroom in the basement (they can't technically call it a bdrm because it's in the basement). It's a perfect house for us! They were asking so little because it's bank owned. Of course we can't put an offer in on anything till we sell our house... so we just found out it went under contract. Now being that it's bank owned it will take at least 6 months for it to close, so we still have a slim chance but I'm not getting my hopes up. I'm trying to have faith that if it's meant to be it will happen and we will sell our house when the timing is right. And Heavenly Father will help in guiding us where we need to go. But right now it's hard not having a nursery to decorate, or have a place for all the baby's new clothes or not even sure where we are going to put a crib or pack n play for the baby. It probably will go in our room, it's just alot of moving around of furniture, like we'll have to store the computer and desk till we get into a new house. Luckily, Tina to the rescue again!! she has a laptop she's not using so we'll still have internet! lol I feel selfish asking but if you feel inclined to keep us in your thoughts and prayers that we can be patient through this and that we will keep an open mind about what we need to do, we would greatly appreicate it!

I hope everyone's year has started out wonderful and healthy!!

Christmas Tag

2008-12-06T20:42:00.004-05:00

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? both

2. Real tree or Artificial? artificial

3. When do you put up the tree? as soon as jason has a chance to help me get the stuff out of the attic

4. Do you like eggnog? LOVE IT!!

5. Favorite gift received as a child? barbies, barbie house, barbie car

6. Hardest person to buy for? there's a few

7. Easiest person to buy for? My kids and jason

8. Do you have a nativity scene? 3

9. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail

10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? hmmmm can't think of one off the top of my head

11. Favorite Christmas Movie? home alone 1and 2

12. When do you start shopping? depends, last year I think we started in Aug. this year the day after Thanksgiving

13. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? ummmm sorta

14. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? the whole Christmas dinner

15. Lights on the tree? white

16. Favorite Christmas song? santa baby

17. Travel at Christmas or stay home? we go to jason's mom's

18. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? hmmm not sure

19. Angel on the tree top or a star? star

20. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? kids open gifts from each other and jammies and sometimes a game on Christamas eve, then the rest on Christmas morning

21. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? That some try to take Christ out of Christmas

22. Favorite ornament theme or color? on our fun tree, star wars, cars, bat man, superman and one barbie. on the nice tree right now it's gold and red

23. Favorite for Christmas dinner? ham, mashed potatoes, corn, egg nog, homemade pie

24. What do you want for Christmas this year? to spend it with family in a happy joyful setting remembering the reason we celebrate Christmas.

I tag Erin, Meagan, Troy and Mel

We got Elfed ... AGAIN LOL!!

2008-11-18T20:25:00.003-05:00

The boys couldn't go to bed till I finished this, they laughed and laughed and laughed!! It's fun doing these, and I'm getting so excited for the holidays!!!

http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/jOUUXqf3QJ2oiHzTCMeb

On a side note, I'm finally feeling real movement!!! I've been feeling the flutters and stuff but Sunday he was really moving around in there!! Now is when it starts to feel real!! Wow I'm actually pregnant... AGAIN lol!!!

FLU SHOT?!?!?!?!?!

2008-11-14T13:55:00.002-05:00

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-health/20081016/Flu.Shot.Fight/?cvqh=itn_flu

So they have made it "mandatory" to have children in daycare and pre-k get the flu shot in NJ. I am sooooo not happy about this. It's only Tyee that I would have to have get the shot but I do not know enough about the shot to say "sure poke my son with a needle full of stuff that could actually make him sick." My Dr doesn't even recommend the flu shot and didn't even have it available till just this month, ... and only made it available BECAUSE of the new law. I am doing some research to find out how I can get this waived. I just do not think it is neccesary to give Tyee or any of my children this shot. If they tell me Tyee can not go back to school because of it, then I for sure will be sending him to kindergarden next year and he will just have to do kindergarden for 2 years. (I was planning on having him stay in pre-k cuz he has such a late bday. cut off date is Oct. 1 and his bday is Sept. 27th) So any help on getting this shot waived would be greatly appriciated. He's all up to date for all his vax, I'm just mad about this new law mandating these children to flu shots!! They need to back up their reasons alot better than, "so we can reduce the risk of children getting sick." I do not go for that. And I will not be shooting my kids up with some stuff that they can't even say is completely totally safe. My children are not ginea pigs. What happened to parent's choice?!?! Taking away our freedom.

Oooops!

2008-10-13T11:09:00.006-04:00

So I thought I'd post some pics. This is after Tyee's Halloween Birthday party, I walk in the kitchen to Luke helping himself to a piece of cake lol

He thought it was funny!!
We went pumpkin picking with my sister Michelle, Tina and their kids. Doesn't Luke look like a big boy!!
Their cousin Justin, these 2 are the troublemakers LOL
I tried to get a cute brother pic....

Kinda having a hard time getting everyone to have the perfect smile....

Then cousin Justin had to give cute Luke a kiss awwwwwThen it was ALLL OVER !!!! LOL
Tyee loves to draw, I caught him sitting near a ditch just drawing pictures, it was so cute.
And last but not least!!! Can you read his shirt?

It says, "Ooops, They did it again...... (I'm gonna be a big brother!!)

So Yup, Luke is going to be a big brother in April!! We are so happy to be adding another one to our family! The boys are so excited to have another baby sibling, they're hoping it's a girl but I'm sure it's a boy lol!! Yes, we are crazy!! We are totally crazy about our children!!!

Cough, cough, cough, cough.......

2008-10-01T21:05:00.002-04:00

So Tyee has had this nonstop dry cough for ummmmmm over a month now!! He's waking in the middle of the night from the coughing waking him up. I thought maybe it's allergies, but I'm thinking nope since I have given him Benedryl and Zyrtec and it doesn't seem to be doing a thing!! I just hope it's not asthma. I'm taking Jake and Tyee to an allergist soon (since Jake was having issues in the middle of the summer and it's coming back again) I blame it all on Jason... Yup! Cuz I don't have allergies, but he's allergic to pollen, cats, dust, mold,... you name it. but apparently not dogs???? go figure!! I just feel so bad listening to this nonstop cough. And the teachers keep making comments. I did take him to his pedi. but I had such a difficult time understanding him, which I usually don't. He's from China and has a very deep accent, he's a great Dr, but I felt really jipped this last appointment. He didn't even check Tyee out, I guess he figured it was an appointment for Luke, but I specifially told the receptionist that I needed to ask questions about Tyee. So I hope this specialist will be able to give me some answers, cuz I'm feeling like a horrible mother each time I pick him up from school and the teachers comment on how he's coughing allllll the time.

And our most recent family pic!

2008-09-22T11:20:00.002-04:00

Now I just have to figure out how to change our previous family pic.... cuz I have time to do that! LOL (I think Tyee might be wearing the same t-shirt lol!!)

The Please Touch Museum

2008-09-22T11:05:00.003-04:00

Since we were so close to Phillie when we were at Sesame Place we took the boys to the Please Touch Museum. http://www.pleasetouchmuseum.org/ It was soo much fun! The kids had a blast! Although I didn't get any good pics of Jake, the batteries died grrr!

Sesame Place

2008-09-22T10:29:00.004-04:00

We took the boys to Sesame Place!! They had a blast!

The boys on Sesame Street

Someone was playing with the camera and now theres smudges on all the pics

waiting for the parade

Luke taking a sip

He can see Grovers head over the fence and thought it was funny

Elmo only has 4 fingers
tuckered out

Brotherly Love
Tyee LOVED this ride!!
Oh yeah don't i look good LOL

A walk down memory lane

2008-09-16T21:27:00.001-04:00

MEMORY LANE-This will be fun especially if everyone and I do mean EVERYONE will join in!This is just too fun to pass up.

Here are the directions:1. As a comment on my blog, leave a memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!!!!!!!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments.

We can make it a competition if anyone wants. Let's see who can come up with the funniest memory and who has the most memories. Please keep it going. ENJOY :)

I've been slackin AGAIN!

2008-09-16T20:59:00.003-04:00

I know I really need to update! I actually did about a month or so ago, I started downloading a bunch of pics and Blogger just didn't want to work for me that day, so then I slacked off and never got back to it! So a quick update...

Jake is loving full day kindergarten. He has such a sweet teacher! I was nervous about it being full day and him enjoying his sleep but it's been working out.

Tyee is enjoying pre-k. He loves his new teachers. He likes to draw new pics for them everyday.

Luke is 15 months now... I just can't believe how fast this last year went!! He FINALLY got 2 teeth, his upper teeth. After 14 months I didn't think he was ever going to get teeth lol. He had his first fall today where his teeth cut his lip and made it bleed... poor guy, but he's fine.

Other than being busy with the boys in school and Luke taking over the house, we haven't been up too much more. I will try to get on later and post some pics.

I hate it!!!

2008-06-19T21:54:00.003-04:00

So I went to the lake with a few ladies and a few others showed up as well. We were sitting there talking about kids (obviously we all have kids). They all had both girls and boys except for me, with all boys and my friend with 2 girls. So someone makes a comment how the teen yrs for me will be soooo easy!! Why is that I ask, they say, "cuz with girls you have to make sure they don't do this or that and with boys... well.... let's just say boys will be boys!!" They laughed,... I didn't. Those kind of remarks bug me! And why? because of thinking like that will make it even harder for me to raise my boys with morals!! I turned around and said, "I don't know about that, my boys will be the ones respecting YOUR daughters and in this world, I've got my work cut out for myself".... with thinking like that! ARRRRRRRR!!!

Ok just had to get that off my chest ;)

Land of Make Believe

2008-06-06T10:31:00.004-04:00

Jake had a field trip for preschool to The Land of Make Believe. Which has small rides for kids and a waterpark thats loads of fun. It was too cold for the waterpark but they sure enjoyed the rides. Luke got his first taste of Cotten Candy and of course I didn't get pictures but the face he made was priceless. He loved it! The little girl that is on the rides with Jake and Tyee is a girl in Jake's class, she says Jake is her boyfriend... Tyee says she is his girlfriend.... nuttin wrong with keeping it in family, is there LOL!! JK!!

Just some pictures

2008-06-06T10:19:00.002-04:00

I Just wanted to add some pics of the kids, I finally got a chance to download some.

Luke and Tyee snuggling, too cute.
Luke with a bottle
They looked so cute sitting next to each other watching tv together
I have no idea what's up with those faces lol
I sooo need one of these for time outs!!

OMGoodness.....

2008-06-03T13:59:00.005-04:00

Luke is now officially walking!! YUP! Not even a year yet and he's on the go. He started walking about a month ago but I finally got it on video a couple weeks ago and am finally getting it on the computer. He also got his first haircut this past weekend. I was getting too many comments about what a beautiful little girl he was and that Jake and Tyee are such good big brothers too their little sister.... UMMMM HELLO?? He's wearing BLUE BLUE BLUE!!! He looks like a toddler now.... so sad, my baby is growing up too fast! He's also drinking whole milk now, which is sorta the first time he's really gotten a bottle. Yay for me, I've exclusively breastfed 2 babies now! But I am so ready to wean him... he's so much on the go.. even when he's nursing! Ok in reality I won't wean him yet.

Oh yeah..

2008-05-16T19:53:00.003-04:00

And do I dare post about Mother's day?? Ok so I got some adorable handmade magnets from Jake and Tyee and Jason made breakfast (though not in bed and not without me mentioning something ... I'm thinking next yr he might know better;) ok so I've only been a mom for 5 yrs right? he needs time to get into it right??.... um yeah whatever!) I also got a BIRTHDAY card with tickets for Jason, Jake, Tyee and I to go see Wizard of Oz at Pax Amicus. ( http://www.paxamicus.com/ ) Which I am stoked about going and that Jason is coming with us .. but... of course there's a but.... no mother's day card. I'm positive Jason felt bad for that but it's ok I still love him! My birthday was horrible, I had to take Jake to the dr for strep throat, all the while feeling like crap myself for I had strep throat too. But kudos for Jason for getting home sooner than expected!! AND with an ice cream cake... (that was really hard to enjoy with my throat BUT I'm enjoying it now.... YUMMMMMMMM!!!!)

May 14, 2008

2008-05-16T19:46:00.002-04:00

So my sister Tina had her baby!!!! YAY!!! She had a cute baby girl with lots of black hair. She weighed 7 lbs 14 oz, 19 1/2 inches long. Tina had a rough delivery but she sure produced an adorable girl!! I am so excited to finally be able to buy PINK!! lol Her name is Samantha Lynn, we'll call her Sam or Sami. (I like Sami better presonally ;) She really does look like a Samantha! She was born with clubbed feet but the Drs are very positive that they can help her. She has the best Dr in NJ that will be working with her and most importantly wonderful parents that will be sure to provide the best possible care for her. (she is one lucky chick already!!! Wonderful parents AND an older brother/security guard ... LOL)

Six Flags!

2008-05-05T21:42:00.003-04:00

So we ditched church on Sunday and went to Six Flags... we realize we're going to hell but we had a blast!!! LOL (no I don't really think we're going to hell;) My sister Teresa watched Luke for us and Waste Management paid for their employees and family AND paid for breakfast and lunch! Tyee was just so cute on the roller coasters and Jake was priceless on the Buckeneer ride. I think the kids had more fun than we did although it was tons of fun to see their reactions with the rides! I'd post pics but I haven't gotten them downloaded yet. I will as soon as I get them!

Other than that nothing much going on. Jake is playing soccer and loving it and hating it at the same time. Tyee can't wait to play soccer, and Luke is just being cute as usual! I realized the other day that Luke's one yr birthday is less than 2 months away!!! This past year went way too fast!!! I hope it starts slowing down!!

Look-alike Meter

2008-04-28T12:01:00.003-04:00

I was just playing around and found this, thought it was fun!!

MyHeritage: Family trees - Genealogy - Celebrities - Collage - Morph

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Pedigree - Geneology

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Family research - Genealogy message boards

That's funny since EVERYONE says Tyee looks just like daddy and Jake looks just like me and Luke is right inbetween LOL!

He's growing too FAST!!!

2008-04-15T10:08:00.003-04:00

So Luke took his first steps yesterday! I can't believe he's going to be walking before he turns 1!! He also has this new game (well sorta new) and new word. Really his first word, I mean he says momma and dadda and mumbles stuff but he now will take things and drop them to the floor just to say "uh oh!" It really is cute!

Now if I can just get him taking his first steps on my camera!!

2008-04-04T15:55:00.003-04:00

Here's a video of Luke starting to walk! I'm giving him a month and he'll be walking!! He's growing up way too fast!

The end of the week.

2008-04-04T15:42:00.004-04:00

Well Jason came home today. It's so nice to have him back! He said he had a nice trip and all went well. He says next time I should go too. Now if I can talk my sisters into taking at least Jake and Tyee. I told Jason that I think his mom loves me more than my mom and sisters all put together! She called me several times a day just to make sure I was ok. I don't think she realizes how much Jason works and that normally he's only home 2 nights during the week. So the only off night we had was Thursday and the boys were so excited that daddy was coming home the next day so no problems getting them to bed lol.

Other than that not much is going on. Still no lookers on the house. I've been doing a search of homes in the area and found if we went about 45 mins north, which would still be about a 20 min drive for Jason to work, we could get alot of house! BUT the schools are not nearly as good or nice as they are in the areas that we want to stay in and shopping is in NY, which I guess isn't bad it just seems so far from where we are now. Although I really wouldn't mind the distance it's the area I'm concerned with. We did find a house close to us that is an old 1820s farm house. It has orginal slate roof, orginal pumkin wide plank woodfloors, it is just gorgeous!!! We love it!! It has 3 bdrms, 1 & 1/2 bath, and potentail to make one room into another bedroom and add a bath in it. Of course we have to sell our house first which is looking gloomyer and gloomyer by the day. I trust that Heavenly Father is helping us in what we should or need to do so I'm really trying not to stress. I'm just being greedy and want more room.

Jake had his first soccer practice the other day and of course my batteries were dead in the camera, so no pics! I think he's going to enjoy soccer. He was totally nervous about going but since he has a friend on his team it helped him to warm up quick. Poor thing inherritated my shy genes.

Well that's all for this week! I told Jason I would help him clean offices tonight so I guess we should get the boys ready for my sisters!

Well some pics!

2008-03-28T23:23:00.004-04:00

They LOVE daddy!!!!
He's getting into EVERYTHING!!!
When I say gettinginto I mean climbing INTO lol
Tyee's friend.... I'm so ready to retire those jammies, they are way too small but this kid is obsessed with Little Einsteins!!
Real men wear pink!

Tyee nursing LMBO!!!

Ok, I've been reminded a few times!

2008-03-28T23:07:00.003-04:00

I know I'm not very good at keeping up with this! I've been busy and just blah so I haven't updated in what almost 3 months!! Ok so what's been going on? Well as you all know Jason's dad passed away Jan. 10, 2008. The funeral went well, it was of course sad. It's been hard to see Jason's mom all alone but she's dealing pretty well. We celebrated Christmas the end of Jan with Jason's family and it really sucked not having Pop pop there. Just made me miss him and my dad more. Jason's dealing pretty good. I think having the Gospel in his life has made it easier for him to handle this. So we put our house up for sale on March 1st. Not one taker or looker! The market sucks but we thought we have nothing to lose. Other than that just been dealing with sick boys every other week or so. Seems this year we can not get healthy! Tyee has gotten the runs, puking, fevers, coughs, Jake same thing and poor baby Luke same thing. He had a double ear infection 5 weeks ago then got a stomache bug and was puking so of course stopped giving him the meds that he was just puking up and he has another ear infection now. Let's hope we can all stay healthy!!

So Jake is all registered for all day kindergarden next year!! I can not believe it!! I still feel like he is my little baby and here he is 5 yrs old!! He has a friend that lives down the street that is in his preschool class and she tells everyone he is her boyfriend (of course Tyee says she is HIS girlfriend.... there's gonna be some drama here lol!!!)

Tyee is regisitered for preschool next year. I'm in shock that I might have a few hours to be with Luke or alone if he's napping! I might just have to have another baby!!! lol

Luke is crawling and pulling himself up on everything!! I can't believe how this child has grown! He's so big! He's my earliest crawler, he started at 7 months and at 9 is walking by pushing those push toys!

Jason is doing well with work. His boss had to send someone from the office down to be trained and then come back with the info and train everyone in the office... his boss said Jason was the only responsible one to do it so he's going to Houston for a few days next week. Wish me luck being home alone! Then in another couple months he has to go back for training for the job he started back in Nov. That will be a 2 wk training... Thankfully they will let him come home over the weekend!

My mom is home from her mission. She came to MD for Steve's (her husband) daughters reception, so I drove down with the boys to visit, we had a good time.

We are so ready for spring... well at least I am! I really hate having such long winters and long cold months! I would move south in a heartbeat if Jason would!!! That'll never happen! Well I think I will post some pics. and a video or 2. Hopefully I will keep up with this and not fall so far behind again!!!

Long time!

2007-12-26T21:21:00.001-05:00

Wow it's been a while since I last blogged! I have so much to catch up on! Well today there was a white deer hanging around our yard all day long! It was amazing!

Jake being silly
Tyee being silly
Trying to get a good pic
ok now boys look at the camera!
FINALLY!!!

Well I will have to catch up some more later. I do have Christmas pics to show but I'm running outta time tonight. So I will add more later!!

BOO!!

2007-12-03T20:33:00.000-05:00

Tonight at dinner we were "BOO"ing Luke. He just thought it was the funniest thing ever and laughed everytime someone said BOO! Plus I got a new camera (Thanks Jason) and this one actually records sound! YAY!!! Anywa Luke was just so cute!

How do you get a baby to sleep??

2007-11-23T21:41:00.000-05:00

Seriously!! I can not get this child to sleep for longer than 20 mins!!! and in those 20 mins it's just enough time for me to feed the other boys, dress them, and make them happy with each other.... how much do you think it would cost to hire a cleaning lady and a cook and a personal shopper?? oh and a part time nanny would be great too so I can take a shower and actually get dressed without being bombarded with BOYS!!!! ME time... whoever thought of me time has never had kids.....

We got Elfed!!

2007-11-18T18:21:00.000-05:00

So I found this site and just had too much fun making our clips

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9542444527

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9542495867

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9542630216

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9548494534

I gave in....

2007-11-04T22:58:00.000-05:00

So I finally gave in... I gave Luke some rice cereal. All that research about waiting till 6 months is best for their digestive system and blah blah blah ... couldn't wait. I figured look at all of us our parents were feeding us cereals at 2 weeks... we all came out fine (well most of us lol) and besides, don't those same "researchers" say that every baby is different? So Jake actually gave him his first bite, he loves it!!! He can't get enough of it!! It really has been helping him sleep through the night YAY!!! He's actually sleeping 5 hours straight now... Can't wait for the 7 hours! But really he has been a very good baby... a little bit of social anxiety (not sure where that came from lol) but I am just really enjoying him. So here are a couple pictures of him eating his first foods....

Halloween! Halloween!! Trick or Treat!!

2007-11-04T22:46:00.001-05:00

The boys had so much fun Trick or treating! We went to Aunt Teresa's house and had pizza then Jason and I took all the kids out trick or treating, by the time we were done they had 3 bags full!!! Then we went to Jason's parents house, they did alittle bit of trick or treating there. Then headed home. Guess who's been eating most of the candy though;) yup me! Although I found a ton of candy wrappers in the garbage and asked Jake how did we end up with so much candy wrappers?!? His response.... Well I heard you say no Tyee no more candy so I ran in the dining room and hid and ate the candy I had in my hand so you couldn't see me lol!! At least he was honest right? KIDS!!! So here are a few pictures from Halloween. Jake was Obi One, Tyee was a skeleton (he says it like kelkin) and Luke was Chewbacca.

Just some recent pictures

2007-10-29T16:13:00.000-04:00

Just downloaded some recent pics and wanted share. It was so hard to get a smiley pic of Luke, everytime he sees the camera he stares at it, prolly wondering what the heck I'm flashing in his face lol.

Notice he is not up high on some table or on the counter ;)
Mummy's boys wearing their halloween shirts
Spikey boy lol
The apple of my eye

Daddy and Luke snoozing

Well thats all, someone needs to nurse...l;;

He got it!!

2007-10-23T23:04:00.000-04:00

So Jason got the job!! He is so happy he got it! He wont be working as long hours, no Saturdays and he gets a truck and a gas card YAY!! I'm so happy for him, it will be such a nice change for him.

We had parent teacher conferences today for Jake, They said nice things about him. They said he is very quiet (is that really surprising???lol) He is definitly a lefty, he surprised them one day when they were trying to teach the children everyones names and they thought he was going to fall asleep, well he chimmed in and named all the kids in his class. They said he is a delight and a very good student. They asked how he is with having 2 younger brothers and I told them he just LOVES it!! Especially having a baby and then a playmate.. they weren't surprised, they could tell he is a great brother.

Tyee lately is enjoying Luke more and more. He always showed love towards Luke but just seems the past week or 2 he's just really been enjoying him and I have been enjoying watching that brotherly love. It's just so cute! Tyee loves to have me hold Luke like he's walking and have him "walk" to him, he always wants to hold him and he now thinks he can CARRY him. He's grabbed Luke right outta my hands and started to walk away half way dragging him, Luke doesn't cry.. he laughs!! It's just been so fun to see Tyee loving his baby brother, and to see Luke laugh and smile at his big brothers, Times like that I cherish.

What a weekend.. well not really

2007-10-21T22:57:00.001-04:00

So today Jason was asked to be the 2nd counslor in the Young Men's at church. I'm not sure what this intails but I think he's happy about it. All he cared about today was watching the Red Sox play BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Unfortunatly I think they are winning. Jason had an interview for a manager position at work on Thursday and tomorrow we will find out if he gets the job (his boss has been telling him for months that it's his but... 3 other people applied and we dont wanna get our hopes up) So we are looking forward to tomorrow! Wish us luck!

The boys have been sleeping in their rooms for the past several nights now YAY!!! And Luke is officially sitting up! WOW! Other than that not much interesting happened this weekend, Jason worked all weekend....

Lukeybear

2007-10-18T11:33:00.000-04:00

I can't believe Luke was 4 months on Tuesday! Man the time has flown! He is perfectly healthy, except for a heart murmer that suddenly showed up but not to worry, no EKG yet. He's HUGE!!! 17 lbs 6 oz, 26 inches. He's 1 lb bigger than Tyee and 2 bigger than Jake! Man I really make WHOLE milk lol. He's such a cute chunk. The Dr said he is doing things a 6-9 month old should. He's sitting up... not for too long but the other day he was for like a min.! Jake and Tyee didn't do that till 6 months. So he's growing like a weed! I've been thinking about giving him cereal but keep reading these articles to wait till 6 months. I gave the other kids cereal at 3-4 months. He no longer is sleeping through the night :( but since we cosleep its been working out great! and 2 nights in a row Jake and Tyee stayed in THEIR beds!! YAY lets hope that keeps up! So here's a pic of my little big guy sitting up.

And one of my booby baby ;) yes it says I love boobs lol

An aunt again!!

2007-10-15T16:53:00.000-04:00

YAY!!! I'm going to be an aunt again!! #15!! YAY!! Tina's pregnant with her2nd. I'm betting it's a girl. She had very little morning sickness with DJ and this time she's having morning and evening, blah! We need another girl, it's time:) Hopefully she doesn't go into preterm labor this time!!

Walking with Dinosaurs

2007-10-08T17:00:00.000-04:00

Tyee got tickets to see Walking with Dinosaurs for his birthday, so Sat. we went to see it at Continental Airlines Arena. The boys had a BLAST!! I must say it was lots of fun! They were life like, very big! Jake's favorite part was when T-Rex came out, and Tyee's favorite part were the Raptors. I couldn't believe how expensive the souviners were!! Nothing for under $15 and even then it was just a couple things. We got lucky and Teresa offered to take Luke so we just had Jake and Tyee. Anyway I'm going to attempt to attach some pictures from that day.

I'm starting

2007-10-08T16:18:00.000-04:00

Ok so I have a few friends that have started blogging so now I feel like I should join in. I think this will be fun though. Now if I can just keep up with it! Wish me luck! and if I'm not keeping up get on me too!! Thanks Enjoy!!!