a couple of pictures

He's here!

Thomas Gabriel was born at 10:58 am. He was 7 lbs 4 oz and 19.5" long. My water broke at 3:00 am, so we headed to the hospital. I was already 5-6 cm but without heavy contractions. We walked and finally the contractions were getting more intense. The midwife decided to check me again, and she got a strange look on her face. She said, I'm sorry, but that's not a head. She did a quick ultrasound to confirm. She then spoke with the doctor who felt it was too late to try to turn the baby. I shed a few quick tears for a lost natural delivery (and a little from fear), but we proceeded to get ready for the c-section. It went quickly, and he was right before our eyes! I'll try to get pictures on soon. Am I missing any important details?

My dislike of wasps...

As I put in an earlier post, Luke got stung by a wasp earlier this summer, and his poor little ear stood out straight for the day. He was much better the next day, and he didn't complain about it at all after that. I was thankful that it was over so quickly.

I have had a couple of run ins with wasps this summer myself, and I am not fairing so well. I've never been allergic to the stings before, so I hope that maybe it's just my pregnant state that has me reacting so severely. I was stung about a month ago on my calf. It turned red all the way down to my ankle, and it was swollen and itchy for about a week. I still have a knot in my calf where it stung me.

Then this past Monday morning, I was stung again on the same leg, but higher up behind my knee. It was quite a morning...Joshua and I were working on school when he mentioned that we had a calf out in our yard. I went out to try to get the calf back into the pasture, and once that was done, Joshua told me that we had evidence of a sick dog on our front porch. I went to get the hose to clean it off, and the wasp stung me. It's bruised and red looking. My leg is swollen and itchy from halfway up my thigh to halfway down my calf. The doctor says they can't do anything for me since I'm pregnant. I have been taking Benadryl, and the allergy dr said today that I can also take Zyrtec, but I don't think that I have any. Anyway, I hope it gets better soon, as I'll have enough to worry about if I go into labor this week!

I have an appointment Friday for a check up and ultrasound. We'll see how the baby is progressing and maybe we'll have baby news this weekend!

Dirt cups

Have you ever eaten at Mimi's cafe? If so, and if it included a kid's meal, then you probably know about their dirt cups. The boys love them, and it's a great way to get them to eat there! I decided to try to replicate the dirt cups at home. Start with chocolate pudding, sprinkle crushed Oreos on top, and put some gummy worms in it. How great is that? Here is Luke enjoying his. Please forgive my Southern drawl, I didn't realize that I have it that bad!


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Summer dreams, drifting away...

Summer is almost officially gone. We have started "school" here, in hopes that we can take some time off when baby arrives. It's going "okay" so far, I'm still working out a good schedule between a 3rd grader, a Kindergartener, and a toddler. Let's throw in a newborn and see how that upsets everything that I've tried so far. Stay tuned, it should be interesting.

We've had a good summer. So many things were going on. Joshua has had the most fun, I think. After his trip to stay with Jake and Six Flags with Daddy, he got to go tubing in Helen with Andrew. I got to keep Katelyn for the day. Andrew then stayed with us for a couple of nights, and then Jake stayed with us for a week. Jenna got to stay one night, when Mom was nice enough to share her. Little girls are so different. I didn't quite get the hang of putting a little ponytail on top of her head, and the elastic band just kept slipping out. Can't say that I've had much practice with it.
I had said in an earlier post that baby had dropped, and I wouldn't be hiking. Well, I was wrong. Baby decided to ease up on my back, and so we decided to go search out another geocache when Jake was here. Hiking in the woods following the GPS to a treasure box is right up these little boys' alley. We checked the weather, and it said 5% chance of rain. Well, 5% turned into a downpour when we were out in the woods. I was trying to keep the GPS dry and still figure out when the box was. The boys were slipping and sliding around and having a wonderful time. Luke was scared of the thunder, so Matt carried him for a little way. Anyway, we found the box, and the boys were thrilled to exchange a little trinket for one in the box. Just look at those faces!