This year we were a family of Zombies. It was a pretty easy costume idea and I am glad all the kids agreed to it. Mikah kept changing her mind though.
10/31/12
Happy Halloween
10/11/12
Apple trees, cooler weather and changing colors
Mikah cannot get enough of the leaves changing. She keeps telling everybody to look out the window to see them. I am excited at her excitement! I love the changing season so much, fall is probably my favorite!
Our apple tree put out fruit this year and tomorrow I am going to try and bottle the apples with my neighbor Maude. Maesyn and her friend Shelby are out there picking them. I hope the novelty does now wear off until the tree is empty. It does not seem like we have too many out there and our other tree is empty. Next year when we don't have a new born it would be nice to have both trees FULL.
Mikah Jake and a friend are playing in the garage and I hope that they clean up after themselves.
I have a lot of laundry to fold on the couch and I bet I could be finished in about 30 minutes if I put my mind to it!
I would LOVE to take a nap on my bed with baby Ben and send the kids up stairs to watch a movie and hope that they would be quiet and nice. However, Ben peed on our sheets last night (AGAIN). And the bed has yet to be re made. I need to remember to point his little pee pee down so he does not pee straight out of the diaper.
I was feeling cold, so I turned on the heat. Now, if my house could be clean and the yard and the kids all nice. I could relax and enjoy the season.
Our apple tree put out fruit this year and tomorrow I am going to try and bottle the apples with my neighbor Maude. Maesyn and her friend Shelby are out there picking them. I hope the novelty does now wear off until the tree is empty. It does not seem like we have too many out there and our other tree is empty. Next year when we don't have a new born it would be nice to have both trees FULL.
Mikah Jake and a friend are playing in the garage and I hope that they clean up after themselves.
I have a lot of laundry to fold on the couch and I bet I could be finished in about 30 minutes if I put my mind to it!
I would LOVE to take a nap on my bed with baby Ben and send the kids up stairs to watch a movie and hope that they would be quiet and nice. However, Ben peed on our sheets last night (AGAIN). And the bed has yet to be re made. I need to remember to point his little pee pee down so he does not pee straight out of the diaper.
I was feeling cold, so I turned on the heat. Now, if my house could be clean and the yard and the kids all nice. I could relax and enjoy the season.
10/8/12
Happy 3rd Birthday Mikah
Ben was born 3 days before Mikah. I knew their special days would be close and I did not want to take away from Mikah with the business and excitement of Ben's arrival. Mikah finally decided on Dora for her party and we bought most of the stuff ahead of time and had things all planned out. I waited until Ben was born to pick a day and the Saturday after her birthday was going to be the day. Ben would be 5 days old! Yikes.
But first, Dad made a little doughnut cake for her on her actual birth day and grandma and grandpa anderson were in town to take her out shopping and to lunch. She picked 3 gifts at the dollar tree and gifts for Maesyn, Jake and Chaco!
On Saturday we had some more family in town (Sarah, Benson and Natalie) and it was helpful as well as Nate. We had 3 friends come over. The kids colored in giant coloring books, used a map to find a treasure (their goodie bags and Mikah's gifts) and watched episodes of Dora upstairs!
I think she had a good time!
Welcome Baby Ben
The whole week (and weeks) before Ben was born we would prep for his arrival, if it would happen that night. We had sitters set up and the house clean, clothes packed. I had been having annoying contractions for weeks that never got hard enough to really time for very long. I always ended up falling asleep through them and waking up fine, with no baby! I never knew when it was going to happen, but figured it would happen quite close to my due date. I even scheduled an induction for Friday before the due date, but canceled it and decided if I made it to my appt Monday I would schedule an induction asap!
On Saturday morning we did some house work and the kids had a Primary Program practice and pizza party at the church at 10. I went for a walk with Chaco, I even passed people telling them I wanted to get the baby out! I decided last minute to walk down the hill out of our neighborhood and to just keep going all the way to the church. It was a nice walk, but Chaco and I both needed water and I could not get close enough to the lake we passed to get him a drink. We met Nate at the Church house and I was surprised that I did not have a single contraction!
That night I had my normal lame contractions and ended up falling asleep after giving up on timing them. The were harder than normal, but not really progressing. At around 2 am Mikah came into our room to get into our bed and I felt a pop and thought maybe my water had broke! Sure enough it had (thankfully not a gush). The contractions started immediately. Very hard and close together. After about 2 I woke up Nate and told him we had to go! We live very close to the hospital so I was not concerned about our bags. I just knew we did not have much time. Our first person lined up to take the kids lived too far away in my opinion as did option number 2 and 3 so we ended up calling the Owens who live a few houses down. Even then I was worried we were running out of time.
On the way to the hospital I realized I did not have my wallet, but there was not time to turn around. We got to the entrance to the "tower" only to see it was locked and we had to use the ER to get in. Back in the car and to the ER, only to find Nate had dropped his wallet. Back in the car to find the wallet and then back to the ER. We got to Labor and delivery at about 2:18. Pretty quick. They admitted me and realized that they needed to hurry. Probably because when the took me to change I had to kneel down and hold onto the tub to get through my contraction!
We told them our birth plan. EPIDURAL! and even requested the CRNA we wanted. I got into the bed and they checked to see how far along I was. I was already dilated to a 9 and they explained that there would be no time for the epidural! I almost cried right there. I had not plans to deliver without pain meds. I tried to remember all the things I had learned about dealing with pain from my birthing class 8 years ago. I found something to focus on and breathed deep. The nurse helped me with my breathing. I told Nate I would hold onto the bed handles rather than break his hand but I do recall grabbing his jacket through one contraction.
I had no idea what I was doing and probably started pushing too soon, but he came! I felt bad because he probably did not feel very welcome with me yelling "I can't" and "Just get him out!". He was 8lbs 4oz. Our biggest baby yet (and I knew he would be as they all got bigger and bigger). He was born at 3:01 am, less than 45 min after arriving at the hospital.
Some of my friends welcomed me to the natural birth club. I told them I did not want to be in their crazy club and I was not a willing participant. Now that it has been a while I can say it is good to know I have experienced it but it was pretty hard. I am glad he came so quickly!
On Saturday morning we did some house work and the kids had a Primary Program practice and pizza party at the church at 10. I went for a walk with Chaco, I even passed people telling them I wanted to get the baby out! I decided last minute to walk down the hill out of our neighborhood and to just keep going all the way to the church. It was a nice walk, but Chaco and I both needed water and I could not get close enough to the lake we passed to get him a drink. We met Nate at the Church house and I was surprised that I did not have a single contraction!
That night I had my normal lame contractions and ended up falling asleep after giving up on timing them. The were harder than normal, but not really progressing. At around 2 am Mikah came into our room to get into our bed and I felt a pop and thought maybe my water had broke! Sure enough it had (thankfully not a gush). The contractions started immediately. Very hard and close together. After about 2 I woke up Nate and told him we had to go! We live very close to the hospital so I was not concerned about our bags. I just knew we did not have much time. Our first person lined up to take the kids lived too far away in my opinion as did option number 2 and 3 so we ended up calling the Owens who live a few houses down. Even then I was worried we were running out of time.
On the way to the hospital I realized I did not have my wallet, but there was not time to turn around. We got to the entrance to the "tower" only to see it was locked and we had to use the ER to get in. Back in the car and to the ER, only to find Nate had dropped his wallet. Back in the car to find the wallet and then back to the ER. We got to Labor and delivery at about 2:18. Pretty quick. They admitted me and realized that they needed to hurry. Probably because when the took me to change I had to kneel down and hold onto the tub to get through my contraction!
We told them our birth plan. EPIDURAL! and even requested the CRNA we wanted. I got into the bed and they checked to see how far along I was. I was already dilated to a 9 and they explained that there would be no time for the epidural! I almost cried right there. I had not plans to deliver without pain meds. I tried to remember all the things I had learned about dealing with pain from my birthing class 8 years ago. I found something to focus on and breathed deep. The nurse helped me with my breathing. I told Nate I would hold onto the bed handles rather than break his hand but I do recall grabbing his jacket through one contraction.
I had no idea what I was doing and probably started pushing too soon, but he came! I felt bad because he probably did not feel very welcome with me yelling "I can't" and "Just get him out!". He was 8lbs 4oz. Our biggest baby yet (and I knew he would be as they all got bigger and bigger). He was born at 3:01 am, less than 45 min after arriving at the hospital.
Some of my friends welcomed me to the natural birth club. I told them I did not want to be in their crazy club and I was not a willing participant. Now that it has been a while I can say it is good to know I have experienced it but it was pretty hard. I am glad he came so quickly!
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