Isaac Jonathan Thomas

I am very happy to say that Isaac Jonathan Thomas is here! He was born on 10-22-2010 at 11:44 pm. Isaac weighed in at 9lbs 10 oz and is 22 inches long.  He was a big boy.

The delivery went great. I started having contractions a few days before and actually went to the maternity center to be checked out. My midwife wasn't on call so I just saw the on call Dr. She didn't think I was progressing fast enough so she sent us home. Luckily we had a dr. apt the very next day. When I went in I was 5cm and my midwife didn't seem to happy they sent me home. She believed that my uterus was so large because of the amount of fluid and based on how I measured that my body physically couldn't produce stronger contractions. The fibers couldn't connect to produce stronger contractions. The ones I was having for two days were as strong as they could get. So she sent us over to the hospital so she could break my water.

As my midwife predicted (she actually sent me to an MD who said I didn't have to much fluid) I had a lot of fluid. And when I say a lot...I mean a lot. Basically she had to jump out of the way LOL and that happened 4 times. Once they broke my water they started me on pitocin to get the contractions stronger and 5.5 hours later Isaac was here. It was a good delivery and I only pushed for 30 mins (very proud of that BTW). As my midwife was thinking...he was a little on the big size (and that same MD said he wasn't very big and maybe 8lbs).  I did loose a lot of blood a few hours after delivery. They estimated about 2 liters of blood. (a non-pregnant adult has on average 5 liters of blood if you didn't know). That resulted in me coming as close to passing out as you can get (had to use smelling salts)....twice. Luckily my bleeding was gotten under control and the rest of our stay was uneventful.

Isaac was perfectly healthy after delivery. His blood sugars were low (common in large babies) for the first few hours of his life so those were closely monitored...luckily they stabilized. He has the most perfect baby complexion I have ever seen. I think it was all the fluid LOL.

Isaac is so perfect in every way and we are so blessed to have him in our family. I am a very lucky girl with 3 boys who I love so so much!

Isaac is officially one week old now. These are just a few things I want to remember from his first weeks:

• Had first dr. apt and weighed 9lbs 2 oz.
• Love loves loves to sleep with mommy and to cuddle
• Had days and nights mixed up (I think we might have that fixed...yay)
• Eats a lot! Had to supplement for the first couple days until I could catch up. He is a great nurser so far
• Grew out of newborn diapers
• Umbilical Cord fell off on day 8
• Very much loved by his big brother
• Went to target for the first time
• Celebrated his first Halloween
• Went to daddy's work for a Halloween party with Ethan

And now, what I know you all really want...pictures :)

Turn your head tot the left to look at this picture. For some reason blogger is forcing it this way. :(

Well....I am off to feed the baby again!!

Routine??

We had a routine...but that went out the window this week. This is my first week at home without working, and coincidentally Jon is also home this week. He is working from home until I have the baby. It's so nice to have him here just in case. And Ethan loves that he can walk into the back room and talk to Jon. Today we all three slept until 845 am. WHOOPS. But it was so nice. I don't really sleep good at night anymore, I pretty much get up every 2 hours, so the extra time was nice.

I am not worried about our lack of a routine, it will all change again in a few days (hopefully LOL) so I figure while we are still a family of three we will enjoy the flexibility and stay up late and sleep in and just have fun! 

Since I mentioned Jon was working from home I have a funny story from the first day. Jon came downstairs in his boxers and said he was off to work. (work is in the back room). Ethan looked at him and said, "but daddy you only have your underwear on! You are missing your pants and shirt." hehe. nothing gets by this kid. It was pretty funny. So Jon still has to get dressed before he can go to work. :)

Well, the counter on my blog says 6 days. I wish he would come sooner than that because my sister Cindy is only here until Friday. But I know he will come when he is ready. I learned that lesson the hard way with Ethan.

I am off to make some rice crispy treats with my favorite 3 year old! Happy labor thoughts everyone. I did do my hair this morning and shave my legs LOL. So today would be a good day. ;)

Boys and some randomness

Boys are so much fun! I can't wait to have two of them running around this house.

I love that when I take a shower my bath is full of toys that I have to move around.

I think it's funny that all the cars and trucks have to be out at the same time

I love that instead of blankets and dolls when he goes to bed he sleeps with trucks and cars. 



I love that somehow he thinks cleaning off in the kitchen sick is the best thing ever LOL. We were painting today and he got paint on his feet so I set him on the counter with his feet in the sink. Next thing I knew his UW was off and he was "warming up" in the sink. LOL. I just about died laughing when he asked if I could sit in the other side of the sink with him.

And now for the randomness part....
 
Ethan loved it when we painted the nursery. He loves helping with projects..especially when Bapa is helping with them. He is a Bapa's boy for sure. Loves cars, trucks and helping Bapa with anything. I think Bapa will be teaching Ethan a lot. When we were doing the nursery Ethan learned to paint:
 

 You missed a spot Bapa. :)

AND...lastly...here is me this weekend before Jon and I went to dinner. This is 37 weeks and 4 days. It was nice to enjoy a few hours just with us. It will be a while before we do that again I think. Thanks mom and dad for watching E.

Updates

My computer ended up with a virus so Jon has been fixing it...I finally got it back and feel like I am starting to reconnect to the world. I am going to copy my friend Andrea and just post some quick updates.

Baby Update:

• Baby is doing really good. My stomach is huge. Last week I measured 38 cm...this week I measured 43. Yes...that's 5cm for those who are counting. They think it's mostly his position. He is completely out in front...there is nothing on the sides. Needless to say...I have already told Jon to start saving for my plastic surgery.
• I have been having some contractions on and off for the last week. They checked me yesterday and I am dilated 1 cm. This is exciting for me because with Ethan I was never dilated and I never had any contractions or anything before he came.
• Baby's room is all done...and I mean all done. Pictures will come soon. :) I have everything set up, washed and in it's appropriate spot. I am completely ready and ready can be. Just need the little guy now.

Ethan Update:

• Ethan is doing great. He talks to the baby all the time...and asks how much longer until he is here. I know when he is here...he might change his mind LOL.  He keeps commenting that my lap is running out of room. :) I think kids know when things are about to change. The last two nights Ethan has asked me to rock him. I haven't been asked to do that in probably 6 months. So I made as much room as I could on my lap and we have been rocking.
• Ethan can hit a ball over our fence in the back yard from the patio...and not on a T either.  He hits while Jon pitches to him. We have a big back yard actually...I thought it would last longer for our 3 year old LOL. Silly me.

Christy Update:

• This week I packed up my desk at work and gave all my projects away to other people. I don't do that much anymore...it's kinda nice. It hasn't really set in that I am not going back to work. It feels like I am just getting ready to have the baby. I know in a few months it will set it. I know I will miss parts of it a lot. But I also know that this is what is right for our family. I have 37 years left to work...so if I can enjoy a few with my boys...then I am going to jump on the opportunity.
• I also get to spend some time with my sisters kids, Maddie who is 3 and Brady who is 6 months once I stay home. It's a blessing to be able to watch them during the day and I am excited to start. It will take us some time to find our routine...and I will be out numbered 1:4 haha. So I guess my vote gets to count as 4. They are all 4 good kids and I am excited for the opportunity for them to all be together. It will be neat being apart of Maddie and Brady's life. I do love those kids a lot.

Jon Update:

• Jon is doing good and keeping busy with work and me. Hehe. He takes good care of me and I am lucky to have him. Although he does laugh when I try to get out of bed. But I suppose I do look rather funny.

Well that about sums up what we have been up to. :)

Nursery Fun

You know that "nesting" phase that hits all of a sudden...well I got mine while we were on vacation LOL. I think we had the cleanest hotel room though. I think I just realized all the things we needed to do and started to worry. So when we got home I designated labor day weekend as our time to work on the baby's room. Jon was especially excited for this. :)

The good news is that we did a lot and it is finally looking like a baby's room...not a study. Phew. We got the crib up and the changing table and I even made some decorations for the room. I took some pictures, but they are with my phone because I was to tired to go down stairs and get my real camera. I know...I know...but I am seriously tired today.

So...here is his crib. The bedding polka dots in darker primary colors.  And there still isn't a sheet or anything on it yet  (cause I don't have one LOL). But I have everything else!

My mom is going to paint one wall red in the room too. I think that will really look nice. I just love the way my decorations turned out. And I seriously made all of them. I found this canvas painting at Baby Daily for $99.  Yikes...that was a bit over budget...so I made my own. It turned out so so so so so cute and I think it will look awesome on the red wall. It looks just like the one there.  I got the canvas 50% off at craft warehouse last weekend so all I had to do was buy the paper. I had everything else at home!

Then I made these. They are each an 8x8 canvas and I am going to hang on the little wall by the window.

And last I made these cute little blocks with his name. I just love how these turned out.

I even went through and got his clothes organized,  and made a list of what we absolutely have to have before he is here. So I am feeling much better and I think Jon will tell you I am not as crazy as I was. (Ha...maybe not)/  Next weekend my sister is throwing me a shower which I am so excited for.

Once I get the room all put together I will take some pictures with my real camera!!

California Fun

Well I will just say I am sorry now because this will be long. :) We just got back from a great vacation in California! We left on Thursday morning at 4:30am so we could get on the road while Ethan was sleeping. He of course did great and slept until 8 and then was chatty chatty the rest of the 11 hours. :) It was a smooth ride down and we were all ready to get out of the car after 15 hours. But I have to say that Ethan is seriously a perfect traveler. He is just happy to be where we are! Funny story - Ethan woke up for a bit at 430 and wanted to talk, so we explained that he needed to go to sleep first because the sun wasn't up yet. When he woke up the first words out of his mouth were "the sun is up...we can talk now". LOL, he is so cute.

The whole reason for the trip was because one of my best friends was getting married. I was a bridesmaid (a rather large one) and Ethan was the bible boy. The wedding was beautiful and it was great to be apart of everything.

After the wedding we headed down to San Diego and went to the San Diego Zoo and Sea World. The Zoo is absolutely fabulous! It is huge and Ethan and Jon went 4 times. Yay for passes that work on multiple days and multiple times! It was hot the first two days so I only did half days at the zoo because I was pretty tired. So Jon and Ethan went back without me twice. I am glad they did because they had a lot of fun. They saw all of the animals and Ethan was full of stories for me. I was bummed to not be going, but it turns out little baby Isaac grew a lot on our trip - which explains why I was so tired. But I will discuss that later.

There were so many animals at the zoo! Ethan loved every minute of it. He really enjoys animals and learning about them.

Sea World was okay - the weather was nice and it was only 70 degrees the day we went. I enjoyed that a lot. :) I have to say that Sea World has turned into more of an amusement park. There are rides and the shows are more comedy then anything. The Sea Lions were quite disappointing. It was just a comedy show that had loud music and didn't really tell you anything about how the Sea Lions live or anything. Ethan didn't like the show at all because he hates loud things so he cried for most of it. The Dolphin show was better. But it was still half acrobats and people diving. The dolphins were so cute though. Ethan really enjoyed this show when the animals were out. The whales were fabulous! They are so beautiful and Ethan loved loved this show. It was more educational and it was just the animals. Not a bunch of fancy stuff to try and entertain people.

Here is a link to the pictures. *****PICTURES*****   Obviously I have tons of pictures of animals - so I tired to only pick the important ones and with people. :) And I am not a professional and these are not edited in the slightest bit LOL.

And now for the baby update. Isaac is growing great and things are going good. I measured 30 cm  at 30 weeks when we left and 35cm at 32 weeks when we got back! Yikes!! My midwife said she wasn't to concerned since Ethan obviously wasn't small and so we were expecting a growth spurt here soon. They will watch me for the next couple weeks and I might have to have an ultrasound just to see how big he is. I am not surprised since this same thing happened with Ethan. So I am glad that I didn't push it at the zoo because apparently Isaac was growing a lot! I have been a lot more uncomfortable the last few days and not sleeping so well...but I only have 7 weeks left so I can do it!!

Bapa's Rocks

We finally were able to get rocks for our back yard flower beds and the side of our house. My dad knows a guy..who knows a guy...etc...etc....and we ended up getting them for so so so cheap. Otherwise we would still have dirt because we really couldn't afford the rocks to match the front yard. My parents needed a lot more rocks than we did, but total for the two weekends Jon and my dad moved roughly 21 yards of rocks. They worked really hard to get it all done and our house and my parents house looks really nice.

The best part about the rocks was how much Ethan enjoyed the whole process. He thought it was great to be one of the guys out there with my dad and Jon. I have to say...they both were very patient and let Ethan help through the whole process. Ethan still talks about "Bapas Rocks". In fact, he is obsessed with trailers and trucks now. It's pretty cute.

There are some really cute pictures, but since there were so many this was easier. Enjoy. :)

Bapa's Rocks Pictures - Click Here