December Catch Up!

Wow time flies when you are having fun! OR when you have a 2 year old and a 5 month old and lots of Christmas festivities going on. I have sat down to blog at least 5 times and didn't know where to start so...well I just didn't. Here we go!

First Pete took his vacation at the beginning of December as usual but we had some work to do on the house so we decided on a "stay-cation" this year instead. We enrolled Peter in Mother's Day Out two days a week to get him around some other kids and to give me some time with Hadley. He has been enjoying it a lot. We went to Fiesta Texas one day while Pete was off and watched the Nativity show with all of the live animals. They had a lot of little rides open that Peter could ride and believe me we rode every single one. Peter loved the train and rode it by himself at least three times. We also went to SeaWorld one day and saw their Christmas shows. After we watched the Sesame Street show, Peter kept telling us that he really needed to talk to Elmo and he needed to give him a hug so we waited around afterwards. You have to sign up before the show to take pictures with the cast but a family didn't show up and we got to take their spot. Peter could not take his eyes off of Elmo. Cookie Monster and Big Bird were hanging their heads because Peter didn't look at them once...lol. Guess I didn't realize how much he liked Elmo!
Hadley has really changed over the last month. She is finally not crying all of the time and is really a pretty happy baby. She will play by herself on the floor or in her exersaucer for 20 minutes several times a day which is so nice when I am getting meals ready or getting Peter and I dressed. She is figuring out how to spin all of her toys or pull the ones that play music. She jibber jabbers much of the day and has me wondering if she will be the talker her brother is. Her favorite place to nap is in the swing. Now if we could only get her to sleep at night! She turned 5 months old yesterday! We also got her ears pierced this month, which if you saw the picture on facebook, you know stirred up some controversy...lol...to be expected I guess. Oh well.

Hadley wearing my baby dress.


Loving the exersaucer!


We got all of our decorations up pretty early this year and Peter loved helping to decorate the tree and play with his nativity scene. We have the Fisher Price one and Peter figured out that baby Jesus fit just right for a ride in the donkey cart.

We found this little guy in our Christmas tree box.


One of the million shots for Christmas cards. :)



Went for a trip with Gaga and Holden to see Santa.
Pete's mom gave us tickets for "A Tuna Christmas" at the Majestic theatre this year. It was really funny and we had a great and much needed date night!



Eating dinner at Rita's on the River. Pete gave me my Christmas present there, a Pandora charm bracelet. I cried.


Getting ready for a birthday party for Jesus!

Christmas Day!

HAPPY 2010!

October Fun!

We have had lots of fun this month so far! We were able to get away for a week earlier this month to our friends lake house at Lake Corpus Christi near Mathis, Tx. It was so nice to just relax and to be together as a family for 5 straight days! We fished a little and mostly just hung out. Here is Peter's first catfish catch!

While we we there we went to Corpus Christi one day and visited the Aquarium and ate some seafood. Peter really liked getting to touch the animals and "train" the dolphins. :)



Our first Professional Portrait as a family of four...lol.This Sunday we had baby dedications and got to dedicate Hadley. One of our elders Bob dedicated her since usually Pete does the dedications. She fell right to sleep when he started praying. There were 11 families doing dedications this weekend!

My friend Becca told me after church that she had put some left over baby food, that she had from her little boy, in Pete's truck for when Hadley starts eating it. I didn't expect 75 jars! Your awesome Becca! Had to do a little rearranging in my cabinets!


My mom was here for a few days and helped me get so many things off my to do list! It is so nice having good company all day to talk to. We hate when she has to leave!! Today we had playgroup costume party. Peter requested to be a brown dog so I made his costume this week and H was a ballerina.


Speaking of dogs...Lucy has been so naughty since we brought Had home and has spent most of her free time pouting, spilling the kitchen trash can, and soiling the carpet about 10 feet from her doggy door. Want her? Maybe she can't SEE her doggy door since i haven't taken her the groomer in SO long. Good news is we have new tile for the house..bad news is we still don't know who will install it. I can' wait! We have Fall Festival on Sunday night so stay tune for more pictures!

Lots of Catching Up to Do!

My mom reminded me yesterday that I hadn't updated this since August! Thanks mom! You are probably the only one who reads this anymore. :) So we have been doing some major adjusting to having two kids and I am not sure that any of us have adjusted too smoothly. We have spent the first two months trying to figure out if Hadley has reflux or a food allergy or both. Right now it seems like probably both. I have completely cut out all dairy from my diet and it seems like she is sleeping better and screaming much less after nursing..so exhausting. Pete forgot that I couldn't have dairy and was trying to be sweet after I had a really long day with the kids and bought me a pint of chocolate ice cream. I want to eat it SO. BAD. Torture! So here are some pictures of what we've been up to lately:

Hadley has been working on cooing..so fun.


Baking cookies.


Camping in the backyard.


Napping.


Baling hay.

Laughing at Peter.


Spreading germs...lol...Peter had croup. Hadley and I got a cold. Peter's croup turned into bronchitis and then he had a huge swollen lymph node in his groin, dr. said from a scrape on his knee that got infected. We have been stuck in the house for over a week!! AHHHH!

On a happier note, Pete finally got his bible study books finished, published, and printed. Yay! He's worked so hard on these and I am proud of him for getting them done. Go HERE.

That's all for now! Hopefully I will be back before Christmas! :)

Baby Shower

Some sweet friends of ours and Pete's mom were throwing a small shower for my friend Lori and I together since we had the same due date. Hadley surprised us and came a month early so she was already a week old when the shower came. I was ready to get out of the house for the first time so Pete watched Hadley for an hour while I ran over to the shower. It was wonderful and pink! Everything was so cute and Hadley got so many cute outfits! Thanks to everyone who helped and sorry I had to eat and run!!

Hadley is here!

So I am only a month late on posting this but I thought I should go ahead and write it all down before I forget. Hadley was born 4 weeks ago and weighed 6 lbs 1 oz. and 19 inches long. I didn't feel very good that Sunday before and told Pete I thought I might have her soon. I went in the next morning for my 36 week check-up and the doctor said I was already dilated to a 4! My mom came in that evening because we all knew it would be soon and fast since Peter was born so fast. I had some irregular contractions on Tuesday but no pain and nothing I could even time. I started feeling really nauseous that afternoon and called Pete to see if he could come home by 5. We chose to use our local hospital because with Peter I almost didn't make it to the hospital in San Antonio and we were afraid to chance it this time. I decided to go ahead and go up to the hospital even though my water hadn't broken and I still thought my contractions were pretty irregular. They were not painful, just uncomfortable and felt more like Braxton Hicks contractions, but I just felt like it was getting close. The three minute drive to the hospital was so nice! Also my mom was already here so I didn't have to worry about Peter being taken care of if they admitted me. I got checked in around 6:30 pm and was dilated to a 6 and having contractions 2 to 4 minutes apart. Still just feeling uncomfortable and crampy and was having to watch the monitor to see if I was having regular contractions. Nurses came in and got blood work done and papers signed and dr came in to check progress. I was at an 8 and starting to really have to breath through the contractions and focus on relaxing my muscles through the pain. I got up to go to the bathroom as many times as they would let me so I wouldn't have to sit in the bed. The contractions were starting to be as hard and close as they could be so they checked again and I was a 9.5. The dr said i could push as soon as he broke my water so I finally let him...lol. I pushed twice and Hadley was born at 9:30! I had a natural birth with Peter and was able to do it again with Hadley. I am so thankful that it was relaxed and much less chaotic than the first one. Being born at 36 weeks, we thought she may have some lung issues but after some oxygen and iv fluids, her lung problem resolved itself and was clear by the second day.

At a 6 and having contractions every 2 to 4 minutes. Still no pain. Crazy!


At an 8, forcing a smile between hard contractions. :)

She's here!

No more tubes!


First family of four picture.

Meeting big brother.


Home at last!