Pictures of our newest addition

Well, here's some pictures of our newest little one. Here he is in Grandma's arms an hour or so after birth.

Big sister, Little Miss Priss, was very excited to see the baby!

Big brother, Mischievo, wants to hold his baby brother all the time. He does a good job, too.

One more picture of him that I took today in his swing.

I'll have to post the complete birth story later. He was born at home under water after about 6 hours of labor, which included an hour and a half of pushing! Not much fun, but I'm so glad it's all over and he's here. So far he's very calm and laid back for the most part. He doesn't complain too loudly and is easily consoled. I just hope it keeps up!

It's a Boy!

Well, he's finally here! Born at 4:00 this afternoon. 7lbs. 3oz., 20 3/4 in. long and a big ole 14 1/2 in. head! The Lord has done great things for us, we're so thankful that he's here and all went well. We're both doing fine, but very tired, so I'll post pictures and more info tomorrow. I'll have to come up with a blog name for him. If anyone wants to know his name just leave a separate comment with your e-mail address and I won't post it, if you don't want everyone to know your e-mail address. Good night!

39 1/2 weeks belly pic

Well, I finally got another picture taken of me. It doesn't look very good because of the shadows. Oh, well.

Today is my due date and no sign of a baby coming. Little Miss Priss was 8 days late, so I've been trying to prepare myself for this one being late, too. It's still hard though. I'm so tired of being pregnant and I'm so uncomfortable. I don't sleep very good at night and it's so painful to roll over. I'm trying hard to just stay busy and be happy for every day that I have to get more things done. Today I'm just tired of waiting. I can't seem to get motivated to stay busy.
Well, enough about me. Here's a cute pic of my kids, since I haven't been doing very good about posting.

I'll try to make sure and let you all know when the baby comes. Hopefully that will be soon!!!

Painting

Well, I'm finally getting around to a post I promised! A couple of months ago now, my in-laws were here visiting and my mother-in-law helped me paint my kitchen and one wall in my living room. It looks so nice and I'm very happy with how it all turned out. The kitchen took way longer than I though it would, though! There's lots of small areas that have to be handpainted instead of rolled on, so that took longer. We worked on it for two days. Now, I just need to start working on repainting some of my cupboards and drawers. Maybe this summer.

Here's a before picture, so you can see what color paint I had before.

Here's what it looks like now.

This is the wall by our eating area.

Here's the living room wall.

The pictures really don't do the paint justice, since you can't really tell what the true color is. The paint in the living room almost looks the same in the pictures as the kitchen, but it's really quite a bit darker.

Well, I do have a ton of cute pictures of my kids I could post, but I'll just have to try and post them later. We just got back from a trip to Seattle yesterday and I threw up twice yesterday on the way home. I still don't feel 100%, I feel really weak and food doesn't settle in my tummy very well, but I'm hungry! I need to get another belly picture taken before this baby comes. I haven't been doing very good about that this time. It's starting to seem more and more real that there's going to be another baby around here in a month or so. I'm so ready to be done with being pregnant!!!

I'm still here!

Thanks, Knittery for your concern! I'm glad someone's missing me! I guess I'm allowed to post without pictures, huh?! I usually get hung up on getting pictures posted and that prevents me from doing any posts at all. I'm always thinking up blog posts, but that doesn't get them on here! I've been extremely tired lately so blogging is on the back burner. We've had several bouts of sickness over the last month. My in-laws were here for a few days and my mother-in-law helped me paint my kitchen, which I really wanted to post pics of but will have to do later. Then, that same weekend I was responsible for our all-day-meeting. So, I started the next week pretty exhausted and ended up sick! All I could do was lay on the couch for three days in a row and let my kids run wild. Even after that I was still very weak and tired. It took a long time to recover, plus the kids were both sick at some point while I was sick. Since then, Little Miss Priss has been crying out a lot at night, so I haven't been getting many good nights of sleep, plus I have to roll over so many times at night due to aching joints. Two weekends ago we flew down to my parents for my cousins wedding and came home very exhausted! Then on Thursday, Little Miss Priss had diarrhea all day long and ended up dehydrated on Friday. It was kind of scary. We kept trying to make her drink water and Pedialyte and she wanted to sleep a lot all day long. Thankfully she was feeling better by evening and was totally herself again on Saturday. Today, I'm really tired due to the time change and late nights. So, those are all my complaints! Sorry if this wasn't a very encouraging post. I will try to do some better posts with some pictures one of these days.

No pics of the snow post!

Well, I thought I had some pictures of the kids playing in the snow last week but they turned out so dark you can hardly see the kids so I'm not posting them. For some reason my brain went dead when I was trying to think of a title to this post!

Here's a cute picture I took of my kids.

Here's Little Miss Priss being her goofy self! She loves clomping around in her brother's snow boots. I thought it was especially cute with the pink dress!

I think I set myself back trying to make a snow house for my kids last week. Afterward my hip hurt so bad. Its been doing so good until now. It's still not back to what it was. If I could get enough energy to do some excercise it would probably help. I'm in the third trimester now and I definitely feel it. I'm so ready to be done! My belly feels so heavy and I have so many Braxton-Hicks contractions. If I'm walking around for very long, especially in the evening, I feel so uncomfortable. The contractions don't hurt, they're mostly annoying and uncomfortable, especially if my bladder feels full! Which it almost always does, now! It still seems like a long time until this baby is supposed to be born. In some ways I'm glad, since I'm not exactly ready to deal with a newborn right now, but in other ways I'm ready for it all to be over. Plus, I can't wait to meet this baby!

25 week belly pic and catch up post

I'm really behind. I'm 27 weeks already and I'm just now getting around to posting my 25 week pic. At least I took a picture! It is so hard to get it taken. My husband is so busy these days that I never want to bug him about taking my picture, so I have to do it my self. This picture looks really lame. I hate my own picture, it never looks good to me, but anyway here it is. Just look at the belly and not the face!

Here's a cute pic of Little Miss Priss in her pig tails. This was the first time I've ever put her hair in pig tails. I've been waiting all my life to have a little girl to do her hair! Finally, she has enough hair! She doesn't appreciate it, though. She fusses when I try to do her hair.

We went to Seattle for a little vacation about 2 weeks ago now. We stayed there from Thursday night to Wednesday morning. We had a very nice time and we did more things than we have before. We went to the aquarium one day and took a ferry on another day. Both of the kids liked the aquarium and the ferry ride. We also got visits in with family.
Here's a picture of the kids on the ferry before we pulled away from the dock.

Here's Little Miss Priss with all her goofiness eating her sandwich on the ferry.

And here's the kids sound asleep on the way home with their teddy bears that their Grandma bought them.


So, I guess I'm still not really caught up because we got lots of snow on Sunday and now I have pictures of the kids playing in the snow yesterday. I'll have to try and do another post before the week is over for that. I'm really losing my motivation to blog. For some reason I can easily find other things that I'd rather do besides blogging. I also enjoy reading everyone else's blogs better than writing my own posts. It's much more interesting!