The cutest boy ever!!

This was too good not to post. We are all adjusting, Lucas has been miserable today, teething, ear infections, fevers and ornery Jacey came down with his fever tonight so poor Taylor doesn't stand a chance of staying healthy at this house.

Well...She was worth waiting for.

Hey Y'all!! A day later we are home and feeling pretty darn good. Taylor came to us at 12:04 pm on July 21st. She must have waited so she could share her birthday with Louky. She was 6lbs 12oz. and 20" long.

I started having contractions on Monday morning at about 2:45 am and then my water broke at 4:30. We got to the hospital at about 5:30am after I had a tuna fish sandwich at home. (Justin's mom was gagging and laughing that I could eat tuna fish with pickles at 5 in the morning) :)

they hooked me up to the iv's and monitors and then I got my epidural at about 8:30am. The anethesiologist had his routine and he gives fentinal with all his epidurals, I learned that narcotics make me throw up. So this was my first delivery that there was puking involved which was sad cause it could have been avoided had I just declined the yucko stuff. I had already gotten a nubain? inj. for the pain while I waited for the needle man. There was an emergency somewhere else so he was really delayed getting to me. Beyond the puking everything went well. Epidural, labor, delivery, and recovery, were pretty text book. We had lots of visitors and Taylor stayed awake to greet them all. She was born smiling, and is quiet and happy.

The first night she and I stayed alone and she ate at 11 pm and slept until about 8am. She was up all day so I can understand why she slept and slept. I got up in the night to move around and change her, I tried to feed her but she only wanted to sleep. So the first night was REALLY good. She slept quite a bit more today so I am expecting to be up a little more tonight. Thanks for all your prayers and visits and goodies we love ya all. Thanks for everything.. MORE to come.

Don't get too excited for me yet...

It appears I am on an induction waiting list. Leave it to me to find out such a thing existed. Monday is booked for inductions, and I am not on the list... Unless I go into labor on my own it doesn't look like I am going to get in. Tuesday I am scheduled for 7:30 in the morning, which I could also get bumped from soooo....I still have to call this morning to see if anything has changed. Happy Birthday to Lucas, who I am afraid is also going to get bumped. His birthday has been put on the back burner cause we don't know what we know around here. Thanks for your hopeful well wishes, I love the comments. It seems you have all been waiting just as eagerly as I have and now that we know something has to happen soon it seems a little anticlimactic. But maybe that's because we are STILL waiting. I have gotten 5 surprise we had our baby phone calls in the last 2 months and many of those people are on my blog checking for news. I assure you, you all will know as soon as we know anything. Thanks for hanging in there with me. now the suspense is....what will the next post bring????

Killing time

Hey this is the fun we had on Saturday, we took mom and the kids to Olympia's lakefair. A little carnival that was just getting up and running when we got there. I got some carmal corn cause I don't get to even ride on the carousel being pregnant, so mom and justin rode next to the kids. Really Lucas was too little for ALLLL the rides but a couple of the carnies played along. I wish we could have captured the look on Lucas' face on that air balloon ride cause it made him queezy and he was looking a LOT green. I was sure he was going to throw up on Jacey and all because we wanted him to be able to ride the rides soooo bad... it was really funny.

This is what a 24lb box of apricots looks like in jars. 6 batches and 33 jars later this is what we got. I'm figuring this will be 2-4 years worth since we also have raspberry and strawberry jam. Next is peaches later in August. Justin and Mom did the washing, cutting, and hand blended the apricots and I cooked and mixed then put into jars, Justin put lids on after I filled them. 6 batched goes pretty fast with 3 sets of hands. Justin is pretty excited because this is his favorite.

Some much needed good news.

Well I like company and so the fact that Justin's mom comes in tonight is fun for me. The fact that she won't miss the babies arrival is even better. I had a preinduction appt this morning that gave me some hope. The Dr. said I am finally at a good place for induction and that I am 70% effaced and at a 2 1/2 for dilation. She expects that I will have this baby this weekend on my own and won't need to be induced monday, (though we are planning on a monday induction just in case). So for those of you who have been waiting more patiently than I have there should be something to report by Monday.

Still having lots of contractions but they still are NOT getting real serious, lots this morning though and generally I don't have much going on in the mornings.

As BIG as I've ever been....

Hey quick update on my Drs. appointment, the news is there is no news. I am still a 1 and still 50% effaced. Well she did say a 1 and a 1/2 and 40-50% effaced so really we are almost moving backwards, cause I was 50% effaced last week. It is no suprise to me I guess, that is exactly what I knew I would hear. What are ya gonna do? At this point (after crying at the doctors office) I am over it. She/He will come whenever he is going to I guess. The doctor said the baby isn't even in a low enough position to "strip the membranes" so we have some time. She was willing to set up an induction date for the 22nd. I go back on Friday to see if my cervix is in a more favorable position for an induction. If it's not then I would rather not have a failed induction just because I am impatient, I hear failed inductions stink!! However Justins mom comes in on Friday evening to see the new baby, yeah the one we don't have. So she will get to be here hopefully for the arrival of this one, that would be a sad visit to come and not even get to see the baby before she has to go. This should be an interesting week. Sooooo that as they say, is that!! thanks for all the well wishing, I have plenty of projects to occupy my time until August so I'll just start getting them done.

P.S. We are getting a home phone put in on Wednesday so that will be fun. Email me if you want the number or I might send out a mass email or something. We have had only cell phones for the last 4 years so this will fun.

Amanda's turn 1st....Announcing Harley Jane

For any family or friends that might be interested or know Amanda, she and Bryant had their baby last night (July 8th) at 10:22pm and she was 4 lbs 13 oz, 17" long and healthy. Amanda had a c-section due to the baby being breach, they tried to turn her last friday and were unsuccessful. Amanda's water broke on its own and they went in at 7pm tuesday and since there was a c-section head of her she had to wait a little bit, but when it was her turn everything went smoothly and aside from Harley being a bitty little thing she is healthy and doing well.
And interestingly enough Amanda having her baby has lessened the pressure I was feeling to be done. I now feel like I have had a little attitude change and maybe another week won't kill me. I don't know how it changed anything, but I am content to enjoy her moment without feeling so frustrated at my own situation. I say as long as I have my baby before Sarah (due July 24th) I should be o.k. :)