Kaden

Kaden got his tonsils & adnoids out April 7th. He was a trooper. The one thing he was SO afraid of was "the needles". We kept telling him not to be afraid, but he is deathly afraid of shots, needles, etc. He got his finger pricked at his pre-op appointment and thought he was being killed.  Overall, he did great and it is now behind us.  We are happy to report he no longer snores like an old man. Sleeping much better now!

He didn't have the best Easter since he was still on his liquid diet.  This picture tells a lot:

Hudsen

Hudsen Lee

Hudsen's special day at school. Grandma B. was here to watch Adalyn so I could go and spend the morning with Hudsen. It was a blast!
Hudsen's new thing lately has been playing legos and tinkertoys in our bay window. Love that we can sit in our family room and watch the deer. Do you see it right to the left of Hudsen?

Likes and Dislikes

Addie likes:

Spa treatments (baths, hair being washed)

1st bath @hospital

1st bath at home

The Miracle Blanket (no really, that is what it is called)
Swinging

Hates:
hats (or ANYthing on her head for that matter)

being messed with (a.k.a. getting dressed)

naps in her crib

getting buckled into her carseat

Playing Catch-up

OK, so I am NOT good at blogging. I WANT to be good at it. I wish I had more time. But, that is something that seems to just fly by with a blink of an eye. I hate how fast the last SEVEN weeks have gone. Our sweet Adalyn Mae is already SEVEN weeks old today. She is an amazing little girl in so many ways. The last two nights she has slept 8 straight hours. I know God gave me a baby like this because of the way Hudsen was as a baby! I look back at that time and wonder how I survived it all! All alone with a three year old, a newborn, a husband that worked some really CRAZY hours, no friends and my family 1,000 miles away. If that doesn't qualify someone for PPD, I don't know what does!!!! So I am thanking God everyday for Addie (and not just because of her sleeping habits, but that is a little bit of it!) and also the place that I am in now (physically and emotionally).

Here are just some of my favorite pics of the last month and a half.

So, I am going to go backwards a bit...

I am feeling the need to tell the story of Adalyn's birth. Bear with me...

I had a scheduled induction at 8 a.m. on Wed, Feb. 25th, 2009.

It was a long and kind of boring day. Waiting...

I had pitocin to get labor going and then I couldn't take it much longer and had an epidural at 6:30 p.m. (who needs natural childbirth? I've done that, it is overrated!)

I got to enjoy American Idol that night. (See American Idol on the tv?)

25 minutes later, my water broke as I was talking about when my doctor was going to come in and "snag the bag". Weird, and quite funny!

I love that I can have a smile on my face while in VERY active labor. This day was a total roller coaster ride. Miss Adalyn wanted to be born hand first. THAT was not going to work. My awesome doctor (best doc in the world in my opinion!) Dr. Agudelo kept pushing Adalyn's hand away. Everytime she came to check me, her hand would be back by her head. NOT good. I could tell Dr. A was nervous and tried to prepare me for the dreaded c-section in case things didn't change. She gave it another hour and came back and checked me and pushed her hand back again. Thankfully, she kept her hand where it belonged and it was go time...

(the last belly pic...it was really distorted at this point!)

After 16 hours and 31 minutes of labor (my longest) and four pushes (my fewest) Adalyn Mae was finally here. We thought she looked so small. I guess compared to a 3 year old and a 7 year old, she was. But, compared to an "average" sized newborn, not so much. She weighed in at 9 pounds exactly. 20 inches long. She was SO mad when she came out! But, oh so sweet.