Ryan Keith Maxwell

Announcing the birth of Ryan Keith Maxwell! YES, he's here! :)

After a quick trip to see my brother Andrew and the rest of my family (pics can be found on my sisters blog) we decided to be induced on wednesday and made the trip to the hospital. So the day went like this

7:50 arrive at the hospital

8:00 get set up in our room

9:00 induced (I'm already a 3.5)

12:00 still waiting

4:00 Dr. Breaks my water (I'm a 5)

4:30 get my epidural

5:30 start pitocin (I'm a 7)

7:46 Ryan Keith makes his appearance

21.5 inches long...and so big that he broke his left clavicle on the way out :( But we are thrilled to have him here

1,000 words- sleeping babes

1,000 words about Jacob

A need for more dates.

Ryan and I went out to eat tonight...we haven't been in a little while which was obvious when...

1. Ryan tried to share his glass of water with me
2. We were leaving and Ryan opened the kids doors first and didn't realize his mistake until I pointed it out.

I'm thinking we'll have to try another date before too long so we're not so out of practice next time around.

Silly Silly Boy

Jacob has a lot of silly little quirks that I love. For example he graduated from pulling books off the shelves to this:

Teancum and the Alien's

Teancum's been participating in the Summer Reading Program at the Library. One of the activities he had to do was write a short story that begins with "I woke in the middle of the night to the sound of..." I asked him questions like "what happened next" and wrote it down. This is the product of his imagination.

"I woke in the middle of the night to the sound of the moon. there was an astronaut on my house. An alien went in my room and opened my toy chest and he got my flashlight. I was going camping in the morning and went to get my flashlight. I opened my toychest and didn't see my flashlight. I looked at the alien. He opened his hand and he didn't see the flashlight. I had grabbed it back and went camping. The End"

Teancum, we love your imagination and creativity, thanks for keeping our lives fun and entertaining.

4 weeks and counting

I always think the last month lasts the longest, and it's the most uncomfortable; the baby constantly pushing on my stomach making me feel queesy and making my stomach sore, swollen hands and feet, carpel tunnel, too big to bend and pick things up comfortably... you get the point. This month seems to be worse since I'm completely wiped out from all the things that have made this pregnancy speed by:

2 major weddings/receptions to attend out of state
1 funeral
1 family vacation
2 trips just me and the boys to visit my parents
1 trip with Ryan and the boys to visit my parents
3 visits from friends and family
Temple trips
Stake conference in Rifle

And those are just the things that had us driving long distances..oh and our Christmas trip.
With all those trips I'm am more than ready for a boring weekend where there is nothing planned, and I want to stay put for my last month. (We'll see if that last one holds, since my brother comes home from his mission in 2 weeks).

Phrase of the week

Jacob's been getting into our Q-tips lately. He sticks one end up his nose pulls it out, looks at it and says..."buga gows" then throws it away. There's hope for boys after all :)