And Benjamin has entered the world

For those that don't already know... the new baby is here! After a long morning of uncertainty & waiting, he came out in a mad rush. Melissa went from almost no progression after a few hours to being fully ready with the baby's head right there in less than 10 minutes. The nurse had the doctor paged and called for the delivery setup, but the baby's heart rate was down and staying down and she was having a hard time even finding it, so she decided they couldn't wait for the doctor. She called for the charge nurse, and the 2 of them delivered the baby in about 3 pushes. It was fast. As predicted, he is small. Turns out, that is exactly why the doctor wanted us to come in and deliver today. According to the ultrasound 3 weeks ago he weighed 5 lbs. 11 oz., 2 weeks ago he weighed 5 lbs. 15 oz., but yesterday he weighed 5 lbs. 4 oz., so he had actually lost weight (the doctor didn't tell Melissa this so as not to worry her more than necessary).
Well here are the details:
1:35 p.m.
5 lbs. 1 oz.
18.5" long
All in all he is doing well, we're just trying to keep his blood sugars up.
More pictures to come later.

Not Yet....

Well, it's 11 am, been here for 5 hours, and no baby yet. They attempted early this morning to start the pitosin, but they had to unhook it just about as fast as they started. The baby has been having what they call "decels", which means decelerations. In other words his heart beat keeps dropping or slowing down. In between his rate is fine, so they are just watching closely for now. The decels occur right after each contraction, which are pretty consistent. They are looking at doing a c-section if they get to bad or if they continue and Melissa doesn't go into labor. They have already had her get an epidural in case they need to rush here in for a c-section so she wouldn't have to be knocked out. I would say so far this has been pretty similar to Logan's birth. The pitosin problems, the heart rate issues, the warnings of a possible c-section, the waiting.

The nurse just came in and said that the heart rate has been fairly stable for the last half hour, so they were going to start administering a small amount of pitosin again. So we'll see. Until later...

The Stork is Coming

I went to my 38 1/2 week doctor appointment today and thought that it was just going to be another routine check-up, and "see you next week", but not the case. The baby has been measuring small for a few weeks, so my doctor said that she would keep an eye on him, but nothing to worry about. He hasn't grown very much, if at all from last week, but I was still very surprised when my doctor said, "You're done being pregnant." She thinks that he will do better once he is born than if we wait it out until my due date. I go to the hospital tomorrow morning at 6 am to get induced. So tomorrow the wait is finally over, we get to meet our baby boy! I'm excited, but also nervous under the circumstances. Wish me luck!

Thanks to my talented friend Ash, here are the last pictures of me pregnant!

Master Bedroom Project

My room is finally done! (There are a few things that we would still like to do, like some new furniture and window treatments, but that will have to wait.) We started working on this room before we got married, and just now finished it.


We had some painting that still needed to be done and molding to hang up. We also got new windows and carpet, yay!

One of my favorite parts of this room is the closet. I'm so excited that I can finally organize my clothes! My old closet had a single rod and shelf, so everything was just packed in there and it was hard to find anything. Now, I have shelves and drawers that are easier to get to.

So, after about 4 years of living in a half finished room, and 3 weeks of sleeping in the basement while we finished up the rest, I have a nice clean room! Hopefully, 2009 will be a year when we can get a lot of our unfinished projects around the house finished up!

Once There Was A Snowman. . .

We decided to brave the cold and build a snowman. Logan has wanted to build one ever since the first little bit of snow on the ground. When we got a big snow storm a couple of days ago, Chris went out to plow the driveway(his excuse for getting a 4-wheeler), and Logan wanted all of his snow clothes on too so that he could go help.

Tilly even got to enjoy playing in the front yard until she wandered off and we had to go find her. Then she was sent back in the house to get warm. We had lots of fun. Now maybe I can put off going out to play in the snow for a little while longer.

First Post

I'm finally doing something with my blog!!! Shocking, I know. Now let's see if I can keep it up.

Well, some big things have happened this year. Logan started preschool. That was a big adjustment for him. When we first started talking to him about it he was so excited and asked almost daily if he could go to "music school". When the day finally arrived he didn't want to go, and I was starting to think that he wasn't ready for preschool, but now he loves it. He's learning lots of cute little songs and it's been good for him to get out of the house and interact with other kids.

Logan after his first day of Preschool

Another exciting event that we are all looking forward to is the arrival of the new baby. I'm 6 months pregnant and due around the end of February or first of March. Logan is excited for his new brother to get here. We still haven't decided on a name. We have a few ideas, but probably won't decide for sure until we see the little guy.