The birth...in pictures!

I'm finally getting a chance to get some pictures up of the birth and hospital stay. Of course, some have been edited for the blog, gotta keep some things private. And there is not a Stretch Mark Removal function on Picnik, sorry :) The kids had fun coming up several times and visiting with Deeda. Emily cannot get enough of Logan, she is quite a helper around here. It's pretty great. I joke with her that he won't know who his mommy is!

Luke's first impression?

Emily's first babysitting job. She stayed and held Logan while Dave and I had our "celebration dinner" at the hospital Friday night.

Neighbor Carol and the clan came up to visit!

Going home! More updates soon....he is quite the little charmer, especially at 3am when his little face is propped on his hands, looking at me with wide eyes.

The wait is over!

Here's what we've been preparing for the past few weeks....Logan Thomas! Logan was born early Friday morning at 1:24am. Last Friday I had an ultrasound to check his position since he seemed to flip flop up and down. He was definitely breech and only 5 days before my due date. So, we scheduled an appointment with one of the OB's to talk external version procedures (turning him from the outside) and c-sections. Checked the heartbeat and it was found up high again, assuming he was still head up. I had an ultrasound to check my water level since you need to have a good amount for the version procedure and instead, he was head down! This being 2 days before my due date, my midwife said she'd let me go a few days to see if anything would happen, but really didn't want to see me go past Thursday since he's a mover. We scheduled an appointment for Thursday morning, she rechecked things and sent me over to get admitted! We started Pitocin around 1pm, things progressed pretty slowly, I was only around 2-3 cm dialated around supper time. My midwife came over after clinic hours and broke my water. Contractions started to happen more regularly, but they weren't too intense. By around 11pm, they were horrible and very frequent. Almost right on top of each other. They checked me again around 12:45am and I was only around 6-7cm dialated. Thinking I had a long night ahead of me, I was going to give in to an epidural. This was 100x harder than my other 2 labors. They called for an anesthesiologist to come up, but he was too late, Logan was crowning as he was walking through the door. Around 1:15am I had 2 contractions where I needed to push, tried to breathe through them since my midwife wasn't even there yet, but couldn't. They called for a doctor to come up from the ER, but Logan didn't wait. He was born in the arms of my nurse. He came out a spittin' image of Luke, it was almost deja vu like. Except he was exactly a pound smaller, 8lbs 10oz and 20" long. So seemingly small compared to Luke! And with brown hair. He is a perfect little guy, nurses like a champ, only fusses when he wants to eat, and his big brother and sister are loving him to pieces. The kids are glad we're home and hopefully things can resume back to normal shortly. Just one picture for now, I'll have to go through them this week and see what else we got!

Flippin' for Books

We were supposed to head up to the cities yesterday to get together for some birthday celebrations for Emily, but the big snowstorm kept us in Winona. The good thing, we made it to Flippin' for Books in the morning! We love this event every fall, awesome crafts, fun booths, cool WSU students, free pancake breakfast and free books! Always good ones too!

If you know Luke, he has a pretty good attention span. He had 2 WSU students at the "Harold and the Purple Crayon" table focused only on him for a good 20 minutes I bet. He saw someone had drawn a house, so he wanted to as well, with the help from them.

Then he went and did some puppet work for the story The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.

The library was also giving out free books, I grabbed this one for Em (how appropriate!). She's almost done with it!

Luke's pick....

Emily's pick....

cereal and stories

Every so often, a big box of Cheerios comes with a free book. Luke loved No T-Rex in the Library this time! I adore how he can just open up a book, never hearing it before, and just tell his own version by looking at the pictures. I think he'll be an early reader like Emily. There's hope for my boy! I remember asking Emily in Kindergarten who the best reader is (besides her of course ;), and she's always said, to this day, a little guy named Jacob. Because he reads words this small.

Birthday mail!

Emily got a birthday package in the mail this week from Arkansas. Loopz from Grandpa Ron, Grandma Sarah and Hannah! She saw it and knew what it was right away...TV commercial?! I had no idea, but she loves playing it! Thank you!