Introducing...

Mason James Flies

November 22, 2010

11:42 am

8 lb 2oz

19 1/2 inches long

*to see pics from the hospital photo shoot, click here. The password is 1122masonjames.

Mason's first days at home have been surprisingly easy! It's so much more laid back the second time around. Adelyn has been a fantastic big sister. She gets excited every morning when she comes in our room and sees him. She starts shouting "look! look!" and wants to immediately hug and kiss and pat him. She'll stop in the middle of playing to come over and kiss him. The lack of sleep hasn't been too hard of an adjustment. The first night home, he wanted to eat every 2 hours...but that's better than every hour in my book :) Nursing this time around is alot easier and he doesn't take an hour like his sister did :)

Having two has been (so far) so much fun... we are loving it! :) I could be ready for #3? ;)

haha....maybe another year or two...

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fat lip

Adelyn got her first major fat lip this week. She was on the couch and biffed it and ran right into the edge of the end table with her mouth. I heard her teeth hit the wood and was afraid that she chipped one, but she wouldn't let me look.

This picture is 20 minutes afterwards...she's watching Toy Story... :)

Her upper lip is still a little puffy, but if you don't know her, you wouldn't know it.  She was bleeding so much that I was afraid she'd need stitches...but again, she wouldn't let me look....

Thankfully, she's just fine now....needless to say, we had popsicles for dinner that night and she still is afraid to let me wipe her mouth or nose b/c it hurt so much for the first few days.

Oh well...this is the first of many injuries to come...

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random goings on...

Adelyn learned the word "no" last week....I liked it better when everything was "yeah" and "okay"...
She has also learned to say "Diyaa" aka: Diane (my mom's name and her middle name). She calls both mom and I "Diyaa! Diyaa!".
When we are at my mom and step-dads, I am obsolete. Everything is "papa! papa!" or "mama! Diyaa!"....no "mom"...she NEVER wants me! She didn't even let me to put her to bed when we were at their place...
I miss Nick...this last week is going to c...r...a...w....l.... by.
Zeb and Bekah moved out of their house this weekend and I'm really sad about it. They are still going to be close by, but it was fun to be able to just walk back and forth to have playdates or dinner...we are REALLY going to miss them when we move....
we are going to miss ALOT of people when we move....I feel like I've finally been able to put myself out there and develop great friendships, and now we are leaving....
I'm so ready for baby boy to come. He is sitting super low and I'm just plain uncomfortable. I don't like that it's hard for me to even sit on the floor and play with her!
 I keep envisioning my water breaking while I'm in the store or at home....I wonder what my reaction would be if it did break in public....I'd probably not be embarassed....I'd be like "booyah! let's go!".
I've been seeing Dr Tammy Watkins at the Livewell Clinic in Waukee this pregnancy. My back pain and sciatic pain was so bad, I was desperate.....quite a few people recommended seeing a chiropractor and I already knew Tammy from bible study a few years ago so I checked it out in August.....I don't know how I survived without her!  I've never been sold on chiropractic care for things other than fixing back and neck pain. The only time I'd seen a chiropractor before was in HS when I got whiplash at afterprom! :)  But I am hooked.
Along with helping with pregnancy pain :) Chiropractic care can shorten labor (yeah baby! no pun intended) b/c the pelvis is straighter and the baby can get through easier. I remember talking about it during my OB rotation in nursing school years ago....but I'm a believer now! ;)  Thank you, Tammy! :)
That's my schpiel on that...
Have I mentioned that I miss Nick?
I wish it would snow here. I like the cold weather. I like wearing my sweaters and slippers and drinking hot drinks...I'm not a  fan of hot weather....so summer in CA could be my nemesis.
Our home looks so different right now. We are getting ready to sell, so I've taken everything off the walls on the main floor and cleared the kitchen  too. I got new throw pillows and a neat (and soft!) blanket for the living room....looking around, I like the "bare" look. Not as much going on. I have pictures on the sofa table, and a vase with flowers, but that's about it for the decor. Upstairs I still have pictures on the walls and stuff....I don't know how much I'll change up there....if anything...
Of everything to be excited about when it comes to moving to CA (ie: national parks, hiking, walks, being outside alot, new experience, awesome vacation spots in driving distance!) the two I'm most excited for? A kitchen table and a back yard.  I can't wait to be able to take Addy outside and just let her run.....right now if I did that, she'd easily get hit by a car flying around the corner...
I'm excited for Christmas b/c we get to see alot of family this year :)
I'm tired and going to read in bed for a while....I've started the Twilight book....again....this is about the 4th time I've read them...they are my back up when I really want to read something, but haven't made time to go to the library :)
Tomorrow is Monday...bring it on :)

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this kid is coming SOON

Two posts in two days...look at me go :)
I have a feeling this kid is coming sooner rather than later.....
He's definitely dropped a little more over the last 3 days and I've been having some CRAZY braxton hicks that radiate around my back (I had back labor with Adelyn, it was NOT pleasant).
I'll spare the nasty details, but my body is definitely preparing for labor :)
I'm nesting....at first I was in denial and thinking I was just on a roll getting my to-do list knocked down. Along with helping Nick paint the ceiling on Saturday (not the best thing to do when you're 9 months pregnant...I don't recommend it at all), I cleaned the fridge (washed the shelves and drawers, scrubbed the sides), cleaned the upstairs bathrooms, dusted, cleaned the kitchen, put away more of our stuff to get ready to show the house, and organized baby boy's side of the dresser. It wasn't until tonight (after my last day of work!) while I was vaccuming out the lazy susan of bread crumbs from the toaster that I realized "oh my...I'm nesting!".  I didn't really have a nesting period with Adelyn. I just remember the day before she was born, the pile of stuff on the bed had to get taken care of pronto...but that's about it.
Nick is going to be gone for 12 days in CA, and I've had to come to terms the last few days, that he could very well miss the birth of his son. I don't get teary about it anymore because it is what it is; Nick will get here when he can if I do go into labor. My mom can be with me and I have other family who can watch Adelyn (what a blessing to have so much family close by! California will be an adjustment!).
Wednesday I have an OB appointment so I'm curious to see if I'm dilated at all....
Of course I'm praying that I'm wrong and that he waits until Nick gets home.....but I have a feeling that I could be having this kid in the next week....so we'll see!
I'll keep you updated :)

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family time

L to R: Pam, Noah, Dad, Adelyn, Nick

me, Josh, Caleb and Jacob

*oh my! I just realized that my brothers and I are actually in birth order in this picture! Haha....that's funny and so not intentional...

My brother, Josh, is home the WHOLE MONTH of November from the Navy!! He heads out for Pearl Harbor the beginning of December, and we won't see him for a while :( so I'm really glad he's home for the month so we can spend time together!

Today we went to my dad and stepmom's place with my brothers and nephew, Noah (Josh's son), for lunch. We ate some REALLY good food :), watched football, and spent some time outside (it was beautiful today!).

I have to say, Adelyn did fairly well despite the time change....I can't wait to do this again :) I love my family! :)

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halloween weekend

Adelyn is at that age where getting a decent picture of her is proving quite difficult. She won't hold still and she won't do her cute thing long enough to get the picture!  Thankfully, she was in a "cooperative mood" to get a few snapshots of her cheerleading ;)  Nick was behind me...her favorite game is "follow the leader" with arm/hand motions...he would do something with his arms/hands and she was mimicking him....she randomly breaks out into this game quite often. She'll walk up to me and yell "mom!" while folding her arms or spreading them wide and expecting me to copy her following sequence of arms motions...

The "fairy princess" costume was a last minute throw together for trick or treating at Nick's office on Friday that he told me 2 hours before it started and we were at my mom's....so I raided the dress up bin and found this flower girl dress in a kids size 8...not gonna lie, I'm pretty handy with safety pins :) She wouldn't let me pin the wings on her...and the wand was sort of a weapon (she's waving it in the picture)...but it was fun nontheless...

Before trick or treating on Saturday (Beggar's Night in IA..Nick thinks that it's the wierdest thing ever that we don't trick or treat on Halloween...maybe it is...I don't know...we didn't trick or treat growing up), we stopped at my stepdad's office so Addy could go on a dirt bike ride....

She LOVED it...you could hear her giggling the whole time.

She also got to play in a crane, 2 other machines that I don't know the names of ;) and help Papa Rob drive the bobcat. She LOVED that too....it was rather hard to get her to come out of a machine once she was in one...I think it was all the buttons. :)  She kept pushing Rob away and sliding the "doors" shut when he would open them to take her out....hmm....

Trick or treating went as well as you could expect with a toddler :)

She wanted to eat each piece of candy as she got it. We made it to 2 houses before we went back to Grandma and Papa's to hand out candy....I'm not going to disclose how much of it she ate rather than handed out :)

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