All my help has gone home. Both kids are still in pajamas BUT I took an hour nap while both kids were napping and that is major for me. Grace went to bed at 5am. She’s so funny. At night her eyes are wide open wondering where the party is. She just finished nursing so I’m going to try to sneak in some more sleep until Timmy wakes up.

I’m nursing Gracie while Timmy watches Perer Pan holding onto his 2 cars. He’s such a boy. It doesn’t seem that the word love is strong enough to explain how I feel about these babies.

She’s here!! & she’s beautiful. We are so blessed. She was born 9 pounds 19 inches at 1:49pm on July 29th. This delivery was so smooth. Within an hour I was nursing her while still in recovery. I’m falling asleep as I type so ill continue tomorrow.

I’m just getting back to this post and Grace is six weeks old. Having 2 babies is very busy!

This csection was so different. When I went in I was very nervous so I started the Our Fathers over and over again until Tim got in. They put the catheter in after the spinal which was so much easier. I was humming here I am Lord until she came out and she had the sweetest cry. Then out she went with Daddy for her check up. They sewed me up and I must have been very drugged bc I thought the operating bed was so comfortable I thought it was a water bed and I told them it was so nice of them to warm up the blankets first and they laughed. I was so surprised when they wheeled grace into the recovery room to nurse. And the little piglet latched right on. I was so overjoyed. She was a natural and she nursed every 3 hours the whole time in the hospital with no issues. After I was moved to my room and settled everyone left. Tim went home too and this is where things went south. I called the nurse in because I felt like when I would start to dose off I would stop breathing and wake up. They put me on oxygen and then I started dry heaving and I don’t know of a worse pain than dry heaving after your stomach was cut in half. When Tim got back he said he was so surprised to see how bad I was doing. I couldn’t even hold grace because I kept needing to throw up and I couldn’t get out of bed. Eventually it got better and I was up and walking the next day. I can’t love Tim any more than when he takes care of me in hospital when I’m looking my worst and I’m a disgusting mess. It’s so sweet for him to walk me to the bathroom and help me dress. I really was so happy. Grace was a complete angel. I think she looks like me. I can’t believe she is 6 weeks old. I never feel like I’m soaking in enough of these early moments. It just rushes by so fast.

At 2 weeks old we had her newborn photos done and they came out so beautiful. Here are some of my favorites.

We took this one in our front yard with my wedding veil. This is going to be so special when she gets married.

Special Delivery!

This one was taken with the quilt that Tim’s mom made. Its actually all pink but I thought the picture looked cool with just Grace’s name is color.

This one is so special. Here Grace is laying on the Bible that my grandmother bought me a Tim for our wedding. She’s also holding the diamond cross my mom bought me and all my sisters on our 21st birthdays.

This one is going above her crib for sure. I love how girly it is and those are pearls Tim bought me on my first Mother’s Day.

Our little family of four.

So after our ob visit today I was sent to the hospital for monitoring. My blood pressure was elevated and then I started having contractions. They gave me 3 shots to stop the labor and now I’m here over night. This is the longest I’ve been away from Timmy and worse he has a terrible cold. I was suppose to take him to the doctor but I had to cancel to go to the hospital. I miss my sweet boy so much. The doctor thinks Miss Grace will be here any day.

Today Timmy learned how to blow bubbles. It was so much fun to see him learn something new. He was so proud and I think I was even more proud.

This is how Timmy wanted to wear his diaper today 🙂

The important part is Timmy is ok and we were only there for one night. But it was the scariest mommy moments for me.

He fell head first off the side off the couch. 30 minutes later he was throwing up. We took him to St. Mary’s and his CT scan came back normal but he was still throwing up so they kept him overnight for observation. Poor baby had blood drawn and IV fluids. It was so sad but he was such a good boy. He went to bed in the cage like crib just like we were at home. They woke him every 3 hours to check his eyes. I’m just now recuperating from sleeping on that pull out “bed.”

Me and Tim get so excited over every new thing that Timmy does. Last night he ate his dinner with an adult fork and actually forked the food himself. Of course we broke out the video camera. I wonder if all parents are like this or if we are a little over the top. We were listening for birds this morning and Timmy said, “Did you hear that?” Other sentences he’s started saying are, “Where did it go!” And “What are you doing?” He tells the dogs to go lay down and says see you later. I get so much joy from watching him grow up. Yesterday he was in the front yard and went over to the flower pinwheel and got so excited making it go around. I took my camera out again.

I had my 30 week appointment yesterday and Grace is head down and measuring perfect. I can feel her every move and tell you what body part just jumped across my belly. It’s so weird. This pregnancy has been so much better than the first. No swelling, no high blood pressure. We will get our csection date next week. I don’t feel very prepared but at the same time I’m very calm. With Timmy I wanted the nursery just right and all the clothes hung. But I know now that she won’t be using her room for at least 6 months and laundry is never complete so no rush there either. Her play pen came in the mail along with LOTS of clothes. She’s going to be very stylish.

Timmy was running a low grade fever for 2 days and on the third it was 102 so I took him to the doctor. My poor boy has an ear infection. Sick babies are a lot of work but I haven’t gotten this many snuggles since he was a newborn. I think I’ve watched Toy Story 10 times in the last 4 days. All he wants to do is sleep on me. It’s so sweet.

So I asked Tim to watch Timmy so I could shower. Ten minutes later I come out to a naked boy and five piles of baby poop and pee everywhere. What a mess. May be time to start potty training.