Nathanael

Hubby got home from work at 6:30 monday evening. I had started dinner, and asked him to finish dinner and feed the boys. That I needed to run to the grocery store and pick up milk for breakfast. (we have cereal for breakfast, as it is easy..hehe, and i cook on occasion) We did have enough milk for breakfast, I think I also just wanted to "get out" of the house for a little bit. Anyways, he said sure, but to take Theodore since he was being cranky. So, I got Theodore ready and we went to the grocery store. I had 1 small contractions while getting Thedore ready, but shrugged it off, since I"d been having fake contractions for the last 4 weeks or so. Anyhow, at the store I had another contractions..a little pain but not too bad...shrugged it off again!!The next contraction came at the checkstand. No big deal...lol pain but not too bad..haha.I was DRIVING home from the grocery store (which is only a min drive away..lol ) and another came..little pain.Got home, told hubby to please bring in Theodore, and the grocerys. And when he got done unpacking the car, I told him that I think this is the real stuff. It was shortly after 8 at that time! The contractions were painful, but not too close together. i figured they'd just die down.Told hubby that he might as well pack the van with the stuff for the boys and baby. That it would at least be ready for when we decided to go to the hospital..even if it weren't that day..hehe.I jumped in the shower..hehe and got all the sweat off from the day. and he put the boys to bed (undressed) he wanted to get them "out of my hair" lol out of the way so that I could have those contractions w/out them there making them worse...lol. At 8:30 I told hubby to get the boys dressed that they will need pajamas on to go to my sister's house. So he asked me to get them (he doesn't know which clothes go with which boy..lol) so he got them dressed SLOWLY i might add!! Then he got them in the van..SLOWLY...lolAnd at a few minutes to 9 we finally made it in the van and headed towards chico. Hubby called the midwife to tell her that we were on the way and to be ready for us. I tried to call my sister, and couldn't get ahold of her! We tried calling over and over and over again. So, we deiced..oh well we can just take the boys to her house and get her truck (instead of her meeting us at the hospital and changing vehicles) and then go back to the hospital. But as we got closer, we realized that WASN"T going to happen. We didn't have time..it take awhile to get accrossed chico..lol. SO, when we hit into chico, it dawned on me to call Amber (who i don't really talk to anymore, but we did go to school together..and we are friends) and ask her to please meet us at the hospital, take our van with our boys to my sister's house. And that they could figure out what they wanted to do from there. I knew my sister was at home, but for some reason she wasn't answering her cell phone and she doesn't have a homephone. Well Amber showed up at the hospital a couple minutes later. She took the van and went to my sister's house.
~we went on in to the hospital and to the maternity wing. got into the room. I told the midwife that I usually don't have pain meds, and never have but this hurts..let me have some anyways..LOL It was hurting like it hurts at the VERY end with the other boys, but I was thinking that I just couldn't ALREADY be fully dialated it had only started labor like 2 hours ago or so! no way could I be at the end..she did ask me if I had the pushing urge and I said YES! So, she checked and sure enough I was fully dialated!!! So, she said do you want to try and squat for your next contraction? and i was thinking..you already want me to get up..i just got in the bed..it's hard to move...LOL but I said.......um sure. LOLso, before I went to squat I asked her if the water had broke, and she said "No, but it'll pop on the first push" and i'm thinking..not really cause they've always had to pop it..but I said OK LOLFirst push and well babyhead and water bag came out (unbroke!) and she had to pop the waterbag and then on the next contraction I pushed the baby out..and well I had the baby. So, my labor was from about 8:15pm to 9:49pm WOWZERS!
After the baby was born, and they cut the cord, and did the parent bonding stuff..lol they were headed to do the bath and we got a message saying that somebody had dropped off keys for us at the security desk. LOL in less time than it took for Amber to go to my sister's house and get the boys straightened out..lol and then for my sister and her to get back to the hospital I had already had the baby..and baby already be taken care of..hehe.
~all though I do have to say, I didn't even want to hold the baby after he was born!!! that sounds bad..but I didn't want to have anything to do with him..LOL i wanted to see him in hubby's hands..LOL but I didn't want to hold him. i just wanted to be alone!!! I was never like that with the other ones, maybe because the other ones took so long that I was glad for it to finally be over and that I could see them??? I don't know. but i do know that AFTER i got into the recovery room I wanted to hold him.
Oh and they kicked hubby out! LOl they made him go home that night because I was shareing a room with another lady. So, I got my baby all to myself that first night, and I was awake, I had a great awake though! Hubby went to the christian rehab place he used to work at.
The next day hubby stayed around for awhile, left and came back, and even brother up Dominic and Jeremiah to see me, and i didn't recognize them at first..they looked so HUGE!
The next night hubby went home so that he could go to work at 4am and get some accounts done.
ANYHOW!!!! I spent a good amount of time bonding with baby. hehe and the boys are doing well. I have started giving Theodore a sippy cup of apple juice when I feed the baby and Theodore is around. That way he sees that the sippy is better. LOL (he still has bottles himself, but he is down to 2, and is almost off of them) he did however get a sucky..LOL he has his old one that he has never used, that has elmo on it..lol and he likes to carry it with him, he doesn't use it, but has to have it with him..LOL it's kind of cute. Jeremiah says that new baby is good too. But he is now starting to have a better bond with Theodore so that is good!Dominic said that little baby was his and that Jeremiah can have Theodore now. He wants the little baby! LOL
Roban

Sunday School

Jeremiah 2, and Dominic 3, both go to sunday school class in the mornings. They both do very well now. Last Sunday they both got their memory verse stickers! Of course, she says the words first and then they copy her. But it's still great! I worked with Dominic tonight on his verse for tomorrow. He did great! I couldn't get Jeremiah to sit and be interested. I"m going to work on getting it into their daily lives. I will figure out a way. I know it can be done. It's just something "new" and I haven't put it into my schedule yet.

The first thing they do is say the pledge of allegience. Then they say one to the christian flag, and then to the bible. Then they get a short story. Then they do their verses. Then they get to color. Coloring is the boys' favorite part..haha. Jeremiah likes being there a lot better than Dominic does. But they both do great!

I have decided to let Dominic stay in the nursery during "jr church" though. He is old enough to be over there, but I figure one thing at a time. I think it's probably hard enough for him to be switching churches. Now he's got to adjust to being around the little kids in the morning sunday school class, which are for preschool/kindergartners. After he adjusts to being in that class. And then adjusts to the new baby..hehe and that the new baby gets to stay in the nursery even if he doesn't. THEN I will work on getting him to join in the "Jr church" which is ages 3 years through I think 6th grade, not sure..but I know there are older kids.
The nursery workers keep saying he's old enough, but I know that, that's isn't the reason I let him stay in the nursery. I figure one thing at a time. When he started going to the older class in the church in chico, welll we had been at that church for a long time! 3 years at that point. Dominic and I started going there when Dominic was about 6 weeks old! So he was very comfortable with the church.

I am so glad to see Dominic and Jeremiah in a sunday morning class though! That is great! I'm hoping that Jeremiah continues to do well in there. Which I'm sure he will.

Still pregnant

Being due two days ago, I was hoping to have had baby by now. But I'm still with child. Baby hasn't decided to makes it's entrance into the outside world yet. Oh well, all in God's good timing! Tomorrow is church. It will be nice to go to church. But then I get the "you haven't had that baby yet" comments..as if I could make baby come out..haha. Monday I have an appointment with Dominic's teachers. I hope that have the house straightened up by then. And Tuesday is my next midwife appt. They said that if I don't have the baby by then, that they are going to schedule some tests at the hospital in Chico (that is where I will deliver the baby at) and go from there. I know that they induce when you are two weeks past due. But I really don't want to wait that long..haha. I have often thought of a quick solution, but I"m against having an unneeded surgery!!! SO, I would NEVER opt for it!! Anyhow, wednesdays we go to the park in the morning and Thursday is Bible study. I"m trying to keep myself busy in the mean time while I wait for baby to arrive.

Today I even went on a long walk. We let this morning at around 9:30 and then didn't get home til 1pm. Hubby was working, so we left and got out of the house for awhile. We stopped at a couple yard sales too. We got a new walker and a "sit and spin" for the boys. They LOVE the sit and spin, but they keep fighting over it. THey also like the books I got them. Along the way on our walk, we stopped for some refreshments. Then I let Dominic ride in the stroller so that he could eat some cheetos too. Bad idea, giving them cheetos in my NEW stroller! haha they also shared a powerade.

Later on today, hubby decided to go to the races. That was a lot of fun too!! We walked around awhile there as well. We finally found a good place to sit too! The boys liked the races, but they didn't really want to watch all of them...haha. There was even a little play ground there, but it was more for older kids, so the boys couldn't do much. I brought along some suckers for them though, they enjoyed them. Baby Theodore did great too!

After the races, we went to Dennys for dinner! That was fun too. The boys did pretty well. They enjoyed their dino chicken nuggets, and their "teddy's in applesauce" lol those were kind of interesting. They had applesauce and then little graham cracker teddy bears that you put inside, and then the bears look like they are swimming, floating, or whatever. The steak there was very good too, and so was the shrimp. I even got me an "english toffee cappocino" which MIGHT be why I can't go to sleep!!! HAHA

Well, I did have a great day today. Last weekend was fun too, we went to a cornmaze! Then afterwards got some pumpkins. We let the boys pick out a pumpkin each.

But all my walking hasn't helped to have the baby!