Baby London's Arrival: 10-26-09 (lots of pictures!)

For some reason my pictures are uploading weird and I don't have the patients to correct it right now!



Here are pictures from the day London arrived into the world: 10-26-09 at 12:13 PM! She was 6 lbs. 15 oz. and was 20 in. long.



I had a scheduled induction for 6:30 am however, 4 sets of twins came in at the same time for emergency deliveries! So...we had to wait for our turn. I was really nervous to be induced because everyone kept telling me that it is more painful. However, that wasn't the case for me thank goodness! They got me in my room, put in my IV (which was a bit painful), and started dosing me with pitocin. Shortly after that, I got my epidural which was pretty much pain free. My doctor came in and broke my water. I pretty much had a pain free labor for 2 hours. I started feeling some of the stronger contractions so my nurse was getting worried my epidural was not spreading. She had me roll over on to my side and I immediately dilated from a 7 to a 10! She called my doctor and Dr. Hampton sprinted over to the hospital. I love her! She was so pumped up and excited to deliver London! I gave the magic epidural button a couple of squeezes to make sure I was nice and numb and it was GO TIME!! About 15 minutes later London was born! She was healthy and beautiful!

Here are my pictures in reverse order:

Hudson snuggling with me and London as we watched a Scooby-do Halloween cartoon.

London's first hug from Hudson! He was SO excited about his baby sister!!

Hudson's first time to hold London:

Our first time to admire her:

Jason, Me & London, Dr Hampton

My first time to see her:

London's first picture!

This is the point where they told me it was time and I started getting a little nervous!

My cheerleaders waiting by patiently...well, kind of patiently!

Here I am covered up with my sweater trying to stay warm! I had just gotten all checked in and just got my IV put in by a nervous, new nurse...lucky me! But that was the most painful part of the whole delivery so not so bad!!!

Waiting for London

London decided to come into the world a little over a week late so we had lots of time to spend with my mom and dad! Here are some pictures of us in the 2 weeks before as we waited for the big day to come.

A Blast From Halloween Past

Halloween 2007: Hudson as an elephant (first time to trick-or-treat)



































Halloween 2008: Pumpkin Patch

Halloween 2008: Hudson as a Spider

A very delayed post

I wanted to blog about this mostly so I wouldn't forget when it occured so it is a very delayed posting. Hudson officially became 100% potty trained back in July!! He had been very good about going peepee but not so good about the other. I had just been discussing this with my mom and she told me to just be patient because one day it would just "click" and he would get the hang of it. She was so right! It just so happened that 2 days after she told me that, it "clicked"! Hudson was sitting on the potty before bath time, I gave him a book to read, he took care of business and that was our routine from that point forward! He even stopped going at night time. I continued to put pull-ups on him during the night but every morning when he would wake up, they would be completely dry. He hasn't even had a single accident! Perfect time with a new baby on the way! He's such a good boy! : )

Pumpkin Patch

Saturday, the 17th (Sweetest Day), was London's offical due date. I was really hoping she would arrive that day since it was Sweetest Day but I guess whatever day she comes on will be sweet! We decided to go visit the pumpkin patch so I could spend some time walking around. We even road the train through the Christmas tree farm which was quite a bumpy ride...but still she decided she was snug as a bug. Hudson had a great time playing on the moonwalk, climbing on the pumpkins, petting the goat, racing rubber ducks, and riding the train!

A Few Maternity Photos

So it seems that little London wants to enter the world fashionably late and make an "appearance"! She is now 4 days late but I'm sure she will arrive when she is good and ready. However, if she doesn't come by this weekend, I have an induction scheduled for 6:30am Monday (10/26/09) morning.

(These are pictures of pictures b/c I was too lazy to spend the time scanning them)

Cookies N Milk

Here is Jason teaching Hudson how to dunk a cookie in milk and then eat it. This is one of Jason's all time favorite treats:

New Bedrooms

We finally finished the kids rooms (except for a few final touches) Hudson is loving his big boy bed. He also loves storing his books in his night stand and can't wait to dig around in there every night to pick out a book to read. His favorite saying for the past several months has been, "I do it all myself!", so he also like to get into his new dresser and pick out his jammies each night. It never fails that if I try to choose his jammies he will never want what I choose. "No, not dinosaurs momma. I want frogs." "No, not stripes momma. I want trucks." So I just let him choose!!

Here is his bed and night stand:Here is his new dresser:
We just got the hutch that goes with London's dresser. Hudson was super excited to open the box and help daddy put it together:

Here is London's room all painted and put together:

Here is the dresser/changing table with new hutch added to it:

It was a rainy day when I took theses pictures so there wasn't much light coming in. When there is more light, you can see the fairy dust around the fairy's wand!

Baby Shower

I had a small but super fun baby shower on Saturday! We had a great time giggling and hanging out in celebration of London's upcoming arrival! Thanks so much to my wonderful friends for making me feel so special!Misti, Me, Ashlee, and Mindy:

The Belly Bump!! Mindy is 6 weeks behind me in her pregnancy. She is having a little boy! She had a little girl after I had Hudson so we are swapping clothes this time around!

My belly size definetly trumps hers right now...we'll check back again in another month!

I forgot to take a picture of the cake BEFORE we cut into it so here it is after we all claimed our share! It was FANTASTIC!!! It was so chocolatey and moist and had carmel and fudge drizzled inside of it!!! I told Ashlee I think I could have eaten the entire thing all by myself and would have probably ended up in a sugar coma! It calls my name everytime I walk by it and I just can't resist pausing to take a bite or two or three!
Hudson thought it was pretty awesome too!!

Hudson and Cailin had the best time playing together! It was hard to get good pictures of them because they were constantly on the move. They really had fun playing with the balloons!