Photo Fun

I love taking pictures but sometimes taking pictures of two kids can be challenging.  Thankfully Brayden is a good sport and would say, "Mom do you want to take 10 or 11 pictures." He is usually good about being in the pictures or  being a helper if I am trying to take pictures of just Landon.  He will talk to Landon or shake a toy to try to get him to look at me.

 

 

Landon is the lil bro!

                                        At 2 weeks old Landon is very alert. 

     So little yet already showing us a smirk.  I wonder what he is thinking.
    * You guys look like a crazy circus trying to get me to smile.

                                     Brotherly love.  I hope they grow up to be the best of friends.

Meeting Landon

For months prior to Landon's birth I wondered how we would share the news with big brother.  Due to high numbers of people contracting the flu the hospital decided to put into place strict visitor guidelines to keep the newborns safe.  No more than 2 visitors at a time and no one under 18.  I knew I wanted B to be the first one to know about his sibling so we decided we would take video and pictures and when Grandma Becky came to visit Andrew would share those with B.

Fast forward to birth day...the hospital is so full they don't have room to move us to the post-partum floor like  normally would.  That meant our nurse was used to caring for moms in labor not ones who had already given birth. She would come in and since things were going so well we would just chat.  I had told her our plan about introducing B to his sibling and she let us know that although he couldn't come into our room, if we took Landon to the nursery Brayden could look at him through the window.  We decided that would be better than showing him the videos.  After we met with the pediatrician Andrew would head home to get Brayden and Grandma.  A few minutes later our nurse came in and said when she got back to the nurses station she found out that the flu ban had just been lifted.  She had just gotten an e-mail about it.  Andrew left almost immediately to head home. While he was gone I got dressed and cleaned up while I waited for them to get back.

Andrew sent me a text to let me know when they were on their way up.  I could hear him coming down the hallway and here is what he  thought.

 He was so excited to meet his baby.  He wanted to be right next to him.

I think it was love at first sight for all of us.

Momma and her boys

And just like that we are a family of 4!

Welcome Landon Theodore

After taking a break from blogging Andrew has pursuaded me to update since we like being able to look back at what we have done with Brayden.

So here goes nothing...

What do Iowa weather and pregnancy have in common?  They are both unpredictable.  There was supposed to be a snow storm on its way and with my due date approaching my mom decided to come stay with us so when Baby #2 decided to make his/her arrival she could watch Brayden.  So she came on Wednesday.  Thursday morning I had a doctors appointment where my doctor stated I was not making much progress and asked if I wanted to be induced.  I let him know since everything looked good I wanted to see if baby would come on its own.  He politely let me know that we would schedule a non stress,ultrasound and office visit for the following Tuesday and most likely they would induce labor after that.  I left feeling like my body would know when it is ready.  Thank goodness my mom was here as I was tired and didn't feel very good the rest of the day.  I wasn't having contractions though so I chalked it up to being 39 weeks pregnant.

10:00 P.M. Things got interesting and the next few hours flew by.  Andrew had been downstairs watching a movie and when he came up I left him know I was feeling like I did the night before Brayden was born.  Andrew reminded me the hospital was a 15 minute drive and we were in a storm watch so he said we were going to go sooner than later.  I said I didn't want to risk it so we would wait till 11:00 to see where contractions were.  Sure enough they were 6-7 minutes apart.  We woke Grandma to let her know we needed to go and Andrew packed up the car.

On the way to the hospital Andrew was kind enough to listen to country rather than NFL network and on the way to the hospital we heard our wedding song.  It was a nice comfort in between contractions and something to think about instead of the snow covering the road.

We got to the  hospital shortly before midnight.  Once checked in they took us to our room 3014.  Here is where things got a little blurry literally I took my contacts out :)  There was a steady stream of nurses in and out.  With the change in weather there were lots of other moms in labor too.

At 1:49 A.M  they placed all 6 pounds 14 ounces of my sweet baby boy on my chest.   As soon as Landon was born he let out some big cries to tell us he was ok.   It was amazing how quick and smooth everything was.  Andrew had mentioned a few weeks prior that his Papa had passed away on 2/22 and that was also Brayden's baptism day and I said I have a feeling that is the day our baby will be born.  Sure enough it was.  Papa was watching over us and reminded us of that by showing us new life.

Showing off his cry to the nurses.

First family picture with Landon.



Happy Mama and her new baby boy!