Hospital Pictures

Here is a link to the pictures the hospital took. The first one is super cute!

http://www.our365.com/NewbornPortraits/BabyDetail.aspx?birthid=462fdeed-6004-4d35-9cd9-edfb83d956eb

Jacob Has Arrived!

Jacob Michael arrived on Sunday March 8, 2009 at 2:14 pm. He weighed 8 lbs. 4 oz. and is 21 in. long. I started having regular contractions Sunday morning around 6am (what I thought was 5am because we forgot about daylight savings!). When we got to the hospital I was already dialated to 5cm. My labor was really intense for a while until after 7cm when they came in and said because this is a VBAC (vaginal birth after ceserean) that I really should have an epidural just in case things change quickly so they wouldn't have to completely knock me out. At this point the contractions were way too intense with so many people around that I decided to just get it. After this it was just a waiting game until it was time to push. The delivery was like night and day with and without the drugs. Although we really wanted to have a natural childbirth, I think it all worked out exactly as it should have. The great thing is that it was a successful VBAC and I didn't have to get another ceserean so yeah. We are already back home and settling in nicely, the recovery so far is not too bad, nothing like before!

Megan loves being a big sister. She comes running anytime he cries. She was a trooper through this whole thing, she was at the hospital from the time we checked in (around 9:30am) until 5pm that day. Thanks Grandma Woodward for being patient with her and playing with her that whole time!

As far as Jacob is concerned he is very laid back so far. He sleeps a lot of course but yet we are still exhausted! It's amazing to finally meet him after all this time!

Baby Jacob's Room

The countdown is on to Baby D's arrival. We decided on a name, Jacob Michael. My due date it quickly approaching on March 14th. We will update the blog with info as we know it!

Baby Jacob's room is finally complete! It took over a month and lots of patience and help but it's finally finished! Thanks Norm and Sue for providing the paint and all the extra's for the room. Thanks also for your help with the painting and chair rail!

There were so many steps that it's hard to keep track of it all! But here is a quick run-down:

Sand the trim

Wipe the trim

Tape the trim

Paint the trim twice

Measure and mark how high we wanted the stripes to go

Paint the top part (khaki)

Paint the bottom part (light blue)

Allow the paint to dry for a week

Measure, mark, and tape off for the stripes

Use a credit card to really get the tape down so hopefully the paint doesn't bleed under

Paint the stripes (dark blue)

Paint the stripes

Paint the stripes

Paint the stripes (that's right, 4 coats!)

Take the tape off very carefully (yeah, it worked!)

Attempt to sand the chalkboard wall (definitely not the best idea we've had!)

Decide to plaster the wall...takes 2 times to get it good enough (by now we don't care!)

Sand the plaster

Prime the chalkboard wall

Paint the chalkboard wall (3 coats, 3 days)

Cure the chalkboard wall (basically covering the thing in chalk)

Get the chair rail (left Lowe's with it sticking out the back tied with Megan's necklace)

Paint the chair rail

Cut the chair rail (repeat many times)

Put up the chair rail

Fill the nail holes and such

Do the touch-up painting to the room

AHHHH, we are finally done. I'm not so sure we will take on a project like this in the future again but now that it's completely finished we love it!

Here are a few pictures of the room from before to after! Megan loves playing in there of course. She still sadly asks about her yellow paint that we covered up with the chalkboard wall. Fortunately she enjoys the chalkboard too much to get upset!

Snow!

We had a little bit of snow several weeks ago and Megan had a blast playing!

Megan and Schyler

Here is a fun picture of Megan and Schyler. It's so much fun to see Megan play these days!

Megan's First Haircut!

Here are pictures from Megan's first haircut! She's over two and a half and we finally gave in and went to get her hair cut! She sat there in the chair completely still with a funny look on her face...until the end when she yelled lollipop because she saw the lollipop's on her way in!

Cutting and Gluing

It has taken a while to figure out how to upload from our new camera. I now have to upload 1 picture at a time and it takes 2-3 minutes per picture...grrr (that's with Michael's new computer and cable internet...grrr). Anyways, that is the reason that the blog hasn't been updated as frequently, hopefully I can figure out a better method soon! Thanks for your patience! Well, these are pictures from January when Megan started cutting and gluing. It's crazy that she's doing these kinds of things already and she loves it. She asks to cut and glue all of the time now! Her technique has improved and it's neat to see the progress.