Home!

We were so excited to finally be able to bring our sweet little E home! We woke up and it was SNOWING! I never thought I would bring my March baby home in the snow! I was up bright and early getting us all ready to break on out of the hospital and see my big boy at home!

Wow, I am looking awesome :) It's a good thing that they will love me as there Momma and not for the way I look. :) Haha! We got a picture like this when we brought Connor home so we had to with E too! I was sad that we didn't wait until Connor got home from school to take the pic with him, but Evan needed to eat and he wasn't going to wait. Haha!

The doggies seem to love him - I think they think he is old news after having Connor. They are like been there done that, haha! 

Connor brought birthday oreos to school in honor of E's birthday! He was SO excited and said that his friends and teacher's loved seeing the pictures of his new baby brother. He picked out the picture to bring to school, sweet little guy. 

He came flying in the door from school with a little blue bag saying he had a hat for E, we didn't know what he was talking about. One of the teachers at school makes these little hats for the older siblings to pick out for the new baby. I thought it was totally adorable and it was our favorite hat for him!

He loves holding him, it makes me so happy. Bj and I were laughing that when Evan is older he is going to wonder why Connor only had Jake pajamas to wear - he is seriously wearing them in every picture because its all he wears :)

First car ride! He was an angel and slept the whole way! He was excited to go home too :) 

My THREE boys! I just love them all to pieces!

Big Brother!

When we got pregnant, I just knew Connor was going to be a great big brother, I really didn't question it. I know a lot people wondered if he would be really jealous since it was just us for awhile, but I just had a feeling he was going to do well. I knew it would be an adjustment for all of us and we would have ups and downs too. I have to say that Connor has done even better than I thought with the transition. He wanted a baby sister so bad that I was a little nervous he was going to be upset when he found out he had a baby brother. He stayed with Debbie when I had him and she said he was so excited, a little nervous but so excited to meet Evan. He told her he wanted a baby sister but he was so happy that he had a brother.

I will never forget, he came in and gave me a hug, opened his big brother presents, looked at E and went about his business. It wasn't until a little later when someone said Evan couldn't eat something because he didn't have any teeth. C was like, what?! no teeth?! It was really funny and that was all it took for him to warm up to his baby brother. He didn't want to hold him the first day, but asked to the next day and I am pretty sure we snapped about 100 pictures. 

Oh these pictures just make my heart ache with how much I love them. He was so excited to meet his baby and get to hold him. He told me he was adorable and he loved his little baby toes and soft hair. 

He wanted to wear his "4" birthday shirt to the hospital so that Evan would know his name is Connor and he is 4. I loved it, it still makes me smile when I think about it. 

I can't handle the smile on his face - he was so proud, IS so proud to be a big brother. I told him how lucky he is to have a baby brother. I said I have a baby brother and I think he is pretty great and I love being a big sister to him. He just kept getting a big smile on his face. :) 

He told Nana that he loves him so much and he really wanted a brother. I seriously can't watch anything involving brothers without getting chocked up, I can't wait to watch there bond grow as they grow. 

He loves to say "Goodnight E!"  and then we have to say in a funny low voice "Good night C!" and then he goes "Love you E" and we have to say "Love you C!". It's adorable. At first he called him Evs, but we have started calling him E now and it seems to have stuck :) I love both of these precious boys to the moon and back!

Little E

After 12 hours and 31 minutes of labor which ended with my little man getting stuck, we welcomed the sweetest little angel screaming into the world. I can not even begin to put into words how incredibly amazing it was to hear him crying for the first time, in the delivery room! I don't remember them telling me he was a boy, I don't remember how much it hurt - all I can remember is that sweet, sweet, amazingly beautiful sound. It was the complete opposite of Connor's birth. I told everyone "He's crying! Did you hear him? He was crying!" Sweetest, sweetest sound on earth. I am not lying when I say that I loved being in labor. Yes, it hurt and I threw out some bad words but I loved it. It was so happy and exciting - waiting on this perfect, healthy little baby. My mom, brother, Shannon, Auntie G, Gerard, Annie, MP and Brian were all with me. They stayed until the very end to meet the newest little sweetie in the wee hours of the morning. My mom was showing everyone the boy/girl stuff I had monogrammed. Bj took a pic of E from the waist up and sent it out to my mom and left everyone in suspense wondering if we had a boy or a girl! It was funny, but I am not sure how funny everyone else thought it was :) 

It was amazing being able to hold him right away, and smell him and HEAR him! When they broke my water earlier in the night they noticed merconium so the NICU team checked him out right away but it was amazing. They were all laughing and telling me how great he looked, how big he looked, how perfect he looked! It was amazing. Did I mention it was amazing and I am already ready to do it again? Obviously the birth of your child is amazing but after experiencing a tough one this just blew me away. It was so easy - we went in, labored and had a baby, then went home with the baby a few days later. I just felt like I had to keep pinching myself - it was real and those first few days of snuggling in the room were incredible. 

My sweet friend Jess above cleaned my house for me while I was in the hospital! She is amazing - she didn't want me to come home to a dirty house, love her! We had so many visitors, it was wonderful! Connor was with my in-laws and he came a little later that day and it was so good to see him, I missed him somthing big! He was so cute, he gets a whole post of his own though :) 

This sweet little boy is SO incredibly loved already - I seriously just sat and stared at him. I have waited a long time for his sweet face to bless our family and it's been amazing. Bj and I kept laughing that we were just waiting for the nurses to come and take him away - it was such a huge change having him with us the whole time and being able to hold him and pass him around! I loved being able to nurse him right away.

Pope Evan :) 

I am such a lucky Momma with TWO BOYS to love on - I seriously couldn't be happier. I loves these two more than anything in the world. I tear up every time I think about my "brothers" growing up together. I can't watch that verizon commercial with the brothers without being reduced to tears. 

Big brother, he sure loves his little baby E! 

Sweet, precious sleeping sweetie. I would feed this little nugget and then he would just snuggle in on my side, he still does and it's pure heaven. There is nothing in this world like a sweet, snuggly little baby! 

One of the first things I thought was "who the hell does he look like!" Ha! I think he looks more like my side of the family and a lot like his Uncle Davey - his hair even looks red in some pictures! I know one thing, I sure think he is a beautiful little boy!

I can't get over how much I love his legs - they are so much chunkier now, I can't take it!!! 

I just love that sweet face, I took quite a few pictures of this sweet guy :) 

My amazingly wonderful doctor, I mean I seriously miss seeing him once a week!

C loved laying in my bed and pressing all of the buttons, it was pretty funny :) He was playing on the bed with R, showing her how it went up and down. They kept hitting the nurses button too, oops! 

He still keeps his little legs up like this sometimes and I wish I could have gotten a picture that captured just how cute it is - poor little almost 9lb'der I don't know how he had any room in my big old belly!

I just love this sweet little baby to pieces. I said I knew God would give us the perfect little new family member and he did. E has just come into our lives like he has always been here. It really is amazing, he just fits right in and I already can't remember our life without him. It's been a fun, crazy, sweet, amazing and exhausting first few months! 

Welcome to the World, Evan William!

March 1, 2013

2:31am

8lbs, 13oz -- 21in. 

40 Weeks!

 Bear with me as I catch myself up, I don't feel much like blogging these days (nor is there much time!) I would rather stare at my beautiful babies :) But, I know I will be sad if I don't keep it up so bear with me as I start from the beginning! I did it - I made it ALL THE WAY TO MY DUE DATE!!!!!!!! I mean, I am amazed, so excited and happy. I just can't believe after everything my little nugget hung on to the very last second :) 

The last picture of my sweet boy as an only child! I cried like a baby before putting him to bed that night. I mean, I was snotting all over the place and he was so sweet. He looked at me and said "momma, I think you need a hug". I think the poor kid had no idea what was going on :) 

Since I ended up having to have an emergency c-section with Connor I wasn't going to be able to have an induction with this pregnancy. I had to go into labor on my own to have the v-bac that I really, really wanted. Earlier in the week my blood pressure started creeping up and Dr. Shaner said he thought it would be best if we just scheduled a c-section and went from there. I hadn't changed from my original 1cm/80% and he was starting to get a little anxious about getting the baby here. I was devastated, it just wasn't what I wanted for this delivery. He told me that I did amazing and I wasn't begging to have the baby early but he thought it was in our best interest not to go past my due date. 

Well, I woke up at 2am February 28th with pains that I said "well, if this isn't labor then I don't want to go into labor." I had been having contractions all week, strong and close just not close enough. But, I had a feeling when I couldn't talk through the contractions that this was the real deal. My neighbor was taking C to school for me so after I buckled him in the car (we didn't tell him what was going on) I walked up the steps and turned to wave to him and FELL UP/DOWN THE STEPS! My neighbor flew out of the car, Bj flew out of the house and I was in panic mode. I ran into the house, laid on my left side and wouldn't move until I felt that baby. I called the dr and he said he thought everything was fine but to come in a little early for monitoring. When we got to the hospital the nurses could see that I was visibly in pain and knew I didn't want a c-section so they said come on back, we will check you. I was 3cm and 90% effaced!!! I screamed with excitement on the table, hahaha! I was cheering and fist pumping - who does that?! They called the dr and he said we could go for it :) So February 28th started with this...

And ended with this :) Bj took some awesome videos of me and some lovely photos - the bottom one makes me chuckle. Not sure what I was talking about but it's still funny. I laugh that I am on the ball because most of my labor was not spent sitting down, it was spent pacing the halls. It hurt too much to sit down!