Has Summer Finally Arrived?

Photos taken May 15, 2014

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Look Who Turned 3 Months Today!! :)

I love these kids!!!!!

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Presenting Baby D!!! :)

Presenting Baby D

Born January 8, 2014

@ 11:56pm

Weighing 9lbs 15 oz

4 cms and life is good!

10 cms and life is still good!

Baby D is here and on mommy...life is GREAT!

My big beautiful boy!

What a chub!!

Ready to go home and meet his big brother!

Maybe a little hungy?

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Pregnancy Bliss!

So it's been AWHILE! Whats been going on since the last post. Well a lot I would say. I guess we'll go down the baby subject. So Christmas of 2012 I miscarried. Started bleeding right before Christmas, went to the emergency, they did an ultrasound and everything was fine. Then at my first appointment at 9 weeks which was on January 2nd I believe, there was no more baby. Lets not dwell on this too much. It sucked big time! Moving on....

Fast forward to May 2013...i'm pregnant again (4th pregnancy...Yikes!)....but this time it ends happy!! My pregnancy went pretty well. Lots of nausea in the first trimester, lots of zits, yucky hair....naturally I thought it was a girl. But lo and behold, it was another boy. I had TONS of heartburn that even TUMS didn't work on. At 27 weeks I was put on non strict bed rest as my cervix started shortening. By 33 weeks I was removed from bed rest and then only gave birth past my due date. I was due on January 5th and the little guy came out on the 8th.

My labor was really different from last time. I woke up in the morning with a bit of a bloody show. Since I was already going to an appointment later that day, I decided to pop in earlier to get checked out in the birthing center. When I got there, they made me do an NST (non-stress test), which basically monitors contractions, fetal heartbeat and movement. Everything looked good. Baby was happy. No contractions. So they checked out what was happening down there and apparently I was already 4 centimeters. They decided to admit me. YAY! I was going to have this baby....finally! Once I was installed in a room, the monitor was showing that I was having contractions every 10 minutes. The funny part is that I didn't feel a thing. Awesome! My doctor happened to be on call that evening. I was so happy he would be there to deliver my baby again. So, the doctor came to check me and I was at 5 centimeters at this point. He said that he would get me an epidural and then have the resident come and break my water. Since I wasn't in any pain though, I opted out on the epidural first and had them break my water. BIG MISTAKE! LOL As soon as they broke my water (which was at around 4:30pm), the pressure was incredible and I had to get that epidural. Not to mention that my giant belly visibly shrank by half because of the enormous amount of fluids that came out of me. It was GROSS! haha Anyway, after getting the epidural (which caught really well this time), I took a little nap, maybe around an hour. At around 7:30pm the nurse came to check me and I was fully dialated!!! Yay! They decided to start me on a bit of oxitocin just to get my contractions closer together because at this point they were still coming far apart. At around 11:00pm I started to really feel pressure and the urge to push. The nurses got ready and called the doctor. I started pushing at around 11:30pm and by 11:56pm my BIG baby was born (with a little shoulder distortion, but nothing major). Baby D came out at a whopping 9lbs 15oz, and of course with a full head of hair! (I don't have bald babies!)

Here are some pictures documenting my bump!

16 weeks (At the Old Port)

21.5 weeks (On vacation in Wildwood)

27 weeks (apple picking)

28 weeks (at my best friend's wedding)

33 weeks

38 weeks

38.5 weeks (Christmas Eve)

40 weeks

So that's whats been going on on the baby front! I am now a mother of 2 beautiful boys who I love more than anything in this world. I will post some pictures of the new addition soon! :)

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Cousin Love

My little man really loves his cousins. He's always asking for them. When they're around, he's always giving them kisses and hugs. As they say, you can choose your friends, but not your family. So its so nice to see them getting along!



Baby and Kiki (thats what he calls him)




Baby and Lulu (thats what he calls her)



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I Heart You!

This year since Valentine's day was on a Tuesday and I didn't think anyone really had plans, I invited my family over for a special Valentine's supper. I figured, why not spend the day of love with more than just one person you love right? So here's who came, My parents, my grandma, my brother, my sister in law, my nephew and niece, and of course me, hubby and Baby! It was a full house. So naturally I went with a red themed meal. Cliche? Ah who cares, it all tasted good and one of the easiest things to make to entertain a big crowd is pasta and sauce. That's what was on the menu. A meat sauce over cheese and spinach ravioli. YUM! I have to admit, my sauce turned out fabulous. It was so flavorful and best of all, there were many hidden nutrients in the mix. Sneaky me! Sauce is the best way to get your kids to eat their veggies without them even knowing.



Yum!

 So after we stuffed our faces on Ravioli and wine, I set out a big bowl of strawberries. They were so sweet and delicious.

  

My little man feeding all the ladies some strawberries. Oh they start so young! Hehe!

After the strawberries, it was time for coffee and dessert. I found a recipe online for red velvet whoopie pies with cream cheese frosting in the shape of hearts. So cute and they looked so tempting. So I decided to make them. I made the heart cookies and then realized I had forgotten to buy cream cheese. And you can't have cream cheese frosting with cream cheese now can you. So I really didn't feel like breaking my head over trying to find something else to make the sandwich part of the whoopie pies, so they turned out to be whoopie pies sans cream! They were really good even without the filling. Here is a picture! They came out so moist.

That pretty much concludes the meal part of our evening. After cleaning the kitchen and doing all the dishes, we played with the kids, watched a movie and relaxed. It was a really nice way to spend Valentine's day! Good food and my family....what more could a girl ask for! :o)



My three little Valentine's eating lollipops and watching the Care Bear Movie!

Hope everyone had a nice Valentine's day filled with love and laughter!

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Motherhood

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Old Made New Again

Has anyone been to a toy store lately? Well, I have and let me tell you, there are so many cool toys out there nowadays. Sure we had some nice toys when we were kids. I wonder if it's just because we're not kids anymore that we think the toys of today are so much cooler. Well, as you know, we always make lists at Christmas. This means some online research and some on site searching. This is were I fell upon these new Sesame Street toys. Sooooo cute!! There is the whole family. Elmo, Cookie monster, Bert, Ernie, Big Bird, Snuffy, Oscar, and Grover. They even have the street. That's right, the street. It's the front of Mr.Hooper's store and the famous stairs near Oscar's garbage can. All in all, very awesome. So I added all of the above to Baby's Christmas list. I also added Oscar's Garage Truck and Grover's Firetruck. Well, Baby got everything. I'm guessing I was more excited about it than he was. It brought me back to my childhood. I mean, who didn't love Sesame Street when they were a kid? Really. So, was it selfish of me to put something on Baby's list that I really wanted?

Here are two reasons why I don't think so. First of all, he's too little to even know what he wants. I mean he just turned one. Its not like I was going to put him on the Internet and tell him to make a list of things he wanted! Second of all, he LOVES LOVES LOVES his new Sesame Street toys. I mean, he plays all day with them. He's learned all their names. It wasn't a total selfish choice I made. I know Baby loves playing with little action figures (for lack of a better word), like the Little People collection. So I figured, why not little Sesame Street characters? And I was right. Mommy knows best right? Hehe! I'm happy that he likes his toys and I'm glad that I get to enjoy them too. It's fun to feel young. Play with your kids and have fun! That's what life's all about.



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