Five days old

Just some pictures of Drake.

The whites of his eyes are pretty yellow in these pictures, but they are looking much better now.

Drake really isn't this chubby.  I think it is because his face is resting on his chest.

I think he is just so cute, but I am his mom.

He was looking a little yellow so he spent the day taking in the sun.

Just happened to catch him with a smile on his face.  You can see his dimple pretty good too.

Since we have been home...

Since we have been home Elly has not stopped wanting to hold him.  Every few minutes she comes up to me and says "hold you baby Drake, mommy."  I love the way she says it.  If Drake cries and I don't pick him up as soon as she tells me then sometimes she will start to cry too.  She really has adjusted pretty good so far, not to say she hasn't lost it a couple of times.  She is doing better then I thought she would.

 Mason has been such a great brother.  He loves him so much and has been such a great helper.  He is always happy to hold him for me while I do some of the things that need done.  He has been really gentle with him.

 Poor Tyler has hardly got any time with him since he has been in school.  Tyler told me having a new baby isn't that fun because all they do is sleep.  He has got to hold him for a few minutes each night before bed.  He has been really good with him and a great helper to me. 
When people tell me they will take my kids so I can rest I think they don't realize that my kids have been really good at helping me and letting me rest. 

Drake has been pretty cute when he is awake.  He will just sit there and look around and he with sit there awake for about and hour.  I have been surprised that he has had such good eye control.  I know with Elly it took her a good month or two before she could do that.

The waiting is OVER!!

On Monday we had a Dr. appointment first thing in the morning.  They told me I was dialated to a 4 1/2 and at 80% and the baby was really low.  The Dr. on call told them not to send me home but to have we walk around for awhile and then bring me in later to see if things had changed.  Then they would monitor me for a little while and if the Dr. okayed it they would start me.  When they called me to have me come in to get monitored I had changed so they watched the contractions for about an hour and then decided I was at a five and a half and they weren't sending me home like that.  So we started the IV about 5:30 and the baby was here at 9:47.  I thought that they had me on pitocin the whole time but they never did give it to me.  I was very glad they didn't send me home because who know when or where we would have had a baby.    

 I am very against these kind of pictures of myself but since I don't have any of my like this with this baby I had Tyler take one of me when we were heading up to the hospital.
At 9:47pm we had a little boy.  I was a little surprised because I thought we might get a girl but the last few days I started to think it was going to be a boy.  He was 7 lbs. 8 oz. and 19 1/2 in. long.  He came out face up so he was a little bruised that night but looked better the next day.
Jay with his little boy.

 

 Moments after delivery.  (You have to love those pictures.)

 This is right after he wes born before they had taken him to get cleaned up.

 After getting a bath.  He looks like he is chubby but he really isn't.  The only part of him that is at all chubby is his face.

 My dad and mom came down to help with the kids.  The kids loved it because Grandma and Grandpa took them back to our hotel and swam with them for three hours.  The kids were so tired that Grandpa and Grandma couldn't wake them up to come up to the hospital to see the baby when he was born, so they came up the next morning.  I was very glad to have my parents come and help with the kids.

 Mason holding his new little brother.  The kids were all wanting a new sister but they have been just as happy with a little brother.  Mason told me he wanted a sister so that he wouldn't have to play with Elly.

 Jay and the kids.

 Our four kids.  I can't believe that I have four kids sometimes, but I love them all so much.

 Our little family at the hospital just waiting for them to let us go home.

 Tyler with his little brother.

 Me and my little kids.

 Elly was really cute with him.  She kept kissing him and touching his checks and saying "so cute."

 Our little Drake D Stilson

We are so excited to finally have Drake here and healthy.  So far he has been a really good baby.  We are only a few days into this but he is so fun to have.  It is crazy how fast you can love somebody.  I love having a new baby in my house.  I love the way they smell and they have the cutest little cry.  This cute little guy has two dimples like Mason.  He didn't look like our kids at first but he has started to look more like them with each day.

It has started

The last weekend of February the boys decided they wanted to try Pee Wee wrestling.  I have been putting this off for as long as I could because I don't want to be running kids from one thing to another already.  I figured that wrestling wouldn't be to bad since it is only a month long one night a week is practice and one night a week is a meet.  The only problem we have had so far is they want to wrestle each other even more then they were already doing. 

They have loved every minute of it. They were very excited when they got their singlets.  It takes me days to get them out of them after they put them on for practice.

 I finally remember to take my camera last week so we have pictures of that.  I have video the other nights and it is hard not to laugh.  They just look so cute out there.  They know you need to get them on their back but they don't know the moves to get them their, but they are doing pretty good.

 Grandpa Teichert did teach them a move after he watched the video of them wrestling and they did that move over and over the next week.

It has been fun to watch them.  We only have one more week and then it will be over.  The boys are calling this last meet their state tournament, which I think is pretty cute.  They were very excited when Jay was able to make it to their meet last week.  It was the first one he was able to be to since he was out of town the week before.  We made sure he blocked out his day this week so he can be there for the final one.

IT WAS WORTH IT!

I have hated my teeth all through High School, but during my senior year a kid called me scraggle tooth Teichert it made me hate my teeth even more. I was all ways worried about smiling because I didn't want anyone to see my teeth. They really bothered me, even my little boys noticed that my teeth weren't straight.  One night we had dinner with an Orthodontist, of course he noticed them too.  He told me after I had my baby to come over and he would fix them.  After Elly was born I called him up to see if I could come over and so I got my braces on on April 8, 2009.  He told me it would take about two years.  My mouth hurt for a couple of months and I hated them pretty much everyday, but I wanted straight teeth.

Almost two years later on March 3, 2011 I got my wish.  I finally have straight teeth and it was worth every minute of it.  I love my teeth now and wish I could have done it earlier.  I don't like to post pictures of myself but this time I will make an exception.  It is hard to tell in the first picture how bad they were but just trust me they were bad.

I love my teeth but still hate to have a picture taken.