Pictures for the Family

The majority of my family lives outside of Utah, so at their request, here are more pictures Ryan, a.k.a. little Stew's clone.

This is what happened when little Stew helped himself to a peanut snack while I was feeding Ryan.

Finally more pictures

It's hard to catch the little guy awake, so he's sleeping in most of these.

3 Little Kings

Ryan Jonathan King

7 lbs 5 oz

18 inches

 Sun. 9.11.11 at 5:49 AM

So far he is a good little baby. We couldn't be more happy to have him in our family.

Birth Story (for those that want it.)

A general time line of his birth

5:30 PM - Alert Sunny I think I might be having real contractions. Put her on standby.

6:13 PM -  Call Sunny again and tell her to come get the kids because these are definitely the beginnings of labor, and assumed it would be fast like when I had Stew.

8:00 PM - Still contracting regularly but they aren't getting any stronger.

9:29 PM- Call Sunny feeling stupid because my contractions stopped all together and tell her we'll pick the kids up in the morning before she has church.

9:30 PM- Really feeling depressed because I really wanted to have him over the weekend.

9:45 PM- Watching the dessert round on "Chopped" and think both desserts look terrible.  

9:45 30 sec PM - Feel something warm start to run down my leg. Panic, since my water has never broken on it's own before. Start to run towards the bathroom while Stewart tosses me a towel.

9:49 PM- Call Sunny and tell her she's back on duty. And head to the hospital.

10:30 PM- Admitted to the hospital and they start my antibiotics since I was Strep B positive. 

11:00 PM- Get my epidural because why not.

12:30 PM- 1:00 AM -  Have a serious panic attack because my lower body is super numb. I've never had an epidural take full affect like that and I became super claustrophobic. I seriously considered having them yank the epidural out. I make Stewart tell me about his chemical engineering classes to help take my mind off the fact that I have no legs and make me go to sleep. It worked immediately.

4:00 AM- They give me pitocin since my contractions aren't getting any stronger and I haven't dilated since I arrived.

5:40 AM - I'm finally complete and ready to push. My epidural has also worn off enough that I can once again feel my legs and enough of the contractions that I know exactly when to push. It was the perfect amount of pain/ pain relief.

5:49 AM-  Little Ryan is born.

 

Re-purposed shirt into baby pants

 No baby yet.  :(  Although I wish he'd come today. It would be a fun birth date- 9.10.11


This week I decided I should make something for the new little guy.  So I took Stewart's old shirt.....

and made some newborn pants out of the sleeves. 

The fabric is super soft and cozy.  The dark purple may not scream "boy" without added details... but that's okay... it's all about comfort the first month- right?

First Day of Kindergarten

Evie started Kindergarten this week. She has been so excited all summer for school to finally start.  She barely let me take a picture outside of the school. She just wanted to get inside her classroom and see what table she was going to sit at.

This is her, "hurry and take a picture " look. After I took the picture she said, "Okay, bye mom."   I was glad she wasn't nervous at all. 

Stew on the other hand is having a harder time with her gone everyday for a couple of hours.  I've been trying to fill the time with projects.   Here we just made some new play-dough. 



**Pregnancy update. I'm 37 weeks.  Although my doctors have me down as 37 wks and 5 days, since the baby was measuring ahead of schedule at my 12 wk ultrasound.  I want to side with the doctors... but I also know my dates were correct.  With that being said, if this little guy comes 2 wks early like little Stew.. I should have him by next weekend- Sept.11th.  Otherwise, at my doctor's appointment this coming Tuesday... I'm going to see if they'll let me induce a week early.  There just isn't any more room- (Sunny is my truth-teller... she'll agree with me that I'm huge and that I can't get any bigger.)  Plus, I'm afraid I'll have a huge baby. Stew was 7 lbs 8 oz even though he was early.