One Little Monkey Jumping on the Bed

I am not sure what to do, but Kate has recently been so defiant and she thinks it is so funny to jump on beds. I've told her to stop, but she ignores me. Threatening her life hasn't helped either. Since the homecoming of her brother, she has had some slight behavior problems. She can't get enough attention and usually she wants something when I have to feed John or I'm changing him or I'm trying to put him to sleep. She also has no concept of being quiet so we don't wake the baby. She also will not allow me to nap during the day, and boy do I need a nap. He is awake every three hours and in between that she gets up and wants something. So basically, I'm not all here, but I'm just trying to keep it together at this point. The house is gross, but the dishes are washed and the laundry's done. And we all ate dinner. I think that is pretty good at this point!

John is growing so much. He makes the cutest faces and he smiled at me yesterday. He has the prettiest smile. I love it when he starts to get upset and sticks his bottom lip out. It is so cute. Here are some pics to show you how cute my little man is.

Ballerina? Probably not.

I just signed Kate up for a ballet/tap/tumbling class. She is super excited so I took her out the other day to buy her a leotard and tights to wear. As soon as she got home she wanted to put it on and her ballet shoes and show her GiGi. Here are some pics I took.

2 Week Check-up

Wednesday was John's 2 week check-up and it went pretty well. They did another PKU test and he screamed his little head off. I felt so bad!!!! He was 7 lbs 6 oz when he was born, and at the check-up he was 8 lbs 11 1/2 0z. Yes, he loves to eat! He is now 21 inches long so he grew an inch longer. I think that about covers it. He is still as cute as ever and still not sleeping a lot at night. Pray for a better night schedule for us!

He's Here!

John Grayson made his appearance on July 15th at 10:58am. He was 7 pounds and 6 ounces and 20 inches long. He has a full head of black hair and basically looks exactly like me. He is just perfect. The labor part was not that great as I started out with them not being able to get an IV in. It took them five times, and the fifth time was the anesthesiologist. Then I was nauseous the rest of the time. The only good thing that happened was that I only had to push once. We are now at home and trying to adjust to having two children. Kate is super excited about her baby brother and wants to "help" all the time. Here are some pics of John and of our special day.

Cry for Help

If anyone that reads this knows some magical way or special way to get your water to break, please let me know. I will owe you big time. I'm not sure I will make it till Tuesday.

Interesting Week

So Monday I spent about 3 1/2 hours in Labor and Delivery to be sent home. I was contracting pretty well when I went in, but it eventually faded away. It didn't help me dialate any more so they sent me home. I was a little bummed. Anyways, went to the doc today and I am now 3 1/2 cm dialated. Forgot to ask about effacement, but I'm so close to 4 cm I don't care. Of course 3 1/2 cm is not enough to keep me, so we scheduled an induction for Tuesday, July 15. So this is officially what I like to call Eviction Day! I'm evicting his butt from my body. When the doc measured me today, she said he was measuring a little small, so she sent me to get an ultrasound. Everything seems to be ok and he is 6 lbs 9 oz as of right now. I wouldn't consider this measuring small as Kate was 7 lbs 2 oz. So hopefully he will be just a little bigger on E-Day. Unless of course I go before E-day, which would be fine.

News from the doctor

So I went yesterday for my weekly appt. and everything is going beautifully. For those of you that know the lingo, here goes. He is not engaged, but he is down there and she could feel his head as I am now three cm dialated and 75% effaced. Doctor said I could go any day now since I am going so quickly and she would be surprised if she saw me next week at my scheduled appt. So, now I'm a little nervous about it because you never know how labor will pan out. I had such a good experience with Kate that I'm afraid this one will be horrible. I hope not. I've heard the second labor goes faster than the first one. I was induced with Kate so I went in the morning and had her by 3:30 that afternoon, had little to no pain and everything went smoothly. So, I guess we will see what happens. I'm a little leary that he will be born on July 4th, but Brian says he thinks that might be cool b/c Kate was born on a Mexican Independence day and our son would be born on an American Independence day. So that is the news....... will update if something happens before next week!