Already a charmer!
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
Recent Happenings...
1. Dad, Step-mom, Brother Blake & Sister, Mikayla in town from TX.
2. We spent majority of my maternity leave at family cabin in Siren, WI.
3. Celebrated 4th of July at cabin.
4. Jack learned how to hold his breath under water, jetski, tube, ride on motorcross bike and fourwheelers with big uncle, Blake, help Grandpa Mike with yard work at cabin, and is now talking sentances!
5. Celebrated my Mom's Birthday!
6. Went back to work!
7. Henry 6 weeks old!
8. Ben building fence in our backyard.
Mom's Birthday
Jack on Pontoon
Sparklers on 4th of July!
Uncle Blake and Jack on motorcross bike!
Henry, 1 week old.
Me and Henry (4 weeks)
2. We spent majority of my maternity leave at family cabin in Siren, WI.
3. Celebrated 4th of July at cabin.
4. Jack learned how to hold his breath under water, jetski, tube, ride on motorcross bike and fourwheelers with big uncle, Blake, help Grandpa Mike with yard work at cabin, and is now talking sentances!
5. Celebrated my Mom's Birthday!
6. Went back to work!
7. Henry 6 weeks old!
8. Ben building fence in our backyard.
Mom's Birthday
Jack on Pontoon
Sparklers on 4th of July!
Uncle Blake and Jack on motorcross bike!
Henry, 1 week old.
Me and Henry (4 weeks)
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Henry Michael Christensen!
Henry Michael Christensen - Our new little addition was born (11 days early), Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 12:14 a.m. in the morning. Weighing 7lbs. 12oz. and 21 1/4 inches long! I started having contractions at home (during daycare hours) at 4pm. Patiently awaiting the parents to pick up their children, I started timing the contractions and they were 5-6 minutes apart right from the start.
I waited to call the doctor, for about an hour and a half as they weren't really painful yet. I finally called the doctor at about 5:45pm and he said I should go in a get checked out. In the meantime, my Mom came over to care for Jack while we were gone. We left for the hospital at 6pm and wondered, "Is this really it?" or was this just another Braxton Hicks fakeout? The last thing I wanted was to be sent home!
We arrived at the hospital, got checked in and sure enough, I was in real labor and dialated to a 3 cm. I got an IV and shortly was dialated to a 4 and I was able to get an epidural. Shortly after the epidural started to kick in the doctor came in a broke my water as it wasn't going to on its own. Then things started to slow down, so they gave me a drug called Pitocin to speed up the contractions. After this, things started to speed up. I quickly went from 6cm dialated to 9 and the baby was starting to make some big moves. During this time contractions and pressure really started to get strong and painful so they upped my epidural dosage to a stronger medicine. Pretty soon I was dialated to a 10 and ready to push.
The doctor came in again and I was asked to push 3 times after each contraction. I did this about 4-5 times and there Henry came! It was a wonderful moment and almost surreal as it was so much more relaxing than Jack's birth-even though it was 3 hours longer! They placed him on my chest and I knew we had another little one to love. What a wonderful thing it is to be a parent!
Henry and his proud "Big Brother" Jack
I waited to call the doctor, for about an hour and a half as they weren't really painful yet. I finally called the doctor at about 5:45pm and he said I should go in a get checked out. In the meantime, my Mom came over to care for Jack while we were gone. We left for the hospital at 6pm and wondered, "Is this really it?" or was this just another Braxton Hicks fakeout? The last thing I wanted was to be sent home!
We arrived at the hospital, got checked in and sure enough, I was in real labor and dialated to a 3 cm. I got an IV and shortly was dialated to a 4 and I was able to get an epidural. Shortly after the epidural started to kick in the doctor came in a broke my water as it wasn't going to on its own. Then things started to slow down, so they gave me a drug called Pitocin to speed up the contractions. After this, things started to speed up. I quickly went from 6cm dialated to 9 and the baby was starting to make some big moves. During this time contractions and pressure really started to get strong and painful so they upped my epidural dosage to a stronger medicine. Pretty soon I was dialated to a 10 and ready to push.
The doctor came in again and I was asked to push 3 times after each contraction. I did this about 4-5 times and there Henry came! It was a wonderful moment and almost surreal as it was so much more relaxing than Jack's birth-even though it was 3 hours longer! They placed him on my chest and I knew we had another little one to love. What a wonderful thing it is to be a parent!
Henry and his proud "Big Brother" Jack
Thursday, June 3, 2010
38 weeks along and waiting...
I know that I have to be patient and that I shouldn't be so anxious but I am starting to really wonder when this baby will come. I know that 40 weeks is just around the corner (12 days to be exact) but I think I really set myself up with thinking that he would be early as Jack was. I have tried to think of ways to "busy" myself but I can't help but constantly think about going into labor. Just this last Wednesday morning I thought I might be going into labor as I was having contractions but they just stopped! So it was just a false alarm. I even took a shower and got ready at 4 in the morning and called my mom to come over! So every night now I go to bed thinking, Will it happen in the middle of the night tonight? Maybe!!!! The baby isn't even born yet and he's already controlling me! : )
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
New Perennial Garden!
We have lived in our house since February 2007 and I always wanted to do "something" with this area in our front yard, but we haven't gotten around to it until this Spring. It started out as a rock garden with a couple of overgrown shrubs. Over the last couple of weekends, we turned it into this! My house loves that I am "nesting"!
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