More Baby Taylor

Some updated pictures, and a little more info so I can remember later . . .

I was scheduled for a c-section on Wednesday, June 30. We were switching the furniture around in 3 rooms in our house to make room for new baby (office stuff to the piano room, Kason's stuff to office, and baby's stuff in Kason's old room), and we still had a a long list of things to do. We thought we had 10 more days. We spent most of Saturday moving office furniture and computer stuff into the piano room. Thankfully, we got all the furniture moved and got the computer, printer, phones, etc all hooked up. We had also made a trip to Target 2 days before to buy a bunch of baby stuff.

Sunday morning (Father's Day) at 5:30 a.m., I woke up to use the bathroom. When I stood up, there went my water. I said "Tige, my water just broke!" He groggily says "are you sure?" I'm like "uh, yes, this is the 3rd time my water has broken. I'M SURE!" We start freaking out. We need 10 more days to prepare. I have a list a mile long of things for us (my husband) to accomplish around the house. We had it all arranged for Tige to take time off work in 10 days. We had it all arranged for my mom to take the kids for a few days, and then for Tige's mom to come over the week after that. My parents were leaving to California the next day for vacation. But Taylor was sure he was ready to join our family.

We stalled until about 6:15 when we thought maybe we could start calling people and making arrangements for Kason & Abby for the day. We got them settled with our neighbors, and headed to the hospital. I had only had 2 contractions in that first hour, but on the way to the hospital (about 3 minutes away), I had 2 more. Then they started coming fast and furiously about 1-2 minutes apart and were very painful. I never even got that far with labor with Kason or Abby, and I wasn't very thrilled about experiencing it this third time when we were having a c-section. I laid there having contractions until 8:30 thinking "I'm having a c-section. I'm supposed to be skipping this part!" and then they finally came to take me to the OR. At 8:57 a.m. we had our sweet boy.

I had a good stay in the hospital. I got to take lots of naps and hold and snuggle my baby all day long. The food was fanastic! There was a full menu, and I got to call "room service" and order anything I wanted from the menu. It was almost enough to make me want to stay an extra day. Tige spent the next day or two moving Kason to a new room and setting up a crib in the baby's room. I came home on Tuesday evening and have been sleeping or nursing the baby pretty much non-stop since then. Tige's sweet mom is here doing laundry and taking care of Kason & Abby. Taylor has some jaundice, which we're watching, but he's perfect. He wants to nurse about every 2 hours, and then sleeps most of the rest of the time. He's already peed on me twice (once in the middle of the night). Ah, the joys of motherhood.

Abby has been having a struggle, and isn't quite herself these days. She's been cranky and clings to Tige. She likes the baby and wants to hold him, but she's just a little out of sorts. I hope things return to "normal" soon, whatever that is.

Ready to leave the hospital.
Cute story with this picture. I was holding Taylor, and Abby hurt herself and came crying, so I pulled her up on my lap. A minute or 2 later, I looked over at Kason who was sitting on the floor closeby, and he was looking at me with big sad eyes brimming with tears. "I said "what's the matter?" Kason said "now I can't snuggle with you." I said "come on!" So he climbed on the other side. It was fun snuggling with all 3 kids, I was just hoping nobody stepped on the incision on my tummy!

Kason & Taylor

or "TJ" as Tige is planning to call him.

Dad and his boy

My little papoose.