the kids are downstairs and that makes me nervous! But the baby is in the swing and the other 2 are making noise so at least I know that they're alive. So, basically everything is going good in the Stanley household. I think Blake is growing, he's filling out a lot more and is fitting into stuff that he couldn't before, so I think everything is good. And Jessie measured him with his tape measure and he is 20 inches. So I think everything is working itself out, I hoping that when I take him for his 2 month old appointment that they say "oh, maybe he was just off to a slow start" and not want to do more tests. Anywho, I'm looking forward to Halloween, Kaden is going to be the black spiderman and Jessie is going to be the red spideerman. As for the babies they are little dalmation pups, Grant LOVES the 101 dalmations and I found a disney costume on e-bay and so I'm super excited about it. And then at walmart in the baby section they had a dalmation costume that is small enough to fit Blake, they are going to be so cute, I can't wait. As for me I'm going as a mother of 3 little monsters. :) But I'm really excited about what comes after Halloween, the second week in November I get to get out my Christmas decorations and I'm so excited, we bought a 3rd tree at last year after christmas and I can't wait to put them up, the boys (especially Grant) love our lighted bats that are up for halloween so I can't wait to see his face when he sees all the lights for Christmas. I think once you have kids Christmas really becomes a holiday about making you kids happy. Don't get me wrong I'm really looking forward to Thanksgiving, but they don't have cool decorations. Speaking of Thanksgiving, we are going to spend the whole day decorating Gingerbread house at my moms and she's even going to make 2 little house for Kaden and Grant to decorate. I can't wait, I think we may have discovered a new holiday tradition. YEA!!! Basically I just love watching my kids get excited about a holiday it's so much fun!!!
hahahaha...your kids are so lucky to have the 'craft lady' for a grandma. you are so right about the way we view the holidays after we have children. I have more fun watching my kids enjoy the holiday than i do anything else. i've been thinking about y'all and hope you're doing well.
I love that you guys "do it up big...and early" someone made fun of me last week because Addison wore a Christmas shirt, actually, little did they know, she wore two last week. We love Christmas, why not relish and bask in every minute of it? :)
Well I'm just going to say it.... last week sucked!!!!!!! No parent should have to deal with that much fear. I know that I'm lucky because all of Blakes tests came back good, but it still was really tough to handle and I consider myself a tough person. But as long as he eventually grows we will hopefully not have to go through any more tests. Since he as been on the meds for his acid reflux he is an eating machine. It is almost like he can hold the food down and now he can't get enough. I'm really glad there is no more green vomit, that was freaky and nerve racking and really gross. So now that I got that all out of my system and for the most part the burden was lifted for my shoulders, I'll tell ya'll about the good things that have been happening in our lives.
Kaden-- He seems to be learning pretty well with homeschooling and I'm hoping that once everything with Blake is worked out that I can start taking over. I don't know what I'd do without my mom, Brittney and Katelyn helping with that. Nothing worked out the way that I planned and it really set me back, so I've had to have a lot of help. He's doing really good and is a super smart kid. Like any kids he has some kinks to work out but he is doing good. He helps me out a lot and does really well with his brothers. Him and Grant are always playing together and it is so cute. I think he might be going through a growth spurt he won't stop eating he keeps telling me "I'm always hungery." But he's not always hungry when the food has "black" on it, even if it's suppose to be there he freaks out. That is really annoying I get tired of hearing at EVERY meal, that he doesn't like black. Oh well, hopefully he'll grow out of that and if not I'll just keep making him eat it anyways. :)
Grant-- He is getting cuter by the day! It is so hard to get on to him because he's so cute. Mom said that Meagan was the same way. He seems to be growing too, but he's not eating as much which is good, because he was a little piggy. He still has very little interest in Blake, but I think that will fade with time. Kaden didn't really like Grant untill he got big enough to do stuff with. And Grant is just not starting to really like Emily. Grant has a new friend Mr. Darrell (Thomas), he gives Grant candy and lets him sit with him. So last night before church he would walk around and act like he was going to sit with Mr. Darrell and than would turn around and walk back he did it like 3 or 4 times before he would actually go sit with him. And (much to my surprise) he fell asleep on Mr. Darrell and slept all the way through church. He is a really hard kid to get to sleep so it was really surprising to see him fall asleep that easy.
Blake--Well not that they are done poking and proding at him he's doing good. The day we had all the test was hard on him. But now we've made it through it all and I think he'll be alright. I think he's growing but that might be because I'm his mama. He's getting cuter, he likes stick is tongue out and sit in his chair and hit the rattle and reach for the little bear. But his favorite part is to look at himself in the mirror. That swing/chair that we bought for him has really worked out well. I think he is doing wonderful and my favorite thing about him right now is that he smiles in his sleep! And now it looks like he tries to smile when he's awake. It's very exciting!
Well all the boys are doing great. I'm tryin to keep them extra involved. On Saturday we went to the Family Literacy Festival, which was awesome and every kid got a free book. It was a lot of fun! And this week on Friday we are going to Bell's homecoming parade and than on Saturday I want to take Kaden to the Book Warehouse. Everything is going great! \
Hopefully next time I'll start my blog off a little more cheerful!
I think possibly if the acid reflux was making it hard for Blake to keep his food down, then maybe that is why he hasn't been growing very much, and maybe now that he can, he'll start growing faster.
Amber, bless your heart. You are such a good mom. And as a reading teacher I'm so thrilled to read that you are providing lots of reading opportunities for your boys. Anyhoo...you are in my prayers and so are your 3 boys. Hope to see you soon. The kids and I are going to try to make a visit up there in a few weeks.
Thank you for the update, prayers have been answered the world over for you 5 there. Why don't you make yourself a cinnamon toast for breakfast. The cinnamon turns black when it hits the butter. If he is the mooch most kids are he will smell it and decide to give it a try, maybe other black spices will get a try.
poor girl! I've been trying to remember you guys in my prayers and I will definitely do it right now. :) I hope things slow down a little for you so you can get a chance to breathe, notice I didn't say relax, that must come after breathing! :)
I FINALLY had a baby!!!!! Blake Thomas Stanley was born on Thursday at 3:35pm, it was a great end to the day. But it actually had a frusterating beginning, the DR told me to call at 5 am before I came in, well I did and they told me call back at 8 am and than at noon, well I thought that was annoying so I called my DR office to see what was going on and they said to call back at 9:30am and they might have something, I did and again they told me call at noon. Well at 11:45 they called to tell me that I could come in. I was so happy! So we went in and we got there around 1 pm and were in a room and hooked up to everything by 2 pm. The DR tried to break my water and nothing happened and she told me I'm really afraid I'm poking him in the head, so I just kept expecting my water to break later. Well right after my nurse started the my iv and everything I told them that I was going to want my epidural soon because I had a feeling that everything was going to go fast, but they wanted to put it off until my contractions got worse. Finally I told Jessie to tell them that I wanted it NOW! Well they came in around 3pm to start it, and by then I thought that I was going to die (I may be a baby, but I had no intention of feeling that much pain and I really wasn't prepared for it, anyways...), they had a hard time getting it going because the bed was messing up my back and by that point the contraction were so bad they thought they were hurting me with the epidural even though I told them it's not you it the contractions. Well when they finally got done and I was laying back done, I had expected the pain to fade away like it did with Kaden and Grant, but it didn't and the nurses started to wonder why the pain was so bad so she checked me and the expression on her face was priceless, and after that it all went crazy, she was calling for nurses and the DR, because Blake was about to fall out. Mom said that there were nurses running down the hallway and they had to pull my DR out of another delivery. The Dr made it by 3:30pm and I started pushing and with 1 and a half pushs there he was. He was so small compared to what I was expecting he was 7 pounds 7 oz and 20 in. long. and he has a head full of dark hair, he's so cute! Afterwards I asked the DR if my water ever break and she said that nothing came out, so the theory is that it broke over a week before he was born and was slowly leaking, which would explain why I felt so bad the last couple of days. But I'm really glad that they did the induction when they did because it could've been bad if he would've stayed in there longer with no amniotic fluid. That is my theory on why he's so small . But now everything is great we are adjusting to a family of 5, and even Grant is doing a little better. Today I came out of my room and Grant had crawled unto the couch next to Blake and was covering him with a blanket and after that he kept trying to give him his Woody, which is a big deal because that is his favorite toy. Everything is wonderful and I'm super happy to not be pregnant. Well I'll TRY to update soon and give ya'll a better update on the kids.
So I guess everyone has figured out that I'm obiovously still pregnant. I went in on Saturday and there was NO change!!!!!! Eeeeerrrrr...I even tried to fake contractions and that didn't work all that did was cause Jessie to laugh at me. Ever 5 minutes I was hold my breath and push my stomach out causing my UA (utrine activity) to go up and look like a contraction, but unfortunity I think the nurses are to smart for that, oh well. So anyways they sent me to the mall to walk hoping something would happen and my DR even told me to get dehydrated that that could bring on contractions. So I did all of that and even ate spicy food, I had a shot of fire sauce out of the packet from Taco Bell and then covered my food in fire sauce, I also drank 4 oz of Castor Oil (yes again Jessie laughed at me) I kept almost gagging on the complete nastyness of it.....ick! I did all of this and yet here I am pregnant. But after we left Gainesville and drove home about 3 hours later I started having contractions (isn't that the way it always is) but they eventually faded away, so apparently my body is on a start and stop mode and just doesn't know how to go on it's own. Oh well I guess that doesn't matter, on Thursday I'm scheduled to be induced (thank goodness!). Oh in other baby news, toys r us was having a big baby sale and Jessie got the swing that I've really wanted, so I'm so excited about it and have already practice on a teddy bear and it is awesome... it will be even cooler with a real baby in it, but until then the bear will have to do. It is the Sweet PEAce swing and it plugs into the wall, that is what most excited about because with the papaysan swing we went through 4-5 sets of 4 D batteries, and they are super expensive, so now I can use the swing any time that I want and it doesn't suck dry the batteries!!! Yea!! I also got the diaper bag I wanted, it the Rainforest diaperbag and it has a monkey on it! We are doing a monkey theme and so I have been monkey crazy lately.
So anyways thursday is the big day and I'm expecting a big baby! Jessie and I definitly are expecting him to over 9 pounds and I'm saying 22 inches long. Hey well at least all of his clothes should fit, with small babies nothing fits. So I'm excited about thursday and I'll have someone keep ya'll posted!!!!!!
I hope the doctor really spanks him good when he comes outta there! ;) Sorry Amber, that stinks! But you can't say you didn't try everything. And I mean everything! Castor oil? Ewww!
When are you due? Waiting is so hard, my last one, I went in and out of labor for a month! The phone would ring all the time, everyone wanting to know if I had the baby. I kept saying "I will call you!" I finally begged Nick to take the phone off the hook:o) I was finally induced..3 Times!!! Kevin was just so cozy:o) If you need any ideas, I know alot:o) obviously they didn't work for me though...but I tried them all:o) I'll be praying for you and the baby!! Please don't get dehydrated!! It makes birthing more painful!
Blake Stanley was born around 3:30 today! 7 lbs, 7 oz and 20 inches long. Just thought I'd let everyone know. I'm 99% sure the stats are correct, but someone will correct them if I'm wrong.
Yay, Amber!!! I'm so very thrilled for you. Enjoy your family. Wow, there's alot of testosterone in your house. I just thought about that. I wish we lived closer. Gabby loves loves loves to help moms with their kids. She'd be a good helper for you. Maybe next time we're up at Sally's, we'll come make a quick visit. Love ya'll!!
