Hospital pics of Tyler

Happenings

Chelsea and Dan went to a Father-Daughter activity days activity. (Wow. Talk about an awkward sentence...) Chelsea's halloween costume wasn't ready yet, so we had to do some quick brainstorming. I remembered some friends that were an old couple (Tasha, that's you!) and have always that it was so awesome. Dan was a trooper and designed his own costume. 

A lady at Dan's work told of us a field next to her house, that the local college's agriculture program uses for trying out different ways of growing crops. This year they planted onions, peppers, peanuts, and sweet potatoes. They grow them, count them, and leave them. It's hard to believe that all that food goes to waste! We thought it would be fun to have the kids see where peanuts come from.

 

 None of us really like sweet potatoes, but we tried them as sweet potatoe fries. And well, anybody have a good recipe they like for that?

We did pick quite a few, because I know someone who will be eating them like crazy here in a few months...

 

This guy! 

Looks like he's biting his nails, a disgusting habit taught by his brother and sisters.

 

 This boy is trying to grow up too fast. He's already able to sit in a bumbo, at 4 weeks! Not cool.
He's been my fussiest baby. I think he's got bad gas. I think it's because I eat chocolate. Bummer.

I'm doing a co-op preschool with 5 of my friends. The kids meet Tuesday and Thursdays for 2 hours. We each teach for one week then rotate. For my week we learned about the letter L and number 3. We went on a leaf hunt and read the three little pigs. Then we made houses for the pigs and pig puppets. They are a cute bunch of kids!

It's a miracle! The two kids at home are sleeping at the same time! I should be getting some chores done, or even taking a nap, but that would be selfish of me. How could I deny friends and family the chance to see pictures of my cute baby! :)

Tyler Stewart Perry. 

Our biggest baby...so far. ;-)

8 lbs 14 oz. 

21" long

Reader's Digest version of birth story:

• Went to 39 week checkup on Thursday, Sept. 13th. (Also the longest pregnancy I've had) I'm dilated to a 4, and %80 effaced.
• Dr. asked if I wanted my membranes stripped. I said yes. Done. 11:45 AM
• We also scheduled me to be induced on Saturday.
• Picked Brinly up from preschool picnic. 
• Resumed sewing a nursing cover.  Brinly fell asleep.
• 1:00 PM started feeling contractions. (I had several nights of false-alarm contractions that felt like the real thing, so I didn't get my hopes up)
• 2:00 PM Started timing them with my phone.
• 3:00 they were hurting. Bad.
• Called my friend to pick Chelsea and Michael up from school
• Called neighbor to take Brinly
• Finally called Dan at work, and told him to come home
• Ran around packing kid's bags, while trying to finish sewing the nursing cover. I did not want to come home to the mess of a sewing project, but knew if I put it away, it might be a while before I would finish sewing it!
• 3:30 PM: Dan gets home, I finish the last, seam, clean up the mess, and we hop in the car.
• 3:45 arrive at hospital. It's a busy birth day. There are no rooms for me.
• Finally get a monitoring-waiting room cleaned and ready. I get all hooked up
• 4:30 Epidural arrives. AHHH.
• 5:30-ish A delivery room is finally available. 
• 7:15 I get checked and you can see the head. It's time to push!
• 5 pushes later, I have a boy!! (7:21 PM)

 My friend Christy was watching the kids, and graciously brought them to the hospital at 8:30 PM to meet their new brother.

 Names. Ugh. We BOTH hate picking out names, and procrastinate as long as we can. Dan printed out a list, and we started by crossing off names we didn't like for sure. Slowly, we came to about 10 maybe's. We decided on a middle name first, Stewart, after Dan. (His middle name). Then there were only a handful that sounded good with Stewart. The nurse comes in with our release papers and so we just pick one. Tyler. Done. Hope he likes it! :)

 Our friends helped our kids make these fun signs to welcome us home!

 My babies! They all look the same!

Tyler

Brinly

 Michael

Chelsea

More cute pics of Tyler. 

In other news: Just had to post this picture of Chelsea. This is part of her Jazz class that performed at an event last week. The costumes were super cute and she did such a great job. They danced to a circus themed song. 

Bye for now!

Overheard at our house

Setting: Tyler is crying


Brinly: Mom! I think Tyler needs hims binky!
Me: I think he needs to eat his breakfast.

(silence)


Brinly: I think he's talking to Jesus!