Yesterday was Drew’s Halloween parade & party at school.  We all had such a nice time.  Drew was a “Fire Chief”… he said he is going to drive the fire truck.  He is totally obsessed with fire trucks!  I decided to dress Dylan in his costume to go to Drew’s party and he was a Giraffe.  I took Drew into school yesterday late since I wanted to see the parade… so Dylan and I followed the line of children into each classroom as Drew and all of his friends showed all the other kids their costumes.  Then in the afternoon, David came and we were all at the party.  It was a fun day and Drew is very excited to go trick or treating on Saturday! 

As of today… we are falling into our new routine very well.  We are getting up about twice a night to feed him and during the day he can go for about 3 hours at a time before the next feeding.  I am cautiously getting out and about now and are enjoying the bonding time we have during the day.  He continues to be such a good baby… and certainly seems to be loving being a “cuddle bug”… Drew was always like that and continues to be (of course… when he wants to)    A difference we have noticed between the two boys is that Dylan doesn’t care quite as much about being swaddled.  I’d say about 30-40% of the time he just wants to be left alone.  With Drew, it was absolutely necessary that he wanted to be swaddled when he was sleeping or napping.  As long as Dylan sleeps… that is all we care about right now! 

Last week Drew got sick, so we ended up keeping him home for a few days which made for a long week!  David went back to work last Monday so it was certainly an interesting way to break in our new routine with having both boys at home with me.  The most challenging part was having to keep the two of them separated because David and I are terrified of Dylan getting sick with all of these sicknesses floating around.  So… we had Dylan quarantined to our room and Drew had the living room to play with all of his toys in.  Thank goodness, Drew is doing much better and he went back to school today.  We’ve realized that it is best on us all to stay in our usual routine and we are so fortunate that Drew loves his daycare and looks forward to going!  It is such a wonderful place!

This weekend was nice and we had decided that we were going to go on our first outing as a family and pick out a pumpkin to carve for Halloween.  Last week we had noticed that a local landscape place had a large trailer of pumpkins for sale and wanted to go pick one out there.  Once we got out and drove down there, the place was closed… so we were a little upset and our first outing wasn’t as fun as it could have been.  So, then David mentions that he needs to get his oil changed.  So… after all that, our first outing consisted of driving around in the car, pulling up to Texaco Express Lube and sitting in the car watching them change David’s oil.   

How exciting!  HA HA…  Oh well, our intentions were good…

Today is going well and I am enjoying every moment bonding with Dylan.  He has been such a good baby.  We have been having to wake him up during the night to feed him… we have had no issues with him getting days/nights mixed up.  Boy are we thankful for that!!  (knock on wood)   

My healing process has been much quicker and I am moving around pretty well now.  Dylan’s Jaundice is much, much better… His skin clarity has dramatically improved and he is pretty much back to himself.  Now, I am off to get him dressed for the day…

More updates to come soon…

Well… today (October 8th) is my official due date and our baby boy is  now 5 days old.  My sweet husband did a great job of the posts while I was pre-occupied with other things.    As I stated in an earlier post, Dylan certainly arrived in his own fashionable way VERY early on Saturday (10/3) morning.  Looking back at it now, it was one of the most awesome experiences of my life!  I would have never guessed that my water would break or that I would go into labor on my own.  Oh, was I wrong!  At 1:16 on Saturday morning my water broke and the excitement began.  The delivery went much smoother than my delivery with Drew and it was just a great experience!  Drew’s delivery was also a great experience, just much, much longer!  St. Vincent’s Hospital is where I had him, and that hospital is awesome… I truly didn’t want to leave on Monday.  All the nursing staff, doctors, etc were so accommodating and helped with all those things I’ve forgotten over the last 3 years.

We are all back home now and have been working on developing our new routine.  Drew adores Dylan and loves to hold him.  He is already and will continue to be such a great big brother!  Drew is back at daycare and we are working hard to keep him in his normal routine during this time.  He is having some adjustments, but we did expect to have some… and I feel like he is doing better as each day goes by.  We have been making special Drew time in the afternoons when he gets home.

Will have more updates soon…

I’ve got some pictures I need to upload and will do that some time today.  I will also throw a short video together of some of the stuff that has gone on here and at the hospital as well. 

Keep coming back. 

I have posted a ton of pictures and more are going up now as I write this post.  Be sure to check out the Pics section browse the shots we have so far.

Thanks again to all of you who’ve kept up and have been thinking about us.  We love you guys.

Lindsey did an unbelievable job and things couldn’t have gone better. Everyone is well and we are enjoying our time with all 4 of us now.

Emotions are running like we all do but they couldn’t be better.  You’ll be hearing from us by phone very soon. 

Thank you all.

More later…