Happenings...

Okay, since Jude officially turned 1 week old yesterday, I thought I'd tell the story of the craziness surrounding his arrival...along with a few pics.

Lets see...we headed into Houston on Tuesday of last week, knowing that we'd probably get checked into the hospital that day or the next. Lily was acting a little sleepy and seemed warm to me, but otherwise fine. At the appt, my doctor said she definitely wanted to induce the next morning given how far along my body was but still wasn't having any contractions. So, Wednesday was to be the big day! Meanwhile, after Lily woke up from her nap she had a fever of about 102...so we made a quick trip to the pediatrician to make sure all was well with her. Good times.

Wednesday morning bright and early Justin and I went to the hospital and got all checked in. I don't know why, but this time around I was such a nervous nellie about everything. They had a really hard time getting my IV in, I cried through my epidural because I was all anxious about it and having horrible contractions at the same time, etc. HOWEVER, Jude made his arrival pretty smoothly at about 1:25 that afternoon after only a 15-20 minute session as opposed to the 2 hours it took to get Lily here, so that was a huge blessing! Family visited and got to meet Jude - Lily wasn't quite sure what to think of him...and I was in shock about officially being a mother of two!


After a couple of days of recovery and lots of fun visits from friends and family, we headed to Katy to recuperate...which was a challenge with all the craziness of family in and out of the house since my grandmother's memorial service was coming up on saturday. All my siblings were in town, as well as people in and out bringing food, flowers, etc. Needless to say it was a bit wild. I was unable to go to the service since I had a 3 day old baby, which is a whole separate post, but then the excitement really kicked in when Lily had to go to the emergency room about 5 minutes after my family got home from the service. She was running to see my mom, tripped and hit her head on the coffee table...fortunately no stitches, just lots of stress for her parents!

Monday after a quick visit to the pediatrician for Jude (he's doing great!) we headed back to Brenham, and my mom came along to help for a couple of days which was HUGE. She mainly took care of Lily and then helped me during the night when Jude wouldn't go back to sleep quickly...just to allow me to try and catch up on a little sleep...she was wonderful!

Now, as I mentioned before I just have to figure out how to do life with 2 kids...get into some sort of routine...and begin to adjust to the fact that I live in Brenham now...lots of big changes all at once. Please continue to pray for a job for Justin, that the Lord would provide all we need...that would relieve a tremendous amount of stress from our adjusting...but you know who's not stressed? These two: