Cheer Up!

Cheer Up Grandma!
Good Times are ahead! It just takes a little longer sometimes :)

The Snuggler is waiting for his snuggle partner!

Micah Brian

MICAH BRIAN

Born December 8, 2008 @ 10:55 p.m.

He was due Friday but Monday at work I wasn't feeling so hot. I wasn't sure it was labor or at least not real labor so I worked and just kept an eye on things. By the afternoon I was questioning it to my co-workers. They all had plans of action in case I needed to rush to the hospital! By three they contractions were 10 minutes apart, nothing major, but I called my doctor and she said to go home and rest. Well, in the mean time there was freezing rain outside, expected to turn into snow. I stayed at work but had grandma and grandpa pick up Jack from daycare so I didn't have to have him jumping all over me that night. Five rolls around, still nothing notable happening but I thought I could stay near the hospital instead of going all the way home just in case. I started the drive on the side roads towards the hospital, by the time I'm there the contractions are 5 minutes apart. So I went in just to check if anything was happening, oops, 4.5 cm dialated. Mom was panicing that I was there alone so two seconds later Jean shows up. I call Brian, who just went to Minneapolis on the 3 o'clock flight for his flight bag that he needs to catch the next flight home. By the time I got my epidural I was around 8 cm's dialated. My doc. was happy with waiting because Monday night football was on. Brian managed to get a text to me from his plane saying they were circling MKE because of the snow. Jean was gearing up to help deliver Micah! But thankfully, he made it with no time to spare. The Doc. broke my water while Brian was changing out of his uniform and 12 minutes later we had our healthy baby boy!

A proud big brother. We had to convince him he wasn't a sister but he's been wonderful otherwise. Jack's only wanted to give him back once and we had to explain that covering his mouth isn't a good thing to a crying baby. Anytime he squeaks now I hear Jack either calling for me or mimicking the cry now.

To Cute!

Christmas is Coming!

We're continuing Great Grandmas tradition of helping decorate Granma and Grandpa's house after Thanksgiving. Every year all the cousins would decorate grandma's house in candy cane lane. Sean would do the lights outside, Dan I remember putting up the Dicken's villiage and Matt and I would sit in the basement and check lights and decorate the bar. Hopefully our kids can make some fun memories of their own and continue the tradition to their kids someday.

All these kids do is dance and run in circles when they're at grandma and grandpas!

We tried sledding. It was fun until the wind hit you. Here's some videos of the 5 times they went down the hill. After we realized it was freezing out (which didn't take long) we went to McD's to the playland. Much warmer!

Jack took a shot at ice skating. He did pretty good but lost his motivation quickly. That is until he saw some cute 7 year old girls and wanted to show off for them. Miraculously he was able to skate after that?!

Thanksgiving 2008

I ususally have a million pictures from Connecticut for Thanksgiving but we were unable to go this year :'( Being over 36 weeks pregnant put a hold on any traveling plans. My doctor revealed that insurance doesn't always cover costs of delivering at 36,000 feet in the air! So, just to play on the safe side we went to my parents this year. Dan was working and Sara and Elliot went up to Antigo for the holidays. Sean and Jeni came over after they were done having dinner at Jeni's mom's. From what I hear it's quite the feast over there! And of course, Brian was working.

I took the holiday to heart and took the day off so no pictures or videos. It was just eat and relax.