Meet Juliet

After a very yucky pregnancy we were blessed with our sweet little Juliet on November 15 at 7:01 pm. She weighed in at 7 pounds 7 ounces and was 20 3/4 inches long. She is absolutely beautiful and of course looks just like her Daddy.
The last few weeks were pretty rough - I dilated early and had a lot of contractions but just couldn't seem to go into labor. I had a Dr. apt. on the 15th and decided I was going to beg to see if she would strip my membranes. I didn't feel well and my legs were really swollen. However, when I got to the Dr. (swollen legs and all) and they took my blood pressure my midwife became a little alarmed. The high blood pressure - coupled with my extremely swollen legs and headaches all pointed to one thing - preeclampsia. When my midwife checked me I was dilated to a 4.5 so she called over to the hospital to see if they had a bed. They did and she told me to go right over - she said someone could bring me my overnight bag I was not to go home. We got to the hospital around 4:00 pm and checked in. My contractions were between 1 and 3 minutes apart. At 5:00 they started the pitocin and our sweet little baby was born 2 hours later.
Juliet is a wonderful baby and is growing like crazy! We are so excited to have her in our family!

Happy Halloween!

Here are some pics. of the kiddos from Halloween. In true Eli fashion he wouldn't sit with the other kids when it was picture time so that is why his are all by himself. Hope you all had a wonderful Halloween!

Eli

So the kids have been talking about Halloween forever! We were in Wal-mart yesterday and Eli found a costume he absolutely could not live without. He doesn't even know who Robin is but he thought he looked like a really cool superhero so we went ahead and got the costume. I foolishly thought he might actually wait until Halloween to wear it but boy was I mistaken. He has barely taken it off for the past two days. He looks so cute we wanted to share some pics. but just so ya know - there will be more like these at the end of October.

The Astros Game

Tonight we took the boys to watch an Astros game. They had a great time. I'm thankful for my friend Vanessa that kept Violet so she didn't have to go. It was so much fun - we will have to go again in the near future.

A lesson in Obedience

I do have school pictures - I just have to find the card reader so they will hopefully be up soon.
When Porter got home from school today we were discussing his day. He started telling me how he felt sad at lunch because he couldn't have an ice cream. I asked if the buyers got ice cream. He said no the coach handed them out to everyone in the class because it was Shepherd's birthday. So I asked Porter why he didn't get one. I asked if it was because he didn't want one. His little lip started to quiver - then he looked at me and said "Mom you know I love ice cream - of course I wanted it." Then the tears started to fall - those big silent ones that melt your heart. He replied that he didn't get an ice cream because last year we told him not to buy ice cream at lunch. This is true - we did tell him that if he bought a lunch not to buy "extra" stuff like chips, water bottles etc. So I asked again who gave him the ice cream. He told me again it was the coach and she said he didn't have to buy it because Shepherd's parents bought if for everyone for his birthday treat. Porter told her he couldn't have it. She told him it was ok - he still said no. Then she asked if he was allergic to it. He told her he wasn't but that his parents had told him not to buy ice cream at lunch. Again, she told him it was free for him. He still said no but she said he had to take it because it was already paid for. So he told her he didn't know what to do - and she said if you shouldn't have it I guess you can throw it away. So my sweet little boy sat there while the rest of his class was eating ice cream and didn't even cry - but at the end of lunch he threw his in the garbage because he didn't want to be disobedient. Even with a teacher telling him it was ok he still did what he thought in his heart was best. As you can probably imagine with all my extremely pregnant hormones I just broke down and cried right along with him. We told him it was absolutely ok to have an ice cream if one of the teachers gives it to him and that sometimes if he asks us ahead of time he can even buy one - he just needs to ask first. So tonight he went to the store and picked out a half gallon of his favorite ice cream. We told him that we were so proud of him for trying so hard to make the right choice. And guess who is going to buy an ice cream at school tomorrow?
I love my sweet little boy so very much and even though I feel terrible about what happened and the confusion he had at lunch today I am so very thankful he is willing to be obedient. He was trying so hard to do what was right and I am so thankful for his example.

Easter 2010

We had a wonderful Easter! On Saturday we took the kids to two different Easter Egg Hunts and of course they loved every minute of it. Well - as you can tell from the picture not everyone loved every minute of it. Violet was not impressed with the Easter Bunny at all. It sure makes for a cute picture though. Hope you all had a wonderful Easter too!