trick or treat

halloween still came...

Despite having a week old baby, Halloween activities still happened.  

Ryan was diligent in drawing the face on his pumpkin for Dad to carve.  Our kids still refuse to help pull out the seeds and guts of the pumpkin.  I shoved Ryan's hand in the bowl (kind of a mean mom moment) and he was not happy!

 Andrew all ready for his preschool Halloween party.  He only wanted to be Buzz again, surprise surprise!

And Ryan after his nighttime party at school.  They aren't allowed to dress up, so they have a pajama party to celebrate their study of nocturnal animals.  Ryan cheated a little and wore his Batman pj's.  

The Big Brother

Adorable Pictures

Lucy's Story...and more pics

We got to the hospital around 6 a.m.  The hospital was really busy, and since I was being induced, we didn't get to see the doctor until 8:45.  They started me on pitocin at 9:30 (I was already dilated to a 5) but it didn't do much.  In my past experiences, the contractions never get strong until they break my water.  My midwife had 3 other babies to deliver, but once she was done she came in at 12:30 and broke my water.  Within a half an hour the contractions were really intense and I asked for an epidural.  My midwife came in to tell me the anthesteologist had just gone to a c-section.  I started to cry.  She said they were going to find me another one.  He came in not too much longer and got the epidural going.  They checked me before he got started and I was an 8.  As soon as he was done I felt like pushing and she was born about 5 minutes later.  So I never got the drugs going.  It was crazy.  I was hooting and hollering.  I am asking for the epidural when I walk into the hospital next time :)  

Lucy is doing great now.  Since she came out so fast, she swallowed a lot of amniotic fluid and keeps spitting it up and gagging on it, but hopefully she'll get it all out soon.  She also has to have some tests done on her kidneys before we go home since they were showing up as being dilated with extra fluid around them in my ultrasounds, but hopefully we'll get to go home tomorrow!  Let the craziness begin!

The best B-day present ever

Erin got me a baby for my birthday and I love it.

Lucile Maureen Grange

October 19, 2010, 2:37 pm

8 lb. 14 oz., 20 in. long, 37 cm. head

Brown hair?

Grammy brought the whole family to visit.

(you come up with the caption here)

baby time

39 Weeks, 3 days:

I don't know how to take a good pregnancy shot, but here it is.  We head into the hospital at 6 a.m. to be induced.  We are excited to see this little lady!  I think it will feel a little like Christmas trying to fall asleep tonight.

another post???

I know, can you believe it, I'm posting again!  But with all the fun fall festivities going on, I just can't help myself. We went to our favorite pumpkin patch, Galloping Grace, on Saturday.

Ryan really is taller than Andrew.  Still only about 3 inches, but he's still got him for now.

A new addition to the pumpkin patch, the tractors.  They could have rode on these all day.

Notice the not very fall apparel?  We can still get away with flip flops and shorts in the afternoon, but it's starting to be really chilly in the morning and night.  We actually put on sweatshirts the other morning.

The boys thought it was awesome to pull their sister.

Andrew refused to ride a horse.  Funny, but he really didn't want to.  

And how cute is this.  Mabel LOVED riding the horse and was so excited to get on.  She even went willingly to a strangers arms to get on one.

She was smiling like she was so proud of herself the whole time.

She looks so small!!  We love this place so much and think it is so great (all these activities are free, their is no admission into the patch), that the kids are able to convince us to buy gigantic pumpkins afterwards.

Fiesta! 2010

We braved the 5 am wake up call this year to go down and watch the balloons take off at the Balloon Fiesta.  There was a little bit of lightning as we drove down and a little rain, but it turned out fine and wasn't even cold.  Unfortunately, there was a little bit of wind, I guess too much for the balloons, so not many actually went up.  But they all at least blew up on the ground and the kids got to see all the balloons they were looking for. 

11 more days!  I guess it's not that good of a pregnancy shot, but it's the best I have.

Kindergarten Pumpkin Patch

Mabel and I got to go on Ryan's field trip to the pumpkin patch and corn maze.  Each kid got to pick a pumpkin, and there was also a petting zoo and hay ride.  Ryan was so excited for his first field trip and kept reminding me about all the stuff he was supposed to do for his field trip.  I think almost every kid in his class had their parent there, so we were each only in charge of our own kid!

bad hair day

the bed hair just gets better as it gets longer.  Look how happy she is after her nap.  She didn't even cry when I left her in the crib to go downstairs to get the camera.

preschool pancake breakfast

Andrew's preschool had a fun pancake breakfast with games put on my some high school kids.  We came home with lots of great carnival toys that the kids played with for hours (before they broke).  I think I will do my Christmas shopping through Oriental Trading this year.

Bean bag toss, we let Mabel cheat a little.

Water balloon toss...before

and right after the first throw.  Poor Andrew :)