Meet Emmett Andrew!

Emmett Andrew arrived on April 16! He followed his big brother's example and made a speedy entrance...I had my first contraction at midnight, my water broke at 1:30, we checked in at the hospital at 2:30 and Emmett greeted the world at 3:28 AM. He weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces and measures 20 1/2 inches long. He has a full head of beautiful blonde hair and reminds us a lot of Eli as a newborn!
Our midwife was amazing and the labor and delivery couldn't have gone better! The only hang up we had was the not one, but two times I passed out! I've never passed out before, but apparently the precipitous labor, followed by standing up to quickly to walk to the bathroom will do that to you! It was a strange experience for sure! Poor Shane, he said it scared him to death. But otherwise, everything went so well, they let us come home early!
My Mom arrived in the night to take care of Eli and brought him up to meet Emmett first thing. There is nothing that explain how it felt to watch Eli kiss his new baby brother for the first time. Eli is very much taken with Emmett and is wonderfully affectionate and gentle with him.
We've had lots of visitors, both at the hospital and here, so I'll try to post more pictures later.

Due Day?

Well, today is "the" day....and it looks like little Peanut is happy to stay put. If we haven't seen any action by Thursday morning, we'll try to stir things up a little bit (naturally-I'd like to avoid drug induction!). My favorite midwife goes on call on Thursday and it would be just about for perfect for Shane, since he'd get more time at home with us those first few days. But as we are finding out, you definitely can not plan these things!
Thursday doesn't seem too far away now, even though three weeks ago it would have seemed a century! So far, I'm feeling pretty good. Sleep is still a bit elusive, but Eli has been happy to have me take a nice nap with him in the afternoon. The baby does get on my nerves a bit-literally! Every once in a while, it must squish a nerve in my hip/back, because my right leg gives out a little (which must give anyone watching a good laugh!)
For now, we'll just keep counting down (or perhaps now we're counting up?) and enjoying our time with our precious little Eli until Peanut decides to join us.

Spring Stuff!

38 and a half weeks! After another (!) false start, it seems that baby is happy to wait...how long, we'll just have to see.

We had a fun afternoon dying Easter eggs with Tessa, Trevon, Kaylee and Amy.



We were so lucky to have my mom up for the week! (Of course, we were kind of thinking it would be to help with a new baby!) Every time I turned around she was helping to clean something and she got lots of time in with Eli! Nana taught Eli had to "camp" and they had great fun pretending for hours!

Shane's been busy with spring cleaning. We've got a nice clean roof on the house and garage now!

Eli has been doing so well in his big boy bed without his binkie! He surprised us the other night though...Shane put him to bed and when I went upstairs later, I found him snuggled up, fast asleep in our bed. It was the cutest thing!

Shane recently acquired this fishing boat. He's planning on using it for carp shooting and other fishing. Eli doesn't care what we use it for...he spent all day Saturday playing in it in the driveway!

A few weekends ago, Shane spent some time helping Aunt Debbie and Dennis with some dirt moving. Eli was happy to ride along and "help."

Doesn't every dog need a good night story?