Bath Time!

After visiting the doctor on Friday, we were given the OK to give Ethan his first real bath! He was not impressed! Even though he was incredibly mad, he looked so darn cute! We just had to take some pictures!


Ethan is doing well. At his last appointment he was back up to 8 lbs 2 oz, so almost back to his birthweight. He is just growing more and more every day. These are just some other random pictures taken since he's been home...


Caden is loving being a big brother and he just wants to kiss on his little brother all day long!! Everytime he gives him a kiss, he smiles real big and says " love my broter" and that's not brother, it's broter without the H. :) So cute. This is the closest picture I've gotten with the 2 of them together. Hopefully I'll get a better one soon.

Ethan James

Well our second little boy made his big debut!! We went in on Monday morning (11/3) at 7 am to start the induction. Here I am pre- labor :)
My doctor came in at around 7:45 and broke my water around 8 that morning. Unfortunately this did not bring on the kind of contractions that I needed. So around 10 am they started me on pitocin. THIS got contractions going!! I was doing ok until around 11:30 ish, which at that time I requested IV pain meds. This worked for about an hour. I finally got my epidural sometime between 3 and 3:30 pm (the times got a little hazy while I was still in pain!) After I got the epidural everything started to move pretty quickly. By 7 pm I was completely dialated and ready to push! I started pushing around 7:20ish and he was born at 7:59 pm!
Little Ethan weighed in at 8 lbs 6.2oz and he was 20 inches long. He has lots of dark hair, just like daddy!
And here we are, the whole gang!


We came home Wednesday afternoon (Today) and all is great!! I am starting to feel better and Ethan and Caden are both adjusting to each other! and daddy is doing a great job taking care of us all!! I'll post again soon with more pictures!

Halloween!

Yesterday was Halloween! Patrick was at work all day, so Caden and I played at nana's house with cousin Cameron. They always have so much fun playing together (when they aren't trying to take each others toys). Also, that afternoon cousin Madison had a halloween parade! It was right across the street from nanas house, so we got to watch! All the kids had on great costumes, but of course Madisons was the best (she is the one in the red devil costume)

Then that night, Caden got dressed up as a cowboy and went trick or treating for the first time!! He loved it. He really enjoyed seeing all the different kids and their costumes. He especially enjoyed the free candy (which mommy and daddy will help him with of course!) Here some pictures of Caden all dressed up.

We took Caden to patricks work since he was working and of course everyone thought it was just adorable! All in all it was a pretty fun day/night. We can't wait until next year when we have two to dress up on Halloween!!

On another note: we found out on Wednesday that little Ethan will be joining us no later than Monday November 3rd!! I will be going into the hospital monday morning to start an induction! So keep us all in your thoughts and prayers that everything goes well and as planned!! Here is the latest picture of me at 39 weeks and 3 days (taken on Halloween)