The story of Amelia!

So it all started Sunday morning at 9:00 am we went to the hospital for our induction. The IV was nice with only one stick but, after 5 min of trying to figure out why the fluids weren't flowing the nurse realized the clamp was still clamped. So we waited and waited for the contractions to start. There were a few but, not many and not consistent at all.

At about noon we started being suspicous about what was happening with me not reacting to the pitocin at all. We then decided we would break my water but, before that I went to the restroom coming back we noticed a puddle of water(pitocin) on the floor. The Pit wasn't even hooked into the IV. We then hooked it up and started seeing what we should have been seeing all along.

Shortly after we got a call from Anne who had the boys at church. She said she was outside and Porter was doubled over with pain and had thrown up. I remembered he swallowed a dime a couple days earlier. So she brought him to the ER to get x-rays to make sure it wasn't a blockage. For 3 hours we waited and had x-rays and came out with no explanation of why the pain episode and Porter feeling much better.

Now at 5:30 we could start my labor! Hooray, it was about that simple I got my epidurral, Lori broke my water and voila at 6:56 she was here! :) Now if that all could have just happened at 9:00 am but, everything happens for a reason! I'm really glad that Porter is okay! Now for pictures!

Here is me with my pregnant belly!

Baby Amelia minutes old!
The 3 of us!
Proud Daddy!
Happy Mommy with my girl!
Sweet baby Amelia!

Visitors! I loved this shot of the boys and Grandma holding the baby.
Porter's baby! He said She looks just like me... she has my eyes and ears! :) So cute!
Emmett's kisses are best! He is such a sweet heart and loves his baby sister. But, he keeps calling her Ava! And refuses to call her Amelia

Big Brother Tim is so proud!
Anne and her girls! I just love his shot!
Grandma Hawkes with sweet baby!
Going home sporting a Kim Bode hat! Thanks Kim love it!
Mom and baby going home! Yay
Our little family!
Daddy and baby asleep on the couch I think that I have a picture of him in this exact position with each baby! I think that will be my next post!

Tim holding Amelia!
Emmett sharing his horses with Amelia, he sure loves her!
First trip to Grandma Hawkes!

Spring Activities!

This Spring we have had really crazy weather it's been a roller coaster of wet and cold with a warm day every here and there. Before the baby we did manage to do some fun activities!

Porter at the petting zoo

Emmett at the petting zoo! He really loves animals. His favorite song is Old McDonald and you can often here him singing it. His favorite animal is a pig. If he can't find his toy pigs then his horses will do!

Aubrey and Ava came with us! It was so much fun :)

We love to go outside when it is nice~ I found Emmett riding Tim's scooter. he did a good job with all his safety gear.
Matt has a fun pond by his building we went and ate lunch with him one day it was really fun!
This is our leprechaun trap we made for St. Patricks Day!
And the trip that started our Spring and that was so much fun! Our Florida trip to see Tim and Kate and our cousins. Mom and I drove to Florida for a week. It was such a highlight of our year so far!

Our new place!

With the move and the new baby we decided to get a temporary place in between where we were and where we are headed. It has been nice not to worry about showing a house and adjusting to a new baby all at the same time! Here are the boys outside the complex.

Anne's 40th Birthday

On January 30th Anne turned 40! A lot of us were sick so our bash was a quiet family party where we spread more bugs. But, it was fun to get together and celebrate! It is so much fun to live close to Anne and her family! We absolutely love her so much!
Happy Birthday Anna Banana!

Sick Days and Snow Days What Happens at Our House!

The past couple of weeks have been a blast! We are better from being sick and hopefully with the weather warming up the bugs are gone for good! With it now being in the 20's we can play outside longer than a couple of minutes! Last Saturday Matt had a snow day with the boys. Emmett fell asleep in the bumble bee swing and Porter built a snow man and named him Porter!







We had a painting activity last week during the blizzard! It was a lot of fun! Emmett sure loved it. Don't look to close even now you will still find blue paint in his ear!



We finally can go out to Lake of the Woods go for our family Saturday Hikes!



And at the end of the day we crash! We hope you all are doing well too!

Christmas Card

I forgot I was going to post our Christmas card because when I printed it, it looked horrible so sorry about the no Christmas card this year but next year we will have one!

Welcome 2011

Here we are 2011! We have been back in Illinois a week. We haven't done much because we get sick easy luckily we have a doctor in the house to help us out!


and what would we do with out Macaroni and Cheese!

Matt has been working hard on his writing and networking for jobs! He is so awesome! Tim took this picture of him the otherday, I was pretty impressed.When we aren't sick the boys love to play in the snow and go sledding with dad!

Emmett

Porter

Tim

Here is our baby girl!! She weighs 14 oz already yay! She will be here in May now for names. Should we name her Evelyn Rose, Amelia Christine or Ila Mae?