Christmas

Me:"I feel like it's too early to take down the tree."
Greg:"That's because you're still waiting for Christmas to start."
Me:"That's true"

let me explain...

we had planned a very quiet Christmas with our new little baby, staying indoors, only visiting with Greg's family, and trying to stay healthy.

I was WAY off. We didn't do any of those things. Oh, we did stay indoors and try to stay healthy, it just didn't work.

These are pictures of the kiddos opening presents. Notice who is missing? Sad picture coming up



Those missing would be baby and me. We were too busy in the hospital, trying to get him to breath on his own.
Like I said everyone was sick, bronchitis for Greg, double ear infections for Mimi, colds for Indiana and I, and we thought just a little cold for baby. But it turned into RSV--obviously staying indoors with washed hands was not enough. The short story is that Greg took him to the ER at Children's hospital, then I spent a little more then 48 hours with him there, and that covered most of Christmas eve and Christmas day.

I learned how grateful I am for health insurance, a city with a really good children's hospital, and family & friends to help when nothing is going right. I also learned that although RSV sounds really scary, if you have the 3 things above, you'll be ok. I've also learned that it's tougher to blog with a baby in your arms.

Indiana is 7?

With Baby here looking a bunch like Indiana at age 2 weeks and at the same time of year, it's really tough to think about the fact that Indiana is now 7. Even though everyone was sick, we had a baby and the general business of the holiday season, we managed to have some birthday fun.
My sister Jill and her boyfriend Chris stopped by on their way to NJ and gave Indiana a present that he may have been excited about.
On his actual birthday Indiana asked for pancakes for breakfast (no surprise there), but he wanted salad and carrots for lunch and dinner. I think we had pizza anyway.





At school for his birthday his class sang happy birthday to him. "I think I'm a little embarrassed"

Christmas Joke

Mimi:"Why did the chicken cross the road?"
Me:"I don't know, why did the chicken cross the road?"
Mimi:"Because he was 'laughing all the way, ha ha ha'"
Me to Greg:"Wow, that one was actually funny"

I'm sort of sure she came up with this one herself, but if you taught this to her, feel free to take the credit :)

Indiana's gift to the world

"If I could give a gift to the world I would give Star Wars because Jedi can help people."

nice

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Mimi: "oh heckersons!"

message to the mom

The season of swine flu has forced the hospitals to not allow children to enter unless they are patients.

The kids made these videos for Valerie while they we were at home.

Thanks to Nana and Megan for watching the kids today, and to the many others who would have stepped in if they hadn't.

Milk Mustache

Mimi, after giving herself a milk mustache:"Look! I'm like a Beatle!"

New addition

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A whole latta this

(sorry about the crying pictures, Jill:)

New baby pictures

Now in his internet debut. Baby C!

This is Mimi's favorite of his poses.

The Hospital crew.

More pictures to come.

Deliverance

10:30 pm leave for hospital
1:45 am start being induced
8:21 am baby born 7 lbs 12.5 oz dark hair like Mimi.

Name and pictures to follow.

Just because I can

We are at the hospital & using the wifi to pass the time.

Curious?

The best parts of today:(besides all the obvious stuff)
-someone calling to offer to bring us dinner
-going to my last OB appointment
-seeing my friend at that appointment

Otherwise the day has been unsatisfactory=NO progress from last week. And just to make me feel a little worse, my neighbor told me that her daughter who was pregnant with her first baby and due a week after me (2 days from now) had her baby 2 weeks ago! Thanks a bunch. I held in the snarl that I really wanted to express and told her congratulations--I deserve a medal!

Feliz Navidad

The Christmas party at church was great, maybe the baby held off just so that I could go--that's how I'm going to think about it anyway.

Greg couldn't have been happier with all the Mexican food, and the kiddos couldn't get enough hot chocolate. I was especially glad that I got to go because the day after the party, the ward boundaries were changed. One last gathering before the big reorganization. Next Sunday we will meet with some new people and some that we already know, but it will be a bit of change, nothing we can't handle though. We're pretty tough.
See how OK Mimi looks? Much better then the first time (scroll down to the bottom).