stitches

The day came, having a child who needed stitches. Thursday, Tank was running around happy when he suddenly slipped and fell smack dab on the corner of our back sliding door. Before looking at the wound, I knew he would need stitches. Bitsy at this point was already screaming for her lunch, so I called for some reinforcements, Andrew.

While at the doctor, Andrew started becoming quite queasy at the sight of Tank's wound. So much so, the doctors became more worried about him than Tank! He was in a cold sweat, very pale and wobbly. The doctors had to help hold him up and get him a coke! In the end, Andrew waited in the car with the other two kiddos while I went into the doctor's office with Tank. Sometime during all of this, I recalled the story of when Andrew was thinking of becoming a MD. He was at a local hospital witnessing a spinal tap when suddenly he passed out cold.   

Lesson learned on this one, do not call Andrew when bodily injuries are involved. 

bubbles

Tank and Bug have been loving the bubble machine lately.

working hard

 

helpers

I have good helpers around here.

first day

I thought I would commemorate my first day alone with three kiddos with a picture. Things are going just fine and there has not been an increase of tears around here...by the kids or me!  Plus, Little Bug just got registered for kindergarten this morning! Time flies and sometimes I wish I could just press the pause button. 

sleeping away

it is not all fun and games

Is it just me who thinks a good crying picture is actually pretty cute?

bitsy

meeting the sibs

Bitsy meeting her siblings

It is pretty fun we now have a household full of little people.

introducing

Bitsy joined our family February 7th at 3:57 pm. She was 8 pounds and 20 inches long and came fast and fierce. Labor started with me heading out the door with my mom to run some errands. I was convinced that labor would take a while and the movement would help things progress.  My increasingly frequent contractions in the store quickly escalated my mom into a state of panic, convinced that I was not going to make it to the hospital in time. I wasn't feeling the same urgency, but by the time we got to the hospital, I was yelling at Andrew to just pick a parking spot already! I must have looked pretty bad because on the walk up to the maternity ward I was offered a wheel chair 3 times by 3 different people. The hospital was busy and when we arrived at the nurses desk they they made some joke about there being no room at the inn. (I did not find this funny at the time.) At that moment I had a contraction and the head nurse found me a room right away. We made it to the hospital!

At admission I was dilated to a 9, but Bitsy was transverse. If she hadn't been, I probably would have delivered within an hour of arrival.  Instead they wanted to wait to see if she would go head down. The nurse also discovered Bitsy had meconium aspiration syndrome and had the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. Fortunately, nothing serious came from these two issues.  After two hours Bitsy finally accommodated us by going head down and she was delivered 20 minutes later. We are so glad she is here!

When the kids came by for a visit, we ordered ice cream, chips and chocolate milk from the hospital cafeteria and had ourselves a party! Tank was totally on board with this idea.

The most memorable thing from this pregnancy will be that Bitsy's gender was a surprise. We were really shocked to find out it was a girl that I had carried all those months!