Feet!

Silas, you have the best Florida feet!

Your toes are made for flip flops.

Your feet moments after birth

Brothers

Every good and perfect gift is from above... James 1:17

We've been talking so long to Joshua about Silas coming out it was difficult for me to wait all day for Joshua to come and meet his brother. 

 I could hear Joshua's sweet voice in the hallway before they made their way in and I was so excited!

"Momma, here's Silas. He's outta your belly."

Queen among the men

When Can We Go Home?

My doctor tried to assure me that I would feel good despite not having pain meds.

 I didn't believe her at the time, but by 9:00 I was ready to go home. 

I did all I needed to do at the hospital. 

When could I take leave?

Turns out mommies need to stay 24 hours and since I only got one round of penicillin instead of 3 because things went so quickly, we need to stay so they can keep an eye on Silas. 

We spent the day being lazy watching movies just relaxing. After all my time with Joshua lately it was hard to be away from him for so long.

Silas Andrew Schottey

Your first breath took ours away.

What makes me laugh is that there I have a half written post entitled "Eviction Notice" but I didn't have a chance to finish it because I was having a baby.

At the doctor's office yesterday morning he said I was at 4 cm and we scheduled my induction for Friday. After the appointment I was having some cramping and contractions, but decided I'd go get my hair cut while Joshua took a nap. My thought behind that was that I wouldn't want to get it cut after he came. 

When I got home from getting my hair cut I tried to take a nap. Napping did not happen because of contractions. I had a feeling that it was almost time. I knew that once it was time, I wouldn't be able to eat any more. I had an appetite! I had a peanut butter banana sandwich, cashews, and a popsicle!

I did some cleaning up around the house and told Michael we should probably call someone to come and get Joshua. We needed to go to the hospital. I was hesitant to say anything to anyone because of the false laboring that I had been having.

As we walked down the stairs of our apartment, a mother was getting her children into the car and they way she looked over at us, she knew that we were headed to the hospital.

Michael told me later that when we got to the stoplight before the highway he knew this was the real thing. There was a stoplight was next to a Dairy Queen. I told Michael during my contraction that the Dairy Queen was going to make me throw up and the light needed to turn green. This may have been when some ugliness started.

I remember as Michael turned into the hospital I told him to slow down because the turn hurt! The hospital has valet parking, I was out of the car as it stopped, and walked to the elevator. It was 5:00. We made it up to the 4th floor where I panted filling out the paperwork.

I got into a triage room where I struggled getting my clothes off and my gown on. When I got into bed the nurse said I was at 6-7cm. Michael told the nurse right away that I tested positive for strep B so we needed to start penicillin as soon as possible. She went to get IV needle.

After the IV was in it was time to move to the labor/delivery. She said she wouldn't make me walk... as we rolled down the hallway another nurse asked about an epidural I said "Yes, Please!"

We were in the delivery room about 5:45. The nurses were rushing around, they didn't have my chart because it was at the office from my visit. I was told that my doctor wasn't here yet, but they asked another doctor to stay. I heard the triage nurse tell another nurse I was at 7 without a contraction when I got here.

I was hurting. Michael asked the question that was weighing on my mind, "Is there still time for her to get some pain medicine?" The nurses looked at one another regretting to tell us, it was now too late. The nurse said I was at 10cm. With that, my water shot across the room, and I shouted that he was coming out! The nurse ran out to the hall waving the doctor in. He introduced himself and gowned up. I had another round of contractions and my doctor showed up quickly gowned and with the next two contractions I was pushing and Silas was born.

6:15 pm
6/13/12
Silas Andrew Schottey
7 lbs 11 oz
20 inches long with dark brown hair
      

Sitting Out

This morning as Joshua played by himself he carried his Mickey figure over to the spot where he sits out. He told Mickey he was sitting out. "Mickey you sitting two minutes for hitting Joshua."

I'm not sure how to feel about it.

I'm glad that my son understands that there are consequences for your actions and that hitting is not nice, but why was he pretending that Mickey was hitting in the first place? Why did he feel the need to have Mickey sit out?

Monday, Monday

Our day started at 6:00 on the dot this morning. Joshua was ready for the week to begin! It took me a while to get going with him this morning.

I'm starting to be nervous, or second guess summer plans. Nothing is set yet, but so far Joshua has been home with me. He does a great job at school and he thrives on routine. Can I stay disciplined enough for him to stay in a routine? He has been learning lots from being home, we spend learning time and playing time every day and his vocabulary is great and his curiosity amazes me, but I don't want him to fall behind in his social activities from being away from his friends. The balance that we have considered is maybe going to school tuesdays and thursdays. This week will be an exception because we know for sure by the end of the week, there will be another little boy in the house.

Jellyfish!

We ate angel hair pasta tonight for dinner. You were eating quietly when all of the sudden with your fork in the air you shouted JELLYFISH! The pasta did look like jellyfish! You're so silly!