I love how these two already love eachother!
Hands
Those feet are so teeny tiny!
Little brother already looking up to his big sister!
Friday, March 19, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Sophia is 5... Already?
This last weekend, cousin Sophia turned 5 years old and wanted to celebrate by being a princess and with that a princess party was had at a cute little house in Puyallup that has been redone as a princess party palace with tea party service. I did not go, but Eric took Isabelle to celebrate with Sophia.
Birthday girl with her mom and sister
Kristy and Brianna
A most beautiful princess in pink!Happy Birthday Sophia!
Sophia and Isabelle in their princess dresses with their hair all done up too.
All the little princess guests
Time to dance!
Isabelle getting princess lessons.
Spinning!!! I love this photo! She is so happy and adorable!
Time for tea!!!
Sophia and Isabelle in their princess dresses with their hair all done up too.All the little princess guests
Time to dance!
Isabelle getting princess lessons.
Spinning!!! I love this photo! She is so happy and adorable!
Time for tea!!!Monday, March 15, 2010
The big Sneeze!Friday, March 12, 2010
Welcome Home
Our wonderful neighbor's ran over the morning we were coming home and left us this sweet sign announcing our sweet boy had arrived. What a sweet surprise!
The monkey pajama's that Isabelle is wearing was a gift from her baby brother and she has to sleep in them, she loves them. William has a matching pair too, but they are 3-6 month... a picture will come when he finally fits into them.
Big Sister holding her little brother.Thursday, March 11, 2010
William's Story
So... Sunday night, oh, about 8:15pm, Isabelle was taking a bath and I was throwing the clothes from the washer to the dryer, I figured I must of leaned a little too far to grab the clothes and peed a little... however... as I quickly attempted to get to the bathroom I was realizing that my water had broken... since I don't usually soak through my pants when I have to go. ;) Wow... that was interesting to say the least!!! (never dialted or went into labor with Isabelle... I was induced with her).
(side note: at this point I had been in pre-labor for two weeks and for the previous 3 days, dialted to 6 cm and having contractions, just not regular ones, but strong ones. I was glad that I scheduled my last day to be the Friday before... just in case)
Anyways, we called the hospital told them the details and they said get in there ASAP... they were worried that he would come during the car ride since we are about 40 minutes away. I grabed some towels, clean pants (which did not stay dry for very long) packed up Isabelle and our bags and more towels and headed to the hospital. Isabelle was so cute! The whole way to the hospital she kept saying that we were going to the baby store to get her baby brother. We called our parents on the way to let them know we were on our way. Once we got there, we had to wait about 20 or so minutes until they took us back to a room... I found some tile to stand on, so the clean up would be easier then on the carpet... again I say WOW, what a weird feeling, every step, really??? Had to love my towel skirt though, I was a fashion statement!
So back we all went to our room where they hooked me up and did the tests, put in the IV (ouch) and whatever else they do and told us we were staying... so we called Eric's parents to come get Isabelle. Yes, she was still with us, loving being at the 'baby store' and eatting the jello! So about 11pm, off she went with his parents and in came the epidural guy. Goota love him... It was busy that night too, but somehow I got first service all night long. Guess the 6cm made them anxious, who knows. To make this long story short, some time in the 1am hour the nurses called the doctor and said I was ready and at 2:07am William Michael was born. Only 2 pushes and some laughter and he was out. Ok, so you read the word laughter and I bet got a weird look on your face. The nurses and dr got that same look on their faces too as I was laughing. But it is funny when people are holding your legs, you see them up and you can't feel a thing!! Then when the nurse holding one side has to grab something for the dr, props your leg up and it slowly starts slipping down and then falls right off the bed and again, you have no control and can't feel it... it is funny, so I laughed. Laughed William right out. It was a type of pushing. I will say that I am glad that I refused to loopy drug this time... I don't remember much of Isabelle's birth because of it. Plus that drug made me pass out on a few occasions during birth where they had to put full oxygen on me... not fun. So this time, I remember it all and it seems that recovery went way smoother too!
So after the birth, they cleaned him all up and about an hour later we were moved to the recovery room. Parents were called and woken up at 4 in the morning as instructed. Eric, of course fell right to sleep on the pull-out cot and I stayed awake for many more hours as nurses and dr's made their rounds in and out of our room. I finally got an hour between 6 and 7am and Eric woke up about 10am. The first afternoon was filled with guests; both sets of parents, special alone time with Isabelle to meet her new brother, Eric's sister Karen, the Crowe's (Allie held Isabelle within her first few hours, so we had to keep tradition going) and my friend Venise.
The next morning (ahhh, I got a good 4 hours (I honstly felt refreshed) and Eric had 6 hours) we took our lazy time to get ready and made sure that William's first little procedure went without a hitch (to those that don't have clue here, his circumcision) and we were discharged around noon. We went to get Isabelle from nana and papa's and then made it home!!
Enjoy the photos!
Eric helping out on the very first bath
Me and my babies
My Sweet baby boy
Close up
First new family portrait
Daddy and his baby boy
This is so precious!!
Two of our visitors
Top: Allie, Bottom: Venise
(side note: at this point I had been in pre-labor for two weeks and for the previous 3 days, dialted to 6 cm and having contractions, just not regular ones, but strong ones. I was glad that I scheduled my last day to be the Friday before... just in case)
Anyways, we called the hospital told them the details and they said get in there ASAP... they were worried that he would come during the car ride since we are about 40 minutes away. I grabed some towels, clean pants (which did not stay dry for very long) packed up Isabelle and our bags and more towels and headed to the hospital. Isabelle was so cute! The whole way to the hospital she kept saying that we were going to the baby store to get her baby brother. We called our parents on the way to let them know we were on our way. Once we got there, we had to wait about 20 or so minutes until they took us back to a room... I found some tile to stand on, so the clean up would be easier then on the carpet... again I say WOW, what a weird feeling, every step, really??? Had to love my towel skirt though, I was a fashion statement!
So back we all went to our room where they hooked me up and did the tests, put in the IV (ouch) and whatever else they do and told us we were staying... so we called Eric's parents to come get Isabelle. Yes, she was still with us, loving being at the 'baby store' and eatting the jello! So about 11pm, off she went with his parents and in came the epidural guy. Goota love him... It was busy that night too, but somehow I got first service all night long. Guess the 6cm made them anxious, who knows. To make this long story short, some time in the 1am hour the nurses called the doctor and said I was ready and at 2:07am William Michael was born. Only 2 pushes and some laughter and he was out. Ok, so you read the word laughter and I bet got a weird look on your face. The nurses and dr got that same look on their faces too as I was laughing. But it is funny when people are holding your legs, you see them up and you can't feel a thing!! Then when the nurse holding one side has to grab something for the dr, props your leg up and it slowly starts slipping down and then falls right off the bed and again, you have no control and can't feel it... it is funny, so I laughed. Laughed William right out. It was a type of pushing. I will say that I am glad that I refused to loopy drug this time... I don't remember much of Isabelle's birth because of it. Plus that drug made me pass out on a few occasions during birth where they had to put full oxygen on me... not fun. So this time, I remember it all and it seems that recovery went way smoother too!
So after the birth, they cleaned him all up and about an hour later we were moved to the recovery room. Parents were called and woken up at 4 in the morning as instructed. Eric, of course fell right to sleep on the pull-out cot and I stayed awake for many more hours as nurses and dr's made their rounds in and out of our room. I finally got an hour between 6 and 7am and Eric woke up about 10am. The first afternoon was filled with guests; both sets of parents, special alone time with Isabelle to meet her new brother, Eric's sister Karen, the Crowe's (Allie held Isabelle within her first few hours, so we had to keep tradition going) and my friend Venise.
The next morning (ahhh, I got a good 4 hours (I honstly felt refreshed) and Eric had 6 hours) we took our lazy time to get ready and made sure that William's first little procedure went without a hitch (to those that don't have clue here, his circumcision) and we were discharged around noon. We went to get Isabelle from nana and papa's and then made it home!!
Enjoy the photos!
Eric helping out on the very first bath 
Me and my babies
My Sweet baby boy
Close up
First new family portrait 
Daddy and his baby boy
This is so precious!!
Two of our visitorsTop: Allie, Bottom: Venise
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Whipped-Cream
Another first for Isabelle!!!
She got her first taste and funfilled experience of eatting whipped cream topping the good ole way... straight from the canister. She saw our friend do it, and really wanted to try it, so Eric gave her some. It shocked her at first, and spit some out, but then realized that it was GOOD!!!
Again, again!!!
Time with Friends
This last weekend was super busy, but fun... State and then a great time with some friends and their kids. It was a great dinner, great conversations and interesting watching our kids play, from ages 11 months to 4 years old, but they seemed to do just fine (unless the tricycle motorcycle was in view).
Enjoy!
Hmmm... do I have to eat more daddy?
I'm going in....
BIG HUGS!!!
These two really enjoyed eachothers complany!
The coveted tricycle!
My turn to throw it at you, no mine!
All of us!
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
State is done!
This last weekend, our three post-season gymnasts had their State Championships at the T-Dome (Tacoma Dome) and did AMAZING!! I get to brag if I want to.
Two of the girls competed on beam and the 3rd one was on Uneven Bars, Vault and Floor. They all three had their most flawless, stuck and strong routines that I have seen all season! WOW!
Got to love the chalk dust flying everywhere, it makes beautiful specs on the lens and photos.
Since we did not make it to state as a team, all the individuals are placed together when going to all the events. So here is a photo of our 'team' that we went around with Friday night. This was such a great group of girls, some we knew from past meets and others we met on Friday and will for sure see again in the future. We made a game too, and decided that we were a 'competing' team, so we followed our 'team' score to see if we would have won, and with a 179.45 we would have come in 2nd place at state. We made it a great time!
Unfortunately, seeing that we were in session 3 for the day (Friday) which started at 5pm with warm-ups and 6:20 with march-in, we did not start the awards part of the evening till 9:30ish... by the time we left the T-Dome, it was 10pm. And since most restraunts close at 11pm, we did not get our olive garden dinner. We all just went home.
That was a good thing too, since one of our girls MADE IT TO FINALS!!! on vault! So we had to be back at the T-Dome at 9am Saturday. She did amazing and finished 8th in the state on vault.
All that is left for this season is the end banquet which is next week.
GO BEARS!! Till next year!!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Random photo Update
Piggy Back fun!
Stop! Gimmie That!
Diego's helper (using the monitor as a walkie-talkieand hooking it to a belt while wearing pajamas)
On a trip to Snoqualmie Falls... Yes, I hiked to the bottom while 8 months pregnant... I did a engagment photo shoot there, dragged Eric with me for some quality outside time, and exercise... they had fun! The couple offered to take our photo too. :)
Allie and Isabelle! Allie has been a big part of my life, since I met her my first year teaching, when she was in 3rd grade. Two years later she was one of my junior brides' maids and then 3 years after that, she was one of the first ones to hold Isabelle while we were still at the hospital. And in a few weeks, she will again be at the hospital to be one of the first to hold our son!
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