Meeting Baby Brother

Ronan was very eager to meet his baby brother. In the months leading up to his arrival, he had many plans of all the things he was going to do with his baby brother. I think he really thought he was never coming because nine months is a long time to a two year old.

The day finally arrived though! Here are some pictures of Ronan meeting his baby brother:

Love this picture. He is waiting to meet his baby brother.

 



 

He is ready to go meet him. He brought him a balloon and a baby bottle he found at home. He also brought Mommy a pink carnation.

 

 

On their way!

 

 Love this one too.

Family of four.

 

 

Checking him out.

 

 

They exchanged gifts at the hospital. Ronan got a drill which he LOVED. Baby Jack got an elephant lovie and a Timmy stuffed sheep that Ronan insisted on buying him.

 

 

Yeah, this guy is going to be a pretty awesome big brother.


Introducing Jackson Jay

At around 3:50 a.m. on Friday, April 13th, I woke up in labor. My first thought was "Oh man! This can't be happening on Friday the 13th!" My due date was still half a week away. So I denied the fact that I was in labor for an hour or two and then around 6:30, I decided I better wake up Ryan because this was really happening. We called the grandparents to let them know to be on their way. We left for the hospital around 9:30.

When we arrived at the hospital, we checked in and they confirmed I was in labor. I was still pretty comfortable so I was feeling pretty confident in not needing an epidural, but that quickly changed within an hour. I had to wait a very long time for that epidural. Haha, but I definitely learned to just go ahead and put in your order for one when you arrive at the hospital. :)

At around 1:30, it was time to push. Our sweet baby Jackson was born at 1:50 p.m. on Friday, April 13th, 2012.

Here are some pictures from that day:

 6 pounds, 9 oz, 18 1/2 inches. Little guy.

 

 Holding our sweet Jack for the first time.

 

 

Little Popeye.

 

Love that sweet face.

 

Proud Daddy of 2 boys.

Handy Ronan Video

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Handy Ronan

I sucked up a nail with my vacuum and it was making a very loud noise. Ronan told me that he would "stix" it for me. So him and Daddy got their tools and did a great job fixing it. Here is a picture of them working hard to fix it and then I will post a video next where Ryan was trying to teach Ronan the parts on the Leatherman tool.

On a side note, later that night is when I went into labor with Jack.

 

Using tools together.

 

Found the nail.

 

 



Our Little Hamster

One morning while I was cleaning up after breakfast, Ronan was calling for me from the laundry room. I go find him and he is in the dryer spinning like a hamster in the dryer. He was quite proud of himself.

Love this kid. He always keeps us laughing,.

Easter 2012

So for my sake, I am going to pick up where I left off back in April. I will slowly catch up. This Easter, I was VERY pregnant so we stayed at home and let people come to us.

We had fun dying Easter eggs on Saturday. Then on Easter Sunday, the Easter Bunny came and we had an Easter egg hunt that afternoon with family.

While hunting Easter eggs, Ronan would not pick up any of the hard boiled eggs we had dyed because they did not have treats in them. He only wanted the plastic eggs with candy.

 

Hunting eggs at Mother's Day Out.

 

Dyeing eggs.

 

 

 

 

The Easter Bunny came!!!

 

 

Hunter and Ronan off hunting eggs.

 

Mimi and Ava

Let's Try This Again...

Well, looks like having a second baby kind of set me WAY back on the blog. I had good intentions of updating the blog the next day after my last post back in April, but instead I went into labor and Jackson was born a few days early. So, stay tuned. I have been busy updating our blog with a new look and then I will start catching up on A LOT of posts and fun pictures and videos of these sweet boys.