Ahhh, the joys of a new child

Tank is either getting spoiled or a little sick. Since he's so young, I'm voting for a little sick. That, and he's had a sour stomach for a couple of days. Sigh, I guess they have to build up their immune systems somehow. The poor kid just wants to be held, it seems to be the only comfort he can get. Only, it's exhausting and nothing is getting accomplished around the house. Sushi was wonderful last night and stayed up with Tank and played video games so I could sleep. What a great husband! I'm letting him continue to sleep even though it's currently 1pm. He needs some sleep after this last semester and he's been fighting a cold for a couple of weeks. We went to Target last night and got family, kids, and Tank's two week pictures taken. We had a phenomenal photographer and we got some great pictures. The really cool thing is that we will have them back by Christmas Eve, that is something I didn't expect this late in the season! When I get the email with the images I'll have to post the pictures. After that we went to dinner with big sister and big grizz. It was a fun night, I was exhausted after everything but it was fun! We got hit with a terrible snow storm (again) right before rush hour so we were late but the studio was fine with it. I'm glad because it was definitely worth the time. Well, perhaps I'll go deliver neighbor gifts and make singing time for the licorice stick lady who is still subbing for me in church(she is so great!). I also need to do some more laundry and clean bathrooms. Yippe, a fun filled day is ahead for all!

Tanks birth and other sushiboy family happenings December 2008

Wow, I am behind on posting pictures, go figure, I've been taking care of tank and the rest of the family. Happily, sushi is done with his finals and he got A's in his classes. I am so proud of him! I had quite a few pictures to post so I just made a slide show, The slideshow should go in order of events. We start with the picture of me right before I went into the hospital and go from during the c-section to finishing the c-section and then there are pictures of our stay at the hospital and going home. Poor tank (like all my kids) had to spend some time under the bili lights but other than that his stay was pretty uneventful. There are pictures of our ward christmas party with Santa and the kids. Tank had his two week checkup yesterday, usually they want the baby to be back up to his birth weight by the two week checkup. I wasn't concerned because by the time we left the hospital he was almost back up to his birth weight. WELL, as of yesterday tank weighed 10 lbs, 12 oz, his height and head circumference are the same but he has gained over a pound over his birth weight in two weeks! The doctor just kept saying WOW, you must make some good milk! Thankfully, I do and I am grateful to have healthy happy kids! Well, gotta run, enjoy the pics!

24

24- the number of pounds I have lost in 11 days, no wonder I'm always cold! Of course having an almost 10 lb baby helped. This makes me very happy, that means I'm about half way there to where I want to be after baby. Yippee! Too bad the last half will be a lot harder to lose!

WHEW!

Wow, what a difference one little baby makes in your life. I have been busy, inbetween resting as much as possible. Tank is great, I wish he would get his days and nights switched to the right way but that will come. I just keep looking at him and admiring how perfect and beautiful he is. I love his adorable fat cheeks and double chin, his perfect blonde peach fuzz and little eyes. I really need to post some pictures but the camera is with sushi and he is currently at the nutcracker with cakes and grandma. My mom left today so I am officially on my own now. My ward is bringing in dinner for the next three nights and I am going to have some friends who volunteered take my kids to school this week and after that it is christmas vacation so by the time school starts again I should be in much better shape. My blood pressure was high at my incision check so I am now on blood pressure medication for the time being. I hope it goes away soon, I really hate having to rely on a pill to be healthy. The irony is that the whole pregnancy my blood pressure was great, sigh, oh well, like I said, hopefully I only need the medication temporarily. I seem to be healing well though and my belly is going down quickly considering it's only been 11 days since I had my c-section. It just never seems it goes down quickly enough. Well, hopefully when sushi gets back I can post some pictures. Wish sushi luck, he has two finals this next week and he is very nervous about them I know he'll do great because he always does, but he is very scared he wont, so go tell him how great he is!

SO Close!

Well, we were in to Labor and Delivery yesterday because the baby wasn't moving very much and I felt like we needed to check on it. It's fine, I'm fine, although all the annoying contractions I've been feeling are labeled an "irritable uterus". From what I can tell it just means annoying pain. So, after monitoring me for about an hour, they sent me home with a shot of morphene and phenermine(sp?) and told me I was to be on bedrest until tuesday. I came home and zonked out until about 8 pm, woke up for about an hour and fell asleep again until the next morning. I woke up this morning and was a little puffy but that seems to have gone away on it's own. I have a wonderful neighbor who will take Cookie to and from school tomorrow and all I have to do tomorrow is pick up the house a little, do a very small amount of laundry, and call the school to tell them Cookie won't be there the rest of the week. Sushi will take the car to work and school tomorrow and come home and we'll take the kids to my parents where we'll have dinner together and sushi and I will come home, go to bed and have a baby on tuesday very early! I am supposed to be at the hospital by 5:30 am so I figure by the time I take a shower and get everything ready to go and drive there I need to be up by about 4am. ugh, at least my surgery is supposed to be at 7:30 am so I figure I'll be in my room resting by about 10am. I'm sure sushi will update on his blog what the baby is and all the info about it. Wish me luck, we're almost there and I can't wait to be done! I probably won't post again until after baby comes and I'm home and resting on friday. Hope you all have a great week and remember to check sushi's blog for updates!

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving and I hope everyone else did as well. We had a nice relaxing morning and afternoon and our families arrived around 4:00. We had a wonderful dinner of ham and turkey, mashed potatoes, country sausage gravy and turkey gravy, yams, green bean casserole, stuffing, rolls, pumpkin pie and black bottom bananna creme pie. Everything was so good! I am so greatful for my wonderful family and beautiful home. Sushi is now out trying to see if anything is left in the stores from the black friday sales. There were some pretty great deals out there, I hope what we were looking at is still there, if not, oh well. Later today we will go to Sushi's aunt and uncle's house and hang out with his cousins & their wives and sister & brother in law. It should be a lot of fun. Well, I hope everyone else had a wonderful thanksgiving as well!

Oh, and I'm thankful there are only 4 more days until Dec 2. Almost there!

still here

I'm still here, taking it easy and taking tylenol. Sushi thinks I'm silly. He thinks I should just go have a baby already. I just know that I won't progress, I never have and never will so unless my water breaks or something I plan on being here until my scheduled c-section on Dec 2. I hope everyone has a very happy thanksgiving!