Easton Kinnick Schulte

He is finally here!  We have waited a VERY long time for this day!  He was born on Tuesday, June 9 at 12:34pm.  He was 8 pounds and 5 ounces and 19 inches long.  Everything with delivery went pretty smooth.  We went in Monday night to be induced first thing Tuesday morning and ended up going into labor during the night.  So I never needed the pitocin the next day.  We had a few issues with the epidural (it stopped working completely for about 1 1/2 hours) and had to be redone, but other then that, it all went very well.  (Not fun at all during that 1 1/2 hours).

We are home now and doing great.  He sleeps alot and we have to wake him up to eat.  Which is the other thing he does a lot of! 

Payton is doing great.  The first day he came to see us at the hosptial he was pretty reserved and shy.  I think he was completely overwhelmed by the entire situation.  But by the next day he was totally different.  Payton has always been like that.  It takes him a little while to warm up to things and he has to do it on his own terms.  He was pretty funny the next day at the hospital.  I was up and walking around and he must have noticed that I still didn't look like my old self, because he said, "Why is the baby back in your belly."  LOL!  I had to tell him that he was out of my belly and it will take mommy a while to look normal again.

Now that we are home, Payton is very possessive of Easton.  If we are talking to loud, he tells us that we have to whisper as to not wake him up.  Or, if Easton is fussing, Payton will run up to him and tell him that it is okay, because his big brother is here.  He also like to sing him songs and read to him his books.  He has decided that he does not like the dirty diapers though!  If I am changing one, Payton will walk around holding his nose and start gagging!  He can be pretty dramatic when he wants too!

 

I am really looking forward to being home for the next 12 weeks and bonding with Easton and geting to spend more time with Payton.  I know it is going to fly by and be over before I know it.  So I am trying to treasure every possible moment with my boys.  

 

I will try and add posts and pictures frequently, but it may not be as often as I would like because we are kind of walking around in a sleep deprived stuppor around here!

Waiting and waiting and waiting.....

The house is spotless, the bags are packed, nursery all ready, now we sit and wait.   I don't wait patiently very well.  So, I have scoured the house and painted lots of odds and ends things!  I did find out last week though that I will not go past my due date.  So if this little guy doesn't come on his own by then, I will be induced.  So now I at least have a final day!  I am more then ready! We are just ready to meet him and start our new family of 4. 

The nice warm weather though has kept us busy lately and kept our minds off of waiting.  The new pool in our subdivision opened last weekend, so we got a chance to go and Payton loved it!  He loves to play in the water.  Its a good thing too as he starts swimming lessons again this year in two weeks.  He also had his first TBall game this saturday.  They look so cute in their uniforms!  They are all so little! The games are interesting because there is no score, and no outs.  Each child bats each inning and even if they get out, they get to stay on the base.  So I don't know if you can really call it a game, but it is pretty amusing.  Payton did really good the last practice, but had problems paying attention at the game.  It was hard for the kids though because it was hot (94 degrees) and they had never played in a game setting before.  So we will see what happens next weekend.  I have a feeling he and daddy will be practing some more this week.  I have still been busy working and will continute to work through next week. 

 

I probably will not have another post until after this little guy arrives!  So then I should have lots of updates and pictures!

 

( I have updated lots of albums recently, I think the Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Pregnancy and Ultrasounds and Belly picts).

35 weeks and spring time fun!

We are now just past the 35 week point!  Which means that there is less than 5 weeks to go.  And if I happen to go into labor anytime after the next week and a half or so, they will not try and stop it!  I am now going to the doctor once a week.  We have completed some refresher childbirth and breastfeeding classes and Payton has taken his sibling class.  It was nice to go to these refresher courses.  Even though we have gone through it before, it was nice to hear some things again and from a  different perspective.  Payton did great at the sibling class.  I see a teachers pet in my future!  He was very into the class and answered all of the teachers questions, and even a bunch that she didn't ask! This week we had an appointment at the hospital to get preregistered and get a lot of paperwork filled out.  So it looks like we are almost ready!  The next thing on our list is to pack our bags!  Not only do I need to pack a bag for Justin and myself, but I also need to pack one for Payton!  He will be staying with Grandma Joy while we are in the hospital.  She will be taking him to/from school and to visit us at the hospital.   We really want to keep his life as normal as possible during this transtion period.  Luckily, my mom knows our routine and his schedule and the rules that we expect him to follow.  So, that takes a huge amount of stress off of our shoulders by knowing that he will be able to follow pretty much the same routine with her.  It is going to be crazy enough for him having a sibling after being an only child for 4 1/2 years, we don't want to also make things chaotic for him at home.  He is still very excited to have a baby brother and talks about him constantly!  The other day he told me that he was going to teach his brother to go potty in the potty, but since he would be small he would have to hold him over the potty so he didn't fall in!

 

Besides getting ready for baby, we have been enjoying the nicer weather.  We have been able to play outside a lot.  Payton starts TBall practice next week, so I am sure that will be interesting!  Justin is thrilled and went and bought him a bat and a fancy tee.  He can hit pretty well, but is not really into listening to the directions.  So lets hope he does better with the coach then with daddy!  He has also been really into playing school lately.  He will 'read' to us, the cats, or his animals and even call on us as if we are in class. 

 

This is Payton sort of playing basketball (the neighbors were mowing, so sorry for the load noise):

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Disney on Ice and 31 week checkup

This past weekend my mom and I took Payton to Disney on Ice!  Payton really enjoyed seeing all of the characters and mom and I enjoyed the ice skating and seeing Payton having so much fun!  Payton even got to try cotton candy for the first time!  Then we spent the rest of the day with mom running lots of errands and doing some shopping.  We even met daddy for lunch and stopped for ice cream!  Then on Sunday I had some grocery shopping to do so Payton and Grandma colored easter eggs so I could get my errands done a little quicker!  It is getting more difficult to lift Payton up and in the shopping cart these days, so it is sometimes less exhausting to just go by myself!

I had my 31 week checkup yesterday and everything was great.  My blood pressure was back to normal, so it must have just been a fluke last time.  It was a very uneventful appointment and my doctor said that boring is good!!  We are taking Payton to a sibling preparation class next week which should be interesting!  We get to go on a kid oriented tour of the birthing center as well so that way when he comes to see mom at the hospital he is a little more prepared and hopefully he won't be scared.

I do think that baby boy #2 is going to be a wonderful soccer player though!  I have been getting some huge kicks!  Some are quite painful!  He must sleep most of the day and then by midafternoon he is very active and usually is well into the night!  When Payton sees my belly move, which it does often, he says it is his brother trying to get out!  He is getting very concerned that he wants to come out now.  I told him soon, very soon!

29 weeks and scarlet fever!

Now that I am well into my third trimester I am seeing the doctor every 2 weeks.  (It is quickly approaching!)  Todays visit was overall good, but my blood pressure was a little higher then normal.  So, I am suppossed to take it easy the next two weeks and see if by my next appt it is back to normal.  Basically I am suppossed to rest a lot and make sure when I sit I have my feet elevated and try and stay stress free, etc...  So, hopefully two weeks of slowing it down a little bit will help!  Other than that everything is going good.  I am starting to get to that pretty uncomfortalbe stage where sleeping more than a couple of hours at a time doesn't really happen anymore and sitting for too long gets difficult.  I remember this stage with Payton as well, but I think it was a little bit later.  Or maybe it is pregnancy brain that makes me forget all of that stuff!    The nursery is coming along and close to finished.  I hope to (or I hope Justin to) get the curtains hung in the next day or so and then I will post some pictures.  I still need to get some accessories, but then it is pretty much done!  All of his clothes are hung and folded and ready to wear!   We just preregistered at the hospital and in April we are taking a refresher childbirth class and we are taking Payton to a sibling class, so then we are really on the home stretch!!

 

Payton has been doing great, except for two weekends ago he came down with scarlet fever!  I was in panic when they told me that, I didn't think people got that anymore, but they resassured me that scarlet fever is just strep throat that has a rash with it.  They said it is very common among young children and it goes away with antibiotics.  Two Saturdays ago he took a  really long nap and woke up with 102.4 fever, so we did the motrin and he seemed to perk up a bit.  Later that night he complained of a sore throat and a head ache and the next day was obviously sick.  So I took him in to the doctor on Sunday and they said he had strep with a rash (scarlet fever) and an ear infection!  No wonder he didn't feel good.  I found out that two other kids in his class had the same thing the week before, so he must have got it from them.  It is highly contagious.  It made for a very long couple of days at home. (He stayed home from school on Monday).  We basically didn't leave the house for 3 days except for short little trips.  He only wanted to cuddle with mom and watch movies.  So he has been a big time mommys boy since then.  He is now finishing up the antibiotics and is much better then he was and we are finally starting to get caught up on everything that didn't get accomplished that weekend. 

This is Payton all curled up with his stuffed animals watching TV when he was sick:

 

Other than being sick, he has been doing great and sometimes just melts my heart by the things he says.  The other day we had gotten home and it was dark so the stars were out.  He insisted on standing in the driveway and told me whenever he saw the stars he had to make a wish.  So he said he wished for all the flowers to grow and a heart so he could give them to mommy!  I was almost in tears!    Also, Grandma Joy had been in Florida for two weeks so we were looking after her kittys and her house.  Payton was very concerned about them and when we went over there he had to go and tell each kitty not to be scared that Grandma was gone, because we were here to make sure they weren't scared!   He  also made sure we drove by her house at least once a day to make sure that it was okay!   I don't know where he comes up with some of this stuff, but it is so sweet!!

27 week update

Yesterday was my 27 week appointment and things are still going smoothly.  Baby boy is still measuring right on target.  We got to have another quick peek at him via ultrasound to reconfirm that he is for sure a boy and he was not shy!  It is very hard to believe that I am already in my 3rd trimester!  I will now be going to the doctor every 2 weeks!   I have made up for the weight that I lost at the beginning and am right on target for weight gain.  Even though it has all came in the last two months!!  I am starting to get more uncomfortable, especially by the end of the day.  And simple tasks like giving Payton a  bath are becoming a little more difficult.  But overall, I still feel pretty good.  We did a little traveling lately to visit a few family and friends because I knew that sitting in a car was going to get more uncomfortable the closer I got to my due date, so we wanted to get all of the trips out of the way earlier rather than later!  We finally have decided on a bedding set which is a huge relief for me!  I can now start accessorizing his room! 

 

Payton is becoming so funny and has apparently forgotten that he is only 4!  He now prefers to watch Hannah Montana and iCarly and likes to listen to songs from HSM (High School Musical for all of you non parents) and the Jonas Brothers!  I have no idea what happened to my little cartoon watching boy, but now he is a big boy (or so he thinks).  He even asked Justin if we had ice cream the other night and Justin told him that we were out and Paytons response was, "That is so not cool."   I about died!  He must come up with this stuff from other kids at school.  A lot of his classmates will be starting Kindergarten in the fall and I know he is sad that he can't go yet.  They just had kindergarten roundup, so that has been the topic alot and he wants to go with them.  I have just signed him up for TBall for this summer and I plan on signing him up for soccer in the fall.  He will also have swimming lessons this summer as well!  Luckily I will be home on maternity leave so I can keep up with his busy schedule!!

 

BTW--I added pictures to the Winter Fun, Pregnancy and Ultrasounds and Belly pictures albums.

23 week update

 

I had my 23 week appointment yesterday and everything is going great.  It was pretty uneventful, which is a good thing!  The baby is measuring right where he should be.  I can tell he must have grown a lot lately because I have been starting to feel him move around like crazy!  My next appt is in 4 weeks and that will be the start of the third trimester!  I can not believe how fast this pregnancy has gone by!  I have so much to do and get in the next couple of months!   We have got the furniture back in the room and I am hoping to decide on bedding soon.  This pregnancy brain thing is making any decision making very difficult for some reason!  I can not believe how much baby stuff has changed in 4 1/2 years and how much stuff I need to get yet!

Payton is doing great and getting such a funny personality.  He has grown up so much lately.  He seems so self sufficient!  He is getting very excited about his new baby brother.  He tells me everyday all of the things he is going to teach him.  He has told me that he is going to teach the baby how to run, ride a bike, blow his nose, kick a ball and how to turn on light switches!  (I have no idea where the last one came from!)  Last week at school they had to draw a picture of what Love looks like for Valentines day.  I think the object was to draw a picture of your family.  He had 4 people in the picture!  So I asked him about it and he said that one was his baby!

 

This is Payton showing me how big he thinks the baby is going to be when he comes:

 

Payton is showing me how he is going to wrap up the baby and how is going to carry him around!  He told me we don't need a stroller, he can just carry him around!!

 

(BTW - I updated both the pregnany and belly pictures albums.)