Wordless Wednesday

I know I'm way behind.... What else is new? So I thought I would catch up with pictures.

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Such a big girl!!!

People tell you your kids grow up fast, but it always surprises me how fast!!!

Since I now have 2 in diapers I have been secretly wishing that is was time to start potty training Audrey.  I looked up online at different sites to see if she was ready.  Needless to say she showed NONE of the signs!! I was so bummed. At this point in my life I feel like all I do is crowd control..... change diapers, nurse, get juice/crackers, change my clothes from spit up, change Luke's clothes... and it goes on and on, and on a good day I get a shower :). So, my wishful thinking of eliminating part of my diapers was a no go.

However, a few weeks ago out of the blue Audrey pointed to her diaper said diaper and took my hand and led me to her room to change it for her.  I was shocked!! I just thought it was a fluke until she did it again. She would point to her diaper and walk to her room.  A few days later we were at my sister's apartment, she took the changing pad out of my diaper bag grabbed her diaper and then laid down and said diaper.  I was amazed at how all of a sudden she showing signs that it might be time to potty train her.

The next day we ordered a potty for Audrey and when it came in we let her open the box and made a big deal about it being her potty. She looked at it took it apart, put it back together, played with it. We then took it to her bathroom.  Jonathan's family was coming in town in a few days so we didn't do much with it.  We would go look at it, maybe sit on it for a bit while they were here, but nothing really big. I in no way wanted to force anything about this!!

Well, tonight I was changing her diaper and she started saying, potty, potty... so I took her, diaper less, to her potty. She sat down and we just sat in the bathroom and played with crayons and read books for about 7-9 minutes.  I couldn't believe that she would sit that long. Well..... all of a sudden she went!! I couldn't believe it.  I made such a big deal about it too! And if you know Audrey and had the pleasure of seeing some of her looks you can only imagine what she looked like :) She looked at me like I was crazy for making such a big deal about her going potty.

It is crazy how exciting "going potty" can be!! I couldn't be anymore proud of her. 

A Baby Story!

I know it has been a while since I posted, but it has been just a little crazy around here to say the least.  Here is the long overdo story of Luke's arrival and the weeks afterward.
I was scheduled to induce on May 4th. Jonathan's mom (Granna) had arrived the Thursday before to help take care of Audrey while we were in the hospital. I woke up at 4am that morning to shower and put my make-up on. You know, you have to look good for all the pictures :)  I slept so much better than I did with Audrey. 

We got to the hospital and they started my pitocin around 7ish.  The doctor came in about 9 and broke my water, and right after that I requested for my epidural :) After that things went pretty fast.

My epidural didn't work the way it was supposed to. It went up instead of down, so the more my labor progressed the more I felt.  I can handle a lot, but (and a very big but) I need to be prepared for it.  So, needless to say when I started to feel a natural delivery, I really started to panic because I wasn't prepared for my epidural to stop working.  A nurse came in and I told her my epidural wasn't working and she told me "well, there is nothing we can do about it now."  She was not my nurse and it really made me mad how she said it. Then, MY nurse came in and was a rock star. At first she was running around trying to get things together, because I was going so fast.  But after that she was by my side helping me through everything. Jonathan was there too, but he was trying to do his best to keep me from screaming "SHUT UP" at him this time around.  

When the doctor got there he was scrambling to get is stuff together, because I was ready to have this baby!! And in three pushes Mr. Luke Paul was here.  I was not messing around. So I went from 6cm to holding Luke in about 45 min, which was much faster than anyone was expecting, but there were no complications. I delivered 2 hours earlier compared to last time and those two hours really made a big difference in how much more energy I had afterwards.  He was 8 lbs 1 oz and 21 inches long. I had no idea he was going to be such a big baby.  I had asked the doctor he he could tell how big he was going to be and he thought around seven.  I knew I felt bigger and was a lot more uncomfortable with this pregnancy, and now I know why!!!

On a side note, Luke was born on May the fourth (be with you). YES! Luke was born on the official Star Wars day! I had no idea this would happen when we picked his name and hope he’s not scarred for life. However, Luke’s sci-fi grandfathers (and father) couldn’t be more excited about this coincidence and are claiming it is fate.

 

 

Audrey was in love with her brother from the moment that she saw him! She gave him tons of kisses and just could not get enough.  She kept saying baby baby over and over again.  The only problem that she had was that she became very very attached to her daddy. She needed lots of attention from him and didn't like to see him holding Luke.  After about a week she adjusted. But all in all she did great with having a new sibling in the family.

Audrey is such a big help.... After we got home I asked Jonathan to bring me the broom and this is what I found...

Mother's Day! Our friends, the Woodwards, invited us to share it with them!

I will post again with some more updates of the past month!! Stay tuned...  I have lots of pictures. 

Happy Easter

This year we had a very different Easter. We were not able to travel anywhere this year since I'm so close to delivery

We had an amazing church service with a great worship and message.

We then came home and had leftovers and worked on our list of things to do before Luke arrives (10 days!!!).







Happy Easter!!!!

Wee Wee Wee

Audrey has a new favorite book. Her Mawbell (my grandmother) got these small books with nursery rhymes in them.

This one is her fav!!

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37 weeks

This past week I have been full out nesting!! We have been cleaning out/adding shelves to all of our closets. We had moved everything outside in the garage, so this weekend our project was to clean it out.

I set up the pack n play so Audrey could sit outside with us. Jonathan put her bath tub in there with her to see if she would sit in it. He sat her down and she pointed to her book and asked for it...




Then she propped herself back and...







Needless to say she stayed like this almost the entire time laughing and reading her book to herself. It was the cutest thing. She did the same thing the next day.

Slowly but surely we are getting ready for Luke's arrival. We have a few more boxes in the house to go through and we are done. It's so nice to have a clutter free house!!

Audrey is walking more and more these days. She is walking more than she is crawling. She has her 18 month check-up tomorrow. We will see how much she has grown!

We are in the final countdown!! 2 more weeks today!!! :)

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Luke's Finished Room

I have finally finished the nursery!! It came out so much better than I even thought it would. I wrote a post about sewing the bedding and curtains a few weeks ago. Well now the room is completely done.

We got the pictures that Jonathan's grandfather painted framed as well as the navy pictures of his dad and grandfather.

I also added 3 pillows to the bed to help add color and tie in the navy theme. I sewed and appliquéd them all. Also, I had leftover fabric that I made a quilt for the foot of the bed.

Here are some pictures so you can see the final product!!








The flags above the window spell out Luke and the red pillow on the bed is an F.












All that's waiting is little Luke to be here!!! (about 2 more weeks!!!!)

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Getting ready for baby brother

Well we are now all back to 100%. It's so good to be back to normal and have a healthy baby and husband!!

We decided we needed
to start putting together some of our baby things like the swing and bouncy seat. Audrey was so interested in it!!

While we were putting it together she decided that she would start walking across the living room!!

She has really started walking more over the last few days!! It's amazing how much she changes everyday. She gets more and more confidence!!

I'll leave y'all with one more video!! I think it's cute ( well I think they are all cute). Luke is going to have a wild ride as his big sister learns to be gentle!! :)

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An Unforgettable Week

Well, I can honestly say this has been one if the worst weeks at the Friedmann house!!

Like I said in my last post Audrey was sick with the stomach virus all Monday night. Well Wednesday Jonathan came home from work not feeling well and he was sick that entire evening. I was praying so hard that it would skip me. That was the LAST thing I wanted.

At 2am that night I woke up sick sick!!! About 6am I tried to drink something, but couldn't keep anything down ( sorry tmi). I had been having contractions all night, so I decided to call my OB to see what I needed to do. He said to go up to labor and delivery to get an IV.

At 7 Jonathan, Audrey and I headed up to baptist. We were there about 4 hours. They gave
me an IV and some Zofran then sent ms home. I was so glad to be back home in my own bed!!

I'm doing much better just still really weak. Audrey has been so sweet to me. She has been giving me lots of kisses and snuggles.

I have never been so glad that a week is almost over!! Here is to hoping for a better week next week!!! I have way too much stuff to do to be laying in the bed all day!! :)



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35 Weeks and counting

Well I can honestly say I'm so ready for our little boy to be here!! I went to the doctor last week, and everything looks good. I talked to my OB about scheduling to induce. Since Jonathan's mom is planning on flying in to take care of Audrey and help with our transition home, it would be nice to have a date set.  My wonderful doctor said that was fine, so May 4th is the big day!!! (4 weeks today) not that I'm counting our anything! :)

This past few weeks have been so busy.  Besides the fact that I feel like I'm getting bigger by the second and Audrey makes grunting sounds when she tries to stand up (I must do that a lot :) ) we have stayed very very busy.

I have been working on making a semi schedule for our days. I have been so overwhelmed lately with my house, laundry, dishes, etc that I decided I just need to right down everything that I want to get done on a weekly basis and schedule it out (yes OCD i know). I'm on week 4 and its been so great so far.  This week I wasn't able to do some of my "chores" but I just did them when I could.  I feel so much better!! Hopefully I will be able to keep this up! I know that when Luke comes that it will probably take a little while before I get back in the routine, but at least I have one set up!

My sister is getting married June 11th. I'm so excited for her!!!  (another reason why i'm glad I get to have Luke 1 week early!!) A few weekends ago she had 3 weeding showers in El Dorado. I was able to make the one on Saturday.  Last Saturday I had  her lingerie shower! I'm so excited.  I have had so much fun doing the invitations, decorations, planning the food.  However, shopping for the gift was no fun at all!!  Imagine being 8 1/2 months pg with a 17 month old in the buggy looking at lingerie.  You get very weird looks!!! I could only just imagine what was going through their heads...... "Does she really think she can fit in a small?!?; among other things ;)"  It wasn't funny at the time, but coming home and thinking about it!!!  These are the cookies that I made, I think they turned out pretty cute!!

I think I have officially earned the title worst Mother!! Why do you ask, well here is the list of things that have  happened, all in the past 2 weeks mind you.

1) I was doing one of my daily chores, cleaning the bathrooms.  Audrey loves to "help" so she was in our bathroom with me.  I had put comet in the bathtub. (I know I know I'm not supposed to use bleach while being pg!!! just add it to the list)   While it was sitting, I turned around to clean the sink area.  I had pinesol in the sink and was scrubbing down our sink when I heard this thud.  I turned and Audrey was in the tub COVERED in comet!! I freaked out.  I couldn't use the rag in my hand to get it off, it was covered in pinesol the sink was full of pinesol water.  What to do?!? Well I pulled her out and grabbed my good towels and started trying to get it off of her.  She was fine, I think she reacted more to my freaking out than anything.  Lesson Learned: Audrey can now get in the bathtub!!

2)  Audrey has had a very good transisiton into her "big girl bed."  When we first moved her anytime she would wake up crying we would go check and make sure she was still in her bed, and of course she was.  Well, we had moved all the foam and blankets from around her bed.  A few nights ago she woke up crying.  I figured she just had a night terror and didn't think anything about it because it only lasted maybe 1 min. That morning she woke up and was fine. The next night she did the exact same thing, woke up crying but it didn't last long.  Well the next morning she slept until 11:15.  I had really started to get worried that something had happened. I turned on her monitor really loud and still heard her breathing so I knew she was okay. Well, when she finally decided to get up I walked in her room and she was LAYING ON THE FLOOR!!! I picked her up and her poor little feet and arms were so cold and she had a boo boo on her nose she must have fallen out, and that is what woke her up. 
Lesson Learned: Foam needs to be back on the floor!!


3) A few days ago Audrey woke up again crying.  I knew she hadn't felt good that day, but really didn't think anything about it.  Jonathan and I were still watching some tv and she would cry and then stop.  We were getting ready to go to bed and she was still crying a little bit on and off.  Something told me I should go check on her before I went to bed.  So, I go in there and there is throw up all in the bed and over her.  Poor thing was so sick!! I don't think she had been in it long, but I felt so horrible not going in and checking on her first thing.  Needless to say, Jonathan and I were up all night with her being sick!
Lesson Learned: It is no fun to clean up after a sick baby when you are almost 9 months preggers!!

I tell you what.  These have been some crazy days here at the Friedmann household!! 

On a good not besides everything that has happened Audrey is fine... she is trying to walk more and more and just the cutest little thing ever. I took this picture the morning after our long night with her being sick.  It makes it all worth it for pictures like this, or for snuggly babies that all they want to do is snuggle and be held (regardless of the size of your belly or how much their little brother kicks them)

Daddy's little twin

I feel like everyday Audrey looks more and more like Jonathan!! From the moment she was born she has looked like him.

I try and tell myself it doesn't matter that I was the one that carried her for 10 long months, suffered through a hot summer with a horrible rash ( that she caused) wakes up at 3am to meet any need, wipes her nose (and cute little bottom), and much much more.

Just when I think it can't get any worse I see this when I walk into her room yesterday...





They are the cutest pair ever!!! I love them both so much and can't wait until Luke joins our family!! I'm just praying he looks 50% like me!!! (I don't think I'm asking for too much!!)

On a different note Audrey has improved even more on her walking. She took about 6 steps yesterday. I wasn't able to get that on video but I did get these.

I couldn't pick which one I liked best so I posted several....

She is such a drama queen!!! See now why I had to post all three?!?

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