He's Here:)

Eli Wade Oberle arrived on July 3rd as expected.  I became sick the night before, so we went in early so I could get rehydrated and hopefully start feeling better.  Some fluids and a couple of doses of anti-emetics later, I was feeling much better.  My labor was fairly short; she started pitocin ~ 6am and I got the epidural around 8 I think.  By about 11:30 I was dilated fully and ready to meet our little guy.  I pushed for about 10 minutes and then he was here!

After ~ 1 hour, they noticed he was getting lethargic.  His blood sugar was checked and it was 32 so they gave him some formula and rechecked it.  It did not come up very much and he was also breathing fast.  So, the neonatologist decided to admit him to NICU since he could not keep his blood sugar up and the xray of his chest showed some fluid in his lungs.  They ran bloodwork, submitted blood cultures, started him on antibiotics and scared his parents half to death.  Thank God, everything turned out to be just fine and he was released from the NICU 4 days later.  He's home now and doing really well.  He will be 2 weeks old tomorrow!

I forgot what life with a newborn is like!  I don't really mind getting up in the middle of the night; it's trying to keep the 2 1/2 year old occupied that is difficult.  He has been acting up a lot, and I have been doing my best to spend time with him too.  He really wants to go do things, which is hard because we have to stay at home.  To put the cherry on top, Clif was sent to Bangkok for the week.  I know....

But he is the sweetest little baby, such a cutie and we love him so much.  He and Cameron looked so much alike when they were born!  Thank you Lord, for blessing us with this little guy.

Eli's first bath 

Pasta!

Well D-Day is approaching.  I will be 39 weeks on July 5th and they are predicting that this little boy is going to be large.  So with that said, I will likely be induced on July 5th!  Not super excited about being induced again as the contractions with the Pitocin with Cam were AWFUL.  We'll see how things go, I know you don't always get to plan them:)  I'd love to just go into labor but there's no way I'm going to go past my due date.  

Heartburn...and I'm hot and tired.  Selfish I know.

Cam has also been a challenge lately.  Not sure if it's because he knows that a little brother is on the way, or that he's been getting to bed late because of VBS.  I took him to get his hair cut this morning which he is usually great for but was unmanageable this morning.  He got about half a hair cut, I left a big tip and we came home. 

When we came home we made a little pasta bracelet out of some macaroni noodles that I dyed earlier.  Cam asked for green and black noodles.  The green turned out great, but the black turned out greyish brown.  Oh well, he didn't care.  But what he DOES care about is doing it "ALL BY MYSELF!!"  Ok...ok...sheesh

Happy crafting!!

Nicole

A few weeks ago, we went and took some maternity/family pics with my very talented friend Alicia.  Enjoy!

Big Boy!

Sometimes when this kid speaks, I am amazed at what come out of his mouth.  I usually end up looking at Clif and saying, "How does he know that??"

He has started potty training and is doing pretty well.  I'm going to wait until the summer hits to totally stop with the diapers.  MDO isn't great about taking him to the potty so I want to wait until he has a break for the summer.  He's only there 2 mornings a week, but everyone keeps telling me that consistency is key.

Along those "big boy" lines, he also moved into his big boy bed last night.

 He was pretty excited about it and actually stayed in it all night!  Clif and my Dad made this gorgeous bed and it looks fantastic!  We modeled it after one that we like @ Pottery Barn.  I really would have been fine with him staying in his crib longer, but we will be needing the crib for #2 in a couple of months.

While we were getting ready to go to bed last night, we were hyping up the fact that "he was in a big boy bed!"  Well, he got pretty excited about it and told me that instead of Mommy or Daddy reading him his bedtime books ( as we ALWAYS do), he was going to read them "alllll by myself".  *Tear*

Thankfully, he let us go back to our routine tonight and Daddy and Cameron happily read their books before bedtime.  I don't think we'll do anything "big boy" for a while now, Mommy needs a break:)

Spring is here...and almost summer!

It has already gotten hot out, pretty soon we will be hanging out in the water all the time.  We went out to the barn on Saturday to let Cameron meet the new foals and look at the cows

The mare was being very protective of the foal, so we didn't get any close ups of the foals since I was holding Cameron.

 He did great with Darby, but for some reason he did not like her face...weird...

My parents and Grandma came to visit over Spring Break.  I couldn't resist taking this picture of all 3 of them in one of Clif's work trucks:)

                                   

Cameron helped build his new big boy bed!

                                        

We're also finding time for some activities indoors.  As it gets hotter, I'm feeling less and less like getting my pregnant self out in the heat!  Happy Spring:)

21 Weeks

This was taken a few weeks ago, as right now I am about 24 weeks pregnant.  Nonetheless, I thought I'd share my poor iphone picture:)

We've been getting a few things together but not much yet really.  Going to have to go hit the boxes and dig out all the stuff we'll need.  It is handy that our #2 will be another little boy:)

Little Stinker...

Tonight, Clif and I asked C what he would like to name the baby.  He promptly replied, "Monster". I could not quit laughing:)

Right now at 28 months old, one of his favorite games is "Ready, Set, GO!"  And then, he wants you to race him.  But regardless of whoever is ahead when he decides the race is over, he always proudly pronounces " I win!"