Tucson Visitors!

Last weekend Amy (My cousin) and her son Matthew came up from Tucson, AZ to visit us. We had a great time hanging out and watching movies. Amy taught Sean some of her famous silly faces.

It has been almost two weeks that Sean has been here and I can't imagine our lives without him. We, or should I say I, am not getting much sleep. He likes to sleep a lot during the day and is ready to go from midnight to 3 am. Once he is able to get on a schedule I am going to have to work on changing this. Especially, since I will start watching kids again starting Monday, so there will be no sleeping in. Maybe the extra noise around the house will help wake him up some. I can hope!

He is a very good baby. He only cries when he's hungry, wet or wants to be held. So no colic (Sp). The girls are still enjoying him and wanting to help out where ever they can. That has come in handy several times. They even want to change his diapers. The whole family has been squirted on at least once or twice. That is one thing that is different between Sean and the girls. Changing diapers were a lot easier with the girls.

We will be taking our first trip on July 5th for cousin Matthews 8th birthday down in Tucson. It's about a 3 hour drive. We will be going down just for the day and coming back that night, due to the heat. It has been 112 -115 here lately. It feels like a hot hair dryer blowing on you. The kids can only go outside early in the morning or late at night. Since we are kind of home bound, due to Sean being so young, it makes it hard sometimes.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.

Happy Fathers Day

Just a quick note to wish all the fathers a Happy Fathers Day.

Mondo you are a great Father and we appreciate everything that you do for our family. We couldn't do it without you.

Terri

Sean Thomas Villanueva

He's here. He was born 06/09/2008 at 2:53pm. He weighed 8lbs even and is 21 1/2 inches long. We got a call at 4am to head toward the hospital. He was posterior so I had a lot of back labor. They were concerned that they were going to have do a C-Section because of his position and I was having trouble going past 4 CM and Thinning out. They used a ball to help him drop. Thirty minutes after they checked me and I was still at 4 I was no longer feeling the epidural. The pains were very intense and painful due to the strong amount of pitocin they had to give me to try and turn the baby. They were trying to prevent a C-section. So basically it was natural child birth on steroids. Awful pain. So they checked me while we waited for the epidural to be redone and I was at 10cm.

( Mom, That hurt.)

Sean and his proud sisters.

I was trying to make up for all the horrible pictures they had of me.

A few pushes later and Sean Thomas Villanueva was born. Everyone is in love with him. We went home today, Tuesday. He is doing great. Allison is already wanting to hold him all the time. Katie has warmed up to him, but was not sure about him in the beginning. I think it was a little over whelming.

Sean Thomas with his Grandpa Thomas. ( All the Childrens' middle names are after a grandparent.)

I will be able to stay home with him for the next 6 weeks and then will return to work part-time in the evening.

Monday's The Day! Hopefully !

I had my last doctors appointment yesterday, Thursday. I am still 2 cm and 50% effaced. I did pretty well this time with weight gain only about 20 lbs. So, I am hoping that it won't take that long to loose the weight. I also will be watching my friend Letitia's daughter Ajaya and her son Demetrius after the baby is born, so I am sure that will help take off some of the weight. I will have a 2 week break before watching kids again. Luckily, their great kids.

The doctor's office called today and said that the hospital will call Monday when there is a bed available. I am so excited, I can't wait. They can call as early at 4-5 am or as late as that afternoon. I don't care, as long as they call. I know that those in active labor go a head of me, but telling a 39 week pregnant woman that, oh sorry you will have to wait till Friday instead won't be good. So lets hope that doesn't happen. I know it would only be a few days longer, but right now that seems like a month. That would also mean I would have to go back to work for three more days. I am ready for my 6 week break.

Mondo has a list of names to call and let know once the baby is born. My mom and mother in law will be there, hopefully, and of course Mondo. Other then that, we will let everyone know once he has been born. We want the girls to come see the baby after I get settled in my room. I know that this has been a long 9 months for them too and they are very excited.

If Katie had her way she would be helping deliver the baby. I made the mistake of bringing Katie with me to an appointment where they were checking me. I didn't realize they were going to check me. First, Katie was not happy about the male doctor seeing me, but then I explained it was okay because he was checking on baby Sean. I also explained that it's only okay if he is a doctor with his nurse in the room. After a few seconds and after explaining to the doctor she would be sure to let her dad know that he saw me, she then decided this meant the baby was coming that day. The doctor was laughing. It probably didn't help that she was telling the doctor that he should not be looking at her mom's bottom. Needless to say, she then decided she too wanted to be down helping the doctor and would like to help the baby come out. So since then, I always make sure the girls go to my friends instead.

I am glad they are excited too. In the beginning that was not the case, but now they are just as anxious to meet their little brother. We have truly been blessed with great kids and I know that they will be close with their brother. I'm sure they will teach him little tricks on how to get away with things. Isn't that what sisters are for?

I will post more once we come home Tuesday or Wednesday.

One More Week!

We have one week left and we will meet our little one. We are so excited. Of course, if he would like to come before then I would be okay with that too. More then okay. June 9Th will be the inducement day.

We thought we were going to have him over the weekend. Saturday, around noon, I started having contractions that continued to get stronger. A lot of them were in my back too, which I am not looking forward to. However, after a trip to the hospital at midnight, the contractions started to get further a part. UGH. They told me I was now at 2 cm. I was thinking, BIG DEAL. All this pain to go 1 CM. Whoopie. So home we went.

I do have to tell you, off subject, of how sweet my girls are. I was very tiered today and they woke up and cleaned the whole house while I rested. (All except the kitchen and laundry) I thought that was very nice of them. I am glad I have children who care so much about me and can work together.


I will post pictures after we get home from the hospital.