Going home today

Well, it's Monday. Easton went back to daycare today, so hopefully that puts him in a good mood. Elwin went back to work, too. So it's been a pretty normal day for the two of them. Hopefully that makes for a good evening, as we'll be going home whenever Daddy gets here to pick us up. Mondays are usually good days for Easton. He gets to play with his friends and run off some energy from not having other kids around over the weekend. And this weekend has been especially strange and out of the norm for him, so I'm really hoping to pick up a a happy boy at 5:00! He's seen Sissy thru the window, but I think he'll be even more excited to meet her in person. Even though we have nothing planned, other than going home, I have a feeling it's gonna be a busy evening! Wish us luck!

I started a new album on Facebook, so here's the new link. This blog keeps breaking the last link up, even though it's whole when I type it in. So if you can't view the photos by just clicking on the link, try copying and pasting the WHOLE link into your browser. That may be the problem some people are having. If you only click on half, it won't work. Who knows why it keeps doing this, so you may just need to copy and paste. Or join Facebook. It's wonderfully addicting....right Betsy!?! Enjoy!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2330613&id=17021036&l=f507444347

Evea Louise Dunstan

Evea Louise made her appearance yesterday (Feb 19, 2009) at 1:20pm. We were scheduled for c-section on Monday, 2/22, but I got kinda sick (like flu-like symptoms) on Wed, with a fever and all. I was feeling pretty miserable, and my dr had told me earlier in the week we could move it up if we wanted. I called on Thurs morning and they checked and the hospital was full on Fri. But, we got a call in the afternoon and they had an opening, so....here we are! We got to spend Fri morning with Easton, have breakfast and hang out a bit. Then dropped him off at daycare around 11am and was to be at the hospital at 11:30. C-section was scheduled for 1:30pm, but the drs ended up being free sooner, so they sent us down the hall around 1pm and at 1:20pm our little Evea Louise arrived! Almost a full 2 lbs heavier than Easton was at birth, she weighed in at 7 lbs 8 oz. and was 20 inches long. (Easton was 5 lbs 10 oz and 20 2/3 in.)

Grammy Dene made it down shortly after we were brought back to our room. Sadly, there's a tight restriction on visitors, due to the flu and sickness of this past year. Understandable, but hard on a Momma missing her busy little guy. No kids under the age of 12, and only 2 visitors total your whole stay. Luckily, Easton was able to come to the lobby today, and we held Sissy up to the window so he could see her. And I was able to go out and have lunch in the lobby with him and Daddy. I'll be looking forward to his reaction when we bring her home!

Finally tonight I got some photos uploaded to Facebook. The link is below. Tomorrow I'll try to upload some more...probably to a new album, so I'll post that link then. But enjoy these for now!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2302700&id=17021036&l=40db85dc5b

Preggo Pics

Here's a link to my new album on Facebook. They're photos that Dana took for us for some preggo shots. We decided to save our money and just have her do them. Then our regular photographer ended up volunteering to do it for free cuz she'd never done any. So I'll post those when I get them back.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2329863&id=17021036&l=73063fae0d

Long time, no posts! Sorry!

Since I'm getting too lazy to upload pics on here AND on Facebook, I'll just upload them to Facebook, and then paste the link on here so you can view them. I can post more on Facebook anyway, so it's actually a better deal for all. You should be able to view these without having a FB account, but if you have problems, please let me know and I'll go back to doing it the other way.

January was a busy for us. We started out with Christmases the first two weekends of the month. When we were home Elwin was usually down in the basement. He's been working really hard to get half the basement finished, at least far enough that we can play down there during my maternity leave. Easton needs more room to run, since I probably won't be taking him outside a lot with a new baby in late Feb/early March! So now half the basement is closed off, wired (thanks Pappy for helping!), and sheetrocked. We bought a little heater that seems to be doing a great job on that half, despite it being fairly small. Although, I'm not as excited to see what the electric bill is after running a space heater for days on end!

Here's pics from January/February:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2327485&id=17021036&l=d6fad0d1b3

February has started off busy with dr appts, haircuts, Elwin has jury duty tomorrow, and we're headed to KC to see Dana and Justin this weekend. I think (*HOPE*) we'll be home the next two weekends, as those are our last weekends before the baby comes! Speaking of the baby, everything is looking great! Even though I'm on a medication which can cause growth restriction (it's to help control my migraines), Sissy is growing just fine. Compared to Easton, she's gonna be huge! Easton was 5lbs 10oz...yesterday Sissy weighed in (according to the sono) at 6lbs 6oz! And she still has 2 1/2 weeks left to grow! She may be very close to an 8 lb baby! I'm kinda hoping she'll stay on the smaller side, but we'll take her however she comes! I'll post a link to her Facebook album as well.

Sissy's album:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2302700&id=17021036&l=40db85dc5b

And just cuz I haven't posted in a while, here's stuff from December also.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2318145&id=17021036&l=bcf8e91627

I promise to TRY to keep up better, but we'll see what happens once there's 2 kiddos in the house! Hope you're having a great year so far!