A few pictures to update.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Officially Introducing...Eric Alexander Hughes!
We have been home for two days now and suprisingly everything has gone very smoothly. Maybe we are in for a meltdown at some point, but everything for the moment is absolute heaven. I don't know if it' s my hormones or what but I am completly happy with everything in my life right now. I love my husband and my two kiddos so much. I could not ask for anything more. Our first night home I cooked dinner, did some laundry, gave both kids a bath, and Bert and I put them to bed, it was wonderful. I guess I will back up for a momment and tell you how the birth went.
Bert and I left the house at 5:40 and we arrived at the hospital happy and excited to check in. I did great until I had to sit myself on the operating table for them to put a huge needle in my back. I started crying and it pretty much went down hill from there until Bert was allowed back into the room. I also calmed down after I heard little Alex let out a few crys. Alex weighed 7lbs, 15oz and was 21 inches long. I knew all along what was going to happen and I still lost it. I'ts a pretty scary thing to be awake during surgery. When we got into the recovery room after surgery I said the same thing to Bert that I said to him after having Ava. "I don't think I can ever go through this again." The more I think about all the things I have to go through to have my children the more I think 2 sounds like a great number. However, as soon as I stop focusing on all the negative things like pain, I realize I can do this one more time.
Our hospital stay was lovely, we had lots of visitors, and very generous family members who brought us lunch and dinner everyday
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Alex is a very sweet baby. He likes to nurse ALOT, but I'm pretty sure all newborns do. We take him to his first doctor's appointment tomorrow, and I expect everything will be fine.
Ava has really taken a liking to her new baby brother. She wants to kiss and hold him all the time. I give her lots of attention and make sure I tell her what a great big sister she is all the time. She seems to be adjusting to him just fine.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
To My Husband on Father's Day
Bert deserves an award for the most amazing loving devoted husband ever! I love him so much and want to wish him a very happy Father's day. I can't give or make anything for him today because I had a baby on Friday so I thought I would type up a few words of appreciation for him.
Bert has been on cloud nine today. He really loved spending the day with both of his kids and me. We all had dinner for the first time as a family of four at the hospital. During dinner Bert turned to me and said "this is the best day ever." I love this man so much, he really means what he says and is so elated about our new addition. I will be posting his birth story later when I am at home and have some more time to think. I really just wanted to let everyone know what an outstanding father Bert is and that I feel blessed to be married to such a wonderful man. Before my Grammy passed away she said to me "Ann you need someone to cherish you." I will never forget that because my dating record was a mess at the time, and I never thought that it was possible to find someone so perfect. Bert and I truly cherish one another and I could not be any happier!
So without further delay....... Happy Father's Day Honey! I love you forever!!!!
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Updates
This is kind of a lump sum of all the things we have been up to lately. First I guess I will start with Ava's therapy. Her speech therapy went ok. I was not very impressed with the speech therapist and some of her comments. First let me say I pretty much set Ava up for failure because the speech was scheduled at her nap time. I did this only because the therapist had a weird schedule that week and I really wanted to make sure Ava got speech last week. The activities she did with her were the same that I do everyday, and she constantly asked me if she always acted like this? Ava would sit and do activities with her for about 10 mins and then she would want to do something else, and it really seemed to frustrate the therapist. Then she would ask can she not do this? can she not do that? Hell, I wanted to cry half way through the session along with Ava. I asked the therapist if all her 19 month old children sat for the entire hour she did therapy, and she said no Ava just seems distracted. With all this said it wasn't that terrible and I probably over reacted to some things that were said. I was just expecting some awesome new techniques that I had never thought of doing with her so I could start doing them, and I saw nothing. I even asked her what she planned on doing in the future with her and it sounded like the same old thing (getting her to point to picutes, and reinforcing the sounds of words.) I am trying to stay positvie about it, it was only the first session.
Ava also received a visit from a physical therapist and that went much better. She actually got off of the floor to follow her around and would bring her back with a neat activity. The physical therapist said she probably wouldn''t see Ava again because her feet and hips turn in just slighty not enough to cause her equilibrium to be thrown off. She said Ava was very strong and balanced. She just gave me a few exercises to do with her so she would not sit in a w formation and this will cause her feet to correct themselves quicker.
This week my doctor's office will call and let me know when my appointment is because they were all booked last week. At my last appointment my doctor mentioned she may have an opening friday and you better believe I told her I would take it. Most likely the baby will still be born on the 22nd, but I am so ready to have him now! I am just done and over being pregnant I won't go into anymore complaints as of why I am done, I"ll just leave it at that. On a happier note I was able to go and get my hair done of Friday and felt like a new person for a day!
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Some of the pictures I posted are of Ava working out with me Thursday night. The other pictures are of Caroline's birthday party, Locust Grove, St. Pius picnic, and lunch. Jennifer did such a fabulous job hosting such a great 1st birthday party. We had a blast! Ava was in a little bit of a mood so she pretty much kept to herself.
Today we went to Locust Grove for a festival that was supposed to have farm ANIMALS, but the only animals that showed up were Turkeys. Ten mins later it started pouring raining, so we had a short visit to Locust Grove. Thank you Grammy and Grandaddy for the very thoughtful idea.
Last but not least I would officially like to congratulate Kelly and Dave on the new arrival of their daughter, Claire Margaret. What a beautiful name!!!!!!
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
More pictures
Everything from the weekend and today (St. Margaret Mary picnic, lakeside with my cousins, and of course the park.)
Friday, June 5, 2009
pictures
Just some fun pictures I thought I would share with everyone. Ava and I have had such a great week, and I know I will be updating with some more fun pictures of the weekend. Bert's firm decided to do summer hours. Nine hour days m-thursday, and friday get off at 12:00, how exciting!!!!!!!!!
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