Welcome, Price!

Price Aubrey Martin

Oct. 8, 2009

7:16 a.m.

7 lbs. 19.5 in.

It took me a few days to decide on a name, mainly because morphine keeps you from thinking like a...well, like at all. The c-section went fine and we're all adjusting to having a little man in the house. Olivia does really well with him most of the time. She has problems when he has a blanket she likes or when Aubrey is holding him and playing with him. She also does not like it when he pees on her. Oh, and when he's really crying and screaming because I'm not feeding him fast enough it breaks her little heart and she starts crying, too.

Like Olivia, Price is a very well-behaved baby. The only difference is that he wakes up every 2-3 hours at night to eat...Olivia would sleep for 6-8 hours straight. But he sleeps a lot during the day so as soon as I can actually move faster than .1 miles per hour, we'll work on reversing his schedule.

Mom and my sister and her 3-month-old were down for a week. It was good to meet my niece and mom was a huge help. She did all my laundry, grocery shopping and cooking. Ah, nice! My baby sister comes out next Friday and my dad will be here the first weekend of November when we bless the baby at church. So, all my family (with the exception of my brother) will be able to meet Price...who I here crying now. Must be suppertime!

Baby Update

I have exciting news that, if given the opportunity, I will shamelessly rub in with all my other pregnant friends.

My c-section is Thursday instead of Friday!!!!

For no other reason than I can do it. The doc said it was available at the last minute if I wanted it and I said, "Uh, yeah." We're super, super excited. I'll ask Aubrey to post some pics of the new little one Friday or Saturday.

The only drawback that I see to this is pattern. You all know how I love patterns. Olivia's birthday is 8-7-07 (subtract one from 8, repeat twice...) and this baby's birthday would have been 10-9-09 (subract one from 10, repeat twice...) But, since I want the baby OUT I'll just have to get over it I guess.

News Briefs

Well, I meant to get a lot of pictures up here but I'm not sure that it will ever happen. So, you'll have to satisfy yourself with this bullet list of newsworthy moments in the Martin household.

~Aubrey "finished" our family room. He only has detail work left to do but we're already using it. It is quickly just becoming another room for me to clean.
~I'm having a baby via c-section on Friday. I plan to stay conscious for this one. I've been having contractions for a month and every time I move it feels like he's going to drop clean out of me.
~Olivia is a non-stop talker. (Can you believe it?) Her favorite movies are Aladdin (a.k.a. Monkey Movie...she even says lines from it) and Peter Pan (a.k.a. Pan...she's obsessed with the flying).
~My mom, sister and niece are coming on Wednesday and will be here for 10 days. My baby sister comes the end of the month and I'm already compiling a list of things to do around the house while she's here.
~Fall weather is slowly creeping into my corner of the world. This morning I had hot chocolate and I'm actually sleeping under the covers.
~I'm nowhere near completeing all my baby sewing projects. Anyone surprised by this? Anyone? My friend Sara actually took over sewing super cute boppy covers. She's so dependable.

I hope that tides you over for awhile. I really do hope to get some pictures up before I go to the hospital, but that may be wishful thinking.