Welcome Drayke

Drayke was born at 5:23pm on March 27th, 2009.

Weight: 6 lbs, 11.9 oz

Length: 19"

My induction story, I was was admitted to the hospital at 6am on Friday. I was put in my room and filled out all the fun paperwork that was required. I also found out that Tiff would be my nurse and that was super exciting. I was dialated to a 2 and 50% upon arrival. No contractions. I was given my first does of Cervadil at 6:30 am. At 9:30 am, no change so I was given another dose. Doctor Abrams came in at 12:40 to check me and I was at a 5 and 80% but still no contrctions that I was feeling. He broke my water at 12:50pm. I then started having contractions 2 minutes apart but they were not too bad. My body kicked in with the good contractions shortly after. At 3pm I asked for an epideral becuause I could not handle the contractions. 3:30 or so I had the epideral and it was such a positive experience compared to Brocks labor. It was painless and fast. I was checked because I was feeling pressure at 4:30, I was complete and ready to push. Baby was still pretty high so I choose to let him labor down until I could not stand the pressure anymore. I said I wanted to push at 5:18 and at 5:23pm Drayke was born with 2 pushes. I had no tears or required any treatment. Drayke came out screaming and so darn cute. I have no swelling, nothing. I could not have asked for a better delivery or anything. We are home (Saturday afternoon) and everyhting is wonderful.

Brock was very excited to meet Drayke and he is the first thing he asked for this morning, "Momma, Baby Drayke get up now too?" He likes to hold him and he always finds a blanket and pillow and askes for Drayke to lay by him to watch TV or to cuddle. It is amazing to know that we are blessed to have both of these healthy and wonderful boys. We can't wait to watch them grow up. I will get some pictures from my camera up here sometime this week.

Brock's First Time Bowling & Ethans Birthday

On Saturday, Feb 7th we took Brock bowling for the first time for Ethan's 4th Birthday Party. He loved it. He tried his hardest to pick up the balls and throw them (yes, throw them) but he is a little small yet. He did not get the concept of rolling them. It was nice to see all the old frinds we don't see much anymore and nice for Brock to play with other kids close to his age. Plus, I think Brock and Ethan were in heaven there was just them 2 for the boys and other 6 kids were all ittle girls.

Grammy's house and 33 week check

Grammy had a full day with all 4 grandbabies on Monday. She had Dominic, Mason, Brock and Taylor to fight with. They played outside a couple times in the snow (well now, slushy mix) with the puppies. They sure do have fun over there!! I don't know how she has the energy to keep up with them.

I went to the doctor yesterday too. Brock came with to see all the nurses who constantly ask for him to visit. He loves it beacuse they load him up with stickers and candy. Well baby and mom are doing well. My blood pressure was excellent, my total weight gain is up to 6lbs ( that excited me!!) and baby's heartbeat was 136, right in line to where it should be. He is definately still breech so hopefully we can coax him to flip over the next 2 weeks or so. If not, we will try doing an adversion at the hospital or do a c-section. I would like to avoid the c-section if possible but this kid just ain't listning to my threats if he doesn't turn! Those darn stubborn boys!!

Blue Harbor Weekend

Wow, that was such a fun weekend!! Brock had a blast in the waterpark and it was pretty fun for the adults too! We had a great condo and it was nice that all 15 of us got to stay together in one unit. We played games after the kids went to bed and Guitar Hero and just talked and laughed. Nice to have some adult only time with people who you don't see very often. We will be going back there soon, it was so much fun. Rumor has it we have a condo booked for October already!! I would recommend it to anyone who has kids looking for a quick winter getaway!

Update

Well, we are anxiously awaiting our little guy to arrive in a short 8 weeks (or hopefully less)!! This pregnancy has flown by so fast. Brock is almost 20 months old already and that is so sad, he is becomming such a little man, growing out of the baby stage every day. He insists on doing everything himself. He must put his own shoes ona nd pull up his own pants and brush is own teeth!! Some days it is a huge help and other days, just way too time consuming. We leave tomorrow to head to Blue Hrabor Resort for a long weekend away from home! We are meeting some of Twigs family there for a relaxing weekend at the waterpark and since it will be our last little get away beofre Drayke arrives, I am so looking forward to it! I will post picures when we get back next week!!

Christmas 2008

The holidays are finally comming to a close and we had suchm a good time. We were blessed to see most of our family and friends and spend theis joyus season with them. Brock was not too sure about Santa but he did have a good time opening his presents and playing with all his cousins. We had the Dahlquist side of the family over for Chiristmas Eve, I made Lasagna, Garlic Bread and a Salad. It turned out very nice! Christmas morning we all went to my parents for brunch and to open gifts and to see Santa!! Our friend Bob played santa for the little kids and they loved it!! Bob did an awsome job! After that we went to the Dahlquist Grandparetns houe fro presents and dinner and games.......that is always a good time. The Arrowood side of the family met at a hotel on Saturday night so the kids could swim and we didn't mess up anyones house!! Which I appreciated. Brock had a great time swimming and playing with all the cousins he rarley sees. I was completely exhausted by the end of the night but it was well worth it! It is hard to believe that next year at this time we wil have a 21/2 year old and a 9 month old.....oh boy how our lives have changed in the past couple years. It has been amazing watching Brock grow and change and we can't wait for the next 80 dasys to fly by so we can met the newest member of the Arrowood family!

Back from Vacation

Well, we made it back from vacation in one piece. We had one heck of a good time and the weather was nice for the most part! We spent 3 days in Florida and 6 days at sea. We left Fort Lauderdale, spent one day at sea, then Cozumel, then Belize, then 2 days at sea back to Fort Lauderdale. The weather in Cozumel was beautiful but Belize was rainy and humid. The boat was very nice and much better than the last one we went on in March!! The food was not the best which was very disappointing ot a pregnant lady. LOL !! Very nice to be back home thugh with my boys, I missed them alot. Brock was so excited to see me when he got up from his nap, I snuck in there and he had the biggest grina dn ran right over to me. My hubby even seemed excited to have me back home, I don't think that will last very long once I start hading out orders for chores again!! We did come home to 6" or so of snow which I could have done without.