Austin Douglas

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1 year ago

On December 28, 2006, Aaron and I checked in the hospital at 7:30. We filled out all the paper work and I changed into my hospital gown and got all hooked up to the monitors. A little before 9:00 am Dr Rudeen come in and broke my water. Aaron and I started walking the halls of the hospital. At this point my contractions were about 4 to 5 minutes apart. After an hour of walking we back to the room to rest. I was still doing okay with the contractions, but the nurse said the anesthesiologist was available now if I wanted my epidural. If I waited he may not be available right away. So I decided to have my epidural. I was glad I did, it still took the anesthesiologist 45 minutes before he came to my room. By then I was really ready to be more comfortable. I was really comfortable for a while then around 2:30 I was really starting to feel the contractions again. I told the nurse and she checked me. To my surprise I was fully dilated. The nurse went and called the doctor. The doctor got there and after 10 minutes of pushing Austin was born at 3:03 in the afternoon. I couldn't believe how much shorter this delivery went. Aaron and I were just so happy to see our new little boy. It was such an amazing day! It is hard to believe that our little Austin is already turning one! I love him so much!!

Merry Christmas

We had such a wonderful Christmas this year. We spent Christmas day at our house. This was our second Christmas morning waking up in our own home and I really like doing that. The boys opened presents around 8 and it was so much fun to watch their excitement.

Grandpa Seable gave Austin a candy cane and he was in heaven. Austin usually will not sit still, but I guess a candy cane will do the trick.
Christmas Eve - Doesn't Jake look excited.

I love their Christmas pj's

Jake was so excited to leave cookies for Santa.

Jake had such a great time opening presents this year. He especially loved this fire truck from Grandpa and Grandma Pickup. Austin of course loved all the wrapping and boxes. He was in such a happy mood.

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

What a smile!

This picture just makes me smile, so I had to share!

Teeth

I looked in Austin's mouth the other day and discovered he has 2 new molars. So now he has a total of 7 teeth. Doesn't that seem like a lot for an 11 month old? I can't believe how fast he is growing. In just a couple of weeks he will be one! I don't think he is will be walking by his first birthday. Just this week he is starting to try and stand on his own. He is such a fast crawler, so I don't think he has much desire to walk. And it also doesn't help that Jake pushes him down every time he tries to stand. Poor little guy.

Oh boy!

Jake was quiet the handful this past weekend. It all started out Friday night when he was in the tub and decided to dump buckets of water onto the floor. You may ask where his parents were . We were just a couple feet away in the living room visiting with Aaron's parents. We heard splashing from Jake but thought that was pretty normal. When Aaron went to check on him the bathroom floor was covered with water and so was the hallway carpet. We used all of our towels to clean up the mess and then had a fan on the carpet for 2 days. Saturday was a much better day. I took Jake to get his haircut and to my surprise he was so good. Jake hates getting his haircut and throws a huge fit every time. I couldn't believe it. This time he sat in the chair so still and behaved. It was a miracle. And his haircut looks pretty cute too! Sunday morning went okay. Aaron had a couple of meetings and I was trying to finish preparing my gospel doctrine lesson. Jake was into his normal trouble. I think he broke couple of ornaments off the tree. Everything else went okay till we made it to church. Jake and I were walking in during the opening song and trying to find a seat. I wasn't holding onto Jake's hand, which ending up being a mistake. All of the sudden he took off to the front of the chapel. I did not want to chase him, because I knew that we would end up running in circles. I was so embarrassed. I tried catching him, but I was not having any success. Finally someone stopped him so I could catch up with him. I took him straight out in the hall so we could have a "little talk". I was so just so frustrated and embarrassed. Jake can be such a handful, but he is also such a sweet boy. I love him so much, even though he can drive me crazy. I think being the mother of a 3 1/2 year old boy is exhausting!