Sydney's Here!

At last I have a minute to write about my Sydney girl.  On Friday May 24 at 9 am James and I went to the hospital to see if the doctor could help Sydney want to come out and join the family.  Dr Redfern did something with a balloon in my cervix and the nurses started me on pitocin.  Having passed the original due date by two weeks and still only being at a 1, 70% effaced, and baby's head at a -2, inducing me was the only thing the doctor could think to do since we were trying for a VBAC. It worked! But it took 20 hours! Holy freaking long time! But at 5:13:25 am on Saturday 5-25-13 Sydney Jane Hudson joined our family.  Pretty calmly too.  She cried for a bit but I chose to do skin to skin and she snuggled down quickly. She weighed 7 lbs 15 oz and at the time, due to a cone head she was 22 inches long. Once her head shrunk back down she was only 20 inches.

She has now been with us for two weeks and already she weighs a pound more than her birth weight.  She is such a chunker compared to Emily.  At two weeks Sydney is wearing clothes that Emily didn't wear till she was three months!  I'm not sure how to handle a baby that grows so fast! :)  But she is so beautiful and calm.  Just like Emily, she doesn't cry much.  She sleeps ,most of the time and when she is awake she just looks around.  She seems to really love looking into our faces.  She likes it when we talk to her.  I feel so blessed to have two beautiful girls.

James is loving it too.  He jokes that he hates girls but he comes home from work every night and the first thing he does is snuggle on the couch with all three of his girls.  He loves to get hugs and kisses and he loves to just sit and hold Emily and Sydney.

I think Sydney looks so much like James and almost just like Emily did when she was born.

Any Day Now!

So far I'm not a very good blogger.  Ha!  I guess I never really expected to be.  Anyway...

My original due date has come and gone.  After the 20 week ultrasound the doctor's thought she was too small to be that far so they bumped me back by two weeks.  So now she isn't due until the 27th and it's only the 16th.  Thanks to the Zofran, I have been a functioning mommy but lately I have had a lot of pain.  I'm carrying a ninja baby who loves to kick and squirm.  She loves my ribs and the nerves around my hip bones. So having to wait a few more days/weeks isn't fun.  But it will be over soon and I'll have another girly to play with.

Emily is such a big girl now.  She's almost 27 months and she talks like a pro.  most people say she sounds so grown up for her age.  She is still tiny.  Only in 18 month clothes.  Sometimes I wish she would never get any bigger because she is seriously so dang cute!, but I also can't wait to see how she grows up.  She loves the movie Tangled and practically has it memorized.  She also loves Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang, Singing in the Rain, & Avatar: the Last Air-Bender cartoons.  She has recently learned to sing the alphabet song, well, she gets the rhythm right and it sounds close but she has a hard time actually saying all the letters.  But it's still adorable.  And she loves to count. She used to count right... 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.... but now for some reason she always says 1,3,4,7,9... it's funny.

James just finished another semester.  He did good on two out of his three classes and will retake the third class this summer.  after that he is good to go to MSU and do all of his accounting work.  I'm excited for him.  He's ready to move on with life.

Things are good. If little missy will favor us with her presence soon I'll be very happy :)  I'm excited for this summer. My sister is visiting my parents for the summer and I'll get to see her and her kids.  I might go visit my grandparents because they have never seen Emily and I'll want them to see the new girly.  That may or may not happen but I hope it does.  I haven't seen them since right after I got married.  Almost four years ago.  But all in all things are good and we are happy.  You can't really ask for better!

All I do is catch up on here.

Well, since the last post our family has had so much going on.  The Holidays were wonderful. For Halloween we got pumpkins and Emily loved helping daddy pull the seeds and slime out.  For Thanksgiving Emily had her first airplane ride when we all went to see James' family in California. For Christmas we were all sick with colds but we had a great relaxing day. And we thought we were so thrifty when we realized that we got 11 movies for $31!  And the New Year has come and I will announce that we are expanding our family by two feet!  Haha yes indeed. We are expecting another little girl in May!  We couldn't be happier.
 I have been really sick again with this pregnancy but thankfully this time around I was given Zofran and I have been able to function. However I am still exhausted all the time and find that my patients is very thin.  Poor Emily has been in trouble a lot.  But since I've been so tired all the time we spend a lot of time cuddling and snuggling on my bed or rocking in the glider.  She loves it when I sing songs to her.  We sing lots of primary songs and hymns.  And sometimes we sing silly songs because they make her laugh.
 I have so many plans for re-arranging the baby room.  I'm going to have to get Emily a toddler bed and that is going to take up a lot of space.  I'll have to get her bed sheets and stuff for it too.  Oh boy.  This could be fun. Now I can go all out on girly things rather than have to go neutral!
James is working at a good job.  We are so lucky that he got this job.  Since we moved to Missouri he has been working at Wal-Mart.  He started out as an un-loader working from 4 pm to 1 am. Then once we moved to Springfield he worked and an overnight floor waxer.  He went in at 10 pm and got off at 7 am.  We really hated those days.  He had to get up and go to class after only getting a few hours of sleep during the day and then had to rush back to work after class.  It was pretty miserable fro us both.  We both had to sleep alone and Emily never got to see daddy.  Then James was offered the opportunity to work in the Wal-Mart Vision Center.  Now he works during the day and is home at night.  He takes on-line classes that help him be able to do it at his own pace (for the most part) and still lets him be home with us. So aside from a limited bank account (which everyone struggles with) we are doing pretty well.  Tomorrow we will have beat our family record by living in one place for a whole year!  Happy Anniversary to us :) We have a lot to be thankful for.