Pics of Quinn
I know you are dying to see her. Here is her homepage: www.hedgefamily.net/Quinn
She doesn’t have a link of the main site yet, so you will have to manually add Quinn to the URL to get to her page. Chris has posted pics from pregnancy (ya know the 3 we had time to take! :-p), at the hospital and coming home.

Chris is putting Tyler down and Quinn is alseep for now so I have a precious few minutes to blog. Things have been crazy here, but ya know, we just had a baby. Actually Quinn has been a breeze and leave Chris and I to keep wondering what was so hard to first time around. Of course, very soon she won’t sleep 18 hours a day and it will get more difficult.

Tandem Nursing
This has been interesting. The hardest part for me has been logistics and getting and keeping them in position. Tyler isn’t really that helpful with this part just yet. I don’t ALWAYS tandem nurse and if I am able to boob them one at a time – I prefer it. It is easier and really nice from a bonding perspective. Nightime is still the killer for me. I have only had one time so far where I had to tandem and it seemed damn near impossible although I was surprised that eventhough I was in an upright position, Tyler did roll off to the side and go back to sleep. It was stressful as I had two screaming kids for a minute.

Tyler’s Reaction
So far it comes out most in the nursing. Some may say – you should wean, but if I wasn’t still nursing him it WOULD be something else. This is a big change and he is going to have reactions to this change. He basically gets very insistent when he seens me nursing her saying “up” and “milk” and throws an immediate tantrum if he gets any indication that he can’t – even if I just ask for a moment to get situated. We are working on patience games – counting to 10 – and so on.

Riding the Big Boy Wave
This is what Chris is tryingt to do. We just got Tyler a booster seat so he could sit at the table and eat his food with us. He really likes it. Chris also just got him his very own potty.

He Used the Potty!
Before his bath tonight, he watched Chris use the bathroom and then Chris sat Tyler on his potty. He peed twice!! I couldn’t believe it! I think Chris is going to make it part of the bath routine that they each potty and then Tyler gets in the bath. Very exciting!!!!

Reflecting on it all
Thinking about the birth – it really was perfect. At some point I will get my birth story together. I have such a great memory and would do it again in a heartbeat. Quinn is absolutely exquiite. I am drinking up every moment I can with her as this will be our last child and I now know how fast they grow up. She is in that heavenly newborn stage and will be leaving it sooner than we know. I realize that I will soon be on my own with these two, God help me. I am going to try as hard as I can to go with the flow and just breathe. If there was ever a time to lower expectations, this is it. I already told Chris that the house is going to be a wreck for the next year. It will get easier, but for now I should try to enjoy what I can and not even think about prodiuctivity. I think for me, just having time to blog and chronicle this crazy journey will be enough.

I had better sign off as she may wake soon. My parents are gone now, but will be back Sunday. Good pratice for Chris and I. So far things are actually going pretty good. Of course, he isn’t working right now…but one step at a time.

I am working on the birth story and will post that soon. Chris is working on a site and pics and we will post that soon.

It was a wonderful birth and exactly what I had hoped for! She is a beautiful 7 pounds 10 ounces, 19 inches long and looks just like her Daddy. She is such a cutie!! She was born Friday, June 16th at 4:40pm.

The house has been buzzing as I had to get a newsletter finished that I was in the middle of (completed tonight – woohoo!) and we work on getting Tyler adjusted. He is doing really well, but his schedule is still way off from the weekend we were in the hospital.

I already have so many observations about being a parent for the second time and tandem nursing that I want to post. Eventually I will get stuff out here.

Just know that we are all doing really well. She is so wonderful and Tyler is being a wonderful big brother. I do hope to post more later. Until then – take care. I will post Chris’ site with pics as soon as it is up!

No contractions yet….. she may be here tonight!!!

Just been busy. Nested like crazy this weekend and I have been trying to finish this newsletter. Also, I have been putting Tyler down and he hasn’t been going to bed until like 9:30pm (Chris is reading him books right now.)

I have lots to blog about: our nesting weekend, more butt, loving books to name a few. Will try to post some pics, but as I said newsletter has to come first as it needs to be out before Quinn gets here and in time for the 4th of July. Deadlines…ug.

Anyway, just rest assured that I will blog if I am in labor. I will at least let you know I am in labor. The hospital has wi-fi, so Chris can take a laptop and post when we have the good news to share.

Alright, I think he is calling me now…. talk to you guys later!

We haven’t dealt with that in the longest time. Whatever it is/was – it isn’t something he has all the time. Maybe he just gets cedar fever like adults do? Dunno. I am pretty thankful and maybe in the end he won’t develop asthma. That would be nice as we are a pretty active family. Just thought I would mention as I haven’t updated on this in a while….

The other day I was in a pretty cranky mood and about to get Tyler lunch or a snack – I don’t remember. Anyway, he was playing with a Benadryl spray bottle and I decided he shouldn’t be. Anyway, being cranky, I snatched it right from him hand. Oh my god. The look on his face killed me. It was like “Mom?” He looked absolutely incredulous like he was trying to figure out what just happened. It curbed my icky mood immediately and I felt really bad about being so snappy.

The hardest part about being a Mom for me in controlling my anger and reactions. Every day I have to work on it – especially on those when I am tired. I don’t know that I will ever be “perfect” in the patience department, but it is days like these that really hit home and remind me to keep my cool and breathe before just reacting….

Had a doctor appointment today. I am 70% effaced and 1 cm dialeted. For those into technical stuff, when you are 100% effaced and 10 cm dialateed – the baby is coming out..someone catch!! Now all this stuff can happen over time (read: weeks) or all at once (like it did for me last time). My doctor said the baby is also much lower than last time. So I guess that false labor was doing something. We will see. Still no telling when she will get here. The only thing the exams are showing is that my body is slowly marching down the path to labor and birth….

I just need to get through this weekend…and I am so tired, but determined to accomplish a lot.