A Coffee

Parker is obsessed with Gramma's iced coffee's, and says it so funny. Apparently drinking coffee gives him a more sophisticated voice.

Jaundice

We had Hudson's first pediatrician appointment on Thursday. He is doing great, gaining some of his weight back. But, my mom had noticed that he was a little yellow/orange. I asked the pediatrician about it, and she didn't think he looked too bad... but had us go to Sierra Vista to get a bilirubin count. We got a call around 8:00 that night saying that his levels were pretty high and to go to the pediatric ward immediately so they could put him under the lights to bring his levels down. We had to stay there overnight, and in the morning found out his numbers went way down, and we got to go home. I was so relieved we didn't have to stay two nights... that was the worst nights sleep I've ever had!
We go back tomorrow to have his number rechecked, so please pray that it has stayed down, and we are done with hospitals!

Here is our little blue light special, as daddy called him :)
He does look pretty darn cute, though.

Rockin out to Raffi

This is what Parker was doing while we were in the hospital. :)

Hudson's Birth

Uh, mom... I think you're ready to push

Our little unexpected surprise :)

Thursday afternoon I went to my 36 week appointment. Everything looked good, but I was only 50% effaced and 0cm dilated. My doctor joked about seeing me the following week because it didn't look like anything would be happening anytime soon.

We were staying at my parents' house that night because I had to take Garrett to his appointment for his elbow, and we had to leave at 5:30 in the morning, so we wanted Parker to be able to sleep in and wake up at Gramma and Papa's.

Fast forward to 2:30 a.m. I rolled over in bed, and felt something wet (I immediately thought to myself "oh cool, Ashlee, you peed your pants). I went to the bathroom to go pee, but I didn't have to. All of a sudden I kept feeling little gushes of water come out. I was thinking that it couldn't be my water that broke, because it's too early. So I just stood around for a while, and more and more and more kept coming. I woke Garrett up and told him my water had broken, and he jumped out of bed. I went upstairs to tell my mom **by the way, sorry about your new towel I sacrificed!** and she didn't believe me. I had to show her my puddles to prove it.

We got to the hospital around 4:00 and I was checked a couple hours later. I was about 4cm dilated by then. I asked for an epidural... which I do not remember hurting so bad by the way! A couple hours later I wasn't having very strong contractions, so they started me on pitocin. They checked me around 4:15, and I was only at a 5. We figured we would be there all night waiting. But I started feeling some pressure shortly after that, and another nurse came in and said she wanted to check me because she saw a significant change on my monitor. I was fully dilated!! They called my doctor, and had me do 2 practice pushes and then told me to stop because his head was right there. I pushed one more time, and his head came out... and then once more and he was completely out! Hudson was born at 4:45 p.m. It went SO fast! I didn't tear this time, which has made my recovery so much easier.

I was asking the nurses and my doctor what normally happens with 36 week old babies since they aren't considered full term till 37 weeks. They said he would have a higher risk of going to the NICU if his lungs weren't strong enough, or if he couldn't eat very well.
I was worried and shaking a lot because I just couldn't handle seeing another one of my babies getting taken to the NICU and not being able to come home with me. Luckily he was evaluated by the head of NICU in our room, and she decided he was just fine :)
He has very strong lungs, and is an awesome eater! My lactation consultant said he was the best eater she had seen in a long time, and much better than most full term babies.

We are in love with this little guy... and so is his big brother. Parker always comes in and says "Hudson. kiss?" It's so sweet.

We are very tired, but it is so worth the love of two little boys.

We are in mommy and daddy heaven.

Hudson Oliver Loughran

Hudson Oliver Loughran
July 31, 2009
4:45 pm
6lb 8oz
20 inches long

Welcome to the world, sweet boy!

I will try to post his birth story soon... I'm having too much fun to put him down for that long right now though. :)

Disregard that last post...

MY WATER JUST BROKE!!!!!!!

Here comes Hudson :)

My poor (big) baby

Garrett had his post op appointment on Monday for his second surgery. His doctor decided that it would be best to put him under general anesthesia and manipulate his arm... then send him to physical therapy right after (while anesthesia is still in his system).
He will be very sore, but hopefully not in much pain.

So, that's what we're doing tomorrow. At 6 a.m. Garrett will be put under, and have his poor elbow manipulated so that hopefully he can get more range of motion in it.

Please pray that everything goes well, and this is hopefully the last time he will need to have anesthesia (have I mentioned it SCARES me??).

I want him to be able to hold our boys in his arms, and give us hugs without any pain.

Counting: Part II

This video is SO much better! :)

Counting

Okay, I've been trying to get this for a while on video, but *somebody* wants to just look at themselves on the camera :) So, here is the best we can do. He knows more of his numbers, but as you can see, he was a little distracted. Still cute though.
Oh, and he's saying he wants to see Parker. I love the way he says his name.

After Nap Cuteness

Daddy took some cute pictures of bedhead Parker after his nap yesterday. This boy would live outside if we let him!

Parker's new friend "fwock"

Parker Loughran... put that beer down!