It's a Boy!!!

Collin Wayne was born Wednesday January 21, 2009 at 1:08pm.

The end is near

Last week I went in for my weekly doctors appointment, my doctor was not available that day so I saw the mid wife that she works with. She was checking on the postition of the baby, and could not tell if he was head down so she sent me in for a fourth ultrasound. Turns out Collin is in the correct position, so no worries, but they are estimating he is about 9.8 pounds, AHHHHHHHHHH. So I now have an appointment next week to be induced. They will not induce me until I am 39 weeks so I wait while this baby gets bigger every day. On the plus side at my appointment this week I was already 2 cm dilated, without feeling any contractions. I am hoping to gain 3 or 4 more cm before I go to be induced so that it will be a quick labor once again. I am praying that he stops gaining weight and that he stays under 10 lbs. 9.15 maybe, 10 no way. I have already started losing my baby weight. While Collin gets bigger, I get smaller. Over the last two weeks I have lost 5 lbs. How, I don't know, I am less active, and eating about the same. It is truly a mystery.

Happy Birthday

Madison had her second birthday on Monday. We started the celebration a little early, on Sunday she got her new big girl bed. She has adjusted very well to her new found Independence. That first night it took 45 minutes to get her to sleep, the second night it was about 30, and last night about 15. We have found that putting the gate in front of her door helps a lot, she can get out of bed, but not roam the house.
Madison was excited to get into her new bed.






Madison fell asleep that first night with every blanket she could find.



I also made her a new blanket and matching pillow case for her new bed. The blanket will definitely be big enough for a few years.




The pillow case is make from the same soft fluffy material that is on the back of the blanket.



We didn't do anything fancy this year, just the three of us for dinner, cake, and root beer floats(a first for Madison).
She was very eager to get to her cake.

I got up at 7:30 Christmas morning to make breakfast while Wayne and Madison stayed in bed asleep. About 8:30 I went to wake them up to eat. I had used my beautiful Christmas dishes I got the year before, so we could have a nice Christmas breakfast (which was always the big Christmas meal growing up).



It looks like we had a lot of presents under the tree, but in reality only about 10 made it under. The tree was so low to the ground no more presents would fit under.
The beautiful rocking horse was Wayne's when he was a child. His grandpa made it for him and his brother. Wayne and his brother then had a bet going that who ever became a father first got the rocking horse, and obviously we won. Wayne then spent many hours sanding and fixing the horse so that it would be able to be used again.
Madison absolutely loves it, I have issues with how big it is. It is so huge and we have no space.



When Madison walked in she went right up to the chair threw off the two DVDs that were placed on it and sat down, she definitely likes her new chair.



Madison had a great time opening her presents, this year she knew exactly what to do.



At times it was just as much fun to play with the unopend present as it was to play with an opend one.

Counting

A couple of days ago Madison way playing a counting game online that teaches numbers up to twenty. She was doing very well repeating all the numbers while playing. That night while taking her bath she started counting on her own. It sounded a bit like this: two, three, four, three, four, five, four, three, three, three, three, three, SEVEN!! That was after only half an hour, imagine what she could do with a little more time. Even now as I am writing this Madison is on my lap counting, two, nine, ten, two, nine, ten, two, nine, ten. She is so smart.

We went to Disneyland on Saturday, I had two comp tickets that were about to expire. Madison loved it. She got to meet all the princesses, and even got a private meet and greet with Aurora and Cinderella. Aurora was one of my really good friends, and was very excited to see us.
We went on Pirates of the Caribbean, which Madison loved. My dare devil girl loved the drops and wanted to do it again.
With Madison and my big belly there wasn't a whole lot to do, but we enjoyed a couple of rides, some shows, and the atmosphere. We were only there for part of the day, but it was fun to go back and see so many friends.





We just started unpacking our christmas things so Madison decided she was going to wear her santa hat.

I had a doctors appointment yesterday, so Madison did not get her normal nap. Around 5:oo she was playing with the dvds and got so tired she fell asleep right where she was. Lucky for her I was cleaning out my room so all my pillows and bedding were right in front of the dvds.