Tess fell asleep in her carseat at my sister's baby shower on Saturday and my cousin Sarah took some really cute pictures!!! I love them so much!!! Upcoming photoshoot??? I think so...

Home Again, Home Again...

Well it happened!!! We had Tess Thursday night, as planned...I will post the story and pictures...If you are a picture person and don't want the details, it won't hurt my feelings if you don't get down to the nitty gritty and read the details, as this post is for your enjoyment!!!

So I woke up Thursday morning with no contractions...None the entire week, in fact...I just felt "big" and pregnant and the same as the past few weeks...BUT we had a plan!!! Blake started a new job recently and we decided to work around his schedule...He works Monday through Thursday so we rescheduled my appointment to 3pm instead of 8am so he didn't have to miss a day...When the time rolled around, my mom and I headed over to Snowflake, along with Riley and Nanette, to get the party started!!! We dropped Nanette and Riley off at Jennie's and went to my appointment...Wendy (my midwife) checked me and said I was dilated 2 cm...Not what I hoped for, but I was not dilated with Riley at all and she still made it happen that time...She stripped my membranes and told me to call her at 6pm and let her know how things were going...We hoped for the best but planned on a long night because these things do take time...

We drove a few blocks to my Aunt Tricia's house to hang out and wait for Blake to arrive...He had to get off work and get his stuff packed and all that good stuff...Tricia and my mom were slave drivers and decided that I should walk up and down the stairs every few minutes because it might help things along...So I would walk up and down them four or five times every once in a while...I noticed that I started to have very mild contractions and they would progressively get stronger after every session with the stair master...This continued from around 3:30pm to 5:30...Blake arrived in Snowflake and we decided to time the contractions...They were 2 minutes apart and lasted around 1 minute each...I still wasn't concerned because they barely hurt...So 6pm rolled around and I called Wendy and let her know what was going on...She was at the hospital for another delivery so she told me to come on over and she would check me...Blake, my mom, and I got in the truck and drove over to Showlow...

By the time we got to the hospital the contractions were regular and hard enough that I had to breathe through them...I was taken to a delivery room and admitted around 7pm...Wendy checked me and I was dilated 8 cm so she decided to break my water...The contractions kept coming harder and closer together and we thought it probably wouldn't be too long...Well it wasn't too long at all...I started pushing just before 8pm and after three big pushes she was out at exactly 8pm!!! It was all so fast!!! The labor was really intense that last hour but it was so quick that I went natural again...Like I said, super intense but totally worth it!!!

Tess was 6 lbs and 7 oz, we all guessed what we thought she would weigh and I guessed the exact weight!!! She is 19 inches long...That was 2 inches shorter and almost 2 lbs lighter than Riley!!! No wonder it only took three pushes!!! She is so tiny and petite...

We got released yesterday morning and now we are home...Thank goodness!!! Not a big fan of staying in the hospital...

Now for the pictures!!!

Getting cleaned up...She looks just like Riley when he was born...

Hott mama HAHAHA!!!

Brand new big brother :) He just patted her head and said, "Beebee."

Snuggling with daddy...He just kept saying, "She is so precious!!!"

Sleeping in the hospital

Ready to go home!!!

TOMORROW!!!

Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya, tomorrow!!!

That would be because tomorrow I am gonna have me a baby...And let me tell you how super pumped I am to get my body back to normal...There are a million other reasons I am excited to have a baby that are much less selfish, but right now I just want to have my body back!!!

This week has been CRAZY to say the least...And it's only half over!!! My days lately have consisted of waking up, eating a bowl of cereal, and then homework, homework, and homework... I am totally getting the bad mom/wife award this week because I have been neglecting Riley and Blake in my attempt to get ahead in my classes so I can take a break for a couple of weeks to adjust to life with two kids...The sad thing is that I am only taking 12 credit hours, from a community college, no less...I have a friend taking 20 credit hours at a university...By the way, serious props to you, you know who you are :) What a woman!!!

Yesterday I did take a break from homework though...For about 4 hours I cooked and cooked and cooked some more so that I could have about two weeks worth of dinners in the freezer that can easily be thawed and heated and ready to go!!! It was a mental break but my back and legs were KILLING me after...

I have got to give credit to Blake for these last few weeks...He has listened to me whine about having so much to do and not enough time and has very cheerfully done every crazy random chore that I have asked, and let me tell you that is quite an accomplishment because I am CRAZY with nesting...Didn't get that at all with Riley and I am certainly making up for it with this one!!! Just imagine me at all hours of the night thinking up really stupid things to do, trying to do them and realizing that it is absurd to do those things at that time of night, and then resorting to sitting down and making a list of them to do first thing in the morning...What can I say??? I am insane...

Every time I start getting cranky and stressed because I feel like I have too much to do I have to remind myself that it is my own dang fault...No one forced me to get pregnant...teeheehee... Sorry about the inappropriate reference, I couldn't help it...Anyway...No one forced me to sign up for classes this semester...I knew what I was getting into when I made these decisions so I should just live one day at a time and do the best I can...Which is all that I CAN do I guess :)

So at 3:00pm tomorrow afternoon you can all stop what you are doing and think, "Martha is officially on her way to having another baby." Ok, so you don't need to do that and it was selfish of me to suggest...But be expecting a post soon about the arrival of Princess Tess!!!