How is this one?

Mad dash after Joey!

The girls

Plus one boy makes 3

Jumping fun

and of course a hug to re-energize.

Stay tuned…

Daddy helping Ben with his work gloves

Looking at the task at hand

Finding the perfect one

Joey, still looking for the right one

Got it!

Off to find more

stay tuned…..

Playing in the grass without a care in the world.

We finally made it to see and ride the little steamers last weekend. 

Ben was super tired because he was up at four in the morning (the night before) complaining of a sore throat.  It was the beginning of a cold that is just about ending now. 

Waiting on line…..

Daddy – trying to keep him occupied.

Watching all the trains go by…

Craig – Soon Ben soon…

Tired of waiting…

Finally – ALL ABOARD!

Father and son chuggin’ back.  (The engineer looks thrilled, right?)

OK, that was neat but I’m tired now and would like to go home.

Anyways, I’ve heard from several friends that it was a pretty cool place and it was.  It is all run by volunteers and a donation is all that is required.   The season is now over but keep the website faved for next year!

Well, my intentions to write every little detail about David have totally failed.  I wanted to keep everyone up to date but having a newborn in the house along with a 3.5 year old has been a bit challenging.  Millions of Moms have done it and I will do it too but right now I’m pretty tired and having trouble finding time to do anything computer related. 

The birth:  if I don’t mention the story now…..nobody will care anymore so here it is (the short short version):

My water broke at 3:05pm

Ben woke up at 3:06pm and said what is the matter Mommy?

Craig came home at 3:10pm

Ben greeted him at the door saying Mommy’s water broke.  He was like WHAT?

We called the Dr. who said make your way into the hospital (1 hour away).  I was feeling nothing at that time (3:15pm)

After I hung up – instantly my contractions started and they were 4min apart.  I was feeling lots now.  I managed to get into the car by 4:00pm

Arrived at Mom’s to drop off Ben and stuff at 4:30pm (contractions 2 minutes apart- agony).  Did a driveby.

Got on the highway and felt a need to push – HOLY SHIT!  How can I have this baby in the car!

Somehow, someway, Craig got us to the hospital even though I said numerous times to pull over. (thank God he didn’t)

Emergency room guy raced me into the hospital into some triage room because I was wailing, The baby is coming out!

I was on the table not 10 minutes…pushed three times and there popped out David.

Mind you, I am sparing you all the gory details.  Those close to me have gotten the phone call with those.

Ultimately, I had my natural birth, it lasted two hours.  David was born at 5:10pm.  I was happy as a clam and still am!

Happy and TIRED that is ; )

Have a great weekend!

Today the Monsta just seemed so HUGE. I’ve been holding this teeny weeny babe for 6 days now and when I look at Ben…he is a giant. He has such love for “his baby” that he smothers him with kisses and hugs. I love to see it. Today he held him and said that he was going to tell him a special bedtime story. It was about a giant who ate up something or other but all in all…it was precious. Ben is washing up here yet again to HOLD his baby. I adore them both!

David – 7lbs.

Thank you to everyone for the congratulations – we are trying to get some sort of routine going here…I will try to post as soon as I can.

xxo all of us