House Full of Boys!

BOY!!!! Yes we will be adding another boy to our family. We were a little surprised that again it is another boy, but we are still excited. I have to say I did shed a tear or two over it not being a girl (this is most likely our last baby) but I am grateful that we have been able to have children and 4 for that matter. Now we will start to think of names . . . any ideas??? For those who have girls - since I will now forever be surrounded by boys - please remember I will gladly borrow your daughters from time to time. :-) Also I have finally had to give up wearing my real clothes and have moved on to maternity clothes - at least they have gotten cuter over the years!!

Yesterday we took the boys to Dollywood. We have already been a couple of times this summer and since we had such a good time we decided to go for the day. Aidan has been in school for 3 weeks already and Adley in preschool for 2 weeks. We thought the boys deserved a little trip. The weather was great - although a little warm - but Dollywood has plenty of rides that you get wet on so that helped a lot. We discovered this time around that there are rides that Eli is big enough to ride on - so he enjoyed not having to sit in the stroller most of the day. Here are some pictures: Adley & Jared on mini roller coaster Me & Eli on the bee ride - not the easiest thing for an adult to get in and out of - I thought they might need to cut the bee to free me! The Little Pig Ride Carousel - round and round they go - I got dizzy just watching Eli laughing at the kids at the Dreamland Forest - a water play place for the kids Wet little birdies Lumberjack Lift Jared was quite tired after...

Recently the hospital that I work at has been trying to make the public aware that we do waterbirths. Since I have had 2 waterbirths - one with Adley and one with Eli - they asked if I would participate in the interview. So last week Eli and I went in for the interview with the local TV news people. It aired last night on our 5 o'clock news. I found it funny that they had me listed as a 'new mom'. Eli is 18mos old, and do the other 2 children not count? Eli was a trooper and just played with a box of crayons the whole time. I was bummed that my pictures didn't make it in the clip, but they just got sent back to my email today saying they couldn't be emailed to the address b/c they were too big. Oh well! I chose waterbirths after my difficult delivery with Aidan. I had pushed for nearly 3 hours and then they had to use the vacuum to get him out. He ended up a with a cephalahematoma from the vacuum, which stayed around for about 3 months. He still has a mor...