Our Baby Boy is Here!

On July 20th, @ 4:22pm our little bundle of joy arrived. E.J. (not putting his full name on-line- sorry). He weighs 10lbs 4 oz and was 21 inches long. He is a big boy and we love every square inch of him. He is quite the little chunk and usually content. But, he does fuss when hungry (etc. etc.) What I love about him is while he is sleeping he coos and whines. It is very cute. (These aren't my favorite pictures, but we can't get any of the others off my camera tonight).

We made it home around 7pm today. My adventure at the hospital included laying on the couch in the hospital room and wishing to die (had the 24 hour flu?!?!?) I didn't even know if I was going to be able to drive my wife and newborn home. I slept for almost 12 hours straight. I feel so bad that I wasn't able to help my wife when she really needed it. I did get us home safely, and I am almost feeling like a real person again. Still a little dizzy, but no nausea (YEA!). I have only got to hold our baby once since I haven't felt well, and I am really ready to love him, but I will wait.

It's funny (almost) how my life always has to have an adventure attached to every event that happens. When we left, our daughter was sick. While we were gone, our oldest got it and then our baby (at the time) boy got it. I have had it. Our middle child informed us "I am not getting sick!", and I hope that that is true. Thankfully we have some wonderful grandparents that have really earned the title this week. My wife's mother is staying until Thursday. I am so thankful. My mom watched the kids on Monday, bless her heart. What wonderful people. Love both you ladies!

It strange to hear the infant cries in our home again, especially knowing that this will be our last child. That is a whole other post on its own. I think that due to tired children that have missed their mommy and daddy I will sign off for the night and give them my attention. I am sure there will be many, many posts to come in coming weeks!

Later...

Pink Eye, the Flu, and School, Oh My!

OK, so can you say WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!?!?!?

Really, to have pink eye was bad enough for 5 days, but yesterday I came home from church not feeling very good. MY stomach hurt and I was a little dizzy. No big deal right? WRONG! I spent the day on my bed wishing to die. The flu is not my idea of fun, compound that with the stress of having to read a ga-zillion pages a week for my classes, and you get a lot more stress.

The classes are going okay. I got my first paper back today. I got an A on it! Yippee! Now I feel a little more confident in starting on the multiple other papers that are going to start coming due (next week is when the papers will start being due EVERY week!) While it is a stretch for me to read and synthesize all this material, I know that it is helping to build my understanding of the world of education and exactly what all that means. At least that is the hope.

I did wake up this morning and go for a short walk. I wasn't feeling 100% better, but I was tired of laying in bed. I got home in time to water the garden, roses and front flower beds before my wife left to go to her exercise group. While she was gone the kids and I walked to the post office and back home. (A whole two blocks- but nice with the smaller kids).

We hung out outside for an hour or so while I read. For lunch we headed down to the city park. The school is running a summer lunch program. Kids 18 and younger eat for free Monday-Friday. Pretty nice. My wife and I took our own lunch and ate it while the kids ate (adults have to pay around $3.00 for the school lunch).

We came home and I read some more. I still have to 30 page articles I have to read before class tomorrow. I will tackle one more today, and the other probably in the morning after my walk. I still have a huge book I have to read and write a 7 page paper on. YUCKY! Well, I guess I best get back to work on other things. This is my 199 post! I can't believe that. It has been less than 1 year since I started blogging. That is crazy to me as well. I love sharing what is going on in my life with my readers.

Later...