Hello *wipes away cobwebs*

Anybody still here? *crickets*

Well I guess it's time for an update, since the last one was about 7 months ago... in December.  Yeah life got in the way.  I'm working full-time, I was doing school (didn't do so hot at that so it's on the back burner for now), juggling the house/relationship with A/running around after the two kids... but it's been all worth it :)

So I guess you'll want to know what's going on with the kids' lives. Right?

Lennon as one of her alter-egos, Grandma Riddle.

Lennon's been in pre-pre-kindergarten (redundant, I know) at a really great school my Grandpa found for her.  She loves it, I love it, her teachers are great.  We recently got an email that she's being bumped up to actual pre-kindergarten on August 4th... then after a year of that KINDERGARTEN!!!!  I'm totally not ready for her to go to public school, if it were possible I'd actually homeschool her.  She's about 42" tall and 38ish pounds (only 13 pounds heavier than Maddox !!).  When she's not at school she's either playing with her princess dolls and castle, or with Daddy and her Lego Movie legos.  She'll play with Maddox more now that he can actually interact with her toys, but I think she mostly does it because we ask her to.  She loves Frozen, The Lego Movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (if you ask her, Raphael is her favorite), cuddles, watermelon, and new clothes.

Hanging out in the rocking chairs at Cracker Barrel

Maddox is 9 months old now - and about the size of a small 2 year old.  No joke, the kid is in 2T size clothes now... I seriously missed out on the baby stage with this one.  He's going to be playing football by the time he turns 2, defensive line.  At his appointment last week he was 24 pounds and 30" long with a 19" head.  So he's big and full of brains.  He's crawling EVERYWHERE and pulling himself up onto everything.  We can't have him completely mobile in the living room so he runs amuck in his walker, which is fine b/c then he can't turn the Xbox on and off about a million and a half times.  He's decided that naps are lame and staying up until 8-9pm being a complete crabby patty is the bees knees.  We did baby-led solids, which is working out great since I don't have to feed him THEN myself (totally selfish, but the kid hated purees anyway) or the rest of the family.  So far he's had : steak, pot roast, green beans, potatoes, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, peas, lima beans, watermelon, chicken, taco meat, cheese, Cheerios, yogurt, popsicles, fudgesicles, turkey sandwich, cheese quesadilla, muffins, pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, and a ton of other foods he's sampled off my plate.

And the last update I'll leave y'all with...

I'm pregnant... again.  Hush hush, yeah it was totally unexpected - considering I didn't find out I was pregnant until I was 21 weeks along, thanks body - but it's welcome.  We've had time to adjust to the fact that we are adding another baby, another baby BOY in fact, to the circus.  I'm due at the end of September, and won't be releasing baby's name until then, so for now he shall be referred to as baby Tres :)

I'm completely miserable, have the WORST acid reflux I've had out of all 3 pregnancies, and I think this one just had a growth spurt b/c food is now a mortal enemy due to lack of room I've got going on.

But that's it for now, though I'd update all 6 of you who follow me on my life currently.

One Month!

You are one month old (as of Wednesday).  I can't believe it's already been that long since you made your grand debut into this crazy crazy world.  Daddy and I love you oh so much, even if you act like you barely tolerate either of us from time to time.

Here are some of your favorite things at the moment...
1. Sleeping on Mommy's chest
2. Watching the ceiling fan
3. Listening to the soundtrack to Assassin's Creed : Black Flag
4. Bathtime
5. Having your pants (and diaper) off
6. Your Wubbanub

And here are some of your least favorite things...
1. When the bottle can't connect with your mouth fast enough
2. When your pacifier falls out of your mouth
3. Having a dirty diaper
4. Being too hot
5. Being too cold
6. When bathtime is over
7. Daddy (this is what he says, I don't see it)

You are 11 pounds and 1 ounce, measure at 22.75 inches, and have a head circumference totaling 15.5 inches.  All in all you are a big, healthy boy.

He's here!!!!

Well... he got here Sunday, October 13th... it just took me this long to get around to posting my birth story online.  Who would have thought that chasing around a 4 year old while simultaneously breastfeeding a newborn would be such hard work?! (That sentence is DRIPPING with sarcasm by the way).

So on to the story, and at the end I'll post pictures for reading the novel ;)


On Sunday, the 13th of October, I went it work and felt off all morning; my stomach hurt and my back was killing me.  As soon as my co-worker came in to close I left to head home.  Around 230 I ate lunch, then went to unlock the front doors so my grandparents could come in and drop off Lennon.  I went to sit on the couch and sat weird on my foot, I heard a faint pop and then a rush of warm fluid hit me.  I jumped up just in time to avoid breaking my water on the couch and ran straight to the bathroom,  just as my grandparents showed up with Lennon.  Adrian met them at the door to tell them my water broke and that Leni had to go back with them since I was in labor ☺.  We said hi and bye to Leni and then headed to the hospital (after I changed out of my soaking wet jeans).

By 315 I was in a triage room and checked, 4cm and 90% effaced.  By 345 I was in my own delivery room and getting IV fluids.  At 430 I was at 5cm and still 90% and got my epidural... Which was amazing by the way.  Dad and Adrian kept making me laugh to keep my contractions going... Which surprisingly worked! At 630 I was checked again and was at 7cm so they turned up my pit (epidurals make my progress very slow).  By 800 I was at 9cm and 100%, and my epidural had worn off (Adrian says that he saw me accidentally tear it out of my back, when I was rotating from side to side).  At 850 I paged my OB and told her I had to push, now!  She checked me and I was at 10cm, 100%, and +2 station.
 
They quickly set up the room and got me into position to push.   I felt every-damn-thing as I pushed.  My OB stretched me with every push, I think she was using mineral oil.  I got to feel the top of his head as he was crowning, which made me even more determined to push him out faster.  15 minutes later, at 906 Mister Maddox James Dillie made his grand debut into the world weighing in at 9.8 pounds and 20" long.  I am still in shock I gave birth to an over 9 pound baby!

And onto the pics...

Baby Air Guitar

Squinty Eyes!

What's been going on around here lately...

So I've totally been neglecting this blog, it's hard to sit up anymore, and especially when I'm at home the laptop is at our dining room table and the chairs give me swamp ass in the summer... hot I know.

So I'm just nearing 36 weeks, and I've only had one trip to L&D this pregnancy.  On Wednesday I lost my mucous plug (and thought my waters were leaking) so I went in to get shit checked out.  I felt like a FTM all over again, we were there for maybe an hour and then was sent home.

I don't know what really to talk about - currently having some pretty strong (but irregular) contractions so here is a photo dump!

Rockin' Momma's sweet spectacles

Little Man's 3D ultrasound @ 33 weeks

Check out his chubby cheeks and little lips <3

Teaching young Grasshopper the way of the Pokemon

34 weeks, just about. 

Hossy bracelet from Wednesday.

Still contracting, and they are still irregular but getting a bit stronger.

Baby Shower : Little Man Edition

So for the record, my baby sister - Sabrina - rocks.  She planned and organized the whole thing and it kicked ass.  I had no clue what the theme was going to be, nothing really at all.  She kept the whole thing a secret and I was very pleasantly surprised.  I got NO pics of me - I was 27 weeks and hella sweaty/bloaty/gross feeling - so here's what I do have (which I snagged from my Dad's girlfriend Donna).

What's in a name?

Originally I wasn't going to plan on announcing Little Man's name here until his birth, but I am impatient... plus I announced it on Facebook earlier today (again, I didn't want either Adrian or I to announce it until his grand debut into this world) so the cat's already out of the bag.  It took us a LONG time to settle on a boy name that we both agreed with, it was easy to come up with a girl name that we both liked... but not this little dude.

So we are pleased to announce that his name is going to be...

Maddox means "good, generous".  His full name is going to be Maddox James D----- (I'm withholding Adrian's last name for protective measures).  James is for my father, grampy, and great-grandfather :)  I have two little rock stars now - Lennon and Maddox (I'm not sure if Maddox is a rock star's real name - first or last - but it sure sounds like it to me).


*Also I won this puzzle following the lovely Miss Holly over at Our Holly Days.  I had been waiting until we had chosen a name to order it, and I'm very impressed with how awesome of a name puzzle it is*