We've been home from the hospital for a week, and Quin is eight days old today. It seems like time is flying for me; I'm already starting to have trouble remembering when I didn't have two little boys to take care of!
Quin had his first doctor's appointment yesterday. He weighed in at 6 lbs 5 oz (5 oz over his birth weight) and the doctor was pretty pleased by that. We also had his circumcision done yesterday - poor little guy! I feel guilty at times that we circ our boys, but at the same time, I've seen enough research to convince me that there is a medical reason for it, and besides, the agreement I have with Garry is that he makes those decisions for our boys, while I can make body modification decisions for any girls that we might have (earrings and the like).
Scooter went to daycare for a little while yesterday while we were at the doctor's office and seemed to have fun. I think getting him back into daycare next week will be a really good thing for him; he misses his friends and the routine will really help him out - he's one of those kids that just does better when he has a routine to follow. Plus I do better when I have a routine, so it should work out well for all of us. I can have some time to spend with Quin alone, and Scooter will have his friends in the mornings. Not to mention it's good practice for when I go back to work in January! We're seeing some increased separation anxiety with Scooter, and I would hate to keep him home with me non-stop until January, only to have to essentially throw him back into daycare again, with all the anxiety and misery that entails.
I'm doing well, all things considered. Pretty moody, but so far nothing more than the baby blues, I think. I'm watching myself pretty closely for signs of PPD since I'm so high risk for it, and so far all symptoms have been really transitory and easily resolved by taking a 5 minute timeout for myself. When the 5 minute timeouts stop working, I'll be calling the doctor to request some meds, since that's the first sign of a problem for me. Hopefully that won't happen, but I'm pretty well prepared for it, since I needed meds after Scooter was born to help control my moods.
Nursing is going awesome this time around! Scooter is starting to show a little interest in what I'm doing when I feed Quin, and I'm wondering if he will decide that he wants to try too. We'll handle that when it happens, I suppose. He doesn't seem to mind too much when I'm nursing Quin, so that at least is a good thing for us.
Quin will be waking up any time for a feed and a change, so I'm off to get ready for that! More pictures to come as soon as I get them downloaded from the camera!
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Introducing Quinlan VanRanseler (aka Thumper!)
Well, it's official - Quinlan VanRanseler was born at 4:25 am, Monday, October 22! We came home from the hospital today and are getting our bearings as a family of 4 plus 1 dog. Quin's delivery was probably the easiest I could have imagined; he was born 13 hours after my water broke and only needed two good pushes! He weighed 6 pounds even and was 19 inches long.
We don't have too many pictures yet, but will be added more in the next few days. Here are a couple to tide everyone over for the time being.
More later - off to take a nap while both boys are sleeping!
We don't have too many pictures yet, but will be added more in the next few days. Here are a couple to tide everyone over for the time being.
More later - off to take a nap while both boys are sleeping!
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Oops
I just realized that I haven't written anything in what feels like forever, so I figured I should probably update a little. I'm really trying to remember to keep up with this, and sadly I'm more consistent with this than I have been with other journals.
I'll be 38 weeks pregnant tomorrow - my God, where has the time gone? I feel like I just found out I was pregnant a couple of weeks ago! I can't believe that within a month I'll have a new baby boy - I'm both excited and terrified! Thumper is rolling around like crazy; he's so much more active than Scooter ever was! We have our next appointment tomorrow, at which point we'll find out whether I'm making any progress towards having this little guy. Part of me hopes that I'll have made some progress, and part of me doesn't want to spend the next few weeks in an agony of when like I was with Scooter. Nothing like spending three weeks in labour and progressing and hearing, "Any day now!" from the doctor, and then... nothing. I'd almost rather not have progress and then just suddenly go into labour, and be pleasantly surprised!
Scooter is doing well overall. He's moved his bedtime later; instead of going to bed by 6:30 he's insisting on staying up until 7:30-8, which is fun since I get to see him and spend time with him in the evenings, but the mornings currently suck! He's a little grouch every morning and doesn't want to get up/get dressed/go to daycare. Apparently he's fine once he gets to daycare, but it's a battle every morning now to get him ready. We still aren't very verbal yet, although I think it's really more of a choice on his part rather than an inability to talk. After all, why talk when you can point and shriek to get what you want? It's getting frustrating for all of us, and I'm hoping that he decides to start talking soon. It would be a nice change from the shrieking that we get from him right now when he wants to communicate.
The biggest news in our house is Carla moving out. She has decided to get a house with her boyfriend, and she will be moving the week before the 1st most likely. She's already begun to pack her things. Luckily most of what is in the house and in use belongs to Garry and I - 90% of the kitchen things, those sorts of things. We did go out Monday evening and buy new furniture, which will be delivered on Saturday - I'm excited to get it! I love getting new furniture! We still need to find a small breakfast table, and eventually we'll need to furnish the spare bedroom, but we've made a start on things. There are some other little things we need to buy to replace what she's taking with her when she moves, but not much. We'll miss having her around, but it's really for the best and time to part ways, I think. It was getting too stressful between all of us, the dog, the cat, and with Thumper almost here, it's a good time. We're currently working to cut our household expenses as the majority of my maternity leave will be unpaid, but otherwise not much will actually change, I don't think. Our little family's routine will largely stay exactly the same as it is.
Okay, once again, I'm rambling! I'm going to try and post a few new pictures this weekend, probably a belly picture and some of the new furniture and of Scooter.
I'll be 38 weeks pregnant tomorrow - my God, where has the time gone? I feel like I just found out I was pregnant a couple of weeks ago! I can't believe that within a month I'll have a new baby boy - I'm both excited and terrified! Thumper is rolling around like crazy; he's so much more active than Scooter ever was! We have our next appointment tomorrow, at which point we'll find out whether I'm making any progress towards having this little guy. Part of me hopes that I'll have made some progress, and part of me doesn't want to spend the next few weeks in an agony of when like I was with Scooter. Nothing like spending three weeks in labour and progressing and hearing, "Any day now!" from the doctor, and then... nothing. I'd almost rather not have progress and then just suddenly go into labour, and be pleasantly surprised!
Scooter is doing well overall. He's moved his bedtime later; instead of going to bed by 6:30 he's insisting on staying up until 7:30-8, which is fun since I get to see him and spend time with him in the evenings, but the mornings currently suck! He's a little grouch every morning and doesn't want to get up/get dressed/go to daycare. Apparently he's fine once he gets to daycare, but it's a battle every morning now to get him ready. We still aren't very verbal yet, although I think it's really more of a choice on his part rather than an inability to talk. After all, why talk when you can point and shriek to get what you want? It's getting frustrating for all of us, and I'm hoping that he decides to start talking soon. It would be a nice change from the shrieking that we get from him right now when he wants to communicate.
The biggest news in our house is Carla moving out. She has decided to get a house with her boyfriend, and she will be moving the week before the 1st most likely. She's already begun to pack her things. Luckily most of what is in the house and in use belongs to Garry and I - 90% of the kitchen things, those sorts of things. We did go out Monday evening and buy new furniture, which will be delivered on Saturday - I'm excited to get it! I love getting new furniture! We still need to find a small breakfast table, and eventually we'll need to furnish the spare bedroom, but we've made a start on things. There are some other little things we need to buy to replace what she's taking with her when she moves, but not much. We'll miss having her around, but it's really for the best and time to part ways, I think. It was getting too stressful between all of us, the dog, the cat, and with Thumper almost here, it's a good time. We're currently working to cut our household expenses as the majority of my maternity leave will be unpaid, but otherwise not much will actually change, I don't think. Our little family's routine will largely stay exactly the same as it is.
Okay, once again, I'm rambling! I'm going to try and post a few new pictures this weekend, probably a belly picture and some of the new furniture and of Scooter.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Friends
Two weeks ago one of my closest friends moved away. The weekend before she left, she and her kids were over for a playdate, and I took some pictures of everyone.
The boys:
The girls:
And what has to be one of my favorite pictures of a little girl:
The boys:
The girls:
And what has to be one of my favorite pictures of a little girl:
Sunday, September 23, 2007
First trip to the Zoo!
Scooter got to take his first trip to the zoo yesterday. We were originally going to take him to the Scottish festival, but the weather was hot and we decided that we really weren't up for a day spent in the heat an hour from home. So, it was the zoo instead.
Pink Flamingos:
Children's Farms (he LOVED getting to pet the animals!):
Reptile house - yes, his favorite thing was the rattlesnake...
Scooter and Mommy:
So tired:
Pink Flamingos:
Children's Farms (he LOVED getting to pet the animals!):
Reptile house - yes, his favorite thing was the rattlesnake...
Scooter and Mommy:
So tired:
Friday, September 21, 2007
Pictures
Early morning light is the most amazing thing!
On the swingset:
Mommy and me:
Daddy and me:
Say Cheese!:
Peekaboo with toast:
On the swingset:
Mommy and me:
Daddy and me:
Say Cheese!:
Peekaboo with toast:
Insomnia
It's 4:15 am on a Friday morning and I'm wide awake. I woke up to Thumper kicking me like crazy and couldn't get back to sleep again, so here I am, on the computer, surfing the internet. I would love to go back to sleep again, but since the alarm is going off in about half an hour anyway, and I would be up in the next hour or so, I don't see much point. I figure I might as well stay up.
We got Scooter's hair cut yesterday for the first time. No pictures yet, but I'm planning on taking some tonight after work and adding those here if I can manage to get a few good ones. It's a little shorter in the front than we were wanting, but very cute. He has his 18 month appointment at the doctor's today - I'm looking forward to seeing how much he's grown in the last three months! He's almost outgrown all his summer clothes, so I'm guessing he's at least gotten taller, and he feels like he's put some weight on, although as I get more and more pregnant, it could just be something as simple as I'm less able to carry him!
Tomorrow will be fun but busy - we're headed to the Scottish festival and Highland Games about an hour north of here. We took Scooter last year, and even at 6 months he was utterly fascinated by the pipes and drums. This year I'm sure he'll be even more interested, given his love of music. We're talking about taking Doc along with us; I need to double check and make sure they allow pets on leashes to go. I can't wait - they have a stall that sells the most amazing meat pies that remind me of my childhood and I've been craving them since last year's festival!
Garry is working insane hours lately. This week has been decent, but he'll be going into work on Sunday and staying late most of the week next week and probably the week after. The good news is things should really slow down again after the first week of October and stay that way for a while. I'm really hoping that's the case, as it's getting harder to get around and chase Scooter. I honestly can't believe that in 5 weeks or so we'll have another little man around this house - I'm outnumbered in a big way!
This seems to have turned into a ramble, so I think I'm going to wrap it up for now and go find more pictures to add on here. We've taken some lately that I want to show off.
We got Scooter's hair cut yesterday for the first time. No pictures yet, but I'm planning on taking some tonight after work and adding those here if I can manage to get a few good ones. It's a little shorter in the front than we were wanting, but very cute. He has his 18 month appointment at the doctor's today - I'm looking forward to seeing how much he's grown in the last three months! He's almost outgrown all his summer clothes, so I'm guessing he's at least gotten taller, and he feels like he's put some weight on, although as I get more and more pregnant, it could just be something as simple as I'm less able to carry him!
Tomorrow will be fun but busy - we're headed to the Scottish festival and Highland Games about an hour north of here. We took Scooter last year, and even at 6 months he was utterly fascinated by the pipes and drums. This year I'm sure he'll be even more interested, given his love of music. We're talking about taking Doc along with us; I need to double check and make sure they allow pets on leashes to go. I can't wait - they have a stall that sells the most amazing meat pies that remind me of my childhood and I've been craving them since last year's festival!
Garry is working insane hours lately. This week has been decent, but he'll be going into work on Sunday and staying late most of the week next week and probably the week after. The good news is things should really slow down again after the first week of October and stay that way for a while. I'm really hoping that's the case, as it's getting harder to get around and chase Scooter. I honestly can't believe that in 5 weeks or so we'll have another little man around this house - I'm outnumbered in a big way!
This seems to have turned into a ramble, so I think I'm going to wrap it up for now and go find more pictures to add on here. We've taken some lately that I want to show off.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Life with a puppy
So it's been about 4 days since we got Doc, and life has been interesting since then. He's been wonderful; Scooter wakes up in the morning yelling for him now instead of me. I've apparently been replaced in my son's affections by a dog. Getting out of the house yesterday morning to go to work was an interesting experience - Scooter wanted to stay home with Doc, Doc wanted to leave with us... yeah, it was a little stressful. It gave me a nice preview of what it's going to be like to try and get going in the mornings with two kids, at least!
It's still too early in the morning to do much writing and I need to get ready for work before I get Scooter up. I'm hoping to get some more pictures posted this week, though.
It's still too early in the morning to do much writing and I need to get ready for work before I get Scooter up. I'm hoping to get some more pictures posted this week, though.
Monday, September 3, 2007
Long time no blog
I looked at the calendar today and realized that I haven't added anything new in the last 2 months - oops! Here's a picture of Scooter and his new dog Doc:
And a little video of them together in the car on the way home:
I'll try to be a little more diligent about keeping this updated.
And a little video of them together in the car on the way home:
I'll try to be a little more diligent about keeping this updated.
Friday, June 1, 2007
The water baby
I have a new favorite picture of Scooter... it was almost an accidental picture and I'm still working on figuring out how I managed to take it.
And since I can't just post one picture, I thought I'd post a few more of them from our evening in the yard with the water hose! If you can't tell, Scooter loves water!
And since I can't just post one picture, I thought I'd post a few more of them from our evening in the yard with the water hose! If you can't tell, Scooter loves water!
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