Father's Day

Steve got to celebrate the day by taking Kyla and Johnny to church, by himself... He said it went ok thanks to our friends, Thanks Mari! I managed to get a nap in and dinner made in the 3 hours they were gone. Here is Ky's favorite part... the broccoli. She always asks for it in the store, almost as many times as she asks for treats. Yeah for our good eater!




And here is our copy cat, he isn't really into the veggies but a chance to be silly and copy Kyla can't be passed up. I think he must of got some broccoli down before spitting it out...




I put Kyla's hair in braids for the first time. She thought it was SOOOO cool! We overheard her tell Johnny she couldn't play a game because she wanted to keep her "brains" nice for church... LOL!

More Leo

LEO

Here he is!! One day old and won our hearts already!



Proud Daddy! Or is that a nervous daddy... probably both.



Going home.



"I love baby Leo!"



Doesn't matter what it is as long as it is WITH baby Leo. Look at those brothers, can you say mischief?!!!



Big sister, big helper! Ky has been so great helping with Leo, she loves it!



And again WITH baby Leo.

SURPRISE!!!

So who knew... the flu induces labor...
The punch line is that our beautiful baby boy, Leo Oliver Seamons, was born 3 weeks early on June 10th. Weighing in at 8 lbs. 2 oz. and 20.5 inches long.
The long story is that we had the flu at our house, Ky Sunday night then Johnny and I Tuesday night, why do kids always get sick in the middle of the night?! It was a fast working bug, 12 hours of the sickies and then back to normal. Except for those who are 37 weeks pregnant and really dehydrated after 12 hours of fluids going out and none going in... Contractions started around 3 pm, after a half hour of telling myself it wasn't real then another half hour of trying to track down someone to tell me they weren't real I gave in and called my dr., you know what he said... "hospital." The good thing is that Steve had stayed home from work to take care of us so when the word came down he was already there packing bags and calling neighbors to watch the kids. We did have a plan of who to take them to but they are in Colorado this week, didn't think 3 weeks before my due date there would be a problem with that... We got the kids to friends and us to the hospital by 4:30. I was in a bed and hooked to monitors and an IV faster than my flu induced stupor could keep up with. The IV is usually the WORST part of labor for me, crazy I know, but the threat of an IV could be the best birth control for me. But this one was in so fast, I could have kissed the nurse! My dr came to check things out and decided that this was the real thing, baby was coming one way or another. He was concerned I may have to have a C-section because the stress the baby was under. Thankfully the IV fluids did the trick and 5 hours later we had our healthy baby Leo. He came even faster than Johnny. We were all super surprised but very very thankful!
We are home now being taken care of by Steve's parents and are doing great! Kyla and Johnny love the new baby! When we got home Ky ran to the car to greet us and asked, "where's the baby?!" first thing, forget that I hadn't seen her in two days, (also thanks to the flu, no kids allowed in the maternity wing...). At least Johnny had an excited "Mommy!!" and a hug for me before Leo stole his attention. :) When Johnny had his turn to hold Leo he said, "I love baby Leo." It was so cute!! Now he is always checking to see if he is awake, he really wants to play with him, and whenever Leo makes any noise Johnny wants to know what and why. Kyla is being an awesome big sis, she loves to hold him and wants to help take care of him.
I have about a million pictures of Leo, next post I will put some up. He really is a cutie, but then I am biased...

"undone" and back again

So we got our room finished 2 weeks ago, enjoyed it for 4 days, decided to not pass up the free carpet offer we got and took it apart again... It was suppose to be for a day, pull out all the furniture take out the carpet Thursday night and have new carpet Friday morning. Well it rained and I guess you can't lay carpet in the rain. It was kind of bad timing, Friday before Memorial day... They told us they couldn't come until the next Wednesday. UGH!!! The only major problem was that we hadn't planned on this being long term so I stuffed the laundry room full... which meant no access to the washer and dryer... forget that our kitchen had a computer desk in it and the living room was stuffed full, when everyone in the family started to run out of underoos that is when this mommy started to lose it. Wednesday morning came and "the carpet guy" called to say he couldn't come until Friday! I cried, Steve called someone else and the long story short is that we finally got our carpet in Friday night. (crying and calling someone else didn't really speed the process much...) After a Saturday of cleaning we are back to done... again. It is nice to have carpet done and not have that hanging over our heads "to do sometime" and with the extra couple days without carpet, Steve put in the tile for the new door entry and under the fireplace. SO it really is great that it is done but it took a tole on me, which means the whole family had a rough week... :)