Wyatt James has arrived!

Well my official due date was Sunday, July 24th. I had an appointment with my doctor on Thursday before and I was at 3 cm and 50% effaced. She was really hoping I went that weekend, but if not she wanted me back in the office Monday morning first thing so she could check him with ultrasound and see how we could progress things to get him here. Apparently you can no longer go over a week past your due date or they induce. I was very against inducing - the pitocin is a tough medicine for me, so I REALLY wanted to have him naturally if at all possible.

Here I am at 40 weeks with Wyatt.

When she checked me on Monday I was at 4-4.5 cm and she figured that I would have him soon, but if not we scheduled an induction for the following Monday. Monday I had taken Tucker and Jace to Mothers Day Out (not our normal day, but I had a free pass from prior days we had missed, so it was a good day for them to go since I had to go to the doctor). When I picked them up we went to eat an early dinner with my mom and dad, grandparents, and my aunt who drove in from Wisconsin the day before. We were celebrating my dad's 56th birthday. After we ate (around 5) I stood up and immediately had a contraction that stopped me in my tracks. Once it passed I got the boys to the car and we were headed home to get a change of clothes so we could drive out to the house and drop off dinner with Jonathan and show my aunt the house before she left on Tuesday. Well, I had two other contractions - one on the way home and one when I got to the house, and I knew that I shouldn't go anywhere, so I put my hospital bag in the car and Mrs. Pam happened to pull in the garage about the time we were loading up to go. I told her that I was having contractions and she suggested maybe I didn't go out to the land. I called Jonathan and he agreed. I left the boys downstairs with her and got in the tub to soak (right around 6 pm) because my contractions were about 10-11 minutes apart and didn't seem to be slowing down, but the water helped with the pain.  I got out when I realized they were close to 8 minutes apart and texted Jonathan that he should probably start loading up and head this way. These were different than the other two and I just wasn't quite sure what to think. Well he flew home (literally), jumped in the shower really quick, and by that time my contractions were about 4 1/2 minutes apart. We left for Methodist Germantown around 7:45 and by the time we got to the hospital my contractions were less than 3 minutes apart - some were 2, others were 2 1/2 minutes, but not much breathing room and it was full on back labor. I've never had back labor with the others, so I had no idea what to expect, but it's NO FUN. I seriously wouldn't wish that on ANYONE.

When we got to the hospital, Jonathan got me a wheelchair and a nurse who was leaving was kind enough to wheel me into check in. I tried to tell her my info but all I could say is I think I need to push....so they rushed me back and right before they were taking me Jonathan thankfully walked in and we were off to the room immediately. The nurses were quick and very kind to help me, and gave me a gown, even though it took me forever to get it on bc my contractions were so close together at that point I didn't have a break. They made me sit there for 20 minutes as part of the monitoring they had to do on Wyatt before they could let me get up. I BEGGED for them to let me do the intermittent and if I could get up and not have to sit in the bed - I kept telling Jonathan that if I had to stay in the bed I couldn't do it. I HAD TO GET UP. As soon as they realized that I was already at 6 cm when I got there, they called the Doctor on call (of course my doctor wasn't on call til the next morning), and it was Doctor Monroe. She was there very quickly and was like a cheerleader, so excited I was going natural and kept telling me I could do it. When she arrived I was at 8cm and she broke my water. I asked if I could get in the shower and she agreed. That was the most relief I had the entire labor. It was INTENSE and the water was wonderful to help with the contractions. I sat in the shower for about 15 minutes, but then Jonathan was pretty sure I needed to get back in the bed because we were afraid he was close to making his appearance. Within about 10 minutes of getting back Dr Monroe came in and just sat down on the bed with me and said "we are going to just go ahead and deliver him right here so you don't have to move." Within 3 pushes he made his arrival at 9:52pm- July 25th (on my dad's birthday!).

I was so thankful for a staff who was quick and didn't think I was playing around when we arrived. Once they had taken care of all the checking out of Wyatt and all was calm again, I nursed Wyatt while Jonathan went to the waiting room and brought back Tucker - I had no idea he was actually there until after I had Wyatt. My mom had asked about it, but I didn't want them to be waiting in the waiting room and being rowdy for hours on end, so I just figured that they would be better to go on to bed and see him in the morning. My sister-in-law, Sarah, was kind enough to go to the house so that she could stay with them and my in-laws could come to the hospital. Jonathan told her to go ahead and bring Tucker if he wanted to come because he knew that it wouldn't be long. Apparently they arrived right after he did, so there wasn't too much waiting Tucker had to do. Jace, on the other hand just wanted to go to bed....my typical expectation - the home body!

Tucker was BEYOND excited that Wyatt was finally here. Jonathan said that he ran and jumped into his arms when he walked out and was squeezing him so tight he couldn't pull him off! He was so thrilled to meet him and was SO SO proud. Brings tears to my eyes just thinking about how sweet (and very different) this go around has been.

So excited to see his daddy

Telling him all about how excited he is and can't wait to meet Wyatt...

Proud big brother right there!

After Tucker got to come back into the room, everyone else in the waiting room came back - my parents, Jonathan's parents and brother and sister in law, and then my aunt arrived just a few minutes later. It was a big old party for sure.

Grandparents in waiting room:

Wyatt and my dad now share a birthday :) 

Once my hour of being in the room post delivery was up, they took us to a room to stay in the rest of our visit - that was about 11:15 when we arrived there. We finally got to bed around 2 am that night. It was a long night, but so wonderful and we are so blessed to have three healthy and happy little boys. I'm so excited to see how God knits their hearts together over the years. I'm praying they have an unbreakable bond between the three of them.

The boys came to visit the next morning - Jace was excited to see him, and seems much more happy about him than I had expected. 

I had shirts made from a friend in my life group at church - the boys are big into Ninga Turtles right now - even though they have NEVER seen it on TV or anywhere else - Tucker has friends who told him about them, so now he likes them .... All that to say I had shirts made up for them with ninja masks - Tucker's was blue, Jace's was orange, and Wyatt's was red. They turned out so cute!

Happy to see my boys for sure!

An attempt at a family picture...

This was Wednesday morning while we were waiting to be discharged. Look at those fat cheeks... oh I could eat him up!

Mrs. Pam and the boys made a sign for Wyatt's coming home....Tucker drew each of us and wrote our names, and also there's a horse and a cowboy, Jace drew Nemo and helped color the top. Love their sweet efforts! 

The boys have been at MDO and staying with my mom Thursday and Friday so I could have a little recovery time. It's been a great few days home but I'm ready for us all to be together. Jonathan is on call starting today through next Thursday, so it should be interesting, but I've got plenty of help. Thankful we are still here :) 

Good morning world!

Our Building progress - June 2016

So I have been talking about building, but haven't shown the house we are building! We found it online and actually searched for about 8 months before finalizing the house we wanted. We knew that we wanted large porches, enough bedrooms for each of the boys, an open concept, and separate closets in the master. We chose the Whitfield from architectural designs.

We made a few changes to make it ours, and we are so excited to watch the process! There was only one closet so we tweeted that, we added 18 inches in the master bedroom/eating area off the back of the house, a full bathroom in the garage, a large pantry for all the canning to be in one place (hallelujah!), shortened the garage from a 3 car to two car, eliminated a few windows,  If we are in by Christmas I will be thrilled!! 

June 1st our slab was completely finished and ready to start with the framing! Lumber was also delivered and then the rain came and poured that night.

Framing started June 6th...

June 7th - The Golding's all came out to check out the progress :) 

My two fearless men.

Checking out the plans.

Tucker decided it would be fun to shimmy up those boards on the side of the house but then realized he would have to get down....daddy to the rescue.

June 9th - They had completed framing downstairs and the boys are standing in their rooms - they were getting pretty excited!

June 13th - It's starting to look like a house! Mr Mike came out and helped Jonathan figure out where they are going to place our HVAC units and where it will all be piped. It's starting to feel real now!

Standing above the boy's rooms upstairs and deciding where to put the upstairs unit...

Jonathan decided it's the perfect spot to shoot deer from...Just kidding! He will be in a real deer stand...

View of the garage - this is where we will actually pull up to each time we come home.

Bones of the front coming along!

June 15th - They completely finished closing it in. We have walls around the outside of the house! What?? Seemed so fast!

Garage...

Side view - from the master side

Back porch area

Looking into the master bedroom/bathroom

From the corner of our room - looking into both our closets and the den.

Den and kitchen area

Bathroom in garage

My kitchen - it's L shaped and I'll have an island...

Bonus Room - won't be finished before we move in, but hopefully not too long after we can conquer this room.

Papaw let Tucker stand on roof outside his room. Makes me a nervous wreck.

Fireplace all the way up...

Boys being daddy's big helper cleaning everything up on Saturday (June 18th)

Jonathan writing our scriptures we picked out around the house. - Great Father's Day project - June 19th!

Windows and a few doors have officially arrived and ready to be put in.

View from Master bedroom into master bathroom

They started on the wrapping (for pre-brick) and put down felt for the roof June 20th

June 23rd - Start of the well being put in. They broke something on their truck while trying to dig, so they had to wait and finish the next day, but we saw them working on it. Boys loved watching them.

 Saturday, June 25th, they completed the wrapping yesterday, windows and doors are in, and all the felt is on the roof, ready for shingles!

This is the bonus area upstairs, you can see Jonathan and Jace standing in Tucker's future room.

Checking out the view from the roof, of course.

Thursday, June 23rd: They put down protective flooring over our concrete (we are staining it at the end), and Tucker was running an extension cord for Jonathan to start laying flooring for the air conditioning units in the attic. We bought about 12 sheets of ply wood for the units/storage in the attic to go ahead and be placed before sheetrock so it was easier to get it all in.

Tired boy getting a break from cleaning up outside and cooling off - June 25th.

Monday, June 27th - we had a crew of men working this week to get in our units, and run all the duct work for our heat/air. Jonathan works for his dad and that is what they do for a living, so it only makes sense that we would do our own. My job has been to feed everyone. You can see it rained Monday, so my dad met me at the car and carried in the pizzas for me. Our crew has varied a bit each day, but it has been Jonathan, Mr. Mike, my dad, Jonathan's brother, David, Andrew Mathis, Tim Pearson has also helped this weekend, and of course Tucker and Jace :). They have worked TIRELESSLY all week - working a minimum of about 5-8 hours each night. I know they are all exhausted. So thankful for their commitment to get this duct work completed before baby Wyatt makes his appearance. 

Tucker working hard...

Running hard duct in the attic

Papaw and Andrew getting things ready...

Tucker taking advantage of the fan while the guys are working. The plumbers are almost completely finished roughing everything in, and our tubs have been installed! The electrician has started running wires and hopefully they will be done by next week so we can pick out lights before Wyatt arrives!

We are going on a month and a half of progress (two weeks we were held up because of rain), and I feel like a whole lot of progress has been made! Excited to see when we actually make it in the house. They told us 3-4 months tops, that would be May 15th starting and September 15th moving in....I'm not holding my breath, but it's definitely chugging along!