Surprise!

About a week after bringing Judah home, Gatsby our tiny cat, went crazy. It was the middle of the night and she got under the covers on our bed and was meowing constantly. Luke put her outside because we were both sleep deprived and listening to a cat all night was not an option. The next morning she knocked a pile of blankets out of our hall linen closet. As I was cleaning it up she kept meowing at me and pawing the drawer. I pulled it open and Suprise! there was a kitten!

The kitten (we think it's a boy) is super cute and Eden LOVES it! She stops and waves and says hi about 1,000 times a day. I think they will be bff soon....

2 more weeks....

I have 2 weeks left of maternity leave, and I don't think I will be able to go back. There are three big issues that are getting in the way:

1. I've gotten used to sleeping in. Eden, Judah and I all sleep in until 8:30 or 9 every day. Which means that I don't go to bed until 10:30 or 11 (after Judah eats) at night. I don't know if I will be able to make it through a work day if I have to get up at 7 after being up to feed Judah at night...I think its time for all of us to have an earlier bed time. Sad day...

2. I don't want to drop my babies off with someone else. We are super lucky and we have a great lady from church who will watch them AND Luke and I have worked out our schedules so we only have to drop them off on Thursdays! Yeah! But I still would love to stay with them all day.

3. I can't wear sweatpants at work. This is really worrying me, I mean staying up at night worrying me. Before this maternity leave I would get dressed in jeans as soon as I woke up, otherwise I would spend the day laying around. I guess I associated sweatpants with being sick and lazy or something. Now I change back into sweatpants as soon as I get home! This might have something to do with my regular jeans not quite fitting comfortably yet, but I have really gotten used to it. I don't know if I can go back to wearing jeans for more than 1 hour at a time. I might have to wean myself off of all day sweats!

Its been so great to be at home with Eden and Judah and I am so blessed to have a job that I love and that is SUPER flexible...and maybe not wearing sweats 24-7 will be good...

Our Big Helper

Eden is taking her new role as big sister very seriously and has been such a help with Judah. She brings him diapers and wipes when its time for a diaper change, she brings him his pacifier, she sometimes throws away diapers and she even got his hat off of the back porch the other day. She also gets her own diapers for diaper changes, brings her cup to the fridge when she wants more milk, and helps feed sprocket in the mornings. She loves to clean things with wipes including her mouth!

Sometimes, though, she gets a little confused. She might steal Judah's pacifier after giving it to him so that she can have a turn. She tries to help me load the dishwasher but so far has only loaded it with clean dishes from the utensil drawer or clothes.

She also tried to feed sprocket but I guess she forgot where his food was, so her animal crackers were the next best choice. I think sprocket was fine with changing things up...he got the whole bag!

The Apple Orchard

This weekend we had so much fun going to an apple orchard with Rachel and Harper. The weather was perfect...sunny and about 65.

We got to see some goats. Eden loved them and kept trying to say goats (go, go).

There was also a hay maze. Harper went right in and Eden had fun trying to find her.

We wore Judah out with all of the excitement! We had a great time and got some yummy kettle corn, apple cider donuts, and some really juicy apples. We all had a nice time getting out of the house too!

Judah Rune is Here!

A month before Judah's due date, the doctor told us that he would most likely come early. Because I was induced with Eden, I had no idea what real contractions felt like (I didn't even have braxton hicks contractions with her) so we spent a month waiting and wondering. Earlier this summer we had talked about wanting him to come on the 25th or the 1st so that it would be easier to remember his birthday (I am horrible with numbers). I guess he was listening, and so October 1st he finally came! I started having contractions the night before (during the office). They started to get pretty intense around 1:30 am and by the time we got the the hospital around 2:30 they were minutes apart and painful. We had an amazing nurse who rushed to get me the epidural, which I got just in time. We then waited around and Judah decided he was ready to come around 6:45. It took a little longer than Eden because he was facing the wrong direction, which meant no cone head baby for us! He was born around 7:15 and was 8 pounds 4 ounces and 21 inches.
Eden came to meet him later that morning and she has been the sweetest big sister since the minute she saw him! She tries to share everything with him (food, toys, her milk) and even hands us wipes when we change his diaper. When we brought him home she showed him all of her favorite toys! So sweet...

I think us being gone for 2 days was harder for her than us bringing home a new baby. We are loving watching her interact with him and we can't wait for him to get older!
I just know that the minute I post this, my luck will change, but so far Judah has been the best baby! He sleeps 3 1/2 hours at night and falls right back to sleep. During the day he hangs out from around 8-10 and again in the evening from 7-9, and he naps during Eden's nap. He mostly grunts unless he is really upset, which isn't often. He is so sweet and it feels like he has been around forever. I, of course, am excited for him to start to sleep even longer at night, but since Eden got up every 2 hours for her first few weeks, I can't complain!

The Waiting Game

We are in that weird in between time of waiting for baby #2 to arrive. We are trying to spend time doing fun things with Eden before we get stuck in the house with a new baby and a Minnesota winter, but I'm feeling so pregnant that I'm pretty worthless! We did make it to the state fair for a few hours, which was great. Eden LOVED the cookies and had as much fun people watching as we did!

She also really liked the goats, but she was a little bothered by all of the chickens stuck in the cages. There is a bookstore that has little chickens that run around and I think she felt bad for all of the chickens stuck in tiny cages. Plus they were pretty loud and stinky, so that didn't help!

She had her first bus ride, which was pretty exciting. We took a shuttle to the fair grounds and she spent the whole ride back flirting with the boy in front of us. He was probably 15, but she wasn't intimidated by the difference in age. She even played hard to get....I think Luke started to get worried about her future. Good thing she will have a brother to protect her soon!

Ric's Wedding

(This was the best picture we got...)

Last weekend we got to be a part of something we thought we may never see. Ric McBath get married. It was a short and sweet wedding and we were lucky that there was a crib in the church. Eden sat through about 3 minutes of the ceremony and then took a nap in the nursery.

We got to see a lot of friends from college and Luke had fun with all of the groomsmen. Eden made friends with Aidan during the reception...he is the son of friends from college. Its weird to see our kids playing together! We also got to visit a park that was just Eden's size. She could get to the slides without our help and she loved being so independent.

We took a trip to York 4 weeks before Eden was due, so this our last road trip as a family of 3. Baby boy seems to be doing just fine...he is measuring right where he should be and the doctor thinks he may come a few days early. He is still really active and my rib cage is starting to hurt, so I'm fine with him coming whenever he is ready!