Finally a Christmas post!

Bert and I decided to keep it pretty simple this year 1.) Building the house ate up a lot of money and 2.) the boys are still to young to really get the concept of it.  Just cause we kept it simple doesn't mean everyone else did.

We decided to host Bert's side of the family Christmas this year and let me tell you it was a lot of work.  Now that we finally have a house big enough to hold everyone I guess he wanted to kind of show it off.  Bert wanted to do the traditional turkey and ham and all the sides.  I made 2nd turkey on Thanksgiving and let me tell you that was the best thing I had ever ate.  I have never been a fan of turkey but let me tell you I am now.  So I got to make another one for Christmas.  Between cooking and feeding and tending the boys and trying to get my house in order to have people over I was pooped by the end of the day.  But everything turned out great and we loved the company.  The boys got quiet a bit from all of them so we enjoyed playing a little bit.  

Christmas Day

Next was Christmas day morning with the boys.  Brody really started to get into it with opening presents and all so it was fun to watch.  I got him a Jake and the Never Land Pirates tent and tunnel with a ball pit on the end and he loves that thing.  We can't hardly keep him out.  After presents and stockings I made a big breakfast and we spent the rest of the morning playing.  

After lunch and nap we went to my parents house for Christmas and let me tell you it looked like Toy's R Us exploded in my moms living room.  She way over did it this year but it was a lot of fun seeing the kids get all of there stuff.  Owen just kind of sat back and watched while the other 4 went crazy.  Now it looks like a tornado in my house so sometime this weekend I will be sorting through toys. 

We have one more this coming Saturday and then we are done.

Family pics!

All of November we had to reschedule family pics due to Bert working or Brody being sick.  Finally we had a day.  Last minute Bert gets called out to work and it's a big job that he couldn't turn down.  Me and the boys ended up doing pictures and my mom came to help me.  Needless to say it was pretty much a disaster since Brody hates listening to me.  His daddy is the only one that can get him to act right.  Jennifer was nice enough to get us in Sunday morning to try again with daddy this time and it went much better.  Here are a few!

On a schedule!

Brody was pretty easy to get on a schedule and so far this one is taking the same path as his brother.  I honestly believe a good schedule is the way to go.  Some people think I'm crazy for sticking with it so strictly and some people agree with me.  Here is Owen's schedule right now.

3:00 am - 5oz bottle

6:00 am - 5oz bottle

9:00 am - 5 oz bottle 

12: pm - 5oz bottle

3:00 pm - 5 oz bottle

6:00 pm - 5 oz bottle

Every other night bath

7:00 pm - get dressed and lotioned up for bed

7:30 pm- small bedtime bottle

8:00 pm - bedtime and sleeps until his 3am bottle.

We do sometimes get a little off on the weekend it just depends on if he wants to sleep in or not.  As far as naps he will stay awake between some feedings or take short naps.  Naps aren't scheduled yet but, hopefully, they will be soon :)  When I went back and looked at Brody's stuff Owen seems to be following along pretty well.  When I look at everything Owen is technically sleeping through the night already.  I think 5 hours is considered sleeping through the night and we have a 7 hour stretch at first.  I guess if I put him to bed at 10 or 11 he would sleep until 6 but I don't want a baby that stays up late so 8:00 pm it is!  I need some me time before I lay down which usually involves cleaning up the kitchen from supper and washing bottles.  

Owen is such a good baby.  After being home a few weeks he started to get colicky.  It really got bad at night and we would be up until midnight and even after getting him to sleep he would only stay down for about and hour or 2.  It was pretty bad.  After getting tips from all my mommy friends I decided to try 2 things at a time.  They fist thing I did was switch bottles and bought this black tar stuff called colic calm.  The first nigh was already 60% better.  The second night 100% better.  I think just switching bottles did the trick cause we don't even use colic calm anymore.  One night I tried going back to Dr. Brown bottles cause the drop ins are just a pain in the butt and I won't be trying that anytime soon.  He was pretty fussy.  I couldn't believe that just switching bottles up would do that.  

Ever since then I have had one happy baby :)  A couple weeks ago he started smiling and now he is giggling and all.  He is always so happy and hardly ever fussy.  Brody was never that happy of a baby.  We could always get him to smile but he would go right back to fussing every time.  Owen does have his moments in the evenings but it's just right before bedtime.  I try to make sure he stays awake after we get home and he is always tired cause he doesn't sleep much at day care.  I just love being with my boys and maybe we will try again to see if I can get my little girl.  Pretty sure I will be blessed with all boys but I do want to try :)

Here are some pics of my boys!

 

 

Baby Skoruppa # 2.....

is another boy!!!  Owen David Skoruppa!!

 Ok I am way behind so bare with me as I catch you all up on everything.  I will start with the birth of my precious baby! 

Owen David was born on October 16th at 1:24pm.  Here is his birth story along with his birth weight story.  My repeat c-section was scheduled for 11:00 am that day.  Of course they are always behind scheduled so we had to wait a little bit.  I was getting nervous about the c-section but it wasn't bad since I have already been through it.  The anesthesiologist came in several times giving me more meds.  At one time she came back and added some stuff to my IV and I had to drink some really nasty stuff.  Whatever that woman gave me made me totally freak out.  I started shaking and all I kept telling Bert was to get me out of there that I couldn't have this baby and I was dead serious.  I don't know what came over me.  After about 10 minutes I all of a sudden started calming down again.  Shortly after there was another round of meds.  They pumped me so full of fluids that Bert said my face just swelled up.  Mind you I didn't gain much weight with this pregnancy.  I think it was maybe around 19 or 20 lbs.  With Brody I had gained I think 34lbs.  Then before I knew it they were wheeling me to the OR.  Maybe it's just me but there sure does seem to be a lot of people in the OR room.  Maybe it's a good thing they drug you up a little before you go in cause if they didn't I would probably feel a lot more uncomfortable.  Then in walks Dr. Cook :)  I just love me Dr!!!  He comes and ask how I'm doing and then I notice my husband still isn't in there which is weird cause when Dr. Cook comes in the baby is usually out in 5 minutes.  So I asked where he was and he was just standing right outside the door.  A few minutes later Bert is standing up to tell me that it was another BOY!!!  Dr. Cook held him up and said "Dusty you have another 8lber here"!  I just have big babies!  When they went to weigh him the scale said 7lbs 14oz.  Even the person weighing him let the scale clear out and redid it cause they didn't think it was right either but it came up the same.  They got me all cleaned up and then off to recovery I went.  I never got sick after Brody but with this one they couldn't hardly move the bed.  Finally we made it to the room.  Mom and Dory were there with all the kids including Brody.  Brody wasn't to happy but I think he was just tired that day.  And now that I'm typing this we never took a family pic in the hospital.  Needless to say they didn't stay very long but I was so happy to see my big boy :)  Owen was totally different from Brody since the beginning.  Owen was so wide awake and alert already in the hospital and that child came out making noises and grunting.  He still grunts all the time and in his sleep.  It's so cute and I can finally sleep through it.  Brody slept most of the time and I don't think we even saw his eyes the first week.  Anyways back to my little Owie.  He was just perfect!  Had perfect skin, dark hair and the cutest little nose ever!  We ended up letting him go back and forth to the nursery so I could get some sleep and the hospital stay was far better than last time. They were literally in and out of our room every hour last time even at night.  This time maybe every 3 hours and some of the times I just dozed right back off while they were checking all my vitals.  The first night we had a wonderful nurse (they were really all great) and at one point she came to take Owen to take him back and check him out.  When she came back with him she said his blood sugar was kind of low and they kind of wanted to keep an eye on it and I also heard her say he was 8lbs 6oz???  What??  He was only 7lbs 14oz at birth.  So the next day Bert went across the street to get us sandwiches from the little shop and he runs into Dr. Cook at the elevators and tells him about the weight and he said I knew that boy was bigger.  Then a lady walks around the corner and Dr. Cook started getting on her about the scales in the room and how they have been wrong and needed to get fixed.  So he had our birth paperwork fixed and all.  By the next day I was ready to go home.  I felt good and had been walking around the halls and showering and just wanted to get out.  When the Dr. made the rounds that morning Dr. Cook didn't come but one of the other new ones.  She said I had to stay one more day but I'm pretty sure I would of gone crazy.  About 2ish Bert had to get out so he went for a walk and ran into Dr. Cook again and told him we wanted out.  He asked how I was and called up right away to have the ped look over Owen and if he was ok to release so was I.  By 3:30 we were on our way home!  Here are a few pics of little Owie at the hospital!