What an exciting day...

I've been begging baby #3 to hold off making his grand entrance until after Nate's party. So the night of Nate's party, I start having contractions. My contractions were every 5 minutes apart lasting 60 seconds long. That went on for two hours before I decide to call Kaiser. So at 2 in the morning, Erdy and I head off to Kaiser. The doctor examines me and I am only 2.5 cm dilated and 50% effaced. The doctor asked me to stay for two hours, hoping I will dilate more. No luck though so we got to go home. In a way, I was glad. I'm still not quite ready to have the baby. I'm hoping to stretch it out for another two weeks.

But if I had a labor scenario to choose from that would have been it. Labor started in the middle of the night when the two kids were asleep. It happened on the weekend and Erdy wasn't working. It would have been the perfect scenario. Oh well. Let's just hope I'm not stranded somewhere and my water breaks and I have to drive myself to the hospital and I don't have time for an epidural. That would be my worst nightmare.

Nate's 4th bday party celebrated early!

So Nathan celebrated his birthday a month early since baby #3 will arrive around his birthday. We didn't want to neglect his birthday so we decided to have his party at Lemo's Farm in Half Moon Bay. Nate's latest obsession are horses so it was appropriate to have a pony party. We had so much fun. It was so neat to see Nathan so excited about everything. The party package included our own private ponies with a cowboy, petting zoo, our own bounce house and unlimited train rides. What a treat for Nathan--his two favortie things...horses and trains!

Auntie Monica made a beautiful cake for Nathan--a complete barnyard with horses and cupcakes too! I'm still enjoying the barnyard made of a huge chocolate chip cookie...yum! I didn't think Nate will ever get off the pony. He eventually did and enjoyed the train ride and bounce house. Here's some pictures from his party...

1st week of maternity leave

Wow I made it through the first week of maternity leave. When I saw my doctor last week, she told me I was 1 cm dilated and may go into labor early. On Sunday night, I started to have contractions (stronger than previous contractions) and I really thought I was in labor. The good part is that it forced me to pack my hospital bag.

I had to make a deal with the baby. We are celebrating Nathan's party today (it's 2 in the morning and I can't sleep) and I wanted to be there for it so he has to wait until the party is over to make his grand entrance. And thankfully he is waiting...

I remember my pregnancy with Nathan...I was so anxious to meet him. I wanted him out as soon as it was safe for him to come out. With Noah, I was so uncomfortable because he was sitting on my sciatic nerve and it was so painful that I wanted him out. With our third baby, I'm hoping he'll wait a couple more weeks so I can fully rest (what does that mean?) and spend some time with the boys.

So how did I spent my first week off from work? I took the kids to several parks where they can play with water. They had so much fun. We went to the library during story time. I also took them to watch a movie. Every Wednesday during the summer, AMC is running a $1 special for the kid's movie. This week it was Shrek. It was Noah's first time in the theatre. He had fun! I couldn't believe how many kids were there! We ran a lot of errands buying all the stuff for the baby. We also bought Nate's uniform for school. I tried get a lot of things out of the way that will be hard to do with the new baby. Oh and of course, I tried to take it easy. I don't really know what it means to just relax and rest so Erdy has been on my back about it. He won't let me clean, wash the dishes, pick up the kids toys, etc. How nice huh! Don't worry, I'm milking it!

It's been so nice to sleep late and just sit and watch tv. My sister and I were getting a pedicure and I was telling them that it's great to sleep in until 7:30am. They just started laughing at me...they said you call that late!? I definitely think so! So one week down and 14 weeks to go! How nice!

Noah!

Noah is now two years old. He has reached many milestones. He is definitely a talker. First thing in the morning, you can hear him running down the hallway and when he sees you, he happily says good mornin'. Then a second later, he says he wants to eat. He even has special requests...usually he wants eggs, then a banana, then cereal...and he never really finishes. The boy loves to eat so feeding him is never an issue.

Noah loves music. He loves to sing and dance. Most mornings he walks around with his ukelele singing away. If it's not his ukelele, he is banging on his drums. He definitely can entertain you.

He took a parent tot class with my mom. He totally loved it. It was too cute to drop him off. As I pull out, I see him in my rear view mirror, waving at me, carrying his backpack. His teacher is amazed by how much he can say. I guess that's the advantage of having a big brother.

Noah totally looks up to Nathan. They are inseparable although they also love to fight. And now Nate can't bully Noah because Noah fights right back. Sometimes he even makes Nate cry.

Even though Noah is a toddler, I still think of him as a baby. He is so cuddly, always wants to hug or kiss me. And my heart melts when he says, I dub (love) you mommy!

Nathan!

Nathan will be four in August. It seems like it was just yesterday that we were rocking him to bed. Now he's an active and energetic little person. He finished a year of preschool already. He just loved it. His favorite part of the day was art work. Sometimes he would come home with a blob of paint of his shirt. One day he even painted his shoes!

He is obsessed with horses. I don't even know how many he has...way too much. He never seems to get tired with playing with them. It's so cute because he puts them on time out too. What an imagination!

When he's outside he loves to collect roly poly's. He also likes snails and spiders. Sometimes it's embarrassing because he knows to look for spiders at corners so when we go to someone's house, he goes over to the corner and gets excited when he sees spider webs! Of course, whoever's house it is, they get all embarassed that Nate has pointed out spider webs!

He will go to St. Cyprian starting next month. We just bought his school uniforms. Wow he's all grown up. See for yourself.

A lot has gone on...

I totally forgot that I even had this blogger. So much has gone on. Life has been a whirlwind. Here's where we are now....

Nathan will be 4 next month.
Noah is an energetic two year old.
And I'm pregnant with our 3rd son.

Yup you read that right. 3rd boy!!! Baby #3 has come to us by a total surprise. I must admit, I was devastated at first. We were at a point in our lives where we were deciding if our family was complete. Little did we know that was being answered for us. 2008 was suppose to be about me...i had it all planned...lose weight, work out more, have more me time...that's what i get for trying to plan. So baby #3 will arrive in 3 weeks or maybe less. He keeps wanting to make his grand entrance already and since I was never in control in the first place, I have given up trying. He'll come when he pleases...

I am very excited to meet him. I have been trying to enjoy every moment of my pregnancy, knowing this is my last. He has been pretty easy to carry although I have gestational diabetes. So I have had to control my cravings...watermelon and ice cream is all i think about. And my latest craving is krispy kreme donuts. Oh I can't wait to have one!

I will try to post more often now that I'm on maternity leave. It's been so nice to hang out with the two kids and not be in a rush all the time. So this is what it feels like to be a stay at home mom. I'm really liking it (I think because I know it's temporary).

Diabetic scare...

I promised the boys that I'd take them to Chuck E Cheese. So on Tuesday night, we went there for an hour. On the way home, Nate threw up. I thought that maybe he just gagged...nothing big. An hour later, he threw up again and he was burning up. He ended up staying home from school the next day. The two boys stayed home with my mom (lucky her!). In the middle of the day, my mom called me at work and told me that Nate was crying for me. She said that everytime he used the bathroom, he would start crying and saying "I want my mommy." It even made my mom cry because he was so sad. I rushed home and took him to the dr. He had a 103 fever. The dr. said that it was probably a virus but she would check his urine just in case. It turns out that the dr found glucose in his urine. So we're rushed to get his blood drawn and we had to wait for results. Nate did an amazing job getting his blood drawn. He watched the entire thing and he didn't even twitch or cry. The staff was amazed...he came out of the lab with 4 thomas stickers, a bandaid, 3 disney stickers and 2 suckers. I had to stop them from giving him everything. The dr met me in the waiting room and said that she is pretty sure that he has diabetes. I go in panic mode...he's only 3. He can't be diabetic. She informed me that they'll probably have to send us to Stanford that night. We wait and wait and wait. Meanwhile, I'm paceing. My heart is beating a mile a minute. I don't know what to do with myself. That's the worst feeling...that feeling of helplessness. The feeling that you can't make your child feel better. All sorts of things are going through my head...i'm imagining the worst case scenario. Finally, I see both his drs walking toward me. I'm ready to hear the bad news...at this point, I can't feel my legs. Then she says the magic words, "he's ok." It took me awhile to comprehend it. I asked to hear it again. I was in shock. His blood test all came out negative! They tried to explain to me what happened. I didn't care...all I needed to hear was that he was ok.

That night Nate was back to normal...he was eating and playing and singing....whatever it was...was gone. thank goodness. hope it doesn't come back!