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Well we got home from the hospital yesterday and then Mason was up most of last night so I didn't get but a couple of hours sleep. Why is it that babies always have their days and nights so switched around?
Anyway, Ryan was a doll and let me sleep a lot today so that I will be ready for maybe a repeat of last night. Plus he knows from the last two that I get really weepy and messed up bad if I don't sleep after I come home from the hospital. He has been the best with helping me out - I don't know what I would do without him!!! It's nice to have him home for two weeks and he is even willing to stay home a little longer if I need him to. Yeah!

Now Ethan and Holly are loving having a new brother. I thought Holly would be the "mother" that she is with her dolls and she is but to a much lesser degree than I thought. But the big surprise is Ethan!! He just is the protector of his new brother. Mason so much as makes a face and Ethan is right there with the binky to sooth him. Ethan even told Holly yesterday that "Mason is my brother NOT yours!".

Well I should go and try to get some sleep while Mason is asleep. He is a great baby but just doesn't like to sleep at night, with out being held that is. Wish me luck!

He's Here!

Well, the little munchkin finally decided to arrive! Mason William John Granquist was born yesterday, August 28th, at 3:40 P.M. He weighed 7 lbs. 1 oz. and was 21 1/2 inches long. Strangely, he looks nothing like Ethan or Holly. He is rather well-tempered and quiet, just like his father. We went to the hospital at 7:30 A.M. yesterday and they started Barb. However, Mason was just unwilling to come until he wanted to.

Barb is doing well and dad is dealing with the Ethan and Holly and trying not to lose his temper. Holly keeps walking around the home whimpering "Mommy?". I'm thinking of sharing some of my Lunesta with them tonight. :)

Thanks for everybody's prayers and supprt.

Ultra Sound

I got a call from my mid-wives office at 9 am this morning to go in and have an ultra sound done at 11:30am. Well it was a scramble but we made it. My mid-wife wanted to get an weight on the baby to see how big he was I guess to make sure he wasn't getting too big because that is one of the concerns with gestational diabetes.

Everything looked good he is 7 lbs. 13 oz. , now so I'm sure by Tuesday he will be at least 8 lbs. which is not too big, thank goodness! We tried to get a picture with his face but he is facing my back all ready to be delivered so we just got pictures of his ear and arm, but he has LOTS of hair we could see it on the ultra sound so he will most likely be like his big brother. Ethan had tons of black hair when he was born.

Today is also Ryan's last day of work before he takes off for two weeks to help me with the baby and both the other kids. He is excited to have the time off but I got him to admit that he knows what I got through with the kids and is a little worried about going crazy. Oh well I will enjoy having him home.

Baby Update

Okay - this kid is already driving me crazy and he is not even born yet!!! He drops and then goes back up under my ribs. Other than being really uncomfortable it is bugging the heck out of me because my body is ready to deliver but he has to drop and stay dropped for us to make anymore progress.
At least my midwife still has me scheduled to be induced on Tuesday. She wants to get an ultra sound Monday to check on just how big he is but so far there is no open appointments for a ultra sound to be done. They said they would call me and let me know what they could work out. So I guess we just keep plugging along.
I am cleaning my house and getting every possible thing ready before hand so that is keeping me busy and making the time go by fast. I just hope I don't run out of things to do. I guess I could always reorganize under my bathroom and kitchen sinks, eh?
Just 5 more sleeps and counting....

The Sickness that is Star Wars

Ethan started getting into these Star Wars Galactic Heroes action figures a couple of years ago, much to his Dad's delight, then kind of got out of them for awhile. Now with the Lego Star Wars Video game that Ethan asks to play almost daily he has gotten back into his Star Wars figures. When he is not allowed to play Star Wars Lego the video games he plays "Star Wars Lego" with his action figures. He is playing, talking, or watching Star Wars ALL the time. The only time he is not is when I make him practice writing his letters and numbers and writing his name as a review before he goes back to school.

Ryan loves that Ethan is into Star Wars, he has even started looking for figures for him. I asked Ryan to find a couple of packages of figures for the baby to give to Ethan when he is born. We do that so that the kids don't feel left out with all the excitement surrounding the baby. Anyway Ryan has found some but keeps finding more and then ends up giving some to Ethan early. Ryan is as big of a kid when it comes to toys as Ethan is!

But now I'm getting some pay back. Ethan is so into Star Wars and talks constantly about it he is starting to drive his Dad crazy!! I so love just looking at Ryan and saying..."you created this monster, now you have to live with it!" Ryan was so excited to have someone to share this Star Wars sickness with and now he is having to deal with a taste of what his parents must have gone through when he was Ethan's age. Sweet revenge...

New Hair Cut

Wow - have we had a busy weekend! Holly did get her very first hair cut on Saturday. It's about time she is over two years old!! Anyway she put up a little bit of a fight before we even left but we had a talk about "just the girls" going to the "salon" and getting her a new hair cut to make her all "pretty". After that she was up for it. I could kick my self though because in all the hurry to get Holly ready and then getting her excited for a new hair cut I forgot my camera. Then I forgot I had a camera phone and didn't even take her picture with that. Duh!!! At least I got some pictures of her that night.

Holly was so good...she held still for the most part and it went fast because her hair is so fine and it's still coming in. She looks so much better and she likes it, she ran up to her Dad and said "hair cut - pretty!". Ryan made a big deal about it and Holly was so proud she smiled all day.

Well anyway I should get back to getting everything ready for this baby to come. We had dinner with our friends Jen and Craig and their family last night. We settled all the arrangements for Holly and Ethan to go to their house while we are at the hospital. Ethan is getting really excited and continues to ask how many more days till his baby brother will be here. Now we can at least tell him 8 more sleeps....

The Almost Death of Holly

Holly has been into everything lately. Today she claimed up onto the bathroom counter and figured out how to plug the sink and turn on the water, both of which she had not done before. She found playing in the water very fun and left Mommy with the mess.

We also, almost lost her today. I was taking some laundry down stairs and didn't hear anything because of the running water until I came out of our laundry room to hear blood curdling screams coming from the kids room. I ran upstairs to find Holly with the kids dresser pulled over and on top of her leg. One of the drawers was partly open so the full weight of the dresser wasn't on her leg, thank goodness. Talk about scared to death! I checked her out from head to toe and there are no broken bones, no blood, just a couple of scraps. We were very lucky!

I have no idea if she was on top of the dresser or she was opening all the drawers to climb up or what but I'm just so grateful that she wasn't crushed and/or killed by the whole thing. I have heard of kids being crushed by dressers falling on top of them and we almost became one of those stories today.

All is well for now but I don't know what to do with her. You would think that falling and being trapped under a dresser would have been enough of a scare for her today but NO... the moment I got the dresser back on its feet she was trying to climb right back up.

We will have to see what she gets into tomorrow...

Baby Update

I just go home from my doctor's appointment, and we have not made any progress since last week, we actually have gone backwards if that is possible. The little stinker decided to go back and got himself nice and comfy under my ribs!!! So I was a little disappointed, but I talked to my mid-wife and she looked at Ethan and Holly's records and we discovered that Ethan came on his own when I was 38 weeks and 3 days along, Holly came with very little help at 38 weeks and 4 days along so... I got my mid-wife to agree to start me on the 28th of August. I will be 38 weeks and 3 days along at that point and I can at least have a date to look forward too. Her nurse even called the hospital and "made an appointment" for me to go in an get started so, we have to be there at 7:30 am which is kind of early but I will be really ready by then.
I am trying to look at the bright side... this way we will be able to go down and see Ryan's Dad for his Birthday on the 25th, we don't have to deal with any surprises and have everything set up for Ethan and Holly to go and stay at our friends Jen & Craig (Thanks again). Hey the 28th is even a full moon!! The only down side is that is the day for Ethan's preschool open house to get him all registered for preschool. I'll have to see if we can go the day before but I'm sure it will work out.
So everyone mark your calendars, that is if I don't go sooner but with the way things work out for me it will be the 28th. Now I can just start counting the days...14 to go.