4 Days Old!

Daddy & Jack chilling out

From Aunt Randy & Uncle Pat

From Grammy & Papa Mike



From Daddy



Happy Valentine's Day

Opening her Valentines and candy from school



Getting ready to leave the hospital



Emme and Jerry checking out Jack




Sitting together in our matching seats



Today we came home from the hospital. Last night my parents went home. They were watching Emme for us all weekend and visiting with us at the hospital. So Paul had to go home and stay with Emme and I got to spend the entire night alone with Jack. Funny thing is he slept and I didn't! I don't know why but I couldn't sleep. Thank goodness for Jeanine's Ipad or I would've lost my mind. I bought a bunch of good stuff! I feel great and my incision doesn't hurt. Now I have to look forward to my staples coming out on Thursday and maybe I will be allowed to drive this weekend. I hate being cooped up in the house.

We picked Emme up from school on the way home and she was so excited to see her Baby Jackie in the car. She is having a little adjustment issue with me. She is very unsure of him, but she likes him so hopefully it will continue. As for potty training- she is in panties all day and a pull up at night. She refuses to wear pull ups for naps and said she will give all her old diapers to Jack. She has had a few accidents which is better than what we expected so far. She did pee all over the booth in Friendly's this weekend under my parents' watch! I felt bad for them. But other than that she had been good. Let's see if it continues.

All I Want for Christmas.....

is an Ipad. That is what Emme is requesting since she thinks she can watch Dora all day and play games if she gets one. I want one because I am too lazy to schlep down to the basement to fire up the PC. 

Baby Jack

Baby Jack is doing great. He is so alert and a good eater. I am up and getting around as much as possible. Incision doesn't hurt too much so I am not needing too much pain medicine which is nice. Emme is having a grand old time with my parents. She is being royally spoiled with special dinner and lunches out and she gets to spend most of the day at the hospital with me. This morning Paul took her to music class which she liked a lot and my mom stayed here with me at the hospital. Big shout out to Aunt Jeanine who lent me her Ipad so I could shop online for boy clothes and keep Emme entertained with netflix on demand videos of Dora!



What do you mean he is coming home with us?

 

I don't know about this!



It's A Boy!!!

 Jack Michael Quinn

Born February 11, 2011 at 8:10am

8lbs 6oz 20inches long

Jack entered the world this morning via c-section. We knew yesterday it was going to happen today but we decided to keep it our little secret until he got here. I went to the doctor yesterday and my blood pressure was very high and I still wasn't dilated or anything so they said I could wait until Monday (Valentine's Day) but I figured who would want a birthday on Valentine's Day so we opted for today 2/11/11. I was exactly 40 weeks and one day- the same as Emme. After the c- section it was revealed that the umbilical cord was very, very short which may have been why Jack never descended. Personally I think that it must be amazingly cozy in my womb because neither one of my children wanted to exit! If my blood pressure was ok the doctors were going to let me go another week to see if I dilated and went into labor but I am glad things worked out the way they did or I might've had a ten pound baby!

Jack Michael is amazingly perfect- long fingers and a head of hair. He looks incredibly similar to Emme when she was born. We are all doing great and Emme seems to really like her "Baby Jackie!" Hopefully that continues. Aside from hot flashes and severe itchiness ( both common for c-sectioners) I am doing well.

Music Together

So I was a little hesitant taking Emme to music class just 6 days before I was due so I enlisted Paul to come along since he might be bringing her some weeks after the baby was born. Plus it is a little difficult getting up and down and moving all around with Emme to the music. So we schlepped from Home Depot to music class and like every week Emme had a blast. She and Natalie have taken a few sessions together and it is so amazing to see each of them as the other one arrives to run and hug each other like they have been apart for ages. It is so adorable. They really are such good pals.

Home Depot Kids Workshops

 I love the Home Depot Kids Workshops. We came across it by accident in January when they had it. We were shopping for some tile and they had little tables set up and kids were making little battery holders. I asked Emme if she wanted to try it and we sat down and she really liked it. She was good at it too. She helped squeeze wood glue, place tiny nails in the holes and hammer the pieces together. This month I dragged Paul along to do the project with Emme. The two of them had a blast making a heart shelf. After completing the shelf each kid gets a certificate and a pin. Not all the kids get aprons they are usually raffled but they thought Emme was so good at making the project and for being so little they gave her one anyway!

                                                Oh and the best part about it is it is FREE!!!!!!!!!

Hammer time

Putting the pieces together

Finished project