Baby Brother is Here!

Ty David Judi was born Thursday, July 9th at 8:46 pm. He was 7 lbs, 7 oz, and 19 inches long.
I went in for my doctor appointment on Thursday afternoon at 3:10 hoping that maybe my doctor would induce me the next day before she went on vacation for two weeks. I was a little skeptical whether she'd do it or not since I was almost 38 weeks.

Anyway...I ended up being dilated to a 3 or a 4 so my doctor had me check in to labor & delivery. Everything went really fast, but turned out well. Dave took care of the kids and made it to the hospital before anything happened. I got an epidural and it worked! My doctor made it to the hospital before Ty was born.

Ty is a perfect, healthy baby and I am feeling pretty good too. We came home on Saturday. I enjoyed my two day vacation in the hospital. :)

Here are some pics to enjoy:

Me and Ty a few hours after he was born (it was late -- I know I look lovely)

The next morning when the kids came to see the baby

Saturday morning with Grandma -- waiting for the doctor to show up to discharge us so we could go home

Marianne drove down by herself on Friday and is helping Dave with the kids. Sweet lady!

Ty -- 4 days old

Thanks everyone for the well wishes! We are doing great and enjoying little brother!

More Bike Riding Fun...

The other day Dave took the training wheels off of Jack's bike and this is what happened...

Swimming

We've been going to the pool pretty much every day. It's been amazing to see the kids' improvement.

Jack went from not wanting to get in the water to swimming around in the deep end and "bumping " off the side (sliding into the water with his tube on).

Kate went from barely putting her head under the water to this...

I didn't want to get in the deep end (I did last week and it was really uncomfortable since the water was so deep), so I sat on the edge and held onto the noodle so Kate could grab onto it if she couldn't make it to the edge. She's quite the little swimmer now!

Oops, sorry Jack!

I was just viewing old posts with Jack and realized that I never posted pictures of his actual birthday this year. I got overwhelmed with our vacation pictures from right after his birthday and never posted them. You can click here to see them.

Happy 4th!

Happy 4th of July! We had a great day yesterday. The kids rode their bikes in a little children's parade, I got to work on my bike decorating skills, the kids went to a little carnival, then we came home and it rained and made everything nice and cool. Here are some pictures.

Jack on his big boy bike -- his helmet fits better if he wears a hat too, otherwise he can't see. (It kind of looks like I'm holding a blue balloon in front of my stomach, but unfortunately it really is just my stomach.)

Kate did great riding her bike amidst all the people. I think she was a little annoyed that Dave and I walked in the parade too. She wanted us to watch.

The kids participated in a three-legged race. They did a great job! Jack only fell down a few times and they actually finished.

After the parade we came home and put together the bunk beds. I think they look great and I love that the kids' room isn't so crammed with stuff now.

And the kids wanted a picture of them in their new beds.