The Holidays Are Here!!!

I just wanted to say to everyone how stoked I am about Holiday season! I can't believe that Thanksgiving is next week! I love when family gets together-- this is my favorite time of the year! I got really good news today, too....
I thought I was going to be without my boys for both Thanksgiving and Christmas morning (it's their Dad's year-- I was only supposed to have them Xmas Eve) BUT I spoke to him today to confirm plans and he says he has to work on Thanksgiving... so YEA for me, I get the boys!!! AND his fam usually does Christmas Eve-- so I get to open presents with them Christmas morning! I'm so happy about it all!! Everything is falling into place!

Our little monkey!

As most of you know, we couldn't wait to have this little sucker so we scheduled an amnio for last Monday. As long as the results came back with mature lungs we were going to check in to the hospital that night. Only when we got to the appointment, I didn't have enough amniotic fluid to do the amnio. Go figure that something else goes wrong.... but a blessing in disguise, cause if we hadn't gone in we would have never known the fluid was low. At that point it was a case of dehydration or just low fluid and we would have to induce. After 15 hours hooked up to an IV, my amniotic fluid was actually lower than before, so we started the induction. About an hour later I got my epidural. I felt no labor pain at all until he started to crown. Four hours after the epidural we welcomed little Jeremiah Johnson Taylor II (Jer really wanted his name that way!!) into the world. He was a squished and puffy perfect 6lbs. 7 oz and 18.5 inches long. We can't get enough of his face! He's such a good baby! He barely ever cries, but let me tell you, when he does, he definitely has his daddy's big mouth and loud nature. He wakes up at night only to eat, which is still hard to get used to. The sleep interruptions kill me!

Oh, and I don't care what anyone says-- babies smile.... it's not just gas.