Baby Will's Debut

I know that my sister already did a post about our new arrival on her blog (Thanks Meredith-I still can't figure out why I couldn't post on my blog in the hospital) but I wanted to post on our blog. So if you follow her blog, double dose of Will. If you follow only my blog and haven't a clue who my sister is so why would you follow her blog, here's a heaping helping of the

adorableness that is

William Phinehas Mitchell!

Here's the story:

I woke up on Wednesday morning (2/11/09) at midnight on the dot with a horrible contraction. I didn't really think about it much becuase at this stage in pregnancy, that happens. So I breathed through the contaction and went back to sleep. 25 minutes later, I was at it again. 20 minutes after that, same thing. That went on for a while and by 1 am, they were 8 minutes apart. By 2 am, they were about 3 minutes apart. That meant heading for the hospital. We packed up the girls and took them to our awesome friends the Huish family. I felt so bad for waking them up at 3 am. Oh well, you gotta do what you gotta do. By then, the contractions were literally on top of each other and we had about a 40 minute drive to the hospital. The drive there was literally like a scene from a movie. It had been snowing so the roads were icy, I almost made Carson take me to a closer hospital, I was very worried that I was going to deliver on the side of the road, I kept telling him to drive faster, he had one hand on the wheel and one hand up timing my breathing and we got to the hospital just in time. He even left the car in the middle of the road, running, while he got me in. We arrived at the hospital at 3:45 and William made his appearance at 4:36 am. My doctor almost didn't make it. When I got to the hospital, I was literally ready to push and my doctor got there just in time to catch. Many of you know that I had the goal of doing this one natural and it's a good thing that I had that goal becuase I wouldn't have been able to get the epidural even if I wanted it. I'm so glad that I was prepared.

Vital Statistics

Weight: 7 lbs 13 oz

Height: 21 1/2 inches

Arrival Date: 2/11/2009

Arrival Time: 4:36 am

Now please enjoy some pictures of our adorable little man. These are from the hospital and from the day we came home.

Mommy and her Baby Boy literally seconds after delivery.

I had to post this picture. Does anyone remember how big Siobhan's feet were when she was born? Check out those tootsies. I can actually fold them up on to his legs.

Me and the kiddos. I can't believe there's three of them now! I made both of the girls 'Big Sister' T-shirts and Will got a 'Little Brother' onsie. I'm not sure what Siobhan is doing in this picture.

Check out that head of hair! He was given his first bath by some nursing students and apparently his hair was the talk of the nursery. They had a lot of fun styling it!

Will was very excited to go home as were Carson and I!

Quote #5 Answer

The Rock

Quote #5

Well, if nobody gets this one (or even guesses for that matter) I guess I will put my game away until further notice. But good guess Molly on that last one. It was actually from Kung Fu Panda though. Although I can definitely see how one could make the Ratatouille connection. The quote is from the scene where Po wants to quit being the Dragon Warrior and Master Oogway (the wise old turtle) responds to him by saying Quit, don't quit, noodles, don't noodles. So this next one is from a movie that I know many of you have seen. It's one of our favorite parts to quote. It's more of a monologue so here goes:

"I'd take pleasure in guttin' you, boy. I'd take pleasure in guttin' you... boy." What is wrong with these people, huh? Mason? Don't you think there's a lot of, uh, a lot of anger flowing around this island? Kind of a pubescent volatility? Don't you think? A lotta angst, a lot of "I'm sixteen, I'm angry at my father" syndrome? I mean grow up! We're stuck on an island with a bunch of violence-for-pleasure-seeking psycophatic marines, SHAME-ON-THEM!

Siobhan's First Interview

I copied this idea from my sister Meredith who copied it from her sister-in-law Jeannie who does interviews periodically with her kids and posts them on the blog. This was very spur of the moment so I didn't really think of any crazy questions but it was still fun.

Mommy: Siobhan, what's your favorite time of day?

Siobhan: Ummm.....uhhhhh....Stay home.

Mommy: Interesting. What's your favorite outfit?

Siobhan: My crown outfit. You remember, I just got that one, that short sleeved shirt?

Mommy: I thought you like to wear jammies the best?

Siobhan: I know. I said I want to wear clothes too.

Mommy: What's your favorite food?

Siobhan: Chicken and peanut butter and jam (PB&J is news to mom), tortilla con queso, and then......cereal.

Mommy: What kind of cereal?

Siobhan: Chocolate cereal. Audrey likes chocolate cereal and you like chocolate cereal. But I don't like raisins in my cereal. You remember you gave me that cereal?

Mommy: Siobhan do you want to go downstairs and get a movie to put on the computer while I do more cleaning? Do you need me to open the gate?

Siobhan: Yeah, I can't climb over in footie jammies. Mom, I seriously found it! Red alphabet frong movie!

Adurey Always Has a Different Plan

What started as a quest to prove to the blogosphere (but mostly myself) that I'm a good bed maker, quickley turned into a photo essay completely dedicated to my second born. By the way, does anyone have a good non-condescending way of referring to the second child? I don't like calling her my second born, but it's what she is. I don't like having numbers assigned to my offspring....I worry that it will give them a complex. So here's some blog love for the little cutie pants. I just love the gap she has in her front teeth. Such character. Mind you all that she is still in her jammies with nappy hair and marker on her face....a situation that has been rectified but she's sleeping right now so I have no proof. You'll have to take my word for it.

She's such a pip squeek. She has a hard time getting into her bed still. That's her cool Elmo stool that is just the right height to give her the extra inches she needs!

Finally, I captured a descent picture of Audrey with the elusive Mike Wisowski. She loves that little guy so much. Am I seeing a slight resemblance or do I just see this sight all too often?

Mugging for the camera as usual!

Doesn't matter where I am, Audrey somehow knows that I have pulled out the camera and knows exactly where to find me. She never goes into Siobhan's bedroom!

Proof!

I stated in this post that I wanted to become obsessive about bed making. I've been talking about it for a while with Carson and really expressing a desire to be better about it. I don't have any really great reason aside from the fact that I think it's a lost art and I kind of feel like I'm in a hotel when I climb into bed at night into a beautifully made bed with crisp sheets. And if I do get around to cleaning in a bedroom, it's never done until the bed's made. Sometimes it even motivates me in reverse. I'll make the bed first and then clean the bedroom because who wants to look at a beautifully made bed nestled among piles of dirty laundry and kid toys? So I've been getting really good at making our bed and I'm teaching the girls how to make theirs. I made them all this morning and I'm sad to say that both girls are napping thus undoing said bed making, but I can say that at least once today, all three beds in our house were made. Here's the pics to prove it:

Our master bed. Yes, we sleep in a bed that small. I love this bedding. My sister Meredith made it for me and I don't ever want to change it-one of the reasons that I don't want a new bigger bed because I don't want to change this bedding. Isn't it beautiful? Go tell Meredith I said so. How could you not want to make this bed everyday?

Audrey's new big kid bed. It's a little hard to make it look nice because I've got the wall on one side to contend with and the rail on the other side. But hey, the bed's made...and on another note, she loves being in the big bed. I'm so glad we did the railing though. We didn't need it for Siobhan even though she was about the same age when we moved her in. Siobhan was just much more sturdy than Audrey and the biggest movement she makes at night is pulling her thumb out of her mouth. Audrey on the other hand is a totally different story. All over the place!
Siobhan's bed. I know that the Tinkerbell pillow and all the guys amongst the pillows are not very fitting with the decor of the room, but she's got to have all of her friends. And below are some pics of Siobhan's room that she got for her birthday.

Some other views of Siobhan's room. Reading corner on the left and another view of her bed when you walk in. I love the color green that we chose. In the reading corner you'll notice the mobile that I made for Siobhan's nursery. I made it out of ballet shoe key rings, silk flowers, ribbon and a quilting ring. I thought that it made a good decorative ornament to hang above the reading corner. There's also letters that spell her name that are going between the posts of her bed. Just need to be sanded and they are doing up tonight!

Quote #4

The last one was from a movie called Oscar. It stars Sylvester Stallone and it's one of Carson's favorites. It's a satire of old school mafia movies. Sorry if it was another hard one. Hopefully all of you with kids will know this next one.

'Quit, don't quit, noodles, don't noodles.'