LOTS has happened since Halloween. Thanksgiving we spent at my older sister's house, which was a blast, lots of yummy food and lots of socialization. It was nice to have just about the whole family together. The boys all hing out upstairs playing the wii trying to beat Ayden's top score on bowling. I understood that they may have beat him in a game but the records were still Ayden's. My brothers could not understand how a 4 year old could do so well when he has never bowled a real game in his life.
Thanksgiving came and went pretty quickly, but not as fast as Christmas. Doug and I were so busy with work that we didn't have much time to make sure that we had what we needed for Ayden and Ryleigh for Christmas. We did a lot of last minute shopping right down to the day before. We spent the week of Christmas down at Doug's parents house all but his older sister were there for the entire week. We went to zoo lights, which is something we all enjoyed and had never done before and again there was lots of wii playing again trying to beat Ayden's scores. There were lots of avid attempts but the records held strong.
Christmas eve Ayden was reminded by Uncle Daniel to put out treats for Santa and even some carrots for Rudolph. Boy was he shocked when he woke up the next day and went upstairs to see that the treats were gone! I believe his exact words were "holy smokers!" Ayden also had a close run-in with Santa. On Christmas eve Santa was putting gifts under the tree (now understand this is the first year that Ayden truly understands Santa) and a present he had in his hand dropped and hit an empty tin that was under the tree. Ayden woke up and looked at Santa's helper who promptly left and hid what she had in her arms. Ayden was covered up with a blanket and told to go back to sleep Santa doesn't come when you are awake. Needless to say that was all we needed was to traumatize a 4 year old on the first year he believed. All in all it ended well and the kids were very excited with what they got, they made out like bandits as you can see!
New year's came and went, we spent the time with my family playing games until we realized it was midnight (thanks to Kim :) ). The next thing we had to look forward to was January 8th the long awaited due date, the 8th passed so did the 10th, and the 15th. I was starting to think I was never going to have this kid, I was doomed to be pregnant for the rest of my life, just what I always wanted!! Then on the 16th about 1:00 I started to have contractions, we timed them for awhile before calling the doctor, then we called and we were told to go into the birthing center.
As I started to get things ready for myself and for the kids I noticed that the contractions were slowing in consistency. I told myself nonsense and we pushed on. My Dad met us at the hospital to take the Ayden and Ryleigh to his place to sleep. We were at the hospital for an hour or so and then we were told to go home the contractions had stopped.
In my mind I was thinking well that confirms it I will be pregnant for the rest of my life. We went home and slept in to 9:00 which is a first since we had kids. We then said let's clean the house and see if contractions will start again. Three hours later. . . . nothing; I gave up. I was doomed to be induced the following day at 7:30. We went to my Mom's house so that we could play with the kids for awhile they were going to be spending another night at Grandma's because of the induction. I tried everything to avoid being induced but it wasn't happening, so I thought. Thank goodness I woke up just before 1 am with contractions again. I woke up Doug and said we are not going in until we are positive that they are for real. Once again we called the Doctor after about an hour of contractions and were told to go into the birthing center and were assured that we would not be sent home because of the induction that was already scheduled.
We arrived and and told that sure enough labor had started by itself, THANK GOODNESS!! I went strong for the first four hours and then asked for the epidural. This is when it got exciting! The doctor came in to give the epidural and he had Doug hold me and help me concentrate on relaxing. You would think that after doing this twice before that Doug would be familiar with the process. When the doctor when to put in the local Doug passed out. He fell straight back nothing was in the way it was straight back arms in front of him like Frankenstein. I heard his head hit the floor. All of a sudden the doctor and the nurse buzz for help and are over him trying to wake him up. He was out for a good 10 seconds or so. When he came to he was confused as to why people were over him and not taking care of his wife. The doctor had called for people to come and help from the ER, and they took him down for a CT scan as well as a 12 lead EKG. They ended up giving him a bag a IV fluid and discharging him. They wheeled him back up to my room and had him sit down for awhile next to the bed. My doctor held off on breaking my water until Doug returned from the ER which was about 8:00, he was taken down at 6:30. From then on out it was smooth sailing through the birth.
Later in the afternoon around 3:00 I was getting transferred to the recovery floor. They decided based on what happened earlier in the day that Doug shouldn't walk himself so the nurse wheeled him over first. It was a good thing, shortly after I arrived Doug threw up. The nurse called our doctor to find out what they should do, needless to say it was another trip to the ER with another bag of fluids. When they discharged him they sent him with some pain medication for his headache and some anti-nausea pills. He still spent the first night in the hospital with me and Masyn. It was quite exciting and quite a story to tell Masyn when he is older.
Masyn Kahana Savage was born on Sunday January 18th at 12:52 pm. he was a whopping 8 pounds and 7 ounces (Ryleigh still holds the record) and he was 20 1/4 inches. I was corrected with his height at the doctors office a couple of days after birth. We originally were told 21 inches in the hospital.
Ayden and Ryleigh have loved having him around. Ryleigh still calls him "baby" because she confuses him with my sisters baby, who is two weeks older. Ayden is protective and wants to make sure that he is all right. The instance Masyn starts to cry he is right there telling him that it is okay and the his mommy was here to take care of him. It is really sweet.
Here are some pictures of how things are going. I am sure one day I will figure out how to take care of three kids, maybe just in time to have another. Who knows???
Here is a website with additional photos http://kile.game-host.org:8080/mason_savage/
