First he's Sour... then he's sweet :)

You have all seen those commercials for Sour patch kids, "First their sour, and then their sweet" Well this couldn’t explain our mini Luke any better! The other night we were all hanging out downstairs, Josh, Big Luke, Me and the minions and Luke’s new favorite game is called "fight". He says fight and then comes at you with these lil fists of fury. Now 90% of the time it’s funny and cute but every once in awhile he'll catch you off guard and cheep shot ya in the face (ask Josh about this haha) Anyways so we are all watching tv and Big Luke is laying on the loveseat and Mini Luke comes up as says “fight” and punches Luke in the stomach and immediately after puts his head to the side and says “Hi” in his sweet voice. We all start laughing and Josh says “first he’s sour then he’s sweet” which of course makes us all start laughing harder because it so true! So it’s now his new catch phrase. Who knew a 2 year old could be so funny?!?

Big Boi! I said Big boi!

So Ryde had his 2 month check up yesterday. Our doctor said he’s a big healthy boy and although he’s in the 91% tile for his weight, 13lbs 14 oz, that he is tall so its ok that he’s a fatty hahaha. He’s already 2 ft tall and is in the 85% tile for his height. He’s got a lil dome compared to his brothers, coming in at the 50% tile which I was thankful for at birth ;) He got 3 shots which is always rough on both of us and had to get his foot pricked to get some blood drawn to check his jaundice levels. The whites of his eyes were still a lil yellow so he wanted to make sure his levels were not too high. So needless to say he was not a happy camper! They called me this morning and said his jaundice levels were normal for a breastfed baby at 2 months and that his yellowish eyes should go away with time, I’m glad that my lil man is thriving and all my pumping work is paying off because it is not convenient to pump every 3 hours let me tell you, well except at work hahaha I don’t mind having to take a “meeting break” by myself every couple hours, the smokers get to!

My baby is 2 months old today!

Holy 2 months batman! I can’t believe that Ryde is 2 months old today. He’s definitely out of his new born stage which I have mix feelings about. I’m sad that he’s growing so fast and that this is my last baby so I’ll never have a new born again which makes me really sad but that will pass :) I do love that he’s sleeping longer in between feedings during the night, about 5 hours now, and that he’s smiling and working so hard on those neck muscles! He has the cutest “O” face while he does it too. He can do a half roll from stomach to side consistently and has done a full roll once from front to back. It’s so funny because he always seems like he has something to say and is trying so hard to voice it. He’s definitely my serious baby as of now; he has this serious face and is always just trying to figure things out. I love that he’s more snuggly now and doesn’t seem so fragile and he’s has the chunkiest chipmunk cheeks that I can’t get enough of. When we do tummy time on mom’s tummy I just kiss them over and over when he rests his head, some of my favorite time right now! He loves to try and stand and work on his leg muscles, he’s already in such a hurry to grow up which is only going to get worse once he starts trying to do everything he sees Luke doing. He’s “talking” and cooing now which is too cute and I have a few videos I’ll upload when I get home, it’s just so precious that he thinks he’s really saying something. He’s getting a little better with giving me a break to do things when he’s awake but I use the word little loosely! Maybe once or twice a day he’ll entertain himself for 10 to 15 mins or so when he’s awake so I can try to pick up after the toddler tornado that blows through our house daily or attempt to eat something hahaha while it’s still hot. He has had an ultra sound and a VCUG (they pump fluid and dye into his bladder through a catheter and take x-rays of his kidneys and bladder to make sure they are doing what they are suppose to) to monitor his enlarge Kidneys and there is still some fluid in them but everything seems to be functioning properly so he will have another ultrasound at 6 months to see if the fluid is still there or not. I’m finally starting to get our routine down with less meltdowns on ALL our parts which is nice ;) He goes in for his 2 month check up on Wednesday and I’ll update you on his weight and height and see how much he’s grown since he was 2 weeks old!! Two months has gone by so fast and doesn’t seem like a long time in the grand scheme of things but I feel like he’s been here forever and can’t imagine life with out him. I’ve been so very blessed with my 2 lil men and thank god daily for them. Just wish time would slow down just a lil!

1 Successful Trip down, 1,000 to go!

So yesterday I got a wild hair and decided that I would take the boys to the water park for a picnic and some outside time considering I was in a full body sweat suit as my house is freezing. I LOVE my central air!! So I start to pack up some stuff as Luke is still napping and get Ryde dressed as they NEVER seem to nap at the same time right now damn it! So when Luke woke up I asked if he wanted to go to the water park that Pa took him to a couple weeks ago. So when I say water park its not like a full blown water park its just one of those at the park by our house that has the kooky pipes that spray water out of them and the kids just run through them. So he of course says NO because that is his answer to everything so I say fine Ryde and I will go with out you haha which always works so he proceeds to start repeating or chanting as I like to call it "water park, water park" So I get him dressed and we are on our way. I stopped to get a sweet tea from Mc D's as I am obsessed with them and get Luke a happy meal for the first time (now he’s had a happy meal before, I just had never bought him one) so that we could have a lil picnic while he played at the park. So we arrive and I pack myself like a mule and then let Luke out of the car hoping he would listen. So I see a tree open by the water side of the park so I set up camp there. Luke sits down for 3 secs and then is off. He didn’t actually get in the water he mostly surveyed the outer perimeter; I was unable to take him out there as I was holding Ryde. So I was standing on the outside and Luke played in the puddles for like 10 mins but didn’t get wet by any of the structures and wanted to just go play on the regular play ground. Which would have been fine but my "camp" wasn’t close enough to watch Luke from so I had to just pack it up a lil and leave it and try and keep an eye on it and Luke at the same time, I do live in A-town people ;) So I make it over to the playground where Luke is running around like a wild man and I start to freak out a lil bit wondering about how I’m going to get him back to our spot and in the car with no free hands! So after 30 mins of him running around all red faced I ask him if he wanted something to drink to try and lure him back to our camp so I could put Ryde in his car seat and wrangle Luke in the Car as it was so hot and he was all sweaty. So thank god he said "cup" and started walking over to get his cup and he sat down and drank it while I packed Ryde up, threw away our trash, and packed myself like a mule again. I told him it was time to go which usually never ends good at the park, which I did get a lil attitude and a couple no's but no full blown Luke Chavez blow up and I was able to pack them in the car with out wishing I was dead! I was so excited that it went so well that I forgot my precious Sweet tea on top of my car but thankfully some bystanders waved me down before it fell off! And I was thinking double jack pot! Any other day that drink would have spilt all over my car because that’s my luck haha So I wanted to brag all around town but then I realized women do this everyday, some with even more kids! So I thought I would just keep it as my own personal victory and save the momentum for a bigger trip maybe next weekend, who knows where, the sky’s the limit now people!!! I'm back in the running for Mother of the year bitches!

Luke’s first Staples

So when I wrote the title to this post, Luke’s FIRST staples it made me feel like I was implying this is going to happen again which I hope not because it was defiantly one of the worst experiences I have had as a parent thus far. But I do have 2 boys on my hands and if Ryde is anything like his big bro I’m in trouble! So last Friday I took my traveling circus to Aunt Tess’s house for some leisure time with the fam dam but once again I was sadly mistaken! Not 20 mins into our stay we were headed to the emergency room for the first time. Luke was outside playing with the dogs and some squirt guns that Aunt Tess had laying around out back along with some much beloved side walk chalk. Luke loves side walk chalk but not for the purpose of drawing on the side walks, oh no that would be too easy, he likes to draw on things you wouldn’t normally draw on, lawn furniture, grills, decks, etc… So I’m inside getting Ryde situated out of his car seat and and getting him settled when I hear Luke start screaming out side. I open the screen door and hes running toward me crying. I pick him up and ask what happen and he says hurt and I ask him where as I set him down and pull pup his shorts and sleeves looking for what he he’s talking about. I can’t find anything so just when I ask him again I notice a lil blood trickling down the back of his neck. Ahh horseshit! So I take him inside and take him to the bathroom to get a better look at it in the light. Instantly I think he’s going to need stitches, granted this is coming form the girl who’s only had 1 stitch in her whole life, yep one single stitch in my finger when I was 6 after my brother stepped on my hand as I was touching a metal ant stake (When my mom asked Luke why he did it, “I don’t know”) I freaked out so bad that they had to strap me down to a board to get me to stay still haha Anyways, I ask Meg and Tess what they think and they both were unsure so I thought lets ask the dude in the house. At this point Luke was fine, he asked me to kiss it and was on his way. It wasn’t bleeding bad it was just a wide wound so I asked Cody what he thought considering he had like 20 staples in his leg at the moment haha and he was like “oh yeah he’s definitely going to need stitches” so Luke and I were on our way! I called the after hours nurse hotline wondering if I had to drive all the way downtown (minimum 40 min drive) to the Kaiser Hospital or if I could take him any where. While I was listening to the options I found out that one of the clinics was open “after hours” Jack pot! That way I don’t have to pay the $100 co pay at the emergency room! So next I call the LP to let him know what’s going on. He had called earlier and received a hall pass to go out for the night and was getting ready to go out with some friends. I told him I would just take him and if I need him to come I would call him later. Bad idea I should have just made him come considering I was about to experience the worst thing ever! So we get into the room and the doctor explains that instead of shooting him with a needle of anesthetic we were going to use a topical anesthetic, and yes I said WE! So he pours this liquid on a cotton ball, tells me to grab a glove, and that I’m going to hold this cotton ball on his head for 5 mins to numb the area, ummm I’m sorry WTF!!!!!! Am I a nurse getting paid right now and was unaware! Am I going to pick up a check at the front desk on my way out?!?! Seriously dude! So he starts off and puts it on Lukes wound and he of course starts screaming bloody murder and then the Doc is like “ok here you go” so I put pressure on the cotton ball and try to hold him with my other arm and calm him down. He’s just screaming and crying and saying “Mommy Stop” “Hurt Hurt” OMG it was awful. Now on our way there I was patting myself on the back because I thought I stayed cool under the pressure didn’t freak out at Tess’s house, and even told Luke in the car “good thing your Nonnie wasn’t here or she would be a panicking mess” hahaha little did I know I was going to be the one causing my lil man pain once we got there. So you can just imagine both of us in this lil room sitting on the table crying our eyes out. So I start signing this song my mom use to sing to me when I was super young when I was sick or hurt that we now sing to the boys and I finally get him calmed down then the fucking doctor walks in and says “well since he’s letting you hold it on there I’m going to have you do it for 5 more mins” Really dick that was just the worst 5 mins of my life right there buddy! Well Luke starts crying again and I’m trying not to cry and soothe him but I can’t keep it together at this point. Finally the 10 mins is up and the doc walks in with a nurse and I’m thinking where the fuck was she the last 10 mins! He grabs some gauze and cleaning stuff and starts to clean Luke’s head and get an idea of how big it is. And then all of a sudden he pulls out a glorified staple gun and proceeds to shoot 3 staples into my sons head without any warning. I obviously let out a gasp as I was not prepared for that! He asked if I was alright and I was just like “yeah I just didn’t realize it was an actual staple gun and some warning would have been nice” So he gives me some care instructions and we were done!! Luke was fine once he realized we were on our way home and passed out 3 mins into the trip. I called Josh to let him now what happened and told him that that was the last stapling I would be a part of :) I picked up Ryde from Tess’s which was nice that I didn’t have to take him along, that would have been hard to take care of him while I held Luke down in a wrestling move. Josh took Luke in today to get the staples removed and said he didn’t cry and barely notice what the nurse was doing so hopefully its healing nicely, ill have to check it out when I get home. Hopefully this will be our only experience with staples, haha here’s to wishful thinking right?!?

Heres a pic that Josh tried to get of the Staples but Luke was having none of it

Here is what an Ant Stake is hahaha cut my finger on the sharp corner back when they were metal, they are plastic now :)

This is my Nightmare...

So I want to put a disclaimer out their first before I proceed with this post. This blog is not to scare people off of having kids, there are more good times then bad by a long shot and I WOULDN'T trade it for anything in the world and I love my lil minions more then anything but writing about the debacles is much more funny then our day to day I love you’s, don’t get me wrong I will write about those occasionally, but I find the train wreaks more entertaining as I'm sure you do, its always funny when its happening to some else right!?! On with the (shit) show...

So for those of you who do not share my LOVE for reality TV, (Bill) yesterday was the first "Jersday" of the new season of Jersey Shore. Now I just can’t get enough of this stupid show and enjoy watching it with friends to just discuss the fiascos that unravels each week. It’s dumb, stupid, whatever you want to call it but I love it :) So last night the mini gorilla juice heads and I were on an adventure to the Trewin Adult Hostel (Cody and Meg are staying there while Cody's broken leg heals, Nick "lives" there occasionally when he’s not shacking up with his new lady friend, well she’s probably not new but new to me hahahah, holy sidebar, focus Val!) So I dress Luke up in his finest guido attire and blow his hair out like Pauly D and we are off to Tess's. Ryde is safe at this moment as he’s still a lil young for Mom's humiliation :) So we are watching the past shows before the new one airs, Cody is of course complaining about why we have to watch the old ones, Tess is making dinner, Luke is repeating "outside" a million times a minute, and I once again start thinking "why do I try and take this kid anywhere before he’s 8!" Finally its 8 pm and what I have been waiting for has finally arrived!! But do you think I get to sit down and enjoy it hahaha of course not, Luke, bless his soul, is whinnying about everything, trying to play with the baby mat Ryde is laying in, and just being an all around toddler tool. Repeating things he wants, asking to go play in the dark, harassing the dogs, junkin up Aces baby toys he hasn’t even got to play with, so basically the usual hahaha. I missed half the show because I was trying to read books, get him to eat his dinner Aunt Tess made just for him, and keep him from slipping into a full blown baby melt down. At one point I couldn’t wait for the show to end so we could just go home and go to bed! (Another side bar I had been up since 4:45am thanks to my new work schedule so I could spend more time with the boys now that I’m back to work, seriously reconsidering that decision hahaha sike, I kid I kid! So I’m sure my patience was a lil more thin then normal) The show ends I pack up the boys and we are headed home, but it doesn’t end there, why would it?!? So we are walking to my car and Tess's sprinklers are on which Luke doesn’t really get because its dark out side and he continues to walk right through the yard getting soaked with no shoes on because I thought "we are just walking to the car he doesn’t need to put his shoes on" I was sadly mistaken, as usual, so now he’s pissed that he has wet socks, now I can totally relate to this as I also hate wet socks, just a hour earlier I had to take mine off because I had one wet sock after stepping in water while filling Cody's ice machine, but I didn’t feel it warranted crying about it but he did so I put Ryde down next to the car on the side walk as I try to grab Luke who is still wondering amislly in the wet yard crying because he doesn’t quite get what’s going on and why he has water in his eyes. So I open Luke’s door to let him crawl in my brand new car soaking wet (if that’s not love, I don’t know what is people!) when Tess opens the other side door saying "um well I guess my sprinklers suck because they were spraying on Ryde on the side walk" hahaha of course they were why wouldn’t they be, this is my nightmare. Ryde, like me didn’t find it necessary to cry about being a lil wet which was nice so at least I didn’t have two crying kids on my hands! Ugh so we were finally on our way home and all I’m thinking about is a cold beer and then going straight to bed!!! Of course once we get on our way home Luke turns back in to the sweet lil nugget that he is and starts talking about the moon and that he loves me and I couldn’t help but not be annoyed anymore. I find it quite amazing how easy it is for him to change my mood, because we all now I'm the easily annoyed one as my mom likes to put it, (got to love a mothers sugar coating) and Josh can contest to that haha So we get home and put sweet loving boy to bed, aka toddler tool and start the process for getting baby tool to bed. And was officially in bed by 10:30 to start it all over again in 6 hours. Man oh man I have a greater appreciation for my parents as I’m sure big Luke and I were a couple of toddler tools our selves! Till our next failed attempt as an outing together, as Luke would say “later dudes”

Tee Shirt time!

3 Ring Circus Outing with Luke, Ryde, and Ace

So Tess and I decided to take the boys for a day out on the town a couple Thursdays ago and in theory it was a good idea but I definitely was underestimating Luke's ability to act like a stage 5 terrorist and how high maintenance two 1 1/2 month olds are!! So the shit show was first to start at noon but of course didn't get off the ground running till around 1ish as Tess had to borrow Uncle Lloyd's truck as my car was dead and we could not fit 3 car seats in the back of her car. Now this was a smooth transition at first but Tess soon realized that her stroller was in the back of her car that was now at Southlands with her dad not to mention Ace of course was screaming with hunger right as she was ready to leave so of course she had to feed him before she could drive to southlands ( which is 15 mins the opposite direction of my house) so she was finally on her way to my house running a lil late and all hot and bothered ;) , thank god because I was all hot and bothered at my house and there was no way I was going to be ready at noon either! So with the extra 30 mins I was able to have my boys ready when she showed up and by ready I mean I had actually packed a useful diaper bag unlike the usual one with only diapers, no snacks, no change of clothes etc, I have gotten lazy now that Luke is 2 but forget I have a new baby who is A LOT more high maintenance! So we loaded the car seats and the boys and we were on our way, but not before we stopped for a red bull so I could try and get my chi right before we got to the outlet mall. So we were headed to the outlet malls down in Castle Rock because that is where Matt and Tess had purchased their rings that she was having cleaned. So we finally arrive after a bumpy ride in the F150 which was not forgiving with our newly mom bodies haha so we decided it would be wise to be those dicks who take up 2 parking spots as there was no way in hell Tess was parking that big ole rig in just one spot! And we swear someone honked at us which of course got us riled up, we were thinking just wait till you see the train wreck that's about to roll out of this truck. So we start unpacking the kids and strollers which takes like 10 mins by its self, so we were finally on our way to shop! First stop, ring store, Luke had done so well holding on to the stroller as we walked across the parking lot and up to the jewelry store but for some reason as soon as we set foot in the store he began acting like a wild banchee, running every where, jumping over imaginary things, and then kicks one of the counters, yep kicks it, you cant make this stuff up people! So I immediately say we are going to wait outside, obviously hahaha so we wait outside for Tess to come out. Luke is running and jumping off the lil stone wall in the court yard area and all I'm thinking was this was a bad idea; the kid is 2 and has no plans on listening to anything I say at this point. So Tess comes out and we are headed to the Carter's outlet, and Luke maybe held on to the stroller for 2 seconds on our way there and of course we have to pass the Toys R Us outlet who have their stupid doors open and all I’m thinking is I hope Luke doesn’t notice it haha yeah right! He goes running in screaming “TOYS!” so I have to leave the stroller outside with Tess and literally have to run in after him. I finally catch up to him at the very back of the store and now have to carry him screaming "NO" all the way back outside. And then when we gat back to the strollers and I try to hold his hand while pushing the stroller he pulls dead weight and just lays on the ground! Ugh, embarrassing right!?! So I had to take Ryde out of his car seat that is clicked into the stroller and sit Luke in it and hold Ryde while I push toddler tool in the stroller. This is right where the baby pouch would have come in handy, note to self bring that every where I go from now on, not that ill be venturing out alone with them any time soon again! Anyway so we finally make it to the Carters store and I’m trying to maneuver the stroller through the store. Now for a store that only sells baby clothes they don’t make the store very stroller friendly especially one with a toddler in it! So I had to let Luke run free in the store so I could put Ryde down but thankfully the one thing the store that only sells baby clothes has is a Leggo table!!! Luke played nicely on that thing for like 25 mins while I finished shopping. I did not want to leave once I was done and go back out to the unknown, but it was time for Luke to go to the candy store that Aunt Tess promised him. So I waited outside with the newbies, which I thought was going to be the easy job but once again, wrong hahaha I was standing there trying to hold both their pacifiers in at the same time and keep them both entertained as I watched Luke run around like a mad man in the candy store picking up everything and saying "this, this this?" Of course Aunt Tess spoiled him and bought him a few things but his favorite was a monster truck bus which we should have just bought first because he was totally entertained by it, another not to self, buy present first thing! So as we leave the candy store and it starts to sprinkle, of course it did, anything that could have went wrong was going to go wrong! So we decide our short but exhausting trip was over and that we should head to the car well by the time we get to the parking lot it’s freaking pouring!! So Tess runs to the truck to pull up to the stores so we can load it there. Once again someone honks, like WTF people do you not see the 3 kids we are trying to wrangle up in this monsoon have some compassion dicks! Anyway we just start throwing stuff and kids in the truck and finally are ready to get on the road again. Tess and I are soaked but sweating at the same time hahaha and just want to go home and relax!! Luke of course talked the whole way pointing out everything we drove by which is cute at first but after about 20 mins I wanted to throw my self from the moving vehicle J We finally made it back to A-town for some much deserved nap times for me and Luke but of course Ryde had other plans for me, oh what was I thinking! Till our next shit show commences, Peace and Love

T-Minus 1 week till I'm back to H E Double Hockey Sticks!

So some how i only have one more week of maternity leave! WTF! I can not believe that in less then a week I will be headed back to the worst place on earth besides the DMV :( Ugh and the crying about this has already started hahaha I don't remember it being so bad with Luke but I also didn't have to go back to work till Luke was almost 6 months old. I feel like Ryde is still so small and cant imagine spending more then 8 hours away from him. This time has just flown by just hanging with my minions everyday, and I'm pretty depressed that I cant stay home with them permanently. And the shittier part is (yeah I said shittier...its a word, google it) that my car took a dump so my plan to go in early and get off early went up in flames and now I'll have to hitch a ride with big Luke but will have to figure out how to get home every night as he comes home after work maybe once a week. So it looks like this lady will be learning to ride the bus, how depressing does that sound right!?! Boo cars and their crappy timing! So this girl has to get back to work so she can buy a new car! oh and feed her children haha The one up side to this is that my friend Alisha will be able to watch the boys at our house! This was such a blessing to find someone who i have known since we were kids and can trust with my lil men, so i got that going for me... which is nice :)

Them Chavez Boys!

So I just could not be more in love with these lil men of mine! I'm excited to say that Luke just LOVES his lil brother. From day one he wanted to hold him and help feed him and is always concerned when Ryde starts crying. "oh no, baby Ryde crying" hahaha it is just too precious! I'm glad that he likes him and isn't trying to give him away to strangers haha I have had friends tell me stories like that about how they or their siblings reacted when the new family member came home. So here are some pics of the boys together :)

First day home

First Bath Together

At the Hospital

Watching Luke's fav, Mickey Mouse :)

Loves to help feed Ryde

My Boys

Terrible, No-Good, Very Bad, Twos

So my golden boy has reached his terrible 2's unfortunately and on top of that we have brought a new baby home which is totally infringing on his mommy and daddy time. Well mostly mommies time considering I'm Ryde's main food source hahaha So to say the least the first couple weeks were a lil crazy and draining!

So my parents were taking the boat out for Big Luke's birthday so I thought this would be a good opportunity to take the boys out in the real world, since we spend a lot of time at home since Ryde has been born. So i get the boys all packed and ready to go to spend the day at Cherry Creek Reservoir. Now this process took about an hour to get them both in swim gear then packing the car with everything I would need to entertain them for around 4 hours I was thinking. So finally we are on the road and I was looking forward to having a beer with some friends while Luke played in the sand and water but boy was I dreaming! As soon as we get there he is in that whinny mood where everything he says has to come out in the whinny voice. Ugh how I hate that, cant you just be in a bad mood but talk normal why does it have to come out in THAT voice hahaha so anyways I was hoping once he was playing in the dirt and shit he would perk up and get in a better mood. Well Luke had other ideas! He was having none of everything and if Pa wasn't focusing ALL of his attention on him he would throw a fit. Of course his Nonnie tries to reason with him when he's in this mood which I try to explain every time there is NO negotiating with terrorists! But she doesn't seem to care and was trying to talk him off the cliff which of course never works. So after only 1 hour at the lake this momma had had enough and it was time to go. There's no reasoning with a 2 year old so he was going home where he can act like a tool all he wants in his room by himself. Oh the joys of parent hood right?!? No matter what plans you have in your head they don't really matter if your 2 year old is not on the same page! I have a feeling a lot of my posts are going to end like this for awhile now :)I managed to take about 6 pics while we were there before we had to leave. He sure is lucky he is so cute!!

Hahaha This is the face that made us leave early

Ryde was pissed that we had to leave hahaha

Ryde Tannen Chavez is here!!!!

Our lil man made his appearance on Wednesday June 8th 2011 at 11:24 pm! He was 8lbs 2 oz and 20 inches long! Now Ryde's birth story is a lil different then his big brothers but just as stressful. When I was pregnant with Luke, At my 20 week ultra sound they told me that my blood work came back and Luke had a 40% chance of having Spina Bifida. They proceeded with the ultra sound and said everything looked good but we wouldn't know anything for sure until he came. Now for anyone who knows me, knows that I am a HUGE worry wart! You name it I've worried about it!! Even had ulcers at one point because of it, and as much as I know its pointless to worry its just something you cant shut off and I have been doing it my whole life. SO needless to say I worried for the next 4 months. With Luke my water broke a month before his due date and I was in labor for a total of 12 hours from when my water broke to him being born. I remember being really scared because Luke was exactly a month early and we were not sure if he was ready to come so early, but thankfully he was and came out after 2 whole pushes hahaha I know its not fair but its the truth :) He was perfect and was able to come home 5 days later after 2 extra days under the lights because he had some jaundice because him and I have different blood types.

Now with my baby boy Ryde, the worrying started at my 20 week ultrasound also. They found that his kidneys looked enlarged thanks to something called pyelectasis which basically means extra fluid in the kidney. It is found more often in boys then girls and for the most part corrects itself before baby is born. Of course the only thing I heard from my doctor was that its sometimes a soft marker for Down Syndrome. So you can imagine the next 4 months I worried and worried. They also noticed that he was measuring big which could be a problem if he went full term. At my 35 week appt my doctor told me that I was already 3 cm dilated so the baby could come any day but to try and wait 2 weeks so he's fully cooked! Ryde had a different plan unlike his big brother he liked it inside there and had no plans of exiting even after a 10 mile walk day with his G-Ma (I'm not exaggerating either, 10 miles!) But finally a day shy of being 39 freaking weeks I had some bleeding so I knew it was time so Josh came and picked me up from work and we headed to St Joes, now the nurse in the triage center was NOT on my same page and told me I was going to need to walk for 2 hours even though I was already 4 cm!! To say the least I was not happy about this plan! First of all it was like 90 degrees outside, I was in my work clothes and my chucks which are my most comfortable shoes but not if I'm going to be walking 5 miles around the hospital grounds!!!!!! But i wanted Ryde to come so I sucked it up and started walking. The first lap Josh and Luke walked with me but it was about time for Luke to take a nap so Josh took him home to do so and to grab a few other things that I had forgot to tell him to grab as he was packing my hospital bag. Yeah that's right i refused to pack a bag as I thought it would jinx baby Ryde to never come hahaha so Josh had to do it that morning. So after 2 hours I went back in to be checked and she said I had only gone up 1/2 cm and said i could go home or walk another hour. Now I was ready to just drive my ass home as I was too pregnant to be doing all this walking but she convinced me to do the hour so I was off again. Now i proceeded to be stopped by like 15 people during my walks asking if I was in labor and needed help, as I would respond "I think I'm in labor but they don't" hahaha and of course the last 10 mins i had the worst foot cramp ever so on top of my already ridiculous pregnancy waddle I had a peg leg limp, quite the shit show. So I barley make it back to the triage center to be checked and I'm at 5 cm! But shes still acting like I'm not going up stairs to have a freaking baby so i fake a contraction so she would hook me up to the monitor. Which works!! She hooks me up and 5 mins later i start having regular contractions 4 to 3 mins apart. By this time Wendo had made it to the hospital from work and we were headed upstairs to have a baby!! When we got up there they asked me right away if I wanted an epidural which I thought was too soon as my contractions were not bothering me really but they reminded me that I was already 5 cm ( how could I forget!) and that it was a good time to get one so I of course agreed. After that it was just relax time with the fam till about 9 pm when mini Luke started getting crabby as it was bed time, so him and Pa headed home for the night. Big Luke headed out to a work softball game and other extra curricular activities so it was just me, the LP, and Wendo. At about 10:30pm we convince Josh to go to Mc D's cuz Wendo hadn't had dinner and was starving. As he was leaving he reminded me that i better not have the baby while he was gone, which i dismissed with a" yeah yeah" not 5 mins later do i feel the urgent need to poop! So i tell my mom who proceeds to tell me, "you better not poop till josh gets back" and my response is "I don't want to poop when Josh is here, im going to ask the nurse if we can figure it out while hes gone!" So i call the nurse in and explain that i really need to go #2 and would like to try before my life partner makes it back. She said sure but wanted to check me to see how far along i was first. As she was doing that Josh walks in thank god because the nurse was like "yep theres no cervix" and all I say is "so wait i don't get to poop?" hahaha and she reminded me that I don't really need to poop but my body wants to push a baby out. So she tells me NOT to push which was the worst, most painful part of the whole child birthing experience for me! I couldn't push because they had to get the room set up and then she sends in the slowest nurses aid of all time! The women proceeds to take her sweet ass time setting up the room and all I could do was stare at her and think to myself I may punch this women in the face if she doesn't start to show some urgency! I'm barely holding an 8lbs baby from falling out on to the hospital floor here women! Thankfully I'm some what of a bad ass and was able to refrain from popping him out during this time and the nurses and doctors had arrived and it was finally time to push. Now as I'm getting ready to meet my lil man I cant help but notice one nurse bring over a step ladder. Yeah that's right a step ladder, what the hell do we need one of those for right?!? Yeah that's what I was thinking too, Wendo notice this lil ditty too and asked "whats that for" which the nurse told her that sometimes with big babies they need to get high for some leverage to pull him out" and I'm thinking WTF, I better not see anyone climbing a fucking ladder during my labor, sorry for cursing but really a ladder! Thankfully I only had to push 3 times and he came right out (this body was built for banging down low hahaha) and there was no need for a ladder or the 4 extra nurses in there. He was finally here and I balled like a baby when they set him on my chest. It was nice this time that he got to hang out with me for like an hour before they weighed him and all that jazz (what am I 60..all that Jazz hahaha) So once again I cant complain about this labor experience and he came out perfect so maybe all the worrying paid off;) We were able to come home on the 3rd day but he needed some at home tanning action as we also have different blood types so he was jaundice but other then that it was a pretty easy transition home. And now my family of 3 is now 4 and complete. It felt like it took him forever to get here but I'm so glad hes here and am very blessed to have 2 strong, healthy boys and couldn't be happier! Peace and Love

Operation vacate the premise in full affect in T-Minus 44 hours!

So I have decided that Baby Ryde’s check out time has been pushed up a couple weeks. This lil tankzilla is estimating a lil under 8lbs as we speak and momma Chavez is having none of a 10 lbs baby in June. So I had planned to start walking across the beautiful state of Colorado last Thursday after I went in to see the ultrasound people and found out how big he was, it’s never good when the ultrasound tech who does dozens of these a day starts off the appointment with “wow that’s one big baby” ya think lady, Im the one carrying this fool around inside me day after day, I know he’s big!! Well after I left the appointment I was determined to evict his chunky butt within the next few days but that didn’t really fit into Wendo’s schedule. She said something about covering for people and her boss was out, I dunno I stopped listening and agreed to take it easy for one more week. I go in Friday morning to see if Im dilated yet and hopefully they just send me straight to the hospital to be induced hahaha how awesome would that be! But if not Im going to start “running” everywhere, so if Im late anywhere this weekend you know it’s because Im walking there and not driving :)

On another note as the day come closer to being a family of 4 instead of 3 I have been trying to spend as much time with my lil man in his last days of being the only child. There is part of me that is sacred that he’s going to be totally pissed when we bring home Ryde forever and makes me a lil sad for him even though I know he’ll be happy when they are older and he has a brother to play with. Im sure it’s these awful hormones that are making me sad about it and I can’t wait to feel fucking normal again!!! Sorry for the harsh language but Im seriously over this pregnancy thing hahaha I like to choose when I cry and not whenever my body feels like it! So hopefully Luke warms up to the idea of being and older sibling like I did and wants to carry Ryde around like king baby as I did with Big Luke when we were younger. So fingers crossed that he adjust well which I think he will considering he’s been an easy child so far (famous last words I know )

So wish me luck on my mission in my last days of being pregnant
Fooooorrrrr evvvvvvvvvv errrrrrrrrrrr

A Birthday at the Zoo!

So we took Luke to the Zoo on his actual birthday again this year. Josh, Wendo and I all took the day off to take him. It was a beautiful day, not too hot thank god considering I have my own personal lava rock inside me right now. I had considered getting a wheel chair for this adventure since Luke came a month early and I was just outside a month with Ryde at this point but once we got there I was too embarrassed and decided to just tough it out and take a lot of breaks!!! We had an awesome time except for when we had our own episode of when geese attack. We had brought a picnic to eat for lunch and were being stalked by one of the large geese scavenging for food and at one point Luke got up with his sandwich to go look at the polar bear where his Nonny was and the bird lunged at him almost pecking him. Thankfully he didn’t nip Luke as josh almost punched it hahaha which Im sure would have ended us on the news or something. It definitely scared Luke but he didn’t let it bother him for too long so that was good. It was much more fun this year as he recognized the animals and could walk around everywhere. Here are some pics from our day...