Life as a SAHM (stay at home mom in blog world)

Well it’s hard to believe that Courtney will be 11 weeks old this week, time really has flown by! She smiles and laughs all the time, she is sleeping for a straight 5-6 hours at night and has managed to escape any serious harm at the hands of her overly loving sister. Kaitlyn loves being a big sister but she doesn’t understand that Courtney is real. I often find my self saying, “gentle Kaitlyn” or “be nice Kaitlyn”. She is learning and has some really sweet moments with her sister. If Courtney is crying Kaitlyn will give her a pacifier or give her kisses and and say, “don’t cry baby”. She loves to hold her and likes to help with her bottles. I could really get used to this stay at home mom routine! Mondays we try to make it to the kids gym but getting anywhere by 9am is a little challenging. Tuesdays we go to story time at the library so Kaitlyn can “shake her sillies out” (this is a wiggles song that the kids love!) Wednesdays we go down to Rocklin and visit the family. Then the rest of the week we just hang out at home, unless I’m feeling adventurous. We definitely have our challenging days, and being the sole entertainment for Kaitlyn can be exhausting, but I’m really loving being at home with the girls. Going back to work in April is going to be really hard, why can’t we just win the lottery!

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Courtney’s birth story

birthCourtney Ann made a grand entrance on 12/24 @ 7pm weighing 7.12 and 20in. When I went to the Dr on Wed, 12/23, and he said I wasn’t dialated at all so I decided we should go to Walnut Creek to spend Christmas Eve with Scotts family….bad idea! I started having mild contractions at 3pm, left the Creek about 4:45. We made it as far as Vacaville when we hit traffic and decided we better find a hospital because I might not make it to Woodland. We then quickly drove to the first hospital we could find only to be sent back to Fairfield since Vacaville doesn’t have a hospital with labor and delivery. I was checked in to Fairfield at 6pm, here I delivered our little Christmas baby at 7pm, ALL NATURAL since there wasn’t time for the epidural. It was a crazy delivery but we are all doing great! I did scare the crap out of Scott though, if he wasn’t sure about this being our last I think he is now!

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Happy Christmas Eve

P1000043Welcome Courtney!  Baby Courtney was born at 7pm on Christmas Eve weighing 7lbs 12oz and was 20inch long.  We have quite a story to tell about her birth.  For example why was she not born in Woodland like we planned.  Why were we turn away from a hospital?  Maybe we’ll post that story.

8335 LED Lights on One House

IMG_5172Thats right the total for this year is more than double last year.  We added 30 boxes of twinkling net lights to the lawn bringing the new total 8335 lights.  The great thing about these lights are they only use a total 425 watts which comes out to about 11 cents ever 2 hours.  To put things into perspective our Christmas tree with 300 standard lights uses 305 watts.

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