New Year's Baby

We started 2011 off with a bang! On Saturday, January 1, 2011 we woke up and did our typical Saturday morning routine with Beau.....we all rolled out of bed around 7:30 and went to the couch to watch Thomas the Train and Bob the Builder cartoons. Sometime during Bob the Builder, my water broke. My water broke with Beau and it was hours before my contractions really started (thanks to pitocin at the hospital). I told Rodney that my water broke during the cartoon and got up and got my things ready to go to the hospital. I told Rodney there was no rush because last time things moved so slowly. Well, with Joseph, my contractions started almost immediately after my water broke. I was trying to be chipper while Rodney showered and while we were waiting on my aunt to get to our house to watch Beau. I did not want to upset Beau because he was already a little upset because "the baby broke the water bottle inside mommy's belly"....hilarious! We got to St. Vincent's and checked into labor and delivery. We got a great nurse for the morning shift and she told me that I was progressing so well that I would not need any pitocin. (thank you Lord!....I hated having pitocin with Beau!) The nurses also told us that we were their only hope of having a New Year's Day baby so far. I am a (secretly) competitive person....I love to win games, have the best score or grade, etc. But, you would never really know it because I am horrible at sports and most games :) Anyway, when I heard that there was another couple that checked in to deliver their baby also, I kept asking if they had delivered yet....they did not deliver before us, so we won! We had the first baby on New Year's Day at St. Vincent's....I was a little sad that we did not win free diapers or cash, but that's okay. :)

I was able to get my epidural after a few really strong contractions around 1:00 that afternoon. At 5:31 p.m. on 1/1/11 Joseph David King was born weighing 7 lbs 15 oz, 21 inches long. (This was a pound + some ounces bigger than Beau, so Joseph looked huge to us). He got a 10 on the apgar scale because he came out with such a pretty complexion/color. He has lightish hair (blondish/reddish) with blue eyes and we think he is perfect. :)

Beau loves having an extra person in the house and loves to "help" us with Joseph. He does not love when Joseph cries (Beau covers his ears and tells us Joseph is crying.) Beau does not want to be alone to play or do anything currently...he says he needs us to watch him play because he is a baby. (fun times around here!) Hopefully when the weather warms up and we are not iced in for days, Beau will remember that he is a big boy and can play on his playground outside.

Our New Year's Baby:

Christmas 2010

A few weeks before Christmas, we headed to Calera to ride the "Santa Special" train. Beau loves trains and he was very excited to go, but not really excited about Santa. He kept asking where Mrs. Clause was. He told us that he wanted to ask Santa for 2 blue trains for Christmas and we said that was fine. Santa handed out gifts to the kids on the train. Santa pulled out a frosty the snowman stuffed animal out of his big red bag and Beau took it and said "thank you." After Santa moved down the train, Beau looked and me and said "but I wanted two, blue trains." Hilarious!







We had a very relaxing Christmas this year. I was unable to travel because of high blood pressure at the end of this pregnancy, so we stayed close to the house and enjoyed lots of family time and food. :) We enjoyed going to our church Christmas Service. Beau sat with us this year and he did a great job! He loved the music and the camera that was recording the service. It was attached to a crane and he stared at it for most of the service. He really enjoyed lighting the candles at the end of the service and singing songs.

This was our last Christmas as a family of just 3, so we really enjoyed just being with Beau and watching him open his gifts and enjoy them. He understood this year that Christmas is where we celebrate the birth of Jesus. So, of course, we had Happy Birthday Jesus cupcakes on Christmas morning. We spent all day on Christmas Day in our Pj's until we went to see my family that night, in town, for Christmas dinner. Beau kept asking when his friends were coming over to give him presents for Christmas. We tried to tell him that his friends would come over sometime and play with his presents, but Beau kept insisting that they would bring him presents too. :)

Playing Hungry Hungry Hippos that he got for Christmas
Taking Lamby for a ride on his new motorcycle
Singing Happy Birthday Jesus....this is the same candle that he got at our Church Candlelight Service...he would not turn it back in at the end of the service
Helping Daddy put Joseph's pack n play together...he needed to get tools and his hard hat for the job :)
At the Candelight Service
So Handsome!

At Zoolight Safari on New Year's Eve....we got there in time to play for a little while before it started pouring down rain. We rode the train and joked about how my water could break on the train ride....it did break about 12 hours later on New Year's Day. :)