Well for nine days now I have been the mother of two children. It hasn't been too bad but one of them only sleeps - makes things much easier for now. He has been doing much better about eating - almost every four hours now and he has even gained 2 ounces, he now weighs a whopping 7lbs 2oz. He really likes his banket Aunt T made him, he stayed awake for almost 30 minutes rocking in the chair on it.

He even got to meet one of our local celebrities Wild Wing (the mascot for our local baseball team) this weekend at Kennedy's birthday party. He was a surprise and all the kids just loved him. I came out at the end so only got this one picture.

Hollie is getting used to the idea of being a big sister, though I don't think she is really "happy" about it right now. She is rebelling mostly but sometime come to help me change him or give him his paci. I think she is realizing that he isn't going to go away so she better learn to live with him. I have been trying to put aside some Hollie and Mommy time everyday just so she feels special, but sometimes I wonder if she even notices. At 2.5, I doubt it.

They also got to take their annual trip to the pumkin patch this past weekend. There was a photographer there who too some great pictures of all the kids and some of the alone and sibling pics. I think these were the cutest pumpkins in the patch.

All in all I think things are going well, I'm sure things will get more exciting in time.

It's been a long nine months but he is finally here. Jeremy Alan Bearden was born on Monday (Oct. 13) at 10:29 am. He weighed in at 7lbs 6oz and was 20 inches long. He is much smaller than anyone thought he would be. I really don't have any clothes that fit him like I think they should, but he will eventually grow into everything, I'm sure.

He is really cute and I think he looks a lot like Hollie when his eyes are closed, when he opens them (which is not often) not so much. He likes to sleep a lot, isn't really to into eating (I don't really know whose child this is) and when he gets mad, it is intant and then over. He will scream bloody murder for several minutes and then close his eyes and be asleep like nothing ever happened.

I am feeling much better today than I was yesterday and I know I will continue to feel better.

Hollie is not really all that excited about being a big sister, she will come check to make sure he is still there and when he cries she comes running with a pacifier, but other than that it is life as usual with her. I know in time she will come to love him and want to spend time with him but right now she is much too busy being Hollie.

I have said it before and I will say it again. My daughter does not have a normal pain threshold. Last Sunday we almost had what I felt was a near tragedy. When we were leaving my parents house and I was putting on her shoes I looked at her foot and she had what looked like a brown marker streak down the middle of her big toe nail. I looked a little closer and couldn't look anymore. I told Ben - Please tell me that is not a huge spinter in her nail. He looked and sure enough it was. It started at the tip of her nail and went all the way down under her nail to the quick. I immediately freaked out. We asked her what happened as she hadn't cried all day and didn't appear to be in any pain and her answer was - I don't know.

Where did that happen - I don't know. I think because I reacted like we should be taking her to the ER right away she realized that she should be hurt and started limping.

Ben tried to take it out but the end was right under her nail and he couldn't get ahold of it. So we put a Dora bandaid on it and took her home. I didn't sleep all night, every time I closed my eyes all I could see was this big splinter in her toe and I imagined the doctor having to cut her whole nail off her foot to get it out. I called her regular doctors office in the morning to see if they would even touch it and they said no, call a podiatrist. Luckily we have a friend who is a podiatrist so I called her, couldn't get an appointment till late in the afternoon so I had to think about what she might do to get this thing out all day. I was a nervous wreck, even took my first sick day off from work. I think unless Hollie happened to look at her toe and see the bandaid, she forgot about it all together.

Anyways, our wonderful doctor friend, who by the way couldn't understand how she was running around on this foot with the giant thorn in it and didn't even know where it had come from, was able to just pull it out, she had to cut the nail a bit lower, but it came right out. Hollie didn't even cry - I - almost passed out.

This picture is fuzzy but you can tell where it is and how big it is.

I just wanted to do a quick update and let everyone know that I only have 10 days left before I get to meet this little jumping bean in my belly. I swear he is way more active than Hollie ever was (Please help me someone), or at least than I rememnber and I think I have already said that I have forgotten most of that. I am scheduled to have a c-section on the 13th - which I am kind of happy about, I think the 13th is a cool day - first you have October - spooky month - then the 13th, so every 6 or 7 years his birthday will be on Friday the 13th and I just think that is great. I went to the doctor on Thursday and he said that he is only measuring right at 7 lbs right now. He figures he should be about 7.5 at birth - smaller than Hollie. For some reason I am still reluctant to buy newborn clothes. I can't imagine that he will be that small, maybe his coming home outfit will just be really big. Will he really care?
Anyways, I have another appt. on Thursday and will try to update then if any changes. Maybe I could just go into labor all by myself (HAHA!!)