First day on our own

On Monday, Wednesday and Friday I take Mitch to daycare and spend the rest of the day resting and catching up on sleep with Molly.  On Tuesday and Thursday I have both kids at home with me.  Here's a picture of the three of us on our first day by ourselves.  Mitch got a scratch on the face from chasing the cat all day (she finally fought back).

Welcome Molly

It's a GIRL!!  

Molly Carroll Mitchell was born 10/16/2011 at 10:27pm.  She was 7 lbs 14 oz and 21 inches.  

I started feeling "off" about 6:30pm.  We called our mothers to ask for for help and called the midwife to let them know things had started.   Talked to the midwife and agreed to meet at the Birth Center at 8:30 (originally she wanted to meet at 9pm but I was worried that would be too late, since Bonnie's delivery the day before was only 3.5hrs).  Upon arrival I was dilated to 9cm but my water was still in tack.  After waiting for the water to break on its own for over an hour the midwife offered to break my water.  We had our baby girl in my arms less then 10 minutes later.

Thank you to Genelle for staying at our house to watch Mitch so Jeff and I could go to the Birth Center.  Thank you to Debbie who met us at the Birth Center and got me much needed food after delivery.

 Day 1

 Day 2

Day 3

9 months pregnant

baby #2 due date 10/13/2011.

Boy or Girl?

Belly Buddies

The last belly pictures of Bonnie and I.  I don't know if you will ever see either one of us with bellies again.

Visit to the beach

Jeff took the whole family to the beach trying to enjoy the last bit of decent weather. Oli loved the attention and went swimming for sticks. Mitch had to be held so that he wouldn't go swimming. Although the day was nice, the Puget sound water was not warm enough for little boys.

Want to be like dad

Here are a couples pictures of Jeff's mini-me, Mitch.

Jeff mowing the lawn. Mitch followed him by a couple steps, back and forth. Good practice for when mowing the lawn becomes Mitch's chore.

Jeff cutting out an old window. Mitch was watching him from our bed.

The saw was a little loud so mom put in some ear plugs for protection.

Climbing up the ladder by himself. We are working on climbing down the ladder.