My Baby is ONE!!! Happy Birthday Luke! 5/29/09

Last year I was overdue with baby Luke. Somewhat blissfully awaiting his arrival in hopes of a natural child birth as I went in for a check up and found that his heart beat was stressed and Dr. Gibby said I had to be started now. Our plans were foiled and I had a feeling that I should just let them do a c-section, but then I thought I was just being a boob so I shook my feeling away.

We started the labor, and it was progressing slowly, Luke's hearbeat was really stressed and I overheard Dr. Gibby talking about getting the anesthesiologist in there. I had a feeling again that I should have a c-section and shook it off as me

being chicken.

(1 month)

Long story short I labored all day. It kind of slowed down and Dr. Gibby encouraged me to break the water. I gave in and let him, well Luke was in the wrong position and he got stuck with his head upside down. (2 months)

The chances of getting him out were so slim and although they let me wait a bit to see if he would move I think they knew that both of us were in danger. So then came the point where nothing was working and the dialation actually began to re-gress so we prepped for a c-section. I was afraid of that, if someone had told me how easy it was, MAN!

(3 months)

(5 months)

Luke was born just after midnight, his poor face looked like he had been in a boxing match because of being in the wrong position, each time the Dr. or nurse checked me, he was getting smacked in the face.

The swelling went down and we spent 3 and a half days in the hospital then when we were ready to check out, Luke had a fever. He had to stay another 24 hours. And I had to stay with him. I was so stir crazy!

(6 months)

He was immediately such a blessing to our family! What a beautiful spirit he is! Only a few days old and he was so alert and wide-eyed like all our kids were.

At one month he was smiling at us! At 4 months he sat up by himself.

He is so happy too! Only a few months old and he started to laugh. He would laugh randomly at nothing and at everything. He just is always happy!

He very seldom cries, he usually sleeps most of the night, and he loves to cuddle!

He is such a big kid too, he started to army crawl at 7 months and then up on his knees, and then he started to walk at 11 months!

(8months)





He runs and plays with the kids and babbles like he is talking to us. He stacks blocks and sings, he absolutely loves the piano. If he even sees it open he is a magnet to it! He rides his little scoot bike and eats at the table. He loves to read and chase the kids! Like I said he is so big! He is my angel! I am so glad we have him, he is such a completion to our little family!

(9 months)

I can't believe it was just one year ago, that I held him in the (10 months)

hospital and looked into those bright shining eyes! Just one year ago I was walking laps in the yard waiting his arrival, and one year ago our lives were blessed with this beautiful baby, this fun boy and this loving spirit! Our Lukas!

Happy 1st Birthday Luke!

5/29/09

Luke walks! 11 months old!

Push-ups or Principle?

So Dan is always teasing the kids, in a brotherly kind of way. He is sarcastic with them and pokes fun a lot. They usually do very well with it, but sometimes I think they don't understand...."who is this person, my dad or my brother." It is all in fun, but it is even funnier to me when it backfires.
So this morning we were doing our daily scripture study and Dan has this joke with the kids(realizing they are only 6 and 8) that if they lose their place and don't know where we are when he calls on them, they have to do pushups. He is always saying it, if they don't start right away or if they ask where we are, he says, "That's push-ups!"
So this morning I thought, well maybe I will get in on the fun.(this never really turns out well, whenever I get involved with things like this, but it can be kind of funny.) So as the kids lost their places they were assigned 5 push-ups, Cordell got it twice, then there was a diaper problem with Luke and we paused for a minute. When we came back it was Katie's turn to read. She said, "Where are we?" (5 push-ups) and Dan looked down at his book with a look of "Uh, let's see," I could see his eyes scanning the page and finally after a long pause, he concluded that we were on verse 24. I said, "Aww, 5 push-ups." He disagreed, claiming that he knew all along where we were. (Yah!)
So we finished reading and he took off quick, I could tell he was getting out of there. I called for him a few times and he never came, so I asked Cordell to go tell him that I needed him. Dan knew what for, because he came into the living room with shoes in hand and said, "What? I need to go!" I said, smiling,(thinking it was funny and he would just say, Ok, and quickly do 5 push-ups with the kids and laugh and be done with it)"You forgot to do your push-ups with the kids." Boy did that open up a huge can! He immediately bit back! He claimed he had not lost his place and that he didn't need to do any. It proceeded to turn into the kids shouting trying to persuade him to do them with and him arguing that it wasn't neccessary. I told him it was the principle of it. If one of them had done what he did, they would have been given push-ups. All of us were doing it in fun, we were laughing and smiling as we tried to get him to come do them with the two kids. He of course was not smiling! The kids told him I was the boss and you could tell that really made him angry.
Finally, after arguing for a few minutes he stomped over to the living room, and quickly did 5 push-ups (It's not like they are hard for him, I am sure he could do 100 if he wanted to, not like me who would take a whole minute to do 10 or so). He got up very ANGRY! I couldn't believe it! I told him, it wasn't that big of a deal and he snapped back that he already had a headache and he needed to go to work! (not that it took longer than a few seconds)
I couldn't believe his reaction! I thought that if one of the kids had reacted that way he would have lectured and scolded them. My how the tables turned.
I don't know why he got so angry. I wasn't very supportive when I expressed my dissapointment in his reaction as he told me good-bye and slammed the back door. I think if it had been me, I would have just laughed and done the push-ups.....