My newest beautiful boy, Tyler. I love his pointy turtle lip!
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Home on the range
After a couple of days in the hospital, I was ready to go home and get back to life!
Tyler was really excited to be going home too!
Tyler was really excited to be going home too!
These guys couldn't wait to have their slave-lady back!
In the car headed home. Tyler being cared for by watchful brother James.
Finally home. Isn't he so cute in his coming home outfit? I may have a bunch of boys, but that is not going to keep me from dressing them up like my little dollies!
Meet Tyler too
Everyone couldn't wait to come meeting new baby Tyler!
Tyler and grandma
Tyler and grandma
James seeing baby brother for the first time!
As you can see, Gove and Max were very interested in the new baby!
Daddy and baby boy #4
A Star is Born
In May we welcomed baby Tyler into our family. I cannot believe I have four boys. I really never would have believed I would have all boys. As a child all I ever dreamed of was having a baby girl to dress up and put bows in her hair. Too bad for me. Life is good and I couldn't imagine it any other way!
This boy was stubborn. He was born on his due date, but only after days of laboring on my part. I would start having contraction, then he would move up and around and the contractions would stop. By the time I had him, I hadn't slept in days! The day before I had him, I had essentially given up on actually going into real labor on my own. I went to Leland and got adjusted and had the baby moved into position as I have with all of my boys. Tyler was posterior and Leland was able to get him to turn into the right position. I started having good contractions, but then he moved again and I stopped. My mom begged and goaded me to try caster oil, so i finally gave in and did it! She gave me a long massage and rubbed pressure points on my ankles and between my shoulders. After hours without contractions, I just told Nolan to go to work because nothing was happening that night. I got the kids put to bed and sat down to rest when I felt my body start to contract. It was 9:30pm and my contractions were hard and fast. I called my mom and told her I might be in labor! She was very pleased to have been right about the caster oil and the massage! During the course of our conversation, my contractions got harder and closer together. I texted Nolan and told him he needed to come home. Because of his job he can't just pick up and leave at a moment's notice, so it took him some time to get home. By about 10:30, I was panicking. I had never experienced labor progressing so quickly and was very worried I would not get an epidural. I know, crazy fear, but it was my fear nonetheless. I texted Shane and Anamin to come over to sleep with the kids and texted Nolan again and again to get home! Once Nolan got home and Shane and Anamin were there for our boys, we jumped into the car and headed for the hospital. By the time we got to the hospital, my arms and legs were tingling and I felt like I was going to pass out from hyperventilating in the car! The baby was posterior again and sitting was very painful, plus the aforementioned fear was not helping with my calm breathing! Once I got admitted and was told I would have an epidural, I was just fine. They gave me an IV and an epidural and my body did the rest of the hard painful work while my brain was oblivious to the pain and suffering! By the time 5:00am rolled around, I was fully dilated and effaced, but the baby was still moving all around and my water had not broken! The nurse said I had bags of steal (gross :) The doctor came in a little after 6am and broke my water. What a flood that was! I wanted to wait through a few contraction until I truly had the urge to push before I just started pushing without cues from my body. When the time came, I push him out in a few pushes and met my baby boy. He came out sideways and weighed in at 8lbs 7oz. My biggest baby. He looked like Max and had huge hands and feet. He came out shrieking, angry and starving! He was literally licking his lips with hunger from the moment he was placed in my arms. I was so happy to see him so pink and healthy. We love our new baby Tyler!
This boy was stubborn. He was born on his due date, but only after days of laboring on my part. I would start having contraction, then he would move up and around and the contractions would stop. By the time I had him, I hadn't slept in days! The day before I had him, I had essentially given up on actually going into real labor on my own. I went to Leland and got adjusted and had the baby moved into position as I have with all of my boys. Tyler was posterior and Leland was able to get him to turn into the right position. I started having good contractions, but then he moved again and I stopped. My mom begged and goaded me to try caster oil, so i finally gave in and did it! She gave me a long massage and rubbed pressure points on my ankles and between my shoulders. After hours without contractions, I just told Nolan to go to work because nothing was happening that night. I got the kids put to bed and sat down to rest when I felt my body start to contract. It was 9:30pm and my contractions were hard and fast. I called my mom and told her I might be in labor! She was very pleased to have been right about the caster oil and the massage! During the course of our conversation, my contractions got harder and closer together. I texted Nolan and told him he needed to come home. Because of his job he can't just pick up and leave at a moment's notice, so it took him some time to get home. By about 10:30, I was panicking. I had never experienced labor progressing so quickly and was very worried I would not get an epidural. I know, crazy fear, but it was my fear nonetheless. I texted Shane and Anamin to come over to sleep with the kids and texted Nolan again and again to get home! Once Nolan got home and Shane and Anamin were there for our boys, we jumped into the car and headed for the hospital. By the time we got to the hospital, my arms and legs were tingling and I felt like I was going to pass out from hyperventilating in the car! The baby was posterior again and sitting was very painful, plus the aforementioned fear was not helping with my calm breathing! Once I got admitted and was told I would have an epidural, I was just fine. They gave me an IV and an epidural and my body did the rest of the hard painful work while my brain was oblivious to the pain and suffering! By the time 5:00am rolled around, I was fully dilated and effaced, but the baby was still moving all around and my water had not broken! The nurse said I had bags of steal (gross :) The doctor came in a little after 6am and broke my water. What a flood that was! I wanted to wait through a few contraction until I truly had the urge to push before I just started pushing without cues from my body. When the time came, I push him out in a few pushes and met my baby boy. He came out sideways and weighed in at 8lbs 7oz. My biggest baby. He looked like Max and had huge hands and feet. He came out shrieking, angry and starving! He was literally licking his lips with hunger from the moment he was placed in my arms. I was so happy to see him so pink and healthy. We love our new baby Tyler!
Big mouth, big hands and demanding from the start. He must be my child!
A few minutes after birth. So alert!
New baby Tyler and his tired mama!
Gove graduates
From kindergarten that is! Gove absolutely loved his first year of school. His teacher was wonderful, his school great and his classmates intelligent and cute! I loved helping in his classroom every week and getting to know his teacher and his surroundings a little better. This school thing is the beginning of a long journey for future doctor Gove!
Gove accepting his reading award with his other classmates.
Gove accepting his reading award with his other classmates.
Getting ready to give his mama a rose!
My award for helping throughout the year. What a sweet teacher he had! This was literally three days before I had the baby. I am gigantic and if I had realized how crazy my belly button looked I would have done something to cover it up!
Gove accepting his diploma. Seriously, I cannot say enough good things about his wonderful kindergarten teacher. She better not think about retiring until she has guided all of the little Martinbreaus through their first year of school!
Sleep
As I was going through all of my photos, I realized I have a lot of pictures of my kids sleeping. Never is a child more beautiful than when they are sleeping! Okay, maybe that's just me. My kids sleep so little that I guess I just need to capture those fleeting moments of sleep so I can look back and remember that they really did sleep every once in awhile!
We have six beds in our house. For some reason they always end up barely in the one bed they choose to crash in!
We have six beds in our house. For some reason they always end up barely in the one bed they choose to crash in!
Max and James fall asleep quickly when they are ready. Gove, on the other hand, is sometimes up hours after they pass out. He likes to thik he doesn't sleep at all. He will get up in the morning and tell me he stayed up all night. I always tell him the time he fell asleep and the amount of hours he slept. He doesn't believe it!
Future blackmail photo.
Just before I had the baby Gove and Max decided they wanted to sleep in the crib. We couldn't believe it when we went into the nursery and found them actually sleeping! Notice their pillow pets. They love them! Gove also has a collection of doggies he sleeps with. He loves the "Duffy Dog" my grandma gave him for Christmas several years ago most of all. The fact that my grandma singled out Gove as the great-grandchild she would give her "Duffy Dog" to tells me she loved Gove most of all :)
When the weather heats up...
We go swimming!! Our boys love to swim and play outside in the water during the summer. I don't know what they boys would do if they couldn't swim to escape the sweltering heat of Arizona. With each passing summer, their swimming skills improve. Gove is swimming down to the very bottom of the deep end of the pool, Max can dive into the water like a dolphin and James is swimming very well on own. I love my summer fishies!
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