Back to the gym

I went to the gym today and it felt so nice to go back. I have been so ready to start working out again. I went to a yoga class. It has been so long sense I have stretched so it felt so good. I already feel like I have so much more energy, even without the sleep. I am ready to start loosing this baby weight too. I gained so much extra weight this time. I know Landen will enjoy getting out of the house every morning too. He loves going to the gym and getting to be around other kids.

We have been getting a lot of snow this past week. It has been so cold. About two weeks ago we had such beautiful weather. It stayed in the 70s most of the time. Now we are back down to the 30s and 40s. I am ready for it to warm up again. It was such a tease to have that nice weather. I want to be able to go out side and absorb the sun and let Landen run around.

Dade is growing way to fast. He is already weighing 10 lbs. He is doing so good though. He is sleeping better at night. He only wakes up once or twice through the night. We just moved Landens' room around getting ready to put Dade in the room with him. Dade can be quite noisy when he sleeps so it will be nice to not have his grunting waking me up at night.

Drew only has 5 weeks left of this semester and he is very ready for it to be over. He has also been studying for the test for the Border Patrol. He will be applying for the job next month. If he gets the job we are hoping that we can get back to Tucson or close by. We really hope Drew gets this job. It would help us out in so many ways.

Pictures

Dade at 4 weeks. He is already growing too fast.

Landen playing at the park. He is getting so big. He is already over 3 feet tall.

Landen wanted to share his stuffed animals with Dade.

Ready for work in his hard hat and snow boots and even has his animal crackers.

Big Brother

Dade is already almost a month old. He is doing really good. He is trying to hold his head up already and doing a pretty good job of it. He has already grown so much. Landen is doing so good with him. He is always giving him hugs and kisses. He is such a good big brother. The other day Dade was crying and Drew and I were both busy and couldn't get to him right away. So Landen decided to help and got his pacifier and held it in his mouth for him. It is so cute to watch Landen with Dade.

Drew is back at work now and all our family has left. I am so thankful that our family was able to come visit and help us out. It has been hard going from so much help to none at all. I am trying to figure out how to split my time between both kids and still have a little time to myself. I am doing good just really tired. I feel like I have recovered quicker with this c-section then I did with the first. I am ready to get back to the gym and get back into shape. I am also ready for Landen to get to play at the daycare at the gym so he can get out of the house and play with other kids.

He loves to hold his little brother
Our family

Home sweet home

We are now home!!!!! It is nice being out of the hospital and relaxing at home. We left the hospital Monday morning. Drew has been going to school in the mornings but he has 3 weeks off of work and he has been enjoying every minute of not being at work. It has been so nice having my parents here to help. Landen has loved having them here. They will be here until the end of next week then Drew's mom will be coming to stay with us for a week.

When Landen first came to see Dade he didn't want to have anything to do with him. After a few hours he started getting a little more curious but still didn't really care. Once we got Dade home Landen has loved having him here. He always wants to hold him and help Daddy carry him. He also loves giving him kisses. I have noticed that Landen has been more affectionate toward me then usual but has been doing really good with not having all my attention. I think a lot of that is having my parents here to entertain him and boy does he love grandpa. I think Landen would be totally happy to go home with grandpa.

Dade is such a sweet heart. He has been such a good baby. He sleeps all the time and doesn't cry unless he is hungry. He loves to be held but is just as fine with sleeping in his bed. He is just so cute and I can't stop staring at him.

Dade Jackson

I woke up Thursday morning having contractions. They were not consistent but they were pretty hard. So we ended up going to the hospital that evening as they got harder. I was only dilated to 1cm and an hour later I had not progressed so they sent me home. That night around 10:00 I started leaking fluid which later we found out was the amniotic fluid. I had a doctors appointment at 1:30 p.m. yesterday and decided to wait to go to the doctor instead of going to the hospital again even though my contractions were getting much harder. The doctor told me my water had already broke so I needed to go to the hospital. At that time I was dilated to 2cm. We got to the hospital around 3:00 and by 10:00 last night I had only dilated to 4cm and things were progressing very slowly and we weren't even sure they would continue to progress. So I ended up having a cesarean. At 10:56 p.m. on February 13th Dade Jackson was born weighing 7Ib 9oz and 19 1/2" long.

Landen holding my hand while we waited

One of Dade's first pictures

Dade's little foot

Me and Dade the first time I got to see himDaddy holding DadeOur precious new addition to the family

Almost there

We are down to 6 days left. I have been having more contractions but they are still really far apart. I had a doctors appointment last Friday and everything is going really good. I am dilated to a 1 and progressing nicely.

Bored

I only have 13 days left until my due date and it still seems like its far away. I have been occupying my time by reading. I have been reading the Twilight books and am now obsessed. I haven't been able to stop reading. I got the first book to have something to read when I was in the hospital but I finished it in less than a week, and now I just finished the second book in about 3 days. It has been nice having something to distract me from my discomfort. But now that I am done with the second book and I don't have the last two yet, I have no idea what to do with myself. My house is clean, everything is ready for the baby and I am so bored I don't know what to do. So here I am writing on my blog trying to keep my self busy.

Landen has been doing really good. I was having a lot of problems being patient with him and not losing my temper, but this last week has been great. We have been getting along much better and we both have been a lot happier. He has been growing so much. I think he is at least 3 feet tall now.

Drew is doing good. Just stressing about school like he always does. We have decided that we will not be able to go to Tucson this summer like we were planning. We will be staying here so Drew can get his last semester done over the summer then he will have his Associates Degree. Drew with then be applying for the Border Patrol hoping to get back to, or closer to Arizona. Then where ever we end up he will finish his Bachelors Degree.