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.

36 Weeks

I only have 25 days left until my due date and I am still hoping he comes sooner. But it is crazy to think I am that close. This pregnancy went by much faster than the first. I am more than ready to have the baby. I get more uncomfortable every day. It is getting harder to fit in any of my clothes. Even my maternity overalls are getting too small and they have been the only pants I could wear for the last 3 months. My belly hangs out of all of my shirts. I don't think they make maternity clothes to accommodate the end of the pregnancy. I am going to the doctor weekly now and next weekend we have another sonogram to check the kidneys again. Everything else is going really good.

Here is a picture of my big belly.

More pictures

Sonogram

We had a doctor appointment today and had another sonogram. This was our fourth sonogram. We have been checking the kidneys because they have been dilated. The left kidney is still dilated so we will be having another sonogram in 4 weeks. While doing the sonogram I asked the lady if we could see his face. While we were looking at it she said she would do a 3D view and she printed a picture for us. Everything else is going good. The doctor said the baby appears to be a little on the big side. Now I am really hoping to have the baby early so he doesn't get too much bigger. Here is the recent picture of baby Dade.
We had a good Christmas. We got to open all our presents in the morning before Drew had to go to work that afternoon. Then we had our Christmas meal the next day. Landen enjoyed playing with all his toys while Drew played with the new Wii. New Years was good. Drew had to work on New Years eve and got home at 10:00 so we stayed up to greet the New Year then went to bed. Drew also had to work on New Years so I stayed home bored with Landen.

Drew goes back to school on the 12th. We have been enjoying having him home in the mornings. Landen grows so much everyday. We bought new shoes for him about a month ago, that were way to big for him figuring we would have awhile before he wore them. But now they are the only ones that fit. He learns so many new words everyday and is doing better at trying to make sentences. I can't believe we are already in 2009. Another year of memories gone and a new year for more memories to come.