Clark Ames

Monday morning Tyler and I checked into Johns Hopkins.  They stuck me on the pitocin and Tyler and I spent a couple hours watching West Wing on Netflix.  I admit, I was a little sick of watching so much tv...I'm glad we don't watch that much on a daily basis.  Then the usual happened...I only progressed from a 3 to a 4 after so many hours, so they broke my water.  This time I didn't get instantly sick like I did when they broke my water with Madison.  With time I began to get over heated and then more uncomfortable.  I asked Tyler to find a doctor to check me, but they were in a meeting. Not sure how much longer I had to wait I had Tyler go find the anesthesiologist.  She also seems to take her time.  By the time I had my epidural medicine administered I was already at a 10...makes me wonder if I could have just gone without it.  Next time I should just get an epidural soon if I'm going to pay for it, or skip it all together.  I don't know why I only wait until the very end. I had two doctors, a resident, a medical student, and two nurses in the room in case Clark was super huge as expected.   Clark was born at 5 weighing 8 lbs 13 ounces and was 21 inches long.  I'm glad he is out as his umbilical cord was around his neck. Madison was so excited to come to the hospital to see and hold him.

 

Welcome to the real world.

The last day as an only child

We thought it would be nice to do something special with Madison the day before I was induced.  After dinner we (Tyler and Madison) made some chocolate chips cookies.  Madison did a lot of taste testing.

Bedtime story.

Here you can get an idea of how big my stomach was.  By this time most people were either asking if I was having twins or saying that there was no possible way I would make it to my due date.  

Camera Dump

The hunt continues.  Currently there are no mice in our place. It only took plenty of traps from us and pest control to come out four or five times to get rid of them. 

Mormon night at the Orioles game.

A friend of ours took us to a children's museum here in Baltimore.  It would have cost me $40 to take Madison, luckily we got in for free since our friend had a pass.  It did cost us $20 for parking.  They had different rooms with various hands on activities.  Madison really liked the water room.  We left after she had an accident.  I was lucky to have some clean panties in my purse for her and she had a skirt on that didn't get wet.

Playing with legos

Madison preparing food at the diners.

 Hoarding the bowls.

Another friend took us to the B&O train museum.  

 At a friends house watching the first BYU football game.

Our advent calendar...it's only taken us since living in Logan to finish making this.  I was determined to finish it before Clark was born.  I'm super pleased with how it turned out.

 Madison putting her baby to bed.

Sweet potato tacos.  Something new for dinner and I really enjoyed them.

 I let Madison have one of my old backpacks. 

Chicken alfredo zucchini boats.  

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