Richmond Visit

Eric was out of town for the weekend for a conference in Nashville so I packed up the kids and we headed to Richmond for the weekend!!  We had so much fun spending some quality time with special people in our lives!

First stop- Splash Park with the Tots and Quattlebaums

It was also sooo great to spend time at the pool with all the cousins celebrating Mason's birthday!!!

18 months

Dear my little Ryan,

You are now a year and a half old, 18 months, growing way to fast etc etc.  I will know your height and weight next week when we take you to the doc and will update this at that time.  Size 5 diapers, eating everything, drinking milk and water and an occasional sip of whatever someone else is drinking, love love love flavor ices and ask for them constantly.  This month you had lots of different babysitters!  Madi came up from Richmond for a week and stayed with you at moms house.  You guys had fun riding bikes, going to the pool, playing in the front yard, and going for lots of walks.  Melissa came and stayed with us the second week in our new house to take care of you!  She took off a week from work just for the chance to get to spend time with you for the week and we are so grateful!  And we totally lucked out that the family "Vick" is babysitting for went on vacation the week of July 4th and was able to come back and stay with you again, you love all your cousins!

 

Lets see, you love playing outside, you have a water park and a baby pool on the deck and spend as much time out there as possible.  You also love going for walks and car rides!  You have continued to expand your vocabulary which is way beyond your age as it is, you are learning colors now and your favorite is "geen."  You are well OBSESSED with Mickey and Mickey Mouse Club House.  You dance through the whole thing.  Actually you dance everytime you hear anything that resembles music including the ice cream man coming to the pool.  Oh yeah and you love the pool!  We went there a few times this month.  The pool is great it has a beach access so you just walk right in, waterfalls which you love but then don't like when they splash on your face.  We took lunch up there one day and you ate a whole sandwich cut into 4's.  You are just all grown up, it is so exciting/sad/entertaining, etc.  You really only stay a baby for a few months!  Your hair is still growing, is bright blonde, and getting curly in the back.  Dad wants to cut it, I have held out, but the fact that you sweat every time you ride in the car or do anything, I might be coming around!

  

You climb on everything, flip everything over and climb on the other side!  We started a little gym class with you this month which is awesome!  Your little friends Ginny and Maddie are in the class and you have so much fun!  Imagine a big huge room coated with mats, perfect and you take full advantage running full speed and climbing on everything there as well.  You love to read book, favorite of the week is the "Tractor" one and if we leave it upstairs during the day thats a big no no and it gets read at least 6 times before bed.  Bed time has been going well, still bath then bed, bed time is more around 8-8:30 these days, happy summer to you!

 

 
This biggest new thing this month, is you are a BIG BROTHER!!!  You are absolutely wonderful with your little sister.  I was so worried/scared to hurt your feelings with another baby but you are doing awesome!  You love her and bring her blankets so she doesn't get cold.  When we take her diaper off you take yours off by yourself.  You love touching her hand and rocking her in her little rocky thing.  You give her kisses every time you have to go to sleep and she is the first person, besides grandma that you ask about every morning.  I can't wait until I am fully recovered so we can play for the rest of my maternity leave.

Not so sure about all this and wondering why everyone is looking at him....

King- Family of 4

My Lovies!!!

Lovin on your little sister

Your new Grill set!!  This was your coming home present for the new Big Brother!!!

Lovin the new grill!

You are the coolest, funniest, most adorable little man I have ever met and you make us so happy and grateful to be your parents.  I can't wait to get you out of your crib every morning just to see what the day ahead holds.  We love you so so so much and are so proud of you!!

Love,

Mom and Dad

Welcome Emily Nora King!!

It all started on the 4th of July with some major contractions, those things hurt like you know what!  We were hoping for our little fire cracker on the 4th but never called the doc.  Didn't want to be "that girl" that is calling the doctor over every feeling out of the ordinary.  The next day Eric, Ryan, and I went to Costco and another contraction, so Eric talked me into calling the doc on the way home.  He wasn't thrilled to hear from me, I certainly didn't sound like I was dying of pain and in serious labor or anything.  We went home, Sean and Sonya to the rescue to watch Ryan, and Eric and I headed to the hospital, once again no car seat and no bag packed or ready to go...typical King fashion, what plans?!?!

We arrive in Triage about 3:00pm and they hook me up to the monitors.  For a while it just showed a unhappy Ute so after a while I was about to just take everything off and head home, was getting sick of being there.  Then the upsetness wasn't going away and they were becoming more and more consistent, aka contractions oh my!  So they sent us down for a sonogram, everything looked fine on there, cervix was still closed etc etc, back up to our room and ready to head home to the pizza the Farells had ordered!  But then they hooked me back up and I was having contractions 4 minutes apart, not really feeling anything???  Called the doc, he was on his way back in and we were headed to delivery!

 

The delivery was the same as with Ryan, well a lot less dramatic, Emily came out breathing and crying PHEW!  As soon as we heard her cry, I started tearing and Eric was showing a huge sign of relief.  Emily Nora King was born at 11:15pm on Friday, July 5th, 2013 weighed 7 lbs 8ounces and was 20 and 1/4 inches long.  She is absolutely perfect, beautiful, and so so so little.  How quickly you forget how little these babies start out.

We got to our room around 2:30am, finally got settled and Em's was making noises that sounded familiar to us from Ryan, a grunting sound.  We asked the nurse and she said to watch her closely, aka don't go to sleep, sometimes the c-section babies still have fluid in there they need to get out.  Well we were exhausted so we asked the nurse if they could watch her in the nursery for like an hour so we could catch a quick snooze.  Everything went fine and she returned to our room.

The next day we woke up, Em's was fine, and we were anxiously anticipating Ryan coming to visit and meet his little sister!!  He didn't really pay attention to care, just wanted Grandma but it was so good to see him!!

 

 

Later that day RIGHT as the pediatrician came in, Emily started throwing up and choking and not breathing.  The pediatrician suctioned her out and suggested we take her down to the nursery to be checked out, Eric took her down there while the doctor was checking me out.  Then they weren't back so I walked down there to find the NICU doctor in there and we were admitted to the NICU, xrays showed a pnemothorax which is a tear in her lung.  It was small and she healed it all on her own!!!

Nurse Marie!!!  Our favorite NICU nurse with Ryan and Emily!!!

On Tuesday we were both discharged and headed home as a very happy family of 4!!  The dress Emily wore home from the hospital was the same one I wore home a loooong time ago!!!  Thank you Grandma for getting that all fixed up for her!!

 

When we arrived home Ryan was sleeping, which gave us enough time to get his big brother present all set up for him!!  He is now a grill master!!

 

Ryan has been so wonderful and LOVES his "sistur!!!"  I am such a happy mommy and love these two little babies so so so much!!!!