Blessing Day

Since we are already in Missouri where both grandparents are we decided to bless Hamilton before moving out to Utah. We blessed him in my parents home surrounded by family and it was sweet, simple and beautiful. 

It was fun buying him a set of nice Sunday clothes and dressing him up. I knew better than to have him wear it all day (spit up, explosive diarrhea...) So just as we were going to do the blessing I changed him and it happened. Something that never happened when changing Norah as a baby. The fountain of pee pee shot up and soaked his pants lol. But after a quick cycle in the dryer we were back on schedule :)

Here's our little man in his Sunday best. As you can tell, he still has some growing to do. 

He's not impressed, but we sure thought he looked handsome.

Proud parents of our sweet baby boy.

 Grandma and Grandpa Furnell

Grandma and Grandpa Tracy

 I'm grateful for the sweet blessing Daniel gave Hamilton to grow healthy and strong. It made me even more excited to be this little guy's mom!!! 

Introducing...

Hamilton Wade Tracy

October 14, 2014 @ 7:58am

7 lb 7 oz

18 1/4 inches

He's here! And right on his due date, just like Norah. 

My birth experience with Hamilton is very similar to mine with Norah. Monday started like any other day, early in the afternoon I noticed that I began loosing my mucus plug and having irregular contractions. 

By early evening contractions were coming on a bit stronger and more regular. I had planned on going to a movie with my parents but decided to stay home and pack a hospital bag and put Norah to bed one last time (good thing too).  As we were singing our songs and saying our prayers in her bed it really hit me, next time I do this she won't be the baby anymore. Cue the tears! 

To pass time, Daniel and I watched a few episodes of Sons of Anarchy and then I thought well, I better get some sleep. Which is what I should have been doing instead of watching Netflix, but I was too anxious. I got in bed at 11pm and woke up to a very strong contraction at midnight. So much for sleep. From then on contractions were less than 10 mins a part. I stayed awake watching Catching Fire until contractions were less than 5 minutes a part and rather painful. That's when I woke Daniel up. I snuck into Norah's room and gave her one last teary smooch before making our way to the hospital.

We got to the hospital at 3:30am and I was dilated to 5cm (whoo-hoo). Then it was the waiting game for the epidural. Whyyyy do they make us wait so long!? I was having the worst back labor pains ever, something I did NOT experience with Norah. It was horrific. I finally got my epiIdural at 5am and was dilated to 8cm. I was able to get some sleep until about 6:30am when they called my Dr. He showed up around 7am and said I was good to go. I started pushing at 7:30am and he was born at 7:58am. 

Talk about FAST!

Before I knew it, he was here and to be honest I did not know what to think lol. They were cleaning him up and I was just looking at him thinking, "I have another baby..." It was a very surreal experience to say the least. But once things calmed down and I was able to snuggle him and get that first wiff of new baby smell my heart melted. And has continued to melt each day since.

We love our little man so much and are very excited to welcome him into our family!

More details to come:)

My Girl

Well I've reached that point in my pregnancy. The point where I'm having a hard time coming to grips with my baby girl not being the baby anymore. 

One week to go until this little man makes his debut appearance and between getting everything ready for his arrival, I'm trying to soak up every minute of Norah time that I can. Which has proven difficult since we are staying with my parents until we find a home in Utah... Norah sure does love her Nana and Papa:)

During the hub-bub of of all that is going on, I asked my sweet sister-in-law to snap a few photos of just Norah and I on a walk. I want to remember what life was like when it was just her and I (oh and Dan too lol).

Now on to a new chapter in our lives. 

Bring on the endless diapers, sleepless nights and sore nipples. 

Just as long as I still get lovies from my baby girl.

XOXO