FIRST DAY HOME

We got to come home yesterday around 12:30 in the afternoon. We came home to a full house of Nana Venise, Daniella, Bianca, Ari & Saige (the other newest additions to the family). It was nice to be home so we could be comfortable and on our own schedule.

Mack was good, he woke up about every 2-3 hours, but when he sleeps he sleeps. Lo is still on meds for her pain, she is getting around fine, just slowly.

Here are some new pics and a video (I can't figure out how to rotate the video so sorry for the kink in your neck).

Mom relaxing while Mack is napping!

Dad & Mack (Twins)

Mack trying to sleep but Dad is picking on him to get up and eat. (sorry I can't figure out how to rotate it).



The Big Day Finally Came

3/22/11 Lo had been having contractions...she woke me up about 1 in the morning and said they were getting more intense. Around 2 we started timing the contraction length and the amount of time between them (we had to google it, the class was out the window at crunch time!). They were about 30 seconds long and anywhere from 3-8 minutes in between. Finally around 4:30am we decided to pack up and go to the hospital. They checked her and sent us home. False alarm, waa waa waaaaah!

3/23/11 She continued to have contractions throughout the day & night...getting way more intense, lasting a full minute and only 3 or 4 minutes in between. Finally around 9pm we (Nana Venise, Daniella & Bianca who drove up that day) convinced Lani to go back to the hospital.  At 10:15pm they admitted us dilated at a 3-4. She immediately got an epidural and was told to get some rest.

3/24/11 They came in regularly and checked her throughout the night and morning. She dilated to a 7 on her own, then was given drugs to fully dilate. At 10am she began PUSHING! She pushed like crazy for 2 hours, the doc determined that Mack was not turning (was still face up) and just might be too big for Lo to get out on her own. They decided a C-section was the route, in a flash Lo was prepped, papers were signed, I put on scrubs and rushed off to the O.R.

Our little man, Mack, was born at 12:38pm (March 24, 2011). He weighed in at a fit 7 lbs. 13 oz. and a towering 21.5 inches. He has hands and feet like a bear, hopefully he will be like a puppy and will grow into them.

He is the greatest thing GOD could ever have given us, it is amazing how much you are attached even though we had never met, he is our everything. Here is a video fresh out the womb getting cleaned up, covered up and getting the heck out of the operating room.

TIMES UP!

Enough said!!!

ALMOST HERE!

Our little bun in the oven is almost done! Any day now Lo will go into labor and our little man will arrive...he is clearly on his own schedule. It has been a really long while since we have last posted. I have been on the road with basketball and the computer has been acting up again so Lo couldn't use the computer. Things have been relatively the same, doctor appointments are in and out...LITERALLY, walk in, sit down, called back, weigh in, blood pressure, measure stomach, listen to heart beat, cold/goopy fingers AND OUT!

We have both been NESTING a bit, getting all the final preparations ready for his arrival. Cleaned the house, set up his room, decorated it, got all of his clothes and things organized, put the seat in the car...all that is missing now is HIM!

We have finally settled on a name. The Last name has been in place obviously since the beginning (LAMOREAUX). The Middle name was agreed upon shortly after we found out he was a boy (EASTON). But as of late I finalized his name (MACK), Lo picked the middle name so I got to pick the first name...partly because of an indecisive wife and her worries of naming him something that he will later get made fun of. So keeping my initials M.E.L going (which spells my Dad's name), we soon will be introducing the world to Mack Easton Lamoreaux.

Those are a few pictures of the nursery...we wanted to keep it simple and vintage.

M.E.L.'s BABY SHOWER

On Jan. 16th, my sisters, mom, dad's wife Mona and my Nina Lori threw me a baby shower for baby boy Lamoreaux at my sister Daniella's house.  Although it was mid January the weather was GREAT, nearing the 80's (it did make me realize however, how thankful I am to NOT be pregnancy during the Summer)  I was blessed to have plenty of family and friends in attendance, my aunts on both sides of the family, the Lamoreaux ladies, friends and some extended family as well.  On the menu was some fajitas and sides that Mona had made, sweet tea from Chik-fil-a (my favorite) and knowing that I am not much of a cake person, my sisters did a dessert bar which came out AMAZING!  I got so many things that I needed...stroller/car seat from the Auburn girls, a monitor, bouncy chair and enough sports onesies to make this child start making passes in his sleep! :)  I had a blast and felt very loved/blessed from all the gifts we received.  Below are a few pictures...

Happy Parents to Be :)



Hostesses with the mostestes. ha

Preggos here, preggos there, preggos EVERYWHERE!

The awesome candy bar! 

 The card says Cameron Newton :) hahaha

 Personalized onesies from Grandma Lamoreaux



3D Ultrasound Dec. 23,2010

We went back to Orange County for the holidays. On the plans of things to do was, get a 3D ultrasound to see what our little man looks like. The place lets you invite whoever you want to come and see the baby, so we decided to keep it small and only invite family. Good thing that we did because some people were still out the door looking in. The nurse procedes to try to find our little dudes face and if she can't or he is hiding the nurse has no gripes about shaking the crap out of Lo's stomach to get him to turn over or uncover his face. It is just like normal ultrasound where the nurse is constantly taking pictures of the baby and saving it to the computer. When it was all said and done we got a CD with like 40 some odd pictures of our dude and a handful of black and white print outs to show off. Everyone who was there had never seen it before...well that is a lie because Daniella and Greg have 3 girls of her own that they got to see and Bianca did it just before us to see baby Saige. My parents for sure have not seen anything like that before, it has been 14 years since a new addition has come to the Lamoreaux family...the aw of something new sure didn't slow my dad down, he had a comment for everything which got Tata Placido going and they almost stole the show with all there jokes. Our guy was the cutest little thing ever, we think that we can tell who's features that he has but I guess you can be the judge of that. He is already AWESOME, we couldn't be more blessed. We were glad to have everyone there to be a part of it...we wish we could have invited more but maybe next time.

Just hanging out in there...all peaceful

Tired of the camera and just wants to be left alone to get some sleep



No diabetes here!, 26 Weeks, and prego bunch...

Apologies for the delay in posting... Lamb and I have developed a love/hate relationship with technology lately since our 4 month old computer decided to crash.  Three trips to Best Buy, a week send off to Dell and again a nice little check in with the Geek Squad, who in my opinion should just be referred to as "I pretend to know what I am doing and use big computer words but I really just like to play video games" and we have our computer back :) 
Some updates since last time.  At 24 weeks I had to do my glucose testing to make sure I do not have gestational diabetes.  Take down a sugar drink and get blood taken an hour afterward.  A couple of days later I got a note from my Dr. saying that I had to take the 3 hour glucose test because my sugar levels where a little high.  I obviously began to worry and did exactly what Lamb tells me NOT to do and googled causes of gestational diabetes.  I literally had nothing that would perhaps cause it (obesity, history of diabetes, etc).  So I did a suggested diet for 3 days and then had to fast for 12hrs before taking it again.  This was by far the most miserable thing I have done.  Once I got to the diagnostics place she drew my blood and I had to drink the sugar stuff again.  She told me I would have to check in every hour for the next 3 hours and get blood taken and.....I COULD NOT EAT OR DRINK ANYTHING!!  Who tells a pregnant woman she cannot eat?!  At the 3rd blood drawing I asked what happens if I threw up (because it was that or passing out at that point) and she said I would have to do it again.  That was all the motivation I needed...I finished and got Del Taco for lunch :)  I got my results at my Dr. appt Tuesday and all was clear.  I asked the nurse if I should take any precautions since my first test was elevated. She said let me see how over you were, turns out I was ONLY 1 point over!! Their cut off is 140 and I was about 141.2.  Better safe then sorry so they say....

Below is a picture of me at 26 weeks, yes I am getting large and I know it and feel it.  Lamb made fun of me because I wanted to take the picture before my work xmas party since I was dressed up.... hey, no need to make the frumpy look more frumpy.  And yay for bangs growing out :)

I also went home for Thanksgiving and got to see the family.  Some of you may already know but all of us sisters are pregnant, well, Daniella had baby Ari this past Saturday but below is a couple of pictures of the bunch.  Bianca is due Feb. 7, naming her little girl Saige.  I told my sister Daniella we should call the Guinness Book of World Records because all of us where pregnant at the same time.  Her response..."we are not the first group of Hispanic sisters".  Touche my friend, touche. Ha

Score: Boys 1/ Girls 2