Brotherly Love at Albertsons

MOCKINGJAY

It finally came out! Hurray!!! My wonderful husband ordered the Hunger Games Trilogy set for me on Monday (the day before it came out) and had it overnight-ed. When I got back from grocery shopping on Tuesday the books were sitting on the computer desk just waiting for me to crack them open. I had just finished listening to the first two books to get myself prepared for the third book and immediately started reading it the moment the perishables were put away!

I need to publicly apologize to my family: I'm sorry for ignoring you, dinner, cleaning the house, and pretty much not having any interaction with you at all other than "Just let me finish this chapter" and never actually taking my nose out of the book. Soon enough you will have your Mommy/wife back but for now she is hanging out with her friends Katniss, Peeta, Finnick, and Gale!!

The last two weeks....

No everyone I have not fallen off of the face of the earth! I have learned something very important over the past few weeks..... life with 2 kids is VERY different. Making the switch from 1 to 2 kids has been a lot more difficult for me than I anticipated. Before having the baby I thought I was a busy woman, I thought I was tired, I thought I didn't have time for certain things, I thought it was hard to keep my house in order....Boy oh boy I miss those days!! That was nothing compared to how I'm feeling right now. I'm not going crazy or anything it's just a lot harder than I thought it would be. I'm so lucky to have such a supportive helpful husband. He has been my rock throughout this big change in my life. I love him so much!

So here's an update of the past few weeks with our newest little guy. He is such an awesome kid and I LOVE him so much....

This is the delivery doctor Dr. Greene.

Right after I gave birth

The weighing, measuring, and getting cleaned up.

Mimi and Nicole our favorite Labor and Delivery nurses

Meeting big brother for the first time.

Property of Cottage Hospital!

Leaving the hospital.

First day home.

First Bath.

John absolutely LOVES his little brother. He had a rough first couple of days then after that he has been ALL over that kid every chance he gets.

P.S- I found my keys!! Someone turned them into the office the other day after they found them at the park! Welcome to Family Student Housing ;)

Lost Keys

I had every intention today of sitting down and writing out my experience with the birth and sharing it with all you curious folks....BUT I instead spent the day trying to find our keys. Yes, we lost our keys sometime between last night and this morning. I was so excited to stay home with the baby while Daniel went to church with John. I was planning on getting some much needed make-up sleep and possibly even make some cookies or scrapbook or something. I woke up at 7:30 and helped get John ready for church. When they were both ready to leave I handed Daniel the bags and sent him out the door. He walked back to get the keys and they were not on the hook next to the door like they always are. I was expecting to look in the normal places we leave the keys (when they're not on the hook) and find them immediately. 2 minutes go by, 5, 10, 15....no keys. By this time Daniel is late for church and we had looked all over the place. We brought John back into the house and spent the next 2 hours straight looking in EVERY spot we could possibly think of. We retraced our steps from the previous day, looked in all of John's secret hiding places, we even picked through the trash (yuck!) and went through the fridge just in case.....Nada. Nothing. Nowhere to be found.

Therefore my exciting baby adventure will just have to wait to be posted. I really hope we are able to find the keys soon. Or hopefully someone will have found them and turned them in to the complex office so we can get them back tomorrow. Daniel has work first thing in the morning so we're praying we find them soon.

Wish us luck!

Joshua Allen Sioeli Tuutau

He's Here!!!

Joshua Allen Sioeli Tuutau

8 pounds 3 oz
19 in long
Born at 11:40 am
Sunday Aug. 1, 2010

...more pics and info to come soon!

Last Supper!

Here are pictures of our last meal and date we went on yesterday.

Perfect timing wouldn't you say?!!

This is the last picture of me taken before I went into labor....

I think it might have been the delicious Cajun Chicken Pasta that made the baby decide to start coming ;)