a crazy day….

not only did we welcome a new son, we welcomed home a son with a broken arm today.

After a long day of oooowing and aaahing at Jude, Nana and Grandpa offered to take the kiddos to the football game so MIke and I could have some time alone. We had been up all day and we ready to snuggle in for a nap.  The gang was gone about 45 minutes, when we got a phone call saying Diego broke his arm.  He ran ahead of my parents and sat on the ledge of the bleacher ramp and fell off.  They ran him home to show us and Mike took him into the ER…which followed by a quick “surgery” at 2 am after a whole day of no sleep…plan B is in full swing.

Diego broke his right forearm in 2 places.  So we are in a cast for 8 weeks and a splint for another 4 and the already challenged school…well we will be taking a break and figuring out a payment plan for this new little undertaking. Whilst Diego was in the hospital, we had Olivia in and out for mystery stomache aches, nausea and vomitting all of October and November.  She was the lucky recipient of a endoscopy and colonoscopy….more costs to find out we couldn’t really find anything….  all said and done, time to move on.

Welcoming Baby Jude

Baby Jude Simeon Rothwell was born at home on a warm, breezy, fall night~September 24.2010.  He is our little miracle baby and a  surprise blessing.  Jude means praise and Simeon means God Heard.  The little baby we prayed for 7 years ago is finally here.  He weighed 8.12 and was 21 inches long.  After contractions all day long, Mike and I decided to do our belly cast that night after all of the kids hit the hay.  While in the middle of the cast the contractions became pretty strong around 11pm.  After the cast, I slipped into the tub with the relaxation prompts from Shawni on the ipod.  By midnight it was apparent we needed to call Lindsey and finish getting the portable birthing tub ready.  Mikayla arrived first around 1:15 and Lindsey to follow around 130. The contractions were already strong and 2 minutes apart and quickly turned into back labor~ which I can only describe as the after pains of being smacked with a 2x4 in the base of my back. What seemed like a year, only took an hour and a half.  Baby Jude was born into our arms at 2:46.

About 2minutes after he was born I asked Mike to get the kids, who not to our knowledge were all standing waiting outside our door.  They came in and we all awed at Baby Jude.