Growing Bigger

We've been doing well the last couple weeks. This baby is pretty laid back and not very fussy. He is pretty content to swing in his swing or look around in his bouncy seat (something his older brother didn't enjoy at all!) He's nursing great making my life easier (especially at night).

Sink bath..not a fan:(

He does not like being cold, Cam is the hot natured one so this is a change for us! Pretty much the only time Brooks cries is when he is being undressed or having a diaper change. He's growing too. We had some issues with a plugged tear duct and have been to the doctor twice about it in the last 2 weeks. It's starting to resolve, after lots of tear duct massage, warm compresses and antibiotic ointment. But he now weighs 9 lbs 4 oz! I'm pretty happy about it! He's almost outgrown his newborn clothes and diapers. Everyone always says how little he is, but I feel like he's getting pretty big.

Sweet Brothers

Cam is settling into being a good big brother. He does have his jealous moments and has some acting out times which is in part to his age I think. Still doing great with the potty training. We have about one accident a week, mostly at home. The daycare is proud to say they have no accidents.

We've been blessed with lots of visitors and everyone has been so generous! Our sunday school class has signed up for 2-3 days a week bringing us dinner, which has been a Godsend! It really helps us out to not have to worry about cooking a dinner and having something prepared for us special. We have been sent lots of happies (money, personalized gifts, etc). Trey's sister's boyfriend, TJ's mom was so sweet to make Brooks a owl quilt which I'm in love with!

Mrs Milcic's owl quilt, so sweet! And the outfit is from the Richardsons, cute!

She also remembered Cam as a big brother and got him a Noah's Ark with all the animals which he plays with daily and has even tried to take to bed a couple of nights :) He lines up the animals in "trains", one of his favorite things to do.

Our Sunday School had four babies born within 2 months of each other. 2 boys and 2 girls. We all decided to meet up for lunch last week to have some adult convo before the first lady goes back to work. I have to say I know I have some work to do on my weight, but I'm at least 4 weeks behind everyone else and I think once I can start doing some walking it should come off better (I'm in a walking boot for the next 6 weeks!) but I included the pictures anyway.

Other than that we had our newborn photo shoot 2 weeks ago with Ramblin Rose Photography and they are precious! I will include some photos soon. Next weekend is our sip n' see for all the ladies in our lives to get a chance to come enjoy brunch at our home and get to meet Brooks! Trey's mom and sister along with my mom and sister are hosting and it is going to be great!

It's a BOY!! Brooks' Birthday

 Ryan Brooks Lunsford. 7 lbs 7oz, 21 1/4 inches long, beautiful:)

Well, we finally know the sex of baby #2! It's a BOY! I was anxiously awaiting the arrival of this little bundle of joy and scheduled for Tues (feb. 15th) for an induction, but this little guy decided to make an early appearance! I woke up early Saturday morning (feb 12th) around 1 am with cramps and what I thought was contractions. So, I got out my contraction timer application on my phone and began tracking them. They were coming every 8 to 10 minutes so I started getting my belongings together without waking Trey yet. I wanted to be sure I needed to go to the hospital before I totally woke up the whole house. I sat up and watched TV, my sister came over and we hung out. I started having more regular contractions around 3 am and they were coming at around five to seven minutes apart at this time. I went ahead and woke up Trey and he called his mom to watch Cam. We packed up the car and were on our way. Of course, my contractions began to slow down a bit but I figured I was past my due date and I might as well go in. The hospital triaged me and monitored me for what seemed like forever and then decided that I wasn't really progressing and I should be sent home!! I was devastated! I was hurting and tired and they wanted me to take an Ambien sleeping pill! I was horrified. I hate that drug and refused to take it. I don't even give it to my patients in the hospital, it makes people do crazy things. So I went home and was very emotional. I tried taking a hot bath, tylenol, ate breakfast drank a large glass of water whatever I could to maybe ease the pain, nothing helped. My mom came over and I decided I would go to the hospital again I was hurting really badly. When I got there, Trey and I sat in the parking lot for an hour or so to see if my contractions got closer together. We didn't want them to send us home again! Meanwhile, I fell asleep so Trey thought it best that we go back home. I ate lunch and felt better for an hour or two then the contractions became unbearable. I told Trey I didn't care what we had to do but I was not going to go through this labor all day without something for pain. We went back for the 3rd time at 5pm and I had progressed to 4 cm and my contractions were more regular and stronger. They decided to admit me this time! I was in my room and got my epidural( a Godsend!!) at around 7, they started the pitocin and by 8 I was already 9 cm and they were calling the doctor. By 9pm I was fully dilated and we were waiting on Dr. Lacy to arrive. Once it was time to push I only had to push 4 times and he was out! He was definitely ready to be born. It was miraculous! We were so happy and then my inlaws came in with Camden and he was pretty excited, somewhat confused but excited. He didn't understand the hospital bracelets and all the machines and wanted to know why he couldn't stay! We named the baby Brooks which turns out was my great great grandmother's maiden name :) We didn't know it was a family name until after we had already picked it out. I have been feeling remarkably well, with little pain and the baby is doing wonderful. He is nursing great and sleeping well. He's not fussy and doesn't have to be held constantly like Camden did. I have really been blessed with so many wonderful men in my life now I'm a little outnumbered in the house with all these boys! But we couldn't be happier. We are enjoying all the visitors and everyone has really been great to include Camden and not let him feel like it's all about the baby. He has gotten almost as many presents as he did at Christmas! Brooks is sleeping pretty well at night we had one fussy night the first night we were home but I think it had to do with all the chocolate I ate that day for Valentines! Other than that he will sleep about 3-4.5 hours at a time which I can handle just fine. He doesn't nurse too long so we only are up for about 30 mins each time, eating, burping, changing his diaper and back to bed!

I also included some pictures of a few weeks ago when it snowed once again and Camden's daycare was closed and Trey's work opened late so they enjoyed some fun in the snow! It was a blast for them. I will be posting more pictures from our newborn session with Ramblin Rose Photography and from the Sip n' See that Joan, Leigh Anne, Tracy and Mom are throwing us coming up in a few weeks. For now, thanks for your thoughts prayers, phone calls and emails we really appreciate them as well settle into a family of four!

 Love at first sight!

 Meeting mom

and CeCe

With Aunt Tracy (TT)

and Big Brother Cam!!

Hey JoJo!

Camden got baby Brooks a present!

With the rest of the Lunsford clan

Happy family of four!

So proud!

Some friends came to visit

So cool little snowboarder dude!

Look Mom :)

 Snow dog!

Watching and waiting...

So, my due date came and went yesterday :( I thought for sure that we would have a new baby by now, but nothing has happened yet. We had a false alarm last week when I thought I was having contractions and we packed up and took Cam to stay with my dad but then they went away and we were still pregnant! Two weeks ago I somehow messed up my foot at work transporting a patient across the hospital and was unable to walk on it. I thought it was a sprain but a week later it still hurt and I could barely walk on it. I went to my doctor and he xrayed it and told me I had a stress fracture. It was small, but it sure does hurt. So he took me off work, so I'm just stuck at home and not really able to do anything. I need to be up walking and cleaning to get the house ready for the baby and all the visitors I'm sure we'll have after he/she is born but I am not able! It's very frustrating. I have been catching up on my school. I'm taking 2 online writing classes so sitting on the laptop most of the day is how I roll these days! Our doctor tried to move up our induction date (now scheduled for Feb 15th at 5 am) to yesterday (my due date) but we were expecting a massive snow storm and the hospital said they would most likely be short on nurses so I decided it's probably better to just wait and not push it. We did get about 4 inches of snow yesterday and Cam's daycare closed early and Trey's work closed early. I am glad that I am off work now since it would be a nightmare getting downtown and back through the icy roads! Now we are just watching and waiting for baby # 2. We're still bouncing around the baby's name ideas (horrible right??) We are settled on a girl's name, but the boy's name is still up in the air. I guess we will make the final decision when we see the baby. I'll be sure to post pictures as soon as anything happens! Pray for us to have a safe and healthy delivery:)

Lately..

A few weeks ago I had a day off and so me and Cam went downtown to the Fire Museum. I've been wanting to take him forever and of course the day I take him it started raining :( We decided to go anyway and it was ok. I have to say I was expecting it to be more on a little kids level, but it was more advanced and "museum like". It was still fun for him to see the big red fire engine and the toy room full of tons of fire engines big and small, old and new. We have been to see mom at work (same as mine) downtown and to see a few of my coworkers. Cam loves going to meet CeCe for lunch!

 Cam dressed as Woody

 At the Fire Museum in front of all the toy fire engines

Cam wore his Fireman coat from CeCe and the new fire hat from the museum

The girls of my Sunday school class threw me and another pregnant friend, Stephanie a baby shower recently. It was so sweet and I could not believe how generous these women were! This was especially surprising since we haven't even been able to go very often since I started weekends at work. But we racked up! I also finished the nursery so all we need is a sweet new baby to fill it :)

The New Members Sunday School Ladies

Two weeks ago, Camden starting having what I thought was an allergic eye with redness, swelling and drainage. When it didn't go away after several days I started him on his antibiotic eye drops we were on last time he had conjunctivitis. After 3 days of this an no improvement and then a inflammed tissue hanging down into his actual iris/pupil I decided to make a trip to the pediatrician. Our MD is very nonchalant and never gets very excited about things, but one or two looks at his terrible eye and an immediate referral to the opthamologist we went! Luckily it was 2 doors down and they worked us in right then. The eye doctor did a dilated eye exam and informed me that it was a granuloma. It's a benign inflammation of the eyelid and it was caused by the eye infection going untreated for too long. I felt terrible!! But we were started on 4 times a day steroid eye drops and after a week the granuloma is almost gone. We have another full week of drops then tapering down over the next week. Cam really has been a trooper and didn't put up too much of a fuss over the drops which I thought was going to be a nightmare.

You can sort of see Cam's little lazy eye here on the left this is at the beginning of his eye drop treatment

 Aunt TT joined in on the snowman building fun with a mini me snowman :)

Also we have been getting a couple of snow days here lately. Two weeks ago we got 7 inches then another inch or two this past week. I'm praying that we don't get any around the delivery date!! Camden and Trey were able to build an almost indestructible snowman which lasted for 3 days! It started leaning on day 2 and on day 3 it leaned almost parallel to the ground. It was unbelieveable!


On another note, my pregnancy is almost through! At my last Dr's visit my OB thought that the heart rate was too high in my abdomen and that the baby could possibly be breech, so she scheduled us for another ultrasound. I was so nervous for a week imagining the worst only to have a great ultrasound. The baby was perfectly upside down like he/she is supposed to be and the amount of amniotic fluid level was good, the heart rate was great at 150 bpm and the weight was estimated at 7 lbs even (give or take 6 ounces). The doctor told me I was 2-3 cm dilated already so I anticipate that labor could happen at any moment! Keep us in your prayers over the next couple of weeks!

Southaven Christmas & Children's Museum

We had a busy Christmas once we got home from Texas. I actually had 10 days off in a row which was a Godsend! I haven't had that many days off since our summer vacation last May! I worked alot on Christmas gift shopping, the nursery and just little to do's that had been put on the back burner. We bought an old dresser and have been working to refinish it for the nursery. Camden helped me put the glaze on it. I still have another coat to go, but I already love it! On Thursday day we met the Dukes (our friends from college who were in town from Florida) at the Children's Museum in Memphis. It was too fun. Camden loved playing with Bryce and Ce Ce and was worn out after it was all said and done.

Cam helping me paint the baby's dresser :)

 CeCe Duke at the Children's Museum! Dont you love those pigtails??

 Camden scurried around the little grocery store loading his basket like he was on "Supermarket Sweep!"

 The boys rocking out on the green screen (they were in a music video on a big TV not pictured)

 CeCe in the little Escalade at the Museum

Cam fishing in the scaled down version of the Mississippi River

We did Christmas with Trey's family on Thursday night and Cam got spoiled as usual. He got a new John Deere bike, a Titan tackling dummy, Tonka trucks and much more! We all gave each other gifts $10 or less (minus Cam's gifts) which was nice for the budget!

Cam entertained us by talking smack to the Titan tackling dummy and knocking him down as well as placing him in "time out" for a short while! He was hilarious with that thing.

Santa's loot

 The Cresswell gifts under our new tree

 the notorious "big truck with all the cars in it" as Cam called it all December

Stuffing his face with yummy lunch that CeCe made!

 Opening presents with Walker and Gallegah

Fell asleep on my big belly after a big day :)

Friday morning (Christmas Eve) Santa made an early appearance to our house (mostly b/c I had to work Christmas morning and leave the house by 6 am). Cam got his big truck with all the cars in it that he had been asking for ever since the word Christmas was mentioned. He was excited about that and the Mater truck he got and had a blast playing with everything until my mom, dad, brother sister and Great Uncle came over for a huge lunch. We opened even more presents and needless to say by 5pm we were all tuckered out, Camden woke up from his nap grumpy and so I held him for a minute and before I knew it he had fallen back asleep on my belly. I couldn't help thinking how sweet it was that I had both of my babies in my lap and Christmas couldn't be more perfect! We are so blessed and are thankful for the birthday of our Jesus to make hope and everlasting life possible.