Rebekah May Krum

Our Sweet Rebekah has finally arrived!

Thursday evening May 13, 2010 at about 8:30pm Trey and I headed to the Hospital in Huntsville with my contractions about 5 minutes apart. We arrived at the hospital at about 9:10pm. We checked in through the ER and then we went up to Labor and delivery. I was examined I was still at a 2 and dilated 50 % they monitored me for a about an hour. At a little about 10:45 the nurse suggested that we try walking and boy did we walk. :) I was determined to see Rebekah's sweet face. We started walking and my contractions quickly went from 5 minutes apart to 2 minutes apart. We headed back up to L&D at about 11:45, my nurse examined me again and I was 6cm. They then began the process of moving us into the delivery room suite and doing all my labs and such. I was examined again and was 9cm. They finally called the Dr. back and told him to head over at 12:15 am. I really wish they would just believe me when I tell them that I have fast labor, this is not my first rodeo people. It felt like a lifetime while I was waiting for him so that I could push. He arrived a little about 12:40am and our sweet Rebekah was laying on my chest about 2o minutes later.

Rebekah May Krum born 12:58 am on Friday May 14, 2010 7lb 10 oz. 20 .25 inches long

Mother's Day

I had a great Mother's Day weekend. It was really fun this year because the girls are old enough now that they get very excited about celebrating holidays and have talked about Mother's day and what they "wanted" to get me for what seems like forever now.

Abigail went into the store alone with Daddy on Wednesday afternoon and picked out my present. She did such a good job, she was dieing to tell me what it was. But with only a few reminders not to tell she was able to keep it a secret until Sunday :) We knew Hannah wanted to get me roses, because she told me about 1,000 times :) So, Trey took her into the store by herself on Sunday after Church to pick them out. She was not as good at "keeping the secret". She told me, "I know these are roses Mommy but you cant open them yet, you have to be patient and just not look at them." LOL, She also told me about my cake and candies.

Saturday we went down to the Woodlands to try and new fancy HEB to do our grocery shopping. I was able to find some great organic dairy products :) Also, Trey sat in the car with the kids while they watched a movie so I could go in to a cute little shoppe and pick out my Mother's day gift from him. It was such a nice treat to get to go look around at pretty stuff all by myself! Sunday after Church we headed home for yummy sandwiches made by Daddy and then I opened my cards and the girls gave me their presents. here are some pics of my loot.

The really cute red shoes and bangles from Trey. I also got a cute summer shirt but bought it for my post pregnancy body.

The beautiful roses that my Hannah Rose picked out for me.

I am sorry that this picture is so small because these sun glasses are GREAT!! Abigail picked them out all by herself :) Trey said they were in the store and she said, " I want to get Mommy some sunglasses for Mother's day. He said, "OK." He told me that he tried to give her some choices and she said, "No Daddy these!" How adorable and I will wear them with great pride :) Not sure if you can tell but the ear piece parts are white with hot pink polka dots and the eye part is HOT pink. Definitely 90's style, I LOVE THEM! :)

Sunday after nap we relaxed and Trey grilled some delicious venison back strap with baked potatoes and green beans. Of course we topped it all off with some yummy chocolate cake for dessert. Every time Samuel sees the cake he says, " ake, yum... and then makes a slurp sound"

Happy Mother's Day 2010! I hope yours was as great as mine!

40 weeks Cinco De Mayo

Today is my due date, but no baby as of now (9:00pm) Not much to update from the Doctors appointment. I made some but not much progress, I am now dilated to a one. I am trying not to get impatient but I am very uncomfortable. Don't know why I am so uncomfortable but have definitely never experienced this much discomfort in previous pregnancies. I really would like to do it natural again as I did with Samuel, it was so much faster and easier than the induction process I went through with the girls. Good news is that Rebekah sounded good and everything checked out fine. We did go to celebrate Cinco De Mayo, minus the margarita and minus Rebekah, with some yummy Mexican food. I piled on the Jalapenos but nothing.

Oh, and we took the girls to the Doctor today. They have been coughing and we just wanted to make sure it was allergies since the baby is coming soon. Well turns out not allergies. They have infections. Their Doc thinks it is viral, which means there is nothing we can do, it just has to run its course. But we went ahead and did antibiotics, just in case it is bacterial, since we kinda have a special situation right now. Sad news is they can not be around baby until they are cough free and if I go into labor before that happens they will not be able to come to the hospital to see their baby sister. I think that once the girls understand this there are gonna be some SAD BIG SISTERS!

We got home at about 4pm and I went to rest in bed. Trey was taking care of things while I was resting. He came into the bedroom to visit for a minute and he got another call from the kids bathroom, "Daddy I went poo poo!" Trey: "You really do this ALL day long?" Me: "Ah, Yeah." Trey:"We should get government aide or something, REALLY you should get paid!" :) Then I had to break it to him that the hard part isn't just doing the job but doing it in a loving, sweet and patient way ALL day long. I think my sweet man had his eyes opened just a little :) and he sure knows the way to my heart :) When we stopped to pick up the girls prescription he bought me a treat of dark chocolate malt balls from the special candy section at the store. Not bad, Not bad :)

39 week Doc appointment and Abigails Awana award ceremony

Wednesday afternoon I had my weekly Doctors appointment. No changes to report. Rebekah is still tucked in there tight, snug as a bug.

After the doc we headed to Abigail's Awana award ceremony. Very exciting :) She memorized all her verses for the year. We are very proud of her! She sung her Cubbie song with her classmates and then received her awards. After the ceremony we headed to Waverly House, they are known for their desserts :) It was delicious, we ended up with a little more than dessert on the table. We will be going back, they serve fried green tomatoes, YUM YUM!
Here are the pictures from our celebration.

Summer Time

It is officially summer time around here. I finished up school early with the girls so that we would be done before Rebekah's arrival and so that I would have a little down time with the kids before she joins us. I have some skill activities they will be able to work on on their own during these next few months, as we transition into a family of 6. But no structured school again until the Fall. The girls have been waiting and looking forward to jumping into the new blow up pool that we got the for Easter. It was pretty warm this morning in the sun so I drug it out and blew it up, by mouth I add. Samuel LOVED it he was wet from head to toe within minutes. The girls were much more reserved and never got their hair wet. A GREAT time was had by all! Here are some pics of our fun morning :) many more to come!

Personality Test

A simple conversation in the car today, but such an insight into my girls personalities and HILARIOUS to hear first hand!

Hannah: "Look at all the pretty flowers!"
a few minutes later
Hannah: "Mama, what are those purple things?"
Me: "Flowers"
Hannah: "What are they called?"
Me: "I don't know their name."
Hannah: "Maybe they are called Adabadoba." (Yeah it's a made up word)
Abigail: "Maybe they are JUST flowers"

38 weeks AND COUNTING

Wednesday afternoon was my check-up. Rebekah sounded great. I measured good and Doc said my blood pressure was fantastic like always. He did examine me and said I am about a finger tip dilated, he felt her little head. He then said I am "maybe" 20% effaced. So, I still have a LONG way to go. I also found out I will have to stay in the hospital for 48 hours after delivery because I am strep B positive and they like to monitor baby. This means I will probably be spending the second night alone at the hospital, which makes me a little scared and sad. Trey will most likely have to be at home with our other sweet babies.

After the Doc we took the kiddos to eat and play at McDonalds before AWANA. Then after we dropped them off my sweet man took me to Chilis. My tummy is sticking so far straight out that people are really starting to stare. I fit in to the booth, but it was a tight squeeze. After dinner Trey helped me up and as I waddled past one table, on the way out and "funny guy" about our age heckled, "Ya gotta a big one there." It was funny, I laughed but really! Then as I was attempting to walk to the car I looking behind me and, no exaggeration, every window table was staring at me, the "BIG ONE". It is as if I should no longer be let out of the house I am causing such a stir, frightening folks I guess. Really I am LARGE; for the first time I can balance a cup on my belly. Trey was taken aback the other night when he walked into our room and I was doing tummy tricks, it was pretty entertaining :)