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Weekend recap!

So it's Monday again, booo.... I hate when that happens!
Especially after a fast and furiously fun weekend like this weekend we spent with the Beelers!
Brian and Michelle came up on Friday to see Tucker (and maybe Tay & I too)!

After Brian & Michelle got to town, we had a delicious dinner that Taylor made (smoked brisket and homemade BBQ beans! ::MMmm:mm: And I made homemade Peach Cobbler, courtesy of my favorite grandma Paula Dean! ::I wish::)

Saturday morning it SNOWED (again!) and Taylor made breakfast burritos, then Michelle, Tucker & I went shopping while the BIG boys stayed home and watched basketball and monitored their respective brackets! Then saturday night we had delicious fajitas and Soapapilla cheesecake and hung out!
Sunday morning Michelle, Tucker and I set off shopping again while the BIG boys went golfing!

Tucker got some ADORABLE little spring/summer outfits from Children's Place

These shorts and a white polo onesie

This hat and shorts and an orange polo onesie

and I even managed to actually buy some stuff for myself:

a new pair of RED shoes for work,

 a couple of cardigans and some SUPER cute jewelry!

Overall it was a very eventful weekend! We had fun hanging out with the Beelers and showing them the new house (hopefully it will be slightly more IMPROVED when they come and visit next time!

This Friday our little man will be 5 MONTHS OLD!

(Seriously?! Did I just type that?!)

Then I'm leaving Sunday for California for work.

But hopefully while the little guy is napping on Friday, I'll be able to get some blog time in to update on all of the fun new things he is doing!

Eh, blogging...

Blogging is such a wonderful tool for keeping those close to you (and in some cases, not so close to you) updated on life's adventures, but I'm weighing whether or not to keep up with this thing anymore due to everyone and their dog (seriously, ever heard of dogbook?!) being on facebook nowadays.
So, I'm taking a straw poll (?) on whether or not I should keep blogging (not that I've been that good at it recently anyhow!), so if you think that I should continue with this thing LET ME KNOW! Leave a comment so I know that someone in the world actually READS this silly thing, and I will keep doing it, but if not -- bye bye blog! :)

Time flies!

WOW! I have been REEEEALLY bad at the whole blog thing, but I guess that's to be expected with a newborn! Tucker turned 12 weeks old on Monday! I can't even believe it! I LOVED being at home with him for 10 weeks, but now I'm back at work. :-( It's been a crazy couple of weeks, but it really does make me cherish my time at home even more! I miss my little guy so much but I'm so lucky that Taylor is getting to stay home with him, at least for the time being. To make a long story short, we haven't gotten into daycare at Covenant so we made the decision for Taylor to take the semester off from welding classes at SPC and do some coursework online through Tech and take care of our precious little guy.

Here are some pictures of our little (big!) guy over the last few months! He's growing like a weed!

Halloween - Our little lobster - 5 days old

Tucker & PeePaw ready for the Cowboy game!

2 weeks old

Tucker's 1st Christmas card/birth announcement

Christmas Eve with Paw-Paw

Mommy's little cowboy - 2 months old

Tucker's Baptism - December 20, 2009

Tucker's Birth Day

This is a little late, but better late than never!

Tucker Thompson was born at 6:54pm on Monday, October 26th after about 12 hours of labor!
Taylor and I went to Labor and Delivery at 6:00am becauseI was having cramp-like stomach pain but when I showed up to L&D I was having contractions and my blood pressure was 150/100! Although I had been pretty swollen for what seemed like the last half of the pregnancy, my blood pressure had been fine! But all of a sudden (probably because I was in L&D!) my blood pressure was crazy high.
The nurse called my doctor, who decided that he would go ahead and induce me, which I was fine with at this point because I was pretty much miserable!

So to make a really long story shortER, I was admitted and shortly thereafter, in what seemed like a short time they started me on an anti-biotic, pitocin and fluids, then my OB came by, felt on my stomach and guess-timated that Tucker was probably 8, 8 1/2 pounds, then shortly after that the anesthesiologist came in and started my epidural and I was well on my way! Well, sort of... My labor didn't exactly progress quickly, when I was checked at L&D triage I was only 3 centimeters dilated, when I was checked after my epidural around 10am I was a 5, and then around noon I was still only a 5, so they increased my pitocin and was a 7 by 2:30 and finally a 10 and 100% effaced at about 5:00! At about 5:30pm I started pushing, and finally at 6:54pm after being threatened with the need for a c-section, our almost 9 1/2 pound baby boy was born!

Every person who came into our room, our pediatrician included commented on what a big boy he was! She said kudos to my OB for letting me get him out the old-fashioned way and that Tucker was perfect and usually with babies that big they will have broken collarbones or some sort of trauma but not our little guy!

We went home on Wednesday and had visitors every day. Having our parents here for the first few days was such a HUGE blessing! Bob & Lisa got here shortly after we got home from the hospital and Lisa unpacked all of our stuff from the hospital, washed our laundry and did all sorts of chores and Bob made us a delicious steak and lobster celebration dinner! Then my mom came the next day (Thursday) and stayed until Saturday night. She did all sorts of innumerable things and basically took care of all 3 of us, cooked, cleaned, did laundry and pretty much everything you wouldn't think of while I recovered and got used to taking care of our little guy.

And what can I say about my husband? He has been the single greatest, supportive, encouraging person since we left for the hospital. Even though I obviously think he's the greatest guy on the face of the earth (I married him!) he definitely stepped up in the delivery room and has been head-over-heels in love with our little guy since the moment he layed eyes on him. We are definitely on a whole new level with each other now that Tucker is here and I don't think life could be any better!

So now that I have turned this blog into a novel, I will go eat some dinner but I will try and update on our life since Tucker arrived in the next couple of days!

October 26th - 6:54pm - 9lbs. 5oz, 22in.!

Tucker Thompson Lange

T-minus 2 weeks and counting...

Actually, if you want to get technical, we have 11 days until Tucker's scheduled appearance! That is a week and a half from today! We have become quite impatient around here, going on walks hoping to entice him to make an early appearance, but no such luck! The house is clean, all his laundry is done, and his room is ready! Now we're just waiting on HIM!!! Even though I know I should get over all of my impatient anxiety and enjoy these last few days of just Taylor and I, I really just want to have him here! So for now, we will just wait until our next doctor's appointment on Wednesday and see what he has to say!

Tucker's Room

The lovely Lawson ladies threw a shower for Tucker this last weekend in Midland and it was AMAZING! So much good food and Tucker got lots of great stuff! We are very blessed to have such great family and friends. I was so excited to get everything all set up that we came home late Saturday afternoon to get it all unloaded amd put away.

Now all we need is the little guy and it will be complete! :-)

Speaking of waiting for Tucker to get here, I went for my 37 week appointment today (even though I'm officially 37 weeks tomorrow) and I am 2 centimeters dilated and 50%. That's an improvement over last week's 1 cm so at least I'm not going backwards! Which is good because we're ready for him to be here! So if he's not here by his due date, November 5th, then we're going to induce. I'd rather not have to induce, but since he's a pretty big guy, we may have to. But at any rate Tucker Thompson will be here 3 weeks from tomorrow!