Happy Birthday Michael

Well this birthday was mostly just a relaxing one, Michael had a test and a quiz to take in the morning and when he got home we all got showered and ready for the day. We ordered from Mulan Bistro for lunch because they have an excellent Pad Thai. Then Amy and I went to Gibsons Doughnuts for a birthday doughnut for Michael instead of cake and Michael had time to snuggle with his new baby.
We did presents and doughnuts when we got home. We just hung out the rest of the day and one of Michael's friends stopped by to visit and give him a fun little gift. Here are some fun Pictures:

Maple, glazed, chocolate, Oreo, red velvet, and stuffed vanilla with chocolate. 

 Awesome shirt from Amy

 Dress shirt from Mom

Cool sweater with headphones 

Me giving him my gift... ha ha we actually combined our birthdays and got a big gift 

Family of 4 

Proud dad and his boys

New Born William

This kid is a total sweetheart. He loves to cuddle and to be warm. Michael is really liking it because Brock was not a cuddler.
He makes a buzzard sound all the time. Mostly when he's a little annoyed.
As long as he is warm he is a happy baby.
He already has a strong neck and will push off of you.
Has been a fairly good sleeper. So grateful for this!
Has already been good and being awake more in the day than at night. However he does have a hard time falling asleep at night.
You can tell he loves his brother he will follow his voice around.
Is just a good baby, and we just cant seem to get enough of him!
Has lighter brown hair and his eyes seem to be dark. Of course both will probably change soon.
He has a little bit bigger of a nose than Brock but we think they have the same eyes and mouth. they have a lot of the same facial expressions.
Has been a GREAT eater!! even though he tends to spit up a lot.
He has crazy long fingers and his hands are always up by his face or he gets mad.

Labor/Hospital stay

My doctor made us an appointment for a induction for Friday September 27th. at 8:30am. Which ended up being the day after Amy came to help us. She also stripped my membranes in hope I would go into labor myself. She called William lazy since I had been almost a 3 dilated for about 3 weeks, and still no baby. We had a day with Amy so we went out to eat all together and went to optifest to get Amy some glasses.
The day of the 27th we got Brock his medication and got all ready and left. I was nervous but it was nice to be able to prepare myself mentally. I felt like I was stressing out about this day so much, mostly finding people to watch Brock (I had people on call all times of the day.) So it was nice to go to the hospital knowing Amy didn't have anywhere else to be and she could just be with him.
I noticed that I was having contractions Thursday night into that morning.
We got there at 8 and got all checked in. It happened all pretty fast, but it was weird to just relax and soak it all in instead of being in pain and begging for an epidural.
by 9 I was hooked to an IV and labor had officially started.  I was 80 percent effaced and dilated to a 3 1/2. She said I would of probably gone into labor myself that day.
And she broke my water about 9:10
I was stationed at a -1
at 11 I got an epidural, I was at a 4 1/2 dilated and fully effaced.
At about 11:15 I was put on oxygen and Will was given another monitor so that they could monitor him better.
At 12:15 I was dilated to a 6, and during the next hour I was experiencing some major cramping.
I told the nurse when she came back in about 1:15ish and she checked and I was between an 8-9 dilated.

The nurse had mentioned she would let the baby get farther done in the birth canal so I wouldn't have to push for too long. I was nervous about pushing well everything and told her all about it. I feel a little bad now.

The doctor came to check on me about 1:35 I was fully dilated and stationed to a -3. Everyone started getting the room ready. The Doctor left to get prepared and the nurse got the room ready. when the doctor didn't come right back the nurse thought she might want to do a practice push with me. She got me all ready and then realized that she could see Wills head and yelled at me to not push! She paged the Doctor and the Techs and baby Nurse.
They all got there really fast, and we started pushing. After about 2 whole contractions he was mostly out and crying she told me to give it one more push and he was here! At 1:53 pm William Adam Cole was born, he was so pink and plump everyone tried to guess his weight. All guessed about 9 lbs which I guess wasn't too far off since he was 8lbs 11oz and was 20 1/2 inches long.
We had an hour with him down stairs which I just soaked everything up. I didn't want to be on the phone or anything. I did want to make sure Brock was OK though, so Michael called Amy. Other then that I just enjoyed him for about an hour then let some family know.
We got upstairs and Will left to get a bath and inspected. I let some friends and more family know. When he got back I was able to Skype with some family and Michael went to go get Brock. I was definitely just enjoying this little boy so much. I knew he belonged with our family.

Michael, Amy, and Brock came soon after and we all just hung out until it was time for Brock to go home and get his medication and go to bed. That night was a little rough with people coming in and out all night and missing my own home. I was glad I wasn't in very much pain.

The next morning was busy but everyone just kept commenting on how great we both were doing. My doctor who also did Williams circumcision, mentioned that we could probably go home that day. I was all for it because I knew Brock and I would do so much better at home. We had lots of fun visitors who kept me company when Michael was home with Brock, and when they were there too. At about 5pm we got the go ahead to go home. It still took everyone about 2 1/2 hours after but we eventually we all made it home and got to bed.

 Poor Brock so ready for bed!

I really cannot express how thankful I am for how amazing everything went. It feels like luck but I know it was Heavenly father blessing us.
I know that we couldn't of done it without him.
All of the nurses were amazing, they were all so full of encouraging words and I think every one of them I really talked to had kids as close or closer in age. One had 3 in 12 months. (twins!!)
My favorite doctor Delivered me, same that delivered Brock.
Amy was here! This has been a huge blessing and she seriously has been the biggest help. Brock LOVES her! And he was an angel for her during my hospital stay. I know I am going to cry when she has to go back home.
My recovery has been really good. I feel so much better not being pregnant but also I feel like it was a lot less hard on me then I was thinking.
Will is such a sweet baby. Definitely a cuddlier.
I could go on and on about all these things that have worked out. I am still just in awe. I almost don't know what to do with myself.


p.s. thanks Amy for being an awesome photographer!

Twins??

Brock and William as newborns.  Can you tell which is which?

Baby Time!

Here are a few pictures of our first day with little William Adam Cole!

Aunt Amy came to help with the little babe!

So sad to be out of mom's warm tummy!

Happy mom and baby

First baby smile!

Aunt Amy got to hold him after a long day with little energy baby Brock.

Brock meeting his new little brother

He was really excited and wanted to squeeze him!  He was very concerned when we changed his diaper and his little brother was crying.  Amy had to hold him so he could make sure he was ok.

Feeling good after a nap and some food

I found mom!

Extreme measures to keep this one busy while mom is feeding little brother

Brock Funnies and updates

Brock has been growing so much its been hard to keep up with him! He is now a walker, nearly 100 percent (He has been for about 3 weeks now)! We also have been really introducing shoes to get him to walk. He does pretty good now that he is walking so well. He does have very wide feet, and we found out that a few of the shoes we have for him won't work and may be the reason he hates shoes when his poor little feet get pitched. The moment you take his shoes off he has the sweatiest feet ever. But sandals are way too east to pull off we have lost 2 pairs already.
now that he is a walker things start appearing weird places or disappearing! We loves throwing things over the baby gates so the bathroom and kitchen always have to weirdest things in them. He is getting tall enough he can pull things out of drawers so we find kitchen utensils though out the house. He threw my camera charger in my dresser drawer so it was lost most of the time since his birthday. when I found it he ran off with the camera and we lost that for a couple weeks.
He loves carrying things around in baskets, buckets, bowls, and the strainer. Its like he pretends to cook because he will swish things around in them like mom.
He is getting to be a hide and seek champ whenever things get quiet I know that he is hiding somewhere so we have to go find him. He will stay pretty still too until you get close then he starts getting excited and flipping around. He usually hiding spots are behind doors, in closets, and in his tent.
He loves peek a boo as well. That's how we get him to be happy when he wakes up (he's not super happy when he wakes up ever). Whenever we do laundry there is a few peek a boo sessions.

Balls and throwing has really been a big hit. I got a bunch of dollar store balls and he is in heaven. He throws them everywhere. He says ball really well and we think he says "throw" but it also sounds like 'go" so we aren't sure if he is trying to play fetch with us or showing us how he can throw.

We had another EEG recently and he did really well. The tech mentioned how even though he was sleepy and didn't sleep he still laid there with me and didn't cry. the Doctor was pleased with the results and told me that she wants him to self wean off his medication. He was 22 lbs. in May when we started the medication and now he is up to 24lbs but still on the same dose. He will continue to grow and get bigger and so his medication dose will be less then what he should be on. We are just praying it will still be enough and he wont have seizures and slowly self wean. The neurologist really wants us to focus on language with him and cognitive skills (if you do this/this will happen). Its the area in the brain that the seizures are in, she's not telling us he will have a problem but she just wants us to spend close attention to it and really work on it.

He doesn't say no but he will shake his head when he doesn't want something usually closing his eyes as well. Like I cant even see it I don't want it that bad!

Michael always gets in trouble when he tries to feed him something, Brock will always take it out of his mouth and try and put it in Michaels. If Michael doesn't take it Brock will smash it in his face!

He had 5 teeth for about a month and a half and finally got one more in recently (8/14/13). So we are up to 6! He loves to use his teeth for good and evil. He will chomp his food so he can hear a crunch! but he is also a BIG biter, so far just mom and dad no one else yet. (knock on wood)


Playing chase has been going on recently. He will run away from you and hide. He also thinks its funny to chase you too, if he catches you though watch out for his teeth!!

Hi and Bye aren't really words we say yet. Although I think he has said Bye to Michael once. He will wave bye and blow kisses. To say "Hi" will clap and point at you, then reach for you. I feel like everyone tries to get him to give "hi fives" which all they will get is Brock staring at them. Then maybe clapping and pointing.


When he gets up on our bed he will do somersaults!

His favorite toy is Balls but he also likes things that Shake and blocks. He shakes everything and if it makes noises he will carry it around and shake it. He just started stacking blocks. He loves to knock them over!

We play the "put it in game" I made a little toy that he can put pom poms in and then sake them out. We also have a monkey in a barrel game. He will also put snacks in all sorts of holes he finds. We find snacks in his toys and in the kitchen drawers often.

He reads books to us now. His little Jabbers are so cute!!

 

 

(he looks like he is fussy but he wasn't he was giving my belly a hug) Its also a pillow often. He will blow raspberries on it. Its been hot so a lot of times I will roll up my shirt so I can cool off. Well Brock has started to do the same!

 

 

Diaper mess in the (back ground)

35 + weeks.