Life as a Family of 4

Life has been a little crazy since sweet little Isaac joined the family, but crazy in a good way. He is 6 weeks-old now and we are starting to get in to more of a routine. Malea has been such a good helper and has been so sweet with him. We are working on trying to get Isaac sleeping through the night, or at least sleeping longer spans. Malea slept through the night quite early, so its hard not to expect the same. By far the hardest part about having baby #2 has been the sleep deprivation. Its not like with Malea where I could nap whenever she did....now we have a 2 year-old to take care of too, and their naps don't always coincide.

Isaac started smiling this past week, which has been so much fun! He has the cutest stinkin' smile ever! It just makes my heart melt. He also tries to talk to us and has become more interactive. Even if I have a rough night and I'm so sleep deprived, Isaac's smile just melts my heart and it makes it all worth it!

Isaac's Blessing Day

This past Sunday was Isaac's blessing day. It was such a great day, and we had so much support from family and friends. I will always remember what day he was blessed because it was on 10/10/10! Daddy gave a beautiful blessing and then we had a really nice brunch afterwards at our place (thanks to everyone who helped with the food!).

Isn't he handsome?!

Daddy & Isaac

Malea looked darling too!

My Little Princess

Malea has just started getting in to princesses and dress-up lately....it is so much fun! She has a Cinderella dress and a Belle dress, as well as dolls for each. We just got the movie "Cinderella" in the mail, and she has been watching it non-stop! And of course, she has to wear her Cinderella dress and hold her Cinderella doll while she watches it :)

She wants to be Belle for Halloween, which is so cute. We will see if that is what she ends up being though, seeing as how Halloween is still weeks away and she could easily change her mind. We are going to buy "Beauty and the Beast" when it comes out this week.

Today she was wearing her Belle dress and asked Keith to dance with her, so we sang the "Beauty and the Beast" song and they danced. It was so precious!

He's here!

He's here!
Isaac Asay Walker
Born September 7th at 12:48pm
7 lbs 11 oz & 20 in long

My first time holding him

Malea loves her little brother!

Proud Daddy!

We're so glad he arrived safe and sound!

(More pics to come....two kids is sure keeping us busy!)

He can go ahead and come out now....

So up until this morning I was still not quite ready for our little guy to be born yet. I had a few more things to check off my list before I would feel "ready" (if you are ever really ready!).

Well, this morning I woke up and my hips hurt so bad, I have had heart burn/indigestion/acid reflux all night (and day), my feet are so swollen that I barely fit in to my church shoes, and I can hardly breathe. I decided that he can go ahead and be born now :) I am over this whole being pregnant thing.

Here is the latest prego picture (37 weeks along):

It is comforting to know that the doctor has officially scheduled my inducement, so the latest I would be having him is Tuesday, September 7th !! That's only a week and 2 days away! Its nice to know that the end is in sight. I'm not super thrilled that we have to be there at 6:30am, but oh well, we're going to sleep deprived for the next 6 months anyway!

Nesting

I am definitely in the nesting stage of my pregnancy. I have pulled all of the essentials out of storage (swing, baby bottles, high chair, baby tub, etc). While Keith and Malea were in Oregon for a couple of days, I finished unpacking the last of the boxes, and did the fun part....getting the baby's room all ready. I am excited to announce that it is officially ready!!

Here are some pics :)

I can't believe he is going to be here in like 3 weeks! The doctor is going to induce me at 39 weeks, and we are (tentatively) looking at September 7th. Its not set in stone, but that's what we are looking at! I have been having Braxton-Hicks contractions starting at 35 weeks along, with some crampy ones here and there, so we may not even make it to September 7th. We will just have to see!

Here is a pic of me at about 35 1/2 weeks....I feel humongous! I swear he is bigger at this point than Malea was....case in point, see the next picture down.

The picture below is of me the morning of my inducement with Malea. I was 2 days over my due date. My face is so dang fat in this picture, but I swear my belly is bigger with this pregnancy! We will have to see how big he is when he comes out (Malea was 7 lbs 3 oz).

I can't wait to meet the little guy!

Another Malea Update

Here's another update on Malea! She is just becoming such a big girl!

{Malea being a sassy-pants}

-She calls ants or pretty much any bugs "spider webs" (actually sounds more like "fiber webs") and if an ant gets on her she FREAKS out! She does not like when they are crawling on her!

-She is talking so much, I am just amazed at how much she has progressed! She speaks in full on sentences.

-We have to pick flowers everyday. She absolutely loves flowers. We are trying to teach her the difference between the kind of flowers you can pick (i.e., wildflowers/weed flowers) and the ones you just look at (i.e., flowers in someone's yard). It is hard for her to differentiate sometimes. We tell her that at night time we don't pick flowers because the flowers go to sleep, so she is always saying how "the flowers are asleep" at night time.

-She calls all soda pop "fright" (meaning "Sprite"), it doesn't matter what kind of soda it is

{Malea & Daddy getting ready to go on the airplane (the two of them went to Oregon for a family reunion and mommy stayed home...they had so much fun! I will do a separate post of their trip)}

-The other day she accidentally let go of her balloon and it went flying up in to the sky. Well a couple of days later we were talking about how she gets to go in an airplane soon (for a family reunion), and she says, "I get my balloon back?"

-Any time she is next to a fence or something, she will go up to it and say "I'm stuck in a cage!" We have no idea where she came up with it, she just started doing it one day (and no, we don't lock her in a cage when no one else is around lol)

-"Shrink" means "drink", which sounds really funny when she says "I need a 'shrink'!" lol
-If she gets hurt or upset, she will talk about it later and say "I cried very, very sad"

-She is getting more comfortable with the idea of potty training. We are not quite there yet, but getting there. She has peed in the potty once and pooped twice, but it is inconsistent. Honestly, I am not really ready to potty train her, being 8 months pregnant and so exhausted. But she is so independent that I can't force her anyway.

-There is a picture of me in my wedding dress on our entertainment center and I've explained to her that I wore that when I got married to daddy. Well the other day she asked to put on her Cinderella dress and asked "I get married to a boy, mommy?" It was adorable!

-We were driving in the car and Malea was picking her nose....we said "Malea, don't pick your nose" and she says "NO! I need to get somethin'!"

-We were driving and a guy cut me off, and Malea said, "Mommy, he a jerk" and I said "Oh sweetie, we don't say that word" and she said "Well daddy say it"....lol! He was so busted on that one!

-When we pulled out the infant car seat in preparation for the baby, she said to me "Mommy, last time when I was a baby I sit in the car seat." So cute!

We love you Malea!!!