So there I was, having fun playing hide and seek with Daddy when I, well, I let out a pretty loud fart. For some juvenile reason, Mommy, Daddy and Oma Debbie thought this was the most hilarious thing ever, especially since it even woke Marin up.
I took serious offense to their laughing at me so I stormed out of the room, down the hallway and into Mommy & Daddy's bedroom. Right before slamming the door in protest of their behavior, I said "Go away! I don't like you!"
Mommy is just glad that this wasn't directed at my new baby sister (who was totally on my side as she was the only person in the room NOT laughing at me). I love her so much already!
Monday, August 24, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009
Faster Than A Speeding Bullet... My Baby Sister Marin Is Born!
I am happy to announce that I am officially a big sister! My baby sister Marin Leigh made a super-quick entry into the world at 4:38am on Friday, August 14. I was at home, sound asleep with Giraffe (sweetly dreaming of having Mommy and Daddy all to myself) through the entire event but Mommy filled me in later on everything that happened. I don't understand a lot of the technicalities of how everything happened, so Mommy helped me write this too. (There she goes again, trying to garner some sympathy for her experience.)
It all started at 1:15am when Mommy's water broke (I always knew she drank a lot of water but I wasn't aware that it could break her). She and Daddy got ready as quickly as they could and got to the hospital around 2:30am. Apparently Mommy could only talk about something called and ep-i-dur-al or something like that because she can't handle pain all that well.
When the doctor did the first check on Mommy around 3am, she was 5cm dilated and a half an hour later, another doctor came to give Mommy her medicine. Over the next 30 minutes, the doctor tried to put the medicine in Mommy's back, but she was in so much pain she couldn't sit still like she was supposed to. He tried four times to put the medicine in and all Mommy got was a nasty bruise.
Around 4:30am (and against Mommy's better judgment), Mommy said, "I think I have to push." (By the way, I don't know what she needed to push right then, especially when it seems she had all of this other stuff going on, but oh well.) The nurse had Mommy lay down and said, "Well, I can't see the baby's head...oh...wait...there she is...she's crowning..." and then a few short minutes later, my sister Marin (these are Daddy's words) came "...shooting out like a bullet out of a gun. If the nurse hadn't have been sitting where she was, Marin would have flown across the room and hit the wall. The doctor wasn't even in the room, he was next door delivering another baby."
Mommy's Note: So in the end, Marin was born to the woman least likely to ever have a natural childbirth but everything happened so fast that even if I had gotten the epidural, it probably wouldn't have taken effect in time (this statement in no way keeps me from harboring anger towards the nurse who 'had things to do' before I could get my epidural).
Marin Leigh Schoenfeldt came into the world weighing 6lb., 5oz., and was 17" long with a head of thick dark hair. She's perfect, just like her sister. She's also a natural thumb-sucker, just like her sister. Stay tuned for many more stories and adventures in the lives of our two beautiful girls.
Birth Story Statistics:
Maggie Lynn: Water broke at 5:45am on a Tues. morning, she was delivered 31 hours later at 11:36am on a Wed., after 3.5 hours of pushing and the help of a vacuum (which has nothing to do with a Hoover, it's really a big suction cup).
Marin Leigh: Water broke at 1:15am and less than 3.5 hours later, at 4:38am she was delivered with a couple of pushes and the sheer force of a woman trying to make the pain stop!
If they came into the world so differently, what on earth are their personalities going to be like?
It all started at 1:15am when Mommy's water broke (I always knew she drank a lot of water but I wasn't aware that it could break her). She and Daddy got ready as quickly as they could and got to the hospital around 2:30am. Apparently Mommy could only talk about something called and ep-i-dur-al or something like that because she can't handle pain all that well.
When the doctor did the first check on Mommy around 3am, she was 5cm dilated and a half an hour later, another doctor came to give Mommy her medicine. Over the next 30 minutes, the doctor tried to put the medicine in Mommy's back, but she was in so much pain she couldn't sit still like she was supposed to. He tried four times to put the medicine in and all Mommy got was a nasty bruise.
Around 4:30am (and against Mommy's better judgment), Mommy said, "I think I have to push." (By the way, I don't know what she needed to push right then, especially when it seems she had all of this other stuff going on, but oh well.) The nurse had Mommy lay down and said, "Well, I can't see the baby's head...oh...wait...there she is...she's crowning..." and then a few short minutes later, my sister Marin (these are Daddy's words) came "...shooting out like a bullet out of a gun. If the nurse hadn't have been sitting where she was, Marin would have flown across the room and hit the wall. The doctor wasn't even in the room, he was next door delivering another baby."
Mommy's Note: So in the end, Marin was born to the woman least likely to ever have a natural childbirth but everything happened so fast that even if I had gotten the epidural, it probably wouldn't have taken effect in time (this statement in no way keeps me from harboring anger towards the nurse who 'had things to do' before I could get my epidural).
Marin Leigh Schoenfeldt came into the world weighing 6lb., 5oz., and was 17" long with a head of thick dark hair. She's perfect, just like her sister. She's also a natural thumb-sucker, just like her sister. Stay tuned for many more stories and adventures in the lives of our two beautiful girls.
Birth Story Statistics:
Maggie Lynn: Water broke at 5:45am on a Tues. morning, she was delivered 31 hours later at 11:36am on a Wed., after 3.5 hours of pushing and the help of a vacuum (which has nothing to do with a Hoover, it's really a big suction cup).
Marin Leigh: Water broke at 1:15am and less than 3.5 hours later, at 4:38am she was delivered with a couple of pushes and the sheer force of a woman trying to make the pain stop!
If they came into the world so differently, what on earth are their personalities going to be like?
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Today Is A Special Day!
I wanted to wish Opa Woodie a very happy birthday and Grandpa George and Grandma Ellen a very happy wedding anniversary!
Visitng Portland
Nearly 3 weeks ago, in the middle of July, Mommy took me down to Portland where Oma Debbie was visiting our family who I haven't seen in a year! We had such a good time, we promise that another year won't pass before we visit again.
Oma was staying with my Great-Grandma Maxine but Mommy and I stayed with Oma's twin sister, Sandy, or as her granddaughters call her, Mimi. For breakfast each morning she set up a special table just for myself with a tea set that when you tip the teapot over, it makes music! (Of course Mommy had to buy a set for me because I loved it so much!)
It was a busy weekend, we spent most of our time visiting with family and had a birthday BBQ to celebrate Great-Grandma Maxine's 81st Birthday! Here are some photos of our weekend: me at my special breakfast table, hanging out on Aunt Sandy's front porch (Oma said I couldn't go down the front steps so in the picture I'm trying to figure out a way around her restrictions...) and finally, me on the car ride home, clearly exhausted from all of the weekend fun.
Oma was staying with my Great-Grandma Maxine but Mommy and I stayed with Oma's twin sister, Sandy, or as her granddaughters call her, Mimi. For breakfast each morning she set up a special table just for myself with a tea set that when you tip the teapot over, it makes music! (Of course Mommy had to buy a set for me because I loved it so much!)
It was a busy weekend, we spent most of our time visiting with family and had a birthday BBQ to celebrate Great-Grandma Maxine's 81st Birthday! Here are some photos of our weekend: me at my special breakfast table, hanging out on Aunt Sandy's front porch (Oma said I couldn't go down the front steps so in the picture I'm trying to figure out a way around her restrictions...) and finally, me on the car ride home, clearly exhausted from all of the weekend fun.
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