Cameron Axel is here!!!

So Katie had contractions all night last night and didn't sleep a wink.  I started OB call at 8 this morning.  I called at about 9 to see how she was feeling and the contractions were getting stronger.  At 11 she wanted me to come get her and bring her in to the hosptial, thank goodness Scott & Dolly are here and that we live so close to the hospital.  We were overjoyed when her doctor decided to keep her and Katie was fully dilated within a few hours.  It took 2 contractions to push him out...with a little help from the vacuum.  His heart rate plummeted just like it did with Cordon, but this time she was fully dilated when it happened so she could just push him out, unlike with Cordon where we had to cut him out.  He was fine and immediately started crying loud enough that even Cordon was put to shame.  Mom and baby are fine and Katie says she only feels 7.5 months pregnant now. 

Summer fun

Our grass is in and thriving and now ready to mow for the first time.  And so Lance has been working hard to make the backyard a fun place for the kids.  He put in a swing set. We just need the wood chips and border. He also built this very sturdy sandbox, we just need the sand.  The boys have mostly just enjoyed helping Lance fix things with all the tools.

Today is our five year anniversary.  This video

is why these last five years have flown by and why 

I have no doubts that we will be together forever.

This is my most favorite present ever and makes me 

love Lance even more. Happy 5 years Lance. I love you

tons!!!!!!

For those of you with high speed internet connections 

you can go to our website for a higher quality version here

So I just delivered a baby in a 2008 Honda Odyssey

Well...cut the umbilical cord would be a more apt description since mom was holding the baby in her lap when I got out there.  So as some of you may know, in order to pay off our spanking new van I work 48 hour shift in rural ERs.  It is more exciting than the instacares I've been living in for the past 9 months.  Anyway these experiences are best described as moments of sheer terror followed by a sense of accomplishment, this is repeated every few hours.  So this morning I just lay down to take a nap since I'm getting sick and all of a sudden the nurses are yelling my name.  I walk out of the ER doors and there is an odyssey with the passenger side door open and one of the nurses I worked with last weekend holding her purple baby in her arms.  So we got some clamps and scissors, clamped the umbilical cord, got the baby a blanket, and got mom into the ER to deliver the placenta.  Mom and baby are now doing great.  Mom lives a whole block away and was on her way in to the ER but didn't quite make it.  

I guess I have learned a thing or two the past 2 years b/c it was more funny than anything.  I didn't really feel any fear and I guess there was no reason to.  Women have been having babies in their modes of transportation forever.  It isn't much different than delivering a baby in your handcart, except the blood comes off leather seats a lot easier than warped, weathered wooden planks.  

What we are up to

Cordon

Is still dealing with bipolar disorder.  He has a nasty temper when hungry or tired. However, his new thing is too randomly give me hugs and say I wuv you, mommy.  He is so sweet and wants to do whatever Darren is doing. He loves to eat all the time esp. pancakes, waffles, french toast, and pasta but he will eat anything and everything even veggies.

Darren 

Is learning to be patient with his shadow, Cordon.  He just finished up Spring semester at

the Little gym where he was in a sports skills development class.  He successfully did a full spin on the balance beam and did not fall off!!!  Darren is convinced there is a baby in his tummy named Nathan that is due the same time mommy's baby is due. I don't know how Im going to handle this one when Nathan never shows up.

Lance

Is of course always busy at work.  saving lives, delivering babies, and denying chronic pain sufferers their much anticipated narcotics.  He is still cursing the never ending problems with the spinkler system. However, we did just get a whole new backyard of sod layed and it looks beautiful.  Lance, has just paid off our first loan and is working on the next. He is also in the beginnings of training for the boston marathon and will be doing a 175 mi relay race in a couple weeks.

Katie

Is much anticipating the end of my third pregnancy.  Little Cameron is due July 3, but I won't be disappointed if he comes a little early.  I am now struggling to keep up with Darren and Cordon but I look forward to starting an exercise routine again so that I will once again be able to run faster than both of them. I have 3+ more weeks of eating whatever I want and then the work begins.