A Picture Says A 1,000 Words

Denton and Amy

(Amy is one week old)

Amy at 3 weeks

Denton helping out Grandma this weekend

Family Pictures

My Miss Amy

Warning: Some of this post will be TMI for some of you. If so, Sorry that's the way life is.


I went in Thursday morning at 7am on the 23rd of October to have an elective inducement. I was 4 cm dilated and was started on pitocin. Dr came in and told me she would be back at 12pm to break my water. Every hour the nurse would come back in and up the pitocin. 12 pm came around and the Dr still hadn't come. The contractions were starting to become uncomfortable and I knew that as soon as she broke my water I was going to need that epidural. At 12:55 pm my water was broken and I was 5 cm dilated and 70 %. That very next contraction was unbearable. By 1:40 pm the epidural was in and I knew it was already going to work better than the epidural that I got with Denton (which didn't do anything but make my legs not work). At 3 pm I was 6cm, then at 4:10 pm I felt that pelvic pressure. The nurse checked me and I was 9 cm. She had me try pushing and said she would give me 10 minutes and check again. She also thought that I wouldn't push for very long. I didn't want to believe her because with Denton I pushed for 3 hours. Well I didn't even make it the full 10 minutes when the pressure was way intense. She checked me again and I was fully dilated and she was going to call the Dr and start setting up. By that point I really wanted to push, but knew if I did if the baby came out Russell would be the only one in the room to catch the baby, so I had to resist the urge. When they were pulling things out of the hidden room they asked if I wanted the mirror. I said I didn't know, that's when Russell said If she was in her right mind she would want it. So they pulled it out. The Dr finally came into the room and my mind was settled that she would be able to catch the baby. I started pushing at around 4:30pm, I looked in the mirror once and saw the head coming out and it was only like the 3rd push. That motivated me to push harder and faster. Amy came out at 4:41pm and was put directly on me. I love that feeling when there is a moving thing on top of you and no longer inside you. This pregnacy was harder then Denton's but the delivery was much better and shorter than Denton's.

Here are some pictures of our hospital experience.

What We Have Been Up to These Last 3 Months...

So I have been a bit lazy and haven't wanted to blog much of anything, even though plenty has been going on.

One thing that was exciting for Denton was his first trip to Lagoon. There were plenty of rides that he could ride on, even though some scared Grandma Riley (she thought he was too young to ride on some of the ones that we put him on, and thought he was going to freak out as soon as the ride started, which he didn't do). Russell got to ride rides with my sisters Jenny and Jackie, and me being pregnant got to follow them around drinking and eating whatever I wanted. Here are some pictures of Lagoon.

This was the first ride we tested out. He loved it.

We then went for something we knew he could do.

Now for the ones that had Grandma about to pee her pants.

Russell and Jackie on Cliff Hanger. They sat in the wettest spot.

2008 Sadler Trip

Russell's parents treated us to California at the beginning of this month. They got us plane tickets so we wouldn't have to drive with a 17 month old and so that we could stay longer since Russell has to work this summer.

We flew out Wednesday the 2nd of July after Russell got done teaching. The plane wasn't full so after take off Russell jumped to the row in front of us and then we had room for Denton to explore. Denton did very well for his first air plane ride. He just got a bit mad when he couldn't walk around. After landing at the smallest airport ever (Long Beach Airport), we got picked up by Dan(Russell's Brother-in-law) and Papa Sadler. We all slept in Tan and Dan's apartment, which was good so then no one had to pay for a hotel and be out of the loop. Tan and Dan were very generous and let Russell, Denton and I have there king size bed to sleep in while they slept in their kids room on an air mattress(Thanks again Tan). Grandma, Papa, Chase, and Ryan had driven all morning and beat us there. Denton liked playing with Andrew so much that he would try and give him a hug and accidentally tackle him to the ground twice. After that poor Andrew was afraid of Denton and didn't want him within three feet of him the rest of the trip. Ally and Denton got along really well. Denton tried to pick her up, give her hugs, and get into her infant toys. Boy are we going to have to watch Denton really good in a couple of months. That night we tried to get to bed early so we could get up early and miss all the lines at Disneyland. Good thing Russell is like a little kid and got up at 4 am saying "I am too excited to sleep, lets go now" so we were up and ready to go with everyone a bit early.

Denton looking out the window.

Before getting off the plane.

Giving baby Ally big hugs while Grandma holds on tight.

Disneyland was great!!! Denton loved the Carousel the most I think. He kept bouncing back and forth on the horse. Russell got to ride some of the bigger rides with his brothers, and I was ok with going on Pirates, Winne the Pooh, The Haunted Mansion(in which Denton peed on me, I knew his diaper was getting full but didn't want to find a bathroom to change him so there was my punishment) and the Carousel(but that made me sick, too many circles).

The Happiest Place on Earth.

Group shot.

The Boys after Splash Mountain

The Carousel

Papa was nice enough to take Denton on the Dumbo ride since dad was riding with the big boys and mama didn't thinks she should ride this one.

Friday, the 4th of July, we went to the beach about 5 minutes away from Tan and Dan's house. It was fun to bury Russell, Denton and then Ryan in the sand. Denton got sand on his hands and ate it then kept crunching on the sand with his teeth, it was sick. Denton loved the waves, well he loved the small waves. There was some pretty big wave close to shore that he was afraid of. After the beach we dressed the kids up in patriotic attire and took cute picutes. Afrer dinner then almost everyone walked to see the fireworks. Cathy and I stayed home with Denton because he was sleeping, but we got to see the fireworks from the balcony and even heard the music they played.

Denton ready to head to the beach so bad that he jumped in Ally's car seat

Setting up at the beach

Family Photo

Papa playing with the kids

Russell buried

Denton half buried. We had to hurry and take the picture after we put the sand on his legs.

I made Ryan be a girl mermaid

Group shot after packing up

Trying to bath the sand of them

Being patriotic with the red, white and blue hats.

Saturday we walked to a small park less than a mile from Tan and Dan's house. The playground was that bouncy playground stuff(sorry don't know what to call it). The kids played to there hearts content and then we made the trek home and had pizza(giving Tan a break from cooking for all of us). This was also the day that Denton got a fever and a cold. We never really knew how high the fever got because Denton wouldn't hold the thermometer in his mouth long enough and I didn't want to stick Tan's thermometer in his bum.

We had to equally balance the kids. Me and Russell worked great.

Playing nice

He couldn't get enough of her.

Riding on Uncle Dan

Sunday we were suppose to go to church but Denton still had a fever, and Russell and I were starting to get the cold too. So we just packed up our stuff and relaxed a bit before heading to the airport. Dan drove us back and we were still amazed how small Long Beach Airport was, it only had one main building where you check in and we think only 7 gates in two separate, smaller buildings. None of the buildings were connected so you had to walk outside to get from check in to the security and gates. The plane ride home was a bit more difficult, I think Russell disagrees. It was a full flight which meant Denton was on our laps the whole time and he had less room to explore. We got in at 6:50 pm and My mother and Jackie picked us up. We went straight to the Insta Care for Denton. He got his temperature taken and it was 101.6 and he had ear infections in both ears. We got him medicine and spent the night at my parents house before going back up to Logan.

That was our Sadler Vacation. Thanks again to Papa and Grandma Sadler for making sure that we got to go and to Tan and Dan for giving us there bed, fixing us food and driving us around. It was a good vacation.