Newborn Gowns

Owen's friend was born on Saturday. (aka Natalie's little boy) We've spent so much time together during our pregnancy they are bound to already know each other. When Natalie asked to pay me to make her a newborn gown...I laughed. Pay me! Yah right! Natalie does anything and everything for me. She even took my kids in the middle of the night when Chad's Grandma was sick. She's awesome...so these gowns were the least I could do.
PS: They are her husbands old t-shirts.

Some good laughs...

This is only funny to me now that I am through the worst part. One of my favorite blogs posted these and I was cracking up so hard I had to share.

Halloween

I like candy so much I decided to turn my kids into it for Halloween.

The prettiest "Hershey Kiss" I've ever seen.

We re-used Alexis costume from her 4th of July parade. I honestly wrapped two pieces of fabric around a $2 pool floaty from Wal-mart and sewed it together. I used ribbon to cinch the top closed. It deflates flat to store.

As if he needed the title "Big Hunk"...he's always one in my eyes.

I post-poned making his costume thinking I would have my baby earlier. So I had to whip it together on Saturday afternoon. Good thing it was super easy.

Our SWEET little "Candy Corn." I just love the sweet smell of newborns. And I can help but LOVE every second with this little boy. Everything about him makes my heart melt.

After I finished Carter's costume I figured I might as well cut out a few pieces of felt and make a candy corn for Owen's shirt. He needed to join in on the candy fun. I tried taking pictures of him but I think he hated the over-sized felt piece. He tried eating it and then resorted to his fingers instead.

I was happy to not be in the hospital for Halloween. It's bad enough not being able to walk from house to house with them watching the excitement on their face. Owen and I had a relaxing evening...and the kids got me lots of "Snickers" as promised.

Having the kids be candy for Halloween turned out to be IRONIC. That's the same night Owen let me know of my need to give up chocolate completely or else we would be up all night every night because of his tummy aches. Oh well, maybe it will help me slim down a little quicker.

To welcome November...we carved some pumpkins Sunday afternoon. Better late than never. Between Alexis' soccer game and rehearsals for the stake play...we had no time on Saturday.
The kids loved drawing their own faces on these little pumpkins Grandma Pitt picked up for them.

Owen is Home

Since hospitals right now are not allowing anyone 14 and under into the hospital, Alexis and Carter have been waiting anxiously to see their new baby brother. We brought Owen home today and they finally got to meet him. They were all smiles and could not get enough kisses and hugs in. My Mom told me that she had printed a picture of Owen for them to see last night and Carter had been carrying it around all day with him telling everyone that his new brother Owen came out of his Mommy's belly!



This is the outfit that Amber made for Owen to come home in.

Owen Douglas Pitt is Here!

We are super excited to share with you some pictures of the latest addition to our family.

Owen Douglas Pitt
Born on October 28, 2009 at 8:17 a.m.
6 lbs. and 12 oz.
20 inches long

He has brought smiles to our faces from the minute he was born and we adore him.

By the way, this is Amber's husband (Chad) posting this. I'm sure Amber will probably re-post this and make this information much more exciting than I have, but in the meantime we wanted to share some of the early pics of Owen. Enjoy!

Going in...

to be induced in 1 hour!

One good thing about going past your due date and being induced...you are prepared. Not necessarily for the sleepless nights and nursing. (I am NOT a fan of nursing but I do it anyway.) But my HOUSE is ready. It's clean: the carpets, walls, tile, bathroom, windows. You name it and most likely it's been scrubbed down by me or Chad within the last week. I'm super excited to meet this little guy and wonder if he'll look like my other two cookie cutter children or will he have a completely different look like Chad and his brother? It's so surreal.

One of my most favorite things that we did to get ready for this baby was to hang big picture frames above his crib. Chad has a rule: no glass above the crib. So I found 2 large frames with plexi-glass from Ikea for $3. Sweet. I'm planning on putting large black and white photo's of our baby in them. But for now...I couldn't leave them empty. So I took out my toll paints...mixed them to match the colors of the crib bedding, flipped the Ikea advertisement inside each frame over and let the kids use the white backside as a canvas to welcome our little one. The kids loved it...and I love going in the room and starring at their artwork.

It might be hard to take their artwork down. Alexis drew a cute welcome home picture of her and Carter waiting for the baby. Carter kept switching what his picture was: it transformed from a volcano to a fox and bug.

Next time I post...I will be a mom of three.

Check Lists

A month ago I made a "Projects to Finish" check-list:

I'm happy to say I finished almost everything on my full page list. Hence, all the projects post.

Then when the Primary Program was all said and done and that was over I figured I could use this week to work on my house.

So I made a full page sheet of deep spring cleaning things I could do. I'm pretty much almost done with that. Some of the things I'm doing now I really don't care if I get done. At my appointment on Tuesday I was at a 2 and 50%.

Wednesday night I woke up at 1:20 with major CONTRACTIONS. I made my necessary phone calls (The first to my sister to tell her she would be working for me and another to Chad's mom to prepare to come over.) I remembered this is exactly how I went into labor with Carter: 2 nights before, contractions every few minutes...but only really painful every 10 minutes. I thought...I'll wait it out another good 30 minutes. Besides, I needed to pack a hospital bag.

And would you believe it: the contractions slowly went away when I got up to pack my bag. So that was that. I had little ones all night. So when my alarm went off at 5:45am for work I called my sister and told her I guess she didn't need to work for me after all.

I went to work at 6:30am. My eyes burned like crazy from being up all night. By 9:00 I started having contractions again. Every 10 minutes I had contractions while I cleaned 3 people's teeth.

Then I got in the car to come home...and NOTHING! They went away again. Chad and I took a long stroll on the beach to see if it would help. NOTHING.

So here I sit...with ridiculous false alarms. Chad's getting frustrated. Today, I volunteered in Alexis' classroom and cleaned my house again. Chad cleaned the outside of our windows, cleaned the BBQ and the patio. Now, he's out cleaning our car. I think he's nesting now purely out of frustration.

I only get contractions when I'm still. That is so wrong. So, we sit and wait for this baby who is due TODAY! Doesn't look like it's happening. At least I have an induction date set for next Tuesday night. I could just do without these false alarms.