Lauren&Hyrum

Here we go.  :) Its surreal to write about the birth of my second child.  I don't feel like someone who has children . But I've never felt happier in all my life as when I think about my little family, and hold my babies, and smile for pictures with my amazing husband and our kids.   I spent a significant portion of my third trimester hobbling around like an old woman due to sciatic nerve pain down my right leg, back pain, and pain in my pelvis so sharp... I can't even describe... and near constant braxton-hix contractions.  I was really really tired and wasn't drinking enough water, which contributed to my discomfort.  Feeling awful all of the time led me to hope-- and then believe-- that I was going to have Russell early.  Well about the second week of August, I started feeling great.  I had all kinds of energy, my back pain was gone, I could breathe easily for the first time in what felt like forEVER, and I could roll over in bed (200 ...

Watching videos with Dad. Today is one of those days when I'm tearing up over things that I normally would not.  A moment ago I was reading a blog post about a young mom's need to go to dinner with her husband and not her kids, and eat her own food while its hot and look into her husband's eyes and talk to him, and I teared up.  I really like restaurants. But thinking about my little girl and my last few days with just her is a little more justifiable, I think, in the "getting weepy" arena.  Now, we're having Russell very very much on purpose.  That purpose is him and Georgia.  She needed a sibling, and we wanted them to be close in age, and I am genuinely overjoyed to have him nigh at the doors, but these are my last days with my little girl as my little girl.  The reality that she's a big sister hasn't set in, and I haven't had to scold her for hitting the baby in the face, yet.  She's still just my little angel, and she gets all ...