More pics of baby

HE HAS HAIR!!!!! (I am not going to trust nurses anymore..maybe they are just blind)

It is so nice to be home and relaxing in my own bed! This c-section was definitely harder to recover from than the other 2.
Zach is doing well. He is eating a lot more at his feedings and the neonatalogist said that if he keeps it up then we may be bringing him home Monday or Tuesday. When I fed him today right before coming home, I was informed that they are putting him under the billy lights for 2 days because he is a little jaundice.
I will update everyday until he gets home or until someone comments that they are tired of updates..hehe
Here are the pictures off the camera and I am proud to say that we stayed with tradition and he most definitely has the blond hair. I guess that people in the operating room don't know what they are talking about. I didn't get to see him until Wednesday so I just had to believe them :)


^This is his first photo op. The doctor took him out and held him up so he is fresh and gooey :)

^He is still in the OR in this picture so he doesn't yet have the strings to tie him down :)

^He has an IV in his head and also one in his arm. They are not using the one in his head but they are leaving it there just in case they need it. He also has a feeding tube in his nose.

On Wednesday he pulled the feeding tube out of his mouth so I got a good shot of his face...I am glad that I did because they put it back in on Thursday.


^ I realized as I was posting these pictures that he looks really big. He definitely is not as big as he looks. Those are preemie diapers. He has lost some weight so now he is down to 6 lbs. 2 ozs.

Zachary Brandt Stone

Zachary Brandt Stone was born today at 4:55 pm. He weighs 6 lbs 9 oz and is 18 inches long. He has a little bit of hair and of course it is blonde. Natalie and Zachary are doing fine. She will post more pictures of this cute baby once she is home from the hospital.

Let the countdown begin....23 hours +

So we will definitely get to meet Zach tomorrow afternoon. My C-section is scheduled for 4:00 pm. That was the earliest they had available. I am going to have my sister put a picture up with all the info as soon after he gets here as possible. I will be home on Friday and I promise I will update and add more pics. See you all again soon!!

Update & Date Up'd

Well, it looks like we will be seeing this baby even sooner! At my appointment today my blood pressure was still rising so I now have another appt. on Monday. If my BP goes up even more by Monday than we will be meeting this baby boy on Tuesday morning. If my BP is the same or lower (yeah right) then we will meet him on Friday. So instead of 14 days, we have at most 9 days before Zachary joins us. Because he will only be 34 weeks he will definitely be placed in the NICU for a while. It could be a week or two or even more, it will depend on him.
Well, there you have it. I knew I needed to get everything ready..something told me that Zach would be showing his pretty face sooner rather than later :)

Update to last post.....

All who felt so bad for Tanner is my earlier post today...Daddy took him out to play in the snow. He lasted 5 minutes. He threw a snowball at dad which got his hands wet and that was it. He was done :)

Our lovely life!

There have been a few things going on at our house the last week. I have just been very lazy and haven't posted them :)
Tanner had his first day of speech, which to him was like going to school so he had to wear his "best school clothes." He was so excited.


As for being pregnant...well it pretty much sucks the last few weeks. I know that I truly have 6 weeks left but my body knows that this baby will be here in 2 weeks. All the pains that show themselves the last few weeks have taken over this pregnant lady. I am not sure why I am doing this but I have included a picture. I look like a big black innertube.


OK, now to the fun(or not so fun) part. Yesterday at 5:00 pm the weather decided to throw us some fun. Now I know that my last post about snow was pretty much laughed at, but you have to give us credit for this one. Right after we ate dinner last night the power went out for about 3 hours. My kids were extremely bored. They didn't think that playing with their toys by flashlight was such a good idea. Tanner decided that if there wasn't going to be any light then he was just going to go to bed. He was asleep by 7:00. He woke up around 9:00 (nice nap that kept him up until 12:30) and we played Blokus by candlelight for about 20 minutes until the lights came back on. I was so happy. I would have made the crankiest pioneer.
So, enjoy the pictures. Tanner wants to go out and play in it but being that we never have snow, Tanner doesn't have a coat. His jacket is not warm enough for me to let him out. He just sits in front of the french doors and watches it melt. I am so mean!

High School Tag

Fill this out about your SENIOR year of high school! The longer ago it was, the more fun the answers will be! At the end, choose 10 people (or more) to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you. IN YOUR SENIOR YEAR DID YOU...

1. Did you date someone from your school? well, he went to my high school but he graduated when I was a freshman

2. Did you marry someone from your high school? No

3. Did you car pool to school? Yes, with Riley

4. What kind of car did you have? Chevy Corsica

5. What kind of car do you have now? Pontiac Montana

6. Its Saturday night...where are you now? At home with the boys

7. It is Saturday night...where were you then? Senior year? Working

8. What kind of job did you have in high school? I worked at Days Market and Little Acorn

9. What kind of job do you do now? good ole mommy

10. Were you a party animal? No

11. Were you considered a flirt? No

12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? Choir

13. Were you a nerd? probably

14. Did you get suspended or expelled? No

15. Can you sing the fight song? Yes! After having to sing it so many times in choir it stuck in my head

6. Who was/were your favorite teacher(s)? Mr. D (Choir) Mrs. Moos (she never taught me but I love her)

17. Where did you sit during lunch? In the hall or in the Cafeteria

18. What was your school's full name? Payson High School

19. When did you graduate? 1997

20. What was your school mascot? a Lion

21. If you could go back and do it again, would you? some parts..I would do Trouveres over and over and over!

22. Did you have fun at Prom? Nope, I worked

23. Do you still talk to the person you went to Prom with? didn't go

24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion? I would like to but I live to far away

25. Do you still talk to people from school? Yes.

26. School Colors? Silver and Green....and blue

I TAG: any and all of you that read this blog :)