Day Out with Thomas

Those of you who know Blake, know that he loves trains, especially Thomas the Train.  When I saw that Thomas was coming to Heber Valley Railroad over Memorial Day weekend, I knew we had to go!  My family thought I was crazy because our baby was due that weekend, but I knew how excited Blake would be to see Thomas, so I bought tickets and figured we would work around a new baby. 

Blake and Bostyn loved riding on the train

Daddy and Blake checking out Thomas

Aunt Jaclyn

Sir Topham Hatt

The train ride itself was kind of lame, but Blake absolutely loved it, which made it totally worth it!

Zac Hospital Pics

As much as I hate to see pictures of myself 9 months pregnant, I had to include this for documentation purposes only.  Here I am at 7:00 am getting ready to head to the hospital.  I was hoping to have an exciting water breaking, going into labor in the middle of the night story, but this babe was in no hurry to get here, so after waiting for several weeks of contractions every 6-10 minutes lasting several hours and then vanishing, and doctors telling me I was going to go into labor any minute and then nothing happening, I decided to be induced.  They called around 6:30 am Sunday morning and told us to be to the hospital by 7:15.  Aunt Jeana came over to our house to watch Blake and John and I headed to the hospital, so excited to meet our new little guy!

We still hadn't decided on a name, so while we were waiting for the grand arrival, John looked up baby names on his kindle and we added MORE names to our long list!

Happy Mommy after getting an epidural.  My epidural with Blake was way too strong, so this time the anesthesiologist got it just right so I wasn't numb up to my shoulders!

All ready for baby!

Baby Boy Brown was born at 1:46 pm

Big Brother Blake came in just a few minutes later to meet his new brother

(He was clueless as to what was going on and had absolutely no interest in the baby)

7 lbs 9 oz  21 inches long

We were so excited to hold and love our little guy, but he was really struggling to breathe, so the nurses took him to the crib and called the NICU team to come assess him

Before we knew it, he was being transfered to the ICU for more monitoring and some testing

Thankfully, all of the tests came back normal, but he still wasn't transitioning with his breathing like he should have and was grunting really loud, so they decided to admit him to the ICU.  His blood sugar was a little low, so they started an IV and gave him some glucose.  Since he was working so hard to breathe, they didn't want me to feed him because that could stress him even more.  Around 4am, he started breathing normally, on his own.  The nurse called me around 7:15 and said we had a very hungry baby and that he was ready to eat.  I hurried and got dressed and was so excited to feed my baby for the first time.  He latched right on and ate for about 30 min.  That was the good news, the bad news was that since he had been on an IV, they had to wean him off of it before he could leave the ICU, so each time he would eat, they would check his blood sugar and make sure it was high enough and then lower the IV fluid.  Around 5:00 pm, he was released from the NICU and we got to take him upstairs with us!

Leaving the NICU

Getting checked into the WELL baby nursery:)

Finally, we could have visitors...Proud grandpa

Aunt Jeana

We got to take him home the next day, the only problem was we still hadn't decided on a name.  John really wanted to name him Jordan and I really thought he looked like a Zachary, so after going back and forth for several hours, we finally decided...

Zachary Trey Brown

We love this boy!!!

Introducing...

Zachary Trey Brown

7 lbs 9 oz 21 inches

More pictures to come!

Nesting

This week marks 37 weeks, which is technically full term!  We have been busy at our house getting ready to meet our new little guy.  This pregnancy has flown by, maybe because I have a very busy 2 year old distracting me, but it has definitely been a much easier and more enjoyable pregnancy than Blake's. 
Since we are having another boy, we are keeping most of the nursery the same, but Blake got a new room and he was a great helper as we were getting it ready for him.  We said goodbye to Kaitlyn's purple walls, and repainted one baby blue wall for Blake.  I was said to see the purple go-I loved that room, but John was more than happy to paint over those walls!

We are still working on some of the finishing touches, but here is Blake's room with his new

 "Boat Bed"

I kind of feel bad for the baby because he is going to have hand-me-downs his whole life-starting with his room.  Good thing I loved Blake's nursery because not much has changed.  My mom has suggested that I take the pictures of Blake out of the frames to make room for ones of the baby...probably a good suggestion

                                                                 All ready for baby!

Baby's bag packed-check!

Mom's bag packed-check!

Camera charged and ready-check!

One final thing on our to do list was to get a bigger car.  We put this off as long as we could.  John and I loved this car.  John always said it was like having an SUV, but driving a sports car.  Kind of a bitter-sweet day as we said goodbye to the Range Rover and traded it in for a family friendly Armada.

We now have plenty of room for the whole family-plus some extras!

Now, if we just had a name for this little guy!  It was so hard for us to decide on a name for Blake and it hasn't been any easier this time.  We do have a list of names we like-a LONG list.  Maybe we'll work on narrowing that down this week. 

I've got all the major things checked off my to-do list, so hopefully this little guy will decide to join us sooner than later.  We are so excited to meet him!