Jeannie's arrival our Easter Lily

Last week I went into labor. It was a really slow one I think because I relaxed through the contractions. Thursday about 5 pm they started at 3 minutes apart and stayed that way until she was born Saturday at 12:57 am. Thursday night, thinking that she was ready to come, with the contractions only 3 min apart we called the on call doctor and went into delivery. Although the contractions were steady and getting more powerful they weren't progressing to delivery so the nurses sent me home to get some rest at 1 am...uhhhhgh. When I had my appt in the morning the ob told me to maybe wait a couple hours and go back. well I waited until 9 pm.....after a long day of contractions and hanging out with Heather and Gavin I had had enough and decided to go back in. Liesl was all ready with her overnight at the Perrys. Thanks guys. I had made some progress but still had some work to go. After the doc came in and broke my water dialated only to a 6 it all went out of control and I was exhausted. I still only had about another 30 min to go and delivered her at 12:57 am Saturday April 7, 2012. She was 7 lb 7 oz and 20 inches long, Jean Lily Tierney. I only spent Saturday in the hospital and was released on Easter Sunday in time to go to Easter dinner at Melisa and Scott's. It has been an easy week for us with this little one having done it before and my recovery has been easier. She had her first bath on Sunday the 15th and lost her umbilical cord stump around the same time. I have been using cloth diapers....still waiting for more to come in. She does much better with those than the pampered which give her a red bottom. Liesl is very excited to be a big sister and every chance she gets to hug and kiss on her she is all over it. I am so happy to finally be with both my girls. Thank you to everyone that visited in the hospital!

Since Jeannie was born on Easter Saturday we didn't get a chance to hqve our Easter egg hunt with Liesl and Gavin. This past Sunday we had brunch with Heather and Gavin and went outside to see what the Easter bunny put in the yard for them. The kids were so excited about the egg hunt and to hang out with each other. It was nice to do it when things had settled a little. I am suprised that liesl has taken so well to overnights at Oma's house and with Gavin. My big girl is getting so big and independant. She is also doing awesome in swim class. What a great April.

Spring?

Liesl qnd Gavin have been hanging out a bit playing outside in the warm weather that has so abruptly left us. We were so excited to have our family over for St Pattys day earlier for shepherds pie and Irish fare. It was gorgeous out. We had to Windows open and everything airing out last week but had to turn the heat back on this week. I have tons of seeds started and growing in the window now. Have been bringing them in and out on cold days and nights. Hope they are getting heartier. Jim is going to majorly extend the garden to accomodate them hopefully making us more sustainable and self sufficient and not worrying about all those nasty chemicals. Liesl know what all my seedlings are, I am proud of her. We got a magnolia tree for the front yard which as pretty sad with the cold weather. She will bloom again. We are already into tulips, daffodils, hyacynth, crocuses all done. Everything is blooming so early. All my flower beds are ready for action.
Liesl is being quite the good big sister hugging and kissing my belly and saying age can't wait for Jeanie. Not too long now I M about to burst. My due date is fast approaching and I feel her moving around like crazy and she is poised to pop out. They didn't check me this last appt but I think I am getting effaced fast. I feel some Sharp java which I think are some short braxton hicks. We will see. Anytime now. Got all the chlothea cleaned, spot treated and pristine, sorted and put away. Am so excited to use them again. Just need to get the car seat out of the attic and cleaned and mommy, daddy and Liesl packed for
The hospital and we are ready to go. Happy birthday grandad. We love you.

Excellent week so far and more to come

<p>This week has been amazing weather outside and we have been taking advantage of it all. Have bbq'd tons and gardened some. Played in the Romeo park with Shannon and later with Heather and Gavin. Love that park and Liesl loves the climbing wall. We also visited Wolcott with Heather and Gavin which was super fun for everyone. All of the animals especially the goats and sheep were running to me because they knew I was pregnant and so were 9 of them. And due at the same time! The farm center store was open. First time ever for me and we took advantage of it buying special ice cream for dessert later. The kids were super excited. Afterwards we all went back to our house for bbq. It was so summertime out and we gwen wonderful grilled meats, veggies and the kids played on the swingset til past dark. We burned in our newish fire pit in the back and the kids "burned" marshmallows and called it camping. Perhaps we will camp out bqck before April. What a great week and especially great day it was. Hope the weather lasts. Then today Jim noticed my crocuses have bloomed. Yay spring. Thank god we had time to clean up the garden so they could emerge. Plus I think my other seeds have started themselves. I hope the poppies come up!

Rest of the weekend vacation

Well mom didn't really make it through unscathed from our adventure at the hill. She came back from the urgent care with a serious brace. Hope this doesn't last. She is wanting to get back on her bike and ride. we spent Monday night at the local movie theatere. If I knew that place was so cheap! The kids loved the weird atmosphere of all the taxidermied animals. Colton and Barb had already headed for home so we weren't such a big troupe anymore. We watched my favorite children's book the Lorax made to a movie and Liesl has told me it is now her favorite as well and can't wait for dvd. Tuesday we slowly made it out of the cottage. It was funny, every time we blinked those kids were worried we would be leaving. They had such a great time entertaining themselves and running around exploring. We slowly made our way home driving stopping at Zehnders for chicken dinner and a place called past tense. The kids really behaved themselves so well I am proud of them all. Great job!
Liesl really missed daddy and was so happy to be home. She was jumping around all over him all night. This morning we had to shop for Everything! We. Bought tons of groceries and she was such a good helper. No issues. Think she is getting out of her 3's craziness that lasted forever. They said 6 months. We shall see. Swim class tomorrow will be a good test for the week. Liesl and I cleaned up the garden in the back by tearing out that horrid rose bush to make room for out vegtables. It was a bear! I filled the whole yard waste container. Then we filled another cleaning out her rock garden and the lily patch. I found my lavender and was so excited. I thought that was a failure last year. I feel so accomplished I planted that from seed. Yay me! If it stays warm I can get the rest of this garden in shape before the little one comes. The inside of the house is another story. Thank you my wonderful child for a great day!

Up north again

Oma, Heather, Barb Gater and I brought the kids up to the cottage to go sledding because there has been some amazing snowfall out there. When we got up though the lake didn't seem to be frozen anymore so we created a barrier at the bottom but then the hill was not long enough. So today we called the chamber of commerce to find a sledding hill and drove to Roscommon and found the most amazing hill for the kids to go on. There were some serious sledding hills.
From steep to insane. Colton went down first with his grandma and Oma gabi and didn't aNy to go down anymore because he got so much snow in his face. The others took many more runs down the hills until Oma blew out her knee and needed to be taken to the urgent care. Hope she is ok

Babysitting day

Babysat Colton today and Gavin also came to visit too. All three kids had an awesome time together and played so nice all afternoon. I painted Gavin as a tiger and Liesl as a zebra.

Little fish

Took Liesl to the pool today. Was very glad that we did. She brought her "surf board" and made sure to wear her  goggles and commenced to sond the next hour and half under water. Not just dunking but swimming underwater for 10 seconds at a time and in the deep end going down to the bottom and pushing back up to the top. I hope that she shows that much to her swim teacher on thursday. She was also very good in meijer, the whole time at the cottage and way home. Things looking up. Maybe we are seeing the light at the and of the tunnel for tantrums? Her treat today was coming to play with Gavin and tomorrow Colton and Gavin coming over.