Rowan's first smile!

Rowan is now almost 8 weeks old which is hard to imagine! He started smiling a couple of weeks ago, but then he got a cold and wouldn't smile for a few days. I could tell he was feeling better when he smiled again. Yesterday I was lucky enough to get a picture of him smiling and making faces. What a cutie, if I do say so myself!

Happy Easter

The Beach Family was able to celebrate Easter all together this year with our newest member of the family! Bryson enjoyed hunting for eggs this year, although at each egg hunt he was perfectly content after finding his first egg or two. He would find them then open them up and take the insides out then put them back in and put the egg back together. No need for lots of eggs for him. Grandma Nancy filled her eggs with grapes and he really loved that! He ate all of his grapes then started working on Austin's! Rowan enjoyed his Easter being passed around while he snoozed! Payton loved getting dressed up in her new Easter dress and being able to spend time with her family playing. Austin was here for a couple of days and spent a lot of time at the church with his dad. Marc and Austin decided to stay up all night at the church and help with keeping the fire going until the sunrise church service on Easter morning. They had to take a few catnaps throughout the day! It was nice to finally have everyone together for a couple of days!

Rowan Marcus Beach

Rowan Marcus Beach has made his arrival. Rowan joined the Beach Family on Monday, March 1, 2010 at 8:08 p.m. He weighed 8lbs and was 19 1/4 inches long. He took a little longer to get here than we thought he was going to take, but he made a safe arrival and we are so excited to finally have him here! We now have 3 birthdays in a row...Bryson's on February 28, Rowan on March 1, and Marc on March 2! Looks like the first weekend in March is going to be a big exciting birthday celebration for the Beach family!

38 weeks...almost here?

Well I am a little over 38 weeks pregnant and had a dr. appt yesterday. While at the dr. I was almost 4 cm dialated and 100% effaced. He seems to think that today will be the day, possibly tomorrow. When I woke up this morning I had a couple of contractions right away so I decided I should probably go ahead and call the sub just in case. I now sit here at 12:15 and wish I were at work! I am having some contractions off and on and occasionally they are stronger, but really nothing much is happening. I am afraid of two things...either 1 the contractions will intensify very quickly and I will not have time for an epidural YIKES, or 2 I will continue to have contractions like this and I will have wasted the day and not have this baby for a few more days. I am not sure which one is worse at this point. I am so excited to see this baby and to have him or her before Bryson's birthday on Sunday. I know that the birthdays will be close anyway so I am sure that they will celebrate together, but it would be kind of nice for them to at least have a special day to themselves. I am sure I will be the only person worried about that! Oh well I guess the baby will come when the baby is ready, we're on baby schedule now, not mommy schedule!

37 weeks

Well I am almost 37 weeks pregnant now and although in some ways it seems like the time has flown by, in other ways I am ready for this little bundle to be here! I can't wait to find out if the baby is a boy or a girl. I had a Dr. appt last Wednesday and things are going great. I will now start going every week so we'll see how fast things will start progressing. He said that the head is very low but other than that we don't know too much about when the baby's arrival will be. Bryson's head was low for quite awhile, I don't think it sped up his arrival at all! He was born about 5 days early though, so we'll see. Bryson's birthday is February 28th so I would like to at least hold off until then, but after that I am ready to go! Payton is anxiously waiting and hoping desperately that the baby is a girl. She also thinks it would be really funny if my water just broke somewhere spontaneously some day. I am not so sure that I agree that it would be so funny!

a little pre-term...

On Friday afternoon I started having some mild contractions. I assumed that they were Braxton-Hicks, which I have been experiencing off and on for a few weeks. Usually once I lay down and rest for a few minutes I am fine. After getting home from school I laid down for a couple of hours, but much to my disappointment my contractions actually started getting worse and were even starting to be uncomfortable. At about 8:00 we decided we better go ahead down to the hospital to make sure that things were going o.k. and to see what we needed to do to get the contractions to stop. Once we were there they hooked me up to the monitors and ran a couple of tests. The baby's heartrate was great, and the baby was very active, which was great as well. It was determined however, that I have a bladder infection. Between the bladder infection and the stress of my day they are sure that is what caused the contractions to stick around so long. We got to come home from the hospital at about 12:30 a.m. I had been having contractions for about 12 hours, but they had finally stopped about an hour before we left the hospital. Phew! I was a little nervous we were going to be having an early baby. It sounds like if I take it easy the next couple of days and take the medication for the infection than things should be o.k. If everyone could please say a quick little prayer that this baby stays in as long as possible we would much appreciate it.

Snow Days!

Well I wouldn't have chosen to have two snow days so quickly after we got back from Christmas break, but hey I will take what I can get. We had Thursday and Friday off which turned out to be really nice because Payton got stranded here with us. Her and Bryson had a blast on Thursday and Friday playing together and being silly. We even got to go outside for a couple of minutes to play in the snow. I don't think that Bryson remembered the snow much from last year so this was really his first time going through the process of being bundled up and going outside. He definitely didn't like to get bundled up even though his big sister tried to show him how it worked. Once we got outside though he loved it. It was really windy so we weren't able to stay out long, but hopefully it will be nice enough another day so that we can get back out there.

Having a tea party in the tent!

I think I like the snow!