We have been trying to give Kellan tummy time everyday. Suprisingly he actually seems to like it. 
Kellan Lee was born at 10:56 on August 31st. He weighed 7 pounds 10 ounces and was 21 inches long. I was thinking that he would be bigger than his sister but was a little smaller. I would assume that they would have weighed about the same had I made it to my due date. 
His delivery was definitely an event...
I had been having contractions on and off all weekend and feeling really tired and sick to my stomach. Especially on Sunday. I don't think that I was really even functional the sunday before I had him because I was so tired....
On Monday I was having very frequent braxton hicks contractions. At 11:30 PM on the 30th I woke up with painful contractions that were never regular. When I showered at 5AM my contractions stopped, so I just went to work. I had a regular dr's appointment the morning of the 31st, and my dr said that I was between a 2 and 3 and not effaced much. After the appointment I went to the school and had a 3 sessions with clients. I was really tired from being up all night with contractions, so I ended my day a little early and went home to nap. Nathan picked Makayla up at school , and they got home around 4:45. They ate supper, but I didn't because I was feeling really sick still. After they finished eating Makayla and I cuddled up on the couch to watch elmo at which time my water broke. No huge gush thank goodness! We left the house about 30-45 mins later and drove to the hospital. The rest went really quickly. We got to the hospital around 7 or 7:15, and my mom got there around 7:30 to get Makayla. The nurse told me that I could have my epidural whenever I wanted it because I was in active labor. I was not that uncomfortable, so I decided to wait a while...Bad idea. The pain went from bearable to completely unbearable to the point I was sweating in about 5 minutes. At around 9 my dr checked me, and said I was at 4cm. Shortly after that I asked for my epidural. At 10 pm I had a really intense contraction and felt the need to push. I yelled at Nathan to go get a nurse, but as he was getting up from his chair my dr and the nurse walked in the room. I don't think that I have ever been so happy to see my dr. It turns out that I was complete already and my dr told me that there would be no time for my epidural. At that point it didn't really matter anyway. I was not completely dialated in one spot, so my dr had to force dialate me. That was not pleasant. At 10:15 I started pushing, and Kellan was born face up at 10:56. He didn't cry, but the dr said not to worry because he was fine and that the only reason for him not crying was because of the trauma of being born face up instead of down.
In summary... My water broke at 6:15, and he was born less than 5 hours later. That's really quick! I am glad that I didn't take the time to shower! There's no way that I would have been walking anywhere at that point.
We have been home since Thursday, and we are all doing great besides Kellan being a little jaundice. Makayla loves being his big sister. I think that she is really excited. He does wake her up at night sometimes, so if you have any suggestions on that I would love to hear them...
The only downside...We can't move to Fayetteville too! Even Makayla feels the need to protest our living in a town with nothing to do while Uncle Ryan gets to live in Fayetteville with more stuff to do than he has time to do it:)
I think that this is the only picture that I have ever posted here that I did not take myself. Nathan took this picture of Makayla in her crown at burger king tonight. We went out to eat as a reward because she was so good today during her allergy testing. She had to lay still on her belly for 20 minutes. I was so proud that she was such a big girl. They brought a TV in for her to watch while she was waiting on her belly. I did not expect her to be so cooperative, but I am glad that she was. No complaints here.
I can't believe that I am already 27 weeks along in this pregnancy. That only leaves 13 weeks before Kellan is estimated to arrive. I feel huge. After looking at this picture though I realize that my baby belly is not nearly as huge as it feels. We still have to get the rest of Makayla's things out of her old room, so we have made very little progress with baby preperations. I did pick out bedding last week when I registered. I am looking forward to getting his nursery together but am seriously lacking the energy to get anything done. We will probably get started after we get the bedding. I am just ready to meet him and see what he looks like. 
Makayla loves to do art. Anything art...She will love. Right now she is really into sidewalk chalk and watercolors.
Her drawings are becoming much more recognizable. This for example is a giraffe. 
Makayla is just so funny!
She always has us laughing about something. I don't really have much else to say, but she is just really funny!
It has really been a nice week. Unfortunately nice weeks in March usually means that we have some severe weather here in Arkansas. At least this week was uneventful for us. Unlike the weather we had a couple of years ago. If you don't remember the tornado click here. 
Ok. Makayla was out of school for 4 days for snow. Add that to the weekend, and you get 6 days of being stuck in the house. As I said in a previous post this week we were not prepared. We had plenty of food (well other than Makayla's milk which Nathan ventured out to get), but we were not prepared for the boredom that we would encounter with our little toddler. 
She looks very satisfied in these pictures. Doesn't she? She wasn't the rest of the time! I do believe that this girl was having cabin fever much worse than either of the adults in the house. 
After about 2 days of missing school things started getting pretty ugly. I was really regretting not buying the finger paints to replace the ones that she had already used. I finally remembered that I had scrapbooking supplies that don't have to be for just me! The stamps were a lifesaver. She had a blast stamping! She also loved that the ink was pink! 
Wow! I never realize how long it has been since I last posted until I finally get around to posting again. Well it looks like it was about a month and a half this time. Not too good. I need to keep up better. 
We have had much more winter weather this winter than normal. A few weeks ago we actually got about 10 inches! Yes, I did say 10 inches. That is not standard for an Arkansas winter. We were not prepared. I was off work for 3 days in one week for this snow.
Nathan and Makayla built a snowman. It actually hung around for at least a week after they built it.
This is a picture that she drew of a fish. She did both of these all by herself, and I have no idea how she learned how to draw real pictures. It's still very cute though!
We have been so happy with our new playroom that we added onto our house! It has been so great to be able to isolate the mess to just one area.
It gets messy and dirty sometimes. When that happens we have to clean it!
Sometimes Makayla tries to recruit help. 
