New Little Addition

She's Here!!!
Born 10.25.10 at 8:11 pm
Lilyana Marie Schulte
21" and 7lbs. 1 1/2 oz.

Okay it has been quite the week... and EVERYONE has been bugging me for pictures. I now am feeling much better (being out of the hospital will do that to a girl!) and am able to get around the house much easier. No one writes about how rotten the mommy feels right after child birth. I wasn't ready for how exhausted, worn out, sore, emotional, etc ... i felt. WOW! But Miss L is perfect and we are totally in love with her.

First Family Picture

Time for G to snuggle with mommy. We both missed each other while mommy was couped up in the hospital for 4 days. it felt sooooo good to be home.

Here she is ready to go home from the hospital. She didn't seem to like the carseat at first but then was asleep before we knew it. All snuggled in!!!

G has an infatuation with the Boppy and Last night thought it was her own tutu!!! :-)

Another Challenge

Okay – just an update if you haven’t heard, yes we were at the hospital on Monday night. Rosetta was in tumbling class and Glorianna was in dance class when the dance instructor came out and said she needed me. I thought it was Glorianna because she was especially clingy that night and didn’t want to go into the dance room. Then she said Rosetta had an accident. I walked in and Rosetta was on the ground and the tumbling teacher was holding her arm, I could tell right away it was broken (had experience seeing beth break both bones in her arm in grade school déjà vu). She was doing a back cend and got her hand stuck in a groove int eh mat and apparently it snapped. Rosetta wasn’t crying at all she just laid there looking at us and saying it hurt. I grabbed a coloring book out of our dance bag and we used that as a splint and I ran off to the ER. Some of the moms kept Glorianna busy until Nate could get there to pick her up. When we got to the ER we didn’t have to wait too too long before they saw us in triage and then put Rosetta on the top of the list. We got a room right away and they took off the splint. It was clearly broke. They took x-rays to confirm and then said that the orthopedic surgeon would most likely go to the OR for this kind of break (he hadn’t yet seen the films though) and Rosetta had just eaten at 5 so instead of waiting till 3 in the morning to have the surgeon look at it and then proceed they splinted her up and we had to come back at 9 am yesterday.

Rosetta was a stoic little girl and didn’t cry except when I told her we wouldn’t be able to go to school in the morning. She did not like that. It reminded me of how she acted when we first got her. She didn’t cry at all and was very quiet and didn’t talk much at all. She woke up in the middle of the night in a lot of pain but we were able to get her back to sleep after some Tylenol with codeine and an ice pack. The next morning Nate watched the littlest two and Rosetta and I headed to the ER once again. We were taken right in to see Dr. Berg and he confirmed what they saw last night but said if she could handle it he could set it in the ER without giving her an IV. At that point she wasn’t complaining of pain and hadn’t had Tylenol since 4 in the morning. SO they proceeded to give her a shot to make her drowsy…. Which she fought. She does not like shots and it took 3 of us to hold her down and the nurse to give her a shot. Then when the dr. came to give her a shot for local anesthesia in the arm she actually grabbed for the needle to pull it out. I had to hold her upper body tightly and reassure her it would all be over soon. He set it quickly and then they put on a short cast. It took FOREVER to get her second set of x-rays taken and reviewed that we weren’t home till about 12:30.

Rosetta slept much of the rest of the day. She hasn’t complained at all and her cast is white but we have all kind of colored sharpies that we are signing the cast. So that makes it colorful like the rainbow. She received a beautiful bouquet of pink roses from her dance teachers and loved that she got a pink elephant and 6 stickers from the ER staff. We have pampered her all day with bedside lunch and dinner and everything she ever needed. By 8 o clock last night she was moving around and sitting up more and talking much more. She is excited to go back to school today and see her teacher and classmates today. It will be a challenge in the next 6 weeks to find clothes to put over the cast (especially since it is getting colder) and to take baths without getting the cast wet, but what is another challenge in this household!! We laugh at challenges… hahahaha. ;-) Okay seriously it isn’t going to be easy but she is a trooper and I am so happy it is a short cast so she is able to move it more and get around. Now the big debate is whether we put Glorianna on the top bunk for a short time or what?!?! Glorianna is excited about it eventually but we will see. That is it for now… still waiting to go back to the hospital to have #4 but apparently that time is NOT right now.

Jibberish

Okay we are in the end stages of pregnancy. My mind is going ... or is gone, whatever. I haven't taken a single picture of the kids this week (that will probley change drastically soon). But we have had lots of good family time with the kids. I wanted to blog about some of the darndest things they say so I don't forget to write them down someday when I find a pen and paper in this place!!!

Here is an update on everyone --
R is doing great in school, in fact when I talked to her teacher today she said she would love to clone Rosetta and add about 20 of her to her class. Music to a mother's ears because you never know if they act at home like they do at school. We have been packing her lunch about twice a week.. she would love to do it everyday if she had her way but mommy is WAY to busy to do it everyday. We have started to slowly ween her off naps in the afternoon after school even though some days it is a must! She is loving dance class and tumbling -- two weeks ago they started to play Christmas music at dance to start practicing for the Christmas recital in december! YEAH!! I took her today to get fitted for her first pair of glasses, she has an astigmatism and is not seeing clearly some letters so the dr. recommended getting them as soon as possible (G is also getting glasses but we are waiting for the spring so mommy doesn't have to try to keep a 3 year old from destroying them!!! ;-) She had fun picking out her first pair and they are purple!!! She is growing up way too fast.

X is as boyish as ever. He is usually the one hooting and hollering around the house. We put a pirate flag up on the playset and he just loves to play pirates out there -- in fact he is being a pirate for Halloween. He is loving soccer and practices at home every chance he gets. The teachers just love him, I saw his teacher associate tonight and she was saying how he talks about his sisters ALL the time and when he gets something out of the treasure chest he says he is going to share it with them. She told me sometimes he gets in a giggling fit and they don't know what he is laughing at but he just can't stop!! Welcome to our world. He is writing his name exceptionally well and loves to bring books home from the library.

G is a character. She has really found her voice and loves to tell stories and talk and talk and talk. Today one of the teachers said she tried to sneak stones from the playground into the classroom and was sticking them in her shirt under her armpits to hide them. Luckily one of our friends was subbing and she told G she could pick one stone and she would give it to her mommy. All the way home she was petting the rock and calling it her baby and kissing it. i asked her if her baby rock had a name and she looked at me like I was crazy and said " Mom, it is just a rock it doesn't have a name!" Silly me. She is still in love with eating. Actually tonight we ate out for family night at Pizza hut since R had earned a Book It coupon (remember when we would get those!!) and Nate was quizzing G on what she liked to eat best.
Nate: Do you like breadsticks or pizza better?
G: breadsticks
Nate: Do you like breadsticks or cake better?
G: cake
Nate: Do you like cake or ice cream better?
G: cake
Nate: Do you like cake or cookies better?
G: (with no hesitation) cake with cookies!!
My kind of girl!!

So that is about all for right now, baby is not here yet...... we will keep you posted.

Soccer Hysteria

Watching a swarm of 3-5 year olds chasing after the same ball..... priceless!

It is always entertaining.

Xavier's throw in

He got to throw the ball in for the first time on saturday. I just love watching my boy play soccer and LOVE it!!

Getting Closer...

It is getting closer and closer to the day where our family dynamic is forever changed and we add one more member to our household. Things have been somewhat hectic around here trying to get things done before baby girl gets here ... it helped immensely that the last week my sister Kathy was here helping with my to do list. Seriously I would not feel as prepared as I am if I didn't' have her help.

Last week we (Nate and the kids) finally made some chili. The kids helped daddy through the whole process. The two youngest got to dump in all the cans of beans and sauce.


The chili was AWESOME. When I came home from the baby shower it filled the whole house and was soooo delicious. X of course had at least 2 helpings!! We also did lots of little crafts this week to keep the kiddos busy. Daddy prepped our buckeye nuts that someone gave us to make buckeye necklaces.
Oh... here I found G walking around in mommy's shoes. Gotta love a girl who loves heels as much as I do!!
The buckeye necklaces were a great activity for the kids. They did everything themselves except for putting in the knots.

AND on Kathy's last night here on Thursday we decided to paint pumpkins. Each kid got to paint their very own little pumpkin. Got to love ART time!!

Soccer game -- October 9, 2010

On Saturday we had X's first soccer game. He had only 4 practices because of rain cancellations but their team was ready. Here they are stretching before the game!

We were nervous about his participation after seeing him play basketball this winter and get anxious around all the players and people. BUT soccer is his sport. he got right in there and was kicking the ball and maneuvering it away from the other team!

Here he is as he takes the ball down the field and scored one of the two goals for his team!! He was so extatic and so were mommy and daddy from the sidelines!!! He was all smiles after that.

The girls sat patiently on the sidelines cheering on their brother.

He got a big High 5 from the ref after his goal!!

ALL SMILES after the game!!
GO Ghosts!!! I can't wait to see him play next week... I think mommy is as excited as X.

So that is only a small portion of what is going on around here. The kids are loving school and daddy is gearing up for production to start and mommy is nesting and resting.

Hope to have good news for you all soon......

Xavier's First Soccer Game

October 9, 2010 -- his first soccer game. He went after the ball and even scored one of the two goals. We are sooooo proud of him!!