All Suited Up

I love how my mother-in-law was able to catch Peter getting all suited up for the operating room, not once but twice! Orion's birth Esme's birth

More Pictures from Esme's Birth

While I was in recovery Peter was responsible for Esme. He got to spend some daddy/daughter time with her before I showed up. I just love seeing pictures of them together.Look at those cheeks! Don't you just wanna squeeze them? Orion holding Emse for the first time. He is such a great big brother!

Kids say the darndest things

for example, Esme is crying and I was getting settled in, ready to feed her. Orion looks at me with a serious look on his face and says "Mom, I don't have any milk in my boobies. You have to feed Esme." Chuckling I say "You are correct son."

Another example, I had one of the daycare girls in the highchair feeding her lunch and she purposely kicked my leg. So I touched her leg and explained that it was not nice to kick. A few minutes later she kicks me again. So again I explain that it is not nice to kick other people, that is hurts. Orion comes over and puts his hand on her shoulder and says "It's not nice to kick mommies, it's not nice to kick daddies and it's not nice to kick girls!" He was so serious about it I had to hold in my laughter until he had walked away.

December

December was a busy month for us! Here's the highlights:

Decorating for Christmas

My mom and Orion pretty much did.

My mom took us out to Red Robin for Peter's birthday.

We also had a birthday dinner for Peter and Debbie at Los Arcos.

This is a total of 5 margarita's. He drank it within 45 minutes!

The Koniag Shareholder Christmas Party at the Alaska Native Heritage Center. Orion didn't want to have his picture taken with Santa and Mrs. Claus but Esme didn't seem to mind!
Going on a sleigh ride while it's snowing

Family Pictures

Christmas

Aces Hockey Game

Orion loves Boomer!

Grandma Mary goes home :(

Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving morning the doctor gave me the options of being released or staying another day. My answer was pretty obvious! Send me home to be with my family on Thanksgiving day!!! So most of Thanksgiving was spent waiting to be released from the hospital.

Our morning nurse was leaving at noon and told us that her replacement would be right in to discharge us. 3 HOURS LATER our new nurse came in and said "If I had known you were being released today, I would have done it when I first got here." Oh my goodness! Poor communication! Let's just say that Peter was not a happy camper.

We made it just in time to have a delicious dinner with the all the family.

Esme's Birth

Let me apologize ahead of time for the quality of the photo's. Most of them were taken with camera phones.

The morning of Emse's birth we had to be at the hospital at 5:30 am. To make it easier for us, Orion had stayed the night with Grandma and Grandpa Lukin. Between the anticipation of Esme's arrival and actually having to be up extra early (around 4), none of us in the Hunter household got much sleep at all that night.

While they were monitoring baby and I, Peter tried to catch some zzzzz's. Around 8:00 am they took me into the operating room and shortly after Peter joined me but that was short lived...sorry honey! Shortly after Esme was born he had to leave the room. Poor guy! I thought we were gonna have a Hunter down! Back to Esme...

She was born at 8:48 am, November 23rd. Weighing in at 8 lbs. 4.8 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches long. Look at the time she was born and how much she weighed...funny huh?

I had to wait in the recovery room for 2 hours before I could see her or the family. It was torture! At one point Peter was concerned and had a nurse track me down. Finally they wheeled me into my room and I was alone...just me and my baby girl...for an hour! (The family snuck down to the cafeteria for some grub.) It was so quite and peaceful.

Here's some more pictures from our hospital stay.

My poor neglected blog

I've been thinking about updating my blog lately...my poor neglected blog. How I need to update it so!

So much has happened since I last blogged:

• Esme was born
• Thanksgiving
• Christmas
• My mom's stay

I will be updating over the next few days. I have to compile all the pictures that we have amongst 4 devices! Wish me luck :)