William's Christmas play

Sorry for the lady's head in front of me, but this is the best I could do!  William was so proud of his play and he did such a great job!  He's growing too fast!

Riding bikes

William can totally ride his bike without training wheels!  He just needs to get the confidence.  I tried to teach him when I was pregnant, but sprinting up and down the street nearly killed me, so I decided to wait until I wasn't pregnant anymore.  The other day, he asked to try again and since I was still recovering from giving birth, Jack went out to help!  I think he did an awesome job for only his second time trying!  I think with only a little more practice, he will get it!

Our beautiful baby girl is one week old today!  I can't believe it's already been a week! She is such a precious angel and we love her to bits!  So far her personality is so easy going and relaxed! I hope it stays that way because we are enjoying everything about her instead of stressing over "what could be wrong!"  She is breastfeeding like a champ and I have to wake her up to feed at night.  SHe goes right back down!  She very rarely cries!  She puts up with her brother poking and prodding like she doesn't care and just sits there!  We are so so so so blessed.  I had to convince Jack to have a third child and now he says, "what was I thinking!  She is AWESOME!"... and she totally is.

Her doc appointment went well yesterday.  She isn't back to her birth weight yet (she was 7.2 and now she's 6.12) so we go for another weight check next week.  She was 19.75, so it seems she got shorter, but the doctor said it was just a different method of measurement.  Otherwise, her coloring is perfect and everything looked great.

Momma is feeling good.  I'm tired, but really can't complain since she only feeds twice in the night and it is fairly quick.  I've been trying to sneak in some cat naps during the day, but with two other sweet boys to take care of, there is no rest for the weary!  I'm very happy not to be pregnant anymore and to fit into my normal clothes.  I still have a few pounds to lose, but not anything that is too overwhelming, so that is good!

Life is good!  I'm just praying colic or reflux doesn't hit us!  They say that can start around 3 weeks!

Becca Jean is here!

Well, Rebecca Jean Stewart arrived today at exactly 2 AM on 12/12/12.  We came in for an induction and started cervadil, which was just supposed to prepare my cervix for labor.  Instead, it started labor and it really progressed fast!  I was 10 cm before I knew it and didn't have time to get my epidural or even for my doctor to get to the hospital in time.  The nurses delivered!  It was quite chaotic and painful!  

I wouldn't choose a drug free birth any day, but on the bright side, I got to shower right away and recovery seems to be better.  She is absolutely precious and the boys are just totally in love!!!!!!!

IA NEWS!

The title of this post was the title of Jack's email this morning.  For all non-military folks, IA is the LAST thing you want to hear!  An IA is an Individual Augment that deploys one person out of the squadron to go do an Army job on the ground in the war zone.  If no one volunteers for an assignment, you get chosen.

Jack got selected and went on an IA 2 years ago.  It's crappy!  When he got back, we got out of active duty and joined the reserves.  Fortunately, in the reserves, you are ineligible for an IA.  Unfortunately, now that has changed and reservists are the ones that are chosen!  BOO!  His squadron has to submit 2 names this month.  Thankfully, if you've been on an IA in the last 5 years, you are ineligible!  I never thought I'd be so thankful Jack went on an IA before!  HAHAHA!

William's thoughts on marriage...

William is the funniest thing. Lately, he's been asking me and Jack why we married each other.  Today, after I told him why I married his daddy, this is how the conversation went:

Me:  When you get married, do you know what you should look for in a girl!?

William:  No.

Me.  You should marry someone that you think is pretty because you have to look at them everyday.  But more importantly, you should marry someone that is nice to you!

William: Carmen (the girl he talks about at school all the time) is very nice to me!

Me:  And she should be smart.

William: Carmen is smart.

Jack: And she should love God.

William thought for a second.

Then Jack whispered: And have a smoking bod!

William: Carmen doesn't have a smoking bod, but she is nice!

HAHAHAHAHAH!  I thought that was the funniest thing!

Church funny

We've been trying to be better about going to church and have been going for a few weeks in a row now.  Last week, Tre did something funny and I wanted to document it, but forgot.  Better late than never I guess.  Anyway, at Sunday school they gave each of the kids small notebooks.  When they came back into church, Tre wrote in his to entertain himself during communion.  This is what he wrote:

Jesus is in my heart. (It was very sweet, but I do have to say that was on the cover of the notebook.)
I love God.  (That part he wrote on his own.)

Then he asked Jack what else he should write.  Jack said to write how he felt.  His last sentence said.

I need to pepe!

We laughed and laughed.  It was such a sweet note and his ending just took the cake.  I need to take a picture of it and post it, but I can't find the notebook.  I'm sure it will turn up!