Lyra Elaine Anderson aaaand other things

Well since my last post things have changed-slightly. So in a continuation from my last post.. Christian got back from Ohio on the 28th of July and I gave birth on the 4th of August. One week later. I think we planned that pretty well :). Gave me sometime to finish preparing for the babe. Speaking of Lyra's birth. I'll try and keep it quick because it was quick. Saturday, August 4th we were cleaning out the cars and getting the car seat in and ready to go. So we got that done then finished a few odds and ends and pretty soon it was 7 at night. Kids were in bed and I realized I was having contractions and they seemed consistent so I started timing them. They were 10 min apart for that hour but the next hour they were 15 min apart so I figured false alarm. 9 o'clock they started coming 5 to 7 minutes apart. Text a friend to come stay with my kids and we got to the hospital around 10ish. They checked me and I was at a 5 so they decided they'd admit me but had to do the blood work then call the anesthesiologist and my OB doc to come in. Well they took me to a delivery room around 10:30 and started getting it all ready. With in the hour I told them the baby was coming. I had no epidural nor doc there. I did have a 2nd year resident and nurses but that didn't mean anything because of 'The Law'. Dang laws. They couldn't tell me anything nor do anything. So when I said I think this baby wants out, the resident checked and sure enough I was at a 10 and ready. Then she said... well I can't do anything so do what you feel like you need to. Panic struck. I felt like I was doing fine until she said THAT and all of a sudden I couldn't remember how to breath and pain seemed way more unbearable. What about breaking my water, what about the pain I'll feel when I rip, what about the calm, collected, smiling nurse that says "you're going to push in 3,2,1" and "you're doing great honey". So when she said do what your body feels like you need to do.. Well what the H*** does that mean? So I screamed. And there was a lot more of that coming. By 11:49 I had done it. Broke my own water (which you don't want to know about), realized that the only way to get rid of this pain was to increase it by getting the baby out.. so that's what I did. Later when everything was basically said and done my doctor waltzed in and said "Oh baby's here already. Well okay." and walked out. Thank you doc. Thank you. But the important thing is that Lyra got here safe and sound. SO Lyra Elaine Anderson was born at 11:49 weighing in at 8 lbs 6 oz and 19 inches long. The boys are in love with their little sister and are so dear with her it makes my heart melt. Love having kids even if pain comes in having them! Irony here.. Christian will be a doc in less than 8 months with the hope of being an anesthesiologist. Aaaaaand that is what I was lacking. Never again thankfully! Since then Grandma Anderson came to visit and help, Christian took boards (again-sort of), Christian left for Oklahoma for two weeks, Grandma Cannon came to visit and help, residency interviews have begun rolling in and we've booked our flights for UT for just after thanksgiving!! Picture overload to come :)

come fly with me

Life has been a little crazy since my last post but we've come along way as well. I'm no longer 20 weeks pregnant but 35 and counting. Since I last posted we've had lots of things occur. I was called into the Young Women's Presidency back in April, my mom and sister came to visit in May, also in May we went to visit the Thorley's during Memorial day weekend and my father-in-law came to visit in June. Christian also took half of his board test but then something happened and it shut down and all students taking the Complex that day have/had to retake the test. Sort of a major inconvenient but what do you do so he'll be 'retaking' it in August. Lovely. Also on July 1st Christian left to go to Ohio for the month. He'll be in Columbus these first two weeks and Dayton the last two weeks. He'll be back 11 days before my due date so hopefully he makes it back for the birth :) Both boys came 8 days early so we may be cutting it close but time will tell I suppose. Mean while Oscar, Felix, sister and I are just hanging out at the house. I attempted taking the boys swimming today but neither know how to swim and I can't swim being 9 months pregnant so that was quite the sight to see. We also went to a fourth of July party and I knew the boys were tired but they really wanted to see fireworks so we stayed longer than planned but when the fireworks started, aka: loud noises, both boys covered their ears and burst into tears and that was that for us all. You win some you lose some I guess. Now here's what you've really been waiting for...

Studying with dad

Boys being silly

Super Grover

Catching fly's

Confessions

The secret is out... I'm pregnant! Not only am I pregnant but I'm almost 22 weeks so we have found out what we are having and it's a girl! We've tried to keep it a secret because we are trying to be creative with the announcement out our pregnancies but it's getting to feel like "oh I'm pregnant, again-just add 'give birth' to the list of things I need to do in the future". So we waited till April Fool's Day to announce it hoping that would be a fun way to go about it. I think it worked for a minute or two. If anything confused family and then they didn't know what to believe but one look at me and I'm sure there would be no doubt. I feel like I've been showing since week 9. Maybe my body is just getting used to being pregnant and started moving everything around early or something. I think I'm finally getting past the sickness stage to where throwing up is more of a burden than part of my daily activities and I'm happy to take on that burden if it's not happening once, twice, three times everyday. So I'm officially due on August 9th and for anyone out there who knows what 4th year med school entails you will feel entirely sorry for me and I will whole-heartedly accept your condolences. However, things have really been falling into place for us and it makes me feel even more excited about this pregnancy knowing that it is really meant to be. So Christian's fourth year consists of out and audition rotations. Most students begin/leave home July 1st and get back sometime in October. Basically they jump around each month at different hospitals across the country hoping to impress them so to gain a residency position when we go to apply. So as you can see I'm due right in the middle of that. Well we began setting things up and it turns out if you do anesthesia you can get away with only doing two weeks at some hospitals vs. four weeks so that shortens our audition rotations by a lot. Christian managed to get two audition rotations in Ohio to do just two weeks each so he'll be there for the month of July then he had one for August but they told him it would be better to come in October (relief). Which means he'll do just a normal rotation at home during the month of August! But then he will be gone to Oklahoma for the month of September. He'll also do some auditions during October but we've lucked out to have a anesthesia residency spot only an hour away so he'll be able to still be 'home' sort of for October :) All in all Christian should be home for the birth and possibly the next few weeks and we couldn't ask for anything better. We are super excited to have this little girl join our family!

On Call

Here's what we've been up to... Christian is on the OBGYN rotation which has been fine but it keeps him more busy than other rotations which is expected. So here's our week and week to come...
Tuesday - On Call
Wednesday - Education night (meaning he's gone)
Thursday - On Call
Friday (today) - @ Jazz game in Philly
Saturday - On Call
Sunday - On Call
Monday - On Call
Tuesay - Scouts
Wednesday - On Call
Thursday - Home
Friday - On Call
And for me well someone has to be here to take care of the kids so here I am at home once again watching Anne of Green Gables tonight for... well let's just say it's not my first time seeing it. Oddly enough I haven't read the books but I did just start the first book so I'm really looking forward to reading that series. Anyway enough of my exciting life and on to pictures...






Ps. Uncle Steve gets home this month from the Philippines and we are so excited to see him via skype unfortunately but we'll take it! Thank goodness for modern technology!

About time...

It's been awhile but it's been crazy here so let me catch you up. We had Christmas just like everyone else but did you have two Christmas'? Well we did! Christmas morning we had the kids just open up gifts from the Cannon side of the family because the next day Grandma and Grandpa Anderson came to visit. We redid everything. Christmas Eve on the 26th and then Christmas morning again with all the rest of the presents. It was a blast to have G & G here celebrating the holidays with our little family. While they were here it was busy but relaxing. Activities we did were; spent a day at Aunt Heidi's, visited an Amish friend of Mike and Kelly's then did a little shopping, went to the Aquarium in Baltimore, did movie night and played at home. The kids loved having the grandparents here and it was fun to see them get to know each other better. Felix has always been hesitant with 'new' people but it was so fun to see him bond with Grandpa. Christian then started back up with rotations the day after we said goodbye to G & G. We also then started planning his audition rotations and other rotations for fourth year. Yikes!! Life sort of scared me when we started doing this. It seems like during med school there's an on off stress switch and you have no control over when it flips back and forth on you. First year I guess we had the stress of learning to deal with med school but we were in and just had to focus on staying in-no problem. Then second year it's the stress of were are you going to move to and the stress of moving-we did it, no problem. Then third year your living in a dream cause after those last two years you really feel like you can tackle anything and then those dreams are smashed because of fourth year stress. Oh well we'll get through it-everyone does right?! Here we are planning out audition rotations and I'm glad to say that they've gone smoothly and things are working out good but that's not the stressful part. Did you know that these places he's doing audition rotations at only take 1 or 2 people out of the probably 100's that apply for residency programs. ONE person are you kidding me?! How are you not suppose to feel stress over that?! Well here's to hoping. For now I'm just trying not to think about it and that seems to help. Also in other big news... while planning these audition rotations you have to plan them in the field that you want to go into so since that's planned that means we've chosen a specialty. BDDDDDDDDD (drum sound)... ANESTHESIA!!! Who'd have thought? Not us that's for sure but there it is.

Next, Felix is 15 months old! It has been so fun seeing him grow! He's such a sweet heart. He's been trying so hard to talk and actually does a really good job at it-well from what I'm used to cause Oscar could have cared less to talk to us. He didn't really start talking till like age 2. It's so fun to hear his little voice forming words.

I feel like I'm full of exciting news but to others it's pretty lame. So next on my list of exciting news (for me)... If you know my kids you know they are PICKY eaters. I've tried a lot of things to try and help out with this but needless to say I don't think I've been very successful. Until lately! Okay they are still picky (Felix not so much) but Oscar extremely BUT I just barely got them to eat boxed mac & cheese and chicken nuggets! Yay! I've always been so jealous when a mom can just whip up a box of mac & cheese or bake some chicken nuggets and bam there's dinner. No fussing over what they want to eat or worrying that they've been eating breakfast foods for all three meals of the day over and over again. We officially have some meats and pasta's in the food group now! Like I said lame maybe to other mom's but not to me. No sir-e.

Well that's about all of my news for these past months. Enjoy the pics and Happy 2012!!