Marcus arrived via c-section on Wednesday November 28th at 1:29pm!
He is a healthy beautiful baby boy! He was born weighing 6 pounds 14 oz and 19 3/4 inches long. He is a TINY little man :)

Today is the day! I can't believe that is came so quickly. Today we will add another beautiful child to the family. Savannah my little one will no longer be the "baby" at just 13 months old. However, I have a feeling she will ALWAYS be my little baby girl.

The baby is due to arrive via c-section at 12:30 today. We are so anxious! This little "surprise baby" has pleasantly caught us COMPLETELY off guard and I am afraid that he will always ;)

We are still debating about names....just can NOT come to a conclusion. Yet another surprise I suppose!

Update will come soon!! Off to the hospital for yet another birthday party!

WOW! TO see the countdown like that is CRAZY! I can not believe there is such little time left until we have another little one in the house. I am scared to death! HA!

The baby is due to arrive Wednesday November 28th 12:30 eastern by repeat c-section. Thankfully my parents will be here to care for Savannah and Justice. HOPEFULLY Savannah will be better than ever for them. If not...Patrick will be coming home at night when she is at her worst. IF my parents call. Which they probably won't. You can be sure I will be calling to check on them though!

So much to do and so little time and yet here I sit exhausted and not wanting to move....

Waiting for the burst of energy....clock is ticking....I don't think it coming :)

EVERYONE is SICK!

Savannah has been sick for weeks. Nothing but cold symptoms. Justice was VERY sick Monday. Went to the Dr. Savannah with the exception of a cough checked out fine. Justice had a NASTY ear infection....still. So, Justice is on an antibiotic which is NOT agreeing with his tummy at all. He will be on it for 21 days!! He is also back on Singulair and cough medicine. He is STILL coughing something terrible.

Savannah....woke up in the middle of the night Monday with 103 temp. back to the doctor on Tuesday...again....she has croup. They gave her a one time dose to help her breathing and the croup was all but gone on Wednesday! She now has just the cold....still. She has a terrible junky sounding cough, and is G-R-U-M-P-Y!!!!!! Her fever is gone and now we have the beutiful shade of green constatly running from her face :)

Monday if she is not better...we will be back at the doctor. it has been over 2 weeks and no relief. Something has to give. Sinus infection maybe? This long you would think it is no longer..."Just a cold"

Wednesday bay #3 arrives...Mr. No Name Googer ....yep you got it right! NO NAME!! Isn't that terrible? I am a nervous wreck about it. It is only the name that will follow him around for the rest of his life. Why can't I just throw something out there?? :)

I hope and PRAY everyone including DH and I who are suffering from the cold junk too are well by Wednesday! 5 more days!! YIKES!

Gobble Gobble!

Savannah has NEVER had a HUGE issue with bath time. As a newborn she didn't really like it but didn't protest much. Just fussed.

We went for her OT evaluation last week and one of the things they asked me was how she liked bath time. I simply said and without thinking. She does great now but hated it before. Since she has been able to sit up (8 months old) she has been just fine in the bath.

NOT ANYMORE!!!

This past week has been TERRIBLE!

I have to get everything ready...bath ran ...water off...baby naked...soap reachable...towel on the floor waiting.

and....GO!

Put baby in and she SCREAMS. She reaches for me and cries and cries. It is terrible. She acts like the water is burning her flesh off of her little body. I can bathe this child in less than a minute now. I grab her wrap her up and hold her until she calms down. I feel horrible. She has no idea why I insist on torturing her in the bath tub. it breaks my heart. I hate it....

I asked PT on Monday if things got worse? It seems to be with Savannah. She used to take a bath, eat baby food and even began eating a few finger foods....

Now...no baby food, no sippy cup, only bottle. SCREAMS through the bath which never bothered her before and still....seems to HATE night time.

PT said that OT would be better suited to answer that question but she did say that its a BIG roller coaster. Things will get better than not again...she also said that as she is moving more...new fears will come to play such as bathing etc.

I hope that this is short lived because it is a terrible feeling.

After her bath last night it RUINED the entire evening. She SCREAMED, punched, kicked, hit and if I put her down it was worse....I held her for hours waiting for my husband to get home. By the time he walked through the door....I was in tears. Justice was watching a movie totally oblivious (thankfully). DH took over until she wanted me again and was reaching for me. I took her, a deep breath and started all over....she finally passed out around 10pm. At 4 am. She was back up crying and coughing. Gave her some meds and snuggled with her in our bed until 630 when our day started.

It is 1230 now and I think...she is finally taking a much needed nap.

I soooo worry about how the new baby is going to affect her.

Here are some of my latest creations!

Finally Savannah has begun to sleep and then last night...up all night crying :(

I got up and put her in bed with us and she fussed on and off all night. Her crazy night ritual is exhausting alone although I have been VERY happy I have found something that gives her a way to wind down other than kicking, screaming and punching me for 3 hours until she passes out or throws up.

Savannah's night time routine:
She takes her meds to help her sleep...
About 9-10pm we go to my room and I lay on our king size bed with her total darkness and she commences to roll over....sit up...throw herself backwards...roll over... sit up...throw herself backwards...she will do this for anywhere from 30minuts to an hour and a half! She does it non-stop...I just lay there little to no contact no talking no touching. Unless she gets stuck and can't sit up and starts to fuss. Then I gently help her and let her go at it. Eventually she tires herself out and falls asleep. I wait 10-20 minutes pick her up and put her in bed. Until last night she has been sleeping until 6 am! HUGE ACCOMPLISHMENT!! That lasted LESS than a week....

Hopefully last night was a fluke and tonight we will get back on schedule. We have all had these NASTY colds and I am hoping that she isn't getting sick again. We are all still coughing....and its been 2 weeks now!

This week Savannah had PT on Monday and it did NOT go well. ST canceled...the speech therapist was sick. Wednesday I had my second to last appointment!!!! Baby will be here the 28th!

Justice is doing WONDERFUL in his new preschool. He absolutely loves it. Never wants to leave :) His newest girlfriend Jessica ;) This school is GREAT and his teachers are wonderful!

Savannah never rolled over, sat up or even ate baby food on schedule. I was worried about her starting at 6 months old. She was a healthy full term baby. Breastfed until I could no longer bf her due to lack of milk supply when I became pregnant again for the 3rd time. She was fully weaned, much to my displeasure, at 6 months. At her 6 month appointment we really noticed that she wasn't meeting ANY of her milestones. Savannah finally sat on her own at 8 months but still couldn't pull herself to a sitting position. She didn't have much interest in toys etc. At her 9 month check up the Pediatrician referred her to Tennessee Early Intervention. She was evaluated by 2 people and both agreed she qualified for services. She has since been evaluated and began by Physical Therapy, Speech (Feeding) Therapy and Occupational Therapy. She was finally officially diagnosed by the OT this past week with Sensory Modulation Disorder which is a branch of Sensory Integration (Processing) Disorder. She Now is scooting on her bottom and taken interest in the world :) She says Da-Da. She has quit eating baby food and refuses to take anything but a bottle. She has been switched from formula to Pediasure and that is her sole nutrition. She does however LOVE Cheese puffs which is the ONLY food we can get her to eat other than her bottle although we have to watch her very closely because she has difficulty swallowing and still gags and chokes.

She is making improvement and is such a BEAUTIFUL little girl. I love her to pieces.

To get you all acquainted with my life....
I am a WAHM I run www.CutiePieClippies.com I have been a SAHM since my 4 year old son was born. My husband is my beast friend and the love of my life. He works VERY hard to give us what we need. I have a 4 year old son Justice. He is a very active and smart little boy who LOVES to give him Momma hell : ) He is in preschool and doing great.
I also have a little girl Savannah who turned 1 October 25th. She is a beautiful little girl who recently was diagnosed with Sensory Modulation Disorder. A subtype of Sensory Integration(Processing) Disorder. You can read more about this disorder here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_integration_disorder
We are also expecting our surprise baby on November 28th! This one will be another little boy :)