Playing Catch Up

We have been busy, busy, busy. After Asher was born, Billy came home, and anyone who knows Billy knows there's never a dull moment while he's around. After being home a couple of weeks, he found out that he had cancer of the sweat gland. Luckily they found it very early and it only took a minor surgery to have it removed. It did give us the chance to hang out with him for an extra few weeks. So minus the whole cancer thing, it was awesome to have him around a little longer than we expected.

Here are our 12 on the 12th pictures for November and December.

NOVEMBER

1. Asher is milk drunk.
2. His cute little hands.
3. We had to make a trip to the outlets.
4. Billy and Asher in the car.
5. Billy was wiped from his surgery the day before.
6. Asher's grin.
7. One of the last days with our 4Runner before we become minivan owners.
8. Noah's eating some yummy blueberry pancakes.
9. The Ashley River
10. Diapers, diapers, and more diapers.
11. Noah and Ruffy
12. Asher's pretty simple these days... sleep, eat, poop.

DECEMBER

1. Billy is leaving tomorrow so a lot of the day was spent packing :(
2. Daddy and Noah entertaining themselves at breakfast.
3. Asher is bundled up. It was cold and rainy.
4. We're goofing around.
5. Our breakfast spread at the Cracker Barrell.
6. Daddy and Asher.
7. Our good friend Rob let Billy borrow his car so that we weren't stuck at home while Billy was running around. Rob is still on a trip so we dropped his car off on the base. Thanks Rob!
8. Billy hanging out with Noah after his nap.
9. Billy being silly for the camera.
10. Asher's tummy is full.
11. The boys.
12. We ended the night with some episodes of Star Trek.

Halloween

Noah was a greaser for Halloween. Several people thought he was a girl, but I thought he was adorable!

Asher loves the boys

Asher LOVES his daddy and big brother.

Notice the smile on the little guy's face when the other boys are around!

The Boys

The boys are together and as happy as can be!!!

Asher Edward is Here!

Little Asher Edward decided to throw a curve ball and come two weeks early!! I woke up Thursday morning with a few of the same indications I had with Noah the day before he was born. With Noah, the minor cramping and other things happened all day before I went into labor, so this time I decided to go ahead and take Noah to "school" and go on to work, especially since I had an appointment with my OB at 10:30. Well, Asher was a little more anxious than Noah was. My water broke at 10:00 am while I was at work getting ready to leave for my appointment. I went to the doc, she sent me to the hospital, and Asher was born at 2:41 pm weighing 6lbs 12oz and was 19 1/2 inches long.

Billy is coming home this Friday, Oct. 30th, for 3 weeks. Our plan was for him to be here for the birth, but obviously Asher decided he wasn't going to wait around. Fortunately, the hospital has wireless internet and we got to Skype. Billy was with me on the computer for most of the labor. About 20 minutes before Asher was born, I was 5-6 cm dilated and then we lost our connection with Billy. The contractions started coming hard and fast and I was 9.5 cm in no time. There were about 5 people in the room trying to get Billy back on the computer but we had no luck. We got reconnected with him about 2 minutes after Asher was born. So he kind of missed the actual delivery, but at least he was there for everything else.

We came home Saturday morning and we're doing good! It's a big adjustment, and Asher took two of my weekends away, so the to do list hasn't been completed, but we'll make it!

The Pumpkin Patch

We decided to head out to the pumpkin patch last weekend to enjoy some fresh air and pick out a pumpkin. It was a little chilly. Notice the Cars hat that I couldn't resist when I went back to Wal-Mart and saw it for the 2nd time. Of course Noah made a liar out of me and wore the hat almost the entire time we were out! He was definitely not into posing for the camera or saying cheese so here are a few of the quick shots we were able to get. His favorite thing out of the entire day was "driving" the tractors.

Noah's 2nd Birthday Party

We decided to celebrate Noah's birthday a few weeks early because Asher was due to arrive 3 days before Noah's birthday. We had a small get together at the house with a Cars theme. Noah enjoyed himself... he mostly watched the Cars video while all his friends played with his toys.

Here he is looking adorable waiting for his friends to arrive.

His Cars cake

He loved it!

He got a tricycle. He's still not too sure about it, but we'll work on it!