Dr. Lemon

I just have to document this because it is ridiculously cute and hilarious! Luka told us that his, and I quote "Brother is a doctor, Doctor Lemon". Obviously it's our favorite thing! My grandmother seems to think he associates Lennon with the doctors because I was always going to doctor visits for him but Poata and I think that Luka can tell the future and Lennon is going to be a doctor =) Lennon's nickname now is Lemon because of Luka and we think that's super cute too! Yesterday was Lennon's 1 month doctors check up and the doctor said "Well that's an extraordinary weight gain!" He was born 8 pounds 2.8 ounces and lost a little by his 2 day check up, weighing in at 7 pounds 13 ounces. Yesterday at his 1 month check up he weighed 13 pounds 2 ounces, that's almost double in a month!! haha! What a little fatty! He is at the 97th percentile for weight and at 24 inches long he is at the 100th percentile for height! Anyways, these boys keep me busy smiling and I love them so much!

adjustment

So adjusting to two isn't as hard as I thought it would be. I guess I prepared myself for the worst and luckily I don't have the worst case scenario. Luka is so good with the newbie! If the baby cries he says, "baby, tying (crying), help him" then he tells the baby, "you're otay baby, you're fine" haha he is so funny! He doesn't smother the baby in kisses or anything but you can tell he cares for him. He also likes to share his toys with him! He has a Thomas the Train set and also a miniature wind up set of Thomas trains that he calls the baby trains so naturally he thought the baby should play with them, it was so cute except instead of handing them nicely to Lennon he pretty much just chucked them at his face haha, then he pries his hands open and makes Lennon hold them. He meant well though and told me he was "sharing" it completely melted my heart as you can imagine. Anyways he is a pretty awesome big brother and I can't wait for them to be able to really play together! As for me I recovered pretty much instantly which was obviously great! I only gained 14 pounds during this pregnancy, Lennon was 8.3 lbs and my placenta was huge so I pretty much lost everything instantly too which is also great. With Luka I gained 19 and Luka was 8.10 and my placenta was 10 lbs so similar experience, stoked on that!  I'm really enjoying being a mother of two, I'm excited for the future! I love having them both in my arms at once, such an amazing thing, still can't even believe it! Anyways I have some goals lately that hopefully I can follow through with. My two boys are so good for me that I've been thinking of a bunch of projects and such that hopefully I can do while juggling 2 babies. I want to do some art projects and house projects but also some work on myself, exercise and what not. Well anyways just thought I'd do a little post about what I'm thinking right now. And here's some pictures of my 2 boys!

Meet Lennon!

Please welcome to the world baby Lennon!! He made his debut on August 9th 2011 at 10:05 am, weighing in at 8 pounds 2 ounces and was 21 inches long. He is such a sweet baby boy! He spends all of his time eating or sleeping. Luka is such a great big brother, he seems to love his baby brother and is very gentle with him, he was a little jealous at first but I think he is adjusting perfectly. I couldn't ask for anything more! The labor and delivery was such an amazing experience. I actually almost didn't make it to the hospital in time! My doctor said had my water broke on the ride there that I would have had Lennon on the way! So with that said here is the story...
Monday night at around 9:30 I started having contractions, the first contractions I felt through out the pregnancy. They were timing about every 8 minutes but I was tired so I went to bed, I pretty much slept through all of them. Around 4:30-5 am I started waking up because of the contractions but tried to stay asleep a little longer. Around 6:30 I woke up completely and the contractions were getting pretty painful but were still 8 minutes apart until I got up and went to the bathroom and they jumped to 6 minutes apart. I still felt like I had a lot of time so I decided to eat breakfast and I called my mom and calmly told her that I was heading to the hospital pretty soon but to take her time (she was coming to my house to take care of Luka and to take him to the hospital with her). After I hung up the phone, around 7:30 or so, my contractions all of a sudden jumped to 2 minutes apart! And lasted well over a minute each! The pain intensified by a million and I told Poata, who hadn't yet brushed his teeth or even begun to get ready, that we had to leave NOW! My costco belgian waffles were in the oven so I quickly inhaled them in between a contraction and grabbed a few snacks to add to my hospital bag that I had luckily packed the day before! I called my mom to make sure she was on her way and thank goodness she hadn't listened to my advice to take her time and she was just pulling into my road. The minute she walked in the door I jumped in our truck with Poata trailing quickly behind me. Now I started to feel like I was in a movie, I was screaming through each contraction and yelling at Poata to drive faster in between them. He was swirving in and out of rush hour traffic and driving like a maniac! I saw a few cops on the way and debated whether or not to pull them over, instead of the other way around, to have them escort us. We live a little over an hour away from the hospital I was delivering at. We FINALLY made it there! Poata used valet parking and grabbed me a wheel chair and we painfully made it to the 10th floor where labor and delivery is. When I made it to my room they checked me and I was at 4-5 cm and jumped to 6 cm 2 minutes after. They pulled the anesthesiologist out of a c-section delivery she was about to do and she got my epidural in, I asked for a walking epidural ( a lighter version epidural) and she bluntly told me that I should take what she's giving me and I shouldn't be negotiating if I want any kind of relief! I probably should have been a little angry but she was right. She gave me the epidural and then apologized for being short with me but she gave me exactly what I asked for so I was very happy. I could feel the contractions coming on but with out all of the pain. I could also feel my legs which was great because when I had Luka I couldn't even feel that I had legs, what so ever! After I got my epidural they let me rest for about 15 or 20 minutes and the baby made his way further down in that time and I started pushing right away. I pushed about 5 sets of 3 and he was out! In between pushes I was talking about the London riots and random little conversations, laughing and chatting. It was so relaxing and I was so alert and aware of everything going on. With Luka's birth I felt so delirious and exhausted that it wasn't as great of an experience for me, but of course it was still amazing and special in it's own way. After I delivered him we were able to stay in the delivery room for a couple of hours with Lennon before we had to move to a postpartum room and before they had to take him to be bathed and checked. It was so great to get that relaxing cuddle time with him! He latched on perfectly and has eaten well ever since. I felt so great immediately after and even got right up and walked to use the bathroom when I moved to my postpartum room. I didn't even need help into my wheel chair to move from my delivery room to post partum room. I even walked to check on Lennon in the nursery a couple hours later with no problem. We only had to stay one night at the hospital and we left around noon the next day. The hospital stay went by so fast and Poata and I were excited to pick up our Luka from grandma's house. We missed that little monster! I am so blessed to have these perfect little boys in my life! Luka is adjusting so well and Lennon seems to be getting stronger each day. He smiles all of the time and eats and sleeps a lot! He gives me lots of rest and I don't even feel like a zombie like I did with Luka! Anyways that's the birth story of Lennon, hope I didn't bore you =)

I love my family

All Grown Up

For Luka's bday weekend we took him to the water park for day 1

and the ice age train and toys r us for day 2

and i made a homemade ice cream cake for my luka and had family come over to celebrate.

My darling Luka baby is TWO!!! Crazy how time flies! I have had so much fun these past two years, Luka has brought joy to Poata and I in so many ways! We wake up everyday to his cuteness and can't imagine life without him! These past two years have been such a journey for us. We have learned so much from Luka. Luka is such a smart baby and we are surprised and impressed by him daily. He talks up a storm and copies all of our words. He knows all of his animals, their sounds, his colors, shapes and some letters. He loves to build with legos and blocks and can make huge towers! He loves disney's Cars to no end! He also loves trains and construction machines! He loves to "fix" things with his tool set, just like daddy. He pretty much loves anything daddy loves. He is such a cuddle bug and sweetheart towards mommy, but is the opposite for daddy, he likes to "fight" daddy and play crazy monster games with him. Luka is the light of our life, I really can't believe I've already shared 2 years with him! The most amazing 2 years! And now another journey begins. I'm due with number 2 in 2 weeks! I hope Luka will be the best big brother ever!

Spring Fun

taking our orders =) he always gets in this little house and pretends to take our orders for snacks then goes to the other side of the house and moves his hands around and pretends to do stuff and comes back with our imaginary snacks. it is soooo dang cute!!

at Pearl Harbor

submarine

memorials

Pacific Aviation Museum

i went to Japan to lend a hand

this tower was in the movie pearl harbor as well as a couple others

in one of the hangers that was in use during the attack on pearl harbor, there were even still bullet holes in the windows

inside of a military helicopter

luka and daddy in a helicopter

waimea day

perfect beach day at waimea

luka seriously makes the best motorcycle sound effects ever

walking to kawela bay

kawela bay

jungle cupcakes for the baby shower

the gorgeous mother to be, Brittany

my little monkey

look at that face <3 he's beyond stoked!

last night's amazing sunset

We have been trying to take Luka on a lot of adventures lately, his vocabulary is growing so fast so we're trying to take him to new places to learn new things. He has so much fun going anywhere so it makes it a lot of fun for us! He always says "WHOA!!" or "WOW" in such an excited voice when he sees neat things. We took him to the Pacific Aviation Museum at Pearl Harbor and we all had such a great time there! I definitely recommend going! There are a lot of different museums there that you can visit separately so we plan on going back soon to see the submarine, ship and memorial. We have also been having a lot of beach days with daddy which is especially fun! When daddy's home we get to go to a beach besides alligators, not that we don't love alligators but its fun to switch it up. Like every other kid in the world, Luka loves the park! He has mastered a curved ladder and the slides and he has so much fun chasing other kids around and playing. We try to take him to the park every evening when Poata gets home from work. I had a baby shower yesterday and Luka tagged along, Poata and I had a deal this weekend that on saturday he could have 5 hours alone and Sunday I had 5 hours! amazing, let me tell you! But I also had an amazing time with Luka at my friends baby shower!! It was jungle themed so I baked some jungle face cupcakes that were a hit. There was a pool so Luka had a blast!! It was a little windy so he played in the jacuzzi which was at a perfect temperature, like warm bath water, he obviously had so much fun as you can tell from his huge grin! Anyways that's a little update on what we've been doing lately.