Gavin James Compton

Gavin was a little yellow, so to make him feel better they gave him some UV treatment. And to make sure he got the most out of it, they put him on his tummy so his back could
"soak up the sun."

Since UV rays aren't good for little eyes, he got some sweet shades to keep the light out.

It looked a little funny when they took the shades off cause he had Velcro circles on his temples to keep the "glasses" on.

Just moments after he was born.

We're home now and boy am I glad. Now I'm going to get some sleep in my bed. Love ya all!

Awake again

So I'm up again...and the whole house is dark. It is raining though so it's kinda relaxing. Boy am I ready to be in the hospital. Mostly cause it means I won't be pregnant anymore. I don't think I even slept for one full hour at a time last night. I did have some pretty hard contractions...but when I got up and walked around they stopped...sad. Who knew I'd be asking for pain.

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So no changes today. I'm sorry the blog has turned into my complaint board. I did go to the hospital last night but mostly cause I had never been to the labor and deliver unit before and we wanted to check it out before I had to be there for a few days. IT"S SO NICE! they have a great big jacuzzi tub in the bathroom that would be SO nice to just sit in. (mike even wanted to hop in it lol!) And the room was almost twice the size of the once at Cox. And one of the chairs turns into a bed so if needed mike could sleep there for a few hours. It made me feel a lot better to see what would be going on.

But for now...I sit. I wait...and I try to sleep as much as I can. woo hoo....not. It has been really nice to have my family up here though. We got my food storage all rearranged and it looks SSOO much better now. And we all went swimming today before dad went home and that was a lot of fun. I actually got to GO SWIMMING! yeah my parents were watching the boys and I got to do some laps in the pool. And there were only like 3 other kids in the pool it was way nice. (and yes I double checked online to see if I could still go swimming. And it's totally fine as long as my water hasn't broken yet..which it hasn't...sadly) I really hope this doesn't take the whole week for Gavin to get here. But I have had more "harder" contractions today so we'll see. Boy was I a nervous reck before my parents got here. I don't know how I would have handled it without them THANKS MOM AND DAD! Now we just have to get Gavin to decide he wants to say hello.

But I'm TIRED!

So I've been awake since 4am this morning. Yeah I can't get comfortable and all these contractions aren't helping. So apparently my due date was a month off. I had an ultrasound a few weeks ago and the ultrasound tech said that my due date could be off. My Doctor did the first ultrasound to find out my due date...and he did it wrong. But the tech never said he could be a month off. OH well. Anyhow. We'll just have to see how uncomfortable I get before mike gets home from work. I'd really like to have this baby today. I"M SLEEPY!

Yeah Mike has to work today. They picked a heck of a week to have him work a sunday. But my parents came up last night so I wouldn't be alone without a car today. Anyhow. My body aches and anyone who's had a baby can totally sympathize. And my hubby is leaving for the day in about 15min so I'll just have to pray that Gavin doesn't get two excited to see his parents.

at a 2 for number 3

Well today I had a doctors appointment and they checked my cervix. It has completely thinned out and I am dilated to a two. So we shall see what this next week brings.

And CONGRATS! to Justin and Anallia for bringing a new baby girl into the world!

a date

Mike got home a little after 8 last night. We got to thinkin' it was about time for a date. But every time we called my babysitters house no one would answer. But we couldn't remember the last time we went out just the two of us. So we sat and thought for a minute. Earlier in the evening mike had been invited to play dungeons and dragons(d&d) with some of his buddies from church. So somehow the idea popped into his head to have his buddies come over here to play...only him and I would leave. The only reason why his friends would be there is so there would be someone in the house with our kids. I started laughing and thinking, "no guy is ever going to go for that." But he gives them a call anyway. And guess what? They actually decided to come. It was three guys, and they brought their own cardboard pizzas. They just sat in our living room while we were gone and played d&d. And they told us to stay out as long as we wanted cause these guys set their own curfews. Yay! so we went driving around for a little bit and decided to see a drive in. Which by the way Iron Man is AMAZING! I don't even recall any cursing in it. The drive in only takes cash so we decided to run to walmart and buy some food for the movie then just get cash back instead of using an ATM. It was so fun to just be out of the house with my hubbie. I told the guys that they could have some cheetos that were in the cupboard and to help themselves to the milk in the fridge. Boy did they, they ate that WHOLE bag! And they almost drank a full gallon of Milk. But thats ok cause if you add up the cost of a babysitter it's still cheaper to get a gallon of milk and a bag of cheetos than to pay someone. And we had THREE babysitters. lol! But you know when you only have the middle of the night to do stuff, get a bunch of guys to come "house sit" for you. You're kids are asleep and the guys can just sit in your living room and play games till you get home. IT'S AWESOME!

Side note: On our way there we stopped at a Flying J and got gass. We only paid $3.80 a gal!!! Sweet!

2nd side note: in regards to the first side note...thats really sad that I'm excited about getting gas at that price.