Soccer

Nathan has been begging for over a year now to play soccer. Pretty much anytime he saw anyone playing he would ask when he was going to get to play. Unfortunately last year I missed sign ups because they happened around the time we moved. So I made sure to pay better attention this year so I could get him signed up with the city rec league. Games finally started a couple weeks ago and he is really enjoying playing, maybe even more then he liked baseball(don't tell Dave that) It is pretty entertaining watching a bunch of 5 and 6 yr olds running around the field after the ball. Pretty much none of them know the rules, so basically it is do what ever you can to get the ball in to the other net.
My parents took Nathan to his game this past weekend while I was in the hospital and got some pretty fun shots of Nathan in action.

 I really am liking his coach. He understands how important it is that the kids have fun and learn. HE has been rotating all of them through each of the positions. This past Saturday Nathan got to play goalie. He sure looked like he had fun!

 

Welcome to the world baby

On Thursday Oct 1st we welcomed our new baby boy. He arrived via c-section at 10:37am and was just perfect. We named him Colin Brent Griffith and he weighed 7lbs 12.5oz and was 21in long. That first day I was pretty out of it, I really struggled with the recovery after surgery this time around. Just in case you were wondering c-sections are hard and with each one my body has a harder time recovering.
On Thursday morning my mom arrived to our house around 7am to stay at our house while Nathan was at school. Dave and I drove to the hospital and waited until everyone was prepped for surgery. Usually the IV doesn't bother me but this time around it took them 3 tries and each time was extremely painful. Finally 10:00am came around and I was able to walk to surgery where they placed my spinal and prepped for surgery. Dave came in shortly after they started and he followed Colin out after he arrived. Shortly after Colin was born I started to feel really weak and struggled to keep my eyes open. And to be honest I don't remember much after that. Just a fuzzy memory of them moving me to the recovery room. For some reason the drugs really hit me hard this time and my heart rate dropped into the 40's and I guess my blood pressure was pretty low too. The plan was to keep me in recovery for about an hr and then move me back to my room so we could work on getting Colin feeding.  But things didn't work out. They ended up bringing Colin into recovery with me to try and get him nursing but I was much to out of it,so they had to take him back to the nursery where they checked his blood sugar and then ended up tube feeding him some formula because his blood sugar was int he 20's. My recovery nurse bolused me a bunch of fluids to try and raised my heart rate but I still ended up spending 3 hrs in recovery before I was well enough to move to my room. By then I was so nauseous and miserable I am sure I looked horrible when Nathan and Brady arrived to visit.
I finally started feeling better late the night and by the next morning I was feeling a ton better. The only problem is during that time Colin really struggled with nursing. But I was determined to avoid formula again and eventually we started to figure things out. He did end up losing quite a bit of weight and took almost a full 3 days before my milk came in. But we are now back on track and he is once again gaining weight. We were discharged from the hospital Sunday just after lunch. I was relieved to be leaving the hospital and returning to the comfort of my own home.

 Brady surprised me with how excited he was to meet his little brother. He wanted to spend the whole time at the hospital holding him. 

Happy Birthday Brady!

Brady turned 3 on August 21st. He was so excited that it was his birthday. On that Friday we went out to dinner to celebrate his birthday. He wanted Chicken nuggets so we ended up at Chili's, which really is the only option in town anyways. He was all smiles when they brought him is birthday scoop of ice cream.

 Saturday we had family over for cake and ice cream. Brady sure enjoyed opening his presents. You can probably tell from the pictures what his favorite thing is right now. We sure can't get enough of the Avengers around here.His current favorite is The Hulk and Hawkeye. We sure do love this rough and tough little man!

                                                            

First day of School

Last Thursday was Nathan's first day of 1st grade. For me the summer was way to short. I really feel like it had just started and all of a sudden it was time for school again. Nathan was nervous to start this year, especially after he found out most of his friends from last year were in the other teachers class. But so far he seems to be liking his new teacher and class. The other change for this year is now he goes to school for a full day. It is only one hour longer than kindergarten but he is definitely more tired after school now. Hopefully he adjust quickly because dealing with whiny cranky tired kids is exhausting.