Jaxon - 1 month???

Wow - how time has flown!!! Jaxon is now one month and a week old (ok - almost 6 weeks). It is crazy to think that it has been that long already. It seems like just yesterday that I had him. He is doing great though. About a week and a half ago we had to go to the doctor to have his skin tag removed and he weighed 8 lbs. 12 oz. That means he has gained a pound and a half since birth.

Here are some things about Jaxon:

• He LOVES to be held
• He loves to sleep with his hands by his face
• He loves to be cuddled
• He loves to eat, sleep, & poop
• He loves his binki (most of the time)
• He loves his carseat
• He loves motion (the vibration on his bouncer and bed, the swing, etc.)
• He DOESN'T LIKE to be naked
• He doesn't like to have his bum changed
• He doesn't like to be bathed

He is so much fun to have in our house and in our family. The other boys love him and love to hold him. He's a great baby!

The Wait Is Over . . .

Ok - we are about to leave the hospital and we had to make a decision. We sat up for hours last night looking at names and ended up coming back to the original name that we liked from the very beginning. The name is . . .

JAXON CHARLES ULRICH

He's a pretty cute Jaxon. Glad that decision is over with. :)

Baby Ulrich Has Arrived!!!

Well - the time has finally come! Baby Boy Ulrich was born on March 18th at 6:16 PM and the cool thing is that his dad was able to deliver him. Yeah - Scott delivered our little guy. He did such a good job. His boss was right beside him coaching him and he did such an amazing job. I was started at 2:30 PM and the dosage was really light. I was dialated to a 4 at that time. They kept uping the dosage every so often. Around 5:00 the doctor came. I was still at a 4 and so he decided to break my water and at 5:30 I was at an 8. The doctor was off delivering another baby at that time, so the nurses decided to turn off the pit to slow me down until the doctor could get there. Around 5:45 we started pushing and at 6:16 our little baby boy was born. He was 7 pounds 8 ounces and 20 1/2 inches long.

Caleb & Kelsi (my sister & husband) holding him!

Kelsi & Scott showing Austin & Koen the new brother. They were so excited! Koen kept looking around the room and saying, "Where's my baby? Where's my baby?" It was really cute. They both seemed really excited! I hope that lasts!

Notice how we keep calling him Baby Boy Ulrich. Yeah - we haven't come up with a name yet. Hopefully we can come up with something before we leave the hospital.

Baby and exhausted daddy! Everything went really well. The baby and I are doing really well. The delivery was so slick! What a blessing! We are so excited to have him here. Our three sons - what an adventure it will be - but we are thrilled. We wouldn't have it any other way. Thanks for all your hard work Scott - you did a great job delivering. We'll have more pictures to come!

Ulrich Olympics 2010!

Scott's brother and sister-in-law have started a tradition where they have a niece and nephew sleepless sleepover. The kids come in their jammies and play for a couple of hours and then go home at bedtime. This year the theme was the Olympics. They were to come in some olympic type clothing and have an olympic name. Scott had the brilliant idea of using some of the boys' super tight jammies as the one-piece suits that the speed skaters wear. To top it off he thought it would be hilarious to have them wear these massive goggles as well. It did end up being pretty hilarious! I have to say that I was impressed with Scott's creativity.

Their olympic names were: Osti (#30) and Loco (#12). For those of you who are familiar with the Duke Blue Devils - those are two of the key players numbers. Obsessed much??? Maybe!

Koen loved the goggles the best.

Austin's goggles were Scott's swimming goggles and we had to keep reminding Austin to breathe out of his nose. We were on our way to Scott's brother's house and Austin was so tired. He was trying to breathe out of his nose and stay awake and he was really struggling. It was kind of funny/scary at the same time. It looked like he was going to pass out due to lack of oxygen, but he was just starting to dose.

The kids all had a great time and loved it. Lets just say that Austin was totally loving the outfit and was really geared up to win the olympics. Thanks so much Brady and Edee - the kids had a blast. Looking forward to next year!

Who Knew?

We finally had a nice day that was somewhat warm to go and play in our loads of snow that we had. The boys all went in the backyard and it was pretty deep. Scott loved throwing Koen and he would go down pretty deep. They loved it!

This is after Scott threw Koen in the snow. He is standing up.

The three boys in the backyard!

They eventually switched and went out front where there was a little hill that they could slide down on the sled. Koen could not stay sitting up. He would fall down the second Scott would let go of the sled.

Austin giving it a try!

Even Scott gave it a whirl! They had a great time! We are ready for Spring though!

New Year!!!

Now that it's finally February, I thought that I would post some pics of what has been happening in our lives - that and I finally got internet access with my own computer thanks to Annie's wireless internet.

For Christmas, Scott and Koen got nerf guns and Austin already had one from a previous birthday, so they decided to start having nerf gun wars. I would never go play because I didn't have a gun, so one day Scott decided we were going to go get me a gun. We got one for me and a couple extra and now the nerf wars REALLY began. This is Scott and Austin behind their fort.

Koen and I behind our fort. We decided since we have a ton of space in our basement family room, that would be the battle zone. We set up forts and go to town. It is a blast. I definitely can't move as fast as the boys.

Even Koen gets really into it. It's hilarious to see him get his gun all ready and when he finally does - he is so pumped to shoot it. We are still working on his aim.

I don't know how this picture ended up how it did, but Scott came around our fort and shot and this is what the dart did. It was the craziest thing. We have a blast in our basement just running wild!

On January 13th, Koen went into the hospital to have surgery on his little boyhood. He has had a condition since he was born and we are now finally able to take care of it. He was a good sport.

We arrived there at 6 AM and considering how early it was, Koen was pretty perky. He was kind of excited about his "new" jammies. It was hilarious because he had to have his cars with him at all times.

They gave him some medicine that would make him sleepy so it wouldn't be so hard for him to leave us. I was grateful for that. When it was time to go into the prep area, he was a little weary about the "ride" he was going to go on. After a little bit, he was kind of excited. He had taken his medicine by now, so he was a little drunk too. He thought it was pretty cool that his bed had rails and that it was on wheels.

This is in the prep area right before they took him back to surgery and he was so out of it. Scott was laughing so hard because the medicine made Koen act like this for a little bit and then snap out and then do it again and then snap out. Eventually it was like this the whole time. He even had his cars with him here too (they were cold, so they are under the blanket). It was sad for me to see him like this even though Koen was very comfortable.

This is after the surgery and we finally calmed him down to eat some jello. He was so mad and wouldn't eat or drink anything and we couldn't go home until he did. We finally got him to eat. He hated having the IV in. They wrapped his hand with gauze so that he wouldn't tear out the IV and he hated that. It made him so mad.

Overall, he did really well. His recovery went really well. Of course he had some pain, but all in all - he did really good. And needless to say - he is 100%. He is back to his crazy, wild self. We are just so grateful that things went so well, because I was so paranoid about a 2 year old with anesthesia and having surgery. All is well!!!

Sorry!

I'm going to post - I promise! I don't have internet, so it makes it really difficult. I will post an update very soon though!