The Fosses: August 2009

Friday, August 28, 2009

I just can’t stop taking pictures :)

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Thursday, August 27, 2009

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Last night I took some pictures of the three kids together. I was trying to get a new picture to use at the top of the blog (and as you can see I succeeded!). Here are a few more of the pictures that I thought were cute…

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Wonderful hand-me-downs :)

Sure we’ve collected a few new things here and there – but the vast majority of the baby clothes Tyler wears are things that we’ve had since Erik was a newborn five years ago. This colorful stripped onesie was Alex’s favorite when Erik was a baby (and still is I think). It’s neat to see Tyler in it and remember when Erik and Adam were babies and wore it too!

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Erik let Tyler “play” with his giraffe.

Monday, August 17, 2009

First day of Kindergarten!….and more baby pictures and stuff…

Today is Erik’s first day of Kindergarten!

While Grandma Beth was here she taught Erik how to knit a hat. He made a hat for his doll (with a little help from Grandma) but it turns out Tyler can fit in the hat too. So here is Tyler wearing the hat that Erik made :)

You always hear that the camera adds ten pounds. I don’t think they were talking about babies, but I have noticed that Tyler appears a lot chubbier in pictures than he seems in real life. Sure he’s a big nine pound baby…but he’s still a tiny newborn…he’s only big in comparison to other smaller newborns. So I like pictures that show he really is small – like these ones – when you see him in context next to an adult is seems to make him look smaller.

Adam loves to hold his little brother. He has been very sweet with the baby and he has not gotten upset that I am holding the baby a lot. (He gets upset about lots and lots of other things, but not specifically that :) Today he heard the baby cry and he said, “ Baby’s crying, oh goodness!”

I thought I’d give some more details about the day Tyler was born…

We had an appointment to be induced at 8 am on Friday August 7th. I was hoping that Tyler would be born within several hours, but it turned out to be a rather loong day that got started quite slowly. They didn’t even start inducing me with cytotec until 10 am. Supposedly I was only 1 cm despite being told I was 2 cm in the office the week before…apparently these things are rather subjective. I was having contractions but they were pretty much just the same as the Braxton Hicks I had been having forever – not very promising. At 2 pm I was 2 cm, and we started pitocin. I thought things would get going fairly fast after that, but no, not so much. The contractions did get stronger in the next hour, but they still were definitely not “active labor" material although they were 3 min apart. Around 5:30 maybe, I was 2.5 cm and thinking this was going quite ridiculously slow. They let me eat dinner as nothing was really happening yet ( I had also had lunch before starting pitocin), and then the evening proceeded with not much change. I was 3 cm at some point…maybe 10 pm.

By 11 pm the contractions felt more like “real” contractions and it was helpful to breath through them, but not absolutely necessary. Then at 11:35 pm my water broke…at first I wasn’t sure it had broken, but it soon became clear that it definitely had, and the contractions changed almost immediately and started getting much stronger very fast. I asked for the epidural as soon as my water broke…as from past experience once my water breaks there is very little time. But as I was only 3.5 cm at this point I still figured we had a little while to go. By 12:45 am I had the epidural and by 1 am I was feeling great, and thinking it was pretty neat to finally get an epidural with one of my births! I was 5 cm and glad things were going faster now, but I still thought we had more time left than we did…I started feeling pressure even at this point, and over the next few minutes it got stronger and stronger…until at 1:30 am I was 10 cm and ready to push. Once again I was surprised by how fast the end of labor went, especially after waiting and waiting all day. Tyler was born at 1:53 am so I pushed for less than 20 min, 17 or 18 minutes maybe. The epidural was great for 20 or 30 min there, but it really didn’t help much at all during the pushing. I think that was worse with Tyler than the other two kids…I’m sure that has nothing at all to do with the fact he was 9 lbs 1 oz!! My goodness I wasn’t expecting him to be that big! 8 lbs maybe, but 9 lbs…I didn’t see that coming!

So here he is! All 9 lbs of his cuteness :) I’m grateful everything turned out fine in the end, after some frustration with waiting all day, but then (rather like Erik…and Adam come to think of it….hummm I think I see a pattern) a very fast delivery after my water broke.

(Edited by Alex to fix typos and save everyone from the wall of text that was here before I showed up. ;) - What, you want paragraphs? Fine have your paragraphs if you must - Dawn :)

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Here’s Tyler (at one day old) relaxing on his beautiful blanket made for him by Grandma Linda and Great Grandma Christensen. Thanks Grandmas!

Tyler and big brother Erik. Erik loves to hold his new baby brother :)

Tyler in his hat from Grandma Beth.

In the rain last week.

Erik decorated his own birthday cake last Thursday…it has a house with snow and grass and people (in red) and sprinkles.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Tyler John Fosse

Welcome to your new family Tyler. We love you very much.

Tyler was born Saturday morning at 1:53 AM. He was 9lb 1oz, or 4100g. He is 21 3/4”/55 cm long with a very large head of 36cm circumference. Apparently he is a very large baby, at least according to every single nurse that saw him.

Dawn and Tyler are doing fine and both are healthy. The big question is how will Adam react to Tyler in the coming weeks. Below are some more pictures to satisfy everyone’s picture desires.

Smile for the camera Tyler.

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I took the boys to see their mom on Saturday afternoon.

Dawn and Beth have been making these hats over the last 2 weeks. Too hot for Tucson but definitely cute.

We will post lots more pics in the coming weeks. Look for a new banner image too once I get some good pics.

-Alex

Thursday, August 6, 2009

The Many Faces of Erik

Happy Birthday Erik! I can’t believe you are 5 years old today! Let’s take a little stroll down memory lane shall we …

(this is about to get long…but we did it for Adam’s birthday so we’d better do it for Erik too! Since he saw Adam’s B-day post in May, Erik has been asking when we are going to do tons of pictures of him. So, here you go Erik :)

August 2004