My first official day off

Ahhh....the first day of school. Instead of preparing, planning, and heading to school today, I am enjoying my day off with the 2 kids. They both slept in until about 7:15 today. It's amazing how 7:15 is now sleeping in! We got up, had breakfast, got baths, had lunch, and just woke up from a nap. Life is good today.

Things have been going really well with a new baby and a 2 1/2 year old. Kyra loves her new baby brother. She always wants to hold him and hug and kiss him. At first she needed some extra attention and wanted help doing everything, but she is getting better now. Ryder is doing great. He is such a sleepy baby. We're working on getting him into a routine and it's been going pretty good. We're heading this afternoon to get his newborn pictures so stay tuned in the next few days for some pictures. For now, here are some fun ones from the last 2 weeks.

Ryder Bart is here!

Ryder Bart Leman

Well, the "plan" that we had for this baby did not work out at all. It all started after we got home Sunday evening after spending a HOT day at Indiana Beach.  I had a plan to finish cleaning, packing, and doing laundry after my hospital visit on Monday to prepare for a C-section on Tuesday.  Bart and I decided to head to bed at about 11:00.  I didn't feel very good and told Bart that I thought I was beginning to have contractions.  Bart thought it was just from eating tacos at the beach so we went to bed, but I didn't go to sleep.  The contractions were about 15 minutes apart so I decided I better get up and get some stuff done.  About 2:00 I started laundry and dishes and cleaning up the house.  Bart decided to get up and check on me but still did't really think I was in labor.  He told me to go take a bath and he went back to bed.  After my bath I decided I needed to wake Bart up and get him moving.  I started packing things up while Bart called the hospital.  They told us to head to the hospital immediately.  I called mom and dad to come stay with Kyra until she woke up.  I still think that Bart thought the hospital would send us home so he wasn't in too big of a hurry.  When we got to the hospital I was 7 centimeters and completely thinned out.  That's when things started moving quickly.  Bart called to tell our parents the news.  The nurses got me ready to go and quickly went over the c-section procedures.  They wheeled me to the operating room and started to do a spinal.  It didn't take them long to figure out that it wasn't going to work and I was going to have to "go to sleep."  I remember them telling me I was going to get sleepy, blinking twice, and that is it.  The next thing I remember is waking me to tell me that I had a baby boy!!  They wheeled me back to my room where I met Bart and the baby.  We spent a few minutes together before he went to get Kyra.  All of this happened before 9:30!  Things have been going really well and both of us are doing great.  I was really dreading the unknown, but it has been good so far.  It was quick and I don't remember much of anything.  It might just be the way to go!  Anyway, Baby Ryder is getting circumsized currently and I needed something to fill my time.  Here are a few pictures of our first days together.

We'll have to work on a better family picture later!

This picture of Tate and Ryder is just too cute

Proud Daddy

Proud Big Sister