Going to the Hospital!!

Here I am snuggling with my two girls before going off to the hospital to have my little man! I was so excited when I went into my doctor appointment and she told me she was willing to induce me and that the hospital had an opening that afternoon. I hadn't even packed a bag or bought groceries for the week. So, I hurried off to Walmart, got groceries, came home and packed a bag and was off to the hospital! 

This was 12 hours later! I went into the hospital around 12, and by 1 p.m. had an iv placed and had started my antibiotics for my group B strep. As it turns out I was  contracting regularly every five to seven minutes when I was admitted. So I waited for the antibiotics to finish, got the Cytotech and four hours later (around 8 pm) started the pitocin. 8 hours in I was still only dilated to 2 CM and was feeling pretty discouraged. I had been hoping this would be a faster labor since this was my third baby. I was feeling pretty sorry for myself, expecting another long and slow labor. I had been having painful contractions before, but once I got the pitocin they started really coming fast and hard. I thought I was going to die from the pain of it all, but the medicine did the trick and I was dilating so quickly I could barely get my epidural on time. By the time the epidural was fully placed and in effect I was ready to push. Titan Jeter came into the world screaming at 1:15 a.m. on December 28th 2012.  He was the most beautiful little boy I'd ever seen. Steve said he came into the world with his eyes wide open, and he has been such an unbelievably alert little man ever since. 

This was later that morning when the girls finally got to meet their little brother. Capri thought Titan was pretty cool for about thirty seconds before she lost interest and started finding mischief around the room.

Camri had been waiting for months to see this little guy, and she was not about to share him. She wanted to hold him all day. She is such a wonderful big sister, and loves her baby brother so much.

This was the closest I could get Capri to get a picture of all our kiddo's. Gotta love Capri and her stubborn personality!

Right after we came home, Grandma Carolyn came to visit us. Camri was bursting from excitement to give her the Christmas present she had "bought" her from her school. They are such great friends. 

We decided to venture out to the Butterfly Pavillion while Grandma Carolyn was visiting too. They loved holding Rosy, the tarantula, checking out the bee hive, and watching for butterflies. 

Christmas!!

We had a really wonderful Christmas this year. It was a little strange to be in yet another new place, that was just starting to feel like "home", but I thought it was still really nice. Mommy was overdue in pregnancy with baby Titan, so we didn't seem to do as much. Daddy was working like a crazy man between his residency and his part time job, but we still found time to watch Christmas movies, drink hot chocolate, bake cookies and spend time together. It was our last Christmas as a family of four. :) We also had a very special visitor throughout the month of December- our Elf on the Shelf, whom we named Chloe, kept things very interesting around our house. She colored on our family pictures, made snow angels in powdered sugar, took Heman captive, stole the girls' toothbrushes and many other mischievous things. The girls loved it, and we will definitely see her again next year.

I am super behind on blogging. This has been the reason: 

 Mr. Titan decided he would get super sick when he was only 12 days old. I took him into the ER at Colorado Children's Hospital. He was admitted on January 9th with what we found was a bacterial infection (e coli to be more specific) in his urine and blood. They had to perform two separate spinal taps before we could completely rule out meningitis. Luckily, his cerebral spinal fluid came back free of bacteria. A couple of days after admission he was diagnosed with RSV and Influenza A. A couple days after that I discovered he had a fractured clavicle. Needless to say this poor kid has been through the ringer. He had 3 IV's, two blood cultures taken, and numerous other pains inflicted on him. It was hard to watch him go through it all and not be able to help him. It has easily been the scariest thing I've dealt with. But, he remains as sweet as ever. We sure love him. And with a face like this, how couldn't you?

 I have many more pictures left to edit, but I wanted to post these so my Granny could see some. :) Hopefully I'll get all caught up before the end of the.... Year. 

He was full of sleepy smiles this day. I loved it! This hat was made by my amazing friend, Jen.