Nixon Nate Bond

First ride in his car seat!












He is finally here....and he is absolutely perfect!

Weight: 6 pounds
Length: 19 inches

He was born on Tuesday April 26, 2011 at 3:15 p.m. This guy was in for the long haul, all of the other kids were here by 37-38 weeks, but this guy waited until 39 (I think he was scared of the chaos he was coming into, hee hee). On Tuesday morning my water broke at home, with no contractions (thank you baby boy!). I did all my house work, made beds, did laundry, got Sadie off to a friends house and chilled for a couple of hours. Around 11:30 I called Ryan and told him I was going to go to the hospital still no contractions, drove myself there and he met me about 30 minutes later. Dilated to a 3 and still no contractions and running out of time Dr. Beck decided to start the pitocin to get things going. He left and went to the office and we were admitted....he called back about 30 minutes later and said to hold off on the pitocin as he was having car trouble. Bummer right...I was ready to go and did not want this to take all day! Anyway around 1:30 they started the pitocin, about 2:30 I got my epidural (which was so awesome!) and by 3:15 our guy was here! Easy labor and easy birth as he was only 6 pounds and he is absolutely amazing! All the kids came up to visit him and of course they think he is amazing!

Sadie and the dentist

For such a little girl she sure has a big mouth....hee hee! Just teasing Sader B, anyway Sadie has had a cracked took for over a year, but it was causing no issues so we just left it alone. Lately she has been complaining so we took her to the dentist to find out that half of the took was hanging on by a thread (which aunt Stephanie pulled out one day when she was checking it out) and the other half of the took was abscessed and infected. So we needed to pull it and get a spacer made. So we tried oral sedation....where she got a little cocktail to drink...waited for 2 hours, finally fell asleep after she had diarrhea and threw up on me. They called her state "conscious sedation" whatever that means....I felt horrible for her, she was super out of it and they kept trying to do x-rays and she was having no part of it...so after 3.5 hours they gave up and told us she would need to get put to sleep. The dentist (Dr. Quackenbush) told me she would probably sleep the rest of the day, but when we got in the car she started yelling SHUT UP, in every form and variation she could think of at the top of her lungs....shut up right now, you shut up, shut up your mouth, et cetera....I have to admit it was pretty comical, if only there was someone else to witness it! So a month later we came back, they put her to sleep, pulled the tooth, cleaned out the abscess and made a spacer to hold the spot until her 10-year-old molar comes in. I took the pic while I was waiting for her to wake up. She looks so sad, but feels much better now.

Girls Softball

Both girls signed up for softball this season...not sure why we agreed I think we are crazy with 4 kids in activities with practices and games and a new baby to arrive any day. Anyway they loved it and with a little car pool action we were able to make it work. This was Hayley's first season of softball and she did awesome...she tried all season for a hit and finally the second to last game she got 2 hits in 1 game....way to go Hayley!

This is Paige's second season of softball and she played on a team with Kaelie. They played a McQueen park and it was kid pitch. Both girls got the opportunity to pitch and loved it!

We also took some random pics of the other bonds at the games...I am sure Steph will thank Ryan later for the side profile pic (sorry steph) and not really sure what happened to all the pictures of Paige, but couldn't find any :-(