Baby Boy

Day 1-Baby Boy is Born
Arrived at the hospital about an hour after water broke at home at 4:30 am. Still smiling, but very ready to have a baby.
I was put on pitocin to get my labor moving faster, causes contractions to get more intense decide I am ready for an epidural.
Two hours later still no epidural (I guess they were busy). Contractions so intense I was crying. There was a lot of hand holding going on. Jared wanted to go get something to eat. I told him he wasn't allowed to leave until I got my epidural. Finally got my epidural. Ten min later I was pushing the baby out(that was close).
After 15 min of very painful pushing (apparently the epidural didn't have time to fully work good thing it was only 15 min)our baby boy was born.
We fell in love with instantly and I so glad there were no complications like with Addi so I could hold him right away. My mom was lucky enough to be on skype with us when he was born.
Thank goodness he was 9 days early because he weighed 9 lbs 14 oz after peeing on me and was almost 23 in long.
We love our big cuddly boy and couldn't have asked for more.
And mommy was very happy not to be pregnant anymore.

Day 2-Big Sister Comes to Visit
The next a very proud big sister came to visit. She instantly fell in love and was very glad that "mommy all better now".





Day 3-Bringing Baby Home
After getting checked out by the doctor and some last min tests we got to bring Aidan (we finally named him) home.

Before the Baby-June

So you may have noticed that there was a whole month missing from the blog before the baby got here. Before I get to posting the millions of baby picture I am going to fill you in on our last adventures before baby Aidan arrived.
Jared took a couple of days off so he had a 4 day weekend. We decided to take an adventure to Newport, Rhode Island. We took a nice little walk along the cliffs.
There was a nice paved walking path along the cliffs above the beach line. The path goes for miles, but since momma was over 36 weeks pregnant we only did about 1.5 mile round trip.
There is a college right on the cliff and lucky for us we were passing right by the University when Addi had to go potty.
There are also lots of mansion along the walks. I wouldn't mind living in a big house along the ocean in Rhode Island.
After our walk we relaxed on the beach. It was a little cold for getting in the water, but perfect for taking a little nap and building some sand castles.
Daddy buried Addi in the sand.
And we took some 36 week belly pictures. Little did we know that this would be one of the last belly pictures we would take.

The next day was some special CT day when many of the museums were free. We decided to visit the Noah Websters house. It was a fun old house and they had old clothes for the kids to dress up in and lots a kids history books to read.
Later that night we headed to West Hatford days for some fair food and pony rides.
Addi liked the goats until they started head butting each other.
On Sunday Addi dressed up in here leotard and tutu and gave us a little show. I got a small piece of wood floor to use in my photography and Addi thinks its her own personal dance floor. She loves to sing and dance stay tune for a video.
Our fun didn't stop with the beginning of the work week. Monday night was FHE in the park with our church group.
Addi always finds new friends to play with, allowing me to sit back in my chair and be waited on.
The next couple of weeks went by fairly fast, Jared was partly in charge of graduation dinner for the second years, we celebrated Father's day and then had about 4 days of contractions before my water broke and Baby Aidan was born. Now don't think that now we are a family of 4 our adventures will stop. Baby Aidan has already been on many adventures in his first 3 weeks of life, so stay tune to the blog for our new adventures.

It's a boy!

Aidan Michael Sorensen was born on Friday June 25th at 2:02 pm.
After days of contractions my water broke at 4:30 in the morning. We headed to the hospital and after laboring all morning, barely getting an epidural and 15 min of painful pushing our baby boy was born.
He was a very big boy weighing 9 lbs 14 oz (after peeing all over mommy) and 22.5 in long.
We love our big cuddling boy.
Big Sister loves her baby brother and likes to show him off to everyone.

Think I am in Labor

Just to keep you all update and because I can't really sleep anyways I think this baby is coming at any moment. I have been having contractions all day and they have been 3 min apart for about 9 hours now, but they aren't too intense so I talked to my midwife and I have just been waiting for them to get more painful or my water to break. With Addi my contractions didn't hurt until my water broke so I am thinking that will happen first. I don't know how much longer I can handle this waiting not knowing when it will happen and I would much rather my water not break at home so I don't have to clean it up and I am afraid that once it does things will move too quickly and I wont be able to get an epidural. If these contractions continue and nothing more happens by morning I am thinking I will just go in maybe I am dilated enough and they can just break my water. Here's to hoping for a June 22 baby.

Update June 22
I am not really in labor although I am still having contractions every 3 min no matter what I do (walk, sit, drink water etc). Apparently I am having prodromal labor and it can go for days. The baby is still high so until the baby engages the contractions aren't doing much, but once the baby drops it could happen really fast so I hope the baby drops soon because I am going on 28 hours of contractions and it is not too fun.

Memorial Weekend

We had a fun memorial weekend. We didn't do anything to spectacular just had fun together as a family. On Saturday Jared took a few maternity pictures for me. This is me at 35 weeks.


Addi has been obsessed about finding butterflies on our family walks, but we haven't had much luck so on Sunday we decided to take a family walk at the nature center at westmoore park.


There is a butterfly garden there, but we still didn't find any butterflies, just big pretty flowers.
At least we still got to participate in Addi's favorite thing, throwing sticks and rocks in the water until we forced her to leave because we were being eaten alive by bugs.
Jared took a few more maternity pictures.
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Our pool finally opened this weekend and we went twice on Saturday and again on Monday. Addi decided she didn't want to wear a shirt and go topless like daddy.
When we went on Monday both Jared and I got sunburned, but not Addi she just got a nice little tan.
Giant belly at the pool.
On Monday our little town had a parade, so we walked into town to see the parade. We don't live very far from the center of town but the little walk combined with the heat and humility wore big belly momma out.
Addi liked the parade
especially when they threw suckers at her. She would let go of the suckers for the rest of the parade.
Tito didn't share the same enjoyment and was hiding the whole time.
After a long hot day at the parade and in the swimming pool we headed out to get ice cream before bed.
I think this was Addi's favorite part of the whole weekend.