Bad first days

We have had a bad few first days home. Eli was circumcised on Monday afternoon and stopped breathing on the table, turned purple! Thankfully, David was there and quickly picked Eli up, cleared his throat and gave him cpr. When we got home, David called an elder in the ward and they gave Eli a blessing. After a histeric cry that my son is still alive, we said a family prayer of thanks and felt the Lords love and peace. Then Tuesday night, after doing too much the day before, I popped a stitch from my c-section. I saw my Docter Wednesday and she said it still looked fine, but chewed me out for not taking it easy. Now David is even more protective, calling every hour to make sure I am in bed. I am lucky to have my dad here in the morning, and my mom is taking half days at work to be here when my dad has to leave for work. My sister lives close and she is taking my older boys to school and picking them up for me. She has also watched the boys for me this week. We got some good news about our house though. We have been accepted and the other side wants to close May 8th. So we are rushing to complete improvements on the property so it will pass FHA and getting our loan pushed through as fast as possible. Cross your fingers.

Homecoming

We are home after a relaxing three days in the hospital. Our four older boys stayed with Granny and PaPa. It is good to be home with them again (even though Scott is the only one home from school). Here are some pictures of our new addition, Elijah Ray.

New Baby at the Wallace Home

7:58 am Apr 24, 2009
7 lbs 4 oz
20 in

Big Day

Tomorrow is the big day. We are going to the Hospital at 6am Friday morning. The Cesarean is scheduled for 7:30am. The baby will have to be in a warmer for 1 hour, then, hopefully everything else will be fine and our baby will be with us. My sister, Shauna, will be posting baby pictures on my blog for me later that afternoon. Family will get calls from David after we have had a chance to recover and bond with our baby.

Easter

The Easter weekend was busy and fun. Saturday morning, the boys went to the church with David and participated in the Easter egg hunt there. Saturday afternoon, my Dad's family came over for a family dinner and Easter egg hunt. The rain actually held off until we started the egg hunt, then it rained just long enough for the kids to run around finding the eggs. We had our Easter bunny come Saturday Night. The boys got more candy and one toy each. Justin, Ben and Adam got talking Space hero figures and Scott got a talking Leo from Little Einsteins. Sunday morning at 7:00, we started out to David's sister Holly's house in Idaho with David's sister, her husband, and David's brother following in another car. It took us about 3 hours to get there. We visited, the boys had a blast playing with their cousins. Then we flew some kites. The conditions there are great for kite flying, very windy. David and Justin tried out Holly's Wii system. They both got into it. We are planning on getting a Wii as a housewarming gift to ourselves when we finally get our house. We started driving home at 5:00 and got here just in time for the boys to play in the last of the sunlight and go to bed. They went back to school on Monday, after 3 weeks off track and spring break. We put an offer on another house on Monday. The house is big and has lots of potential. It just needs to be cleaned really good and needs some paint. We hope to find out about either this house or the Sunset property before we go in on the 24th to have our baby!!

New Blessing Day

We will be blessing our baby on June 7th rather than May 3rd. We decided that I would not be recovered enough from my cesection and we also do not have our own home yet.