First Real Bath!

Marshall had his first real bath today! The nurse helped me tub him in a little bucket thing. He wasn't too sure about it BUT he LOVED his hair being washed! It was so cute!

How things are going..

Well, I think Vaughn is having a hard time adjusting to all the new things going on. He keeps asking us when we're going home. We keep telling him we are home this is our NEW home. But he still wants to go home to our "other" home. Poor guy. Then between trying to get moved in and running up to the hospital I think he feels neglected so he has decided to make himself known so he has been the biggest stink lately!! UUGGHH!! Then I don't think he gets the whole Marshall's in the hospital he has asked a couple of times if he is in mom's belly still. But poor kid can't go in and see Marshall. This is all he gets to see of him: So here we are "seeing" Marshall:

Then the other night my mom's school had a Night at the Museum at the Tree house so she took Vaughn. He was so excited. Here is some cute pictures of him in his pirate hat.

He wouldn't hold still for the picture he was so excited so we told him to freeze so he stopped moving AND smiling.. he is so silly.

There he finally got it. Holding still AND smiling! That was a nice break for him he had LOTS of fun!! Thanks mom!!

This is Vaughn helping his dad down stairs.. I think he got in the way more then helped though.


Now, how is Marshall doing? GREAT!! He has ALL his IV's out!! And he is now in a regular bed! AND he gets to wear clothes! All he has now is his feeding tube! His new bed:

Cute pictures of the little guy:

Brandon wanted to take this picture so you guys could see how small he is. So we compaired him to a quarter. You know cause thats what people do.

Yep he is A LOT bigger then a quarter!

This guy is already a little stinker. He HATES his feeding tube he is always trying to pull it out. Well the other night when we were there he was successful in getting it out! He was so proud of himself! But boy was he mad when they put it back in. Then the nurse made sure to tape it extra close to his nose so he couldn't do that again. But he has already started working at the tape again and has it pulled back.

Well we did here pretty good news today!! He is acting like he is ready to eat and is not wanting to be fed through the feeding tube!! So the nurses say if he eats really good on his own for 48 hours then he can come home!! So I have been going up there to feed him and he is doing really good with that. But starting today I'm going to try and get up there as much as I can to feed him and when I'm not there their going to bottle feed him and see if he can eat with out using the tube for 48 hours!! Yeah!! SO maybe Wed afternoon or night I'll get to take him home!! I hope!

What a week!!

Man, what a CrAzY week!! First we closed on our house on Wed March 17th! Yes, we are homeowners again!! So then we made plans to move into our house on Sat when me and Bran were both off and could get a bunch of people to help. We also still had a lot for things we needed to get done before moving in. WE still needed to pack up my mom's house. And we also had some painting to finish up at our new house. So Wed afternoon my brother, his wife and I went out to the house to paint. We mostly got it finished but planned to get together again on Friday to finish up! Here's our house ready to move in!!

BUT,Thursday morning brought a BIG surprise. I woke up to my water breaking. I rushed upstairs to tell Bran that I was pretty sure my water JUST broke. He asked "are you sure you didn't just pee your pants?" I said nope this was definately different than peeing your pants. So then we headed up to the hospital at 6:30am. We got there and they looked and yep, sure enough my water had broke. My doctor came in and talked to me and told me 34 weeks is usually the point where they don't really try and hold the babies in any longer so we were going to be having this baby TODAY! So we were sent in for the c-section and on Thursday March 18th Marshall Blain Brooks was born at 12:22pm. He was 4lb 14oz and 18 inches long! He has A LOT of dark curly hair! Here we are getting ready for the c-section:

Here's our little guy!

Here's the isolette he stays in:

He is hooked up to so many tubes its kind of sad. He is doing really well though. He never had to be put on a ventilator, he just needed the oxygen tubes so that was good! And he was just on oxygen till Sat night.

Then Sunday night they took out 1 of his IV's!! Then hopefully the other IV comes out tonight or tomorrow morning. Then all he will have is his feeding tube!! Then hopefully we can bring him home soon!! The doctors keep saying he is doing so good! So hopefully that continues!!

Moving Day!!

Thats right! Our house is finally done!! We are closing on it tomorrow and will be moving in to our home this Saturday!! HURRAY!!

Is it done yet?!!

Well, not quite yet but REALLY close!! This week we got the lights in and working!! The plumbing done and we have running water!! They put the trim back up where the tile is. The doors are all back up! Our appliances are in!! And they have the garage doors in!! MAN, were so close we can hardly wait!! Here's the front of the house with the LIGHTS ON!! The back with the deck, oh I mean wooden stairs.

Kitchen sink!!

The lights in the dinning room and family room

Bathroom lights and sink! Oh they also have all the towel racks and closet hangers in!!

The front living room light:

Our chandelier in the entry:

The kitchen all lit up:

All our appliances in place and hooked up:

Hopefully we can close up this deal next week and be moving in next Saturday!!! Wish us luck!

Almost there!!

Man, it seems like our house sits there for a few days with not a lot of progress then BAM in like 2 days they have finished up half the things we were waiting for!! Now we have all our cement in so the driveway, the back patio and the walk way up to our front door!! They have the siding done and our railing up in front!!

They also have our deck done in the back but we don't have a picture of that yet.

They got our kitchen counters and sink in!! They also have all the window sills done!!

And here is just a better shot of our carpet they put in a little bit ago!!

They say they think it should be done by next friday!! WOW!! Vaughn was ready to move in after they got the siding done, but we had to tell him not yet.. Me and Bran have been working on painting the trim were not quite half way done with it yet but its coming!!