Silly Boy

I take lots of pictures of Kyle because he is so cute but also because he is always doing funny things and he is with me all day. I don't have as many random shots of myo ther kids mostly because I didn't have an Iphone when they were little which basically is a camera always in my pocket!

This kid is very techno savvy!  He knows exactly how to get the Ipad and Iphone to wrok by touching and sliding!  He has deleted several of my apps!  This where I found him the other morning.  

He found this sparring helmet in the office and proceeded to wear it around.  Safety first!

He found a pen and wrote on himself for the first time.

 I made the mistake of giving him my shake from In and Out.  He had it E.V.E.R.Y.W.H.E.R.E!  I had to hose out his car seat and take him right to the bath tub.

Just reading the color book on my toy box!

Found him playing on the Ipad lounging on the nightstand.

I left the lotion out and he got it!

White Trash Drivin'

I had to go to St. George one day last week and I didn't pack some extra clothes for Kyle. On the way home he dumped my water bottle all over himself and was soaking wet. So I did what any normal person from the back woods of Alabama would do-I stripped him down and let him ride home in his diaper. He enjoyed himself immensely especially when he was chucking fruit loops at us. This is what happens the one day I don't buy the kid a single article of clothing.

 

Kyle Brandt is 20 Months Old

What what what what what?!?!?!?!?!  This can not be!  I think I think and say something like that every month when I realize he is another month older.  I am just so amazed to think about the month that has gone by and remember and recognize all of the things that he is doing each time.

We are in the joys of fit throwing with him.  Good old fashioned. arching of the back, screaming his head off, fit throwing.  He even occasionally throws himself on the floor if he is already down there. At least he hasn't started kicking his feet at the same time but I'm sure it is coming!  Like all babies the fits occur when he doesn't get his way.  Sometimes it is when he is not wanting to be held and wants to be put down.  Other times when he doesn't get his way he stands there and literally screams at the tops of his lungs.  Sometimes we laugh.  Sometimes we don't.

He is in the stage of loving to run away from us so that we chase him.  If he has something we need to take from him and he sees us coming he takes off at top speed and runs away.  If you don't hold on to him when he's going into the bath or coming out of the bath he will run away.  That is pretty funny though to see a stark naked baby running down the hall!  He ran away from me at church the other day.  Right at the time a bunch of people were trying to get set apart for new callings. Not funny!  I was in heels.  Caleb had to cut him off and grab him.  He also darts down the driveway right for the road and freaks me out.  The other day at the post office I took him in with me because I didn't have anyone with me to stay in the car with him.  I didn't realize that I was going to have 4 packages that day so it was a challenge to get out of there.  I had to set the boxes down though because I knew he was going to run for the road as soon as we got outside and he did of course and again freaked me out.

He loves to clean up.
He is taking to hanging/ dangling from the treadmill and trying to lift himself up onto the counters by hanging on them and trying to pull himself up.
He really loves to sit at the barstools and wants to when we eat.  Not a good idea unless you want food from here to kingdom come!  We need to get a barstool with a back though because he doesn't yet know that he can fall off of those.  He has also started climbing up on them so he can sit there.
He loves hor-hees.  When we go on drives we all look for them and point them out to him.  He went to Aunt Dena's the other day and saw her baby goats and newly hatched ducks.

He says no when he doesn't want something and he nods his head yes or says' oh, yeah" when he does want something.  He really knows what he wants and he lets us know.
He tells us with words that he is "done" while signing, he says please, hurry, points at things and says "that" or points where he wants to go and says "there" and also points to what or where he wants.  If we don't understand him or if we are just not doing it fast enough he will grab our hand and try to drag us to where or what he wants.
He knows what berries are and calls them boo-ry boo-ry (berry).  If we tell him grape he will say bape.
Nursery is still a no-go.  Well he goes but cries most of the time.  He does get distracted with toys or snacks or clean up time but then he goes back to crying.  Maybe soon!
He is taking to throwing his plate or whatever food is left on his tray when he is done.
He says "cheese" when I am trying to take a picture.
He gets the scripture books out for family scripture study and he kneels for family prayer. he says "men" when we are done.
He loves pizza!  He sees a pizza commercial-even from upside down when I am changing him-and he says "peepa".
I had him not taking an afternoon bottle around 4 or 4:30 but that is his most crabby time of day.  It is the busiest time of day for me with trying to cajole and beg and plead with my children to do their homework, clean their rooms, practice the piano and plus I'm trying to make dinner.  So this week I went back to giving him that bottle at 4:30 so I could have a few minutes to get dinner ready and not have him clawing at my legs or trying to push down the kitchen barricade.  I don't quite know when to take him off the bottle.  I give him cups of water or milk or juice during the day but if I take him off completely then I am afraid he won't be getting enough liquids.
The binky is still his really good friend.  I am hoping that when he gets over this super clingy phase he has been in for 3 months that we can take that away sometime soon after.
Most nights he is in bed by 9:00 and he gets up between 7-8.  If he gets up any earlier than that he is really tired in the late morning, needs an early nap, wakes up too early in the afternoon and is super tired and crabby by 6 or 7.  That is way too early to put him to bed because then he would get up early again and the vicious circle would start all over.
 He still won't sleep with covers so he wears long sleeved and long pants jammies.
I still sleep in the room with him.  No, my husband is not pleased with that arrangement.  I did try to get him to sleep and then go to my bed later a few nights but my anxiety was so bad that I slept like crap.  I really don't like him being on that far side of the house and his window is on the front of the house and the bed is pushed up against the wall with the window and I worry about the blind being there and and and and and.  I don't know when that is going to change but my husband hopes sooner rather than later.
He prefers to push the stroller rather than ride in it.
He loves to run and run and run.  He ran all over the fairgrounds at the fair, at the May Day dance  and any other time we let him down.
He doesn't really like chicken nuggets that much.  While I applaud his desire to eat something not quite so nasty it is challenging to feed him in the car because he takes apart burgers and grilled cheese.  Nuggets are so much easier to hand him and much less messy.  He really enjoys fries though.
He likes to watch Bubble Guppies, Curious George and Rabbit something on Nick.  I guess it's because that is what I turn on for him.  He also like "me mow", Mickey Mouse and likes Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and "poo be", Pooh bear.  He has stopped calling pooh bear poopy so that is nice.
He likes to play with cars on his road rug.
He says "ko kay" when he tell him something or ask him to get something.  We say "Kyle it's time for bed"   and he says "ko kay".
He likes to get on beds and pull the pillows onto his lap.
He still does his little wave back and forth like windshield wipers not the open and closed hand wave.  It really is quite cute.
He found the pen today and decided to draw on his legs.  That is a new trick!  I haven't found too many pictures on the walls yet but I try to watch him really closely when he has crayons.

He's reaching up to try and open the doors now.  It won't be too long before he can open them and then we will need to get those things on them so he can't open them.
He really likes to shut doors too.  He knows that the bathroom doors are supposed to be closed and so if we come out of one he will want to close it behind us.  He closes cabinets and the dishwasher and the washing machine when he sees they are opened.
He loves to wash his hands and will raise them up and say "wa?".  How can you deny a sweet request like that and we certainly don't want to discourage cleanliness!

What Kyle Does to Keep Busy

He calls papa and works at the counter with dad.

He drives his cars all over the funriture.

He plays the piano and sometimes does it with his feet by standing on the keys.

Another New Trick

Kyle found out last night that pieces of corn are the perfect size to fit up his nose.  He ever so nicely was cramming up them up his nose.  He was sneezing for 30 minutes afterward and like a slot machine they all came back out.  I even got out the thing to look in his ear so that I could look up his nose and make sure there weren't any more surprises.  

It made me think of this from "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Imogene Herdman: I'm going to be Mary in the Christmas play. And if you try to be, or raise your arm, you'll wish you didn't.

Alice Wendlekin: I'm always Mary in the Christmas play.

Imogene Herdman: Go ahead then. And next spring when the pussy-willows come out, I'm going to stick a pussy-willow so far down your ear where nobody can reach it. And it'll sit there and grow and grow and grow so for the rest of your life, there'll be a pussy-willow bush growing out of your ear.

We will have corn stalks growing out of Kyle's nose.  That will be lovely.

Kyle Brandt is 10 Months Old

Wowee zowee!  This baby is growing so fast we can't hardly believe it!  This month has been a busy one for him. 

He got to go to the doctor twice for being sick-once with and ear infection and once for the stomach flu because I was worried he was getting dehydrated. Those were his first sick visits.

He got his first antibiotic for the ear infection.

He is taking medicine so much better and doesn't spit it out.

He weighed about 19lbs 7ounces at the doctor when he had the flu.

He is eating practically everything we are eating and is so done with baby food. 

He loves cheerios still and toast and he likes all kinds of crackers and goldfish now too. 

There hasn't been anything that I have fed him that he has not liked.

He really likes to feed himself too so I give him lots of finger foods. 

He started holding his bottle all by himself this past week and holds it the whole time.

He pulls himself up on everything and is reaching up for things and standing on his tip toes. 

He is balancing one handed on the furniture and takes a few steps while holding on.

He crawls pretty darn fast and pulls himself up on my legs when he wants to be held.

 He has 2 top teeth that have come in this month making 4 total-2 on the top and 2 on the bottom.

He wrinkles his nose and shows us a "cheesy" grin. 

He got his first hair cut and looks like a big boy. 

He started with the clingy baby behavior this week up at Grandma Penny's with Grandma, Mawmaw, Calley and Cody. 

He lays his head down on my shoulder when he is tired or upset. 

He was doing pretty good getting used to his room and even stayed in there for a few naps until we came up to Provo. 

He did sleep 2 nights in the crib at Grandma Penny's but then he got really sick again with a fever and a cough so he is back in the bed with me. 

He went swimming for the first time and loved it.

He loves dogs!  We point them out to him whenever we see them and he smiles and follows them with his eyes.

He gives kisses sometimes when I ask him too.

He almost waves bye bye.

He knows his name and knows the names of his brothers and mom and dad.

He says mama and dada.

He knows what bottle means and smiles when we ask him if he wants one.

He loves to look at other babies and plays near them-not necessarily with them but near them.

He sleeps most nights from about 11pm to 7-8am and still takes his 30-40 minute nap in the morning and long nap in the afternoon.  I am trying to get him away from the power nap in the evening so he will go to bed earlier.

He loves his Grandpa Don and his Grandpa Don loves him!

He's been hiking, bowling, and swimming this month.

He loves Patty Cake and Itsy Bitsy Spider.

He does not like covers and gets hot really easily.

He still has that vein around his eye that makes it look like he has a black eye alot.

He likes to go on walks in the stroller.

Playing with his rock friend.

Stomach Flu Baby

Wrinkle puppy grin.

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Kyle's First Haircut

I should have done a before and after but of course forgot until AFTER.  Kyle has needed a little trim for a few weeks now and I have just not wanted to cut his hair because that is just a milestone for him being a big boy and not a baby-which is dumb because of course he is still a baby but it just means that he is getting bigger.  I just decided Monday morning (June 18) that it was going to get done and I was going to do it. I just did 3 snips.  One in the front and one on each side above his ear.  The right side is a bit too short but the left is fine and so is the front.  We just can't believe how much different he looks to us with a haircut.  He looks like a big boy!

Kyle Brandt is 4 Months Old

Our sweet baby boy is 4 months old today!!! I can hardly believe it! Being pregnant for 9 months seems like an eternity but it goes so fast once the baby is here.
Weight 15 lbs 2 oz
Height 25 inches
Eats 5 ounces about every 3 hours.
We still mix the Similac Sensitive orange can and green can.
Sleeps between 6-8 hours a night depending on what time he goes to bed. Sleeps mostly in the cradle at night in our room. We are debating what to do about putting him in his crib and where to put it.
Takes 3-4 naps a day still. Usually 45 minutes to an hour in the morning then again in the early afternoon. Usually in the late afternoon he will take a 1.5-2 hour nap and then another 45 minute nap in the evening.
He stays awake 1.5-2 hours at a time.
Kyle can roll over both ways.
He does not like tummy time and just in the last week he has immediately rolled over as soon as we put him on his belly.
Kyle is laughing out loud and is getting very ticklish right up under his neck, and along his ribs in the back. He is very drooly-no teeth coming through yet though.
He sucks on his hands alot.
He is starting put lots of things in his mouth-his blankets and burprags.
He reaches for his toys that hang from his carseat, bouncer and playmat.
He can see pretty far away and turns his head when people walk by.
He knows who his family is and loves to smile at his brothers.
He is wearing mostly 6 month clothes and has grown out of lots of the 3-6 month stuff.
He is wearing size 2 diapers.
He puts his hands together.
He tries holding his bottle.
It seems like he knows what his binky is because he turns his head to try and get it and almost tries to put it back in his mouth when it falls out.
He is getting much more interested in playing while he is eating-much to mommy's chagrin.
He started to smile and play more in his bath now.
His little nails get really sharp and he can pinch and scratch if mom does not keep them trimmed.
He has made it through all of church 3 times now.
We had to pull the baby set-in thing out of his car seat because he was too big for it.
He arches his back when he is mad and does not want to be in his carseat or swing.  
Mommy let him taste a teeny tiny bit of ice cream on Christmas day.
Everyone that sees him says he looks like Caleb.
Mommy is teaching him sign language a little like mommy, daddy, kiss, eat, happy and sleep.
Grandma and Grandpa are the only ones who have been allowed to babysit him for a long time.  
Mom usually is content to stay home and not go anywhere all day long because it is such a challenge with a baby.
Kyle has gone to dinner with mom and dad 3 times now.  PF Changs, Brio and Outback.
His eyes are still blue and his hair is still dark brown.  It seems to be not as dark as Connor's was though and may possibly be turning auburn or lighter.

Kyle's Sleep Study

Kyle had his sleep study done on Tuesday, December 27.  It was just a precautionary test to make sure that he is not having any apnea issues because of his small jaw and chin.  The pulmonologist wanted to do it after we did the overnight oximetry test back in November but I just never scheduled it.  We needed to get this done by the end of the year so that the insurance would pay for it though since we had hit out maximum out of pocket for the year. Cody stayed with the boys except Connor went to grandma's to sleep. Don and I went to Outback for dinner and tried to find some 2 piece jammies at Old Navy and Target before we went to the clinic. I knew that they needed to put a monitor on Kyle's foot and wanted to make it easier to work with because Kyle only has 1 piece jammies. I could not find any 2 piece jammies but it was fine because I had taken in a few pairs of jammies in case he wet through or spit up and one of them was a button up instead of a zip up and so the cord was able to stick through just fine. We got to the clinic right at 8 and they had Kyle all hooked up by 8:30. We had to get 6 straight hours of testing whether he was asleep or awake. Don stayed until about 10 and then he went to a hotel since there was only 1 bed and me and Kyle had to be in it. There was one of those hospital chairs that fold out flat but Don would have been very uncomfortable and one of us needed to get a little sleep to be able to function the next day. I was a little worried about being there by myself with just the technician but there was another patient that came in a little later and Don was just a phone call away.  Kyle fell asleep around 9ish but then woke to eat around 10:30.  It was hard to feed him and burp him with him all hooked up.  He did not go back to sleep until around 12 and when he did it was still a rough night because he likes to sleep with his hands up by his head and there were so many wires there that he would accidentally grab one or two and they would pull out or off.  The tech came in a few times to fix a them.  During the hour and half that he was awake before midnight I did not have the nasal canula where it was supposed to be because he just fussed and fussed and tried to grab at it.  I slept a little but every time he moved I woke up to make sure the wires were still in place,  He started to wake up around 4:30 so I asked the tech if we could just be done and he said yes.  I called Don and he came to pick us up.  I had to feed Kyle and try and wipe off all the gooey glue stuff that made the wires stay on his head and so we did not leave until around 5:30 or so.  We went straight home and straight to bed.  We won't have the results for a few weeks and we have to go and see the pulmonologist who ordered the test to get them anyway. 

Kyle's Blessing

Kyle Brandt Adams was blessed by his dad on Sunday, November 13, 2011.  Grandma Penny, Granddaddy Larry, Calley and Cody came down on Friday afternoon as well as Uncle Chris, Aunt Anne, Lexi and Cameron.  Aunt Suzanna, Uncle Ryan, Abby and Owie came down Saturday afternoon.  We had taco salads Friday night when everyone got here.  Don was in Portland most of  the week but got home on Friday evening as well.  On Saturday we just hung around the house.  We made pancakes and bacon for breakfast and then watched football most of the day,  For dinner we picked up Rik's BBQ from Overton and went to the store for some last minute items.  Sunday morning we made muffins with the little kids-they wanted to help and then we had sausage and waffles. We made it to church on time with everyone ready believe it or not.  In the circle was Don, Cody, Grandpa Don, Granddaddy Larry, Uncle Chris Gessel, Uncle Chris Zundel, Uncle Ryan Pitts, cousin DJ Schwatrz-Ashley's husband and the Bishop.  After Sacrament meeting we hurried home to get lunch out for everyone.  Uncle Chris and Aunt Anne had to leave as did Aunt Suzanna and Uncle Ryan.  My amazing friend Serena came to the blessing and then over to the house for lunch and she just jumped right in to the kitchen and started cutting and chopping and then she did lots of dishes too.  She was my super angel that afternoon!  Of course we had help from Grandma's too.  We had Hawaiian Haystacks and spinach salad and our traditional white I am a Child of God cake.  Kyle wore a white sweater outfit and the white crocheted baby blanket from Mawmaw. I think the outfit was Cody's but I would have to look at the pictures to be sure. After everyone left and we got the kitchen cleaned up we watched football again.  Go figure. 

Cody and Calley Meet Kyle

Friday September 16 Cody and Calley came down to visit.  Calley got the special privilege of changing Kyle's bum and Cody got the privilege of putting together Kyle's new baby swing from Aunt Dena and her family.  Cody spent alot of his weekend holding Kyle on his chest and both of them sleeping on the couch.

Kyle's First Outing

One of the very few pictures Grandma Penny took where I don't look AWFUL! This is at the first doctor appointment.

Dad and Kyle after a SUPER long day in Vegas.

On Thursday September 15 we went to the doctor in Vegas as Kyle's first outing.  It took my mom and me and Don to be able to accomplish this feat with a new baby.  We had a rough 2 nights with Kyle waking up every 2-2.5 hours and Don and I were so totally out of our element and could not get a system going so even after Kyle was changed, fed, I had pumped and Kyle was back asleep, it took us another half our to get it together enough to go back to sleep.  Of course part of the problem was my lack of mobility and the great deal of pain I was still in and even getting in and out of bed took forever.  Even though I got up at 7:30 it was not early enough and I had forgotten how long it takes to get ready with an infant.  Our appointment was at 10:40 and we did not even make it out the door until 10:00.  I called the office on the way in and told them we were going to be late and they almost made us reschedule but after talking to the office manager and telling her that we were coming from an hour a way and that the baby was only 5 days old and I had had a c-section she told us just to get there as quickly as we could.  Don drove like the wind-while obeying the speed limit- and we were only 10 minutes late.  We ended up having to wait almost an hour anyway but oh well.  This doctor was a pediatric pulmonologist who our pediatrician referred us to because of Kyle's small chin and jaw.  He referred us just as a precaution because some babies with small chins/jaws actually have a hard time breathing and have apnea and poor oxygenation.  Our pediatrician was not overly concerned because while Kyle was under the bili-lights his oxygen sats were monitored the whole time and he never once had a problem or even dropped a tiny bit.  This doctor we had seen before with Connor and Cayden and possibly Cody.  His name is Dr. Nakamura.  He recommended an overnight oximetry test and gave us a referral to a cranio-facial doctor to look at his chin.  We have not as of yet had either appointment partly because of my laziness partly because we have not been contacted by the oximetry people. 

After that appointment we a had just enough time to run to Wendy's before our next appointment.  The second appointment was with Kyle's pediatrician.  After another hour long wait, Kyle got a weight and height check and a quick once over. He had actually lost 7 ounces but grew a quarter of an inch.  He was hungry at the time and we had just changed his diaper so if we would have fed him first he probably would have weighed 2 ounces more atleast.  After a very exhausting day we just headed home because we were all tired and my feet we swelling more and more and were getting very painful.  Kyle did pretty good and liked sleeping in his carseat.  I sat in the back with him surrounded by multiple pillows and trying my best to prop up my feet so they would not hurt so bad. 

Kyle Brandt Adams-The Saga Part 2

That first night in the hospital was not too terrible since I was still so numb.  Don got the honor of the first diaper change since I could still hardly move!  On Sunday after the kids left me, Ashley and DJ came to visit for a while.  Then Dena and the girls came by to see us too. We saw our pediatrician Sunday too.  He is a new doctor for us who Dr. Abberman recommended since we did not specify anyone in particular.  We told him about the trouble I was having getting Kyle to nurse and that I thought it was because he had such a tiny chin and jaw.  He was not overly concerned about it but did check him out to make sure there was nothing else going on-which there wasn't.  He said that it was not such a big deal to get him to nurse but just to eat.  We really like Dr. Zilberman and he is pretty thorough and explains things to us alot more than other doctors we have had.

I had been trying to nurse Kyle since they brought him to me after I was taken to my room but he would not cooperate very well.  He has a tiny chin and small jaw and it just seemed that he could not get his mouth open wide enough to nurse.  I got him to do it once on one side but not really enough.  After he was about 20 hours old and I had been trying to nurse every 2 hours they started checking his blood sugars.  They were pretty low and kept getting lower which made him more tired and less able and willing to nurse.  I asked for the lactation consultant but she was not there on the weekends and she was not going to be there on Monday either so I just had my nurses who tried to help us but we were having very little success.  It seemed like if he did start to suck it got less and less.  Finally Sunday night the nursery decided that he needed to eat so that he could get his blood sugar up so they gave him a bottle.  I did try to nurse for about 10 minutes to no avail and then we gave him the bottle. 

We kept up the nurse first/ then bottle routine all night.  Don went home around 8pm after a long day. I really should have had him stay that night too but I had no idea how hard it was going to be getting in and out of bed and trying to get to the bathroom and also trying to get the baby out of his bed and me back into my bed.  That second night I had to buzz my nurse to come and help me every time I needed to get Kyle because I just could not do it.   It was a very long and hard night.  At one point I got up to go to the bathroom and had to call my nurse in come and help me get back to bed because I started shaking so bad.  That happened a few times and I just figured it was from shock, pain and overexertion.  It took a good 5 minutes to stop shaking and my husband did not like that at all.  It was very much like the shakes after delivery but I had never had them keep happening before

During the night the nurse said that she needed to check Kyle's bilirubin levels.  She had this head scanner thing that she ran across his forehead. She said the levels were high on that machine so she needed to have the lab draw some blood to check the blood levels.  The lab came in around 3 and by 9am they said the levels were too high and he would need to go under the lights in the nursery.  That made me very sad.  They took him about 9:30 and I thought it would just be for a few hours because they would check his levels again after 6 hours and see if they were going down.  While he was in the nursery I took a shower finally and had my nurses clean up my room.  I also started using the dreaded pump.  After I showered I went to the nursery to see Kyle and it was so sad to see him in the little plastic box with the little bandages over his eyes to protect them.  I was still in a lot of pain so I hobbled back to my room to wait the 3 hours it would take for them to bring him to me so that I could feed him.  I got lots of deliveries that day of flowers and cookies and that helped me feel better.  Plus Ashely came to visit for a while until Don could get there. Ashley brought me some fries and a milkshake to helped too.   My children did not want to go to school at all and Cayden was the most adamant that he was not going.  Caleb and Cayden stayed home from school and Don came in to see us around 2.  Dena brought Cayden in around 4 because he just had to see his new brother and he missed his mom too.   Kyle was in and out of the nursery all day and all night until about 6am Tuesday morning.  Don stayed until about 8 again and then went home to take care of the kids.  Since Kyle was in the nursery it was a good chance to get a little sleep.  I tried to but I woke up alot.  There was a big storm that night and I could see alot of lightning and rain. 

Tuesday morning around 6 I called the nursery and told them that I wanted Kyle brought back to me as soon as his next feeding was and they told me that his bilirubin levels had come down and that he could come out from under the lights.  Don came in around 11 that day and we waited the day to see if we could go home.  I had to be released by my doctor and Kyle had to be released by his doctor.  We found out by 2 that we could leave that day.  My mom was flying down and her flight got in around 5.  I thought we could be ready to go by 4:30 and just leave to get her and go home but that did not happen.  It took all afternoon to get out of there.  Don left around 4:30 to go and get my mom, get my prescription filled and pick up some flowers that his guys from GP had sent.  I took a shower and started getting packed.  I got a flu shot and a whooping cough shot plus all the discharge instructions from my nurse.  Don and my mom got back around 6:30 and we finally got out of there around 7.  It took Don 2 trips to the car and all of us carrying stuff to get everything out of the hospital.  We did not head straight home though because we had to stop at a ladies house to rent a pump and grab a bite to eat at Wendy's.  We finally got home around 9 and the boys were thrilled we were home.  It was a very long first night because Kyle was eating every 2.5 hours and since he was not nursing, I had to pump and after we changed burped him, changed him, rinsed the bottle and got settled it seemed like he would wake up 15 minutes later.  Our bedroom and bathroom  looked like a baby bomb went off because we had baby stuff and all our stuff from the hospital scattered for 3 days.  It was a good thing my mom was here because it took all 3 of us to manage this household.  I have never had so much pain in my life and would not want a c-section EVER again even if we were going to have more kids WHICH WE AREN'T!!!