Catching Up

It's hard to believe that Connor's already been with us for six weeks. We seemed to adjust pretty well to having two kids, and Connor has made it easy on us by being a good sleeper like his big brother. Most nights Connor will sleep around five hours, which has been such a blessing. It definitely helped that my mom was able to come stay with us for several days after Connor was born (I'll have to get pictures from my mom because for some reason I didn't manage to take any). Carter loves his baby brother and constantly wants to hold him and give him kisses. Here are a bunch of pictures from the past six weeks:

Carter and Connor's first meeting.


Holding my boys.


Connor's St. Patrick's Day hat.


Connor taking a nap with Daddy.


Gary came by with a gift for Connor...a Lego duck! The duck with flowers on the table was a gift from Ryan's model shop, so it's pretty funny that Gary's model shop gave Connor a Lego duck that looks very similar without knowing anything about it.


Carter was very excited about the Easter presents.


Happy Easter!


Carter hanging out in his tent with Auntie LoLo and Uncle Garin.


Connor loves his aunties.


Carter in his big boy bed! Nap time hasn't been pleasant since we moved Carter out of his crib, but he does great at bedtime.

We're looking forward to having a bunch of family here over the weekend for Connor's blessing at church. Hopefully it won't take me so long to post those pictures!

Beach Trip

I thought I would be better about blogging since I haven't been going up to LA for work, but somehow time just keeps slipping away. I don't have time to do a big update right now, so I thought I'd just share pictures from our beach trip. Some of Ryan's family were able to come down for a visit to meet Connor and we had great beach weather.

First family photo


Connor spent most of the time sleeping


Carter and LoLo


Carter loved the beach. Last summer he hated the water, but this time he kept getting in the water even though Ryan and I thought it was freezing.


Cute Carter


Carter and Dada


Getting some much needed sun!

Stay tuned for many more pictures of the past month!

Connor's Debut

For those of you that are interested, here's the story of Connor's appearance into the world:
Saturday morning around 11 I started getting contractions that were about 4 minutes apart, but they weren't very strong so we decided to do some shopping and see what happened. Our hospital is in Irvine, which is about 45 minutes north of us, so we drove up to an Ikea close to the hospital and brought our bags with us just in case we ended up going to the hospital while we were up there. After doing a bunch of shopping my contractions were still 4 minutes apart and were getting stronger, so we called Ryan's sister to take Carter and we headed over to the hospital around 5pm.
I was hooked up to the monitors and the contractions were between 3 and 4 minutes apart. The doctor came in and checked me and said I was at a 4, so they were going to admit me. (Ryan and I were both so relieved that this baby was actually going to be born with only one visit to the hospital!) After a couple hours the contractions started getting further apart, so we walked the halls for a while.
A few hours later the contractions still weren't as close together, so they started me on Pitocin and the doctor came in and broke my water just after midnight to help things along. Things started progressing very quickly after that. It didn't take long for me to request an epidural. The nurse kept assuring me that the lady would be there soon to give me the epidural, but she lied. :( Before I knew it I felt like I needed to push. The nurses were all rushing to finish getting things ready and the doctor got there as I started to push. (The epidural lady showed up about this time as well and was told it was too late.) After just a few pushes, our little guy was here and we were so happy to finally get to meet him!

Just waiting


He's here!


Daddy cutting the cord


Our "little" guy weighed in at 7 lbs. 15 oz...half a pound lighter than his big brother.

Connor Glen Wood

Born at 3:12 am on 3-14-2010, weighs 7 lbs 15 oz and is 20 inches long.

See the full gallery here!
I think I'll save the labor story for Katie to tell. She's the superhero who did all the hard work.

Cute Carter

Here are some recent videos of Carter. He just keeps getting cuter and cuter! We're constantly being entertained by him.

Carter and his new monkey that he named "Booty".


Carter talking with his Auntie LoLo

Pregnancy Update

I realized I haven't been doing a very good job keeping people up to date with this pregnancy. This poor little guy is definitely getting the second child treatment! I'm currently 35 weeks along, so we're in the home stretch. Everything is going really well and we haven't had to make any trips to the hospital. I think we'd already been to the hospital 3 times with Carter at this point, so we're very happy that we haven't set foot in a hospital yet!

I had a doctor's appointment today and they did an ultrasound to check on the baby's position. He's head down and the doctor said he'll remain that way at this point. Just 5 more weeks and we'll have another little boy to love!

Here are some pictures taken a couple weeks ago when I was at 33 weeks:

Carter's Birthday Party

We went to Disneyland for my birthday in December and Carter fell in love with Buzz Lightyear, so we decided to have a Buzz Lightyear party for his birthday. Carter loved it and still talks about it all the time!

Big kids watching Toy Story


Being entertained by the birthday boy


Mommy reading the card


Opening his present from Ace...an awesome bike that Ace and Daddy later put together for him.


Carter and his great grandpa with his new cd player


Mommy ended up scaring Carter with his new dinosaur


Lots of great people and presents!


The cake. Someone put it a little too close to Carter, so he was able to take a little frosting.


Digging in


I think he liked it!

Happy Birthday, Carter!

I can't believe it, but our little baby boy turned 2 years old today! He has been such a blessing in our lives and we love watching him learn and grow. We love you, buddy!

Carter Harrison Wood was born February 11, 2008 at 12:20am.
He weighed 8lbs 8oz and was 19 inches long.


Carter's first trip to Legoland.


Hanging out at the beach.


Learning to stand up in his crib.


Our adorable little pumpkin.


Carter's first birthday.


Standing on his own.


The ladies man.


First trip to Disneyland.


Carter LOVES tomatoes!


Yoda Carter


Playing the drums


Our superhero


He sure loves Lego!


Birthday boy!

Stay tuned for a birthday party-specific post!

Happy Birthday to Me!

I decided it was finally time to update our blog, so why not make a post about my awesome birthday to get back in the swing of things? For 2009, Disneyland was giving free admission on your birthday and we decided to take advantage of it. It was unusually cold that day and the park was extremely crowded (one of the many disadvantages of having a birthday just 3 days before Christmas), but we had such a great time.

Family picture with Chip (or maybe it was Dale...)


In front of Small World. This was Ryan's first time seeing Disneyland decorated for Christmas.


Carter on the Teacups...this was definitely not his favorite ride.


In front of the castle.


Carter's favorite ride. Carter discovered his love for Buzz and was crying for Buzz when it was time to leave the ride.


Carter and Daddy on Autopia. We got stuck behind a little girl that didn't know how to hold the gas pedal down, so I had plenty of time to take pictures.


On our way out after a very fun day!

Lost in 2 Months

On February 2nd, 2010 the sixth and final season of Lost airs on ABC. On December 6th, Katie and I decided we would attempt to watch all 5 previous seasons on DVD before the new season begins.

As of December 27th, we're two seasons down, three to go. To recap, it took us 3 weeks to get through 49 hour-long episodes, averaging about 2 episodes a day. In reality, with Katie in LA a couple days a week and other distractions, we haven't watched episodes every day, and we've really done a lot of catching up over Christmas break and on weekends. In fact, we've watched so much lately that we killed our 6-year-old DVD/VHS player, and since we got rid of all our VHS tapes not long ago, the death of the player wasn't too hard on us. A quick trip to WalMart to get a replacement player and we were back on track.

How does this bode for the remainder of our marathon? We've got 54 episodes to go in 5 weeks. We only need to watch an average of an episode and a half per night to make our goal. Barring any emergency hospital trips from false labor, another DVD player death, or any other cataclysmic event... I think we'll be fine :)