8 Months

Oh my.... you could not get any cuter!

I love you Bubba-doos!

Baby Legs

1st tooth

Gavin has a tooth coming in!!

Can you see the little hole in that big smile? He's getting his teeth almost 6 months earlier than Ethan did! This explains why he's been cranky the past couple days.

What a smile! I love this happy baby!

Thanksgiving 2010

This year we have even more things to be Thankful for....

So Thankful to be a mom to this sweet little peanut and his brother...

So Thankful to have a wonderful husband who can work from home and keep me sane!

Thankful for these tiny feet that will be running the halls chasing his brother soon enough..

So Thankful to have been given these wonderful children to love!

So very Thankful for our Family!

1st Week home!

We are home and doing good!

Ethan is loving his new brother and doing so well with him. I couldn't have asked for anything more from him. It's so sweet to watch him love his baby brother up and look after him.

Gavin is doing well. He is a great sleeper at night. I hope that continues!

Nick is home and helping out a lot with Ethan. Getting him to school and picking him up.

We went to see Ethan at school today. They were having their Thanksgiving Feast! Of course having a newborn doesn't let you get out of the house when you anticipate or hope for. Gavin had to eat, poop and burp all before we left. I was worried I wouldn't make it to the feast on time but we rolled in a few min before they were done. I'm glad we made it. He was happy we showed up and to show his friends his new baby brother! The teachers and other moms were all about seeing him too!

Bringing Gavin home

Today is the day we bring Gavin home! So excited to be going home and to see my Ethan! Before going to the hospital, we had talked about how to introduce Ethan to Gavin. I wasn't sure how he would want to meet him or if he would want to come to the hospital. I did feel like when Ethan did come to the hospital, I wanted it to be just us and I wanted Nick to bring Ethan. I waited until I was ready to be discharged before sending Nick home to get Ethan. I didn't want him to come while I was staying and then have Ethan go home without us. So Nick went home to spend some time with Ethan. That allowed my mom to leave Ethan and come spend some time at the hospital with me and the new baby. My mom came to visit and brought a bottle of wine, a balloon and a BirthDay cake for Gavin! So cute. When it was time to leave, I packed up the rest of the stuff that Nick didn't take with him and my mom left. Nick and Ethan were on there way to come see us and to all go home as a family. I made sure that when Ethan came in the room, that I was all his. Gavin was fed and asleep in the cradle and I was sitting on the bench with a gift for Ethan. He came in the door and I was so happy to see him I started crying. I just held him and told him how much I missed him and how happy I was to see him. It was so crazy to see how big he was at that moment. For the past 2 days I had my eyes only on a tiny peanut. It really put it into perspective how big our Ethan was when I saw him next to Gavin. He saw his gift and was happy to get his Big Brother present from Gavin. Then he asked where the baby was. I waited until he was ready to see the baby before I made any kind of production about the new baby. So we walked over to Gavin and Ethan was very happy to finally meet his little brother! He didn't want to hold him, which was ok, he just wanted us to go home. I was so ready for that!

Proud Big Brother!

Ready to go home

Home at last!

Lexi meeting her other little brother!

Birth of Gavin Ryan McCully

Here is the story of the birth of Gavin...

My water broke on 11/10/10 @ 8:00 p.m.

I called my mom to come over and watch Ethan for us. We got ready and got to the hospital at 9:22 pm. We live literally streets away from Scottsdale Shea Hospital which is where we were going to deliver.

We walked into triage and got checked in. She had me change and of course I brought my own cute hospital gown.

After I changed and got settled in, the nurse came to get me hooked up and start blood work. Once she got my blood work done, she checked me and I was still 2 centimeters dilated and 70% effaced. That was at 10:15. I asked if they would start pitocin and she asked if that's what I wanted. I was like, "yes, lets get the show on the road." I didn't want to prolong labor if I didn't have to. They started fluids and I had crazy heartburn. I asked for something to help and she gave me some nasty syrup to take that really helped.

Daddy hanging out watching TV

Once I was starting to feel the contractions they moved us into the delivery room. The contractions were, at this point bearable, so I asked for the epidural now before things got out of control. I got the epidural at 12 a.m. and was feeling much better. I was super tired and was hoping to get some rest before having to push. It was late and we were tired. Nick was resting on the bench and I was trying to sleep. The machines that I was hooked up too were making so much noise I couldn't sleep. Every few minutes the drip would make noise and then the blood pressure thing would turn on every 15 minutes or so. No sleep.

2:15 a.m. My Dr. came by to check me and see how things were going. She said I was 7 cm and probably had a couple hours to go. She was going to go get some rest in one of the rooms and see me in a bit. I thought I would get some rest. The nurses recommended me to lay on my side and maybe that would get things going a little bit sooner. She said if I had the urge to push to let her know. So they put me on my side and it was almost instant that I felt like I need to push. It was crazy because I felt so much pressure below. It felt like the baby was almost out already. So I told the nurse immediately that I needed to push and she came over to check me. She said "Yep, your ready, he's right there!!" I went from 7 cm to ready to push just by turning on my side. So it was 2:35 and I was ready to go.

The nurse went and got my Dr. The got everything ready and it was show time! Nick got the cameras all set up and made sure this time we were capturing this moment. I pushed 3 times and our son was born! Gavin Ryan McCully was finally here!

2:58 a.m.