Can Someone Please Pass Me a Kleenex

I have a very official statement to make:

The "baby blues" really suck!

For the men out there that know nothing about the raging hormones in a pregnant or just recently not pregnant woman, the post birth hormones are insane. They make me cry for no reason at all. Yep, the other morning I walked out of our bedroom, sat down and started crying. Clark asked what I had been doing... my answer... brushing my teeth. Like I said, no reason at all.

So, it's really bad when there's actually a reason to cry. Oh yes, waterworks that won't stop.

Let me give you an update on the last 24 hours... (seriously, I wrote a blog about this time yesterday about how great we were all doing). Walker got a "croupy" cough. Yep, croup... again. With a one-week old infant in the house. Yikes! I was able to get him into the pediatrician and he got medicine and is fine. I don't even know that he felt bad at all. But, there's a kicker. The doc said it was really important to keep Walker separated from Everly.

So, we sent Walker to Bunny and RayRay's... seriously, can someone pass me a kleenex? Total meltdown. I had to send my sweet baby boy away!!

I had the baby blues after Walker was born and they lasted one week. Yesterday Everly was one week old and I thought I was in the clear. Yeah, right.

So, I'm counting down the hours until Walker won't be contagious anymore and I can have my family back in one place. Maybe I'll shed a few joyful tears, then be done with the waterworks.

One Week Old!

Wow, time flies... Everly is already one week old. How fun. She's a great baby and got a fantastic report at the doctor... so, we're doing good!

I need to do a big public thank you to lots of people. We've had a lot of help around here and I want all these people to get the recognition they deserve!

First, the grandmothers! Bunny and Nanna have been great. Bunny spent the night with us last week to help me get a little sleep. And, she's been by with a meal and groceries and helps change poopy diapers. Nanna got here on Sunday and has been the "Walker Entertainer" ever since. He has had a blast with her and she has been a huge help around the house.

My dad and Maggie brought us food that has been eaten on for four days now!

And, a big Thank You to Debra... she came to our house and stayed with Walker while I delivered Everly. It was great for the grandparents to be at the hospital and that wouldn't have been possible without Debra! Walker thinks Debra is his girlfriend and he had a fantastic time with her last week.

Okay, now on to pictures.

I ordered these adorable shirts weeks ago. They were supposed to be for the hospital. They were late. So, here they are now:



Um, do we think Walker's shirt is a tiny bit small?!?! It looks like I'm trying to make him a muscle man or something. Not exactly what I was hoping for, but you get the picture.

Everly fits perfect and looks cute:



Walker is loving all the old toys we've brought out for Everly:



I cannot wait for Everly to get big enough to smile... I know her big brother will have great success at making her laugh!

The Namesake

I've always thought Ray deserved a namesake. And, I've always thought using Ray for a girl's middle name was the way to go. That's why we didn't use Ray for Walker. I was holding out for RayRay to have a little girl named after him.

We knew her middle name was Ray before we knew her first name was Everly. That's how strongly we felt about using it.

Here's why... Ray has been in my life for 27 years. He married my mother, but he married her two kids, too. I feel he needs something in writing to show that! The Been name won't go on after Ray. So, this was our way of continuing Ray's legacy.

Everly can look up to her RayRay and know that she was named after a thoughtful, caring, unselfish and loving man. I have no doubt that she and Walker will learn tons from him!

Go Frogs!

These are the cutest Horned Frog fans ever. Or, I guess I could say ever-LY! Ha.





The Frogs won today... I think it's because of these two precious angels!

I learned today that it's going to be very difficult to take pictures of my children together. The first of many lessons that I will learn in the coming weeks, months and years!

Happily Everly After

Okay, here comes a whole bunch of pictures from yesterday. Instead of telling you all about it, I'll let the pictures tell the story. But, I do have to share one tidbit. Walker is doing fantastic with his little sister. This morning she was crying and he grabbed her paci and handed it to her. What a silly mommy I was to think he might try to take the paci for himself!

We Are Home

27 hours after Everly made her grand entrance in the world... she got to go home! We are very happy to be out of the hospital!

Here are the pictures I tried to load yesterday. I will add more tomorrow!

Everly Ray is Here!

First, I'm trying to add some beautiful pictures of Everly, but it won't let me! So, I'll start with some stats.

She was born at 11:22 this morning after only two pushes! She was fast!!

She's 7 lbs, 14 ozs and 19.5 inches long.

She's an awesome breastfeeder... much better than her big brother.

Speaking of big brother, Walker came to visit his new sister and seemed to like her!

We were successfully able to keep Everly's middle name a secret until her arrival. Her RayRay seemed very happy and surprised.

Hopefully I can get the pictures up soon!

Birth Day

Just thought I would post a quick update! We got to the hospital this morning at 5:30. The good news, I had progressed some on my own, so we're already ahead of the game! They had me all hooked up with pitocin at 6:15 and the doctor broke my water at 7:45.... so, we are well on our way to meeting our sweet little girl.

I will try to keep the updates coming!

Three More Days

Have I mentioned that TCU is in the College World Series? Their first game is just about to start. I'm excited!

I've decided to use the game as an excuse to post of a picture... of ME! Yikes. Here's the deal. I don't like prego pictures. And, I don't like tight pregnancy clothes. But, I'm going against those two things to show you a prego picture of me in something tight:



Two words: Go Frogs!

Okay, that's out of the way. On to more important things. Everly will be here VERY soon. If she doesn't come before, I will be in induced on Tuesday. Only a couple more days! Wow. I can't wait to see her.

Be sure to check the blog often on Tuesday... I will try to post updates during the day, and we will for sure post pictures soon after she is born!

The Year of the Frog

Wow. Seriously. Wow. My Horned Frogs are having a FANTASTIC year.

First, the football team makes it to a BCS bowl and ends the season #6 in the country. Now, the baseball team has made it to the College World Series! So exciting.

The only problem with all this success.... I've had to enjoy it from afar. We decided not to travel to the Fiesta Bowl in January because I was still in my first trimester... feeling terrible! And, now... a trip to Omaha sounds fantastic. Oh wait, I have to give birth. I guess I can't make the trip!

I'm assuming all the games will be on tv... what a great way to break Everly in to Horned Frog fever. She'll be wearing purple VERY early in her life!

Speaking of wearing purple... I have to mention that the Horned Frogs beat out the LONGHORNS to get to Omaha.

We had quite an interesting weekend in the Wood house. Clark was at work on Friday for game one. Soooo, not surprisingly, Walker wore purple that day.

TCU won.

Saturday, Clark was home and let me sleep in. Walker wore orange that day.

UT won.

So, the big question was... what will Walker wear on Sunday for game three? Mommy and Daddy put their school allegiances aside and Walker was neutral. He stayed in his church clothes. Thankfully the Frogs didn't need the extra purple to pull out the win!

It will be easy to dress him for the rest of the games... purple all the way!

Bad Wife or Just Pregnant?

Seriously, I don't know where to start. First off, I know that it's been over a week since my last blog. I've had plenty of things to blog about, but I just haven't gotten to it.

Kinda like I haven't gotten to cooking or grocery shopping or cleaning up the house or doing laundry.

I think I tell Clark every single day that I'm a bad wife. I hate being a bad wife, but at 37 weeks pregnant with a 16-month old and both of us with a COLD, I just can't help it. I keep promising that I will be better... I just hope I can follow through!

Okay, on to more interesting topics...

The due date is 21 days away... I think I can, I think I can. (this is what I keep telling myself!)

I don't think I've ever posted what our baby girl's name is! Yes, we know this time around:





Yep, it's Everly. We thought we might wait to name her like we did with Walker, but it stuck because I actually started calling her Everly. At that point we knew it was a done deal!

(the funny backstory... before we knew Walker was a boy, Victoria was high on our list of girl names. Then I read a little saga called Twilight and that name was forever off the list!)

Okay, so that's some Everly news... here's some Walker news. Continuing the theme of my lack of energy and inability to do things around here, Clark has taken over bathing duties. Walker loves it!





Last thought... we purposely had Walker in the winter. I mean, who wants to be pregnant... in Houston... in summer? And, then we decided to go ahead and have baby #2 quickly. I can tell you.... pregnancy in the winter is a lot more fun than pregnancy in the summer!