Well here is our last few months in a very short paragraph, and then to the info your looking for. Tatem has spent the past few months "enjoying" her pregnancy. Thank goodness for nausea meds and cereal. I find it a little odd that the first words out of Cruz's mouth every morning is I want cereal and hopefully Tatem will feel up to their morning routine of 2 or 10 bowls and Sesame street.
Cruz is really excited to be able to do things all by himself, and we are learning how to patiently let him. He recently got a trike and next to his lawnmower is his pride and joy. His next big desire is to get a bike hat so that "I be safe in case I fall". If we ever see cyclists with out a helmet he lets us and them know that they are not being safe and that they might fall. My thoughts: he needs a few concussions to slow him down a little.
I (Brendan) recently have started to get into cycling, I found a decent bike off of craigslist got a few "fancy outfits" and now see the world from a new perspective. Our business is doing well, food is on the table and the lights are on. It still consumes my almost every thought and sometimes fears but as joe dirt says it we "keep on keeping on".
HERE IS THE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!
We WELCOMED our newest addition to the family Beckham Samuel Marchant on June 18th 2010. Here are the stats then the story, 7.6 lbs, 18 inches. Head was 35 cm and according to the doc. its a good looking head. Dark brown hair, 10 fingers and 10 toes etc etc etc.
For this pregnancy we from the beginning wanted to have this birth scheduled. Tatem's doctor was ok with it, so for the past 2 months we have planned for Beckham to join us on the 18th. Tatem said that it was actually much harder knowing than not. For me it was so much better having a date and a time to plan around. I am a bit of a slave to the business (which I hope my Real Estate agents and clients appreciate) so we were able to have a full week of inspections and not the fear of being hours away or missing much business.
THE PLAY by PLAY:
Tatem's mom was able to come up on Thursday night so that we would be ready to be at the hospital at 6:00 am Friday morning. Thursday nights sleep was less than great, Tatem was really nervous and restless knowing what was in store for her in the morning. At 4:30 she decided that she had enough and was ready to get going. At 6:15 we got to the hospital and by 8:00 Tate was all hooked up and on the petocin drip. The doc told us to expect the birth sometime in the afternoon, but by 10:30, she was already at a 6 and 90 percent effaced. After a quick call to Wendy (who was at Costco with a full cart of food that some costco employee got to put away :) ) and dropping Cruz off to Julianna. She made it to the hospital with 20 min to spare. Beckham graced us with his presence at 11:31 and now the fun of 2 boys has begun.
I am sure that there will be many updates to this post... as Tatem reads it and corrects my typos, gramer and adds her thoughts so check back often.....
