Over the past few weeks we’ve had a tag-team of parents visit us.  My mom was here the first week Evan was born followed by Luke’s mom.  Peggy was here while we packed and moved and then my parents came back for a couple of weeks to visit and help us settle into our new home.  It seems like the weeks have flown by and I can’t believe it’s been 7 weeks already.  Well, this is the first week “on my own” as a mom of two. I’ve been fortunate to have lots of help these past few weeks, but now all of the visitors are gone and Luke’s back to work.  I’m trying to get back into a “normal” routine…which hopefully will close the gap in my blogging.  So to catch up, here’s a quick picture summary of the past few weeks:

Oh and the De Haan’s paid us a visit the first week Evan was born and before we moved.  By the way – plug for Cayden…he’s walking!  Yep he’s only 8months old!  Beat Alyssa by 8 months – geeze!  You go boy!

But as far as Evan goes.  He’s certainly a mommy’s boy and loves to be held.  He slept with my pink robe for a while because it was the only way to get him to sleep by himself at night.  So cute, hehe.

He’s had a couple of poopie blow outs which sucks and is totally gross, but I forgave him.  As far as the outdoor plumbing goes, it’s finally under control and rarely leaks when we take a peek under the hood.

He loves the bath and even likes taking baths with Alyssa.

The older he gets the lighter his skin color gets…the bottom picture was when he was only a week old and the top pictures are this last week.

He’s awake more and more these days which is fun to see him look around or give you a crazy stare.

He also has a really cute sad face a deep crying voice.

As for Alyssa. Well she’s coping pretty well with her new baby brother.  From the start she was very curious, but careful around him.  She loves to give him kisses, but Evan doesn’t always like to receive the kisses. :)

She is a year and a half now and with that comes all the lovely things of toddler hood.  Such as eating mommy’s Dorito’s, getting stuck in Evan’s chair, or pulling mommy’s clothes off the hangers…even though she knows she’s not supposed to do those things…especially without asking or saying “peas.” 

So when she gets in trouble she has started to give us something we call “The Look.”  It’s “the look” that I give her when she is doing something she is not supposed to be doing.  I have a hard time not laughing when she does this.

Her favorite past times include:

Playing in the rain with daddy; because if you don’t play in the rain you don’t get to play outside and she LOVES to be outside.

Drinking out of open top cups…especially if it’s not hers. “Deets peas!”(drink please)

Watching movies…especially Praise Baby or one of her sign video’s.  Which are thankfully not as annoying as some of the other video’s we have. 

Brushing her teeth…hopefully she’ll always like doing that.

Taking naps… just kidding.  Naps are not one of her favorite things right now, but she totally fell asleep on my bed this afternoon while I was at the computer.  I was emailing and thinking, right after I finish this I’m going to put Alyssa down for a nap and then I turned around and saw this.  It would be nice if all naps were that easy! 

Oh and two more things she loves:  Her grandparents and reading.  So when she gets a combination she is one happy camper!

Now that I’m a mom of two, I guess I need to go out and buy myself a pair of “Mom Jeans!” lol This video is soo funny!

                                      Luke, Sabrina, Alyssa & Evan Foust

                                                    October 5, 2008

Evan Michael Foust was born on August 20th at 8 something and he weighed like 8 lbs or something. He came out pretty quickly which is nice. I think he is a boy.  You know how it goes with the 2nd one, it's all just generally good. :) hehe

Here's how it all went down...

Contractions began while I was at Khol's with Alyssa, Rebeccah and Elliott.  So we finished up our shopping and went home.  I called my mom and told her that if she was going to make it for the birth she better hop on a plane.  So she changed her flight to arrive the next day at 1pm. 

Contractions started getting uncomfortable at about 3am that night, but I toughed it out and just laid there watching Luke sleep.  The next morning they kinda came and went and everyone was telling me to go for walks and such.  But seriously that was the last thing on my 'to do' list - going for a walk while in pain.  So I sat it out and waited for my mom to arrive. 

At about 5pm I decided that I'd tolerated enough pain at home and since my contractions were 5 minutes apart we departed for the hospital.  Well, it was just our luck it just so happens that 5pm on a work day means lots of traffic.  So where it might have normally taken us 10 minutes to get to the hospital it took us 45 minutes.  So that kinda sucked, but I'm not sure what sucked more the traffic or Luke's driving! :) hehe  Both actually because it just wasn't that smooth of a ride in stop and go traffic in a stick shift car.  We left my car behind so that my mom could join us later on.

The hospital requests that you call ahead when you are on your way so when we arrived they had our room all ready to go.  We got settled in and met up with our midwife (the hospital kind) and when she checked me I was 7 centimeters.  (Good news- for those of you who aren't up on your birthing jargon). 

Our midwife was really nice.  She was with us almost the entire time from when we arrived to after Evan was born.  She just sat in the rocking chair next to my bed and chatted with us until it was action time and then she delivered our baby.

Everyone kept commenting about how well I looked and they basically kept asking me if I was sure I was in pain!  Apparently I'm not good at grimacing or moaning in pain.  Here is a picture of me right before I got my epidural.

So the epidural man came and then I really did feel as happy as I look in this picture.  Then about a half an hour and four pushes later Evan arrived. 

My mom was excited because she was able to be there for his birth.  I was really nice that Rebeccah was still in town to watch Alyssa for us so that my mom could be with us.  Then they switched off so that Rebeccah could come visit for a while.

The nice thing about this hospital was that your baby stays with you the entire time.  So I was able to watch his bath and everything.  This picture of him during his bath is hilarious!  He's like a little turtle with that long neck all stretched out. :) 

They had Luke help with the foot prints, which was cool.  My mom had already left by now, so I took this picture from my bed. :)

Evan was sad and crying after his shot, so Luke talked to him and made him feel better. :)

                     Evan Michael Foust

Born August 20, 2008 at 8:47pm

Weighing 8 pounds (exactly) and 21 inches long

He has dark brown hair and looked a lot like Alyssa when he was first born.

Alyssa - Born April 28, 2007 at 8:41am weighed 8 pounds 4 ounces and was 20 inches long

I tried really hard to "push" for Evan to be born at 8:41pm!  I almost made it. :) I was also hoping he might be born on the 28th, but that didn't happen either.