Let's rewind a little...or maybe a lot! ZACHARY RYAN

I'm obviously not going to through EVERY little thing that has happened since my last post. But I will definitely be going over the important stuff. So lets start with the most important thing that had happened (minus that last "testing" post) The birth of our 2nd son Zachary Ryan.  So be prepared for LOTS OF PICTURES in this post!

I had an unplanned C-section with Luke so this time around I had a planned C-section.  I was a little nervous because the first time around with Luke I had so many complications. BUT this time around I switched doctors and went to the doctors I used to work with.  We had a scheduled appointment for August 1st...funny little side note. The Giants were running this contest called the World Championship Baby. It was a contest to see who would become the World Championship Baby which basically means the baby born 9 months from Nov. 1st 2010 which means Aug. 1st. So we asked Dr. Sapan if she could do it then and she was nice enough to do it on Aug. 1st. We didn't win but it was cool to say we tried ;-) We even got this cool onesie:

This was of course when Zach was 2 months old.

So back to Zachary's birth story, I had to be at the hospital at 5am on Aug. 1st. The c-section was supposed to be done at around 7:30am.  Here I am with my last pregnant picture with Zach right before going to the hospital:

We got there and they checked us in and then we sat in our room getting ready for them to call us in. We started a little late and got into the operating room around 8:15ish.  Here I am waiting...

They brought me in first with my nurse and got me prepped and gave me a spinal. I was really scared and was a little sad b/c David wasn't in there (he was getting all his stuff) while they gave me the spinal but my nurse and the anesthesiologist were AWESOME. Soon I was laying on the bed and just waiting, David came in and they did the touch/feeling test and I wasn't feeling anything. Then Dr. Sapan came in and I felt a little more comfortable knowing a friend and someone I trusted was doing my C-section.  She got started and I was holding David's hand...I felt some tugging and pulling but no pain whatsoever.  Then after what seemed like just a couple minutes Dr.Sapan said "David look up". I was thinking "no way can it be time already! oh my gosh I'm about to meet my baby!!!" David says he saw her pull baby Zach out of me and then I heard him cry and I got all emotional.  It all happened so fast! Then she was about to close me up but she had some stuff to fix from my last C-section with Luke. So David went  and took pictures of Zach while he was getting all cleaned and measured and I got fixed up.  It all really only took about 30-45 minutes and Zachary Ryan entered into our family at 7lbs 4oz and 19 inches tall!  Here are some shots Daddy David got: 

A few seconds old!

Meeting Zachary Ryan for the first time

Zachary's first bath

We stayed at the hospital for 2 days and went home on my 29th birthday. While we were at the hospital we had lots of visitors but the most important visitor was our first visitor...BIG BROTHER LUKE! 

Lukey was so gentle with his baby brother.

When Zachary was born I thought he looked EXTREMELY different than Luke when he was born.  He was more...for lack of a better word...white! LOL Here is a fun picture showing the two of them a few hours born!

It was so nice to have all our family come visit us. We are very lucky and blessed =)

We went home and were greeted with my family! They all came to celebrate my 29th birthday with me. Beth even made me my favorite chocolate cake, Yummy!!!!

Zachary Ryan on our way home...LOOK HOW SMALL HE WAS!!!!

Zachary and Connor 2 weeks apart

Happy Birthday to me!

The next day we received some flowers from David's Squadron, 301st. That was so nice of them and such a nice surprise!

Then of course the next day we had more cake! It was Daddy David's 29th birthday! And Jassy got to meet Zachary.

Testing

Today was Zach's 2 months appointment. He was all smiles before his shots and then passed out afterwards. But we found out he is officially a fattie! He measured in at 14lbs 14.5oz!!!!

29 weeks and a little survey

About the mommy:
Name: Katrina
Age: 28
Is this the first child?: Nope! This is Baby #2!

About the daddy:
Name: David
Age: 28
Is this the first child?: #2 for David too =)

Finding out:
What day did you find out you were pregnant?: December 9th

How did you feel when you found out?: Surprised...not because we didn't want another, but b/c we had JUST started trying and I didn't think it would be so quick!

Who was with you?: no one

How did the daddy react?: Excited.  (See previous blog post to see how I told him the news)

Telling the grandparents:
How did you parents react?: They were excited! We told them on Christmas morning. They received 2 secret santa presents that they didn't know who they came from.  One was from Beth and the other was from me...it just said Grandbaby #6 and Grandbaby #7.  They were very surprised, especially after opening the first one! LOL

How did his parents react?: Very excited as well! We told them on Christmas Day after our family party.  

About the pregnancy:
When is your due date?: August 10th
How far along are you right now?: 29 weeks and 2 days
Have you had an ultra sound?: Yes! 
Have you heard the heartbeat?: yup!
Sex of the baby: BOY
What do you want. Boy or Girl?: I wanted a girl but am VERY happy that Luke will have a playmate he can grow up with. David wanted a boy.
Do you know what you are having now?: Boy oh BOY do we!
Are you happy with what you are having?: Definitely. 

About the birth:
Who is going to be with you?: Most likely just David since I'm having a C-section again.
Are you going to video tape it?:I don't think so
Natural or medicated?: Give me drugs~C-section!!

Do you think you will have a c-section?: YES

Do you think you will cry when you first hold your baby?: Depends on how the C-sec goes...

Do you know what you will say to the baby when you first hold it?: Hi baby...I'm your mommy (something like that)

Are you scared about the labor?: not anymore


Names:
Do you have a name picked out?: We have a few.. but are still going back and forth..

Is your baby going to be named after anyone?: not really

Did the daddy help pick the name?: Yes!


Other random questions:
Where was your baby conceived?: LOL! Really? at home..

Have you felt the baby move?: YES! More and more each day!

What was your first symptom?: The plus sign on the pregnancy test I took.

Will you have godparents?: yes

Who will be the god mommy?: 

Who will be the god daddy?:

What is the baby's room theme?: Thinking we are going to go with Airplanes again and recycle Luke's stuff. Luke will be getting to pick out his theme for his "big boy room"

Are you ready to be a mommy?:yes! I already am...I am a little scared to be a mommy of 2 BOYS though!!!

What do you think the baby will be a "daddys girl/boy" or a "mommys girl/boy"?: I don't know...another mommy's boy! LOL

And since there has been no post on here of a belly shot since like 15 weeks...here is a new one from today!

Been busy....Baby news!!! =D

We are now in May almost 6 months has passed since Luke started walking.  That change wasn't the only thing happening for us here at the Berry household!  A couple weeks later from that last post I found out I was pregnant with baby #2!!!! I found out when David was away on a trip...so to tell him I made a iron-on onesie for Luke to wear that said "This fat boy is going to be a BIG BROTHER".

When he came home I asked him to change Luke out of his PJ's into his clothes for the day...I have a little video of what happens next:

He was surprised and really happy! Here is one of my first belly shots taken at 16 weeks 5 days!

 So we will soon be a family of 4 and I will still be outnumbered! We found out in March that we are having another baby boy!!! We had a little gender reveal party to tell the family.  Our theme was "BlueBerry or PinkBerry?" Here are some of the pics!

Lukey in his Big Brother shirt

This pregnancy has been going by REALLY fast! I think it's because I have Luke to keep me occupied.  I am now 26 weeks 5 days! I will be taking my glucose test this week and then I will be 28 weeks next week, where does the time go!?

On his own two feet...

Since I'm on a roll with this blogging thing now...I felt like writing about Luke walking!  It's funny how once you have kids its little things that really make your day.  You start to rememer months by milestones that they have accomplished and keep looking forward to the days where they will hit that next milestone!  Kids are definitely amazing...take Luke for example.  I had been saying for soooo long now that he was going to get up and walk since he was 10 months old.  Here we are 3 months later, past his 1st birthday and he STILL wasn't walking.  But then on Thanksgiving day of all days he got up and took a couple steps and then took some more!  2 days later he was walking around the store with his cousin Nick.  It just amazes me how fast they can pick things up and how fast they learn.  Who knows what will be next on the road of milestones for us...

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A year gone by....

I can't believe its already been a year (well technically 13 months) since we have been blessed with a bouncing baby boy in our lives.  We planned a big 1st birthday for him which was supposed to take place at a real Hanger in Vacaviile, but plans fell through and unfortunately we couldn't have it there...so instead the 100 people we invited had to be "diverted" to our house!  Good thing we bought a bigger house! LOL  His birthday theme was airplanes of course. 

Since there was going to be soooo many people we decided to get a tent for the backyard so people can mingle out there too...unfortunately that was the weekend the weather decided to act up and it was raining the WHOLE day =( Also that night Luke woke up with a 103.5 degree temperature!!! This was his first time really getting sick and gave him meds and his temp when down, but he still didn't feel very good at his birthday party...Here is the setup of things before everyone arrived. 

"Clouds" in the "sky"

Luke's Month Clouds

I had such a great time doing it all even though it was a lot of work! thanks to all my helpers Beth, Gi, Jassy, David and James =) And because we had so many awesome decorations here are the close ups!

Jassy's AWESOME cake!

Gi and James' airplane fruit basket

Luke's Airplane (by Daddy)

And everyone recieved a Pilot's License as part of thei favors. Here is Luke's Great Grandad showing eveyrone how it's done!

blowing out his cake! He got a little overwhelmed when everyone was singing to him so we had to turn him around so he wasn't facing the big crowd

 

To everyone that came, and even to those who couldn't make it, thank you for helping us celebrate Luke's first birthday!!! We hope you all had a great time! Until next year....

Present time

Luke's First Year at OneTrueMedia.com

Since I am sooo far behind in my blogging this year I decided to put this video up of Luke's first year. Now you can have the condensed version =) Hope you enjoy!

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