Christmas 2010 was a blast! We had a very simple day. We opened all the presents and played until it was time to go to the Alva’s and celebrate Christmas with some other families that don’t have any family around. It was so nice. It helps keep your mind off of missing the family gatherings that you know your family is doing. That is the only hard part of living here in Texas. I miss my family. Christmas this year was special to me. I can’t believe that we have Adam. He is such a little miracle. I know now that our little family is complete. He is such a good baby too. He doesn’t sleep well, but he is still a very calm baby. Most days that is. Of course he has his moments. It’s so cute watching the other boys bond with him. They all love him so much. I just love this little family I have been given.
Here is a lot of pictures that were taken on Christmas:
The boys getting ready to see what Santa brought!!
They were very happy.
Adam even loved the toys he got. He just sat in my lap and played with them:-)
Hudson loved his candy cane bone. At first he didn’t know where to begin chewing!
The mess of Christmas!
Adam just couldn’t hang in there. He fell asleep in the mess. It was so cute.
On to the Alva’s. They got an xbox kinect, so that is what the boys and big boys wanted to play. It was fun to watch.
Alexis and Andrea. Two awesome friends of mine!!
Randy and Paul playing the kinect.
Cameron and Keaton hanging. I think Cameron was more interested in the cookie that Keaton was eating. Cute!
The lovely Taegan!
Mommy and Cam man!
Ben trying out the Kinect!
Even Cameron gave it a try and loved it!
Another awesome friend of mine, Cherise. Love her!
When the boys weren’t playing on the Kinect or with the dart guns, you can find them on the Wii.
Party at the Alva’s wouldn’t be a party without a little card game competition! Of course they are the fastest and win. It is still fun to play though:-)
So 6 years ago on December 16th our lives completely changed. For the better of course. Cameron was the best pregnancy and birth of all of my kids. He was perfect. I remember saying that something was different about him when he was born. Everyone just said that he looks different because he was just born. The next morning is when the pediatrician came in to explain what she found. I was all alone. Randy was at home with the kids and his mom. It was ok though. I wasn’t freaked out or worried. All I wanted to know was what should I do now. I am glad I didn’t know when I was pregnant. I think my imagination would have ran wild. So now 6 years later I am still in love with this little angel. Even though sometimes I could really use a break from him. He is at a hard age right now. We are still potty training and still trying to get him to stop sucking his thumb. It’s hard to break a habit when he come out doing this:
Seriously I should have known it would be a hard habit to break. He was the BEST baby too. Such an angel. 6 years later and I still love him like I did then. He sure brings some fun in the family. He started kindergarten this year. Oh it has been a little struggle, but fun. I really think he likes it. He is trying his hardest.
For his birthday we went to Abuelos for dinner with our friends the Brown’s. Then we came back home to open presents. He was so much fun this year. He loved all his gifts. It’s been fun this year and last to celebrate his birthday at school. Both years now the class had their Christmas party the same day. Cameron thinks that that was his birthday party. Hopefully next year will be the same. Who knows! Here are a few pics to highlight it all:
Randy being a BIG goof to entertain us while I labor.
Lisa being so comforting to me.
This picture reminds me of one when I was in the hospital with cancer. I think I would take this scene over that one any day.
Danielle helping cool me off. Man you get really hot towards the end.
Baby is coming…hurry get dressed! Randy has always made his pose like this.
Lisa and my mom laughing. They so look like sisters:-)
The doctor and nurse getting ready!
This picture was taken right as he was born. I just love it.
This is when I said “Holy BIG baby”
I just couldn’t believe how long his toes are.
Adam Malachi Gibbons born September 16 2010 weighing 9lbs. and was 20 1/2 inches long.
I just LOVE his ears!
Grammy had to make sure he looks perfect!
Holding daddy’s finger. I love it!
We were SO excited to get pregnant this year. I couldn’t believe it was possible, but it was. The year went on and the bigger I got. I was so happy to find out that we were having another boy. The only hard thing was finding a name for this one. I wanted it to be special. He was our miracle baby for sure. So the middle name of Malachi was easy. The first name took weeks. I liked Jesse and Randy liked all these weird names. Then one day he said Adam. Hmmm we don’t know of too many Adam’s. So Adam Malachi Gibbons it was. He totally is an Adam too.
Towards the end of the pregnancy I got huge. Bigger than any of the others. I also had lots of pre labor going on. It was bugging me. Adam just didn’t want to come, but I did! I ended up getting induced at 39 weeks. September 16th was the day. It was neat to walk in the hospital smiling and getting ready to have a baby. This was my first induction so I wasn’t sure what to expect. All I knew was that after the water was broken I wanted to epidural so I wouldn’t feel too much pain. AT 8am the water was broken and around 9am I was talking to the anesthesiologist about my epidural. Unfortunately the head anesthesiologist wanted to talk. She said that I was not a good candidate for an epidural due to where my cancer was. Dumb cancer. Apparently because we aren’t sure where the nerve endings ended up, the possibility of permanent paralysis was high. She said 85% chance. If I had to have a c-section she would knock me out too. It was not a good thing. So now that I had this information….well of course I didn’t want to get one. But what now. I came in preparing for an easy birth and now scared of what is to come. I didn’t take any breathing classes or anything. I wish I had. Luckily my friend Danielle was coming to photograph the birth. She has experience with the natural child birth. She was so amazing in helping me stay focused. She gave me a quick run down on the breathing and that was it! I had control. It was fun to have my mom and my 2 friends Danielle and Lisa there to help me stay focused. Unfortunately the birth was a little longer than I wanted. The hard labor was about 3 hours long. It was 3 hours too long for me. I was so tired at the end. I had tried all different positions to help take some of the weight and pressure off. Finally it was time for him to come. He stuck to my record of 1 contraction and 3 pushes and he was born!! That was the same for all my kiddos now. When the doctor held him up…”Holy BIG baby” was all I could say. He was huge!! All my other babies were 7lbs.
They had me hold him to help warm him. I loved it. I still couldn’t believe I had another baby. Especially after all I had been through. I kept checking him out to make sure he was all ok. I was on some bad medicine at the beginning and wasn’t sure if it hurt him or not. It didn’t. He was perfect. Just perfect. At first he looked like he might be have brown hair. It was that way for the first week and then it started to get lighter. He has blue eyes too. He is yummy.
Adam came home to a house full of people that LOVE him. Of course the sleepless nights were hard to adjust too. It had been almost 6 years since we had a newborn in our home. Sometimes I wonder what were we thinking??!! But I know Adam is suppose to be here. I always wanted my 4 kids and now I have them. It feels so good. Adam is a really good baby. I just love it when he smiles. He loves his brothers too.
All in all…I survived the birth. Thank you mom for taking me to all those fun restaurants before to help satisfy my cravings at the end. Oh man did we eat good. She even gave me a massage at the mall to help. Oh if I can only get my hands on that picture! We had fun trying to get me to contract. Nothing worked. It just made us tired and sore. Adam was just too comfy inside. It was nice to spend the time with my mom. The kids loved it too.
