Christmas on Thanksgiving Day

Since Sarah and her family moved to Colorado we celebrated Christmas with the family during Thanksgiving since they are unsure of the weather up north.

We gathered at my in-laws house in Chouteau, OK for a meal then we gave our gifts to Sarah and her family, we saved the gifts for mom and dad and same thing with them because we will have our Christmas with them during Christmas day.

And for some unknown reason I don't have good pictures of the rest of the gang.

Rachel 

Bethany 

I guess Quentin and Rachel had a good conversation here.

Quentin a little over a year old 

Lola and Lolo watching the big kids opened their gifts.

Sesame Street Live: Elmo Makes Music 2012

It was the first time for the family to get to watch a live show and it was the Sesame Street Live: Elmo Makes Music at Fort Smith Convention Center.  Around this time Beatrice is really hooked up with Sesame Street especially with Bert and Ernie, thanks to daddy for reading tons of Sesame Street books and he is good at using the character's voice while reading the book.

Beatrice get up close and personal with Zoe.  And I think daddy is afraid that they will boot us out since we going after the character, I didn't get to take a picture of her with Bert.

We are surprised when we found out I'm pregnant with our second child and this time it's a boy, and he is the first grandson on my husband's side of the family.  And we named him Quentin Matthew Clevenger, my hubby likes the name Quentin since he was still in Kindergarten and I remember vividly when we are still chatting online and talking about future and one of them is naming his son Quentin.

It was a planned C-Section since I had my daughter via C-Section. When we went to have it scheduled I like the idea of 11/11/11 but the nurse said that it would be too late to do it and I may end up going into labor just like my daughter and so the next date I was toying around is 11/1/11 and the nurse remind me that it would be a little bit early, since my older brother is born the 11/4 so I kinda like the idea but my OB-Gyne is not on call on that date so we look for another date and we settled on 11/3/11.

My in-laws came to our place to watch our kids.  My hubby and I went to the hospital around 5:00am and got all ready after a while my very good friend Whitney came by to see until they wheeled me to the OR and before I got to the door I got a glimpsed of Beatrice with her Lola and Lolo getting inside the hospital and every went smooth and the first thing I asked when they got the baby out is how big is he and the anesthesiologist told us that we have a toddler :-) and I said is he like 8 1/2 pounds baby and she said no more likely a 9 pounds baby so I was surprise since my OB-Gyne told me that I may just have an 8-81/2 pounds baby this time, and so we have Quentin on 11/3/11 at 7:30am, 9 pound 6 ounce and 21 1/2 inches long, delivered by the same doctor who delivered my oldest Dr. Robert Hix and delivered in Willow Creek Women's Hospital in Johnson, AR.

Quentin with his big sister Beatrice.

 Quentin @ 1 week old

One of our BEST Christmas present ever!

Quentin's arrival!

We went to the hospital on the 31st of October to have my labwork and paperworks done and have Nanay seen with her OB-Gyne since she had a contractions that night and so far you are not ready to come out so we waited for the date that we planned to have you on the 3rd of November.  

Lola Cathy and Lolo James came to the house on the 2nd of November to watch Beatrice while we are in the hospital.   Nanay can't hardly sleep that night so she is up by 4am and started getting ready because our check in time is 5:30am at Willow Creek Woman's Hospital in Johnson, AR. 

You were delivered via schedule C-Section since I deliver your Big Sister Beatrician through C-Section.  We arrived just barely 5:30AM and we check-in at the Peri-Op to have Nanay ready for the surgery schedule at 7:30AM.  After hooking me to all the apparatus needed the anesthesiologist came in to talk to me about the procedure and then Dr. Robert Hix who is going to deliver you came and talk more about the procedure and offer a prayer.  Then Whitney Lewis Nanay's good friend from her previous work at the Bank of Fayetteville came to visit and of course wanted to be the the first one to see you when you get out from the OR.

I was wheeled to the OR at 7:21AM and dada came in when they are already started working on me and you were born at 7:45AM and you were 9 pounds and 2 ounces, 21 inches long and 14 1/14 inches is your head circumference.  And dada took you to the nursery along with the nurses.  Whitney, Lolo, Lola and Beatrice were already waiting for you around the nursery room which they can see you through a glass window.  While Nanay is still being treated at the OR and watched in the Post-Op before she got to see you.

With Ninang Whitney

Daddy is always there

Quentin is getting ready to see the world!

And there he is!

Ninang Whitney, Manang Beatrice, Lola and Lolo watching Quentin in the nursery

Ninang Whitney is quiet a photographer.

The nurse is cleaning you up

more cleaning up...

Lolo, Lola and Beatrice are just waiting

And now Lola get to hold you and look at her face lit up.

And Manang got her fair share of her little brother.

And Lolo got a turn to hold his first grandson

And of course it's daddy's turn.

Surprise Baby Shower from my In-laws...

My hubby been wanting to go visit his folks in Chouteau, OK but the Saturday that he wanted to visit he had a bad weather it was sleeting and snowing the whole day, so we ended up going home last April 4th, it was a windy Saturday.

That day I had my Breastfeeding class from 8:00am till 10am and I had to dropped my hubby to the church before that so he can help clean up the church after the ice storm we had months ago and still there are limbs to be picked. After my class was over I went to the church and picked him up but have to wait a little cause they are still finishing up and then we head home and change and have lunch on the way since we are heading there pass lunchtime and I even called my MIL if she can cook us some lunch and she said How about Supper and I said YES on it and call my SIL if she is going to go to her parents house since we are going there and she said YES.

As soon we were there I saw balloons tied on the mailbox and lots of cars and when we got into the house then my hubby's family was there and they are giving me a surprise Baby Shower and indeed I was surprised since it should have the 28th of March but we had the bad weather that day and my MIL and SIL pulled it through without my knowledge. And I had a great time with them and got tons of baby stuffs that we need.

Here are some of the photos my hubby took.