This book here has been my saving grace! It has saved my sanity and given me back my sleep! Gage was such a bad sleeper at night - he would wake up in the middle of the night and would be awake for 3-4 hours at a time, or he would literally be up every hour! It was killing me, and I was desperate for anything, so my neighbor let me borrow this from her, and it has honestly made a world of difference. He now only wakes up once at night and sleeps in until 9. There are some things in it that I don't completly agree with, but you just kind of figure out how rigid you want to be with it. Anyway, I had to blog about it because I am so excited not to be such a zombie all day. If there are any moms out there with newborns, and are dying for sleep, it can't hurt to read it!
On another note, Gage is growing and getting so chubby and cute! He is already over 11 pounds, I can't believe how fast they change.
Is this a weird picture? I know, but I love his little chubby legs. They were so skinny when he was born, we thought he would just have Matt legs, but they are chunking right up!
I was trying to get a picture of Ella and her hair (we can actually put barettes in it now!), but this was all she would give me! She is impossible to get a good picture of
My sweet little family (well, I guess this is a cute picture of Ella, probably the one and only I have right now!)
Ella thinks that all the babies things are hers now - she tries to get in his carseat and swing too - she's small, but not that small! 
He finally came yesterday around 5:00 at night - we're so happy he's here and healthy. The delivery was such a different experience than with Ella, but he is so sweet and I can't believe how much I have fallen in love with him already. We came to the hospital around 8 in the morning, and was started on the pitocin at 9. I was stuck at a 4 forever, and the nurses kept calling my doctor to come and break my water because they knew I would go fast once he did, but for some reason he never showed up. Around 3:00 the nurse was checking me again and accidently broke my water, and then 2 hours later he was born. It was so crazy because I got my epidural early in the day becuase they thought the doctor would be there to break my water, but because I didn't actually go into hard labor until around 3, it wore off and I started feeling everything. They kept upping the dosage, but nothing really worked again, and I ended up delivering him feeling pretty much it all. I honestly don't know how people do the natural thing willingly, it was not a fun experience! Anyway, its over, and he is healthy and the sweetest little thing, so all is well now!
We both look so swollen and so tired!
Right after he was born - he looks so much like Ella did when she was a newborn, its crazy!
I was so excited for this one to come and see us, but this is what she did the entire time! She didn't really want anything to do with me or Gage, she just sat in this chair and gave me the stink eye! It made me sad, but she did give me a big kiss before she left, so hopefully she'll get over it fast.
Matt and his little guy. He has been so cute and excited to be with him. He is such a good dad.
She loved the sparklers
Dad had to hold her at first, not quite sure what to think of them! 
A little side note, Ella's new thing is to put my shoes on, only my heels, and walk around the house in them. I don't know how she walks in those heels, but she loves to wear "mommy's shoes". So stinkin cute!
Not sure why I'm posting this - I'm already regretting it. I think my nose seriously gets bigger with each pregnancy.
One of the first days we were in Mexico. Can't you tell by how white we still are:)
Matt taking a little nap in the hammock. Oh, we loved the hammocks! They were all over our resort, and we ended up in them half of the day. Only problem was I had a little tough time getting myself out of them!
The family enjoying a family sized hammock!
The girls posing with a couple of the resort parrots
Matt and I at Chichen Itza. Oh, this place was quite an experience! I almost fainted a couple times from heat exhaustion it was so hot and humid. People kept looking at me like 'what it this crazy pregnant girl doing out here in this heat!' I have decided to stay inside my house with the a/c blasting the rest of my pregnancy!
A water hole down in the ground we went swimming in. You can't really tell, but it was so pretty and the water was so clear!
Crazy Dave! He traded his shoes for this Mexican mask to a kid selling them on the streets! We tried to tell him it wasn't cool enough to have to go around the rest of the day with no shoes!
In front of the church we went to on Sunday in Playa del Carmen. It was really cool to go to church in a different country and speaking a different language. Even though we couldn't understand much, it was awesome to see how grateful and dedicated the members were there. You could feel it just by being there.
And finally, Ella in her Mexico dress we brought back for her. She seemed so much older when we got home! She was talking so much more and saying the funniest things - I think she learned a lot from her cousins she was staying with! I know it was only a week, but it seemed like longer to me!
I'm so glad to be home with my little stinker! I missed her so much!
