First set of professional pictures

My mom has been here for a week and we decided to take some pictures of Tayson. My mom has a really nice camera and we like to mess around with it and try to get some good pictures. I am super happy with his pictures! We tried to do Brynlee's when she was a baby but they didn't turn out as cute. I really, really like his pictures and I am having a hard time picking out a picture to use for his birth announcement.

More pictures

Since my mom has been here she has been making all of us some cute stuff. She made Kamryn this cute tu tu for dance, and she loves to wear it around the house. It is so fluffy and cute on her and she feels like a princes in it. Kamryn has really enjoyed having a baby around the house. She is wanting to hold him, and kiss him and bug the heck out of the poor little guy.
Brynlee is also very interested in the baby and LOVES to kiss him and hug him.
Daddies little guy! Taylor is so excited to have a boy around the house.
Kamryn loves to help me out with all the fun stuff that comes with having a baby. She liked helping out with bath time.
He has so much dark hair and when it's wet it curls a little bit. It's so cute!
This is the first picture we have gotten with his eyes open. He is always sleeping so we don't get to see him with his eyes open very often and we just happened to catch a picture of it.

Baby is here

WARNING.........I am totally aloud to look like crap considering I am having a baby. So beware! Here is my belly the day I had Tayson. I felt alot bigger than I looked.
We went into the hospital at 6:00 a.m. in the morning and it was off to a rough start for me. They couldn't get the I.V. into my veins and after 3 tries they finally had to put warm packs on my arm to get the blood flowing again. I thought I looked pretty funny with these packs on my arm. Finally after the 4th try they got the I.V. in and things got rolling.
The girls came to visit me and they were pretty excited to meet baby brother. Unfortunately he wasn't ready to come and play. But they enjoyed being by mom.
At about 1:45 p.m. the nurse checked to see how far dialated I was and I was at a 5. Things were moving at a medium pace so Taylor decided to go get something to eat. At 2:20 p.m. the nurse was getting a little worried because the babies heart rate had been dropping and getting worse with every contraction. The chord was wrapped around his neck and they were worried it was getting to tight. So she checked again to see what progress had been made, and I happened to be at a 9 and the head was starting to come out. I was SHOCKED that I had made that much progress in a half hour. I was nervous too cause Taylor wasn't back from getting lunch yet. Luckily he got back in time and decided to take one last picture before Tayson arrived.

Here he is:

Tayson Levi North

8 lbs. 3 oz.

20 1/2 inches long

Grandma Reitano and Kamryn with Tayson. My mom came up to watch the girls for me while I was in the hospital and they came over as soon as they could to see the baby. She had all the girls in matching clothes and they looked so cute! She even got Brynlee's hair into pigtails and she looked soooo cute! For those of you who don't know who that little brunette is, it happens to be my little sister who is Kamryn's age.
Brynlee was sooooo excited to see baby brother! She couldn't get enough of him!
Kisses for the baby.

First bath. His mouth is always wide open and his bottom lip sinks in. It's so funny!
He has alot of dark hair. He should share some with Brynlee since she doesn't have any. I think that he has a birthmark on the back of his head too. That little round spot looks like a birthmark to me.
Look at that pouty lip. His bottom lip always sinks into his mouth. We can't quite figure out who he looks like.
And we finally get to go home! Yay! He looks so tiny in his carseat. Kamryn was 6 lbs. 9 oz. and Brynlee was 6 lbs. 11 oz. so I was SHOCKED to hear that Tayson was 8 lbs. 3 oz. I felt so big and uncomfortable this pregnancy, but I never would have guessed that he was that big. I am pretty happy that he is big and I hope that I finally get a chubby baby. My girls were so little and I have always wanted a chubby baby. Maybe I will get my wish this time. I feel really good and I am happy to be able to move and bend and feel normal again. But the best part of it all is being able to hold my new baby and to hold my girls again. I missed being able to pick my girls up and hold them, read stories, play on the ground etc... Both me and the baby are doing good and we will post some more pictures later.

Hungry Brynlee

I was blow drying my hair the other day and couldn't hear Brynlee running around the house so I went to go check on her and this is what I found. She climbed up onto Kamryn's chair and finished off the cereal that Kamryn didn't eat. Brynlee had already eaten all of her cereal and a banana and I guess didn't get enough cause she wanted some of Kamryn's too. Funny girl!

A few events

Brynlee has pretty much mastered climbing onto everything in our house, except for the changing table......until now. She has finally figured out how to climb onto the changing table and it is her new favorite place to be. I love this picture of her! She has really liked dressing up with Kamryn lately and the two of them twirl around the house and play. It is so cute!
Taylor LOVES Brynlee's smile! He is always saying how cute her smile is and that he loves how she smiles so big that her teeth show. I was playing with her the other day and made her laugh and smile way hard and so he took this picture of her. Kamryn has decided that she likes the potty! I tried training her awhile ago but got to sick with this pregnancy and couldn't keep up with her, and she has now decided that she wants to do it by herself. Taylor and I were downstairs for a minute and came upstairs and found that Kamryn had taken her diaper off, went potty, put her pants on inside out and backwards with no panties on. It was hilarious! She is in and out of the bathroom a hundred times during the day now. She is doing really well with it, I am just not ready to train her yet with this new little baby coming. It's hard to see, but if you look close you will see that the tag on her pants is in the front.

I found her in the bathroom undressing herself again to go potty!

She really must think that she is a big girl now, because she won't let Taylor or I go into the bathroom and help her. As soon as we come in she says "Go away, go watch your show"! It's pretty funny. She does really good, she puts her seat on the toilet, gets on the toilet and goes potty. But I have to go in and help wash her hands cause she is to short to reach the faucet (even with the stool). Other than that she is pretty much doing it by herself. Like I said, I just don't think I am ready to do all this with the new baby. I wish she would wait a couple months.

Things are looking up!

After a horrible week last week things are looking better! We got an email from the dean of the school saying that he is giving Taylor his scholarship back. He felt really bad about the situation and didn't think that it was fair and decided to give it back. We are soooooo happy and pleased with the way the dean has taken care of things! Now that we have Taylor's car back, his clubs and the scholarship all we need is his computer back. It would make for an even better week to get his computer back. We will make sure to update you all with what is going on.

Hallelujah!!!!!!

Ok........so this week has been the worst week for us!!!!! It started off with Taylor getting his grades and he got a 2.8 and kept his scholarship. YAY! Well the next day we got an email saying that the curve was set to high and that everybody's grades would be changing. We waited, and got grades again and his grade point average was a 2.76. He has to have a 2.75 to keep the scholarship and he BARELY made it. Well......the next day we get another email that says one of the teachers forgot to put in last semesters grades in and so everyone in this teacher's class, their grades will change again. Taylor just so happened to be in this one class and his grade point average went down to a 2.72. YOU'RE KIDDING! So we lose the scholarship and we are furious because if they can change grades on us that many times, who is to say that his grade point average right now is even correct. So we emailed the dean of the school and he is checking into the situation and he said that he will email us back with an answer. I am pissed because this teacher had a certain time and date that grades had to be put in and she didn't do it and it shouldn't be our fault for her mistake! I feel even worse for Taylor because he worked so hard and studied late, got sick, stressed, and gave it his all and sometimes it doesn't work in your favor. He couldn't have tried any harder! A 2.75 may sound easy but in Law School it is totally different.
Don't worry.......our week gets worse!!!! So on Tuesday I called Taylor and asked if he could meet me at wal-mart after class to help me with the girls while I got groceries. After we are all done he walks me to my car, loads the girls in and starts looking for his car. I take off and get back to our house and Taylor calls me and says that he can't find his car and to come pick him up. So I get back to wal-mart and we drive around the parking lot looking for his car. It's nowhere to be found so we call the cops and tell them that our car has been stolen. And of course the cop that comes to help us doesn't really even care and made it sound like it was no big deal. In Taylor's car he had his wallet, brand new golf clubs, sports gear, and his back pack with his school laptop in it (the laptop cost us 2,000 bucks). Needless to say we felt horrible about all the money we lost in the scholarship and all the money we lost with the car and his belongings. The next day we get a phone call from his school saying that someone had found his wallet. Some man was on a walk and happened to come across Taylor's wallet in the street and saw his student i.d. and called the school to tell them to have Taylor come pick it up. We pick up the wallet and head to wal-mart to get a few things and Taylor notices that the car that was next to his is still in the parking lot in the same spot. He kept saying to himself the day that his car got stolen, that he couldn't believe that they didn't take this car that was next to his because the windows were open. Things were kinda fishy and so we called the cops and come to find out, that car was stolen as well and they hopped from that car into Taylor's car. WEIRD! So anywho, Friday we get a phone call from the police saying that they had found our car and to go pick it up. GREAT NEWS, RIGHT? Well we go pick it up and the people who towed it charged us 260 bucks to pick it up. Aaaahhhhh! As we are going through his car we find that they had left his golf clubs and his sports gear in the car. We were pretty happy that his clubs were still there cause we thought for sure they were gonna be gone! Unfortunately they took cash out of Taylor's wallet, stole his c.d. player, sirius radio, and his back pack with the laptop and his book for this semester. But they were curtious enough to leave us a pack of smokes and a basket of fresh clean laundry folded up for us (ha ha ha). I guess they went on a joy ride in his car and decided to head to the laundromat and do some laundry. WEIRD! We are happy to have his car, wallet and golf clubs back (I know you are probably thinking....Golf clubs, who cares? Well they are brand new and they cost 500 bucks. Don't let your husbands start golfing...it's an expensive habit). There have been some minor things happen as well this week but these are the two major things that had us going crazy for awhile! I hope you all learned your lesson today, and to take EVERYTHING out of your cars and just because your car is locked doesn't mean it can't be stolen! We are grateful for what we have and grateful to have his car back and hope things start looking better from now on.