Meeting Ander

Tobin LOVES Ander.

Tobin giving Ander a hug. The cutest thing ever.

Sweetness

Curious Corwin

More Sweetness

Curious Tobin

Grandma/Tobin Love

A little more Corwin Love

Our Sweet Little Man

And then there were 3

Meet Ander Elijah. Ander "Strong and Courageous", Elijah "God is my Lord". We thought we needed a strong and courageous to make it in the world of two older brothers. Ander was born on Dec. 27th, his due date, with quite a bit of help. He was 8 lbs 1 oz and 20 1/2 inches long. Ander has proven that all births are unique. He has quite the birth story. I was supposed to be induced on Dec. 28th(the day after my due date). I went in for my last dr. apt to have a non-stress test and an ultra sound. When they did the non-stress test at 9:30am they found that Ander's heart rate was high. They sent me to the Women's Evaluation Unit and observed the baby's heart rate for a couple of hours. At that time I wasn't dialated at all. My Dr. came to see me and suggested I just stay and get the induction going. OOPS!!! We had nothing packed. Rob ran home to get our things-we were so not prepared. Little did we know that we really weren't prepared for what was to come. They broke my water when Rob returned(around 1pm). When they broke my water little Ander's hand slid above his head. At that time they said I would have to have a c-section if his hand did not slide back into position. A lot of people tried to reposition the baby but no such luck. When I was at 8cm my dr. asked me to start pushing to see if Ander's hand would move back into position but no such luck. After I pushed a couple of times I was rushed into surgery. Ander was born at 10:59pm. Having a c-section was so hard. I had the shakes so bad, through the whole surgery. I wasn't even able to hold Ander after he was born because I was shaking so much. Everything went well and all is healthy. The little stinker probably would have been my easiest delivery. He was my smallest and by far the smallest head of all 3 of the boys. We are blessed.

Proud Papa

Our sweet littlest man

It looked like Christmas along time ago

Ok, Ok we're finally getting the hang of things around here. Time to get this show up and running again. Things have been a little crazy around the Phillip's house. A little bit of crazy and a little bit of fantastic. If you haven't heard already we have added a new little one to our household-more about that later. Christmas was a little bit different this year. We are usually traveling to family but this year family came to us. My due date was Dec. 27th so there was no traveling for this mommy to be. We had a great time decorating our house and getting ready for Christmas.

November Celebrations

November is a month for being thankful. I am thankful for the two older men in my life. Rob turned 35 years old on the 20th and Tobin turned 3 years old. We had a lot of celebrating to do. This is one excited boy. He pulled his pants up as high as he could and danced around the house with excitement. Rob was excited but not quite this excited.

Tobin LOVED his new train table.

Gram and Poppie got Tobin a great construction site that even has a remote control dump truck.

Tobin and his best friend at one of his Birthday parties.

Our friend Carrie got a Thomas train set for Tobin.

Both Tobin and Corwin enjoyed the Birthday cake.

Just look how excited He is.

The boys enjoyed a little play time with Poppa and a box.

Corwin loves the kitty at Grandma and Pappa's

Grandma and Pappa's gift of a tool bench.

Grandma took the boys to "Le Bounce" and they wanted to drive the cars and push the buttons in the arcade rather than bounce.

October

This is the pumpkin growing inside of me. We are at 32 weeks.


We took a trip to the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkin.

Tobin picked all of the green pumpkins-don't know????

Corwin thought long and hard about what pumpkin he wanted. :)

This is the one!!!!!


Tobin has a thing for tractors.


We found the perfect pumpkin.


Now it's time to disect the pumpkin.





Our recycled "Cat in the Hat" costume. Oddly enough we had a black kitten at our house the entire Halloween day. Tobin named him Happy. He also thinks we should name our new baby boy "Happy"


Our little fireman. He was supposed to sit in the wagon but he pulled the wagon the entire time.


Our little Cat in the Hat sleep walking. Corwin was sooooooo tired.