Arleigh Gets Her Ruby Reds

July7

Auntie Betsy bought Arleigh some Ruby Red slippers. Arleigh and Betsy's favorite movie is Wizard of Oz so this was so special to both of them!

On the Bilibed

July 7

Jeramie and I had a hard time keeping him on the bed. It's a suitcase size hard plastic box with lights. Arleigh also felt bad for him having to just lay on the bed. I looked over and she had put a bunny next to him and covered him with her "white " blanket. She loves that blanket and for her to share it was so wonderful. She said he needed it! How sweet! She took some pictures of him!

Little Brother and Little Hands

July 5

Arleigh came home from the lake, I think she got a little home sick. She rode home with Uncle Jimmy and was excited to see her brother at home. She loves to be by him and tries to touch him all the time. It is amazing how big her little hands look when she touches him.

Back to the Hospital

July 5

We had to take Ashton back to the lab at he hospital to get his bilirubin number checked again. I hate that they have to take so much blood from such a little guy! Since we were not good about keeping him on the bed his numbers had gone up so of course they told us we had to keep the bed and keep him on it! We tried to really keep him on it this time. This is a picture of him on the way back to the hospital Sunday morning.

Ashton Comes Home

July 4

Happy 4th of July! Today is the day we got to bring our beautiful baby boy home. It was so exciting and surprisingly relaxing. Since he was so early all he did was sleep. Arleigh was at the lake with Mimi and Papa Larry so it was just Ashton, mommy and daddy. We did have to get him a bilibed to keep his bilirubin(not sure how that is spelt) numbers down. I have to admit we were not very good about putting him on the bed. We just wanted to hold him!

Pictures by Autie Betsy

Betsy stopped by the hospital to meet Ashton and took some great pics of him! She's so talented!

Ashton's First Pictures

July 2

Since we let for the hospital not knowing what was going to happen, we forgot a camera. Thank goodness my dad remembered his. Although they didn't get there until after Ashton was born we still got some pictures. Arleigh didn't know what to think of her new baby brother, she was as shooked as Jeramie and I to have him here already!!! Our family is complete!!

Ashton Lawrence Pudlick 5lbs*18inches

Here comes Ashton Lawrence!!

July 2

I was sitting on the couch watching cartoons with Arleigh, not feeling real great but not really being able to explain what was wrong. Then all of a sudden I knew something wasn't right so I went to wake Jeramie up to take me to the hospital, he had only been home from work for 2 hours. I didn't think I was going to have a baby that day but I needed to go get checked out. We left the house with nothing but ourselves. We dropped Arleigh off at 10:30 at my mom and dad's house and headed for the hospital. As we were on our way I began to feel some contractions about 5 minutes apart, not too bad. After the lady asked us way to many questions at the admissions desk (and I ruined her chair) we were put in a room to wait. They sent in a ultrasound tech to see what might be going on, I remember her saying to me "Are they going to let you go today?" She could so my contractions were getting closer and more intense. After she left I told my nurse these contractions are getting worse and are about three minutes apart. The nurse in a very patronizing tone, patted my arm and said "oh, I know." At about noon I told Jeramie to let my mom and dad know we still don't know what is going on. We hadn't seen a doctor and I don't think the nurse realized how fast my contractions were coming. At about 12:15 I had to call the nurse in 'cause I had to go to the bathroom and needed her help getting the monitors off and wheeling my IV stand. As she was helping walk I had yet another contrition! This time she just let me and ran out of the room. When she returned she said she called the doctor to get permission to check me. So when she finally checked me, I was at

9 1/2!!!

Now it was time to get to the labor room, looks like I was having a baby!! Let's just say everything happened very quickly after that!! Ashton was born at 1:00!! I don't think any of our family was able to make it to the hospital before he was born. Although 5 weeks early he was a very healthy little boy!

Baby Shower

June 25

My aunts Linda and Anita throw me a baby shower at Linda's house in Northfield. It was so much fun.We all just sat around and talked. I got to see the two other new babies in the family. Heidi brought Ashlynn, who is almost 4 months old. Katie had Ryker there, who is about 2 weeks old. Arleigh and Jackson ran around having a great time. Grammy and Gigi were there too. I got a great new diaper bag, the bedding for the nursery and some cute sleepers.

Before the shower Arleigh and I made the rounds of Northfield visisting all the grandparents. We had a nice visist with Grandpa Jack and Liz and then with Grandma and Grandpa Knapper.

It was a nice but extremely tiring day!

Becker Freedom Days

On Sat. June 28, Arleigh and I had a great day at all the fun events of Freedom Days! We went with Grammy and Kathy Lane to the parade, then we headed to the cake walk to help our team raise money for Relay for Life. She wanted to ride the ponies but when she got on she didn't know if she liked it or not, after they started she really liked it! We finished off the night by watching the fireworks, Arleigh talked the whole time they were going off. She really doesn't ever stop talking!! In the words of Areligh "This was the best day ever, mom!"