Ridiculous!

That is the only way to describe our Valentine's Day Photo's. With us just having a new baby, the only thing I wanted to do for Valentines is get our picture taken. What a Joke!!
I may as well accept that we are never going to have a decent family picture again. Getting 2 kids and Josh to cooperate is impossible.
Aiden cried and fought us the entire family pictures. Then later inside he wouldn't hold still for pictures of him and his brother. He was tossing Owen around like a rag doll. I should just put the entire reel of Aiden up here. He has some pretty funny faces. He used to be so good for the camera. I miss those days.
Owen of course couldn't keep his eyes open for more than a minute.
I put the very best ones we could get, out of like 200 pictures, seriously. And a couple goof offs. For your viewing pleasure....

Lessons Learned

I have learned a few things with this baby.
1) When I have brought people dinner, I have been doing it all wrong. Apparently you go all out and include several side dishes and dessert. I think I was just doing a main dish. Ooops.
2) If you are low on the ziplock reusable containers, have a kid. We are now fully stocked.
3) I have been a really bad friend. Upon asking for stuff for the gender info on Owen, We did receive a few gifts that I feel enormously guilty for. I realized that several of these gifts came from people that too had had a baby in the last couple years that I had done nothing for. I can assure you, I mostly just wanted help with meals and cleaning, but am VERY grateful for Owen's clothes since he had very little. But also realized that most the meals I have done for people over the years have been ward members and most the meals we received were from friends. I promise to do better with my friends.
4) Two kids is TEN times as hard as one. Not twice like you would imagine. Not once in Aiden's 2 years and 9 months have I even come close to running out of diapers. My mom had to run to Wal-Mart today because Owen ran out :)

More to come....

1 week!

Owen is now 1 week old! I cried a lot! Probably, just giving birth wacky hormones. I just really don't want him to grow up and he's now a week old.

We have a good routine down. Owen wakes up when ever he's hungry and I drop whatever I'm doing or wake up, and feed him.

Aiden doesn't pay much mind to Owen. He just notices if the baby is missing or crying or we are doing something different with Owen, like changing his diaper. Other than that he mostly ignores him. He has had a hard time with his name. For several days he has called him Noah. However this morning daddy asked Aiden what his brothers name is and he said, "Noah... Nowen... Owen!" So he did get it on his own. Unfortunately now Josh has on occasion called our baby Noah or Nowen.

I'm recovering. Slower than I'd like. Although for the first few days home, we discovered Josh was over medicating me. Now that we have the right dose and time, it's good to be awake occasionally:) Next week frightens me because Josh will be going back to work and I don't know how I'm going to take care of 2 kids alone. I guess we'll see.

Here are some 1 week pictures.

Introducing Owen David Aune

Owen David Aune arrived Thursday, February 4th, 2010 at 12:54pm. He weighed 6 lbs. 13 oz. and was 18 inches tall.
The surgery was amazing. I was completely scared and hyperventilating. There were some complications with my uterus and other organs from the prior c-section, so the operation was longer than anticipated and more surgery, which means more of a recovery.

Owen had a bunch of brown hair. It is beautiful and I hope it doesn't fall out.
This baby looks and acts nothing like Aiden. Or us for that matter. We may have a DNA test just to make sure he's ours.Going home
Owen entering our house for the first time
Aiden meeting Owen. It was absolutely precious. Aiden came over and I told him that we got the baby out of my tummy. Aiden said, "Good Job!" Aiden was soft with the baby asked to hold him for a second and then got tired of him and moved on.
We are very excited to have this new addition to our family. Thank you everyone for your warm wishes, visits, help and new baby clothes. Owen was very concerned about having to remain naked once he arrived.
While I'm recovering and am still on drugs, we would still love help with Aiden or meals...

Life

Josh thinks I'm crazy, and I tend to agree...
Every night I go to bed thinking, tonight's the night. Every morning I wake up disappointed. Where is my baby, I ask. I search the bedding. Why won't it come already?

Updates
Mice problem seems to be eliminated. We ended up with a total of 17 or 18, unsure.
Josh's mouse highlight: When he was down working in the office after midnight and one ran across the floor. He and Zeke the Chihuahua manage to corner it. Then called me on his cell phone, woke me up to come help. Josh's questions were, "Will it bite me?" Yes it probably will. "Will it's tail fall off, if I pick it up by it?" No I don't think so. Can I go back to bed? He got it in an OJ container and was traumatized for life.
My mouse highlight: Was when I checked the traps, we had the snap down and break the neck traps. Finding one live mouse on the sticky trap was enough trauma for us. Any way I found TWO caught in one trap. How does that happen? They both had to be in the exact same wrong place at the exact same wrong time. I took a picture for Josh, but will spare you.

Josh took some profile pictures of my big Budha belly. He wants to edit them, but it is taking to long and I want to post them.






I have worked out the rules of my crazy gender baby plan....
We aren't going to tell the gender of the baby to you unless, a) You bring a meal, 2)You clean my house, I'll have a very specific list since I'm so OCD j/k, C) Help with Aiden or 4) Buy the baby a present. (Josh doesn't like the last option, but some people would rather buy a gift then cook or clean and I want that option available.)
I am terrible at asking for help and then I get overwhelmed, frustrated and cry ALOT. So now I'm just going to demand help. Of course there will be extenuating circumstances. Living out of state and broke would be one :)
Now you see... in order for this to work, there will be a confidentiality clause, my accepting the news of the gender, you are also excepting the confidentiality clause. ABSOLUTELY NO SHARING OF THIS INFORMATION! Once you have been told the gender, you may not pass it along, anybody else needs to earn it as well. Meaning if you tell somebody the gender of our baby, we will find out and you will pay us $50. and I may never speak to you again (which after reading this, you may think is a good thing.)
So that's all the crazy for today, but as I sit and wait I may come up with more crazy ideas, so watch out.

Baby Update Revised

I went to my new Doctor today. I loved him, it was a great experience!

Unfortunately the baby is not coming along as we had thought/hoped so it's still going to be several weeks :(

Also we were a little unaware of the problems associated with a vaginal delivery after cesarean, so might be re thinking our plan. I am terrified to be away from Aiden that long and since children are not allowed to visit hospitals these days, I'm not sure what the plan is. But luckily (sarcasm) we have time to figure it out.

All Grown Up

We are officially now grown ups.
A couple months ago Josh told me we had a mouse. I totally freaked out! Then I started hearing it late at night as well. Josh thought it was in our ventilation system. But I heard it in the kitchen. Like under the dishwasher. Josh cleaned out the cupboards, no sign of Mr. Mouse. No chewed boxes, no mouse droppings. I bought the sticky kind of mouse traps. Poison wasn't an option, it would eat it and go die in my walls, stinky! The traditional mouse traps would have Aiden in the hospital with broken fingers. Now we just had to figure out where this mouse was so we could set the traps. Well honeslty I haven't heard or thought of the mouse in about a month. But last night as we were cleaning up the kitchen, I was finally throwing out the pile of Christmas treats and picked up the pile of Kit Kat bars and they all had little chew marks in them. Ah ha, we got him. But I was still confused as to why there were no droppings on my counter, he had to have spent quite a lot of time up there eating those Kit Kat bars. Well out came the sticky traps. They surrounded the Kit Kats. I hated this mouse, I was so ready to get him. Not in my house Mr. mouse!
Then this morning there he was, all stuck in the sticky goo. He was soooo little. It made me sad. Last night I told Josh I would kill it once we caught it, but today it was so little and cute. So I told Josh we could let it go, problem was, it was super stuck and I couldn't get it unstuck. Josh read the box and it said oil based products would unstick it so I dumped olive oil all over it and its face got unstuck and it started biting at the trap, but then it just died. I probably drowned it with the olive oil. Both Josh and I feel terrible and now we know what not to do. But at least he died quickly and didn't just suffer stuck in the trap. :(