More Eddie

Here are a few more pictures of Eddie. He had his 2 week checkup last week and weighed in at 7 lb. 9 oz. and still 20 1/2 inches long. He is a good baby. He even sleeps through Elena's loudness.

Edward Sage Peterson Arrives!!!

Edward Sage Peterson

Born June 24, 2008

6:19 a.m.

6 pounds 13 ounces

20 1/2 inches

Yep, those are Eddie's stats!

Now, sit back and relax for the story will be entertaining.

So, last Tuesday Andrea went in for her appointment and the Dr. checks her and says, "Whoa! There's his head" she was dialated to a 2. So, for the rest of the week she decides to take it easy because Scott was on call all week.

Without too many details, before Sunday night Scott had worked 100 hours at the Ranch and had dealt with one colicing horse, a death of another horse, and many other situations while on-call.

So, 10:30 p.m. rolls around and three students decide it is a great idea to run away from the ranch. Scott is on the ERT at the ranch and thus was involved in chasing and relocating them. It took all night and into early Monday afternoon to catch them. So, after being up for around 30 straight hours he came home and slept for 2.5 hours.

While Scott was sleeping Andrea started having contractions every half-hour and then they started getting closer and closer together.

(Oh yeah, by the way, Monday was our 9th Wedding Anniversary!) At around 5 p.m. Andrea comes in and wakes Scott up and plans to go to dinner for their anniversary. As Scott is showering her contractions get within three minutes of one another so, Scott's shower was cut a bit short.

It was a good thing that Nanna (Scott's Mom) had come to help get things ready because it was quite a rush getting out of town and headed to Richfield.

On the way to Richfield Andrea decided to go and get things checked out at the hospital. After about one hour of being at the hospital and finding Andrea progressing from a 4 to a 5 in that hours they kept her there.

As Andrea and Scott rested from Scott's long day and Andrea's labor through most of the night, at to the impressive prediction from the Doctor, at about 4:30 a.m. Andrea got an epideral and at 6:19 Edward was born.

Andrea and Eddie are doing great! Here's some pictures:

Eddie and HIS girls!

Eddie with Nanna, Allie and Elena.

Fishing for FHE

Tonight for Family Home Evening we went fishing at a local stream. Scotty has been working a lot of extra hours lately so it was nice to have him home for an evening. Yesterday Scott woke up at 8:15 and came in the front room where I was and was freaking out because it was 8:15. I asked him if he had presidency meeting he said no and just said it's 8:15. I looked at him and said yeah... then he frantically said "I'm late for work!" I calmly told him that it was Sunday. I told him you know you've been working too much when you can't even remember what day it is anymore. Anyway, when we got to the creek Mike (the guy Scott guides for) was there with three of his kids, one who is Allie's age. They were excited to see each other. After we were done fishing, Scott started a fire and we roasted marshmallows and had S'mores. Before we started the fire Elena kept asking what the fire camp was. It was really cute to see them expereince something new. Elena preferred her marshmallows "plain white" instead of brown, Allie enjoyed the middle of the toasted marshmallow and Scott and I enjoyed the whole thing. It was a fun family night.

Hair?

So a week ago on Sunday Allie and Elena decided to cut each other's hair. Allie's didn't look too bad, just a little extra layering. Elena's was on a slant 2-3 inches shorter than it used to be. A couple of summers ago Allie cut her own hair very short and we have discussed many times since then that she shouldn't cut her own hair. We would particularly discuss that whenever she was wishing her hair was longer. Oh well I guess that is part of childhood. The picture below shows how short Allie cut her hair 2 years ago.

Catching Up

So, we thought that since it has been since March we would try and post something interesting. It is interesting that we all sometimes think that our lives are boring and that what we do isn't interesting.

Scott continues keeping himself busy at Aspen Ranch and working with his horse. Parent Day's are going on right now and that means a lot of additional hours and responsiblities. But, it is this time of year that makes working at the Ranch worth the time and effort because he gets to see first hand that families are growing closer together and that things are not really as bad as they seem at times.

He also has started fly-fishing more now that the days are longer and (hopefully) warming up more. Here is a recent picture from a trip:

Andrea continues working on getting ready for the baby to get here. We have decided to name him Edward Sage in case you were wondering. Edward for two of our grandfathers and Sage after a fly-fishing company. We figured that we would combine ideas for naming him after Grandparents and Scott as well. Fly-fishing has become such a huge part of our lives that we would add that to the name.

Andrea continues teaching piano but only for a couple more weeks then she will be taking the summer off. She is doing well and definitely has the "waddle" of a pregnant lady!!

Allie is doing well and is looking forward to having the summer off. She finishes school on the 23rd which also happens to be our three year anniversary of Scott starting at Aspen Ranch. She is looking forward to being able to help get things ready for Eddie to come. She will be a great oldest sister.

Elena also is getting ready for Eddie to come. We are unsure as to how she will react not being the baby of the family. She continues giving us all a run for our money and showing her strong will to not be potty trained. We are working on patience!

Eddie is just hanging out and staying warm. He likes to kick his mother and push his foot (we think) out to have Andrea push back.