You may call me Doctor.................

The Boston Duck Tour

The Red Sox No Hitter

The Haircuts that took over

Matt cut the boy's hair. They all had mohawks for a few hours. Tyler didn't want to fix it when the time came. Oh what do you do with boys????

Matt's Graduation Dinner

Last night was Matt's graduation dinner. I was so stressed out about what to wear I was probably borderline OCD about it. I hate the post baby bod! I really wanted to look nice because all Matt's friends, professors, etc. would be there and I didn't want them to think Matt was married to a whale. After I tried on 5 different outfits we settled on a dress and it worked out ok, not great but ok. So, we sit through a long awards program and the final award of the night is announced. The award is the dean's award for achievement, professionalism, and strength of character. It was given to my one and only Matthew Mower. I am so proud of him and his accomplishments. He really deserves it. I can't believe we are done. It really hit home last night as we were watching a movie of the last 4 years how far we have come, and that it is over. I'm sure our life will encounter new challenges, new phases, new stresses but for now I feel like we are book ending Boston. We made it!!! We survived our last 4 years. We are a stronger family, more reliant on each other, and best of all, we are best friends. Even though we are leaving Boston in our eyes Boston will always be where we became who we are as a family.

Power Through

I thought that the biggest transition for me would have been having no kids to having 1 child. I was wrong. I didn't anticipate how big of a change having 2 kids to 3 kids would be for me. I look like a freak show walking around with 3 kids. The other day I had Talan on one hip, the baby carrier on the other arm and I was pushing a crying Tyler with my belly towards the car. If that is not a sight to be seen I don't know what is. I almost feel like a walking contraceptive ad. I seriously don't know how people do it with 10 kids or even 4 for that matter! It seems like those choice people must have extreme patience and endless love. Yesterday Matt was gone for the day and I thought I would get my kids out of the house for awhile. I took them to a mall that had a playground in it. I thought, I am going to be a super mom that doesn't let having 3 kids slow her down. Well, I didn't get slowed down, I think I got crazy. I don't know what had possessed me to think that going to the mall is ever a good idea with kids no matter how many you have. I am pretty sure I gave every parent in that room a show. Just imagine me breast feeding Trevin while running after Talan as he bolts from the room just about every 5 minutes. I don't know what I would do without my hooter hider. It is the best thing I have ever got. Sadly though, I noticed that another child in the room was also named Trevin. I was really hoping that we had picked a unique name and here he is only 3 weeks old and I have already met another Trevin. Seriously, on the whole we are doing really well. The boys are really excepting of Trevin. It could be so much worse if they didn't like him. I feel like our time in Boston is going so fast. The next 2 months are going to be so stressful. I am trying to prepare and get things ready but I have this side of me that thinks things are going to hit the fan come May 16th. Which leads me to my new favorite quote:
In all living have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed not just endured.

Trevin Wayne Mower Has Arrived

Matt and I went to the hospital to be induced on April 12th at 8 am. When we got there, I was having some contractions on my own but not enough to make anything happen naturally. So, they gave me a drug and told me to start walking to prepare for the pitocin. In the meantime our nurses started asking about names. Matt and I told them that we would probably pick Breckin or Corbin but we weren't sure. When they heard we had Tyler and Talan they said that we must name the baby a T name. Which seems to be most people's opinion. They were very nice and said that they would be right back with a list of T boy names so that we could pick a new name. Shortly thereafter they brought 15 pages of T names for us to look over! Matt and I looked over them and then he said to me, "Should we just do Trevin?" We had talked about it several times but decided against it. I totally thought he was joking. Matt said, maybe we should just do the T name thing. Just about then the nurses told us to go walk. Matt and I walked, and walked, and walked to try and spark things up on our own. When we returned at 1 they said I had dialated to a 3 and they started the pitocin drip. Every 15 minutes they upped the dosage to get me going. When the nurse asked if she could break my water at 4:30 I said sure. She warned me that things would escalate fast and I said okay. Boy was she right!! I don't know how people gave birth in the olden days. I swear they must have thought they were dying. I asked for the epidural but once they got it there and in place it was too late. I kept telling the nurse I was in a lot of pain and she said give it 5 contractions the epidural will kick in. Well, after those 5 contractions Trevin's head was crowned and we were open for business!!! I swear I have never been in so much pain in my life. All I could think was, how am I going to get out of this. There is no way that I am going to make it through this pain. It only took a few pushes and Trevin popped out at 6:35 pm.

The boys have been so good with him. It is just amazing to me that we have this new addition to our family. Tyler is the best big brother and Talan follows suit to anything Tyler does so we are pretty lucky. I'm sure this is just the honeymoon period and pretty soon Trevin will have trucks drove across his face, and he will be trampled upon. But for now, things are good. We feel so lucky that he came out so healthy and beautifully perfect after our 2 vessel cord scare and my lupus. I can't think of a better way to have been blessed, then by having Trevin come out healthy.