Carp-e-Diem !

Ro’s First Pediatrician Office Visit

matt — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:23:40 +0000

Toby, Max and Ro are at the Pediatrician’s office now. Lucy and I are at home. 5 minutes before we were going to walk to the office, Lucy said her tummy hurt and started barfing, so I got to stay home.

I think she ate too much at lunch. We set up her sleeping bag near the bathroom. She fell asleep in less than 1 minute.

Below is a picture of her post-vomit recuperation.

I am missing the Dr. appointment.

If He were a Koala Baby

toby — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:29:17 +0000

Roly would look like this…

Kids at Poppa & YaYa’s house

matt — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:45:51 +0000

Poppa and YaYa were very generous in taking Max and Lucy for 5 days last week. They also had Katie, Rich, Abbie and Alex staying with them, so it was a full house. Of course, any summer stay at Poppa and YaYa’s would not be complete without a trip to Auntie Jan’s pool.

Kids having fun with Uncle Rich.

While they were with the Grandparents, the boys (Poppa, Rich, Max, Alex) were able to attend a Dodger’s game.

The tickets Poppa had were in the ‘all you can eat’ section. “For fans that can’t get enough Dodger baseball and great ballpark fare, the All-You-Can-Eat Pavilion provides the ultimate value at the Stadium with unlimited Dodger Dogs, nachos, peanuts, popcorn and soft drinks for fans to enjoy during the game.” Max said he had 2 Dodger Dogs, 2 nachos and 2 sodas, and was still hungry. Yikes!

Although a bit blurry, you can see Max’s excitement. I wonder if Alex was pulling for the SF Giants.

The results of so much excitement

Fun with Gran and GranDon

matt — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:28:45 +0000

Two videos for your viewing pleasure

Lucy Dancing, Gran Piano’ing from Matt Theule on Vimeo.

Lucy Gran GranDon from Matt Theule on Vimeo.

In the video, Gran and Lucy are holding ‘ribbon roses’ that Gran was showing Lucy how to make. Gran attached one to a hair barrette and Lucy wore it in her hair to church.

Baby Ro Homecoming Pictures

matt — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:00:02 +0000

Due to the vagaries of hospital discharge procedures, we didn’t end up leaving the hospital until nearly 3:30p on Thursday. By the time we arrived home, there were quite a few extended family members waiting to wish us congratulations. My sister Katie and her family were in California on vacation from Michigan, and were leaving for the airport on Friday. YaYa was not going to wait until Christmas (or longer!) to get a picture with all her grandkids in it.

Before I had even made the second trip to bring in the luggage, the grandkids were being posed together.

3 pictures of 3 kids.

Gran and GranDon have been a huge help, especially this past week. Toby wishes (and I concur) that they could stay for a few more weeks.

Our alert boy.

Not a Baby, but a Pterodactyl Actually

toby — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:22:22 +0000

We found out in spades that when Roly is going to cry, he doesn’t work up to it in little baby increments. It comes out like a giant dinosaur bird shriek right off the bat. This is especially alarming at 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 am (we got all of those last night), when you have just dropped off to sleep for 10 minutes. We are not sure what was the deal – he’s still too new-born to just be awake at night; it seemed to be either gas, or maybe discomfort from his recent circumcision? Whatever the case, it was a REALLY tough first night home. He had trouble nursing (which was not the case in the hospital); he preferred to scream into the nipple like a microphone, rather than nurse from it.

I (Toby) am recovering from the birth, and the subsequent tubal ligation pretty well. I have come off the heavy meds, though I still feel like I got punched in the the gut when I walk. My sweet big children remind me daily that I ’still look like I am going to have a baby!’ Oh, the honesty…

Roly is quite handsome (no partiality here); very pink and filled out in his face. Though Max and Lucy were not considered preemies, they were both quite yellow and looked more like funny little monkeys. Glad to have a healthy boy, and such support and love from family and friends.

It won’t be long now . . .

matt — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:23:32 +0000

Roly made it through his circumcision with flying colors this morning. There were a few moments of F.U.D. (fear uncertainty doubt) yesterday evening because of a mixup with who the pediatrician is. Since the kids pediatrician is a member of a large medical network (Sansum Santa Barbara), and Sansum has its own on-call pediatrician, all peds work should have been done by the Sansum peds as opposed to the hospital’s on-call pediatrician. However, Wednesday morning the hospitalist came to do Roly’s first exam.
Toby explained that Roly would be seeing the Sansum Peds and that he would be (according to the nurses) doing the circ (the hospitalist doesn’t do circs, one has to make a separate appointment). The hospitalist agreed and would make a note in the chart.
We had been told that the procedure would be quick and were expecting that the Sansum Peds would do the procedure later that day. By 4p, no Sansum Peds had come by, and so since Toby was a bit more coherent than when she came out of surgery (I’ll let her tell you about that experience) she began to work on making sure the circ happened while we were still in the hospital. She was motivated by the memory of Max not getting a circ appt until he was 6 weeks old (he ended up getting in on a cancellation at 9 days). By this time of day, the Sansum Peds was gone, and we were in the dark as to how to proceed. Our nurse didn’t know why the hospitalist had come by and went to work for us to figure everything out. The confusion lay in the fact that while the kids see a Sansum pediatrician, Toby’s primary physician is her OBGyn, Dr. Green. Since Dr. Green is NOT a Sansum physician, Roly was not automatically a Sansum patient. This explained why the hospitalist saw Roly. The hospitalist was true to her word and she had made arrangements with the Sansum Peds to get the procedure done on Thursday morning.
All is well that ends well.

Welcome Baby Theule #3

matt — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:24:00 +0000

Roland William Theule entered the world at 8:58p with an assist from Dr. Ralph Green and nurse Robyn at Cottage Hospital Santa Barbara on 7/20/2010, his official due date.

Toby pushed for just over an hour, with Dad and Camille (her mom) counting to keep her on track and holding her legs in the correct position. The baby was scored at 9.9 (out of a possible 10) on the APGAR test which is a very good score.

At birth, baby weighed 8 pounds even and was 19.5 inches in length.

Below are some pictures :

This was Toby’s first 40-week pregnancy. Her water broke spontaneously at 37 weeks with both Max and Lucy. With those extra 3 weeks, this one weighed in at nearly 2 full pounds more than Lucy at birth.

Updated Stats

matt — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:36:12 +0000

Length: 19.5 inches
Weight: 8 lbs 0 oz.

Preliminary Stats

matt — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:30:29 +0000

Apgar (whatever that is) : 9.9

Time of Birth : 8:58p

Baby name : TBD