Roman Thomas Dupree

Birth Story:

Absolutely nothing was happening up until 3 hours before Roman was born. His original due date was Tuesday, March 2 and I had not had one contraction and I really wasn't dilating. On Monday, March 1st I started to feel some light contractions during the day, but I was able to clean our whole house and then I went and ran some errands with Aidan in the afternoon. We got home around 6pm and went for a small walk, and by then I could feel the contractions a little more...but it still wasn't anything to talk about. By 7 Aidan was asleep and Josh and I ate dinner and my contractions were about 10 min. apart. Josh really wanted to go to the hospital, but for some reason I just had it in my head that this was just "false labor" and nothing to worry about! I decided to take a shower just in case I went into labor in the middle of the night (and because I DID NOT want to have greasy hair after delivering a baby! :) and right when I got out my water broke! That was about 8:20pm. I still felt great so I finished drying my hair, put on some makeup and finished packing my bag. By the time Josh's mom got to our house to watch Aidan (this was 20 min. later) my contractions were about 4 min. apart and I was definitely feeling them! They came on like a freight train.....I felt like I went from 0 to 60 in 10 seconds! I seriously didn't think I'd make it to the hospital. When we got to the hospital my contractions were 2 min. apart and I barely had time for a slight epidural (thank God...once that miracle drug kicked in I felt SO much better!!) and then 30 min. later and a few pushes and Roman Thomas was born!!

Roman was born on March 1st at 10:57pm weighing 7 lbs 5 oz and was 19.5" long! It was such an easy and extremely fast labor. If we have a third baby I'll have to camp out in the hospital parking lot :)

Nana and Pappy came to see their second Grandchild right after he was born! This was when he was about 30 minutes old (it was also 11:30pm and they both had to wake up in 5 hours :).

Grandma Cathy and Roman :)
Grandpa and Roman. Mike and Cathy took care of Aidan and Herschel while we were in the hospital, which is NOT an easy task! They are both a handful :)
Sweet baby boy. He looks so much like Josh to me....and he reminds me of Aidan as a baby :)

First picture as a family of 4!!
Right before we left the hospital. I LOVED his going home outfit!

Proud Daddy!
He has extremely long toes and fingers like his Mommy!
Aidan LOVES his little brother. When we got home he kept on trying to put his pacy in his mouth for him.
This is Aidan's attempt to put the pacy back in Roman's mouth! Too cute.

Aidan, Samantha, Aunt Emily and little Em
Brothers! It's amazing how fast the time goes by....it's hard to remember Aidan that small and that was only 17 months ago! I love having a newborn again. And Aidan has done such a great job adjusting to Roman....he says, "Hello Baby" (except "baby" comes out as "bobby") and he gives him hugs and kisses. It's so cute to see them together.
Giving Roman kisses :)
Aunt Shelley!


Uncle Tommy and Marissa

This is a sneak peek of the newborn pictures we had done of Roman and Aidan! They turned out SO CUTE! We cannot wait to see the rest!

Overall, I personally think that going from 1 baby to 2 babies is a whole lot easier than going from 0 babies to 1! Aidan keeps me so busy that so far adding Roman in the mix hasn't been near as hard as I was expecting. I also have an amazing husband that helps out SO MUCH....so as long as I can survive until he gets home....I'm good! Roman is 2 weeks now and we've all adjusted really well! The hardest part is the whole "not sleeping" a consecutive 6 hours...but I'm hoping that we only have a few more weeks of that. Wishful thinking?! :)

Maternity Pictures - Roman

At the end of January we had our maternity pictures taken (I was about 36 weeks). We loved our photographer and ended up with some really precious pictures. I personally love maternity pictures because it's so easy to get caught up in life and forget how awesome it was to be pregnant and all the amazing feelings that come with growing a baby (besides the feelings of being HUGE at the end!). It's fun to look back at such an incredible and life changing time in your life.

We're so excited for Roman Thomas to be here! Only a few more days and we'll have a new member to our family, and Aidan will have a little bro :)

Snow Day!

This past Saturday (2/13/10) we spent the day out on the lake bed and in the woods exploring all the snow! Herschel and Aidan LOVED it. Mommy & Aidan
Herschel digging his huge holes in the lake bed with his helper by his side :)
Sometimes Aidan would want me to hold his hand, but most of the time he was Mr. Independent
Happy boy!
Aidan & Herschel running off (Josh had to run after Aidan shortly after this picture because he was headed right toward the creek....and he wanted to swim with Herschey)
My boys (soon to be 3! Well....4 counting Herschel. I am SO outnumbered)
The woods were beautiful. It was like a fairy tale. It's amazing how different something so familiar can look with snow everywhere!
This is just the beginning of Aidan's adventures in our backyard! Pretty soon he'll have a little brother to get dirty with.
Herschel loved having a companion to play with! Aidan fell and this is Herschel encouraging him to get up so they can go play :)


Only a lab could think that swimming in freezing cold water with snow all around you would sound like fun.
Aidan fell on a stick and got his FIRST fat lip!! He was a trooper and only cried for a little bit. My poor baby :( I have a feeling this is the first of MANY fat lips from playing outside!

Aidan's 14 Month Pictures

I know that I have been horrible at keeping our blog updated, but I'm going to try and catch up on everything before our new baby comes in 5 weeks! We had family pictures taken at the Marietta Square this past November '09 by a friend and she did an amazing job! Aidan was such a sweetheart the whole time and took great pictures! We can't believe how fast he's growing up :)

And he's off!! Aidan is walking

Aidan is officially walking! He started trying to take a few steps at about 13 months, and by 14 months he is walking EVERYWHERE. He looks like a drunken little man, it's the cutest thing in the world! He almost reminds me of a penguin because he kind of "waddles!" I do like that he can walk from the car to the store....he just gets distracted by tires of cars and things on the ground :)

He's trying to run, so I'll try to post another video. He's growing up so fast!! He also has learned the word, "Oww" so he's saying that about everything. :)