Lamb Family Reunion

This year it was at the family's old property, Lamb's Creek [map]. Going over it's history and changes, taking our own little tours, and hanging out with the old folks - good time. Man-oh-man, Uncle Rod reminds me of Skeet. Wow.

July 4th Party

What can I say, it was great as always. Now, if i could just figure out how to get a few thousand more fireworks into the mix. hehe...

Lucky Four

Happy Birthday, little man.

Jesse Allyn Lamb

Jesse was born on February 11, 2009 at 4:08am at Towanda Memorial Hospital. He was 9.4 pounds, 20 inches long, and his head was 14 inches around (ouch!). On Tuesday Lorraine had a doctor appointment that morning and was at 2cm. He must've gotten the ball rolling because at 1:00pm she started feeling contractions about 20 minutes apart but they didn't start getting closer until after 9:00pm. Around 11:30pm they were within 5 minutes and lasting almost a minute. I told her we were waiting until midnight because there was no way I was paying for an extra day! Yeah, I'm just kidding, but really I'm not. Or am I?

Anyway, we left the house around 12:15am Wednesday morning, were all checked in and changed by 1:00am and that's when the "hard labor", as I call it, started. The contractions were 2-4 minutes apart and causing her a lot of pain, especially when they made her roll around because Jesse was laying on his cord. Still at 2cm around 2:30am and then all of a sudden, 7cm within minutes. People were flying around the room, in and out, doing this and that. It looked like something straight out of ER. By 3:45am the nurse calls the doctor in because she's at 9.5cm. He says to give a push on the next contraction and then says, "Now she's at 10cm.".

At 4:08am Jesse popped out, I cut the cord as I did with Jordan, and we're off to the nursery to get cleaned up. The nurse says "Holy cow!" and tells me his stats with a "That's a big boy." after them. I go back into the room to start some action with an over/under of 2 ounces but no one bit. That's too bad, the doctor guessed 8.8 pounds, I would've made out nice on him! They were all surprised to hear how big he was though. Notice I didn't mention anything about "drugs"? All natural. It was too fast to take anything, which is another reason why Lorraine said "I don't remember this with Jordan." hehe.

He looks just like Jordan when he was that young. And since Jordan is starting to look more and more like me, Jesse's going to be one handsome man! At least we're consistent, eh? Since Lorraine was up and showered by 5:00am on Thursday and demonstrated she was recovering excellently, the doctor allowed us to go home that evening (though she was actually ready to go home Wednesday morning by 9:00am). Yep, in at 1:00am on Wednesday and out at 5:00pm on Thursday. 15 hours in labor with 3 hours of hard labor and only 40 hours in the hospital.

We're home now and trying to get acclimated all around. Jordan has been the best big brother and Mommy and Daddy helper you could ask for. He can't wait for him to get up so he can feed him, constantly likes to hold him and gets anything we need for him anytime we ask. He also says he's ready for him to get down and play Lincoln Logs, but he knows he's too small right now so he'll just put him in the back of his wagon and take him for a putt-putt ride...

Welcome to the world, little man. We have many things to show you.

Love,

Daddy, Mommy, and Jordan

Pictures at hospital
Pictures at home

Super Bowl XLIII Party

It's all about the Steelers, baby! Go us!

Knoebels was kfun

I may have missed the ride down, but I made it in time for breakfast! I had to work so I lounged around town thinking I'd go down in the morning but I couldn't sleep so I left the house around 3:00am and was there around 5:00am or so.

We had a really good time this year. Jordan was able to, and did, ride more rides by himself. I'm pretty sure the bracelet cost was covered by noon as everything he saw in Kiddie Land, he went on. Next year he'll definitely be able to do almost any ride he wants to. Speaking of noon, we went back to the bus so we could all take a nap break. Well, Jordan napped anyway. Later that afternoon I went on some rides with Kiley and Joanna, mostly the Fandango. That's when "the boys" entered the picture and all of a sudden Uncle Drew's not good enough to ride with. Whatever girls, I see how it is. When we went back to the bus for dinner that night Ruthie asked where the girls were. I told her they met up with some boys and were alright. After the look she gave me I reassured her that since one of the boy's shirts said "Class of 2012" that made him a freshman and the girls were ok because they were with older boys. Haha, yeah, I got "that look" this time. After a Yuengling with Kenny, I was ready for bed as I'd now been up for 40 some hours.

The last day we were there the Skloosh got us all nice and wet in the morning and the Flume kept the fun going. Jordan loved the drops and went on it a couple times with Mommy and the girls while Codey and I pumped quarters into the water jets on the observation deck. A couple hours later and a few more rides on our Flyers it was time to go. As I always say about this trip, "I look forward to going, and I look forward to going home."

Welcome to the lake, memories made here

Ahh, the lake. Our once a year, real vacation. I love having nothing to do but wait for wine thirty. It's tough, but we all have to do our part. Give us swimming, boat rides, feeding the ducks, lakeside fires and we're happy campers. We keep saying we should do this, go here, do a winery tour, etc. but truthfully, once we're at the lake we really don't care to leave to do anything else.

It just so happened we were there on a weekend which a few of the neighbors had their grandchildren staying with them, so Jordan had plenty of kids to play with...especially Sarah. He was completely enamored with her. Luckily for her, there were other kids for Jordan to play with who were, thankfully, happy to play with him as well. Hopefully the neighbors will let us know when their grand kids will be up next year so we can sync plans. It was nice for everyone that it worked out that way but since we were all leaving on the same day I can only imagine the sighs of relief, number naps taken because it's finally quiet, and the toast at wine thirty that day. (You'll have to fill me in on that one, Aunt Vicki.)

With help from Uncle Ray, Jordan caught his first fish! And his second, third, you see where this is going. I can't wait to take him deep sea fishing, as much as he likes to fish he'll love that. Another first was his going on a kayak ride with Sarah...ooohhh, Jordy's got a girlfriend, Jordy's got a girlfriend!

As much as we hated to leave, we did. Again, we stopped for lunch on the way home and again we missed stopping at Cook's! After a busy vacation of playing, someone is always sleeping before we even get outside of Penn Yan and I don't have the heart to wake her him. Sitting here writing this now, I'm ready to go back. Thank you again, Aunt Vicki and Uncle Ray, for everything. Until next year...

Patio

Done.

Spending the Night: Take Three

Success! Jordy finally made it all night down at Nana's. I'm sure it helped that the other three kids were there as well. And true to what I've been told, we had no idea what to do all by ourselves...Not!

July 4th Party

This year's party was one of the best! I know I say that every year but it's true. It gets better each year, period. It's always a good time catching up with people you rarely get to see. The food was great, as always, and the company and conversation were second to none. The fireworks were truly excellent this year (except for the one that fell over on it's last two shots - oops!). I could tell from the displays and the reactions that I picked some winners, especially the 'triple shot' one. Almost everyone commented on that one (mental note: get more of those next year). Barring a few minor mishaps (which were interesting, to say the least) and even more ideas for improvement, I'd call it a success. Thanks to everyone who helped out and hope you had as much fun as we did. See you next year!