Oh Boy!

Let me start out by saying that my life with two boys is never, ever dull! Ty is such a cute chunky baby! He is almost up to 11 pounds! He has started smiling a lot and I thought this was such a cute picture of him. I had to put in the swing because of the next picture!

I was on the computer this morning and apparently left Halloween paint in the hands of my 3 year old. He came into the office and said look at my Mom, I'm a pirate.

He did a pretty good job of painting his face like the picture on the pirate makeup. This is what the makeup looks like now. I did get a kick out of it. Luckily he didn't try to paint Ty!

Pumpkin Patch and Playoffs

We are so happy that October is here and Atlanta is finally feeling like fall! We have been busy this month and will continue to be! We have been to a pumpkin patch and cheered on the Braves for NLCS playoff game #3 in Atlanta. That is a great thing about living here. It takes us about 30 minutes to get to Turner Field and park and we can hop right back on the interstate and be home so soon! We had a great time at the game. My dad is a big Giants fan and he definitely enjoyed the Giants victory. Ty enjoyed his first Braves game (for the most part). Luckily our seats were in the shade and we had a nice breeze blowing for most of the game. Garrett always loves going, but fell asleep in the nineth inning :)



It was a beautiful day in Atlanta!

The weekend before, we headed up to Dawsonville and enjoyed a great pumpkin patch and mini corn maze. It is nice to get out of Atlanta and head north up the mountains without all the traffic! Garrett had fun feeding goats and picking out some pumpkins. It would really be great if the fall weather would return instead of being 85 degrees again!

One Month Old

It is so hard to believe that Ty is already one month old! Time is flying by! Garrett is still doing great with him and hardly leaves him alone. I think that he is weighing in about 10 pounds now, but we will see for sure at the ped. on Monday. He smiled at both David and I this weekend for the first time and actually somehow managed to roll from his belly to his back (I'm thinking that was complete fluke or is advanced beyond measure).

He still looks like a little Garrett and is really a great baby. He is waking up 2 to 3 times a night and awake for many hours during the day. The bad part about that is that he wants to be held while he is awake. He screams if he is awake in his carseat!

We went to Tennessee last weekend for David to play in the CCHS Alumni Baseball game. So it was Ty's first time out of state. Mom, Dad and Cory came down last week and we went to the North Georgia State Fair (it's about 10 miles from us). Garrett really enjoyed it and got to ride a pony and see a bear show. He was not interested at all in riding any of the rides. It was a pretty good fair for $5.00.

It has finally cooled off here. We went for mid-90's to upper 70's and its wonderful! We are hoping to go to a pumpkin patch this weekend and getting ready for all things Fall. We officially celebrated Garrett's birthday on Tuesday and went to a play based on the book "How I Became a Pirate". Ty was great and went to sleep during it.

That's all our updated for now!

Welcome September!

September has been a busy month so far for us. Garrett will be 3 on the 28th! I know, it is so hard to believe that he has been part of our family for 3 years. He is quite interesting these days and constantly keeps us on our toes. Preschool is going great and loves going. We have officially given up pull-ups. I had been waiting to see if he regressed after Ty was born (I had heard bad stories about potty training after a new baby), but he didn't have any issues. So he has started wearing underwear everywhere and is doing absolutely fantastic with it. I'm sure he was ready to switch long before we did.

We went ahead and had an early birthday party for him because we wanted to have as many family members here as possible, so we had this party on the 11th. He is still big into dinosaurs, so we had a dinosaur birthday party. He got lots of great things and lots of pajamas!

He is doing great with Ty. He just wants to be around him and kiss him. He hasn't acted jealous of him and Ty has adjusted pretty well to Garrett's noise level.

An update on Ty: He is doing great. I can tell he is starting to fill out and sleeps longer at night. Right now he is sleeping 3 to 4 hours in between feedings at night, but he doesn't want to sleep in his bassinett at all. I'm probably starting a bad habit, but I need sleep! He is becoming much more alert and is up for hours at a time now. He is up for about 3 hours and sleeps for about 2. I think he is following in Garrett's footsteps about not wanting to sleep! We don't go back to the ped. for another couple of weeks, so I'm not sure how much he weighs. He still looks so much like Garrett as a baby and is a really good baby. He only cries if he is hungry, wet or sleepy.

David went back to work on Wednesday and we have adjusted well. I took both boys to drop Garrett off at school on Wednesday and we were on time! He carseat is a beast and I probably look rough carrying it, but you forget how heavy they are!

Enjoy the pictures and we will keep you updated!

Introducing Ty William Coffey

Introducing Ty William Coffey: Born August 30th at 6:46 pm, Weighing 6 pounds and 9 ounces and 18 1/4 inches long

I'll give you all the short version of his birth story. On Monday, I went to the doctor and was dilated 2.5 and completely effaced, so my midwife went ahead and stripped my membranes. This was at 10:15. I felt completely fine and picked Garrett up from school and was folding laundry when my water broke at 4:10. I called David and he hurried home (it took him about 40 minutes). By then my contractions were about 5 to 6 minutes apart, so we dropped Garrett off at our friends house and got the hospital about 5:45. By then I was hurting pretty badly and was checked and dilated 5. I got in my labor room about 6:20 and asked for my epidural. When the anesthesiologist came in I already had to push (about 6:35). I did get my epidural, but was already dilated 10. So it didn't do me much good. My midwife came in then and I pushed twice and he was born at 6:46. So I was in labor for 2 hours and 30 minutes total (I didn't have a contraction till my water broke). He was in a big hurry to get here. I'm afraid if we have another baby that it will be born in the car! It was a short, but very painful labor, but he is definitely worth it. He is a little mini Garrett. He looks so much like him when he was a newborn.


We are all doing great and so happy to be at home and getting settled in. Garrett is doing really well with him and actually pays some attention to him. Every time he cries, Garrett asks me "What's wrong with him?". David is off for the next two weeks, so it will be nice to get all settled at home. He is already wanting to be held all the time! So my life should get very interesting :)

Enjoy the pictures, we will keep everyone updated!

Garrett goes to Preschool!

Garrett started preschool/Mother's Day Out at church this week. His classroom is the same classroom he has for Sunday School, so he's just like bye Mom and never looks back. Which is good, but also shows how grown-up he has gotten. He only goes for 3 hours twice a week, but I think it will be a nice break for me and gives me a chance to go to doctors appointments without having to find someone to watch him.

He has became an 'explainer'. He has to tell you a very long reason for everything that he does. Our conversations have become quite interesting. It's hard to believe that he will be 3 next month!

Here are two pictures from his first day of school:

Now a baby update: The nursery is completely ready and our bags are packed. My midwife 'guesses' that he will be here between 37 and 38 weeks because Garrett was early and I sure hope she is right. You forget how miserable the last few weeks of pregnancy are. So far I am dilated 2 and he is finally head down (he has been a flipper and we were afraid he was breech). Everything is looking good. Their guess right now is that he weights between 5 1/2 and 6 pounds. So we are ready and just waiting for him to decide to come. I will officially be full-term in little over a week, so Garrett and I are going to start walking miles each day and hopefully the weather will cooperate (Atlanta is so hot!).

Getting Ready for Baby...

The Nursery

33 Week Belly

We are getting ever so close to baby boy being here. I will be 34 weeks on Thursday! I am ready! Pregnancy the second time around just isn't as fun and it doesn't help that it is soooo hot here in Atlanta! Garrett was born at 38 weeks, so my midwife thinks this baby will probably come about the same time, probably at 37 or 38 weeks. So possibly just 3 more weeks to go! We almost have our hospital bags packed and the nursery is almost done. Just a few more touches and it will be complete. Since Garrett was born in Kansas and we have never been to the hospital we are delivering at, we have a hospital tour on Saturday because the hospital is huge and we have no idea were anything is at.

I'm not sure Garrett is ready for him because the baby is going to be quite an adjustment for him. Some days he will talk about him and other days he won't. He told me that poop and pee is nasty when I told him that the baby is going to poop, pee and cry. We took him to Build-A-Bear last weekend to make the baby a bear and he wasn't really all that excited, so I picked out the bear, but he did put it in the crib and name the bear and is going to bring it to the hospital for the baby. Hopefully he will be a little more excited when the baby gets here. It should be a very exciting and interesting time at out house! The good thing is that David will be able to be home for 2 weeks after the baby is born to help us get adjusted.

An update on Garrett: He is getting ready to start Mother's Day Out at our church in two weeks and it's hard to believe that next month he will be turning 3! We have decided he has a good chance to become a comedian. He is so dramatic and is constantly saying things to make us laugh and wonder where he heard that. David spent two weeks in Baltimore recently, so me and Garrett went to Tennessee for a few days and he really enjoyed Mom and Dad's pool. He learned how to do a cannonball and would jump in a thousand times if you let him. He is big into cars, trucks and dinosaurs right now. I feel like we have a thousand Hot Wheels drug out every day!

That's all for now, we will keep everyone updated!