As promised....

Now that I finally have a few minutes....I can update on the happenings of a few weeks ago when Kyle was born.

What a week it was. Murphy's law....what CAN go wrong, WILL go wrong...and ALL at once.

So first was Kyle's birth. Obviously that didn't go wrong, but the birth of a baby does tend to be stressful.

Once we got home, that's when everything went crazy.

We got home on Sat. Our first issue came on Sunday. Our furnace (and yes, during the coldest week in WI history in the last 20 years...when it was -5 degrees with a wind chill of -30) decided it needed to scare the crap out of us. No, it didn't break down (this time), but it decided it didn't like being nice and quiet and cooperative. Instead it decided it wanted to have little explosions everytime it went on. Yes, that's right. Every time it started (which was constantly in that weather) it would have a build up of gas and when the lighter ignited it would give a small explosion. Yeah. That was lovely. Had me freaked out that our house was going to blow up. So needless to say, we had to get that fixed. Lovely.
The next day (Monday) I went to take a shower and guess what? Our pipes in our bathroom tub kicked the bucket. No big mess or anything. We just couldn't use the shower because it wasn't working. *cry*

Now Bob is pretty handy at fixing things. He did most of the work in the nursery with the exception of the dry wall. He does tons of home improvement projects and can fix darn near anything. But this he couldn't. He would have to literally put a hole in the wall in order to get to the pipes. Yeah. So we opted to call a really expensive plumber to fix it. And yes, he did put a hole in the wall, but we have working pipes!! And the hole we just covered with plastic for the time being as we are now sucked dry of our finances thanks to the lovely plumber and terrific furnace. *sigh*

So on Tuesday the furnace guy came to assess our furnace and what we can do about it. And of course, the whole darn thing had to be replaced (or risk an explosion). So Wed. I took the kids to my parents house while the furnace guys spent 5 hours replacing the furnace in -degree weather. Oh what joy to have all this happen with a barely week old baby!

Oh, and in the midst of all this, I also had to take Kyle to the hospital on Monday for his 4 day check up, Tuesday again for a blood test (for jaundice) and again on Wed for another blood test. All while it was flipping cold out!

So that was what I was up to the first week of Kyle's life. Nothing is ever boring around here!! Thank goodness taxes are coming up....we better get a good refund!