An update...

Hello all!
We're still surviving at the Rosfeld house. We enjoyed a visit this week from Kerry's parents for the Thanksgiving holiday. Thank you mom Rosfeld for "punting" when making the pumpkin pie and cooking the turkey. It was delicious! We're still enjoying the left overs from the 22lb turkey we had in our freezer!!

The boys enjoyed building a kinex tower with Papa Don and Daddy. It's still up in the basement, surprisingly enough with all the wrestling that goes on down here. We got some great pictures!!

Zeke is doing good. Getting too big for some of his newborn clothes already!! He's sleeping well at night about 3-4 hours at a time. He seems to have a tummy ache most evenings, but it isn't too bad. He's starting to have some more awake alert times which is lots of fun.

Gabe and Otto have enjoyed about 2 weeks off of school with the baby coming and Thanksgiving. We'll start back up again tomorrow and try to get into a little bit of a routine. Ha ha ha. :) Flexibility is the key word right?

Kerry goes back to work tomorrow, my grandparents are going to come down to help with the boys for the day. Tuesday will be my first official day home with all three of them. I've been experimenting with a couple different carriers for Zeke so that I can have some hands free time and still have him close. Although he does sleep well in his crib. I hate to put him down because I know I'm going to miss out on lots of cuddles when I go back to work in January (something I'm starting to dread already! Not that I hate my job, I just hate leaving my family.)

I'm recovering well. It's taken a little longer than I would have liked, but I'm feeling much more like myself these days. I'm not having to take pain medicine very often now and when I do it's been ibuprofen. The extra sets of hands have been very helpful so that I could get the rest I needed to recover.

Below you'll see another photobook of Papa Don and Grandma Mary's recent visit. Hope all is well. Love to all!!

--Erin

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Sorry so late

Okay, so for some reason we couldn't get into our blog from the hospital internet connection so we're a little late posting pictures. I posted a little slide show of Zeke's first few days in the hospital. Hope you think they're as cute as we do! :)

We are home now and things are going well. Zeke is waking up every 3 hours or so to eat, but sleeps pretty well in between. He was almost back to his birth weight on Monday. I got my staples out today. It's taking a little longer to recover from my c-section this time and I'm kind of impatient so I think I may have been over doing it a little this week. I'll try to take it easy this next week again though, we'll see how that goes!

The boys are adjusting well. Otto is completely in love with his little brother and loves to shower him with kisses and hold him as often as possible. Gabe is a little more cautious, although adjusting well. He's not as baby crazy though.

Kerry is doing well. Trying to catch up on some homework that was missed earlier this week due to our stay in the hospital. Who wants to work on homework when you could hold a baby?! I'm so lucky to have such a helpful and loving husband. He is very much in love with Zeke as am I.

We've spent lots of time after the boys are asleep watching the faces he makes and enjoying his "babyisms". It's such a delight to have a baby around again. Don't worry though, we're not neglecting the big boys either. They've had lots of cuddles, hugs and kisses too. They enjoyed some good wrestle time with Daddy tonight.

Hope all is well. We'll try to post more pictures and updates soon. Right now I have to go stare at my beautiful children. :)

Love to all,
Erin

Introducing Ezekiel Jackson

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Today is the day!!

Hello all! Just a quick note thanking you for your prayers today! We're getting ready to go to the hospital in about an hour. My surgery will be at 1230 today. We'll post pictures as soon as we can and update about his name, size and vitals. :) It seems a little weird to be adding number three to the mix, but we're very excited. It's hard to imagine having another baby and going back to the diapers and crying. It's been 4 years!! We might be a little out of practice here. :)

Love you all...Next time I update we'll be a family of 5!!!

--Erin

5 days!

Hello all! Just a quick update a couple of pictures.

Things are going well here. Kerry worked this week on Wednesday and the boys and I headed to Colorado Springs for my doctor appointment. Everything looks good. Baby sounds good although slowing down in his activity. He's definitely running out of room!
My c/s is scheduled for the 19th at 1230. We have to be there by 1030, I'm really thankful we don't have to be there by 5 am! I gotta have my sleep. Although I'm not terribly excited about going without food for that long. It might make me grumpy. :)

We finished decorating our two Christmas trees today. The big one upstairs has fallen over "accidentally" once, other than that so far so good.

My mom is coming tomorrow and dad will follow next week. It's turned very cold here the last few days. It's been very windy reminding us a lot of Kansas. :) We're supposed to have another warm up this weekend and we'll see what next week holds for us.

So as promised here are a couple of pictures of my belly. I'm not planning on taking anymore before I deliver. I think the black is a little deceiving because I look and feel a lot bigger!

We'll keep you updated and will post pictures of the new little guy from the hospital on Wednesday. (We'll call too of course!)

9 days

Well, 9 days and counting until our c-section. So ready to meet this little guy!!

Kerry is doing well. Just finished another class and it starting another one. He's on the downhill stretch it looks like and man are we excited! He's started working on Monday and Wednesday at a business our pastor manages. It gets him out of the house and me into it for a couple days a week. We both enjoy the change. :)

Gabe and Otto are being their usual selves. It's been difficult lately because it's been cold and rainy they get a little stir crazy during the day. It was fun for me to do school with them today and be able to enjoy their energy! They have been working dutifully on picture frames for the new baby to bring to the hospital so he knows what they look like. They also helped put up our Christmas tree this past weekend. We have one upstairs in the living room. Otto put one outside (it's actually the top of one that broke off when we were cutting it down) and Gabe has one that we'll put in the basement (we don't have that one up yet).

I'm doing okay too. Getting bigger it seems by the day. Starting to itch a little bit more, but no where close to as bad as with Gabe. I am getting more uncomfortable and sleeping more than 2 hours at a time is getting to be a thing of the past. This baby feels bigger, but it could be because he's still so high. At my last appointment, the doctor said he's got a big head and that may be why he's not dropping. Great! Not that it matters because he's a c-section, but if he'd drop I'd be able to breathe a whole lot better. The bags are packed at least now, except for Kerry's stuff. We still need to get the car seat in the car and then we should be ready for him to be here. In the scheme of things I know that 9 days isn't terribly long, but it seems like forever! The good news is that my c-section isn't until 12:30, so we don't have to be at the hospital until 10:30. (yay for not getting up at 5am!)

I'm done with lectures at school. I just have a couple of tests to give and then I'll be ready for leave. I'm going to stick around this week and next Tuesday to work on my courses for next semester. I'm going to be teaching OB/peds in Canon City, 1st year med surg and 2nd year med/surg in Pueblo. Hopefully I won't have to do clinicals with a new baby. Three courses is a lot to prep, but 12+ clinical hour days plus driving to Canon may prove to be too much for me.

We're anxiously anticipating the visits from grandparents. My parents are coming this next weekend for a week or so and Kerry's folks are coming the week of Thanksgiving. The boys are excited too and it'll be really nice to have so many extra hands here! Plus my grandparents will be around too, so we are blessed with extra help eventhough we're so far away from Kansas.

We have most everything we need for the baby. The biggest thing I'm lacking at the moment is a good pump for when I go back to school. I have the one from when the boys were born, but I'm not sure it'll last the spring semester with as much as I'll be pumping. Other than that we're set. Mary, a lady I work with, had a very nice shower for me a few weeks ago. It was a lot of fun and I'm thankful she was willing to open her home and host it. I've had several students give gifts to the baby as well.

I think that's really it from our part of the country. It's starting to get colder, but not too bad yet. Please pray for Luke Chambers. He's the son of our pastor and his wife. He's in the marines and is currently in Iraq for the next 6 months and 2 weeks. :) He's doing what God has called him to do, but it can't be easy and we want him and his comrades to be safe. Also pray for a healthy delivery next week. Not that there's anything to be concerned about, but it's always on my mind as it comes closer. I certainly wouldn't object to prayers that I go into labor and he comes early. :) But it's okay if he doesn't too. (sort of). :)

We love you all! Have a great week! I'll try to get Kerry to take a couple pictures of our tree and my ever growing belly so you can see just how big I am. (seriously, I look like a walrus). :) Love you!
Happy Birthday Papa Kevin!!

--Erin