Answers to the Matching Game

Okay, here are the answers:

1 Tamra Suzanne, C) 7 lbs. 11 oz. 19 inches
2 Robert Irwin, A) 8 lbs. 2 oz. 21 inches
3 Elijah Ruben, D) 7 lbs. 5 oz. 19.5 inches
4 Robert Teancom, B) 7 lbs. 12 oz. 19.75 inches
5 Miciah Lynn, E) 6 lbs. 12 oz. 16.5 inches

And the winners:
My Dad got all the information correct, plus corrected my length. I was 20 inches, not 19 (I asked my Mom to get the length and my Dad actually looked it up). So he gets the prize for knowing more than I do. ... Though, to be fair, his first guess on my information was Miciah's info., so I guess he gets half a prize.

Most of the rest got the pictures right and didn't try the information, but the pictures were the fun part anyway.

The person who got it all right is someone who has never met Rob or my kids: Martina. She lives in Switzerland and even had to convert the weights and lengths! Way to go, Martina!

Okay, so thanks for putting up with my game. I thought it would be fun. Funny enough, I was my mother's smallest child at 7 lbs. 11 oz., and Teancom is my biggest child at 7 lbs. 12 oz. Rob was the biggest of us all and Miciah pulls in as the runt (not me, as quite a few of you thought).

Recovery

I'll attach a few more pictures of Teancom and the family. It's nice to have him home and have us back together. I feel really good, but I am so tired. I feel like at this point I shouldn't be so tired, but then I think about how I'm recovering from major surgery. And then my Mom will point out that I'm never getting more than 3 hours of sleep at a whack. Oh yeah. :) The other two kids have been able to stay in routine pretty well, and that's a blessing. I am hoping to get back to capable pretty fast, but every day I do something that reminds me that I'm just not healed. Yesterday I vacuumed half a room. It hurt. This morning, without thinking, I scooped up Elijah to put him in a time-out. I'm still feeling that one.

Pictures

As you can see, Teancom is pretty dark, like Miciah and Rob. We kept thinking he is darker than Miciah was, but I think it's pretty comparable. He has a little more hair than Ciah did, but it's all around the sides. It hangs over his ears. Rob says he has male pattern baldness already. Great. :) But it's cute. So we have 2 dark children and 1 bright white one. We'll see as they get older what they'll look like.

Pronouncing Teancom's Name

A lot of people have asked how to pronounce Teancom's name. I'm not very good at pronunciation stuff, so bear with me (I don't know which sound is the long a and which is the short, etc., so I'll just describe it as best I can). It is 3 syllables with the emphasis on the second syllable. The sounds are:
Tee-An (like the sound in tank)-come. In fact, if you just put 'ank' from 'tank' in the middle there, it'd be really dang close. Cause it's almost like I say the 'k' in 'ank', but not really. I dunno. I should just figure out how to do pronunciations. :) But hopefully that'll get people close enough to saying his name. Or just Tank. It works.

The Car Accident that Wasn't

Fun information that isn't news, but thankfully isn't: Rob almost wrecked the car this morning. It's been raining pretty steady for the last day or so. Rob was on the on-ramp to get on the freeway when he lost traction and spun the car 180 degrees before coming to a stop. He says he didn't go off the road, and thankfully he didn't, cause he says he came pretty close to hitting one of those metal telephone poles. Yikes! We are grateful he is safe and sound, and that our car is, too.

And that's the closest we get to news here. We've all been taking it easy with lots of downtime. Hope all is going well for everyone!

Tamra and family

P.S. Oh! And I included a picture of my uterus on top of my belly. You can see the "heart-shape" of my uterus. My doctors thought that was pretty neat. Weird.

The Real Announcement

The Birth Day

Friday went wonderfully. It was our best experience by far. The doctors were friendly and talked to me during surgery (though most of the time I just wanted to puke). I got to see Teancom being born, which I was reluctant about, but now that I saw it, I wish I would have seen the other 2 also. It was an awesome thing to witness. The first thing he did after being born is pee all over the doctors. Rob took a little video clip on our camera of the birth. Eww. But it's neat.



The Family at Home

Miciah loves him and would hold him all day if she could. She'll say that he needs "Sister time." And Elijah, after being pretty jealous, has warmed up to him and my Mom even found him this morning trying to comfort him when he was crying. How cute. He'll randomly walk up to me, put his arms out, and say, "Baby," like he wants to hold him. He also is getting used to the idea of breastfeeding. He at first would try to pull the baby off and say, "Let go!"

The whole process has just gone really well and we're extremely blessed. He's a pretty good baby and we're also very thankful for that. ... We get a lot of comments on his name: Robert Teancom. Teancom is a Book of Mormon war leader/hero, and also a family name. We spell it different (with an o instead of a u), just for preference. I wanted to give him the name of a warrior. If you don't like the name, or if you'd prefer to call him something else, C has suggested the nickname Tank. And we like that. Goes along with the warrior/war theme. :)

Anyways, things are going good. My Mom is here helping and loving on the baby. I feel really really good (especially compared to the last 2 times), but I'm still really really tired. By about halfway through the day I'm wiped out and have to go lay back down. So it's nice to have my Mom here to help out. And of course she loves every minute she gets with her 3 grandkids.

We love you all and thank you for your well wishes, prayers, and thoughts.

Love,
Tamra, Rob, Miciah, Elijah and Teancom