The Longest Post in the Land

Oh my goodness I can't believe it's been almost 3 months since I last blogged. I attribute it to my dear, sweet, crazy, non sleeping children. Can I just say that 2 kids is crazy!?! I feel like I could do a newborn with my eyes closed but Conner...well let's just say he's lots of work. So anyway here's what I'm going to do. Instead of having a reeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaly long post I'm just going to try really hard to have a long one and post maybe 2 or 3 pics of each holiday/event that happened around here since there have been like 5 holidays I need to cover! oops!

October
This was a funish month. We were all getting used to Sophie being around and she suprisingly got to stay in my room for most of it (I kicked Conner out within a week or so because he was so loud! And when he wasn't loud I thought he was dead so I didn't get much sleep with him) Rusty went to Chicago for 4 days on a business training. I'm glad he only has to travel once a year and we're done with that for a while. It was especially hard with a 2 week old! But the week before that My super duper awesome brother Zach came home from his mission in Leeds. England! yay!

Meeting Sophie for the first time. She was just 2 weeks old.

ER Visit

We had to make an emergency trip to the ER fro Conner's peanut allergy. He ate a cookie that we were unaware had peanut butter in it. It was so sad and scary. He got giant hives all over his body and was wheezing. Definitely don't want to do that again!

Halloween happened a few weeks later. The Sat before Halloween we went up to Oakley and had a Halloween party with Rusty's family and on Halloween day/night we went to Orem to spend it with my family because we like Halloween (even though I didn't dress up) Conner still talks about, and even did today, about how we need to go to Papa's house for trick-or-treating.

Don't let him fool you, this was all he did for the carving of the pumpkin...a few scoops of goo. But ofcourse we don't have a pic of me doing all the rest.

Conner also decided just before Halloween that it would be fun to try potty training again (our first attempt a few months ago was a train wreck!) We've had some ups and downs which are probably a whole post in themselves but he's doing SO good now! 

November

November started out with a bang. Rusty had shoulder surgery to repair all of his dislocations he's had this year. This was on Nov 5th (I think. I'd have to look at a calendar) I sadly never got a picture of him and his giant sling. too bad. It was pretty crazy for a little while here with a 5 week old baby, Conner barely potty training and Rusty recovering from surgery. Let's just say I didn't really sleep for a few weeks (not that I sleep now) with Sophie being a normal new born, Conner needing to go potty in the middle of the night and Rusty needing his ice changed every 4 hours or so. But things slowly got back to normal  and then we celebrated Thanksgiving! 

Conner had a lot of fun at the "park" (my grandma's swing set) with grandpa and Uncle Zach

December

December seems like it was the least busy month of them all if you can believe it! Nobody got sick, nobody had surgery, nobody almost died so it was good! Just the normal Christmas stuff. Conner was a lot of fun this year with Santa coming. On Christmas eve we went to Orem and Christmas Day we went to Oakley.

One of the few moments Sophie  was awake when we went to see the lights

Christmas morning

Yummy cinnamon rolls!

  

 January
On New Years day we went to Thanksgiving Point to the dinosaur museum. Conner LOVED it. especially the big sand box that he could brush for fossils in.

 We also blessed Sophie on the 6th. I'm sure I'll do a post just for that someday so here's a little pic. of her until then!

Man that was looooong. But I guess that's what happens when it's a looooong time inbetween posts! Hopefully I can do better next time now that I'm kind of becoming a normal functioning person again!

Baby News

Since it's been 3 weeks and since both kiddos are napping right now and I'm feeling very uncharistically non-zombie like I decided to hurry and write a little about the birthing of little Sophie Anne.


Man oh man this was a complete 180 when comparing to Conner. So I'll warn you now it's not really a very interesting story.


My story starts about 4 weeks ago when Rusty went off to play flag football with the ward. My words as he was leaving: "don't get hurt" because we knew were were probably having this baby next week. His game didn't start until like 9pm and at 10:30 I get a call from a fellow ward man saying they were in the ER because he dislocated his shoulder. Thanks for taking my advice hon! You should listen to your wife more often! He was planning on taking a bunch of days off that week anyway so he could do my suuuuuper long honey-do list but instead he just took it off and was out of commission. So when you see pictures of Rusty with a sling that is why.

So anyway, I talked to my doc on Tues the 25th at my last appointment and we decided on Thurs Sept 27th  at 7:00am we would induce me. aaaaaa! I'm not sure if I like knowing ahead of time or not exactly WHEN I'm going to have a baby. On the one hand I can get completely ready, but on the other hand I drove myself nutso with anticipation! On wed I cleaned like there was no tomorrow (because there really was no tomorrow...to clean that is). One, because I let's be honest, there is nothing better than coming home from vacation, or work, or in my case labor and delivery, to a nice clean house and two, there was no need to be careful and try to keep this baby in any longer! and the more I could progress on my own the shorter labor in the hospital would be. So I mopped and vacuumed all the floors, scrubbed the bathrooms, cleaned all little fingerprints off everything, etc.

Then later that night my parents drove up from Orem to pick up Conner. Then it was just waiting time. It was pretty weird not to have Conner at home. I didn't really know what to do half of the time! We finally just went to bed and I actually didn't sleep any worse than usual! (that doesn't necessarily mean I slept very well though;)) I woke up on my own at 6:00, (which is good because I set my alarm but forgot to turn it on, oopsies) and was eating some toast for breakfast when I got a phone call from the hospital saying they were way way busy and to call back at 9:00 and see if they are less busy. UGGGG! More waiting. We decided that probably the more sleep we could get the better so we went back to bed and I called them at 9 and they were still busy!! They said that they would call me when they were ready but they didn't know when that would be. Thanks guys! So Rusty and I went for a walk, but my sciatic nerve pain and incesive waddling cut that short, so we went home and played some card games to pass the time. I finally decided to go and lay down for a little while and as soon as my head hit the pillow my phone rang and it was time!!!

We got to the hospital and wandered around trying to figure out where to go (we were way less crazy prepared this time around. We didn't even do a hospital tour) and got checked in. I laid in bed waiting to be started for about an hour while we waited for blood tests and started having pretty strong contractions all on my own (I attribute it to all my cleaning. Maybe we would have had a baby pretty soon anyway??? maybe?) My tests all came back ok. Not bad like last time and they said I could have an epidural:) but the nurse said that it was probably a good thing we were having this baby today.
So here's the timeline

12:30ish they started me on petocion which made me so so SO cold and I got to be wrapped up in the microwaved blankets which was oh so nice.
1:30ish I had gone from almost a 2 to 4cm in an hour so Doc broke my water.
2:30ish I was given an epidural. Just hanging out with Rusty still trying to decide on a name and where we want to go for our summer vacation. So much more relaxed than with Conner!
3:30 Nurse checked me again and I was a a 7! super fast! She said she'd be back in 30 min to check on me again.
4:00 I hadn't pushed the panic extra epidural button yet but I was starting to be able to feel contractions pretty strong and I figured that I had a few more hours left so I pushed the button. The nurse came in a few minutes later and checked me and oh lookie, I'm at a 10 and her head is just right there! No wonder I was starting to feel the contractions! Time to call the Doc!
4:18 after only pushing through 2 contractions (about 6 pushes) little Sophie joined our family!

We got a pic of Conner on the scale and Rusty loved that so he wanted one for Sophie as well. Turns out that Rusty's not allowed to take pictures just after his baby is born. They get kind of crazy.

Her first bath. Since I wasn't there for it I was told that she LOVED it. and Still does. Every time I wash her hair her eyes roll back into her head.

Conner came to visit that night. He loves his Sophie.

Getting ready to leave the hospital!

And that's the story!

Here are some answers to quick questions I know everyone has!

Is she a good baby? Why yes she is! She is so content pretty much all of the time. Even when she wakes up to eat she never really cries, she just grunts and wines a little bit. She is a little angel!

Now that you've had both, would you get an epidural again? Oh my goodness YES!!! I was a little nervous just because I had never had one and was even thinking for a second that maybe I wouldn't since I had already done it with out one but once the contractions really set in I was thinking "how the crap did I do this last time?"  and changed my mind pretty fast.  It really wasn't that bad getting it. The worst part was the numbing shot. But really it made the whole experience so much better! I remember being so exhausted by the time Conner came. I was literally falling asleep between contractions. I can't really remember a whole lot about anything but since I wasn't falling asleep this time around I can still hear her first cry and I remember the very surreal experience holding her for the first time and crying when her little fingers grasped mine. It was what every girl pictures holding her newborn would be like and I just didn't get that with Conner...at least I don't remember it very well. Probably my only regret is that I pushed that stupid power boost button 15 min before pushing so I couldn't feel ANYTHING and they had to tell me when I was having a contraction. But all in all it was so much easier. I told Rusty that after Conner's labor and delivery I felt like we cheated with this one! I could have 20 more babies like this (no, I am not having 20 more babies)

How is Conner doing? He's doing fantastic! He loves his little sister and isn't TOO jealous. every once in a while he'll start dancing around or scream at the top of his lungsfor attention but nothing too bad. If anything he loves her a little TOO much. I feel like my days are spent protecting her from his hugs and kisses.

How did you finally decide on a name? Ok, so I went back and forth forever on names and could never fully decide. I have loved the name Sophie for a long long time. Since before Conner was ever born and before the name exploded on the charts. But then I'd tell people what we were thinking of naming her and 7/10 times people were like "oh that's popular" even though I've only met one other Sophie in my life. So I came up with an alternative that I liked a lot too but I didn't tell very many people because I didn't want to hear their nice advice about it. But now that she's here and has a name the other one was Jocelyn. One day I'd be like "her name is Jocelyn. I know it" and the next day I'd say "No, actually it's Sophie" and I just couldn't decide.

We started asking Conner what names he liked and we say "do you like_____" and he'd say no to all of them. Then I asked if he liked Sophie and he said "yeah!" then whenever we asked if he liked a name "Conner, do you like 'Jessica'?" He'd reply "No! Yike Sophie" for the last monthish this was his response.

No my 2 year old's oppinion is not the reason she has her name. But it is a cute story! I think I secretly really liked Sophie a lot more than any other one because I kept coming back to it. Rusty said he knew that's the one I would pick.

Oh wow this ended up  being a lot longer post than I intended! So I guess I'll be done!

The Last One!

Here's the very last belly shot of little girl. I'm 39 weeks, well I will be tomorrow but I am going to be INDUCED on THURSDAY!!! Yuppers, that means that I have only 2 more days of waddling left!
My Doc decided that with my BP still high in office (in fact it was so high today she almost wanted to take me today!) and since Little Girl is looking amazing and ready for life we'll just end the pregnancy before something bad can happen. So that's the big news!

I also had my last ultrasound (since I've been having them every other week for the past 3 months) today and we have never been able to see her face until today! she finally gave us a peek. But I'm going to make ya'll wait until she's born to add suspense. (actually it's mostly because I'm too lazy to scan in the Ultrasound pic)

I guess that means that I should probably finish packing, put the car seat in the car, and oh yeah, maybe pick out a name.

Wish us luck!!!

It's a Watermelon!

Well freinds, I'm 37 weeks today!!

AKA officially full term

AKA one week to the day before I had Conner

AKA I could go at any time! And it might mean nothing at all but today I got and followed the urge to clean all my bathrooms, vacuum all my floors and re-organize my closet. Nesting anyone?? just sayin...

So I feel like I'm pretty much ready for this little girl to make her appearance. (well I'm ready in the stuff aspect. I'm not so sure anybody is really ready to push a baby out.) But I have to keep her in until at least the 15th (saturday) because it is THE FINAL tax deadline and I absoutley positutely refuse to have another tax season birthday in this family. 3 more days then I don't chare when the heck she comes. I had a Dr apointment on Monday which ended in a cry fest (don't worry, everything is fine, I'm just a pregnant basket case) My BP was a tiny bit high at the first of my apt (although it's been purrrrfect at home) so my dr had them check it again after my apt and it was a little higher. Dang it! The nurse went and talked to Doc and she said to have me sit in the exam room for 10 min and then try again and if it was still high I'd need to go to the hospital to be checked out. Well I'm not sure that Doc wanted to nurse to tell me that last part because that's not what you tell someone who needs to stay calm. But she told me and shut me in a room all by myself for 10 min. and what else was I supposed to do but cry? I mean honestly! I thought I had done a really good job of not super crying and maybe the nurse wouldn't notice (ha!) But she came in and said "oh no! No crying!" I'm sure that she was just trying to be nice but that's the second thing you don't do because when you acknowledge that someone has been crying it just makes it worse. And I didn't even need to go to nurse school to learn that! So after she said that I lost it. And then silly nurse still took my blood pressure even though it was bound to be sooooo high because of my cryfest. and it was. It was like 158/103. (remember, 140/90 is when they worry) She asked if I wanted a few minutes to calm down and check again before sending me to the hospital. Well duh. YES I wanted to try again! She forgot to close the door and since the flood gates had been opened instead of calming down I just got worse. My doc walked by and came in just as the nurse was coming back. Doc said "I can't check her BP now! There's no way it will be right!" So she told me that she didn't think that it was PE and that I should go home and relax and check at home and let her know if it creeps up again.  Wow that was a really long story! and probably kind of boring. sorry! I don't even know if I meant to tell the whole thing but since I spent so much time typing it we'll just leave it.

But good news, I had an ultrasound and she is approx. the weight that Conner was when he was born! (5lb 10oz) which is still small but not 2 weeks behind like she has been measuring!

And that's the news! and here are some pics!

The lineup. Click on me to see me bigger! Oh, and you can also see how much someone's hair can grow in the duration of a pregnancy because, don't think I'm gross, but I haven't cut it the whole time (not on purpose, it just never happened)

The nursery is almost pretty much done! yay!

pretty pretty DI frames for $.50 each!

Tada! After! The middle one is a DI frame too but I didn't get a before. I splurged and spent a dollar on it. Someday there will be cute pics in them!

Another project. $.97 walmart wooden frames modge podged with cute paper and hooked together with ribbon.

and closer

And all of little girls cute cute clothes! squeal! So excited:)

To Miss...and NOT to Miss...There is No Question

As this pregnancy is winding down (27 days and counting!) it's got me thinking about all the the things that I'm SO excited to have disappear when I'm DONE.

I will NOT miss
Back aches. I didn't have it much with Conner, but with this one I've had crazy terrible sciatic nerve pain. So bad that for the last little while there have been a few times a week I've literally had to crawl around because I couldn't stand up straight (which in turn made Conner think crawling was a new game. Silly boy)

Heartburn. Rusty says I eat tums like a crack addict. and it's probably true. I've been through I think 5 bottles this pregnancy and I just bought another one!

The difficulty that is shaving my legs. I think I'm to the point where I can get from my ankle to my knee...and that's it. I would forget it all together but I hate the pokey pokey.

Having to sleep with 5 pillows strategically arranged all around me so I can sleep at all...at least until...

Peeing 8 times in the middle of the night. I swear this little girl is just sitting on my bladder and at any given moment she can kick it and, well, when you gotta go you gotta go.

Being so tired all the time...we'll that might not change but the reason will! I've been reading a book for the past 2 months and it's not a bad dumb boring book at all! I just can't get through it because I keep falling asleep!

This new tingling in my hands that has developed the last few days. It constantly feels like my hands are in that pins and needle stage after they are just waking up. They say it's pretty normal in pregnancy but I just find it pretty annoying.

Checking my blood pressure every stinkin day. Good thing C's here to remind me. He'll see the monitor and say "mommy check pepper?" haha. so cute.

The broken blood vessels all over my face. Thank goodness for my cover girl!

Trying to come up with a name. ugggggg! I so don't make decisions. I can't even decide on what to eat at a new restaurant in a timely manner, let alone what to name another human being! It's kind of a big deal!


And I'm sure there's a whole slue of other things that I just can't think of right now.
But on the bright side so ya'll don't think I'm a negative Nelly and hate being pregnant (because I really don't) here are the things that I'll be sad to see go

I will miss
Feeling little girl move around. There really is nothing more amazing than feeling a baby move inside of you...except of course when she's bouncing on my bladder.

My pretty pretty skin. I don't think my face has ever been this clear in my life! Total difference from C's pregnancy where I looked like an 8th grader who was in desperate need of some soap.

My bump. I really do think it's kinda cute.

Maternity clothes. Not necessarily the one's that I have because I'm down to 1 1/2 non-sweat pants (the half being ones I can wear for half of the day and then I'm done) and a handful of shirts and I'm kind of tired of the same thing, but over all they're pretty darn comfy.

Conner randomly saying "baby coming!" It's so cute to see him maybe understand... even though I still don't think he knows what it means.


That's kind of sad that the con list outweighs the pro one. Oh well. I'll blame it on the fact that I'm down to the last month when all of the cons come out. I decided that it's natures way of making actually having the baby more appealing than staying pregnant. But overall this really has been a wonderful pregnancy and I have loved most minutes of it!!

My Fair Babies

Looks like I just do monthly posts so here's the post for August!!

Baby Baby

I'm officially 35 weeks tomorrow! crazy! Things are going really good. I've been having an ultrasound every week for the past month or so just to check things and make sure nothing scary creeps up but everything's been perfect so far! They say she's measuring about 2 weeks small size wise, but developmentally she right on track. I'd post pics of the US but she always has her face smooshed up against the wall every time we try to take a pic. so she looks like an alien squishy thing. Too bad. But maybe that means she will be a cuddly baby instead of my very anti-cuddle, only snuggles when he's about to throw up, son.

This pic was taken last week at 34 weeks. Getting bigger!



Down at the County Fair

Conner and I went to the Davis county fair a few weeks ago with some other ladies in the ward. We all entered our kids into the cutest baby contest and I was pretty sure Conner would win because let's be honest, he WAS the cutest baby at the fair. But they must not have seen him because he didn't win a darn thing:( but he did get a little sand bucket and shovel which was a win in his eyes!

Standing up on stage being judged. we probably didn't win because he had this stone cold look on his face the whole time. Maybe I should have put vaseline on his teeth.

 Next we went to the petting zoo thing. Conner had fun seeing all of the animals up close.



Eventually he and his little friend decided that it was way more fun to sit on the ground and pick up the little black marbles on the floor. That was our cue to leave!

On the way home! Still smiling after being forced to be in a beauty pagent, walking around in 100 degree temps and missing a nap. What a trooper! (and don't worry, the black on his face is from a cookie, not from the magical marbles in the petting zoo)

A trip to Logan

We went to Logan a weekish ago for a baby shower for a friend and a fun day of visiting friends we hadn't seen in a while.

Conner and Daddy had lots of fun riding around on the scooter!

Who knew grocery shopping could be so fun!

Also on Saturday I had a baby shower that some great friends in my ward threw. I have absoutly no pictures to show for it but it was lots of fun and I got some cute little girly clothes:) I still need to get some more clothes and do some other things to get ready for this baby but I think we're getting there! I should hope so since I'm one week away from the magical time of  "I could explode at any time" 36 weeks. I totally wish that the nesting thing kicked in sooner because I have lots to do, I even wrote a list yesterday so I could cross things off as motivation to do it, but all I want to do is lay on the couch and watch Conner play with a cardboard box.  oh well.

Oh and also we bought a second car this month! Yay! We have only had one car since we have lived here so I've been somewhat stranded during the week days at the house. But now I can venture out during the days which is super duper exciting! I keep forgetting to take pictures of it but it's a silver  '05 Chevy Malibu. And if you are like me and that means nothing to you it just looks like a little silver car.