Baby A Burrito

She just looked so cute and tiny in this big play pen so I had to take a pic.

I'll have to take some more pictures like this to compare her size to since she's ALOT bigger now! I forget how FAST babies grow!

During all my last doctor check ups my doc was predicting that this baby would probably weigh 6 lbs 8 oz. Well she was born 2 1/2 weeks early and weighed 5 lbs 14 oz. However, we had her two week doctor appointment on my due date and guess how much she weighed! Yup, 6 lbs 8 oz! I thought that was pretty cool!

Sunday Naps

Aren't they great!?

We had a pretty physically and emotionally draining week/weekend and when things finally kinda calmed down this afternoon we all passed out.

This was the first time in a LONG time that I've seen Peanut asleep somewhere besides a bed or her car seat!

I awoke before everyone else and decided to take pictures of my cute sleeping family.

Luke's Birthday

I feel bad cause it wasn't much of a birthday for him this year (he wouldn't even have gotten pie if it wasn't for my aunt! Love her!) but I sure do love him!

We're not cake people so he got one of his favorites - chocolate pudding pie!

My cousin that we were living with shares the same birthday so it was a double celebration!

Peanut LOVES to blow out candles so we had to re-light them so she could have a turn

Baby A during the big festivities

Let's Play Catch-Up!

I'm going to try my hardest to catch you all up on what's been happening the last month but it may take a while so bare with me and check back often...

Peanut being a 'cheese' while eating cheese :)

Baby A (a few days old) with cousin K

Home Owners Again!

We did it! We finally closed on our house yesterday. Amazing! Almost a month after it should've happened but oh well. We're now back in the world of responsibility! We were actually able to move stuff in last Saturday and I've been trying to go up there and sort through things and put stuff away but it is going to be a super long process cause I just can't get anything done now that I have two kids! And I'm so extremely tired all the time due to lack of sleep that I move really slow when I do actually have a spare minute to do something. The MIL is coming up today though so hopefully we can get some major moving in done!

Sorry no pictures today but I did promise my dad some more pics of the baby before he leaves on his cruise so I'll try to get some taken so I can post them soon. Also, we wont have internet at our new house for awhile so I might go MIA for awhile - just to prewarn you :)

My Little Tomboy

What do you do when your little girl prefers...

Deigo to Dora
Mickey to Minnie
Bambi to Cinderella
Balls and blocks to dress up
Her ninja turtle figurine to her baby doll
Her boy cousin's hand me downs to her new pink outfits?

At least when watching Ninja Turtles she says, "More April!"

The Birth Story

I woke at about a quarter to eight to some contractions. I'd been having some false ones the past week so I wasn't too concerned. I started waking up more and decided to time them. By the time I realized they were regularly 5 minutes apart my water broke (8:20 am). It still took me a little bit to convince myself that I was truly in labor but by 8:50 we were headed to the hospital. Since my regular doc was suspended from the hospital I was supposed to deliver at and I'd be having someone I'd never met before delivering the baby we decided to go to the hospital closest to my Aunt's house. Good decision because we wouldn't have made it to the other one! I really wanted to just get to a hospital as soon as possible because the contractions were pretty strong and I wanted my epidural!! But once we got to the hospital the nurse somehow convinced me to do it naturally! Still not sure how/why I agreed but it ended up not being too too bad. In the moment I was cursing myself for not getting the epidural but afterwords I decided it really wasn't that bad because it all happened so fast. From beginning (water breakage) to end (Baby's entrance into this world) it was less than two hours! Totally makes up for the 37 1/2 weeks of suffering! ;)

Our Christmas Surprise

Santa delivered a cute little 5 lb 14 oz bundle of joy to our family this year...

I Wont Be Home 4 Christmas :(

My hopes of moving in before Christmas were in vain. We had some last minute problems with the loan but it should hopefully go through and be ready by the beginning of next week. So if that comes through and we can get the issues with the lawsuit in agreement then we should be moving in next week. Fingers crossed.

I had another doctors appointment yesterday and I only went from a 4 to a 4+ so my mind was kinda put at ease about having a Christmas baby. Doc says there's still a chance but probably only 10-20%. I can live with that. With my luck lately though I'll probably go into labor Christmas Day just because I don't want to. Haha My doctor is also 'suspended' until next Mon at midnight from the hospital that I'm supposed to deliver at so if I do have this baby before then it wont be my doc :(

Peanut also had a doctors appointment yesterday and everything looked good. They discontinued two meds and we are working on getting rid of one more in the next two weeks. Life is always good with less medicines!

There's your update for now! Hope everyone has a good Christmas and we'll continue to keep you posted!

Life's About to Get Crazy!

I've been really slacking in the picture taking department so I had to steal this family pic from Thanksgiving from Lindsay's blog. I'm amazed we got one with everyone looking at the camera!
We had a good time with lots of family and some visits with friends while in St. George for Thanksgiving. It's always good to go stay with my dad too - really hard to leave but always good to go! We spent Thanksgiving day with Luke's family and then had another Thanksgiving meal with my family on Saturday. Lots of good food and my weight gain showed it! Haha

The weeks following Thanksgiving have been full of doctor visits, tests for Peanut, and fun house stuffs. First the update on our house...Our final walk through is on Wednesday! And if everything goes smoothly we could be moving in this weekend! Craziness! There's been some problems between our horse neighbor and the city and our builder so that could delay things a bit but we're hoping not. It'd be great to be in before Christmas! And I'm just excited to move in and get settled so Baby A can come and cause problems on the outside instead of on the inside!

Speaking of Baby A...She's looking good and measuring about average and right around the same weight as Peanut. She's super active and likes causing havoc on my insides. At the beginning of the pregnancy I was saying that this baby could stay in there as long as she wants cause I'm not ready to have two kids but now that I'm experiencing all the fun last trimester aches, pains, contractions, pure exhaustion, head aches, and reoccurring morning sickness I'm so ready to get this baby out! Just not until we've moved!

And as for the Peanut...all the results from her CT scan, labs, and ECHO are all pretty much normal. The CT scan showed one small nodule but the doctor is not concerned about it and we'll just continue on with Acyclovir and continue to slowly lower her anti-rejection to see if her body can eventually kick this EBV. The labs have showed that the low blood sugar episode is not a long term adrenal insufficiency problem and that it was just from her body being stressed from something and her steroid dose not being enough at that time. Deosn't mean it couldn't happen again in the future but now we'll hopefully be a little more prepared to know what's going on and what to do and hopefully prevent it from becoming super serious. And last but not least her ECHO was completely normal so the clotted portal vein is not causing further problems with her heart. Good to know. We had a rough time with the sedation for that test though and it took Peanut a lot longer to fully come out of it and she threw up (at the doctors office none the less) quite a few times. Also good to know for next time.

That's all for now and as life could become really hectic in the next few weeks that could be all for awhile...