Returning

I hoping to return to the world of blogging!  Stay tuned for a very pic heavy post in the near future!

School pics

So the school year has started again. This will be Makayla's last year at CMS. I can not believe it!  It is the last year that she and Kellan will be in the same school together until he starts kindergarten and that will only last for a year then.  I believe that is the only time they will ever be in the same school again.  How sad:(  I bet they won't think so. 

 

 

 

Scrapbook for Kellan

  

I am home sick this weekend while Nathan and the kids are visiting his grandparents in Oklahoma.  I decided it might be a good time to do some work on a scrapbook for my baby boy that is now 1 year old!

growing boy

Kellan is an absolute doll.  I have never seen a baby that is just so content.  Maybe he is a little bit spoiled and possibly a big momma's boy, but he has been such a wonderful addition to our family.  I didn't even notice it as it was happening, but it just seems like he has just always been with us. 

He is trying to crawl, but he hasn't quite mastered the legs and arms at the same time.  It is precious watching him try though.  He loves to eat (hence the fact that he is 23 pounds and not even 9 months), the transition is going to be an easy one to table food because he eats anything that is put in front of him.  Kellan also got his first tooth today.  I guess that is why he has been more cranky than usual.

Siblings....

Makayla absolutely loves having a little brother.  I had no idea that she would be so happy not to be an only child.  She plays with him all the times and irritates him part of the time.  If he is not where she thinks he will be when she gets home from school she becomes very concerned that she can not find Kellan.  It is adorable.  Giving her a brother is one of the best things we ever did for that kid.

sick baby boy

Last week I took Kellan for his 4 month wellness check-up. While she was listening to his chest she heard some wheezing, so she tested him for RSV. It turns out that he had RSV, and I didn't even know it. He ran no fever and had no breathing issues, so I just assumed he had a cold with a pretty bad cough. After the snow day I got to take two more days off work for sick baby. Nathan was able to stay home on Friday to keep him. He is feeling much better and is going back to daycare today since I am pretty sure that his ten days of being contagious are over. I'm pretty sure that he had this for about a week before we ever knew about it. It was seeming that he was not making any improvements and then all of the sudden he just stopped coughing almost all together.

Here is a sad, sick baby picture.

4 month stats:

Legnth: 27 inches

Weight: 19 pounds 2 ounces

snow!

We were home for a couple of days last week due to snow. Here are some pics of Makayla playing in the snow.

whew!

I think that most of my posts these days are just to explain why I haven't been posting, and here is another one. We traveled all over creation for the holidays. It was totally crazy.

Last week our whole family got strep throat except for Kellan. Yay!

I have been back to work since the Monday after Thanksgiving, and it is going great! I am loving the Jacksonville office and being closer to home.

I am seriously sleep deprived...That is all.

In 3 years...

Nathan and I have gone from being just 2 to 3 and now 4

Our house went from being decorated to being baby proofed

Our social lives have been radically changed

We started going to bed earlier and getting up earlier

We started paying for daycare

Our home and family have changed for the better and will never be the same

grilled cheese

We have finally found a Makayla approved vegan cheese! It is tofutti! Apparently is makes a great grilled cheese, or Makayla's Dad has the magic touch.

Getting ready for the holidays

I can not wait to start decorating for the holidays this year. Here are some pics that we took last weekend to put on the christmas card. Actually most of them are pictures of Makayla, but we did manage to get one of her with Kellan.

9 weeks old!

Kellan is 9 weeks old! He loves to coo and smile. Rolling over is also one of his past times. Kellan is just such a happy baby. At his 8 week check up he weighed 15 pounds and was 24 inches long. He has been in 3-6 month clothes for 3 weeks already. We are adjusting to having Kellan around and couldn't imagine our family without him in it!

Happy Birthday, Makayla!

I can not believe that Makayla is already 3 years old. Here is a picture of her blowing out her candles at her Tinkerbell party.

Halloween 2010

Here is our little Tinkerbell and her friend Mr. Skeleton!

Babies and pies

We made some strawberry pies this week! Makayla made her own in mini pie shells. I think that a lot of her strawberries and filling went into the mouth instead of the pies.


Here are some baby pics to go with the pies...

Tummy Time and Weight Check

We have been trying to give Kellan tummy time everyday. Suprisingly he actually seems to like it.

Kellan also had his weight check at Dr. Blair's today. Last Friday his weight was down from 7 pounds 10 ounces at birth to 7 pounds 3 ounces at his appointment. At his appintment today he weighed 8 pounds 5 ounces! Dr. Blair said that that wasn't possible because he could not have gained over a pound in a week, so she went and weighed him herself. She was really suprised when she saw that he really did gain that much weight! I am so glad that he is growing and healthy!

Braveheart

At school yesterday Makayla decided to paint her face. Her teachers called her "braveheart" all day. If you look closely you can see a green circle around her right eye. It was too funny! Don't you love hands on learning:)

Kellan is here!!!

Kellan Lee was born at 10:56 on August 31st. He weighed 7 pounds 10 ounces and was 21 inches long. I was thinking that he would be bigger than his sister but was a little smaller. I would assume that they would have weighed about the same had I made it to my due date.

His delivery was definitely an event...

I had been having contractions on and off all weekend and feeling really tired and sick to my stomach. Especially on Sunday. I don't think that I was really even functional the sunday before I had him because I was so tired....

On Monday I was having very frequent braxton hicks contractions. At 11:30 PM on the 30th I woke up with painful contractions that were never regular. When I showered at 5AM my contractions stopped, so I just went to work. I had a regular dr's appointment the morning of the 31st, and my dr said that I was between a 2 and 3 and not effaced much. After the appointment I went to the school and had a 3 sessions with clients. I was really tired from being up all night with contractions, so I ended my day a little early and went home to nap. Nathan picked Makayla up at school , and they got home around 4:45. They ate supper, but I didn't because I was feeling really sick still. After they finished eating Makayla and I cuddled up on the couch to watch elmo at which time my water broke. No huge gush thank goodness! We left the house about 30-45 mins later and drove to the hospital. The rest went really quickly. We got to the hospital around 7 or 7:15, and my mom got there around 7:30 to get Makayla. The nurse told me that I could have my epidural whenever I wanted it because I was in active labor. I was not that uncomfortable, so I decided to wait a while...Bad idea. The pain went from bearable to completely unbearable to the point I was sweating in about 5 minutes. At around 9 my dr checked me, and said I was at 4cm. Shortly after that I asked for my epidural. At 10 pm I had a really intense contraction and felt the need to push. I yelled at Nathan to go get a nurse, but as he was getting up from his chair my dr and the nurse walked in the room. I don't think that I have ever been so happy to see my dr. It turns out that I was complete already and my dr told me that there would be no time for my epidural. At that point it didn't really matter anyway. I was not completely dialated in one spot, so my dr had to force dialate me. That was not pleasant. At 10:15 I started pushing, and Kellan was born face up at 10:56. He didn't cry, but the dr said not to worry because he was fine and that the only reason for him not crying was because of the trauma of being born face up instead of down.

In summary... My water broke at 6:15, and he was born less than 5 hours later. That's really quick! I am glad that I didn't take the time to shower! There's no way that I would have been walking anywhere at that point.

We have been home since Thursday, and we are all doing great besides Kellan being a little jaundice. Makayla loves being his big sister. I think that she is really excited. He does wake her up at night sometimes, so if you have any suggestions on that I would love to hear them...

Just for Uncle Ryan!

Makayla is wearing her Razorback dress in honor of her Uncle Ryan becoming a Razorback this week. We are all very excited! As you can see she thinks that she is a model in her new dress.

We will probably not be able to get this dress off of her tonight. She'll probably want to sleep in it.

Eventhough Uncle Ryan is more of a football kind of guy Makayla is trying to improve her golf swing. Uncle Ryan is not really much of a golfer, but I am sure that he would play with her if she asked:)

The only downside...We can't move to Fayetteville too! Even Makayla feels the need to protest our living in a town with nothing to do while Uncle Ryan gets to live in Fayetteville with more stuff to do than he has time to do it:)

Just a family update

We have been really busy lately considering that I feel we have nothing to show for all the work we have been doing. That is kind of disappointing. Makayla stayed with my parents in Newport this weekend. I have to admit that I missed her much more than usual! I am always ready to pick her up, but I was really ready to get her this time. She typically stays just one night but stayed 2 night this trip. I wish I could say that we got a lot of work done around the house while she was gone, but we didn't. I think I was just worn out from the work week because we laid around practically all day on Saturday. We did go to Little Rock to eat and watch a movie on Saturday night, but I am sad to say that is the most we accomplished the entire weekend. Makayla did have a great weekend with her Granna, Grandaddy, and Uncle Ryan though.

She has been surprising me so much lately. Since she goes to school all day it is always such a pleasant surprise for me to find out that she knows something that I was unaware that she even knew. It always happens like that. Last night she told me to sit down on the mat in the playroom for circle (like circle time they have at school). I did, so she went into teacher mode and taught me the days of the week. I didn't realize that she even knew that. LOL! It's things like that I don't know about because I don't think to ask her "Do you know the days of the week?". The same thing happens with books. We will read her a book only to realize that she already has 75% of the book memorized. I always think "hmm...I guess they read this book at school too". We are just so blessed to have found such kind, loving people to take care of and teach our little girl!

Baby Update...Last week I woke up in the middle of the night to a couple of painful braxton hicks contractions. The painful ones let up but the contractions still continued. I called and talked to the nurse, and she basically told me not to worry about it because they had slowed down to a contraction every hour or 2. That is normal apparently. I don't know really because I didn't have them much at all with Makayla. Guess that's why we pay our OB's. I had my regular 34 week appointment today, and Dr. Williams wanted to go ahead and check me because of the contractions I have been having. Guess what?!? Not that it means anything at all, but I am already dilated to 1.5 cm. At least something is happening even though I feel a little weird since I am only 34 weeks. He assured me that it was totally normal for a mom who has already had a baby before. Once again...That's why we pay him the big bucks.