Labor and Delivery

I just had to post this because I felt the need to brag :-) I started having close contractions at about 8 in the morning on the 23rd but they weren't as painful as I thought they should be ( I've never been in labor so I imagined they'd be much more painful ). Well I happened to have a doctors appointment at 11:30 so I decided to just go about my business until my appointment. By the time 11:00 rolled around my contractions had consistently been 4 minutes apart for about 3 hours but I was still determined to go to the doctors office first, I didn't want to go to the hospital for false labor :-) I had called my mom and told her at 9 what was going on and she was having a fit because I wasn't going straight to the hospital, she just kept telling me " I hope Chris knows how to tie off an umblical chord " but I kept telling her that it was probably false labor, I mean hey, I'm still not due for 6 more days, it was 3 weeks early and everyone kept telling me that when you have your first baby your usually over due. At 11:30 we finally got to my appointment and I got right in (there was no wait, thank God) and the doctor asked me why in the heck I wasn't at the hospital because I was having a baby... I must admit, I felt a little dumb, but I did not want to go to the hospital and waste time. So we got to the hospital pretty quickly, I was admitted at noon and dilated to a 5, they gave me the epideral 20 mintues after arriving, the doctor came in at 1:30 to break my bag and I was dilated to a 6, when he came in he told me things were going quickly and that he would probably be back in around 5 or 6 to help deliver our baby. As soon as he left I started dilating a centimeter every 30 minutes so the nurse had to call him back pretty quickly. I had Christian at 3:21 in 3 sets of pushes it was the easiest thing I've ever done and it terrifies me because I just know that I will never have such an easy labor and delivery again! By the time they sent me home 2 days later I definetly did not feel like I had just had a baby! The lord really blessed me with him :-)

I had to post my last belly picture, it feels weird not having one anymore!

Special Delivery!

Christian Douglas decided to grace our presents 3 weeks early! He was born at 3:21 pm on March 23rd, he weighed 6 pounds 5 ounces and was 19 inches long. I can't believe he is 2 weeks already! Sienna is an amazing big sister to him she loves to help out. She loves giving him kisses, fixing his hair into a mohawk and laughing at the million funny faces he makes a day :-) Chris is a proud daddy he has been amazing at helping out and I am so happy he finally has a little boy! My mom came the first week to help out and boy did she ever! I was so scared that when she left I wouldn't be able to keep up but I am managing. Christian is so adorable in every way imaginable I love just watching him sleep. He doesn't let me get to much sleep though, he wakes up about every 2 hours at night to eat and then sleeps really well during the day, needless to say I am learning to function off of about 4 hours of sleep a day :-) Everyone says that he looks just like Chris but I think the older he's getting the more he's looking like me, I'll let you be the judge. Either way, Chris and I make some pretty cute kids :-)

31 weeks, puppies, AND a new house!!!!

 I can not begin to tell you how busy the past week has been! I have barely had time to breathe. It started on Monday when the house closed (yes a house finally :-)) we get to start moving in hopefully on Wednesday or Thursday we spent all last week painting and cleaning and we will be spending this week finishing with carpet and a little more painting. I am so very very thankful for Chris's parents they have helped us so much and we would not be where we are at without them. I better figure out some amazing way to pay them back (other than finally moving out of their house... j/k I know they love having us ;-)). The house is perfect for Chris, Sienna, Christian, and I. On top of moving Abby (Chris's mini weiner dog) had her puppies on Wednesday, she had 3 boys, 2 are pure black and one is brindle. I was curious to see how they were going to turn out because we bred her with a shitzu, we thought weiner-shnitzuls would be funny, I knew they would either be really cute or really ugly turns out they are really cute so far! Taking care of Abby and her puppies while trying to get our house done has been alot of hard work! Abs and the puppies are in our room until we move because I don't want the other dogs to bother her and they keep me up ALL night with their little puppy whimpers. On top of everything else Chris had to leave for Washington for the weekend so I have been doing things solo. Did I mention on top of all that I am 31 weeks pregnant! I am really going to need a vacation after all this! I have been noticing alot of changes the past week as far as my body goes, Christian keeps me up all night kicking the tar out of me, my older brother says my face is getting fat :-), and my belly just keeps growing. I really enjoy being pregnant for the most part I am getting pretty anxious to meet our little prince, only 9 more weeks to go! I have another appointment on the 18th and after that we get to start seeing Christian every 2 weeks. I can not even begin to tell you how much I love being able to see him in 3D every appointment. I feel blessed. My birthday is coming up on the 24th and I am hoping Chris takes me on a "babymoon" our last vacation before the fun really begins, I don't care where as long as it's just us. Hopefully once we move into our new house things will calm down some because I'm getting a bit frazzled with everything that's happening. The upside? My pregnancy seems to go so much faster when I am keeping this busy. I can't wait for April!!!

Our new house!

Sienna painting her room

One of our black weiner-shnizuls

The cute little brindle (he's my favorite)

Chris and i with my "fat" face :-)

My growing belly

26 weeks

 I am now 26 weeks and a few days and I am getting a little terrified/anxious to meet our handsome little man! I only have 14 more weeks left and it just seems like the time is flying and before I know it Christian will be here. Chris has been telling me that the closer I get to my due date the more excited he's getting too. He is going to be the best daddy to Christian I can't wait until he's old enough to go fishing and hunting with his daddy. The birth of her brother is all Sienna ever talks about as well she doesn't have the best concept of time so she just knows the baby will be here shortly after her birthday and she is definetly counting down the days. Speaking of Sienna's birthday I can't believe our baby girl is going to be 7 in March! She is getting so close to being 8 and Chris and I are trying to help her understand what it means to be baptized. I have started to have so much fun being pregnant Christian is getting big enough that I can distinguish his little body parts when he is trying to escape from my belly :-) I LOVE eating I never thought I could love food so much! And I am gaining healthy weight, Chris and I went shopping last night and I grabbed 2 pairs of maternity pants but I almost put them back, I kept thinking to myself "these are so huge they will never fit my tiny self"  I tried them on and they were snug! I guess I still don't see myself as getting big?!

We got to go to the doctors on the 29th to see Christian and he is measuring right on time! We got some more 3D pictures, I still think he looks like me but I guess we wont truly know until April 12th. He has Chris's little chin and I already think he's the most perfect baby on the planet, I seriously can not wait for April to get here!!!!

Christmas

Christmas this year was wonderful! We all got everything we wanted and then some :-) I'd have to say my favorite presents besides my family were the outfits that Chris bought me for Chrisitian, Chris picked them out all by himself!

I do know one thing for sure and that is that Christian is going to be one SPOILED little boy!

Chris got big smooches after all my awesome Christmas presents.

Another favorite part of Christmas that I love is being able to watch Sienna open all of her gifts, I can't wait for next year when her and Christian can open their presents together, I can't help but feel so blessed for being able to have my wonderful family!

Just some cute pictures

Rachael and Nixon he is soo adorable!

Me and my little princess

I love her SO very very much!

I feel so wonderful being pregnant I almost want him to stay in there forever :-)

This is one of my most favorite pictures of all time Sienna was showing off her little belly too

Home Again Home Again.....

Chris and I are finally home and it is so good to be back! I really loved the oppurtunity to be able to experience Washington and to get to spend 5 months alone with my husband but to be able to have Sienna again is priceless! I am 22 weeks tomorrow and it just seems like the time has flown, I am finally starting to get noticeably bigger and I am not sure if it's the baby (he already weighs over a pound!) or all the awesome stove cooked meals I am able to eat now that we are back home. For those of you who didn't know, we lived in a hotel for the 5 months we were in Washington without a stove so I am officially a skillet and microwave master! I can not even begin to tell you how much living in a hotel made me appreciate the simplist of things like stove top ramen and paces popsicles :-) Sienna is so happy that we are home she holds my hand everywhere we go and loves to just cuddle with me I feel so bad for having to leave her for as long as we did but I can assure you that will never happen again we are here for good and never plan on leaving her. She is getting so big and she looks so darn cute without her teeth!

She is my little princess and she is just so much fun at this age! She is doing really good in school but she likes to talk too much which reminds me alot of myself :-) Now that we are home again I get to go back to my doctor at Circle of Life in a way I feel like he is the reason we are having this baby since he prescribed the medicine that helped this pregnancy stick. I had my appointment with him on the 4th and I must say I love the Circle of Life because we get an ultrasound of our baby every appointment! The baby is healthy and all is well with him, I on the other hand have run into a problem with my right kidney, I have some blockage and I may have to get a stint to clear it, I will know tomorrow hopefully. I went to the imaging center to get an ultrasound on my kidney and the sonographer asked me if she could practice doing ultrasounds on the baby, I of course said yes, so we go a really cute 3D picture of Christian and a cute one of him sucking his thumb! I already think he looks so much like me and so does Chris but he still has 18 more weeks of growing so we'll just have to see. We go back for more 3D pictures on the 29th so there will be loads more of pictures to come! I can't wait for Christmas having Chris and Sienna in my life make this time of year so much more enjoyable, I can't wait for next year when Christian will be able to share in on all of the holiday fun. Happy Holidays to everyone!!!

My big fat 21 week belly :-)

Me and my handsome hubby

Our litte prince charming

Christian sucking his thumb

I love this one because his little mouth is open