Clara loves her baby dolls!! Now if we can just convince her that her brother isn't a baby doll for her to play with! Speaking of brother, here he is, cute as ever.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Clara's adorable sayings...
I love as Clara learns more and more words! She now puts 5 or 6 words together although not entirely complete sentences yet. My favorite word she says right now is hungry. It sounds more like hongey and makes me smile every time she says it! Today I told her to come get in her chair because lunch was ready. She said no mommy, I watching the news. Since the weather is terrible we've had the news on all day (well at least the part of the day that we've had power). She keeps asking to watch Elmo and we keep telling her no we have to watch the news. So I guess she thought she better watch too. She has also started asking us to hold her since brother came home. She says daddy holda or mommy holda. When two of our close friends came over this week I had told her ahead of time that Kim and Shelly were coming to see us. Both times she said Kim holda Clara, not brother and Shelly holda Clara, not brother. And sure enough, when they got here she wanted both of them to hold her. This is something new, she definitely didn't really want people holding her before Miles came home unless she was tired or hurt.
Since we haven't been able to get out of the house much this week with the terrible weather I decided to let Clara help me make an applesauce spice cake. She LOVED helping me and I let her add all the ingredients to the mixer after I measured them out and let her stir. It made a HUGE mess but she was so proud of her birthday cake as she called it. When we all ate a piece at dinner that night she kept telling Brian, Clara made, Clara made.
Since we haven't been able to get out of the house much this week with the terrible weather I decided to let Clara help me make an applesauce spice cake. She LOVED helping me and I let her add all the ingredients to the mixer after I measured them out and let her stir. It made a HUGE mess but she was so proud of her birthday cake as she called it. When we all ate a piece at dinner that night she kept telling Brian, Clara made, Clara made.
Before the snow started we went to a fun Valentines party at Clara's friends Jack and Lucy's house. She had an awesome time and we made it home just as the snow started sticking to the road.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Miles 2 week checkup
Miles had a great 2 week checkup today! He weighed 8 lbs. Thats 15 ounces more than he weighed 10 days ago at his first appointment when he was 7.1lbs. The doctor was really impressed!
Miles also had an awesome night last night sleeping 2 four hour stretches. He has been eating every 2.5-3 hours during the night so it felt awesome to only have to get up once! We love our sweet little boy!!
Friday, February 7, 2014
Baby Miles is here!
Our sweet boy has been home a little over a week and he couldn't be a better baby! We love him so much!!
Miles was born on Monday, January 27th at 9:28 PM weighing 7lbs 7oz and 21 inches long. His apgar score was 8 then 9, a perfectly healthy little boy! If you want to know the details read on and if not just skip to the adorable pictures :)
I started having extremely mild but consistent contractions about lunch time that day. I went to the doctor at about 3PM to be monitored to see if they were real contractions. They felt exactly like the braxton hicks contractions I'd been having for the last several months except that they were occurring on a regular basis, normally they were pretty irregular. I really wasn't convinced that this was the real thing because although they were uncomfortable they didn't hurt at all. At the doctor they put me on the monitor and they were consistently coming every 2 minutes. They didn't keep me on the monitor long before they sent me to Rex to have a baby! What a relief to go into the hospital like a normal person rather than the crazy, your gonna have a baby any minute that happened with Clara! That was definitely an answer to many many prayers! Four days earlier at my doctors appointment I had been 4cm and 80 percent thinned. When we got to the hospital I was 5cm and 100 percent thinned. They had me walk around for an hour and when I came back I was at 7cm. The contractions were a little stronger when I was walking but I still wouldn't say they were painful. They decided to go ahead and give me an epidural before they broke my water since things progressed so very quickly with Clara. I got the epidural then they broke my water but things kind of stalled after that and there wasn't any progress for a couple of hours. We had a little scare during this time because his heart rate base line was so low and occasionally it would dip down lower than they wanted it to. That was a pretty scary few minutes. They put additional monitors on him and finally they decided he just has a naturally low blood pressure like I do. They decided to give me a very low drip of pitocin to get the contractions coming stronger since I wasn't progressing anymore but before I got the pitocin the contractions all of a sudden started getting really strong and really close together. Even though I had an epidural the contractions were hurting A LOT. The nurses kept saying that it was just pressure but I'm pretty sure pressure doesn't hurt that much. Twenty minutes later the nurse went to check me and it was time to push! I pushed through the next contraction and they told me to stop because they had to get the doctor. Luckily she came quickly because I pushed through the next contraction and his head was out. 3 pushes and we had a baby! The nurse said no wonder I was complaining about pain since I went from 7cm to baby in my arms in 30 minutes! So overall about 9 hours of labor but only about 30 minutes of that was terrible. It was worth every second to hold this beautiful little man in my arms!
Clara LOVES her baby brother! She smothers him with kisses every chance she gets.
Getting dressed so he can finally go home!
When we got home sister was ready to play in the snow with daddy! Miles was born the day before we had a big snow storm. Another answer to prayer was that he came before, not during the storm!! We got to sit in our toasty hospital room with 24 hour food service and watch the snow fall out the window while we held our new little man. Not a bad way to spend a snow storm!
Here's our little boy today.
Miles was born on Monday, January 27th at 9:28 PM weighing 7lbs 7oz and 21 inches long. His apgar score was 8 then 9, a perfectly healthy little boy! If you want to know the details read on and if not just skip to the adorable pictures :)
I started having extremely mild but consistent contractions about lunch time that day. I went to the doctor at about 3PM to be monitored to see if they were real contractions. They felt exactly like the braxton hicks contractions I'd been having for the last several months except that they were occurring on a regular basis, normally they were pretty irregular. I really wasn't convinced that this was the real thing because although they were uncomfortable they didn't hurt at all. At the doctor they put me on the monitor and they were consistently coming every 2 minutes. They didn't keep me on the monitor long before they sent me to Rex to have a baby! What a relief to go into the hospital like a normal person rather than the crazy, your gonna have a baby any minute that happened with Clara! That was definitely an answer to many many prayers! Four days earlier at my doctors appointment I had been 4cm and 80 percent thinned. When we got to the hospital I was 5cm and 100 percent thinned. They had me walk around for an hour and when I came back I was at 7cm. The contractions were a little stronger when I was walking but I still wouldn't say they were painful. They decided to go ahead and give me an epidural before they broke my water since things progressed so very quickly with Clara. I got the epidural then they broke my water but things kind of stalled after that and there wasn't any progress for a couple of hours. We had a little scare during this time because his heart rate base line was so low and occasionally it would dip down lower than they wanted it to. That was a pretty scary few minutes. They put additional monitors on him and finally they decided he just has a naturally low blood pressure like I do. They decided to give me a very low drip of pitocin to get the contractions coming stronger since I wasn't progressing anymore but before I got the pitocin the contractions all of a sudden started getting really strong and really close together. Even though I had an epidural the contractions were hurting A LOT. The nurses kept saying that it was just pressure but I'm pretty sure pressure doesn't hurt that much. Twenty minutes later the nurse went to check me and it was time to push! I pushed through the next contraction and they told me to stop because they had to get the doctor. Luckily she came quickly because I pushed through the next contraction and his head was out. 3 pushes and we had a baby! The nurse said no wonder I was complaining about pain since I went from 7cm to baby in my arms in 30 minutes! So overall about 9 hours of labor but only about 30 minutes of that was terrible. It was worth every second to hold this beautiful little man in my arms!
Clara LOVES her baby brother! She smothers him with kisses every chance she gets.
Getting dressed so he can finally go home!
When we got home sister was ready to play in the snow with daddy! Miles was born the day before we had a big snow storm. Another answer to prayer was that he came before, not during the storm!! We got to sit in our toasty hospital room with 24 hour food service and watch the snow fall out the window while we held our new little man. Not a bad way to spend a snow storm!
Here's our little boy today.
Christmas 2013
Better late than never... Christmas day pictures!
I'm pretty sure this was my favorite Christmas and I"ll probably continue to say that every year now that we have sweet kiddos. Last year Clara didn't entirely understand what was going on but this year she started to understand the idea of presents which was so fun to watch! We also talked to her about how this was because of Jesus' birthday and we sang many rounds of Happy Birthday to Jesus the last couple of weeks in December. Actually its now February and we are still singing Happy Birthday. Clara brought home an ornament for our tree that she made in nursery at church and it is definitely my most favorite ornament ever. I definitely cried when I pulled it out of her diaper bag and she says "Clara make" "baby Jesus". Having children definitely makes the Christmas story so much more real!
Brian and I tried to not go crazy with the presents since she also gets things from her grandparents and great grandparents. We also like the idea of doing three presents, just like the three wise men gave Jesus three presents. Brian and I got her a wagon, an art easel, some food for her play kitchen plus her stocking. In her stocking she got three Thomas trains, some new play dough and play dough tools, Christmas movies and bath fizzies. Watching her pull things out of her stocking was definitely my favorite part. Every time she pulled something new out she had this look of amazement on her face
Trying out the new wagon!!
New Shoes!
Dad cooked us a delicious Coca-cola braised ham!
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