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Makenzie Caitlyn

Makenzie Caitlyn was born June 1 at 1:19 p.m. She weighed 7 lbs 12 oz and was 20 inches long. My labor was textbook perfect. I couldn't have asked for easier...and that was a for shadow of her personality. She is an easy baby and sleeps so well for me.

I was induced due to m6y doctor going on vacation the next day. They had me come to the hospital at 6:30 a.m. (ugh so early) My parents, Ashlee and Clint came up and took Alexys for the night which made it easy for Justin and I to get up and go. We got to the hospital and as I was changing into my gown my water started leaking. I thought nothing of it at the time. I had never felt my water break before and had no clue really what it felt like. I expected a huge gush.

Anyway we got checked in and hooked up to monitors (I was having very few contractions) then watched the news for two hours until my doctor showed up. He broke my water around 8:30. Nothing happened, no gush, no onset of contractions. He said watch things for an hour and if nothing was happening to start pitocen. (Did I mention I was 5 cm. dilated when we got to the hospital?) So around 9:30 we started pit and I finally started contracting. I was tolerating them pretty well if I do say so myself but the nurse told me whenever I wanted she would call the anesthesiologist to do my epidural. I gave the go ahead about 10:30. He showed up pretty quickly. As he was doing the procedure he was answering questions from Justin and the nursing student who was shadowing my nurse (he was male too!) So the whole thing was explained really well. It was kind of neat. My epi took effect and was PERFECT! I could feel everything and move my own legs but nothing hurt.

About one the head nurse came into my room and informed me that I had to change rooms. The one I was in was sometimes used for c-sections and they had a women trying to do a vbac. Soon after my family came to check on me. They were there for only a few minutes when my nurse kicked them out in order to check me. My doctor walked in soon after, checked me and said 'let's have a baby.' So they got everything set up and I ended up only pushing through 4 contractions. As her head was halfway out doc said 'look at all that hair!' Justin asked if it could just be fuzz or something but nope it is hair!

Honestly if labor and childbirth was that easy every time and for everyone I think people would have tons more kids.

We ended up going home the next day around 7 p.m. So we were in the hospital only 37 hours or so. Makenzie nurses like a champ and LOVES to sleep. She sleeps 4-5 hour chunks for me at night and has from the day she was born.

Lexys LOVES her and wants to hug, hold and kiss her constantly, which makes life hard sometimes as she wakes Kenzie often.

I couldn't be a more proud or lucky mom!

Poor thing had a bruised nose. :(

Not bad for giving birth less than an hour before.

Lex took this one. She got Kenzie the elephant and really wanted her to love on it.

Dancing Queen!

Lex started dance after her birthday. She LOVES her class. She even had her first recital in May...only 6 weeks after starting dance.

They danced to The Cheetah Girls 'Shake Your Tailfeather' from the Chicken Little movie

This is their adorable 'chicken' outfit

They also danced to Beyonce 'Single Ladies' Lex sings it constantly these days.

These last two were after her first dance class.

Someday I may figure out how to rotate the pics. Til then you just have to deal with sideways pics!

Alexys turns 3!

She had another birthday *sob* in March. We ended up going to Vegas again this year. She got spoiled rotten again. She asked for a Spongebob cake and got two! One in Vegas with Justin's family and a second in Payson with my family.

I can't believe she is 3 already! Where has the time gone? It seems like just yesterday she was my brand new baby.

Hopefully I can find (or coerce someone to send me) some pics and I'll add them when I can.

Pregnancy

Our lives really aren't that exciting. That's probably why I don't update this blog all that often. However I've had some recent thoughts that I just wanted to get down. As of today I am 24 weeks pregnant. I lost 12 lbs in the first few months, due to morning sickness and the swine flu. I haven't gained any of that back so far. I had a dr. appt. on Wed. and weighed in at exactly the same weight as the two previous months. My blood pressure is also hanging out in a really good range. This is so different from when I was expecting Alexys. I have mild PIH (pregnancy induced hypertension) and was on blood pressure medication. I really am lucky to have easy pregnancies. Right now I know quite a few pregnant friends and am the only one who seems to really enjoy the process. (And I don't swell either. My ankles, feet and fingers didn't swell even a bit while pregnant with Alexys and haven't shown signs of doing so this time around)

Which leads me to my thinking...I LOVE being pregnant. I think if I had more money and patience (and a willing husband) I'd rival Michelle Duggar. I love the feeling of a baby moving around inside of me. I love that it's like my own little secret and other people only know it's happening if I tell them. I love how excited Alexys is to have a sister (even though I'm afraid she thinks the baby is going to be born a toddler who can play with her)

I have been excited for a baby from the moment I suspected I was pregnant. But I think at that point I was honestly more excited to be pregnant. I also felt a bit like this baby wasn't going to make it to us. A feeling which was fueled when my sister in law lost her baby at 12 weeks. I was only a few weeks farther along than she was. However, I have found that the past few days I'm really getting excited to actually have the baby. I am nervous that she'll be a bad sleeper or a night baby. I worry about having to split my time between two kids and still try to keep a home (Let's face it I'm not great at that with only one kid) I worry that I won't love her as much as I love Lex. Or that Justin won't (and honestly I think he expects to love Lex more.) I worry that this little girl won't ever have a name. We can agree on a few that we both like but none really stand out as THE name.

Oh well...I suppose I'm done with my late night rambling now. We'll just have to wait and see what the next 3 months bring us eh?

Christmas

This year we went and cut our own tree. My family decided to come too. It was quite an adventure. We left a little late in the day and before we found trees we loved we lost a lot of daylight. Then we hiked down a mountain, decided to send Colby back for the truck and got stuck on a 4 wheeler trail. We had to find an alternate route out of the canyon. By the time we got back to the other truck it was dark and we were cold. But we all got our trees and I think ours is gorgeous. (sorry about sideways pics. I'm computer retarded and can't figure out how to rotate them)





Christmas was good this year. Santa, her grandparents, aunts and uncles made sure Alexys was thoroughly spoiled. She got a flyboat (all she would ask for) an art kit, moon sand, play dough, ponies, 2 dollhouses, a laptop, pillow chum, Tinkerbell doll, Cinderella doll and horse, walkie talkies, new doll stroller and carrier, clothes upon clothes, Ashlee made her a blanket and some other things that I can't think of. I got a new camera and wii fit plus. Justin got a Blu ray player with a few dvd's. And we got 4 other wii games.

Hooch loves the pillow chum. He thinks it's his.

Happy news!!!

We are expecting our second baby. I am due June 11 but on all ultrasounds we've had (I have a large cyst on my ovary that my doctor was concerned about and was monitoring) s/he was measuring bigger than the gestational age. I do have a pic to add but have to scan it in so I'll get to that soon. We get to find out next week the sex of the baby and I couldn't be more excited. I do have to say that this pregnancy has been much tougher than with Alexys. I got the swine flu at 6 weeks, a sinus infection a few weeks later, and a 24 hour stomach but a few weeks later. All with puking my guts out in between. I have lost 12 pounds but now am starting too feel and eat much better.