Kaylyn

Our Wee Babe is here!!! On May 31,2012 We welcomed Kaylyn into the world. She weighed 7lbs 14oz and was 18 3/4" long. We were so thankful for a safe and healthy labor and delivery. It was insanely fast but we wouldn't have wanted it any other way:) I can't believe that tomorrow she will be 4 weeks old already! She is a super good baby most of the time lol She is just a little stinker and wants to be held all the time. She has been that way since day one. She never liked being in her bassinet in the hospital and it still hasn't changed. She can be sound asleep and the minute we put her down she starts to fuss and within 5 minutes she is wailing:( We have tired a billion different things to get her to be able to sleep on her own. It was really hard at first because she was so little but now that she is almost a month old we are letting her cry it out longer and longer. AND as I am writing this she is sleeping in her crib by herself!!! I am really hoping I don't jinx myself by writing that lol She definitely was crying off and on for a while but she was fed, burped, and had a clean diaper so I knew she was fine. I am super thankful that today was the day that it worked because I have my sister-in-law coming any minute for a haircut and then I have another guy's cut after her! So hopefully she will be a good girl and sleep till mommy is done working:) 

Here are a few pics from the hospital

This was taken a couple minutes after she was born. I didn't get to hold her right away since her shoulder got stuck:( So they had to check her out to make sure she was okay. 

Me looking quite dead due to lots of blood loss

Jeremy holding his daughter for the first time:) So cute! 

Proud Daddy:) 

He couldn't wait to get on that phone and call everyone. He kept on asking me if he could call people. I was like dude chill out! lol I wanted to call people too but I had to lay with my feet above my head from the blood loss and because I kept on feeling like I was going to pass out. Apparently my blood pressure went insanely low. All I knew was that I just wanted to sleep and to have the doctor and the nurses to stop talking to me ha ha I didn't realize they were trying to keep me from passing out:) 

Me feeling a bit better (still really pale but that is okay) 

 Me feeling a billion times better after a shower! I remember after my shower feeling like I did not just have a baby three hours earlier. It was the weirdest thing! It just felt like the whole labor was a crazy dream I had just had. Must have been the pain meds they gave me afterwards:)

Visitors! 

Kaylyn was Jeremy's parents' first grandchild:) 

 Family Pic!

Four generations

We finally got to go home on Saturday afternoon! Yay! 

A Day in the Life...

After a whirlwind weekend, we had a productive as well as relaxing day. It was lovely waking up to the sun this morning! I always have more energy when the sun is streaming through our bedroom window. So after breakfast we got right to it.

William has been asking me to sort some Lego/Megabloks we bought off Craigslist last week, and I’ve been putting him off for days. So despite the itch to go outside, we sat down in the office, Googled the different sets and put them together. While we sorted, Annaliese curled up in her old infant car seat that is in our “ to toss” pile and read some books. I think she almost fell asleep.

After we finished organizing the toys, I took the kids outside to put the finishing touches on the vegetable garden. I found 4-for-$1 veggie starters at a greenhouse last week, and I finally had the time to plant them today. William helped dig holes, Annaliese squished them out of the containers and I did the planting. Hopefully we will have some peppers, tomatoes and eggplants by the end of summer! I’m a little worried about this late start to summer, but I’m going to try to keep them fertilized and watered for maximum potential.

Just a side note, I joined a free online garden site last week called The Smart Gardener. You can input statistics about your area and info about your garden and it will help you keep track of maintaining your plants. I was able to make an online version of my garden including all the specific varieties of plants and dates for when I planted things. But if I didn’t already have my garden planted I could have had the website generate suggestions for what, where, and when to plant different veggies. I should mention that only the veggies are free of charge. If you want to add fruit or herbs to your “garden”, you have to purchase the add-on. I am more interested in veggies anyways, so I wasn’t too disappointed. So far I think it is pretty cool. I don’t claim to have a green thumb, so I appreciate all the help I can get!

While I finished up the garden, I realized my little miss had wandered off. I was just about to check the front yard when she came skipping out of the garage in her swim suit. Apparently she has figured out that when work is finished and the sun is shining it is time to cool off. William was happy to haul out the hose and fill up the lady bug, our ex-sand box. I tried reading in the sun for a bit, but I didn’t last much longer than 30 minutes. It was hot out there! Good thing it was time for lunch.

After lunch the kids went to their rooms for quiet time and I read some more. (Oh, and I ate a yogurt pop…to stay cool, of course…) I just started reading a book called “Educating the Wholehearted Child”. I’m really enjoying it so far! It is a book about homeschooling, and I think it will be a great summer read to put fall plans in perspective. I appreciate how the authors put God at the heart of education and show how everything else about schooling will fall into place as long as God is first. So true!

Well, that was our day! Nothing too exciting, but it was wonderful anyways.