Saturday, April 26, 2008

A year ago Friday...


Next year, we are going to decore much more...


This was her favorite toy.

We welcomed our second little angel into this world. I can't believe it has already been a year. I remember thinking I was pregnant, taking the test, confirming the suspicion, running across the street and telling my friend Robin, and telling John when he got home during a light drizzle that we were going to have another baby.

The short of it... really...

Kylee's pregnancy was uneventful and easy, comparatively speaking. Unfortunately, Kayden's pregnancy was not the most enjoyable. With Kylee we were able to relax. Unlike during Kayden's pregnancy, we now had a house, jobs and we had settled-in to the most wonderful life, and it has since only gotten better each day.

I went into labor two nights before I was to be induced. I was folding clothes on the floor, and we started counting contractions. They were erratic, so we went to bed. I woke up at about six on the morning of the 25th to active labor contractions, and informed John that we were going to need to "do something" with Kayden, because Kylee was on the way. I decided to sit in the tub for a minute to see if they would subside, since I was to be induced the next day, but they only got more intense the more I relaxed. She was on her way! I wish we had taken a picture of what we had dressed Kayden in that morning for school. I'm sure it would have been a sight to see. Jodie, the assistant director of the center, could see me through the glass front door in my Tahoe during my contractions, while John was taking his sweet time taking Kayden inside. I think she was just as excited as we were. The cool thing is to think that she saw me in labor with Kylee, and yesterday morning was the first other than me to tell her happy first birthday... pretty neat. Anyway, my doctor is about an hour away with moderate traffic. She delivered Kayden, and I love her. She was my doctor when we were in school, thus the reason for the distance... BUT a good OB is like a good girlfriend... hard to find and worth every effort to keep. John ran every red light and went around every line of traffic we encountered. I was on the phone with my dear friend Robin that was in between laughing at me and calming me down, because I would hand the phone off during contractions to John, and then I would get back on the phone and chat with her between them. I was a five by the time we got to the hospital, and they took a decade to find all the dumb paperwork thatI needed to sign to get my epidural. My water broke before they administered it, which I didn't experience with Kayden. I was induced because of high blood pressure with her. By the time I was given my epidural, I was about a six, and I had sweat through my clothes and John hadn't been allowed to go and get a cigarette, so he was pacing.

She finally graced us with her presence about 8 hours later, and she flew out with one push. The nurse had me try to push once and then stopped me. My OB came running in, and Kylee had been blocking part of the bag of waters, so she gave everyone a shower. They all actually laughed. The epidural hadn't worked on my right side, until they had given me a third bolus, so it was almost a full twelve hours afterwards, before I was able to use my left leg. I had feeling back in the right almost immediately, but the left was spaghetti haha.

She has been the most gentle and happy little soul you can imagine. She is always smiling and laughing, even though she STILL does not have a single tooth in her little head; bless her heart. And no, the doctor is still not worried in the least about that, she tells me. She's an Aggie, so I just have to believe her :-).

Monday, April 21, 2008

Wish of Wellness and raunchy chimps


My company had a booth around the track at Relay for Life in Saginaw this past Friday. The entire event raised over $100,000 dollars. Sarah, who works for me on my team, is pictured below in the purple "Survivor" shirt.

My Mom also has squamous cell carcinoma on her head. My good friend Kristen came and sat with me until midnight, when I weenied-out. It was COLD! We went back home and tried out our "floozie koozies" that we bought at one of the booths around the track. Sitting in the garage drinking beer was how the night ended...


Saturday was pretty uneventful. I was lazy after the long night on Friday, so I took a nap. John ended up staying up late, and the girls and I went to bed early. We had to go to the zoo on Sunday for Kayden's friend R.J.'s 4th birthday party.

Kayden, Kylee and I took off to Target on Sunday morning to get R.J. a present. We ended up with Cars stuff. I have no idea what in the world to buy a boy. We tried our best! We came home and washed the truck and I cut John's hair. We finally made it out to the zoo at about 2:30, and the party was at 3. We took about 400 pictures, naturally, and the kids wore themselves out running all over the place. That was the first time that I had been to the zoo with the girls, so it was really really fun. I think it was probably only the third or fourth time in my life I had been to the zoo period. I think the chimps were my favorite.


R.J. and Kayden in front of the glass part of the primate exibit. This silverback was beautiful.


There was a guy that was teasing one of the chimps, and in return the chimp kept giving him the finger and sticking his butt up in the air. He also kept throwing his arms in the air at the guy and kicking in the air towards him. It was pretty funny to watch. Who knew you had to censor the actions of the animals at the zoo?!?


The chimps acting crazy.



Kylee and Mommy in front of the elephants.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

It has been forever and EVER since I have posted... I've been in a funk at work, simply because people disappoint me. I have seen a shady side of some co-workers that I wish I had never seen. ANYWAY...



We had a good weekend. We went over to "Jevon and Randi's House", and he really has found "the" keeper. We love her, and we really love them together. I think she won Kayden over immediately, and Jevon even became more in-touch with his paternal side around Kylee. Apparently, she woke up in the middle of the night, when he went in their room to pee or something, and she was in her pack 'n play in there. He comforted her and rubbed her tummy to put her back to sleep... too cute...


We adults had a good time, too. They cooked steaks and chicken for everyone (i.e. Ry, Kellie, Byron and Whitney, and John and me.) We drank beer until God knows how long and played Cranium. Some of the highlights were when Whitney had to act out a vibrator, and John sculpted (to lead me to correctly guess) a wedding cake and bowling ball....it was funny. All he had to do was make the dumb pillars that he wants in between the layers, and I guessed it. As many heated debates as we have had about those stupid things, and as many nightmares as I have had about my wedding turning into a tribute to the Go-Gos and Michael Jackson.. who knows.. maybe that would be RAD DUDE!! ... uh, just kidding..


Kylee playing in the yard at Randi and Jevon's house..





Kayden and Randi swinging on the hammock... Kayden wanted to wear her "pretty dress" to their house, and everyone thought it was cute. I think John was surprised that I let her wear a play dress, but I didn't think twice... My Mom never would have let me wear play clothes anywhere, and she would have brought hair spray and a brush to boot.... I left the hair brush and hair spray at home....