Slumber party with the cousins!

How many naked bodies can fit in the bathtub??

 

Just a cute pic of Logan and Will

Look at all those butts!

Bedtime story was a little hard to keep all their attentions.

It was a fun night and one of the best sleepers ended up being the worst one that night! Will woke up screaming at 3 and so he came down in the basement with Nikki, Tara and I. He then woke up at 5, had a full out melt down and went back to sleep. Then finally woke up for yet another full blown melt down at 7 A.M.! So, I was very tired between him and Lillian that night. Oy. 

6 weeks and photos

Six weeks have passed since we welcomed our beautiful daughter into the world. It flew by. I am now back to work and she is adjusting to being at daycare. The main problem that we have faced so far with her is she does not seem to tolerate formula well. I am doing my best at providing the food she needs but I just don't have it. So, once a day or so she has to have a bottle of formula. About two or three weeks after she started formula she started puking the bottle up. Just formula, she still took my milk fine. So we started mixing it so that it was a little diluted. That was okay for a while but now that is making her fussy and spit-y. So we are just trying to figure something out with that yet. She has a heart murmur that we have had checked out. We don't have the results yet but I'm sure its just something she will end up growing out of. 

With summer approaching and it being a whopping 93* in April, we spent it outside! Lililan had her first big girl swing the other day. She loved it as long as I was right there with her and not chasing after her brother who would have rather been in the tractor. Will wasn't too fond of the idea of giving up one of his swings for his sister. Guess he will have to get used to that!

Will helps me with Lillian every chance he gets. He thought he would jump in her bed while I changed her to 'help'. 

Just a few days shy of being 6 weeks old. Lillian is taking after her big brother in the paci addiction, but we do encourage it a bit. 

Will meeting Lillian for the first time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS_xkREGpR8&feature=youtu.be

I tried to get it just on blogger but couldn't so, click this link and see the cutest video ever!

How to feed a baby.

1.Make sure hand is around baby to hold her up.

2.Make sure bottle is help up so baby is not drinking air.

3. Stop for a hug.

4. Burp

5. Dance for baby once done.


The End! Any other baby taking care of tips, just ask big brother Will!

How it's going

Oh my, Lillian is over three weeks old already and I've only had time to post three blog posts. Does that tell you how it is going? When Will is at home, it is nearly impossible to get anything done. This was a little bit of the truth before Lillian came around but even more so now. He would always jump on our bed while I would try to fold and put away laundry. Now he will do that OR go outside. Nothing will keep him inside any longer. He pulls down the baby gate, opens the door and he is out. That boy would live outside if we would allow him to. Luckily he does stay close to the house playing with his new big tractor and truck that he got for his birthday. He scoops up the gravel and 'dump it' into the truck, moves it somewhere else under the car port and 'dump it' again.

Other than Will wanting to go outside non-stop, he has been such a great big brother. He loves to hug her, make sure she has her paci, and if there is a bottle near, he must feed her!

Feeding, how is that going? Well, it does seem to be that I am on the track to exclusively pumping again. I'm sure that if I tried really hard, we could get rid of all the pacis and bottles and I could make a million trips to Topeka to the breast feeding clinic to get her to get a proper latch. With a two year old, I find that a little difficult to sit for an hour to two hours trying to get her to eat enough for her to be satisfied. And, lets face it, it hurts! When a baby has a bad latch you might as well cut off a limb with no pain medication because I'm sure that would feel better than a bad latch! It is so much easier to just pump (yes, that hurts too) and give her a bottle in an hour than attempt to nurse for 2 hours (when you have a 2 year old who is determined to be outside!)

Other than the eating difficulties, Lillian is a great baby. So far, we have been blessed twice with great babies. She eats every 3 hours during the day and night but in the evening she will eat every hour and half to two hours. On three occasions now she has done that and then slept for six hours! Yes, 6 hours! She is only three weeks old so there is in no way shape or form I am wanting this or expecting this. She does like to be held when she is awake at least for a while. This was a problem when she was awake at night so much but now she has that figured out too. It took a week of her being up from about 2-6am. It sucked but if I held her she fell asleep and I could sleep too. This is what got her to sleep at night and awake during the day.

We are now doing cloth on both kids. Lillian leaks out quite a bit but with breast milk poop, that is kinda expected even in disposable diapers. We do not have quite enough diapers to diaper 24/7 but with what we do have, it will save us a bunch of money until Will is potty trained and she gets all of his too. Then we will have enough for her to never have to do disposables.

Will has started going back to daycare a few days a week. He needed it as he was getting way to used to being home and going on those beloved "Tractor riiiiiide" Yes, that is how he says it with so many i-s. Today was the fourth day back and was the first time he didn't hold on to my leg crying wanting me to take him back home.

Since Will is at daycare today, I need to feed Lillian again and get to work! The kitchen tends to get back to being a mess within a day of not being able to do much.

Happy 2nd Birthday Will!!

Okay, so I'm about two weeks late but holly molly a new born takes up a lot of time!! On Will's actual birthday we went to my parents house to visit Dad and see how he was doing. (Remarkable by the way!) Will and I made cupcakes earlier that day for him. It was fun just us and my parents, we sang to him and he loved the attention!

We had his party a little later too knowing I was going to have a 2 week old, I wanted to make sure that I had time to get everything ready!

LOTS of presents!!

Even more cousins to play with!

And way too much junk food!

I didn't do anything to fancy with the cupcakes, just vanilla and chocolate. We had puppy chow, sugar cookies, and a cake mix dip with dog bone cookies and gram crackers.

I was in love with the dog house cookies!

Lillian Margaret

I'm going to start this blog post by saying that God has really looked after our family this last week. I was supposed to have an appointment on Friday afternoon to get checked again before the induction and see if she could strip my membranes to help along the induction on Monday. Well, at work I get a call from my Mom saying that my Dad is being life lighted to Topeka for a possible heart problem. Being a work week, my boss was there so I called her up and said I was leaving (Thanks Amy for taking over for me!). Nice of me to tell my boss what to do. So, I jet off to get to my Mom who needed someone there too. When I got to the hospital my Dad was sitting there joking being the great guy that he is. Once the shock of him being flown to a bigger hospital was a little worn off we all kinda thought it was no biggie and all was just being blown out of proportion.

I drove Mom down as my sisters followed. They said Saturday morning he would have a heart cath to see what was going on if anything. Again, we just figured that he would go home Saturday afternoon.

Saturday came and Mom called us all with the most scary news of our lives. Dad did have a heart attack on Friday and he had 2 arteries completely blocked and 2 others that were getting that way. Sunday morning a quadruple bypass was scheduled.

Again, God was answering so many prayers that day. We could feel it with every good update during surgery. Things were going so, so well! He got out of surgery and we got up to see him. We were all there as he was waking up and passing all the first tests to see how he made it threw surgery. It was scary to see him like that and know how much pain he was in.

The induction was still up in the air. Before surgery Dad kept telling us to just do it and get him a new granddaughter. After surgery he of course could not talk due to the tube. After things were looking so well I told him that he was doing so well that we would go ahead and go for it. Since he couldn't talk, he gave us a thumbs up. I cried. I did not want to leave Sunday night until I could see him without the tube down his throat. Knowing that he wanted us to go for it though helped me but it was still hard. So, we finally left around 10:30 since they were taking so long to take the tube out, we did not get to see him without it until he was home.

He came home on the same day as us from the hospital! Pretty remarkable that you can have a baby and go home just one day sooner than open heart surgery!!

So, with only about 4 hours of sleep Sunday night, we woke up and headed to the hospital. The induction started with the cytoteck (sp?) at 6:30 and I was having contractions about 8 minutes apart. Since the cytoteck wasn't doing enough work to break my water we did it again at 8:30. This made my contractions about 2 minutes apart but did not hurt in the least bit. At 10:45, we started pitocin since I still wasn't far enough for my water to be broken. At 11:20, they upped the pit to 2 mu. Water was finally broken at noon when I was still only a 2-3 cm. The epidural guy came in at 1:00 just as the contractions were starting to get really uncomfortable. Enough so that I was having Dennis rub my back some.

At 2:00, I was still only a 3-4 cm and the epi was starting to wear off on the right side. At 2:30, epi guy came back and started working on getting the right side to work. It helped a bit but I kept feeling it. At 3:30 I was a good 4cm maybe a 5 if she stretched it really well. At 4:00 I was still a 4 but her head was in a better position and I was a little thinner than before. The epi guy came back and tried to work his magic again since it was still not working correctly. He really was doing his best!

At 6:00 is when things got emotional. I was STILL at a 4. Before the doctor even said a word, I knew that what she was going to say. She said that if I was still at 4 at 8:30-9, that we would have to start talking about a c-section. I just started to cry, knowing that it was a good possibility and that it would happen. The crying wasn't because of a c-section though, it was because my Dad was already going to be recovering from a HUGE surgery, I didn't want to also. I wanted to be able to go see him sooner rather than later. Since I was finally not feeling a dang thing, and I had so much of the epidural in me even my eyes were feeling heavy I tried vary hard to sleep for a bit.

Even though I was awake the entire time, I was as relaxed as I could get. Listening to her heart rate and keeping my eyes closed. At one point I thought her heart rate dropped quite a bit and I asked Dennis what it was. He lied to me saying it was about 120. I think it was a little lower than 100. With the talk of the c-section anyway he didn't want me to worry any more than I already was. The Dr. came back in around 7:30 and I quit pretending to sleep. She went a head and checked me again since I was awake and surprise! I was almost complete! "Oh thank God" are the exact words I said.

They started setting up and about 25 minutes later, she was ready for a few "practice pushes". It only took two pushes and she was born at 8:02. (It was probably technically 7:59 since the one clock was a few minutes a head but everything legal says 8:02.) The epi guy just took a seat right behind Dennis. I found it quite odd and uncomfortable that he was there just watching. Had he not tried so hard to get it to work and if I had to push for an hour like Will, I probably would have yelled at him to leave. But oh well, we had our baby girl.

We were so shocked to see the dark hair! They got her all cleaned up while the Dr. was finishing getting me all ready and stitching me up. I had to have a shot to help contract my uterus because of all the pit I was on. She will not go over 16 mu of pit but I was at 24. The reason was because even at such a high dosage, I was still not contracting at a regular pace. I would have four good contractions and then have about four minutes before I had another one.

The next morning was the greatest moment, getting to see big brother Will's reaction to his baby sister. He could not stop smiling. He is in love!

Even now when at home, he crawls up on the couch and pats his lap saying "baby". He still refuses to say her name but that's okay, he will eventually.

So there you have it.

Lillian Margaret
8lbs even
20 1/2" long
3/12/12 at 8:02p.m.

We think she looks an awful like her brother.