One Week Old

I can't believe it's already been a week since Sadie joined our family. She's been such a good baby, but I am glad the first week is over. The first week is rough, mostly because I don't feel good. But now most of the mommy pains are gone and Sadie's been sleeping 3-4 hours the last 2 nights, which is great! I couldn't ask for better, it's amazing what a good 3 hours of sleep will do for you when you haven't had more then an hour or 2! Today was my first day with Brock gone, and it's been good so far. The boys have been great, a little to helpful at moments, but for the most part they just do their own thing, destroy the house, fight with each other. Nothing out of the ordinary:) I just love having this baby here in our house, I feel like she is supposed to be here, and it's so great to have a little girl!

Sadie's birth

Sadie came to this world in a whirlwind. Before I could process what was happening I had my baby girl in my arms! But fast is better then long and slow like my last labor! I knew she would come on January 9th. Since I was 99% positive of the day of conception the 9th was the actual due date so she really came right on time;) We went to bed at 10pm on Sunday night and right as I was falling asleep I felt my first contraction. I have been having contractions for weeks now but this one was different, and I knew I'd be going into labor soon. At 11:30pm Isaac woke me up because he needed to go potty. When I was up with him I started counting my contractions and they were exactly 5 minutes apart. So I went and sat in the front room and my contractions were 3-5 minutes until about 2am and then they went to 2-4 minutes at 2:30 I went back into my room and accidentally woke Brock up, once he was awake he was like alright let's go! should we go now? But I wasn't ready to go in yet so we waited one more hour and then he said alright I can't take it I'm getting stuff ready lets go. So we got everything packed up and ready to go and then got the boys up and headed to my parents house a little after 4am. We dropped them off and then I still was nervous about going into the hospital, I just hate being strapped to the hospital bed and Luke's birth of 16 hours of strapped to the bed were still fresh in my mind. So we went to Walmart:) and walked around, got some snacks. And then we headed to the hospital, got checked in by 5:30am. My contractions still weren't hurting that bad but they were every 3 minutes or so, the nurse checked me and I was dilated to a 7! Which I was shocked about! So they called my DR he came and broke my water at 6:31am. They called the anesthesiologist to come give me my epidural, I started feeling some serious contractions after my water was broke. Brock kept saying go natural you can do it! ha! those contractions were killing and I was like no way give me my epidural! So he came in about 15 minutes later and started working on my epidural which took 20 minutes to get inserted. And I was having serious contractions by then one after another and he said alright about 30 minutes and you wont feel a thing. Well all of a sudden I was like I need to push NOW! The nurse checked me and was like your a 9 1/2 do you want to wait a minute so the epidural sets in? And I said I can't I have to push right now! So the DR came in everything got set up. I pushed a few times (seriously the most intense pain of my life!!) And then at 7:31am (exactly 1 hour after my water broke) there was a baby on my lap, a beautiful dark haired baby girl! And I felt immensely better! Those 30 minutes of pain were amazingly painful, but crazy fast!! And about 10 minutes after she was born my epidural started kicking in! Wow what a waste of 1500$ that was!! Plus the best part of going natural would be being able to get up and not be numb right after the babies born! So they hurried and took my epidural out right after she was born but the medicine was already in my system, so I was numb and now I was mad about it! It went away pretty quick within a couple hours I was all the way back to normal. But still I am not happy about getting an epidural the last 25 minutes of labor. I just didn't think it possible that I could have her THAT fast! So will I go natural next time? I don't know...I'm not planning on having another baby for quite awhile, so I don't know how I'll feel about it by then. It was pain unlike anything I've ever felt but it was way fast!

Now comes the real fun, I head home in the morning with 3 kids! Wow, crazy...But I really feel like Sadie is supposed to be here, and I am so happy to welcome her to our family. It's amazing how much I love this little baby girl already!

p.s. We obviously didn't stick with our E names... Brock has had Sadie on his list of "acceptable" names for awhile and when we were sitting in the hospital room yesterday trying to decide a name he said Sadie Elise (elise was on our list as well) and it just felt perfect, it's her name and I love it, it's amazing how perfect it fits for some reason!

Sadie Elise

Sadie has arrived! Monday January 9th at 7:31 am. 7lbs 15oz. 20".

We Love her so much! Stay tuned for story of her arrival:)

Happy Holidays!

I am happy to report we made it through the holidays with no baby arrival. I was hoping she would wait until January and now we've made it! We had a great Christmas with the boys, every year they get a little older and more fun! They are however, very difficult to take pictures of, so we didn't get too many of both of them on Christmas morning in their Jammies:)

And here I am with 11 days to go. I am definitely done being pregnant, and these last few days are the hardest. Really the hardest part is not knowing when it's going to be. I wish I could just know the day it was going to happen. Even if I have to wait till next Friday, that's fine if I could just know...the hard part is going to bed every night thinking maybe it will be tonight... and then waking up in the morning and saying "nope guess not" :) But I do know she will come when she's ready so all we can do is wait and see when that will be!

Baby Baby Baby

I've been making stuff like crazy for this baby girls nursery, and I'm still not done. I'm trying not to feel too stressed with finishing up her stuff and trying to do Christmas in the middle of it all. Whatever gets done gets done. But now that I know I'm dilated to a 2, I'm getting a little worried. I'm supposed to have a month still! I suppose she could still wait 4 weeks to come but then again she could come sooner too! I hate not knowing, I mean it's exciting but kind of frustrating at the same time...:/ So I guess it's up to her, and all I can do is try my best to be ready before she gets here! I just hope she waits till January, I know I would hate to have a December birthday... She also doesn't have a name yet. For now it's Baby E. We're deciding between Eliza, Eva, and Elsie...I just want to wait and decide when I see her, maybe she'll have an opinion;) Anyway! Here's a few of the projects I've been working on...

Pom poms for over the crib, I did paper which doesn't look nearly as cute a fabric but it only cost me 5$ so for now it will work...

Car Seat Cover!

Binky Clips!

Rag Quilt

I love how this turned out! It was one of my first projects with my new machine and I can't wait to snuggle my baby girl in it!

Receiving blankets

my mom made a few and I made a few, these actually aren't all of them some of them were still in the wash.

Basket covers! Love how these turned out too!

Flower holder and flowers.

I made all the one's in the middle my awesome sis-in-law

made most of the ones on the left.

Well that's about it, there are a few more things I don't have pictures of yet. I'll have to post some pics of the whole room when it's done, IF it gets done!

My boys...

Officers Payton & Payton

Happy Halloween! Best Friends (most of the time;) I love to see them play together, I hope they will stick together when this baby girl comes in (less than 10 weeks!!)
I had a wonderful opportunity to go to a Hillary Weeks concert a couple of weeks ago with my grandma. She sang a song called "Stand Still" and she explained she wrote the song based off of a moment she had with her 9 year old daughter. She said a thought came to her that "you have the opportunity to know your kids as adults for all of eternity but you only get these few precious years to know them as children." I loved this! And I've thought a lot about it since I heard her say it, and it's helped me get through the hard "mommy moments". I stop and take a minute with my boys and enjoy them as children, as a 1 year old and a 3 year old because this is the only time I get to know them as toddlers...

Baby in my belly...

Here ya go 25 1/2 weeks prego!

I must say I love all you people out there that love being pregnant...you know who you are, and I am envious of you. Because I on the other hand feel these 40 weeks can be quite challenging. I love babies, and I'm excited for this baby but the 9 months and 4 weeks ( really 10 months) of pregnancy is always a struggle for me. Of course I love to feel the baby move, but after that I see no real positives. Nausea and vomitting for 18 weeks..seriously terrible heart burn...clothes no longer fitting...hormones up and down like a mad woman..exahustion..any way you get the picture. But I really don't want to sound like a downer here because I am getting more and more excited for the arrival of my little girl. I know it's going to be crazy, but it will be fun and exciting too and I have to say I do love buying girl clothes ( and getting hand me downs which is just as good to me!) and the best part of pregnancy is the end! You get your body back and a sweet baby in addition:) And I'm on the down hill slope, I'm afraid she'll probably be here a little sooner then I'm ready for!