Tuesday, December 27, 2011

3 months


Miss Maycie turned 3 months on December 7th. At 3 month Maycie....
-loves chewing on her hand!
-is a drooler, she often has a ring of wetness around her neck:) mommy might have to get used to having a bib on her all the time!
-still spits up after most feedings...we go through a lot of burp towels at our house!
-feeds on demand about every 2-4 hours. but most nights only wakes maybe once or not at all to eat
-takes 2-3 naps a day. her afternoon nap is usually about 3ish hours long if her big brothers don't wake her up. and then she likes to be asleep by 7pm. she wakes in the morning around 7am too.
-has the most amazing smile we have ever seen.
-laughed out loud for the first time on her baptism day to grandma singing jingle bells! she had kind of laughed before but this was the first FOR SURE laugh:)
-was baptized on Decemember 18th by Fr. Mike in Kearney, NE at Prince of Peace church. Her Godparents are Uncle Mark and Aunt Carrie.
-still LOVES her bath! she just lays there like a little diva soaking in her bubbles!
-started reaching for toys and loves looking in the mirror at herself
-loves when we talk to her, especially her big brothers!
-coos and goos alot, chatty little girlie:)

we love you to the moon and back baby girl! so excited to have a baby girl join our family, you are amazing in everyway and we are so very blessed!

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

1st Swim!


loving the water!

ready to go in her cute swimsuit!

Maycie and I came with daddy to Vegas for his AutoDesk conference and Miss Maycie and I went for her first swim today. She loved the nice water-warmed to 83:) And enjoyed every second until we had to get out in the chilly air (only 70 degrees today). We are having a lot fun walking the strip and shopping while daddy works! Today daddy presented in front of over 200 people for 1 and 1/2 hours! We spent our time at H&M while he was doing this hard work, hehe! Love spending this alone time with our new little girl!

Newborn Photos


Maycie's newborn photos were done by Carrie's cousin Jody. She did a great job and we are so thankful to have that tiny bebe captured forever in such amazing, sweet photos. Priceless!

Friday, November 25, 2011

Thank You Lord!!


Most thankful for THEM!

This Thanksgiving we are SO. VERY. BLESSED. My heart is just so full and happy. We are so thankful for our healthy, happy, energetic, funny, creative, spirited little boys. And the cherry on top is our new little princess, bringing all things girly to our life. Life is so good. Daddy has a great job that provides so well for our growing family, I get to be at home with our little blessings showing them all the world has to offer and all the great things God has for us on earth. So very thankful I am living my dream of being a stay at home mommy to our peanuts, couldn't ask for more. Being there for breakfast each day, preschool drop offs and pick ups, the big smiles after naps, the snuggles on the couch, the kisses during "rock out" time in the playroom, playing super heroes, and hide and seek, going for walks and finding all sorts of treasures on the way and every other little detail of our special days together mean the world to me.

And on top of that I get to spend the evenings and weekends with the man I married 7 years ago and loving him more each day as I watch him be a daddy to our boys and seeing the gleam in his eyes for his new daddy's girl! The parenting team we make together works so well and I couldn't imagine spending my days with any other person!

So thankful too for our parents and siblings and all the love and joy they bring into our life, watching them love on our kids is the best!!

And our friends, the daily joy you bring to our lives is such a gift, we are so thankful for each of you and the different ways God has brought you into our lives!

Thank you Lord for this amazing year and all the blessings you have bestowed on us. We are so very blessed!! Our cup runneth over!!!!

2 months and 2 years!

Breck and Maycie had a doctor appt together, Maycie for her 2 month check up and Breck for his 2 years. It was nice doing both at once:) Made me even more aware of the fact that I have 2 babies right now:) Crazy, tiring and so much fun all at once!
Breck is doing amazing! On the developmental checklist he caps out at 3 years, 8 months!! And he just turned 2, my little smartie!! His language and vocab are incredible the doctor said...but he does have an unfair advantage being the son of a speech therapist:) but still....boys are usually BEHIND in language not WAY ahead!! Woo hoo little man!! Mommy is so proud of you!!
Physically he is doing great too, 32 pounds and 36 inches tall. Growing like a little weed!

Miss Maycie is also a little weed, she was 13 pounds, 8 ounces-95th percentile and 24.75 inches long- 99th percentile!!! Not sure how this shrimp of a mama has such a model height little lady!! Doctor is impressed w/ her growth and says we have no worries about supply obviously she is thriving like crazy! Everything else checked out perfect for my little princess too, healthy as can be!!

This is one SUPER thankful mama for her healthy, happy little peanuts! Having such a great well baby check just makes my heart happy and overwhelmed with gratefullness for our adorable blessings we have been given!!

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Maycie’s Birth Story


My World!

On Tuesday, September 6, 2011 my water starting leaking around 4pm. I wasn’t 100% sure it was my water though so Daddy, Mommy and your big brothers went for a walk that night and since contractions didn’t start I decided to wait it out, still not sure if it was really your water leaking or not. I went to bed that night and woke up the next morning. Got your big brother Brecken ready for his 1st day of preschool and took him to school. On my way out of his preschool I was pretty sure my water was leaking. So I called our OB and talked to the nurse. She called me back after talking to Dr. Welch who said she wanted to see my right away to see if it was my water or not. I got to her office around 11:30 am on Wednesday, September 7, 2011. When she was feeling you she moved you enough that a big gush of water came out. She told me this was obviously your bag of waters and I needed to get to the hospital to have you! So I went home to get my bag and say goodbye to your brothers, daddy picked Brecken up from preschool and once he got him home we both left for the hospital. We checked in around 1:30pm and they started my fluids flowing and slow pitocin. I was nervous about the pitocin because I was a VBAC mommy and I would rather avoid pitocin like I did with big brother Brecken. But your bag of waters had been ruptured since the day before and contractions weren’t starting so it was either using some low dose of pitocin or going straight to a c-section. We decided to do the pitocin, the nurses assured me Dr. Welch was very careful with pitocin and this made me feel a little better. We hung out in our labor room. They decided to put in my epidural but not start the medicine until I needed it.

At 7:20 when the doctor checked me I was still only 3cm and 75 percent effaced, and you were between a station-1 and -2. By 8:15pm I was 6cm, almost 100 percent effaced and you were at a 0 station. You started having some heart rate dips so I had to lay on different sides to get you happy, this started making mommy a little nervous! But by 8:45pm I only had a lip of cervix left so they had me push through the lip and I was ready to push you out! Once Dr. Welch could see your head she told me you had a head full of dark hair! I was so surprised to hear this, the Dr. had daddy look to confirm it! Once your head was out I had to stop pushing so Dr. Welch could cut your umbilical chord, it was wrapped tightly around your neck and you couldn’t come out the rest of the way without her cutting it.

You were born at 9:21pm. They placed you on my chest right away and I was in LOVE with you baby girl! You were perfect. in. every. way. They were stimulating you on my chest and you didn’t pink up as fast as they wanted so they took you over to give you some “blow by” oxygen and you got pink right away and were brought back to me. Daddy and I couldn’t stop staring at you, we felt so blessed to have our healthy baby girl in our arms. Mommy cried and smiled at the same time because I was just so happy to have you here with us! You nursed within the first half hour and latched correctly right away and did awesome!

When mommy got up to go to the bathroom the first time I passed out and they had to put ammonia under my nose to get me to come to. After that we got to go to our recovery room and mommy spent most of the night holding you, nursing you and staring at you. You are absolutely Maycie’s Birth Story


On Tuesday, September 6, 2011 my water starting leaking around 4pm. I wasn’t 100% sure it was my water though so Daddy, Mommy and your big brothers went for a walk that night and since contractions didn’t start I decided to wait it out, still not sure if it was really your water leaking or not. I went to bed that night and woke up the next morning. Got your big brother Brecken ready for his 1st day of preschool and took him to school. On my way out of his preschool I was pretty sure my water was leaking. So I called our OB and talked to the nurse. She called me back after talking to Dr. Welch who said she wanted to see my right away to see if it was my water or not. I got to her office around 11:30 am on Wednesday, September 7, 2011. When she was feeling you she moved you enough that a big gush of water came out. She told me this was obviously your bag of waters and I needed to get to the hospital to have you! So I went home to get my bag and say goodbye to your brothers, daddy picked Brecken up from preschool and once he got him home we both left for the hospital. We checked in around 1:30pm and they started my fluids flowing and slow pitocin. I was nervous about the pitocin because I was a VBAC mommy and I would rather avoid pitocin like I did with big brother Brecken. But your bag of waters had been ruptured since the day before and contractions weren’t starting so it was either using some low dose of pitocin or going straight to a c-section. We decided to do the pitocin, the nurses assured me Dr. Welch was very careful with pitocin and this made me feel a little better. We hung out in our labor room. They decided to put in my epidural but not start the medicine until I needed it.

At 7:20 when the doctor checked me I was still only 3cm and 75 percent effaced, and you were between a station-1 and -2. By 8:15pm I was 6cm, almost 100 percent effaced and you were at a 0 station. You started having some heart rate dips so I had to lay on different sides to get you happy, this started making mommy a little nervous! But by 8:45pm I only had a lip of cervix left so they had me push through the lip and I was ready to push you out! Once Dr. Welch could see your head she told me you had a head full of dark hair! I was so surprised to hear this, the Dr. had daddy look to confirm it! Once your head was out I had to stop pushing so Dr. Welch could cut your umbilical chord, it was wrapped tightly around your neck and you couldn’t come out the rest of the way without her cutting it.

You were born at 9:21pm. They placed you on my chest right away and I was in LOVE with you baby girl! You were perfect. in. every. way. They were stimulating you on my chest and you didn’t pink up as fast as they wanted so they took you over to give you some “blow by” oxygen and you got pink right away and were brought back to me. Daddy and I couldn’t stop staring at you, we felt so blessed to have our healthy baby girl in our arms. Mommy cried and smiled at the same time because I was just so happy to have you here with us! You nursed within the first half hour and latched correctly right away and did awesome!

When mommy got up to go to the bathroom the first time I passed out and they had to put ammonia under my nose to get me to come to. After that we got to go to our recovery room and mommy spent most of the night holding you, nursing you and staring at you. You are absolutely Maycie’s Birth Story


On Tuesday, September 6, 2011 my water starting leaking around 4pm. I wasn’t 100% sure it was my water though so Daddy, Mommy and your big brothers went for a walk that night and since contractions didn’t start I decided to wait it out, still not sure if it was really your water leaking or not. I went to bed that night and woke up the next morning. Got your big brother Brecken ready for his 1st day of preschool and took him to school. On my way out of his preschool I was pretty sure my water was leaking. So I called our OB and talked to the nurse. She called me back after talking to Dr. Welch who said she wanted to see my right away to see if it was my water or not. I got to her office around 11:30 am on Wednesday, September 7, 2011. When she was feeling you she moved you enough that a big gush of water came out. She told me this was obviously your bag of waters and I needed to get to the hospital to have you! So I went home to get my bag and say goodbye to your brothers, daddy picked Brecken up from preschool and once he got him home we both left for the hospital. We checked in around 1:30pm and they started my fluids flowing and slow pitocin. I was nervous about the pitocin because I was a VBAC mommy and I would rather avoid pitocin like I did with big brother Brecken. But your bag of waters had been ruptured since the day before and contractions weren’t starting so it was either using some low dose of pitocin or going straight to a c-section. We decided to do the pitocin, the nurses assured me Dr. Welch was very careful with pitocin and this made me feel a little better. We hung out in our labor room. They decided to put in my epidural but not start the medicine until I needed it.

At 7:20 when the doctor checked me I was still only 3cm and 75 percent effaced, and you were between a station-1 and -2. By 8:15pm I was 6cm, almost 100 percent effaced and you were at a 0 station. You started having some heart rate dips so I had to lay on different sides to get you happy, this started making mommy a little nervous! But by 8:45pm I only had a lip of cervix left so they had me push through the lip and I was ready to push you out! Once Dr. Welch could see your head she told me you had a head full of dark hair! I was so surprised to hear this, the Dr. had daddy look to confirm it! Once your head was out I had to stop pushing so Dr. Welch could cut your umbilical chord, it was wrapped tightly around your neck and you couldn’t come out the rest of the way without her cutting it.

You were born at 9:21pm. They placed you on my chest right away and I was in LOVE with you baby girl! You were perfect. in. every. way. They were stimulating you on my chest and you didn’t pink up as fast as they wanted so they took you over to give you some “blow by” oxygen and you got pink right away and were brought back to me. Daddy and I couldn’t stop staring at you, we felt so blessed to have our healthy baby girl in our arms. Mommy cried and smiled at the same time because I was just so happy to have you here with us! You nursed within the first half hour and latched correctly right away and did awesome!

When mommy got up to go to the bathroom the first time I passed out and they had to put ammonia under my nose to get me to come to. After that we got to go to our recovery room and mommy spent most of the night holding you, nursing you and staring at you. You are absolutely Maycie’s Birth Story


On Tuesday, September 6, 2011 my water starting leaking around 4pm. I wasn’t 100% sure it was my water though so Daddy, Mommy and your big brothers went for a walk that night and since contractions didn’t start I decided to wait it out, still not sure if it was really your water leaking or not. I went to bed that night and woke up the next morning. Got your big brother Brecken ready for his 1st day of preschool and took him to school. On my way out of his preschool I was pretty sure my water was leaking. So I called our OB and talked to the nurse. She called me back after talking to Dr. Welch who said she wanted to see my right away to see if it was my water or not. I got to her office around 11:30 am on Wednesday, September 7, 2011. When she was feeling you she moved you enough that a big gush of water came out. She told me this was obviously your bag of waters and I needed to get to the hospital to have you! So I went home to get my bag and say goodbye to your brothers, daddy picked Brecken up from preschool and once he got him home we both left for the hospital. We checked in around 1:30pm and they started my fluids flowing and slow pitocin. I was nervous about the pitocin because I was a VBAC mommy and I would rather avoid pitocin like I did with big brother Brecken. But your bag of waters had been ruptured since the day before and contractions weren’t starting so it was either using some low dose of pitocin or going straight to a c-section. We decided to do the pitocin, the nurses assured me Dr. Welch was very careful with pitocin and this made me feel a little better. We hung out in our labor room. They decided to put in my epidural but not start the medicine until I needed it.

At 7:20 when the doctor checked me I was still only 3cm and 75 percent effaced, and you were between a station-1 and -2. By 8:15pm I was 6cm, almost 100 percent effaced and you were at a 0 station. You started having some heart rate dips so I had to lay on different sides to get you happy, this started making mommy a little nervous! But by 8:45pm I only had a lip of cervix left so they had me push through the lip and I was ready to push you out! Once Dr. Welch could see your head she told me you had a head full of dark hair! I was so surprised to hear this, the Dr. had daddy look to confirm it! Once your head was out I had to stop pushing so Dr. Welch could cut your umbilical chord, it was wrapped tightly around your neck and you couldn’t come out the rest of the way without her cutting it.

You were born at 9:21pm. They placed you on my chest right away and I was in LOVE with you baby girl! You were perfect. in. every. way. They were stimulating you on my chest and you didn’t pink up as fast as they wanted so they took you over to give you some “blow by” oxygen and you got pink right away and were brought back to me. Daddy and I couldn’t stop staring at you, we felt so blessed to have our healthy baby girl in our arms. Mommy cried and smiled at the same time because I was just so happy to have you here with us! You nursed within the first half hour and latched correctly right away and did awesome!

When mommy got up to go to the bathroom the first time I passed out and they had to put ammonia under my nose to get me to come to. After that we got to go to our recovery room and mommy spent most of the night holding you, nursing you and staring at you. You are absolutely gorgeous baby girl! You are our dream come true!

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

1st Broken Bone!

Of course, 2 weeks until baby girl is due we have to have trauma:) On Thursday I was out buying some groceries and daddy was home with the boys. The boys decided to take advantage of this and wanted to use the exercise ball as a trampoline. They shoved the ottoman up against it, and were jumping from the ottoman to the birth ball and then landing on the couch. Interesting choice of play huh! Well Breck hit the ball wrong and landed on the floor on his collar bone. Tears followed. Daddy consoled and we thought all was good. Everytime we'd pick him up under his arms he would cry, so we thought something hurt under his arms. The next day grandma was here and Breck continued to complain about his arm. That night Kyle was getting him to put him in his highchair for some watermelon and Breck started crying and couldn't be consoled for about 30 minutes. We took his shirt off to look at him and saw that his collar bone was swollen. After talking to the doctor they said to wait and take him to Kstat in the morning instead of the ER b/c the ER was a 3 hour wait.
So the next morning we woke up early and got to Kstat right when it opened at 9am. They had to Xray his collar bone, which was difficult because he wouldn't stay still so the pictures kept having a blur to them. Mommy couldn't go in with him b/c I'm pregnant so it was he and daddy in the room with the big scary machine. Hearing my baby cry down the hall was breaking my heart! They finally got the picture and said it was a "green side" fracture. He is supposed to wear a sling, which we haven't had much luck getting him to wear and have him be "careful" with it. Both hard things for a 22 month old to do!

So our baby boy Breck is the first person in our family to break a bone. :( So wish I didn't get to document this milestone. Since he is so young they said it will heal quickly and well, hope they are right! Until then, lots of extra cuddles are in store for him:)