Molly 1 month

So today was my first day back to work since having Molly. It was hard to leave the girls. I was really getting used to staying home with them. I had a sweet little surprise when I got to work from Ellie. I took the last two english muffins to work so I could eat a mid morning snack. I pulled one out to eat it and first thought part of it broke off. I looked a little closer and noticed there were three little bite marks in the muffin. I busted out laughing, they were from Ellie. The little stinker has grown up so fast that now she is able to reach the next shelf in the pantry. I'm assuming she was in there and got a hold of the bag, took a muffin out, had a little snack and so kindly put the muffin back in the bag and placed it back on the shelf. I felt like a little kid whose mom put a sweet little note in her lunch. It was exactly what I needed to help me get through my first day back to work.

Ellie has been amazing with Molly. She loves to give kisses and tries to give Molly her pacifier whether she wants it or not. This weekend I was even able to prop Molly up so Ellie could hold her. It's still kinda surreal that we have these two sweet girls when not that long ago we were questioning whether or not we were ever going to be able to have kids. Tonight Ellie was such a good little girl. Jason gave her a bath and she played for a bit. About 8pm I told Ellie to give me a kiss and she needed to go night night. She did just that. She came over, gave me a smooch and headed to her bedroom. Jason put her in her crib and she went to sleep. She normally goes to sleep very easily in the recliner with one of us but never has she headed to her room like such a big girl to go to bed. Moments like this make me so proud.

Two Weeks Old

Molly's Birth Story

I woke up around 1:30am on April 3, 2012 with what I thought was a stomach ache. Before I went to bed I had a pickle and lemonade and thought maybe the combination didn’t agree with me. I had 1 “cramp” around 1:30am and laid there until the next one around 2:20am. I felt my stomach and realized it was not a stomach ache and they were contractions. I headed down stairs to finish up Ellie’s “Big Sister” t-shirt that I had started the night before. Jason came down stairs to check on me and I told him they were for sure contractions. By the time I finished the t-shirt the contractions were about 30 min apart. It was now about 4am and I decided I better get in the shower and start getting ready. Jason sat out in the living room on the computer doing a bit of work. I finished getting ready and came out to tell him he better get ready because contractions were now about 5min apart. He showered, called his mom and we were headed out the door around 5:30am. Contractions stayed about 3 min apart all the way to the hospital. They checked me in and around 6am I was measuring 5cm and 90%. By 8:45am I was at 7cm and 100% and my nurse told me if I wanted an epidural now would be a good time. I got the epidural but it wasn’t a good block so I was still feeling everything, which wasn’t too bad. I was still breathing through them but I was so worried about tearing that I really wanted the drugs to work. Around 9:30am the anesthesiologist came in with something a bit stronger and that seemed to do the trick. It was 10am and it was time to call Dr. L. She was in the hospital doing a hysterectomy on a woman so she had to leave that lady and come up quick to deliver Molly. I pushed during 1 contraction 3 times and the next contraction I pushed once and they told me to stop that her head was out. Molly was born at 10:15am. She came out and I looked at her and knew she was quite a bit smaller than Ellie. She weighed 6lbs 12oz and measured 19 inches long. She was perfect.

My parents missed her birth by a hour. They missed Ellie’s by about the same time. The weeks prior my mom kept telling me to give her more notice this time. Well I called her cell phone at 3:54am and she didn’t answer so I called the house and dad answered. He gave the phone to mom and I told her my contractions were about 45min apart. She said to call her around 6am because it’s possible that I could be like that for several hours. I called her again at 5 and told her we were thinking about heading to the hospital soon, she said she would get dad up and get on the road. There is something to be said about a mother’s intuition. With Ellie she said, “We’ll see you tomorrow” and with Molly my mom said Monday night before I went to bed, “now you are ready. I got the flowers done so let me know when contractions are regular." Guess next time both of us should pay attention to what she is saying.

It's been a busy week and I'm still working on Molly's birth story. She arrived last Tuesday morning and couldn't be more perfect. Just a quick pic and then I will hopefully get her story done this week.

Her Nursery

We thought a couple weeks ago baby might arrive a bit early but I've been at 2cm for a couple weeks and on Thursday I was 2.5cm. Only a few contractions here and there but nothing to get excited about. By my calculations I'm due the 4th but according to my first ultrasound my Dr. gave me a due date of the 10th. I'm hoping more around the 4th because of Easter, but she'll come when she's ready to come.

Here are some pics of her nursery. I'm waiting on a wall decal to arrive that says her name but other than that the room is ready.

I added some frill to an old lamp shade and found these cute little purple flowers to add for a bit of color

I couldn't find any curtains that I liked for a reasonable price so thanks to Pinterest

I decided to sew up some with a little ruffle

Here is her wall decal I ordered. I added some fabric flowers to give it some color. As soon as I get the name decal it will go right above her crib.

So excited I got my belly teaser pic. Can't wait to see the rest!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Today started out with green shamrock pancakes for breakfast.

We got all dressed in our green and headed out to the St. Patrick's Day parade downtown.

Ellie lasted until the last 15 min and she was out.

We came home and I painted up my belly.

I did this with Ellie but painted a pumpkin for her.

Now we are off to Target to finish buying baby stuff. I had an appointment on Thursday afternoon and I was at 2cm. I was quite surprised so I feel like I've been in a bit of a panic since then thinking of all the stuff I have to do before she arrives. I thought I would have at least 3-4 more weeks but I think we might be having a March baby.

Happy Valentine's Day

Well Miss Ellie wasn't being such a sweet Valentine today. She didn't want to get up this morning and the last thing I think she wanted was me getting her dressed up and taking a million pics of her but we got a few.

Happy Birthday Ellie

Ellie turned 1 on Saturday. We headed up to my parents on Friday morning to start getting things ready for the party on Saturday. On the way up Friday it was raining but no snow. We grabbed some lunch at my favorite Chinese restaurant, Ming's, and over heard a lady say there was supposed to be 2-4" of snow later Friday and Saturday 5-8". Jason made a comment about it and I tried to play it off that she must be talking about a different area...maybe Denver. Nope the snow started late Friday and by Saturday mid morning there was about 8-10".




It made for a bit of a stressful day trying to figure out if we were even going to have her party. The party store called early Saturday morning and said they were going to close early so we needed to come pick up our order. My dad had bladed the driveway around 7am and within just a couple of hours it was drifted shut again. Jason shoveled enough for us to get out but when we returned from the party store there was no way we were getting back up the driveway. We were snowed out!! Oh and we had no power since 5am Saturday morning. I still had tons of things to do to get ready for the party and couldn't get back to the house to do it and even if I could get back in there was no power. My poor dad was out trying to get cattle fed and it wasn't going so well with all the snow so he wasn't able to come back and blade the driveway until he was finished with cattle. With my dad out working we weren't able to get back to the house until about 1pm. The party was scheduled to start at 4pm but I had decorating to do at the restaurant and still hadn't taken a shower. We packed up everything and headed over to my aunt's house to shower and and get ready. Not everyone was able to attend due to the weather. Jason's family was coming from KC and online they were saying the roads were snow packed and we suggested they not attempt it. Also my aunt and uncle who live about an hour west couldn't make it in. It turned out to be a great party and party definitely everyone will remember. I guess I should have went with a theme that a friend of mine did "Winter Onederland"

First Steps!!!

All of the sudden Ellie just decided to walk tonight! Enjoy the video we got below...

11 months

This morning after Ellie got up from her nap I took her into her room to change her diaper. While doing so I noticed some lovely boogers in her nose and decided to suck them out. When she sees the green sucker coming her way she immediately starts crying. When she opened her mouth and let out her first cry I noticed two upper teeth! I looked again to make sure I was really seeing this and yes both top teeth are there. I yelled out to Jason and we both couldn't believe it. Here all this time we have been waiting for the two on the bottom to show and nothing. Well we thought we saw one on the lower a month or so ago but it disappeared. Anyway we felt horrible because she has been whining a lot the last few days and we thought maybe teeth but again we were only checking the lowers. If the little bit of whining was all to her breaking teeth through then she is quite the trooper! :)