Thursday, October 29, 2009
big girl ♥
i took the baby to san diego this morning for a dr appt to check her blood counts again. everything was perfect- as expected. they weighed her and she was 10lbs 2.6oz she is getting SO big. today she alos got her first pigtails- she is just so freakin cute!
Monday, October 26, 2009
PUMPKINS
the kids carved their pumpkins tonight and they turned out really well. then we baked the seeds so we could snack on them for the next couple of days. im loving that october is here and it should be coolin down a little bit soon. :)
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
.:this week:.
parent teacher conferences are all this week. the kids get out early so my day is kinda shortened. I'm hoping that the meetings go well. I'm assuming that Jill's teacher will say that she is doing great and Brian's teacher will have some concerns. the kids have been working really hard on getting their homework done everyday but I'm not sure how much is sticking. i think we are going to have to spend a little more time reading with Jill and more time on handwriting with Brian. its amazing how good Brian is at reading and math. he reads so fast and can solve math problems so quickly it blows my mind every time. Jillian has the best handwriting i have ever seen from a little kid. she is so artistic.
Lola is 2 months old today. she is so stinking cute. she started cooing last week. i was walking in the hallway to the living room and she just said, "newwwww." in a perfect little talking voice. it shocked me so much, i had never heard her talking voice before. then a few seconds later she did it again! it is the sweetest sound ever. so then she started doing it more often and now she is starting to make different cooing sounds. i freaking LOVE it.
last night she was sleeping on her tummy in the living room on the couch and i was doing dishes, Matt left the living room for a sec to go upstairs for something and all of a sudden she screamed- i go running out and she was on the floor! apparently she had rolled all the way over and fell off the couch! thank goodness our couch is super low and the floor has soft carpet, so it pretty much just woke her up and scared her. she didn't even cry. but it sure scared the crap outta me! i didn't think we had to worry about her rolling over for a few more months... guess i was wrong.
There is only a month left before i will be going to Washington to visit. I'm so freaking excited. i cant wait to see my friends and family. i cant wait to wear a coat and smell the rain. i just wish my hubby could come with me. he cant cause he will be at Mojave viper from Nov 17 to DEC 17. I'm kinda stressed about the plane ride tho, the airport is going to be bananas with luggage, 2 kids, a baby and car seats blah blah blah... all by myself. STRESSFUL. plus i have no idea how the baby is going to do on the plane. not looking forward to that part.
Lola is 2 months old today. she is so stinking cute. she started cooing last week. i was walking in the hallway to the living room and she just said, "newwwww." in a perfect little talking voice. it shocked me so much, i had never heard her talking voice before. then a few seconds later she did it again! it is the sweetest sound ever. so then she started doing it more often and now she is starting to make different cooing sounds. i freaking LOVE it.
last night she was sleeping on her tummy in the living room on the couch and i was doing dishes, Matt left the living room for a sec to go upstairs for something and all of a sudden she screamed- i go running out and she was on the floor! apparently she had rolled all the way over and fell off the couch! thank goodness our couch is super low and the floor has soft carpet, so it pretty much just woke her up and scared her. she didn't even cry. but it sure scared the crap outta me! i didn't think we had to worry about her rolling over for a few more months... guess i was wrong.
There is only a month left before i will be going to Washington to visit. I'm so freaking excited. i cant wait to see my friends and family. i cant wait to wear a coat and smell the rain. i just wish my hubby could come with me. he cant cause he will be at Mojave viper from Nov 17 to DEC 17. I'm kinda stressed about the plane ride tho, the airport is going to be bananas with luggage, 2 kids, a baby and car seats blah blah blah... all by myself. STRESSFUL. plus i have no idea how the baby is going to do on the plane. not looking forward to that part.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
love at first sight.
Matt and i had a baby. her name is Lola Mae she was born on Aug 20th 2009 at 0932. she weighed 7lbs 11oz. it was a cloudy day, which made me happy. i thought it was a sign since i LOVE cloudy days. it was the first epidural that i ever had. that was an experience in itself. i couldn't feel my legs for 6 hours. nice.
there were a few complications during the birth, Lola wasn't breathing when she came out so they had to revive her. then they took her to the nicu for more tests to be sure that she was ok. when they returned they told us that she was diagnosed with downs syndrome.
what a surprise!! we had been tested and the test came back negative so we were totally taken by surprise. it didn't really set in at first. i was more upset that she wasn't right in the room with me- i felt like i had been robbed.
as soon as i could get out of the bed i went to the nicu to see our brand new baby- kind of expecting the worst, but when i got there and saw her all of that worry disappeared. she was so tiny and beautiful and perfect. i fell instantly in love all over again.
alot of times, babies with trisomy 21 have other health issues. such as heart defects, lung problems, leukemia and the most common problem is not having a strong suck and swallow. Lola was taken to balboa to the San Diego naval hospital to make sure that she was healthy. so the same day we had her we were traveling an hour south to be admitted in a different hospital.
the tests showed that her heart was healthy. her blood was good, even tho her white blood cell count was super elevated, they thought that she may have leukemia, but they came back down. her lungs were good- the reason for not breathing when she was born was because the cord was wrapped around her neck. she didn't have any blockage in her digestive system. everything was great. she have a healthy baby!
they put her under the blue LED lights for a few days because she was jaundice. her biliruben levels were at 19.5 once which is really high. but they came back down too.
my mom and Matt's mom had flown to Cali to see her and to be with us which was such a huge help. i don't know what i would have done with out them. while they were here they took care of our house and my 2 older kids. the new school year had started and i drove up to take the kids to their first day. it was so sad. i missed them so much while we were gone.
we were lucky enough to get a room at the fisher house on the same campus as the hospital. so it was just a short walk to the baby but missing the big kids made it hard. we were hoping to be out of there and back home by labor day, also Brian's birthday but that didn't happen. our moms had to leave to go back to their homes and so Matt and i started taking turns driving back home and staying with the big kids and one staying at the hospital to take care of the baby. when i came home i got a fever, which kept me out of the nicu for 4 days. that was the hardest 4 days EVER.
Lola was so close to coming home and there was nothing i could do to help. i was so frustrated. Matt stayed with her and pulled all nighters to make sure she got all of her feeds down. the Sunday that i felt good enough to go back down to see my baby Matt called me and said that she was ready to come home!
the doctors said that she was able to eat and she had put on enough weight. so on Sunday Sept 13th (25 days after she was born) we took our baby girl home.
she is almost 2 months now and she is already 10 lbs. she is getting so big and has begun to coo. it is the cutest thing ever. she makes this cute little 'duck face' all the time that we love. i call her my Lola bird <3
there were a few complications during the birth, Lola wasn't breathing when she came out so they had to revive her. then they took her to the nicu for more tests to be sure that she was ok. when they returned they told us that she was diagnosed with downs syndrome.
what a surprise!! we had been tested and the test came back negative so we were totally taken by surprise. it didn't really set in at first. i was more upset that she wasn't right in the room with me- i felt like i had been robbed.
as soon as i could get out of the bed i went to the nicu to see our brand new baby- kind of expecting the worst, but when i got there and saw her all of that worry disappeared. she was so tiny and beautiful and perfect. i fell instantly in love all over again.
alot of times, babies with trisomy 21 have other health issues. such as heart defects, lung problems, leukemia and the most common problem is not having a strong suck and swallow. Lola was taken to balboa to the San Diego naval hospital to make sure that she was healthy. so the same day we had her we were traveling an hour south to be admitted in a different hospital.
the tests showed that her heart was healthy. her blood was good, even tho her white blood cell count was super elevated, they thought that she may have leukemia, but they came back down. her lungs were good- the reason for not breathing when she was born was because the cord was wrapped around her neck. she didn't have any blockage in her digestive system. everything was great. she have a healthy baby!
they put her under the blue LED lights for a few days because she was jaundice. her biliruben levels were at 19.5 once which is really high. but they came back down too.
my mom and Matt's mom had flown to Cali to see her and to be with us which was such a huge help. i don't know what i would have done with out them. while they were here they took care of our house and my 2 older kids. the new school year had started and i drove up to take the kids to their first day. it was so sad. i missed them so much while we were gone.
we were lucky enough to get a room at the fisher house on the same campus as the hospital. so it was just a short walk to the baby but missing the big kids made it hard. we were hoping to be out of there and back home by labor day, also Brian's birthday but that didn't happen. our moms had to leave to go back to their homes and so Matt and i started taking turns driving back home and staying with the big kids and one staying at the hospital to take care of the baby. when i came home i got a fever, which kept me out of the nicu for 4 days. that was the hardest 4 days EVER.
Lola was so close to coming home and there was nothing i could do to help. i was so frustrated. Matt stayed with her and pulled all nighters to make sure she got all of her feeds down. the Sunday that i felt good enough to go back down to see my baby Matt called me and said that she was ready to come home!
the doctors said that she was able to eat and she had put on enough weight. so on Sunday Sept 13th (25 days after she was born) we took our baby girl home.
she is almost 2 months now and she is already 10 lbs. she is getting so big and has begun to coo. it is the cutest thing ever. she makes this cute little 'duck face' all the time that we love. i call her my Lola bird <3
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