Kellan's Birth day story..

I've had quite a few people ask me about the labor and how it went. Mostly my preggo friends, but in case anyone wants to know how things went for us then here ya go :)
We got to the hospital a little late..It was bc of me of course. It was SO ugly outside but I knew it would get pretty when Kellan was born and it was gorgeous outside! My day didnt start off great at all. My veins kept rolling and the nurse blew two of them in my right arm which is excruciating. So she moved to my left arm and finally got the IV started there. They started my pitocin around 8ish and it took a good hour for the contractions to start. Once they started, they didnt ease up. I got my epidural around 930 and only the left side of my body wass feelingless. I started freaking out at this point. Nothing helped the right side get numb, we tried everything. They finally had to up my dose, which I didnt want to do bc my left side was so numb that I couldnt move my leg at all. I was scared that I wouldnt feel to push or that I wasnt going to be able to move around like I should have been. About an hour and a half before I started pushing, my right side finally started going numb. By this point I was in so much pain that I thought I was going to throw up and pass out. My back was hurting so bad and the contractions went all the way through my body. I was shaking really bad from the epidural and the pain, not to mention I was a hair away from screaming and going irate. I dilated really fast from there and had to push about 5 sets of 3, so abouht 15 times. I didnt tear, nor did I get an episiotomy. He came right out once I started pushing. Thank you Mom and Memaw for my big hips! They let him stay with us for about 30 minutes before they weighed him and bathed him. I guessed that he would be 7.6 and 19 inches long, but he turned out to be 7.9 and 20 1/4 inches. He is a long big boy with the chance of red hair! I keep wondering what color his eyes will be bc they are already changing so much. As far as his personality so far, he is SO calm and laid back. He doesnt cry at all, he wimpers when he wants to be touched or swaddled. At first he didnt eat very well and acted like he didnt want to latch, but they found out he had swallowed amni fluid and had to suction it out of his tummy. By 5 this morning he was feeding so well and ate a lot. So Im glad breastfeeding is going great so far. This has been such a great experience although it was not as easy as Lanie's birth, it was worth every second. I am so in love with my little boy and wish theyd hurry and bring him back to me now. Jeannie left her laptop and camera since she wont be here  until 12 today, thankfully because I have to kill time until he comes back to the room! I am still hurting pretty bad with the after birth contractions, but I am managing it. I hate taking medicine but I dont want to hurt. Colby has been absolutely wonderful through this whole entire pregnancy. I have had my mood swings bc I was so uncomfortable, but he stuck through it and either ignored me and let me be grumpy or he did anything he could to appease me. I couldnt ask for a better best friend to share everything with. My dad is on his way here now and I cant wait to see him. We get to go home tomorrow, which is Colbys birthday! We met 3 years ago on his bday, so we both coulodnt ask for a better birthday present for him :) I never thought that moving here on May 25, 2007 that I would meet the love of my life on may 28, 2008, and have such an amazing life for myself come May 26, 2011. I am so happy with the way things are headed and couldnt be more thankful for everything that I have been given. I love my family and Colby's family so much.

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School is coming to an end for the summer and that means Kellan is getting closer to being here!

I couldn't be more excited about May 3 to be here, LAST DAY OF FINALS! I will have a full 3 or 4 weeks to get ready for Kellan because he could techincally be here any day. We get to see him on May 2, which I am overly excited about it because we havent seen him since 19-20 weeks. I want to know how big he is, or should I say how "small" he is since everyone keeps telling me my belly is small! I am measuring right at my week though as of right now. I had high BP at our last visit and these Braxton Hicks contractions are getting so much more intense, but I am not at a breaking point yet. I am just so uncomfy and can't sleep. My Dr. had to come up with a medical reason to give us the ultrasound bc they only offer us one with my insurance. I can give him plenty of reasons to chart down because this pregnancy has been so different then mine with Lanie. Speaking of Lanie..she has taken the beginning steps to her advanced classes next year at her school and passed them. Now we just have to set up a test for her to take to see how far advanced she is. I am so proud of her! I really do hope that she can rub off on Kellan when it comes to school work responsibility and reading. Not to mention, how well behaved and mature she is. I couldn't be a happier Momma. Ahhhh I am sitting outside and just had a HUGE black spider on my leg. I pretty much threw everything I had in my hands or lap. Whew.....anyways...busy next few days. We have round 2 of maternity pics tomorrow with Jeannie after lunch and our Easter egg hunt for Lanie and Noah. I am so excited about them because we haven't taken pics with the kids yet.

Round 1 of maternity pics!

We drove to Memphis for a friend of mine to do our maternity pictures because I told her while she was taking my wedding dress pics last summer, that once I got pregnant, she could do some of our maternity pics. I didn't expect that to be this soon though! I wanted some outdoor pictures of trees and flowers that were just starting to bloom so she suggested Botannical Gardens. I had never been there but it was EVERYTHING I expected it to be. They had bonzai trees, bamboo, buttercups, tulips, dogwoods, bradford pears, and Japanese trees that I can't even pronounce or spell. It was soo beautiful. The weather was perfect too, a little windy, but perfect. My eyes were killing me by the end of the shoot but you can only tell in a few pics that my eyes were getting red. We have only seen a few of them, so I am waiting anxiously to see the rest of them! I still want Colby's Mom to do pics of us of course because she's so creative and it means more when she does them because they are more personalized to us. Colby has some great ideas of course that have to do with sports, but I'm up for anything. I am just ready to hold my little man! I'll leave some pics from our shoot and will add more when we get them :)

Baby showers are just around the corner!

Our invites for our Memphis shower have been sent out and it is in less than 3 weeks away! I am so excited to see my family and friends back home! I miss everyone so much being here and not being able to just go to lunch or meet up at the park. I am looking forward to relaxing and seeing everyone, the gifts are just a bonus. We are doing a safari theme that I found online at a party website. The theme happened to be 50% on sale the week I found it, then it went back to the normal price when I went back later to add more plates, so I got lucky with the price! Here they are..I love the colors.

I think that we are going to do cupcakes instead of a cake at the shower because I like cupcakes more and they are easier to eat. Plus, I LOVE homemade cupcakes and icing. The icing from bakeries are so sweet to me and they always put too much. I haven't quite decided yet though what we are going to do. We are also having a "wishing tree" for people to sign a card and write best wishes to us and hang on the tree. It's a creative way to do a guest book without the book and when it's over I will just keep the cards. Our baby shower here in Murfreesboro is a coed shower, even though the one in Memphis will have my family there including the brothers and possibly some boyfriends. I want to do everything with Colby, I want no part of doing anything alone because we're in this together. I love our invites for our shower here..they are creative and different, and plus they fit Colby perfectly. They couldn't be any cuter.

I finally ordered a crib blanket and we pieced together his crib!! I love the design so much and love how it all came together..I still have to iron the bed ruffle though.

We are having maternity pictures done this Tuesday in Memphis by the same girl who did my wedding dress pictures last summer, A. Whitmore Photography who is amazing by the way! I am looking forward to them. Jeannie is going to take pictures of us too, which I'm more excited about because she's so creative and plus Lanie and Noah get to be in those pictures. Have a good night everyone!

My growing big boy at 29 weeks! :)

sick, sick and more sick!

I think the bug is finally out of my system! Thank goodness! Lanie got sick last saturday while in Memphis, I pulled my first all nighter with her, at least until I took a nap; but it was awful. We stayed in Memphis an extra day just because I didn't want to drive back with her. She missed school Monday, then Tuesday she got sick in class and had to be picked up. Luckily, Colby got off work early and picked her up around 1245, because by 130, I was feeling super sick. Needless to say, I got sick and had to take a trip the the hospital for dehydration. I am not one to freak out about things, or worry, but I couldn't take any chances with Kellan. I had never been so sick before. I thought I was better on Friday, then after eating Jim n Nick's, I got sick all over again. All night and sick all the next day until about 3. my doctor said if I got sick again then I needed to go back to the hospital. I easily could have, but I didn't want to go back so I held in all the throw up I could. I took a Phenergan at 930 and passed out until 11 today, well, 10 am, but the hour ahead threw me off. I feel great today so I hope my cereal I ate stays down. It's been beautiful outside the past two days so I forced myself to sit outside with Lanie yesterday and I got a sunburn! a whole hour outside, and I have tan lines.  I really need to get a tan. I was on spring break this week and didn't have a break at all! So I am needing that break right about now.I do get a prenatal massage on Tuesday, which is also my 2nd time having to change the appt time bc of the dang stomach bug. I have some major catching up to do with school since I didn't get to this week that I had planned but it's okay. We have a baby shower to go to today and I'm looking forward to the food, yummm. Speaking of the shower, I need to get ready since we lost an hour last night. I need to stay up to date with this so I will be back later!

I am behind in blogs!

I somehow knew that I would end up getting behind. Today is Lanie's 7th birthday!! I can't believe how grown she is already. I feel like I am still pregnant with her and not her little brother. At 2:12 p.m., 7 years ago, was the best day of my life! We woke up and I let her wear her new outfit I bought her over the weekend with new earrings, hair bow and necklace. She looked so cute. I straightened her hair so it wasn't so crazy too. We stopped at Kroger to get cupcakes for everyone in her class. Then off to school I went. I took a quiz this morning and wasn't supposed to get out early, but our teacher wasn't there so we left after our quiz given by a sub. It worked out perfect because I went and surprised Lanie with Sonic for lunch. I am already home again because we left early after our second test today, which I did awful on because I knew we could drop a test grade, so I chose to drop this one. My parents were in town over the weekend and I didn't get any studying done. I just have to stay on top of it from now on, no more freebie tests. Colby's Mom gave us 4 tickets to the Predators game tonight, so we are going with a friend and taking Lanie. We are letting her stay up late since it's her bday. They are starting to close schools early around here, I just hope they don't close hers!! I have class tomorrow and can't miss it or I feel behind.
We didn't go home this year for Lanie's bday so my parents came here and we just took her out to dinner and shopping. We're also letting her have a sleep over this weekend with a few friends and we are going ot take them bowling and pizza.. this will be her first sleep over. Ahhhh, I am excited! I got her the Nook from Barnes and Noble. My kid is exceptional when it comes to reading, and LOVES her nook. I even got her a little cover that has a heart and peace sign on it. I am so thankful she's intrigued by books and reading. She's already read more books than I have. I don't want to call her a dork, but she's my little smart dork. haha. She is getting tested for the gifted to be able to get pulled out of class next year and do things beyond her level because she's too smart for her grade; they don't allow you to skip grades here. I just love my baby girl so much and I am so proud of her and how smart she is and mature she is for her age!
Soo this pregnancy is going GREAT! I am eating a lot these days and feeling so good. I am a lot more tired than I was before, but I know that's normal. Kellan is soooo active. He moves all the time whether I'm sitting down, driving, walking, and especially lying down to go to sleep. I never worry anymore that he's not okay because a quick punch or kick to the bladder reminds me that he's doing just fine. We are steadily getting him things before he gets here. I can't believe we will be six months this weekend!! That is only 3 months left, where has the time gone?! I want to take our maternity pics when it warms up, maybe by then I will actually look more pregnant even though I'm finally starting to really show where people notice and not just think I'm packing a beer gut. My little guy is getting so big!
I love my big man too, Colby is just amazing and I could not ask for anyone better. I can't express how much I love him.
It's time to go, I will upload pics this weekend of things we've done lately. I wish I could do these from my phone, but I haven't figured it out just yet.

School has started back and I can't find bedding for Kellan! UGH!

Now that school has started back, I am bac to getting stressed out. Although I am no where near as stressed as I was last semester and I'm almost in my third week already. I have my first test on Tuesday in Intro to Nursing. I am terrified of this class because of the type of questions that are asked. I now that once I get a hang of the questions, then I will be fine. But it's learning the critical thinking process and applying it to the nursing process which makes things hard because most of the answers to choose from are all correct. I love everything that I am learning though. I feel like I already know a lot of it just from the CNA class that I took last year. I am surprised that I actually remember most of it. I guess it's something you don't forget when you actually practice it. I am trying to manage time better this semester and I think I am doing it a little bit better but not as much as I would like to. I am actually reading the chapters this time instead of just glancing over the books. I just read an entire chapter and I did not do that once last semester for any class. I honestly don't now how I managed to pull off good grades with the study habits I chose. On top of that, I was sick every day it seemed like with nausea. I am so glad that I made it through!!
On a happier note than school, Kellan is getting big and moving so much these days. A friend of mine told me that if he is moving a lot, then his reflexes in his legs will be good and strong. He should come out running because he moves ALL of the time and hasn't stopped since week 15/16. He is a little ahead in weight, but we're not sure exactly how long he is, so hopefully he's ahead in length too. He was a week behind when we first got pregnant, and now he is right on the day.
Now, as far as his bedding goes..I am beyond frustrated at not being able to find something that I at least like a little bit. I am not doing his bed in cars, trucks, sports, safari, animals, etc. I want something simple that will fit into our room too since he will be in there with us for a while. I also don't want it to be girly, but I want it to be modern. It is hard trying to find a happy medium, and I am beginning to think that it doesn't exist. I wouldn't mind finding a cute animal pattern with one animal on it, not the classic animal, but a contemperary or modern animal. I found a woman online who makes them, and I really like tons of the patterns that she has, but I can't find one that fits perfect and I know I will, it just takes time. I'm not big into spending money on this kind of stuff because he will out grow it so fast, so I'm not being too picky, I just want something that is reasonable and not gaudy, bland, or too bold and outdated. That's not too much to ask! :)
Dinner time with my family...pray that school goes okay for me and that Kellan continues to grow and be healthy!

Putting Kellan's crib together

We put Kellan's crib together the other day, but I am just now uploading pics to my computer since before Christmas! So I figured I would add a few of the crib. We haven't even looked into bedding yet, because we don't like dogs, elephants, starts, nothing like that....We like simple stuff with little designs. Noah's room is baseball and allstart theme, but I think Kellan is too little to do soports just yet. I found this woman online who makes the bedding for you, but she is EXPENSIVE. All Kellan will do is sleep, throw up, pee and poop in the sheets haha, so we don't want to spend money  like that. But we still want something cute and not bland. But here's the crib. We got it from Babies R Us. I liked it the most before I even saw it was one of the more affordable ones, so we got it the next day. Now, if only we could find that perfect bedding for little guy...

Our ultrasound run around!

Soo we went to the doctor on Thursday, the 13th to find out what our little one is. It didn't go the way we had hoped. I wasn't happy from the very beginning of the ultrasound bc the tech kept the screen turned for 20 minutes while measuring, and I couldn't see ANYTHING. Then she finally tells us that she's been looking while measuring and can't determine a sex. So she finally turns the screen my way for no more than 2 minutes to let me look, and that was all I got to see. It was not okay with me. I almost started crying. Because us mothers all know how exciting it is to hear the heart beat and especially see the baby!! I left very unsatisfied.



Our creative way of telling friends and family via text what we were having :)



SO the next day I called this place I found online and called the doctor to see who they would recommend  here in Murfreesboro, but they gave me the number to the place I found online in Nashville. I called right away and he fit us in the next day, Saturday, at 2:30 pm. Colby stayed after work on friday so he could get off early on Saturday. Come saturday, I stopped by the gas station and got a Mountain Dew and Hershey's bar to make the baby hyper because that's what I was told to do. Then I met Colby at his work and off we went to the imaging center with Lanie in the back too :) By the time we got to the place, I was already hyper so I knew baby had to be too or either in a diabetic coma from all the sugar neither of us were used to. I struggled to eat the hershey's bar, I even gave half to Lanie and chugged the Mtn Dew because I hate cokes, and definitely hate Mtn Dew. But I did what I had to do because it WORKED!!

The SECOND that he stuck the sonogram instrument to my stomach, all you could see was his little weenis parts! hahah...I insteatly said "OMG is it a boy?!?" and the guy said, "yep, 100% boy..." Colby even made a joking comment that Kellan was ready to cooperate as long as I didn't drink anymore mountain dew. So we found out in literally in 1 second what the baby was. Colby felt like it was a girl for some reason, but I always knew deep down it was a boy. I thought I wanted a girl, but when the tech "guessed" that thursday that it was a girl, I realized how much I wanted it to be a boy instead. The whole experience at this place was AMAZING. It's not a doctor's office, so it was laid back. It is family owned by a man and his wife just to do ultrasounds for people who want to see their baby whenever they want. We paid for the 2d ultrasound, but we ended up staying in the 3d mode for the majority of the time because Kellan was cooperting so well. We got a DVD with the ultrasound on it, and 6 pictures. We will definitely be going back to this place around 33-34 weeks just to see Kellan again on 3d/4d. It was ONLY $75, and well worth every cent.

OMG my windown just closed out and I thought I lost every bit of thing I just said, whewww.. close one.

Anyways, we went shopping last night and got a few outfits for him, but we aren't going crazy just yet until we have the baby showers and will buy what we need after we get things. Here are some pictures from the ultrasound...

What a beautiful snow day!!

I knew we would get snow because of everyone freaking out on the news, but they didn't say it would be so pretty! Lanie and I haven;t even gone out to play in it. She doesn't want to get wet and cold, which is okay with me because I'd rather neither of us get sick. Lanie isn't excited about the kids behind our house using our backyard to build a snow wall and throw balls back and forth. She thinks they should play in their own yard, haha.
We went to Becky's today and she gave me about 15 shirts to try on to see if they fit; which I am super excited about. The smalls fit nearly perfect, except they might get too short. The mediums are a little bigger, but they are long enough. So I can make-do definitely with what I have for now but I will need more when I get bigger.
A few friends are coming over tonight to watch the Nation Championship game so Colby is cooking meatballs and little weinys, with rotel and a few other little things. I will not eat ANY of it. I am too scared to try new food. I will stick to my Special K and sandwiches. He offered to make something I would eat, but I really just love eating cereal and sandwiches. I might even throw some yogurt in there tonight because I don't know if I like it anymore. I am really tired today for some reason even thought I slept great. There is no school again tomorrow, so yay for sleeping in again..that is if Lanie lets me.
On another note, please pray that Oregon wins tonight, however; Cam Newton has the most beautiful smile EVER! but if Oregon loses, then Colby has to wear a freakin mustache because of a bet he made with a friends. I already warned him that I will not be going anywhere with him looking like Luigi or Mario.
Needless to say I need to get up so I don't fall asleep and finish washing clothes then play some games with Lanie; we are Uno and headbandz freaks :)

Happy New Year!! and what a great start to the new year...

I can't believe it is 2011 already!?!? This year has flown by. I am going to try and keep up with blogging, I say that a lot I think but I really like to have this for as long as this website lasts, which better be forever.
We were supposed to go to the doctor on Monday the 17th to find out what himmer is, but it has changed to a SOONER date. YAYYY! I am so excited to find out 4 days earlier. Lanie came in the room this morning while I was sleeping and all she said was, "Mommy, don't we find out what the baby is onthe 17th? Well, I don't have school that day so does that mean I go too or am I still going to Rilyn's??" Thank goodness I have Debbie to help me out. I owe her big time for all the times she has helped me with Lanie. It's nice to know I trust her and Lanie has a blast with Rilyn, her little BFF. I called the Dr. first thing to reschedule, because not only do we find out that day, but I have my first day back to class, AND a board meeting for our SNA members so I don't know when I will get out that day.
I don't know if any other pregnant girls get sick at certain smells, but my smell that I can absolutely NOT stand is cat litter...clean litter, dirty litter, any cat litter, I can't stand! We are going to put in a kitty door that leads to our garage and start keeping the litter box out there so I don't smell it anymore. Colby said he could bath in the new littler got because it smells so good, but I just don't see it. All I can picture is crap and pee clumps, haha.
I can't express how much I love being a Mom. It's like its all I was meant to be. I didn't expect it so young, but I can't imagine not having a little mini me walking around who is about to 7 years old in exactly a month! Lanie is growing up so fast and I don't particularly like it.
This baby is killing me on the inside!! It rolls/kicks/punches/flips...it does it all. Lanie never hurt me this bad, this early. I have lost 10+ pounds, but this baby is still strong and growing like it should I believe just because I feel it all the time and it HURTS. It wakes me up. I just really really really want to gain weight! I feel like I'm not doing my job when I keep losing weight when I should be gaining. I am hoping that baby is at least 10 inches long, and almost a pound when we go on Thursday.
We are going to start buying a crib here soon, and start our registry. I also want to buy one pack of diapers a pay check in all different sizes. It is all starting to sink in and hit me that I am actually pregnant now that I am on break from school and can feel himmer move. We are going to keep it in our room until it sleeps through the night or gets big enough to be by itself, because I don't want it getting used to sleeping near us.
Things are starting to fall together and I am so blessed and grateful, I can't say it enough.