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Jack’ee at the hospital

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So I’m sitting in my Paris hotel packing to come home when there is a knock at the door. It’s my friend Michelle letting me know that she just got a message from Jon that my sister Jack’ee is in the hospital! (I didn’t get the international plan on my phone. Friends are awesome!)

She was due on the 18th (the day I flew to Europe) and since the stinker waited until after I made travel plans and paid for the trip to let me know she was even pregnant I was planning on just missing little mans birth. I actually invited her to go with me. Her excuse (she already knew she was preggo and had a due date!) was that she couldn’t take the time off and that she didn’t think they could financially swing it during that time of year. LIES! 😉

The whole time I was gone I kept waiting to hear if my nephew had been born yet. So Michelle is at the door letting me know he’s on his way. So I knew I was going to miss his birth anyway. Happy/sad.
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So she went in to get induced on Friday… I think. Jet lag. Diff countries, time zones… What day is it? OR is it night? I’m so messed up right now.IMG_6025

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So she didn’t progress at all when they induced her the first time so she got sent home. SO I got my jetlagged self over to the hospital sometime Monday morning when she was back to try again. I can’t even tell you how excited I was to  be there for her during such a special time.

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Foot/leg rubs and a mani/pedi. Plus I brought her some amazing chocolate from London. This is my new crack. It’s a good thing I cannot get it easily in the States. IMG_6031 IMG_6032

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Waiting out in the lobby while Jack’ee got her epidural. This conversation happen a bit before she got her epidural.

Jack’ee: Looking at me, “You did this twice!?” Looking at Mom, “And you did this four times!!”

Me: Um, ya…

Jack’ee: You’re both SO stupid!!!

Us: Laughing SO hard!

Mom: Abuela did this ten times.

Jack’ee: She’s an idiot!

She was feeling better after her meds kicked in. They call it labor for a reason. It’s not a walk in the park. 😉

IMG_6066So he wasn’t born until Wednesday. I was at the hospital all day Monday and Tuesday, but Wednesday R had Speech at 9am and then Kaylee had her one year follow up with her urologist at the Children’s hospital at 12:30.

Kaylee was on the table getting her ultrasound done when I got the text from my Dad saying baby Logan was born via c-section.

I was laughing SO hard. I missed his birth anyway! Life. BUT little Logan is hear safe and healthy and Jack’ee is doing as well as can be expected.

Also Jon’s sister Sharice had her little man a wee bit early in Texas a couple hours later via emergency c-section. Little Connor is going to spend some time in the NICU and Sharice is going to have a bit of a recovery. 🙁 But everyone made it through alive and we are so grateful for that.

So we were blessed with not one, but two little men in our family this week.

The kiddos are so excited to have two cousins born on the same day! 🙂

 

 

 

UFA Railroad Park family fun day

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Another fun time with our local chapter of United for Adoption. We let the kiddos ride the merry go round and the train on this visit.
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R was actually really great. More of a typical kiddos than an angry defiant one. IMG_5411

Kids had fun climbing on everything while we waited for the train.IMG_5416 IMG_5417 IMG_5429 IMG_5430 IMG_5490 IMG_5492It’s super rare when we can go places with all five and have a good time. I really love the last two photos of our family park adventure.

Kaylee’s 7th birthday party

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Kaylee wanted a science themed party. She loves math and science. "Mom we can just do some experiments and you don't even have to decorate!"

WHAT?!?! It's like she doesn't even know me.

I told her I loved the party theme, but that she would have to deal with decorations. I made a bunch of banners using periodic elements to spell everything out. She LOVED it!

 

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Due to an unfortunate bee situation our front door was not accessible. Good times….. angry

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And here we have the lab queen herself. She was killing me with her cuteness. She did her own "crazy busy science girl hair" by then end of the party it was a bigger hot mess. LOVED it!

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Baking soda and vinegar to blow up balloons.

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Some cornstarch and water for a little Non-Newtonian Fluid fun. They were t this longer than I expected. I forget how fun this stuff is.

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IMG_4913 We had TANG because it's all sciencey and stuff. Astronaut drink and all. Plus it yummy. And some super yummy (guests said so) dairy/egg free chocolate cupcakes.

 

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And of course coke and mentos. I got baby coke bottles for each child. They all really like getting to do their own. Jon got some really fun footage on the GoPros.

 

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I went to check on the epic disaster of cornstarch and water fun. WOW. They had fun.

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Kaylee conducted the birthday song this year. I was cracking up.

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Her requested beaker pinata lasted threw all the kids. Uncle Josh helped her finish it off in the end.

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I LOVE this shot of Owen. Great form!

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This purple dress fro Yaiyai was two years in the making. Kaylee had very specific requests in her dream purple sparkly dress in that it needed to be pretty, sparkly, but still soft and not itchy. She was beyond thrilled.

 

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She had fun popping balloons from her friends. "I'm so rich now!" Ha!

I tell her she has an elf ear. She has and ear that has an extra cartilage ridge that form a capitol E and it's a bit pointed at the top. She has taken to working on projects in the garage and has her own mini workshop. So we got her some proper sized tool and gear. She was SO happy to have tools that are real and fit her little hands.

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Later that night after everything was cleaned up I got to hold my not so little anymore girl while relaxing on the couch. She passed out and I was near tears that it was my last time holding her as a six year old. I am such a big baby. For the past six months I've been telling her to just stop growing. Her response is always the same, "I can't stop. Just talk to Jesus about it."  Hard to argue with that huh?