And so it begins…

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So I was at my OB’s for an appointment and he decided to send me the Labor & Delivery. He wasn’t pleased by the frequency of my contractions. It really didn’t help that I had one while he was checking to see is I was dilating (which I am a little.) Not my ideal FHE, but what do you do. So I decided to look at it as a date night with my awesome hubby. It was nice having 1 on 1 time with Jon. Kaylee got to go have dinner and TONS of fun at Jake and Cole’s with their crew for FHE. She looked so cute in her cousins pj’s when we finally were able to grab her. Thanks guys you are the BEST! So after Jon and I dropped off Kaylee we grabbed dinner before I was officially told I couldn’t eat. We made the mistake of not eating first before going to L&D once. As we were finding a spot to park we ran into our neighbor/friend/nurse who told us to take our sweet time eating as L&D was swamped. So we had a yummy inside our car picnic, then headed inside to get in line. About an 1 1/2 later we finally had a bed. Several hours later they sent us home with the much HATED anti contraction meds. Which is exactly what Jon and I knew would happen. Which is why I wasn’t in a rush to go to L&D and sort of dragged my feet the whole time. I’m hoping they put me on the one I like and actually works soon. Anyhow I’m just feeling really super grateful for my sweet visiting teachers and R.S. president who came and cleaned my house just so beautifully. They are coming weekly (this was the second time) and it’s so nice having a clean house when you feel all icky with contractions. It’s really nice not to have to scrub a bathroom down. Today they not only cleaned my house, but they put fresh sheets on my bed. I am so looking forward to crawling into a nice crisp bed. It’s just one of my favorite things in life. There is just something about a fresh sheets on a nicely made bed that I just really LOVE. So even though I feel icky from the meds, I feel great sitting in a clean house. Also don’t anyone worry. This is just how I am while preggo, everything is fine. My uterus just likes to have fun every 10 mins (on the meds) for the last several months. Good news though we only have 3 months left! Which means this time I only have to take the meds for 3 months instead of 4 like I did with Kaylee. So Regan is still an easier pregnancy. WOO HOO 3 months!!!

My Girls

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This last Wednesday night Kaylee was trying so hard to put on Sam’s high heal shoes. It was really cute. So of course I had to get a few photos. She was just wearing her jewelery and bloomers as she was running a low grade fever, but Sam thought it would be so much cuter to put her in Sam’s Zebra shirt. I’m so glad we did! It made the cutest little dress. She was so cute and so happy putting on the shoes and of course the lipgloss. I love just how girly these too are when they get together.

Kaylee and I spent the last 10 days at my parents house. It was a fun just because weekend visit that got extended by a week. The only thing that would have made it perfect would have been having Jon with us. We REALLY REALLY missed our guy. I’ll post the rest of our weeks photos when I get them from my Dad. Besides Kaylee getting a random low grade fever we really enjoyed getting super spoiled. I love my parents & siblings so much! And I LOVE how much Kaylee loves them and them her. Thanks everyone for just so much fun!

18 lbs. 8 oz.!

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Jon took this picture yesterday after church. He wanted me to put it on the blog and say that this was our day… it wasn’t. 🙂 She was lovely except for this moment. Our day was the opposite of this picture. 🙂 She wanted to take the picture and got mad at Jon when he didn’t understand. She handed Jon the camera saying, “cheese peas.” We thought she wanted her picture to be taken. So this is her telling Jon he did it all wrong.


Anyway to the weight check. She gained 11 oz this last month! She’s drinking more milk (loves strawberry nesquick) and I think her body got used to burning all the extra calories from walking. So yea! The doc. & nurses are much happier with her weight gain this month. Hopefully her body will keep up the good work and next month she will be on the 1%tile for weight. She is getting closer to the 1%tile so that’s exciting. So depending on her weight gain at her 18 mo. WCC she may or may not need testing. Wish us luck keeping up with little misses super fast metabolism, and that that is her only issue with gaining weight! Meanwhile it’s sort of a blessing because I can still lift her up when needed as she’s under 20 lbs. 🙂 Here are some of Kaylee’s new fun stuff from the last month:

Body parts she knows (most known for a few months):

  • ojo- eye (is getting better at poking her own eye instead of the persons who asked, & she says ojo.)
  • nariz- nose (will “honk” her own nose now)
  • boca- mouth (is the newest learned)
  • manos- hands (claps them together)
  • belly button
  • toes
  • tushie (will slap her own bum now instead of ours)

working on:

  • oreja- ear
  • pies- feet

She can identify these parts on herself, other people and on her babies. The ones she knows in English we will work on the Spanish later. Those few I forgot how to say in Spanish and didn’t think to call my parents and ask. We are with the help of my parents trying to teach as much in Spanish first as she will pick up the English from just hearing it. Jon is great at remembering to say the words in Spanish. He thinks his accent is terrible, but we are all just happy that he’s saying the words at all. These are the words/phrases she is bilingual with so far:

  • turn off the light
  • light
  • turtle/s
  • where’s your/the…?
  • goodbye
  • bathroom
  • thank you
  • kisses for…?
  • shut the door (for doors, cupboards, drawers)
  • please
  • shoes
  • socks

Her new funny cute thing this month is:
If you ask her, “Who’s a cutie patutie?”
She will say very nonchalantly like it’s just no big deal, “Me!”

Her chores are:

  • putting her dirty clothes in her hamper
  • putting her bath toys (the turtles) away
  • washing her own hands and face with her wash cloth after meals and snacks (is pretty good, but still needs help getting all the stuff off)
  • handing Mommy the T.P., and flushing the toilet (potty training prep)
  • brushing her own teeth in the A.M. & P.M. (we still finish up “the right way” for her)
  • putting any shoes away in the shoe rack

She is such the big helper and we think she is just an amazing little person. We know it’s probably a lot for 17 month old, but she is super independent and the chores evolved from her wanting to do it herself.