I had my first day of nursing school yesterday! To be totally honest, I have no idea what they told me. I feel so confused, I hope it all gets sorted out. I was told just to make it to Wednesday and I'll feel a lot better and more organized. Here's to hoping that really works!
9/24/03
Jackson,
I am so terrible! You are 1 month old today- You were born on August 24, 2003 at 8:12pm 8lbs 14oz 20 1/2 inches long. I have been meaning to write ever since but haven't, obviously! Anyway, your birth was quite an event, considering what we went through. The doctor was hoping I would go into labor but my cervix wasn't dilating at all. You were getting really big so he wanted me to come in the night before and he would put a catheter into my cervix. So we did and the next morning (the 24th) your dad and I checked into the hospital at 6:00am. I was dilated to a 3 (centimeters) then at about 9:00am they broke my water, that was crazy. The nurse said normally women have about 1/4 as much amniotic fluid as I had. By 11:00am your little head was trying to push through, but I was only dilated about 4cm maybe 4 1/2. I labored all day and at about 6:00pm I was still only dilated 4 1/2 cm. The doctor decided to do a c-section but it would still be a while before I went into surgery. Meanwhile my epidural wore off so I was feeling strong labor pains for about 1 1/2 hours. The anesthesiologist gave me more medicine (finally) and I went in at about 8:00pm. They started the c-section and I could feel a lot of pain. So the doctor gave me more pain meds but I could still feel it, so he gave me more, I could still feel it so he eventually gave me gas that knocked me out.
Result of twirling hair
We finished our final project for the Summer, our bathroom. We (I) have been wanting to tear down the wallpaper (that didn't match anything) and paint since we bought the house. Since we got married we haven't bought a new shower curtain either (gotta love this jungle look)! I am so excited that it's done and it turned out great.
We had a great time eating dinner and playing volleyball with the Widdison's and the Blancas' tonight. We haven't gotten together for a while so it was nice to catch up. After it got too dark to see, we headed over to the Blancas' for some desert. That's when the miracle happened... Bailey finally took her first steps on her own! It was pretty late for her (10pm) and she was a little loopy so hopefully she will do some more walking tomorrow! I was so proud of her, I don't know the last time I was more excited about something. I knew she could do it, it was just a matter of her wanting/daring too. We had the camera close by so we got some good footage.
Peyton always makes new friends.
What a great girl! She LOVES her Daddy!
These last couple weeks we have been watching the Olympics non-stop around our house. Peyton has taken a lot of interest, when he saw the gymnastics he was immediately convinced that that's what he wanted to do. I told him we would see if we could get him into a class. After that he asked at least a couple times everyday when his class was and if he could go "now". We found a tumbling place just up the street from our house and he started this last Tuesday. He LOVED it. I set out the camera to bring but of course, I forgot it. Here are the pictures I got with my phone, they aren't very good but their better than nothing.
Bailey just had her 15th month check up. She was off the charts, WAY above the 95% in height and just below the 90% in weight . I was surprised when the Dr. said she was actually "slender" for her height! Bailey has been so fun to have around, her and Peyton laugh and have so much fun together. She still isn't walking but we think she is really close, hopefully within the next month. Bailey has always been really good with her speech, she will try to say pretty much anything we ask her too. Lately she has been singing Patty Cake, it is so funny. I thought I'd post a few recent videos of her.
I was busy making dinner and Bailey was hungry so I had Peyton feed her some applesauce...
They are so funny sometimes!
I've been meaning to post these videos for almost a month...
We got a slip-n-slide a while ago. I think Dan and I have had more fun on it than the kids have!
This last week we went camping at Lava Hot Springs with some of our good friends, the Merrills. We all had a great time. The kids love camping and it was nice to go too the pool during the day and play.
Here's one of Mike and Dan. They jumped a few times, they were crazy!
