Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Oh wow, its been four weeks!!!

I can't believe Payton has been a part of our family for four weeks!! It is crazy how quickly time has flown by. As you can probably imagine, I have been a little busy juggling two kiddoes so I haven't gotten a chance to post, but I wanted to be sure and jot down some memories...

Payton is growing so fast! At her two week appointment she had already gained a pound. She is such an amazing laid back little girl! She eats well, sleeps great so far, and is perfectly content laying on her boppy watching big brother drum, slide, or jump. Chris and I are so very much in love.

Darryl is adjusting well to having a baby sister. There were a few rough days at first, but now he LOVES being a big brother. He is really gentle with her now and constantly wants to hold her and kiss her. One of our favorite things that he does is he loves to climb into her crib with her! He will lay down beside her and say "night night". He hasn't figured out how to say Payton yet, but calls her "Sissy". Every time he hears her cry he runs over to me, points to her room, and goes "Sissssyyy". It is the sweetest thing.

The other night they spent the evening with Kim and Darryl and when Chris and I went to pick them up Payton started crying on the drive home. All of a sudden, I heard whimpering from Darryl's side of the car. I turned around and he had big tears streaming down his face as he pointed at Payton and said, "Mommy.... Sissy owie!" It broke my heart as I tried to explain to him that Sissy wasn't hurt, she was just a baby and thats how they talk. It was sad but so sweet to see him be so concerned about his sister!

Darryl also enjoys his big brother gift from Grandma and Grandpa. Its a trampoline that we put inside his room! He has already had lots of friends over to jump in it with him. He loves it! It is so funny to watch him jump jump!

I have loved getting to be home with the kids. Darryl started CLC on Tuesday and loves it. He is struggling some with being away from me which has been hard. He never went through a seperation anxiety stage because for as long as he can remember I've been going to work during the day. But now that I've been home with him the past four weeks he does not like it when I'm gone. He is so social and active though that his teachers said he shook it off really quick. It is so cute to see him with his little CLC bag and his nap mat! I can't believe how big he is!!

We are so excited because we are going to spend the weekend in a cabin in Chandler with friends. It will be so fun to take the kids and dogs out there and to get three whole days in a row with Chris home.

More to come!

Monday, August 22, 2011

And then there were four...

I can't believe that Payton is here. It's funny when I think back four years ago, when Chris and I were about to get married, that we would talk about what our family would look and be like... and now we can hold them and see them!


On Monday, August 1st I got home from work a little early to try and pick up my house before I went to pick up Darryl because we were having people over that night. When I got home, I thought about how badly I would love to have the baby that night. When Chris got his job at Penske, he added Darryl and I to his insurance but it wasn't going to kick in until August 1st. So I had spent the previous weekend laying on my side, trying to keep Payton from coming out because if she waited until the 1st we would save a lot of money on medical bills.

So when I got home, I was very ready to see Payton! So I purposefully ran around the house like a crazy person, bending over a lot and cleaning really quickly. Sure enough, within 20 minutes I started having contractions. I called Chris and he came home to take me to the hospital. We were so excited!


When we got to the hospital, my contractions slowed down a little so we wound up staying on the triage floor for a few hours before they gave me the official thumbs up that I was going into labor. After making some really excited phone calls to family and some friends, they moved me to the 6th floor and into the room where we would see Payton for the first time.


I opted to wait to get my epideral until I felt that I really needed it. Chris and I knew how tired we would be when we got home, so we decided to try and get some rest once we were in the room. I was having a steady dose of contractions, but they weren't bad so I was able to snooze a little bit. Then, around 4 am, the contractions got really strong and really close together. I woke Chris up, saying that I was definately ready for the epideral. I got it around 5 am, and at 6am a nurse checked me and said that I was a 7. They said they would check me again in an hour and call my doctor.


At 7 am, Madeline came in to be my nurse! She is the nurse who delivered Darryl (for that awesome story, go to babywehunt.blogspot.com). At this time, Chris and I were laughing and chatting with Evan who had come to take pictures. Madeline said she needed to check me, so Evan left the room.


Thats when the craziness began...


Madeline lifted the sheet to check me, and quickly exclaimed... "uhh...there's the head!" and asked Chris to hold my leg while she went to get help. Before I could process anything that was going on, Madeline ran back into the room, followed by a dozen nurses who had been out in the hall doing a shift change. Chris said he could literally hear purses hitting the floor as they ran in to help. Madeline came back in the room, said "ok here we go!" and grabbed Payton and pulled her out! I didn't even have to push!!


It was the most bizarre thing I had ever experienced (and Madeline, who has been a nurse for 50 years, said it was the first time she had never seen anything like it either!). Chris was amazing the whole time, and just kept telling me how beautiful she was. I was pretty freaked out until I heard her cry.


Payton is beautiful. It was so amazing to get to see her for the first time. Within the hour, the delivery room was full of friends. Our families came soon after, and it was so amazing to get to show her off.


We are so blessed to have two healthy, amazing children. We are so thankful to our friends and family who have been such an amazing support for us and who have loved on our kids so much.