One week since...

I can't believe it's been one week since we went to the hospital. It's really quite a funny story. Matthew and I went out to lunch at On The Border, in hopes spicy food might actually trigger something... maybe that helped. It was a full moon, I remember taking Maggie out back and staring at the moon thinking "let's go now!" Ironically, the nurses at the hospital said that they really are more crowded on full moon nights.
After we bathed the girls and put them to bed, I laid down and realized my contractions were 7 minutes apart, they continued like that for an hour. I went downstairs and told Matthew to maybe get his Accounting homework done (I'd only been telling him ALL week, but did he listen... no!) because we could be in the hospital for the next few days. I started scarfing down my leftovers from lunch, knowing they won't let me eat once I get there. Then, no lie, in between my contractions -now hurting more and closer together- I'm teaching him his Accounting homework so it can be done for Monday night's class. We get it done, my mom comes over... we're off to Mountain View.

Labor all night. It hurt. Out she came. Did I mention that Mountain View's food is SO good!!! WOW, I don't know if I was just THAT hungry or what, but it was fabulous. I ordered massive amounts of food for every meal, and I enjoyed every single bite. And, I really liked that they gave the husbands food too. Although he did enjoy a bacon cheeseburger as I labored around 2 am... he did the same thing with Kacey, I guess now it's tradition :) :) :)

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Okay, done reminiscing. I did Kacey's hair today in pigtails. So precious! Needless to say, I had to wrap the band around about 67 times, but it's adorable with those curls coming out.

Not much else on our end. Kadyn sleeps so good, if I could be guaranteed another baby like her, I'd have 9 more.... I'll post Sunday morning pictures tomorrow too. (FYI: I'm reading Midnight Sun... I can't read as fast off of a computer screen, but I just love it and I'm heartbroken that it's going to end abruptly. I just really love being on the Cullen side of things and seeing it all from their views...)

Thankful Thursday

(instead of 5, I'll do 3 long ones... because they all pretty much run together)

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1. Our most recent blessing- our beautiful Kadyn! She is the sweetest, calmest, softest little love bug ever! She is such a good baby, I just love her so much!!! She smells SOOO good, she's so tiny.... we had her 3 day check-up yesterday and she's 5 lbs & 12 oz.

2. Matthew! He's been home from work, which has been an enormous help. He's been there to give the girls the extra love they need so no one feels left out or even jealous these first few days with the dynamics of our family changing. He's taken the big girls out for fun activities, going out to lunch, doing one-on-ones with the girls... notice picture...

This is at Star Nursery, Kylie's at Preschool... Kacey and Daddy had just came from breakfast... he took this with his phone, I love it!

The things you have to do when you're the only man in the house. Kylie is doing his hair, combing and using pretend shampoo to rub his head. What a manly man! (I can't wait until she figures out that he has nails that can be painted too!)

3.The extra happiness that just bounces off the walls with a newborn baby in the house. Every yawn, every little glance from Kadyn just excites our whole family. Kylie and Kacey aren't the least bit jealous- I was concerned with Kacey since she's been the baby for a while- but they are so loving and you can just feel that when you see all 3 of them together.

Welcome HOME Baby Girl #3!!!

Kadyn Elisa Boyd

Sunday, Sept 14, 2008 @ 5:12 am

6 lbs. 2.8 oz, 19 in. Literally 30 minutes after delivery, by looking at his bright face you'd think we'd had all the sleep in the world! Matthew got to scrub in and help deliver again which is great, I cut her cord (first time for me). I was in labor ALL night, it was brutal. You forget how much it really hurts. They kept having to up my epidural-- needless to say when it came time to push, about 3/4 of my body was completely numb. I could barely cut her cord :) Love Dr. Kahle, nothing like coming in for my delivery then heading home for a Bishopric meeting.
Bright blue eyes. We are shocked that she has hair and ALOT of it!She is SOOO happy to have 2 baby sisters.

Kacey keeps saying, Baby Kadyn, Baby Kadyn. When we got out of the car today, she offered to carry the carseat for Matthew :) and she keeps saying Kadyn's cute.

So we're home, so nice to be home and to shower in my own shower. Matthew's home for a few days, he took the older girls to get my meds, to Sonic for lunch, and walk around Wal-Mart to tucker them out so Kacey can come home for naptime. What a good dad, he's also the man for diaper changes!!! Gotta love that, those meconium poopies are rough!!! (ps- Kacey still thumbs up with the potty training, I'm going to enjoy some peace and quiet!) Love to all...

FYI - If you don't see us tomorrow...

We are most likely sitting in the hospital with Nicole in labor or with a new baby! It is a full moon and we ate lunch at On the Border! Go figure!

More to come!

-Matt

Kylie's Drawing

Kylie loves to draw and write and color, she's really very creative... and apparently more perceptive than I realized. She drew this for me yesterday, no help, all on her own. I loved it, notice my belly! She goes, "It's Kadyn, I drew Kadyn!!!"

On the back she drew Daddy and Kacey... it's hard to tell, but you can see her detail work with Kacey's eyelashes :)

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Some pictures from this morning... this is when I told Kacey we were going to Daddy's work to meet him for lunch.

Kacey's turning to the side to show off her pretty barrettes. You might think yeah right, she's just not looking at the camera... but no, barrettes are very important in our house! If we start downstairs and I haven't "done her hair" yet, she'll stop... "no no Mommy, my barrettes!" And she'll run to her and Kylie's bathroom and stand on her step stool. She's also picky with the shoes she wears, we go through 3 pairs until she decides on some.

Playing outside when we came home... love this cooler (upper 80's) weather!

Thankful Thursday

1. The cute things kids say~ Kylie told her soccer coach today that Heavenly Father was going to make her grow up big and strong just like her Daddy. (I apparently am not big and strong, she tells me that I'll grow up someday too like Daddy and be able to ride the big rides)

2. Naptime and sleep at night, for my kids and for me... I love that they come daily.

3. Mail. It seems so minor, I love getting the mail. I got a package delivered today, love that!

4. Continued potty training success, not 100% but yesterday we were at Sam's Club and Kacey went there!!! It was a sight to see, me- big belly and all- holding onto her because our tushies don't touch public toilets, yelling, "YAH!" as Kylie's desperately trying to come in the stall to see her sister's victory. :)

5. Yes, I'm still alive... still blogging, no hospital yet. Matthew knows he has to post as soon as something exciting happens. But for now, I keep telling myself that I'm glad to still be pregnant so she can keep gaining weight and I can still be thankful for sleep. Although really I could have killed my DR after my stress test Monday when he said he'd either see me at the hospital this week--- me going on my own, only dilated to a 2, yeah right Dr. Kahle, come on now---- or he'd see me in a week and WE WOULD schedule induction. I guess for now he's more concerned with her gaining more weight than my amniotic fluid being low. SO I'm telling myself how thankful I am that she has the opportunity to gain more weight since he thinks she's measuring a little small. Thankful to still be pregnant, thankful to still be pregnant.... maybe if I keep repeating it...


AND I have one more...
I'm the opposite of a procrastinator, which is probably worse sometimes. You give me a year to do something, I'll have to get it done now. We're planning a vacation in the quite distant future, and I made some tentative reservations because I'd been monitoring rates and it appeared they'd dropped that day. WOW, now it's like $100+ more. Go me!!!!

Sunday Morning Pictures

While the girls ate breakfast, I found a new fun thing to do... making them hair bows! It's difficult because Kacey requires alligator clips, while Kylie can just have curly bows. Little glue, some cheap ribbon... WAY fun! Little Princess Kacey went all church keeping her diaper dry, well we did have a #2 dirty diaper... but for right now I'm focusing on tinkling... and she continued the whole day dry! :)
Not that this is a particularly good picture of me, but can we give a sigh of relief... this should be/will be my last Sunday pregnant!!!
Pretty eyes!

Love those curls, you could tell she loved her hair bows too and she could feel the ribbon ringlets on her head. She'd move her neck around to feel them bounce with her and just smile :)

Again, hopefully the last picture of just the 4 of us!!! :)

Happy 2nd Birthday Kacey!

My baby turned 2 today! I can't believe it, she seems so small but so big at the same time! Here are some fun pictures from her special day.......

We like to open presents AS SOON AS we get up in this house!

We had a mini celebration with my folks at our favorite go-to place, Peter Piper. AND Kacey was playing the games and won 580 tickets in about 5 minutes!!!

I've got cupcakes galore- see cupcake mountain down more... any good recipes for leftover icing? :)

Awesome fun balloons!!!

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So now indulge me for a few moments...

Kacey Elisa Boyd

September 5, 2006 (part of the 5% of babies actually born on their due dates)

6 lbs & 11 oz. and 21 in.

She was born at Summerlin Hospital, and Daddy helped Dr. Kahle deliver her. My epidural wore off with her, I'd barely had it for an hour- I'm not sure what happened. It was horrible :) Her blood pressure dropped, I was on oxygen, nurses were running in and out, it was crazy hectic fast... Matthew was frantic, but trying not to be in front of me, asking everyone 1,000 questions, then lying to me about the answers that I'd just heard the nurses say... I guess to calm me down... didn't work, but I appreciate the gesture. The nurses were pushing on my stomach while I was pushing her out, no time to get the epidural man back to me to ease my pain... then our sweet little Kacey finally came!!! (and didn't sleep for 12 months straight!!!) :) :) :) All I remember when she was born was saying, "it's still a girl right??!!!" and Matthew saying, "she looks like Kylie."

We are so blessed to have our little Kacey, she's definitely her own little person and I love her so much for that. She can be a pistol and a half... and you can't help but laugh, we are just so grateful that she chose to come to us!!!

***side note*** As I say it with complete shock, I think she's potty trained (???). 3 days now, dry diapers all day long and holds it to go on the potty-- nighttime and #2's a different story, but I'll take it. I didn't do a thing. Seriously, this wasn't in my game plan at all. I've got no problem with having 2 children in diapers, BUT apparently her and Kylie had other ideas. Fun little present for me! ;) Wah-oooooo!

Baby News

I had another dr appt today, no c-section needed, she's head down and placenta isn't in the way. She is however measuring a little small. I'm not too concerned because all my babies are small, Kylie 6.3 and Kacey 6.11 -of which I was pregnant the longest with her. He also said my amniotic fluid is marginal (why I was induced early with Kylie), but he said there are a few nice water pockets around so we'd give it the weekend.

I have to go back on Tuesday, and as we left he was calling Summerlin and Mountain View Hospitals to schedule my induction for later next week. I'm hoping for Friday the 12th, one full week after Kacey's birthday, but if he thinks it needs to happen sooner I guess there's not much I can do.... (I think that's why he was contacting both hospitals). So we'll see, exciting week ahead of us!

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Thankful Thursday

1. Kacey's starting to use the potty all on her own with Kylie's encouragement, it's like the 2 of them are doing the potty training and I'm just sitting back watching it all! We'll see how long that lasts.

2. Finding one of Maggie's seizure pills on the floor before Kacey did. I guess Maggie chewed it and some fell out of her mouth. I'm so glad I got it before Kacey had a chance to swallow it, that could have been bad.

3. This sounds dumb but a really comfy pair of pajamas that I just got- love the fabric, love the fit, love them so much and can't wait to put them on!!!

4. Cooler September mornings. It warms up through the day, but those early mornings are fabulous!

5. Having the fastest best little soccer player... she's in a 4 yr old class which just so happens to be all boys and her... she's the fastest out of all of them, and the tallest, and she has awesome control of the ball. I love sitting there watching my girl kick some boy butt! :) Some of the dads get a little annoyed :) (hehe... sorry, that's bad of me but I still love it!)

First Day of Preschool

It's Kylie's first day of Preschool, going on year 2 with Mrs. Tate!

Kylie was SO excited, we were up/ready/dressed/eating breakfast by 7:15 this morning... (preschool starts at 9:00)

She was all decked out with curly ribbons in her hair and her Tinkerbell backpack- that she didn't take off all morning prior to leaving. She had a wonderful morning, was rewarded a penny (with 5 pennies she gets pick something special out of the treasure box at school) and can't wait to go back again on Thursday!!!
I can't believe kindergarten will be next year... I anticipate the tears- (mine) - already.

Sunday Morning

Sunday Morning Pictures

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how cute is she?!!?

head, shoulders, knees and

toes....
i can't get enough of those curls, see the little barrettes i put on the side, love it!!!
i can't believe how old she looks here.

the group family picture didn't turn out well... so here's one with daddy

and one with me... every Sunday i keep hoping it's my last to be pregnant,

37 weeks and counting

Thankful Thursday

One of my good friends started this on her blog, and I really think it's a good idea- so I'm going to do it too. I feel like I have so many little things that happen throughout the week that I'm thankful for and I want to acknowledge them... and funny how when I'm looking, I seem to notice more and more of those special, little things. :)

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So here goes... Five things I am thankful for this week...

1. A fixed shower in our second master bedroom -well the shower is obviously in the bathroom in that bedroom... it actually broke at a perfect time, before our plumber friend moved to Ohio.

2. Extra hands for holding and loving my little ones this past weekend. It gave me a few more relaxing moments to enjoy my meal when we went out to eat or to actually look at things when we went shopping.

3. Normal looking ankles this far along in pregnancy... 3 girl pregnancies and this is a first for me.

4. A sweet compliment that Sheri Mohlman gave me on Sunday, it's really kept me cheery and smiling all week! :) (thanks girl)

*LAST BUT NOT LEAST*

5. Daddy/Daughter time! No lie, I noticed a difference (stronger bond) in their relationship after 2 solid days of just them one-on-one. I didn't expect that, it's truly wonderful.

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Come back next Thursday for more, and I challenge anyone who wants to do it--- and who remembers--- to do it too... spread the gratitude... THANKFUL THURSDAY!!!