Happy Mothers Day everyone. We have had a great day relaxing. We keep days like this simlple and just encourage the person who's day it is. I have been talking about a pedicure for awhile so after church antonio suprised me and stopped by a salon and had me get one. It was great. Ashlyn and Kailyn stayed with me and the boys went to the grocery store. The chairs they had there gave the best messages, i was in heaven. My toes look so pretty and ashlyn also got her nails painted. She got flowers on her thumbs and i got them on my big toe nails. It is so nice to look down and see pretty painted nails!! The boys met us with lots of goodies. I got some potatoe soup from the deli and the cdrab legs for later. For dinner antonio made an old favorite of his from childhood, chicken and sausage gumbo. It was so yummy. Oh and i woke up this morning to ashlyn and devin chanting happy mothers day to me. Ashlyn made me a vase from and old playdough container. She cut pieces of construction paper and glued them to i and added a heart also cut from construction paper. Her friend Taylor helper her make a tissue paper flower and a card shaper like the leaves. I love homemade gifts they are so special. Then about 10 minutes later devin came running in and gave me a card he had whipped up really quick, so sweet.

Here are some pictures from about 2 weeks ago and a few from today


Ashlyn with her fresh relaxer and hair cut. So pretty and so much more managable!!

Devin humoring me for a picture as i interupt him looking for a game to play.

Kailyn from a couple weeks ago.

Today all dressed up!!

Oh ok mom i will open my eyes for a second

My beautiful family

Kailyn showing off her cloth diaper

Growing, Growing, Growing

Yesterday we all packed up and went to the doctors office for physicals. Ashlyn is still my tall and thin little lady, in the 62% for hight and 50% for weight. She is quite thrilled that she is taller than "all the other 8 year olds" as she puts it. Devin is in the 90% for his weight and 80% for his hight. So he is very propotianal. I think he has put on some weight recently because he looks stockier to me, but usually that means he will be sprouting up soon too. Dr says they are both very healthy and in normal ranges. Kailyn has also put on some pounds, she was born at 6lb 5.3 oz and then dropped to 6lbs .4 ozs on day 2 and yesterday at 3 weeks she is 7lbs 8.6 oz with clothes on. All her other weights were without clothes so i estimate she is probably about 7lbs 8 oz. so she gain 1 lb 8 oz in 3weeks, yippee. She is still the size of a tiny newborn in my opinion and has yet to reach her brother and sisters birth weights. We also had the trauma of shots yesterday. I had been putting Devins off for a year or so cause we werent sure what route we were going to take on immunizations. But we decided to go the with the schedule the doctors recommend so yesterday everyone got up to date. They were not behind and would of had to get these at this age anyways so the 5 shots Devin had to get were the routine for his age. it absolutly broke my heart to see the shock of the pain on his face. i felt so bad and i almost cried. Ashlyn had to get 2 shots, and if any of you dont know her very well, she is terrified of pain. she is a very sensitve girl and needless to say she didnt like the whole experience much. Daddy had to struggle to hold her down and he is a pretty strong guy. But we got her to stay still and let the lady finish, the second one was hardest. But thankfully it is done and she seems to be feeling ok and not having any side effects. Devin is a little off today, not sure if its the shots or just one of those days for him. Thankfully kailyn didnt have to get any or i probably would of had an emotional break down, we have a couple months before we have to do that. I had read an article a while ago that recommend nursing your baby while they get there shots and i am going to insist that we do that this time around. When Devin was a baby I asked the lady if we could do that but she didnt see it my way, soi just nursed him right after. This time i am gonna be a little more insistent on it and we will see how it goes.

On another note, Antonio is going back to work on Monday. I am feeling better about it, not so nervous. I will miss sleeping in till 8:30 or 9:00. I am going to pray lots that baby start sleeping a little better. I have never been one to wake my babies up during the day so they will sleep better at night, but I am going to give it a try to see if it may help here sleep more soundly at night. She is actually pretty steady on when she wakes up to nurse, all day its every 2-3 hours, normal so i am happy about that. This week we have been trying to get back on our routines with housework. The key word here is try. We got some charts out and made up so the kids can mark down what they do and then we know what to giv ethem for allowance. Thats another new thing we started, allowance, I never thought i would pay the kids for daily chores but i like it. It helps them get excited about work and it also opens up opportunities for life lessons. For example Ashlyn wants this littlest pet shop daycare toy and it cost $22 and now she nows she need to save 1 months worth of allowance to get it. and she also gets the chance to decide on whether to save her money or spend it. They both love to give their money to people. Last week Antonio lost $20 while at Stater Bros (local grocery store) and he was really upset about it. After being upset for an hour or so he decided it wasnt worth it and let it go. Shortly after Devin walks into the kitchen with a dollar in his hand and says"Here Daddy you can have my dollar" melted both of our hearts right there. then Ashlyn ran to her room and got her change and brought it to him also. I love moments like this, you feel like your actually doing something right as a parent. So back to my original point, we are trying to get on our old routine. Each day of the week is assigned a room/rooms to clean. Not spastic deap cleaning just the basics and then hopefully each week we will be able to get a little deaper.. Then we also have the daily stuff laundry dishes and toys. For about the last trimester of my pregnancy i couldnt keep up with anything major. I waslucky to get the daily stuff done. I have noticed this last week that i have much more energy and desire to do stuff. I feel like i am getting back to normal,thank goodness!!! Well this is getting really long and I was just asked from the other room by my honey if i was almost done, hint hint, so i better go. Till next time....

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A Few Pictures

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pictures for now.

She's Here

For those of you who may not have received an email from me here are the details of the baby. Kailyn Danielle Wilson made her arrival at 8:02 pm on Thursday March 12th. She weighed 6lbs5.3 oz and is 18.3 in long. She is my tiny peanut after having an 8 lb + brother and sister. I will post my birth story after i catch up on some rest.

Appointment, another TMI Post

I went yesterday to see my midwife and we are making more progress. I am dialated to 3 cm and 60-65% effaced. I have also been having bloody show since the appt. that easily could be from the exam or it could mean we are on our way. Her educated guess is i will go this week sometime. Today I since i got up from my nap my contractions have been stronger almost making me stop walking through them. But no consistency in time yet, so we will see what God has in store. Please pray for me to be surrendered to God's time and also to have completely drug free delivery. Thanks in advance.

Realization

I have come to one, as I must at many points in my life. I was having some surrender issues with having this baby. I picked up a book that I really like, The Victory of Surrender" by Gordon Fergeson (SP?). Its a great book on being surrendered to God and his plans. So the other night while I had a nice soak in a hot bath I read one of my favorite chapters. It was just what I needed. When i start giving into my emotions of excitetment and wanting to control things i get unsurrendered. Not that being excited about a new baby is bad, but when thats all you think, talk, and daydream about then it becomes a problem. So I am trying to recognize when i am just being an excited mom and when it's getting a little over the top.

as far as baby and mom go , we are doing well. I am waddling big time now, she is definatly engaged in the pelvis. We see the midwife today and will find out if we have progressed any. I have actually felt a lot better since last Wed. not sure why but i am so we will just claim it and roll on.

Ashlyn is just bubbling with excitement over when baby will come. I think i gave her too much infomation today. she asked why she couldnt come to my appt with me and i told her cause i needed privacy with the midwife. I expalined how she would check my cervix to see how dialated I am. I probably shouldnt have, now that i look back. Ooops, too late now. Hopefully she will just forget, fingers crossed.

I will keep you all posted...

Anticipation

It is really hard to not want to rush things along. I want baby to stay in as long as she needs to so she can breathe and eat and be healthy. On that note if she is ready to do all those things I am all for her coming 2 weeks early. We had another appt. with the midwife Monday and i dialated another cm so we are at 2 now, still 50% effaced and at station 3. but she said my cervix is super soft. I think last night she worked her way down into my pelvis a little more, i felt a weird pop/click and have felt a little weird since then. I feel really stretched in my belly today and I am really tired and need to stay off my feet. so with this new stuff its hard to not hope that the end may be near. I've been praying lots, trying to keep my mind right.

On another note, we have great new neighbors that we have been playing with a lot. THe little girl is 4 and all thekids enjoy each other. It's really hard to not spend the whole day playing, I am trying to be disciplined but i love to hang out and chat too. Well I honestly cant think of another thing to report so i guess i will keep things short.

Progress

Well if any men are reading this, it may be TMI for them so beware. Went to the midwife Tuesday and it looks like baby is making some progress tword coming into the world. I am 1 cm diaplated, 50% effaced, and she is at station 3. It's small progress but its good to know these frequent contractions i have are doing their job. Yesterday and today they have been noticably stronger and I feel them more in the lower regions rather that just the top of my uterus. I could easily go to my due date and know that the above things dont mean anything in terms of when baby will come, but any progress is good progress. Now I am just wanting to be sure that i get to the hospitol in time for my round of antibiotics, i am such a worry wort.

I got a free changing table pad w/ a cover off of freecycle, I have never had one of the good ones with the high sides before, exciting stuff. Antonio thinks i am silly, i get excited ove the little things. I told him the other day that i am so excited to open the diapers to see how little and cute they are, and he said why she is just gonna poop in them. Silly guy, at least ashlyn is equally excited to see them. She ooohhhs and aaaaahhhs over everything like i do, love having a girl in the house to share my little moments with.

Speaking of miss ashlyn, yesterday was her birthday, sniffle sniffle she is 8. We had a low key day. She requested pancakes for breakfast so we did that. When i was a little girl my mom would let us pick our birhtday dinner, so i decided to start doing that with them. She picked turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy. I think she actually wanted the whole turkey but i just did the legs and breast, she loved it and kept complimenting the potatoes and gravy. A couple days ago she decided she wanted to to get her ears peirced, so we went to walmart yesterday. She picked out her earings, sat down, but when it came time she was absolutly terrified. She was silently crying with big huge eyes. Ifelt so bad for her. So I held her down and forced her to doit while she kicked and screamed in the middle of Walmart, no i am just kidding i wouldnt do that. We decided to come back on saturday when there were two people there to do it at the same time. So Devin wanted to get her a present so we went and picked her something out, then we went to the pizza hut buffet for lunch. When we got home it was nap time and she kept telling me she regreted not getting it done. So we talked about it through out the rest of the day, a friend brought her over a present and we did her cake. We all worked together on it and ate it after dinner. Before we left for church she comes to me and says mommy i decided i dont want to get my ears pierced, i think i am beautiful just the way i am. I said ok honey its your decision. She was so precious. Tons of people at church told her happy birthday and she was just beaming all night and still this morning. I will post the little video that antonio took of her eating cake and all the pictures he took, thanks honey, later on.

Pregnancy Brain

I realized today that i totally messed up what i was trying to say on my last blog. I put 35 weeks and 1 day till i am due, i think i ment to put a number of days there at the beggining of the post. Whoops, you all probably realized i made a whoopsy but it took me a few weeks. So today i am 36 weeks and 6 days, tomorrow we are officially full term at 37 weeks. I have an appt. today and 3 more scheduled till due date. I looked at the calendar and realized on sunday it will be March, yeah. I had the craziest dream this morning. I remember waking up in the dream and Antonio told me we had the baby. And I was shocked, i said i dont remember, did we do it naturally. and he said yes you were screaming like crazy. I was really disturbed and sad cause i couldnt remember and i felt like i was totally cheated cause i wanted that memory. hten he brought me the baby and it looked like plastic, but it was still moving and stuff. I said this isnt a baby. and i tried to nurse her but her mouth was filled with plastic. I was so upset cause we had a house full of people there to welcome the baby and they are all telling me congrats and stuff and i am like this isnt our baby its a doll. But then my belly wasnt big anymore and my abs hurt like i had just pushed out a baby. I kept asking Antonio to tell me what had happened during the labor and delivery. Then my dream switched to us weighing the baby, and this one was a real baby who was quite large, and she weighed 8 lbs 12 oz. I will freak if that is really what she weighs. i was really disturbed when i woke up from this dream, it was so real. The baby wasnt quite as active this morning and it kinda freaked me out. So i was really happy when she bounced around a little. I remember when i was pregnant with Ashlyn i had a dream that i gave birth to twins and one was doll, hmmm is there a common thing going on here with me having girls and dreaming they are dolls, crazy. My husband should get a kick out of this dream!!! i am trying to decide if we should start our little "vacation"from school now instead of waiting till baby is actually born. I am so tired and grumpy and the kids are really grumpy lately too. I cant leave them alone for a minute or they start arguing and it sometimes escalates into someone hurting the other or both of them. So i was considering doing some fun stuff over the next couple weeks, but then i have to consider there isnt much to do around here close. I would have to drive about an hour away and i definatly am not up for that. I guess i need to sit down and think of some things to do and ask Antonio what he thinks of that idea. I am just thinking that maybe i will be more up for doing school when baby is 3 weeks old or so. I dont know it could totally backfire on me. We will have to see.

35 Weeks and 1 Day....

till my due date, but hey who's counting!! Obviously I am. We are ready as far as things go, we have been blessed with a ton of clothes. I think I spent about $15 on some second hand things and the rest we got from friends and freecycle. At my baby shower I got mostly 3-6 months and up, which was totally God cause we had no older girl clothes, and just a few days before the shower i was thinking that we needed to start stocking up on the next size. The shower was great, we had so much fun. There were a few games that I had never played before and the ladies from church really put their hearts into it and encouraged me.



It still seems so sureal (SP??) that we will be adding another child to our home. I am switching betweeen excitement and scared and the need to plan out life for after baby. i think the labor process is what is scaring me at this point, I need to stop watching baby stories and other shows with women laboring. I asked antonio why he though i was more freaked out this time and he said it's cause i have done it naturally and know how much its gonna hurt. I told him he was probably right! I have been praying a lot about it and asking that God make it that we do have a totally natural birth. Hopefully the 3rd will go fast.



Baby is really growing, she is very crowded in there now. i can feel her little feet in my ribs pushing out as far as they will let her. I definatly cry out in pain frequently these days as she pushes on other important and sensitive internal organs. I enjoy being able to play name that body part at this stage. Ashlyn loves to join me, it's great to have a girl in the house cause the boys dont get into it like we do. I will put Devins hand on my belly and ask if he wants to feel the baby hiccup and he will pull his hand away and then i will say you dont want to feel buddy and he'll say with a deep breath ok mom. He is training already on how to make his women happy. I cant wait to start putting all Kailyn's cute little clothes on her, I have dresses for days. She is going to be Ashlyn and I's little dress up doll.



Ashlyn's birthday is coming up in a couple weeks, I cant beleive it, she will be 8. Where does the time go. We are thinking of having a combined party this year. My Mom and Step Dad may come out in April and since they usually dont get to come to the kids b-day parties i thought we would combine Ashlyn, Devin, and Kailyn's and celebrate with them and all our friends. Ashlyn is already planning decorations and themes, she is so cute, she wants a lot of the to be homemade.



The kids are both learning lots of new things. Ashlyn is discovering that she can read a lot of words in most picture books and is getting more confident. She has been reading to Devin and it is really cute. devin has the stories memorized so as she is sounding some words out he is telling her what they are. She doesnt like that very much. And Devin has started a learining letters craze, to go along with his numbers which he has learned alot about. Our daily life is filled with Mommy how do you spell ______? And he tries to make words on the fridge magnets, he gets a little frustrated when he doesnt come up with a real word. Ashlyn and I also started some time telling, i figured we better start that soon. I can tell her brain is ready for it at this point, it wasnt a year or so ago, she picked up the hour and half hour with out a blink of an eye. Next we move on the quarter hours and getting the minutes down. I notice that her brain needs time to process things,if we do to much she gets overwhelmed. I would have to say that is one of the reasons i love homeschooling, we get to go at their pace.

Well thats all for now...i hope everyone is well.

Ultrasound

I got my ultrasound today and my placenta has moved out of the way so we are clear for natural childbirth. I am relieved that i wont be getting cut open, at least planned before hand. She is so much bigger, she weights 4 lbs 7 oz so far and it looks like she is on her way to be about the same as her brother and sister who were both around 8 lbs. This time instead for being able to see her whole body on the screen you could only see one part at a time. We couldnt get a really good profile picture, but soon i willl be seeing her face to face so thats ok. I got relaly dizzy on the ultrasound table, i think because they have you flat on your back and it interfears with the blood flow. It was weird feeling though, luckily she was just finishing up when it happened. Well thats all for now, take care.

Much of Nothing

I have been looking at my blog thinking i should write something, but then nothing comes to mind. Well, it is a proven fact that with each pregnancy you loose brain cells, so i will once again blame something on the baby!!!! Devin is still a maniac about math and numbers and he is also in t he beggining phases of learning to read. I had no plans to teach this child a thing until he was 6, but low and behold he wants to learn. Ashlyn is moving right along with her reading and math, i can look back a year or so and see how much she has progressed. and all we really do is have her read a little bit every day, well not every day but that is the goal, and she is really getting it. Too many words on one page freak her out a little so she is not ready for chapter books or anything to long. She is comfortable with her begginers bible and the books she knows she can read. We started reading The Secrets of Droon series, my husband picked it out for them at the library, they both love it. Ashlyn could sit and have me read to her for hours, she really gets into it. Devin can stand about three chapters of the above series and he enjoys it, but other than that he like short picture books. But he will sit in his room and "read" books for about 30 minutes, which is nice. This is new for him, he couldnt do it in the recent past.

I have been itching to get babies stuff ready. So i soaked those used clothes i got with the formula stains on them in oxyclean and almost all the stains came out. I am so excited cause the sleepers are all super cute. So after i soaked those i figured i might as well just wash a huge load of her stuff, so almost all her clothes are clean and ready. Then i gravitated tword the carseat cover, bouncy seat, and swing. They are all nice and clean now too. I think that is all i need to wash besides blankets and whatever I get at my shower. The ladies from church are throwing one for me on Feburary 7th and i am encouraged and excited. I cant wait for next week to get my scan and find out when i possibly may have this baby. last night I was telling Antonio of my back pain and he said "she is just ready to come out, and he added I am pretty done with this pregnancy" and i definatly had to agree. It has been a long hard one. Well i guess that is all i have to report for now, toodles.

Germs, Germs, Everywhere

We are sick again. Seems to be one after another, ashlyn has mystery black/brown spots on her tounge. I am going to go investigate them on WebMD and see what they say before we go to the doctor. I am thinking it may be these vitiamin c/zinc losenges we got from health food store but i am gonna check it out. Hopefully after this round of illness we can be healthy for awhile. We need to cause we have a baby coming in 6-10 weeks. I have an ultrasound at end of the month and then we willknow if she has to come early or not. I cant wait to just know so i can prepare a little more mentally for a time frame.

Devin in all his slendor said to me today as i am making coffee,"hmmm....yumm mom looks good, well it looks kinda like poop but it doesnt taste like it though. Right? Its yummy" I laughed and had to agree with him it isnt the nicest colored beverage in the world. He cracks me up, so honest.

I got two boxes of free newborn/infant clothes off of freecycle. lots of cute stuff, some has formula stains but i found some little stain tricks on line that i am going to try. If not they will work just fine for at home. i sorted everything last night in her drawers and we are getting a good stash going. I am going to try and make some more diaper covers, but we are almost all set with those too. She is really moving a lot these days, i can feel little limbs and fists and feet. THey are strong and almost painful at times. Ashlyn gets a kick out of watching my stomach jump all over and last night she could feel kailyn's hiccups. Ashlyn is at a great age to have another sibling, she is super excited. Well i best be off to make lunch for my little ones.