Valentine's Photos

I can't believe that Little David is already 3 months old. He is the sweetest little baby. We enjoy him so much. He is so happy. I am so thankful to have been blessed with two sweet kiddos. I hadn't gotten any professional pictures of David so I had a Valentine's mini session done. They turned out pretty cute. Avery has gotten to the age where she's hard to get to smile when you want her to.

Here's a few ;)

So Blessed!

Sometimes I can't believe how blessed we are.

I can't believe it's 2014. I'm starting this year as the mom of 2 kids. KIDS. That is still weird to say.

Avery is getting really sassy. Very sassy. This is one of those payback moments that is going to continue for a long time. I can confidently say I was a good kid/teenager. I think the only real downfall I had was talking back. I remember it. I'm paying for it now :) However, if a sassy mouth is the worst we get from her, that's fine by me! Let's pray it is!

Avery has started yelling "Never!!" when she's upset. She's become sneaky. "Avery, what do you have/what are you doing?" "Nothing" with a sly smile. When she's in trouble or upset she has begun to cry hysterically and runs to her room. She often goes and lays in her bed throughout the day. Tonight she put herself to bed early because she's so excited to go to a birthday party tomorrow. I'm wondering how she put it together that tomorrow will come faster if she goes to bed. Smart girl.

This girl loves her brother. LOOOOOOVES him. Today he was fussing a little bit and she said "Come here sweet boy" with her arms outstretched. She is so nurturing to him. It melts my heart. I know she's small and this won't last so I'm trying to soak it up.

This little girl is so many things that I am not and it makes me proud. I see things I struggle with come out naturally in her and it makes me smile. She's a beautiful little person and I can't wait to see what kind of woman she's going to grow up to be.

Oh and I saw Avery try to nurse her baby doll the other day. :0)

Baby David is such a sweet baby. He loves his mama. He's just now starting to hang out with his daddy and not fuss. He's a good sleeper and a good eater.

He smiles and coos. It's the best way to start the day. He's tolerant of Avery being in his face and talking to him in a voice so high pitched dogs would run. I know he'll love his big sister.

His little neck is getting stronger so he looks around a lot. He enjoys sitting on my lap and watching the world around him.

He's such a content baby. Avery was too.

Here's some pictures

Santa!

Riding the carousel after seeing Santa

David wasn't loving the carousel

Avery told Santa she wanted skates for Christmas. Then she thought she was going to get them right then. Told her she has to wait!

Baby David

Sometimes I just can't believe that we've been blessed with such a sweet baby. I was a little scared that since Avery was a good baby, there was no way David would be! He's so good.

The other day we had a Christmas party with my mom's group and he slept the whole time. When we got home, of course he woke up. We stayed up for another 2 hours and he was so happy. He never fussed; he was perfectly content just hanging out with me. When he's awake and content, he has a slight smile on his face. It was such a precious time with him.

Avery is wonderful with him. I knew she would be but wondered if it would wear off at some point but so far it hasn't. She gets this high pitched voice and will say "it's alright! It's ok!" She kisses on him constantly and when he cries she tries to give him a pacifier, which he doesn't take. Every morning she asks where he is.

Time for some pictures.

Excuse the spit up on his clothes :)

Someone got into mom's lotion...

I love this girl!

I love this boy!

It's so incredibly hard to get a decent picture of her.

Christmas party for the kids

Taking advantage of the warm day yesterday.

She loves her bruver.

The majority of the pictures I take of her look similar to this. I have a special knack for taking bad pictures.

Hopefully David's hair will grow in soon! He looks like Stanley Tucci! I guess we know what we'll look like when he's old ;)

We're a little late but today we're going to go see Santa. We went over the weekend and the line was so ridiculously long that we left. Avery wants to tell Santa that she wants skates for Christmas. Of course, Santa already knows that ;)

David Michael Irving

Born November 2, 2013 at 6:06 pm. Weighing 8 lbs 4 oz and 21.5 inches long.

Baby David was born 7.5 hours after my first contractions. I had gotten in the tub at home but knew fairly quickly that things were happening pretty fast. I told David that I thought we should go ahead and go to the hospital. He asked me if I was sure and I said yes. We finally got in the car to go and got to the hospital and checked in at 3:50.

They got me to labor and delivery and rushed to get my IV's in since I tested positive for Group B Strep. They checked me and I was 7 going on 8 centimeters dilated. They called the doctor.

What I love is that Dr. Lewis wasn't on call that weekend and she still came in to deliver our baby. She was very hands off. I loved it.

My water broke while pushing (Nikki was such a life saver during this labor. I highly recommend a doula!). As soon as I saw the color of it I knew there was meconium in it. They immediately called some team in and about 3 or 4 nurses came in and stood off to the side to help with that issue. Then I started bleeding more than I should so they had to work to get that stopped. That was HORRIBLE.

He's a lovely baby. He eats well. He rarely cries. We are very blessed. Avery adores him. It's precious.

Induction

On Halloween night, I got a call from my midwife stating that after consulting with a doctor, they both felt that due to high blood pressure it would be safest to deliver the baby. Avery went to stay with grandma and David and I headed to the hospital.

A doula/midwife assistant came and met us from our midwife's practice. Her name is Nikki and she was fabulous. That poor girl sat up all night with us at the hospital for an induction that didn't work.

For some reason my body didn't respond to the Pitocin that they had me on and I never went into labor. I had a fabulous doctor (Dr. Kayci Lewis D.O) and rather than continue to try to get me to go into labor, she let me go home. She said that my blood pressure was being controlled well with the medicine and that she believed I'd go into labor on my own since I had before. So we packed up after a night in the hospital and came home.

The next day I woke up feeling fine. No contractions at all. That changed close to 10:30. I started contracting regularly. They fizzled out for a while but started back up again and they hurt like a son of a gun. That crap hurts I tell ya.

To be continued...

38 weeks with Avery

38 weeks with David

I shot my first ever selfie in the bathroom mirror! My camera is broken so I can't use it and I always forget to have David take a picture of my belly so I had to do it this way.

I am so ready to have this baby! I can't wait to hold him and love on him! It's driving me nuts. Now, every pain I have, I hope it's the start of something. So far it hasn't been. I hurt all day yesterday pretty badly and nothing. Boo!

I'm really curious to see how big he's going to be.

Well, I have been having a hard time eating enough protein and drinking enough water. This past week I had to go to the midwife twice because the first time I was spilling too much protein in my urine and my blood pressure was high. This means my body was taking protein from my muscles which can lead to a lot of problems putting me in the hospital. No good. So I had to go back the next day and be tested again. My protein and blood pressure went down so that is good.  That's going to have to be my focus until this little guy is born: eating lots of protein and drinking lots of water.

All in all I have nothing to complain about. I'm tired of being pregnant but who isn't in the last few weeks?

Here's to being patient...