Slacker Mash-Up

Another month has passed and my laziness has gotten the better of me. Or maybe it's the fact that I have 2 kids that occupy most of my time...hmmm. I've been meaning to update for a LONG time, but everytime I've tried to sit down and actually do it, someone starts crying, dinner need to be made, or other daily taks need to be taken care of. But as I sit here in bed watching my 2 boys sleep, I figure this is as good time as any to give a little peak into our life this last month.

Lucy's 2nd Birthday

Yeah. Holy cow, I have a 2 year old. And boy does she know it. I love the girl to death, but boy does she know how to be two. Other than knowing exactly how and when to push my buttons, Lucy is absolutely amazing. She is so darn funny. She is talking so much and so well that sometimes I forget I'm talking to a 2 year old. She is such a good big sister to Porter and is always so concerned when he's crying.

Porter's Baby Blessing

On May 16th, we had Porter's baby blessing. It was such a beautiful day for such a beautiful event. John gave him such an amazing blessing. I feel so blessed to be married to a man who lives worthy to hold the preisthood and use it daily. It was just all around a great day full of family, friends, and FOOD!!

My Birthday

I am now 23 years old. Only 23? I feel so much older than that. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I have 2 kids! Actually, I've always felt older than people me age, and I get told quite often that I seem older than I am. John spoiled me this year. He got me tickets to "The Lion King" at Capitol Theater, took me to dinner and a movie, and let me go shopping. Oh how I love him. He is so much more than I deserve somtimes.

Smiles

Porter is now almost 2 1/2 months old. I honestly can't believe it. it has gone by so fast. It feels like we were in the hospital yesterday yet it seems as though he's been with us forever. He and Lucy both have doctor appointments this week so I'll be sure to post some stats. Porter is getting so big! And he smiles like crazy! I love it. I love this stage where you can just see them staring to try and figure things out. So fun and so cute!!

Well, it looks like my time has about run out. At least that's what Porter is trying to tell me. There is so much more going on, that this has now become a to be continued post...

Where does the time go?

I find myself asking this question everyday. Needless to say, life has gotten a bit crazier and a bit busier with 2 little munkchins. I know I said I would update after Porter's 2 week appointment, but obviously that didn't happen. So here's kind of a quick catch up. Porter is doing well and definitely gaining weight now that we have switched to bottle feeding. I tried and tried to nurse him for almost 3 weeks, but he was having trouble latching and I just wasn't producing enough milk for him and eventually dried up. I was kind of bummed that it didn't work this time around again, (the same thing happened with Lucy) but now I know that he is getting food and he's not starving from not getting enough from me. At his 2 week appointment he wasn't back up to his birth weight yet, so we can in a week later to do a weight check on him. In that week is when we started the bottle full time and at the appointment he had gained almost 12 oz! The nurses said they're happy when they gain 1 or 2 so 12 was excellent! At his 2 week appointment, we also found out he had grown an inch from when he was born! I was shocked! He's a pretty good sleeper, I really can't complain after talking to some people. And he's so much more awake all of the time now. I love it. He will be a month old in a couple of days and I can't believe how fast the time has gone and yet it feels like he's been here forever. How did I get blessed with such a good baby?

Lucy is going to be 2 on Sunday. I can't believe it. I feel kind of bad because I haven't really planned anything for it this year like I did last year, but things have been pretty crazy aorund here. John is going to be out of town on her birthday so we're going to be doing something, don't know yet, on Saturday for her birthday. Lucy has totally grown up since we brought Porter home. She loves her "baby bruder" and is constantly wanting to "snuggle" and hold him and give him kisses. It's so cute, until she's practically laying on top of him trying to get him to "snuggle" with her. I have to be sure I'm always in the room with them together because she just loves him so much! (if you catch my drift...) She is still constantly dancing and singing, loves playing with her babies, playing basketball with daddy, doing ANYTHING with daddy, and making messes for mommy to clean up. I wish I had more pictures of her to post but frankly, I can't get her to hold still long enough for me to get one! Trust me! I try almost everyday! haha Oh well, hopefully soon I'll have some of her. I love Lucy to death, even though she sure knows how to push my buttons, and I wouldn't change anything about her. she is absoluety hilarious and makes me laugh so hard. I love my girl.

I love my kids. I feel so blessed to be their mother. Being a mother is the hardest thing I have ever done in my life, but it is so incredibly rewarding. There are times when I get so frustrated with Lucy because of a mess she's made, or because of the lovely hitting and biting phase we're going through, but then all it takes is for her to come up to me, cradle my face in her hands and say "I wuv you Mommy." It absloutely melts my heart. I am by no means perfect, far from it. My house is a mess, there are dishes in the sink, my laundry room is full of laundry for me to do and put away, and there is dinner to be made, but I think I'm gonna go give my little stinker a kiss.

Wow...

I'm such a slacker. But hey, at least I'm updating now right?! Things have been, well, different to say the least. Good different though. Porter will be 2 weeks old tomorrow. I can't believe it's already been that long, but at the same time it seems like he's been here so much longer than that. He is such a good baby. He is getting so much more alert now and is awake a lot more often now. It's been so fun to watch Lucy with him. She is such a good big sister. She gets so concerned whenever he cries and has to be right there with his pacifier whenever we change his diaper. There are some times when I think she has a hard time with needing more attention, but for the most part she has adjusted so well to having Porter home.  Anyways, I'm just gonna post some pictures cause I know that's really what everyoen wants to look at anyways. Hehe.

This is the day we left the hospital.

Easter Sunday, don't mind the crazy hair, we hadn't done it yet. haha

Easter Egg hunt at Grandma and Papa Wing's house. She had so much fun!!

My awesome neighbor made this adorable hat for Lucy. It so funky, I love it!!

Lucy is always giving Porter kisses. It's so cute.

Lucy and Porter wearing matching pj's. Funny story... One of our neighbors gave us a a bunch of clothes both newborn and Lucy size and there were matching pj's. I put POrter in his and Lucy freaked out cause she thought he was wearing her jammies. So in order to calm her down, I had to change her out of the jammies she was wearing and into her matching ones. It was way funny.

Just chillin'. Wherever Porter is, Lucy is.

My sweet baby boy. He is looking so much like his daddy everyday. I love it.

It's so much fun when he's actually awake. I love his big, buggy eyes!!

Tomorrow is Porter's 2 week check up. I'm really interested to see how much weight he has gained. When we left the hospital he had lost 11 oz., but he seems so much bigger now. I'll post tomorrow when I know.

I am so happy right now to have my family all together and to finally have Porter here with us. I wouldn't change anything about anything. Yeah, it's been a hard adjustment and recovering from a c-section is never fun, but my 2 kids and my amazing husband make it all worth it.

He's Here!!

 
Well, he's here! Porter David Matern was born this morning, March 31st, 2010, at 8:45 AM weighing 7 lbs 11 oz and 20 inches long. That's a big boy for only being 37 weeks!! I'm recovering well from the c-section and Porter has just been sleeping all day. Such a peaceful baby! I'll be sure to write more about the whole event soon, but I just wanted to make a post really quick to show off my precious baby boy. We love him so much and we're so excited to have our little family of 4!!

Meeting mommy for the first time...

I think he looks so much like Lucy!

Our first "current" family picture

(Sorry, you can barely see Porter haha)

Big sister, Little brother

(Ignore that fact that Porter looks like he was beat up. He has some facial bruising from either the umbilical cord or just the way he was positioned. Poor baby.)

March 31st!!

We have a date!! If all goes well and he doesn't decide to come sooner, I will be having Porter on March 31st!! That's on;y 2 weeks away! I am so happy and yet nervous at the same time. They wil most likely do an amniocentisis to check his lung maturity, but we're keeping our fingers crossed that it will come out fine cause I honestly don't know if I can do this much longer! This past couple of weeks has been interesting. I was actually admitted last Tuesday night and was in the hospital till Thursday night. My headaches and the pain I'm in is only getting worse and my blood pressure was all over the place, so my doctor just had me admitted so we could figure out if we could get pain and things under control. I ended up having a CT Scan and an MRI done on my head/brain just to make sure there wasn't anything going on there that was causing the headaches. Luckily everything turned out fine. So I'm home now with a lovely concoction of pain medicine to try and get me through the next 2 weeks till I deliver. It stil is possible that I could go into labor on my own, I'm dilated to a 2+ and 50% effaced as of Monday. So we'll just have to see how it goes! It's just so comforting to know a date of when I will be having him. Holy cow I'm gonna have 2 kids!!!

Silly Girl

As crazy as things have been lately and as much as she drives me nuts sometimes, I have the most adorable little girl in the whole world!!!!!!!! Bedrest with an almost 2 year old has been challenging, to say the least. But this time I get to spend with Lucy is priceless and I can't believe how much she is literally growing right before my eyes. She is going to be such a good big sister to Porter. She is always playing with her baby dolls, "changing their bums", "snuggling" with them, and putting them to bed. She loves to help daddy do dishes, vacuum, sweep, and mop. She is CONSTANTLY singing and dancing. I'm not kidding. I really think she probably sings and makes up songs more than she talks haha. It's so cute! I just wanted to post a few pictures of Lucy from lately. I would post more, but it's so hard to take pictures of her anymore! She just wants to look at the camera and won't stand still. It's really frustrating, but oh well!

Lucy mid-dance... She loves this skirt and is always wanting to wear it just to dance. I love it!

 

A smile! Love her!

  

Not the best picture, but it's the most recent one I have haha. She was helping daddy get the garden ready this last weekend. She loves being outside. I will be so happy when the weather warms up enough and we can play outside all the time! 

 

I can't believe that she is going to be 2 in just a month and a half!!

Things are getting interesting...

Well, it looks like we're getting a lot closer to this little man being born than we thought. Friday at my Non-Stress test, my blood pressure was really high and going all over the place so I ended up going to Labor and Delivery to be monitored and just check things out. By the time I got there, things had calmed down a bit and my pressures were starting to look good. I was having some little contractions, but nothing to be concerned about, so that was good. Sunday night, I was having some pretty good contractions but I was able to get them under control. Yesterday was my weekly check-up and after talking to my doctor, we decided that we were gonna try to make it to 37 weeks ( I'm 33 weeks now) and she would be willing to take Porter then because my body is obviously very done being pregnant. Plus we don't want my body to become to immune to the medicine that I've been having to take to help control the pain I'm in so that when I do have him, we won't have to resort to something way strong to control the pain after surgery. then she checked my cervix and I was dilated to a 1+ but still pretty high. So that kind of changed things a bit. Since I am dilating and having contractions, even though they aren't too regular yet, my doctor had me get a steroid shot that wil help Porter's lungs develop in case I do go into labor early. She's not going to stop labor if it does happen in the next couple of weeks, so that means that sometime in the next 4 weeks we will have our little man in our arms. It's really exciting but scary at the same time. Exciting cause he will FINALLY be here, scary because the earlier he comes the bigger the chance is that he'll have to be in the NICU or stay longer in the hospital. But we're keeping our hopes up and just wanting the best for Porter and my health. I'm sorry these updates are so long, I'm using this blog as sort of a journal for this whole thing. So sorry if you're bored out of your mind, that is if anyone is actually reading. Haha. So until my next appointment or something happens, this is me signing off!