2nd Born

I am in love with this little girl.

I am in love with this picture.

The End.

Gotta love Anniversaries

Happy Anniversary Jana!!!

I'm celebrating with hand-foot mouth disease, how about you??

Denied by a 3 year old.

"Daddy, I love you"

"I love you too, Mady"

"Ewwwwwww"

Ha ha, this is the best.

Going through family pictures, these 3 pictures were in sequence. Kids, they never try to spare your feelings. It makes me laugh every time.

I love Mady.

First time school mom

So I'm gonna blog about...

Jared's first official day of Kindergarten.

Yesterday was just orientation and when I left to go have the parent/teacher orientation, he gave me a big loooooooong hug and right then I knew he was gonna cry. I looked at his face and asked if he was gonna cry and he said no but I could tell he was trying to be big and brave and was trying to hold it in. It was really so cute and eventually his eyes filled and a little tear fell. But that was it. Big improvement from last year when he cried and screamed and I had to leave him like that. It just shows that he's not my little man anymore and is growing up.

He's been ready to go since 9:00am. He's really excited and so am I. I'm not the crying mom, for now. We will see what happens when he doesn't need me anymore.

3 weeks

Amy is 3 weeks old now

she's 11 lbs and

is still an excellent sleeper and eater

The kids still love her and want to hold her every 5 seconds

which is both good and annoying.

I'm still in transition from 3-4 kids so it gets a little overwhelming at times but for the most part has been good. Here's a

few pictures of my kids minus Lorelle.

The last one is my favorite.

Finally.....

The baby is out

and

I am blogging about it.

Amy Ela Henline

July 28th, 2010

4:02pm

10lbs 2 oz

21 inches

• enduced at 9:00am
• sitting in the shower in active labor by 9:30am
• reached 5 cm at 2:00pm
• called epidural guy
• got epidural at 3:00pm
• 3:30pm, epidural stopped working
• 4:02pm, after 2 pushes, Amy is born in all her 10 lbs glory

People keep asking me if I had to have a c-section because of her size. When I tell them no, they ask how I did it. My responce:

I pushed, really hard.

All is well and she is a WONDERFUL baby. (knock on wood) I don't want to jinx it. She sleeps, eats and poops great. I'm getting 10 hrs of sleep a night with her waking up about 3 times to eat. I feed one side, change her bum and feed her the other and she's right back to sleep.

We decided on Amy for her name because James liked it. I thought it was cute, I didn't love it or hate it but wanted to still look at other options. But when she was born and he brought it up again, I just knew that that was her name and when I tried to look at her and think of other names, it just didn't fit right and I knew Amy was it.

Sorry I took forever to blog about it. I got an epidural headache and let me tell you, it was like the worst thing I've experienced. I think I rather give birth. You literally cannot move, all you can do is lie on your back and if you move, you feel like your head is about to burst. James ended up taking me to the hospital on Sunday to get a blood patch which basically is another epidural only instead of putting the freezing in your back, they take blood from your arm and inject it into the hole in your spinal fluid to stop it from leaking (that is what causes the headache) After about 2 hours I was able to get up and walk around. If I was to have another baby for some reason, I would skip the epidural cuz I never want to risk going through that again. Plus my epidural didn't even work this time so I got to feel that and then have the headache for really, no reason.

Anyway, here is my 8 day old baby who looks 2 months. My friend Mishel came over and took some pics of her so I will have to post them soon.

A little Disappointment

Today I was gonna meet our new little baby. I was so excited. I was being induced early because of all the pelvic pain and bone grinding that I am having and I was looking forward to it stopping. So I phoned at 6 AM like they said, "yeah come in, we have room" So I went. Got there about an hour later and was told that there are no beds available or nurses and that they can't start the induction. Thats fine, I thought, I love getting up at 6am and driving an hour to come to the hospital for no reason. They told me to call back at noon, in hopes some of these ladies had their babies and there was now room. I called at noon and they told me that 6 more woman came in and now they were even busier and there is no way they can induce me safely today. A little saddened and ALOT disappointed, James and I picked up our kids and went home. I blame all the woman who went into labor on their own and kept bumping me down the list. I know it's totally their fault. It's not like they can't control when they go into labor. Gosh. Yesterday they had 3 births and that was it. I told me doctor we should have induced me yesterday. So we rescheduled for Wednesday unless I go on my own in the mean time which I replied "I'll see you wednesday". My doctor is gone monday and tuesday that is why it is wednesday. It's ok, I already told him he picked a crappy week to be gone. So next week we will FINALLY see our little baby and hey, this gives us 5 more days to try to come up with a name.