34 Weeks!!

Time is flying by so fast! Blake will be here in no time! It's crazy about how fast this pregnancy has gone by. We finally got a picture of his face! Not his whole face including his lips because he's being a turkey but that's okay. We'll see him in a couple of weeks! I can't wait for Mckay to meet him! 

Mckay's 1st Birthday! 

She's getting so big! I can't believe it! She's walking all over the place and has been for about two months and she's been actually crawling on all fours for about three weeks. She's doing things backwards, But she's developing faster then most kids her age. 

Mike and I are doing well, Mike took the summer off of school, which makes it nice because he has more time to be with Mckay and I. 

Crazy Adventures of Mckay!!

Good Morning everyone. She's always so happy in the morning.




She was trying to help mommy dye some hair, thus ruining her outfit.





Happy Girl Smiling!







I gave her a bath and then blew her hair dry by blowing her hair upwards and this is what we got. So stinkin cute, she was Crazy Mckay.






In the mornings we get ready, eat breakfast and then she plays with her toys and watches either Mickey Mouse Clubhouse or the Little Einsteins, she loves them as you can tell.





I was at my parents house on their computer and she was playing with a stress band and a medicine ball, she liked the band better and didn't let it go, even when she was sleeping (as you can see).

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Grace's Room

If you haven't noticed, Grace's room theme is giraffe's. It's so fun, but hard to find giraffe printed stuff. It's mostly zebra and lepord/cheetah print.

Today I went to Hobby Lobby and got a laundry basket which is off course giraffe print, I looked for done other things but once again, it's super hard to find especially cute stuff.

I'm still hunting for a big stuffed giraffe. I bought Mckay a big zebra from sams club, I haven't gotten a chance to go there to see if they have a giraffe. If anyone knows of somewhere I can get one, for a decent price, please let me know.

Grace is getting big, she's starting to kick a ton more. It's fun. I can't wait till Mckay can feel. Not that she'll understand but still, it'll be cool.

Mckay is getting SIX teeth at the moment, she's not ownery but she does pull at her ears. Poor thing. She just doesn't know what's hurting her, I feel so bad.

Mike has a month till school is over till fall, super excited about that.

I'm doing good, it's so hard to not eat everything I see, even if I have just eaten. Good thing I'm busy most the time or else I'd gain tons of weight. Lol

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Demolition fun!!!

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Almost 20 Weeks along!!! Half way done! 

I went to our doctors appointment the other day with my sister and our doctor said that our baby girl is still a baby girl!!! YAY!!!! I can't wait for her to be here with us. Gracie will be so loved. I can't wait for Mckay to meet her either. I hope that they will be the best of friends! I know it's going to take a while but I'm ok with that. 

We have our next ultrasound in 4 weeks and then we have our targeted ultrasound like 4 days after that. I'm excited to get some decent pictures of Grace. We haven't gotten any yet. Hopefully we will. This last time we were on the old ultrasound machine so it doesn't give you the best pictures but Grace does have long legs and everything looks great with her. There were some pockets of something that our doctor saw on the sac she said that it might be a cyst, or something else. She had her ultrasound tech look at the still picture and she said that it is just a sac of water. This most recent ultrasound she said she wasn't able to see them anymore. Most of the time they don't even show up on ultrasounds. 

Mckay is getting funner and funner. I love her so much! She sits on the floor and plays with her toys all the time and she's so patient with me when I'm doing hair and nails. I don't know how she puts up with me sometimes. I love that she's so relaxed and layed back all the time. She's the most perfect little girl anyone could ask for! LOVE HER!!!   =D

Yes she did this by herself!! We're getting there.



Grandpa Howell trying to get her to crawl!!



Grandpa put her on all fours to try to get me to crawl, little does he know....



She doesn't want to crawl and she's going to let you know!



I gave her a cracker and left the rest on the counter, and  I left to go downstairs for a second and came back up and she had pulled the rest of the crackers down, gotten more out and she was eating them. She had like two in her one hand. Little stink!



Ok so I was laughing so hard this is so funny. She loves to put things in her mouth. This is my hoodie string, she puts it in her mouth and then juts out her jaw and tilts her head up it's so stinking cute!! Oh I love her!



These are all her toys. She loves being on the floor and playing and rolling around. She loves books, I am not sure if it's the hearing the stories or if it's the chewing on them that she likes the most (I'm going to go with the chewing on them).

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Cute Little Stinker loves to steal keys and chew on them.

Such a little Cheeser   =D

Lover her first two Piggy tails

I put bows on the piggy tails but now you can't

 tell if they really is something behind them or not. Still, She's so cute.

Ok, so most of you probably are thinking why in the world do you have a picture of piano keys? Well, This is my parents piano. I guess when My siblings and I were younger we would drop stuff on the keys and since they are ivory they chip a lot. Well they have stayed like that till yesterday. My mom had been saying that she just needed to file down the edges of the keys and then it wouldn't hurt when you played. Well, Mckay LOVES to play the piano (pound on it really), but I hate letting her because the keys were so sharp from being broken. Notice in the picture there isn't sharp edges anymore? This is because "I'M AWESOME!!" Jk. I was at my parents house yesterday and Mckay wanted to play and I let her for a bit but while she was playing she likes to grab your hands and slam them down on the keys well mine were hitting the edges and it hurt a bit. I got fed up with it so I grabbed one of my moms nail files. Yes a nail file and I filed down the edges so they weren't sharp anymore, oh my goodness what a difference it made. My mom came home and I was almost finished, I said I hope you don't mind but they were buggin me so I just did it and you said you wanted to so I did it for you. he he he she was ok with it thank goodness or else I would have been in so so so much trouble lol. So there is the very long explanation of why there is a picture of piano keys on the blog. =D

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RSV

Yes you heard me RSV, Mckay has it and it sucks! Luckily it hadn't gotten into her lungs yet so we caught it just in time. Our doctor actually said that every child will get RSV at least 3 to 5 times by the time they are 5 years old. I was really surprised! 

I guess it's just a common cold that hasn't spread to your lungs then you'll be okay but if it does then that's when you need to worry. 

Mckay has had a runny stuffy nose, clamminess, fever, a cough and she's lost her appetite. It's so scary, but there is not any medicine for RSV seeing how it's virus. All you can do is if it's not in your child's lung is give them Tylenol or Advil for the fever and do a saline spray and suction out their nose. 

If it does end up getting into their lungs most likely they will be admitted to the hospital to be given oxygen and have their vitals monitored. 

Since she's been sick which has been since Sunday/Monday-ish,She's been really cuddly and just content and just wants loves. I love when she's cuddly like she has been but man, it does make it hard to do anything around the house. 

Monday Mike got sick with the stomach flu, so Mckay and I went to my parents house to stay away and hopefully not get sick. Well it worked for me but I think unfortunately Mckay was already sick by that time. She has had a cough for a while but it's now sounding like a croup cough. Its horrible. 

She has been sleeping on her boppy at the beginning of the night till she's in a deeper sleep then I'll move her off of it so she can roll around like she likes. Yesterday she couldn't sleep without me holding her to be inclined. It sure made it hard to do ANYTHING!! 

I gave her a bath and that kept her entertained for a while but you can only bend over the side of the tub for so long. She loves her bath time though just give her a toy and she's set. 

Anyways, The doctor said that RSV lasts about a week, it's at it worst about the 3rd or 4th day, then gets better after that. I'm thinking yesterday was the 3rd or 4th day. She slept tons better last night, I only had to sleep in the rocking chair for three hours instead of 7 1/2, tons better, especially since the rocking chair isn't made to sleep in for that long anyways. Lol. 

We're on the mend. I'm crossing my fingers that Mckay will be better by Sunday. We however are not going to be going to church because of her having RSV. Especially since we're in the primary and our kids love to play with Mckay and touch her hands. We're not even going to chance it. Even if she is feeling better we don't want it to come back. 

So this has been our week of sickness. I hope to not have to deal with RSV again! I could barely handle it with Mckay, She's so temperamental. It's about enough to drive you nuts! I still love her though so that's what makes it easier to handle. 

I haven't been sick so that is a really good thing. If I were to have what Mike had on Monday I would have most likely ended up in the hospital for dehydration. Glad I didn't get sick. 

Our baby's name

We have decided to name her Grace and call her Gracie. I just hope that she stays a girl, (seeing as how last time we went to the doctors, the umbilical cord was in between the legs so it was hard to see). Our doctor gave us a word of caution, she said the gender is subject to change because I wasn't able to get a great look but I'm pretty sure your having another girl. :) 

I am not going to lie, I was kind of hoping for a little man but I will take Gracie, I'm fine with that. I'm sure she'll  be as sweet as Mckay (crossing my fingers that she'll be just as easy as Mckay has been as well). 

If the baby's gender does change, we are in for it. We have no names even agreed on, or thought of. Absolutely Nothing for clothing, I would be doing a ton of shopping at Kid to kid, that's for sure. Either way I love that place, (I used to work there) but other then that you can get AWESOME clothing that hasn't even been worn really for next to nothing!

We are 18 weeks today!! It's crazy to me how fast this pregnancy is going. Maybe because I forget that I'm pregnant at times, or maybe because I've been pregnant before and I'm not such a worry wart with this pregnancy, well, I am but just because it wasn't planned out like it was with Mckay. I'm still excited. 

Some days I think to myself "How the heck am I going to do this with two kids???" I have asked my friend that has a three year old and a seven month old how she does it and she's still trying to get the hang of it!! EEK!!! I'm getting more nervous for the fact that I will not only have a baby that will hopefully be walking but yet a baby that isn't as self efficient as Mckay. They rely on you for everything where Mckay is able to hold her bottle and eat regular food. I know it has been done but I am just nervous, excited, anxious, scared. It won't be real until our little baby Gracie gets here. 

Sorry I just had to vent a bit. Life is scary at times.  

BABIES R US!!!

GREAT DEAL IF YOU NEED TO UPGRADE

My Aunt told me this great deal that Babies-r-us is having this month!!! 

Bring in something old such as a Stroller, Crib, big baby equipment and you get 25% off of the purchase of a big item such as the ones you brought in. 

With that being said, I took advantage of this opportunity and took in my mom's old stroller and gave her the one I had. I then bought a DOUBLE stroller seeing as how we'll need it. I was really excited because I looked on KSL Classifieds for the double strollers and there just weren't any good ones. 

Graco Ready To Grow Stand and Ride Duo Stroller

This is the stroller i'm talking about. It's awesome, I love it, (well as far as I know I haven't had two kids in it yet). Ours is black and lime green. So cute! I took Mckay for a walk in it today for the first time and she sat in the front and loved it! She just sat there and observed the whole time and didn't make a peep! She loves being outside, (this is why we decided to get a double stroller).

 This is Mckay after our walk. She had so much fun and we were only out for about 20 minutes. Poor little girl is allergic to the cold. Our doctor said that most of the time they grow out of it. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. My brother is actually allergic to the cold and has to carry around an eppy pin. 

<3   (ABOUT TODAY)   <3

It's Valentines Day!! I hope that everyone tells their loved ones that they love them on a constant basis. Today should be "JUST ANOTHER DAY". You should have to put aside a special day to tell someone you love them once a year like you mean it. With that being said I still like Valentines Day. 

For this Valentines Day Mike and I went out to dinner with some of our really good friends. Jeremy and Rachelle. It was really fun, Rachelle and I had a girls night on Friday, we wen't to dinner then went and saw "The Vow". It was pretty good. Saturday morning the boys went shooting at the Bountiful range then stopped by the home show. That night we met Jeremy and Rachelle at "The Brick Oven" in Layton. It was pretty good, I was full after my salad. After dinner we went to Tinseltown and saw "Extreemly Loud, Incredibly Close" It was really good and sad. All of the things we did on our date were a surprise to us girls. Dang men think it's funny to surprise us. Mike hates surprises!! 

My gift to him: I got him a card holder from Lewis Jewelers, he loved it! 

His gift to me: "Crazy Stupid Love" and a gift card to Target, he wanted to get me a bright purse for spring but couldn't find one that he liked so I get to choose! =0

His gift to  Mckay: He got her a sleeper that actually fits her!! YAY!!! Go Daddy!! =)

Mckay is getting so big everyday!! I'm so grateful to have her and Michael in my life! I don't know what I would do or where I would be without them!! I can't imagine life without the people that you love. 

It's a.... GIRL!!!


Althrough our doctor said it's subject to change, so as of right now we're having another little girl. Her name will be Grace. We are so excited to have her become a part of this family. For her and Mckay to become the best of friends.


My sister and I are 15 months apart and Mckay and Grace will be a couple days short of 14 months apart (given she comes on her due date). Since Mckay won't be out of her crib by the time Grace gets here we had the OPPORTUNITY to purchase yet another crib. Oh the joys. Since we will be putting each child in their own rooms, we needed to clean and de-junk the room that will be Grace's. Oh my goodness, you think that you don't have a ton of stuff untill you start cleaning and figureing out that most of the things that you have you don't need nor use. Therefore I have made a could trips to the D.I., and tons of items thrown away that weren't needed. I HATE de-junking. 


A good things that I did find out was that while going through the process was from a good girl friend and how she saves space when she organizes. She recomended the Space Saver Bags. I can honestly say I'd never even thought of the idea but they are AMAZING! I love them! All 20ish of our blankets and comforters are under our bed, which is probably 6 inches from the floor, crazy I know, but awesome. Also all of Mckay's clothes that she's grown out of, I had in the garage storage bins, one was huge and the other was a normal size bin. All of those clothes are under her crib. Great way to save space for the things that you want to get to easier. I highly recommend them.


Ideas for decorating the nursery.... I'm stuck. I've thought about doing a moose theme or a owl theme, my delema I'm not in love with the owl theme and the moose theme was going to be more for a boy so I would love ideas if any of you have any. 


Ok, Subject of Mckay. She's eight months old and getting so smart and the little miss will be walking here anytime. She's gotten to the point where she can hold onto one hand and be steady enough to walk a couple steps. She says da da, it's so cute. She loves it when her daddy comes home. Loves to walk and be outside. She's started a new thing were she whines about everything and it's driving us up the wall. She doesn't cry unless she's super tired she can't stand it. DOES ANYONE ELSE'S CHILDREN HAVE THIS ISSUE? WHAT DID YOU DO? We are going crazy. All she wants to do is walk, she has a walker and loves that.


ME:  This pregnancy has been a breeze compared to when I was pregnant with Mckay. I have only gotten sick once. I am still taking zolfran at night but other then that I have been good. Since I haven't been as sick I was thinking that we were going to have a boy. But for the time being we are having two beautiful girls! =D


MIKE:  He is almost done with his bachelors degree in Health Administration and then next spring he'll start his masters degree at Western Governors University. He's moving up at work and excelling in every way being the best team lead that he can to his team and co-workers. He's an amazing husband and father I couldn't and wouldn't ask for more.


GRACE:  All is going well, She's growing as she should be getting bigger and stronger everyday. She has a great heartbeat and she's actually measuring a week ahead of where she should be. I can't wait to see if her and Mckay will look a like.




Theres our update for now I'll keep posting pictures and try to tell about each of them but if not then I'm sorry. Thanks for reading hope you enjoyed.

Our little teddy bear, we couldn't ask for a better little girl. She's perfect!!!!

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We are expecting our second little baby, it's such a blessing and we are so excited! I was very unexpected that's for sure and very very shocking and it's taken a while to get  used to the idea of having children that will be about 14 months apart. :-O

Never the less we are very excited for this little blessing to be a part of our lives. We know that he or she is meant to be here and we are so greatful for the opportunity to be the parents of this child as well as Mckay. 

Our due date is July 25th, 2012. So they will be a few days short of 14 months apart. EEEK!!! I am so nervous but I know it's been done before and I am bound and determined that I will be the best mom I am able to be.

We have had a great holiday season and we are so happy that we got to spend it with family. Mckay was so fun to watch open her presents, she was of course more into the crinkly paper and wanted to play with that but she has been playing with her toys that she got and it's fun to watch her grow. 

She is rolling all over the place, and she really wants to be walking around all she wants to do is stand. Oh how it drives us nuts because we end up holding her up most of the time. She hates to be sitting, she'll pull herself up no matter what she's doing, laying down on her belly, sitting, she is funny like that. 

She LOVES Turkey and Rice for meals. She's to the stage where she tries to help you feed her. Needless to say that feedings are always messy and she has food everywhere even in her hair. She gets a ton of baths. 

Mckay is seven months old. I can't believe how time flies. She has two and a half more inches to grown then she's out of her car seat and into a big girl one. She is definitely going to resemble her daddy. She's looks like she will have blonde hair, but we will have to see how it turns out. 

Mike has started yet another semester of schooling in health administration services. He was on schedule to graduate with his bachelors degree this spring but they don't offer the classes that he needed this spring so hopefully he'll be able graduate summer semester. HOPEFULLY!!!! If not then latest will be Fall, then he will be able to start his Masters.

I'm loving being a stay at home working mommy, Lol. I'm greatful for the opportunity that i have to be able to be there to raise Mckay and watch her learn and grow in everything that she does. I'm not as sick with this pregnancy and I was with Mckay. It is nice, not throwing up every morning, however I'm the kind of person that would rather throw up instead of feel nauseated all the freakin time even with the Zolfran. But I am not going to complain. Well there is an update of our lives. =) 

Suprise!!!!

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Mckay's adventures

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Silky girl

She was having so much fun playing with this!

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Our trip to vegas

We have had so much fun!!!!  But ready to get back to our baby. It's the first time since she's been born that we've left her over night. It hadn't been as bad as I thought but not something I would want to do all the time.

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Update!

I know it's been forever since I've updated our blog, here we go. Since I last post, We have had a beautiful little girl named Mckay Wilson. She's the best thing that has happened to us! We couldn't ask for a better child. She's perfect in every way! We love her soooooo much! She was admitted into the NICU the second night after she was born, she was having a hard time breathing so they took her in the NICU to watch over her closer. She had aspirated some amniotic fluid when she was born so they ended up pumping her stomach because of that. She was in the NICU from Thursday night till Sunday afternooon. Worst time of my life. I know that there is a ton of people who have children end up in the NICU for much much longer then she was in there and I have no idea how they do it. It was so stinkin hard for me to see her like that, all the wires attached to her it was horrible. The labor part wasn't too horrible bad, I would deffinately do it again, lol. I went into the hospital at four am they ended up sending me home because there wasn't progress so they gave me a shot of morphine and sent me home tellling me that I'd be back later that day to have our baby. needless to say I was back at the doctors at three that afternoon and again there wasn't much progress but the admitting nurse convinced my doctor to keep me there because if they hadn't I would most likely have had Mckay at home. I wen't from a three to a ten in a matter of five hours, it wasn't bad at all, we got admitted at threeish and had Mckay at 8:43pm. We spent a day with her then she got admitted into the NICU etc. Since then I took six weeks off of work to recover, Michael has gotten a promotion at work and I have quit my job and I am now a stay-at-home-mommy that works from home doing hair and nails. I'm building my clientele so if you ever need your hair done or nails done, give me a call. Mckay at four months had stopped wanting her bottle, she didn't want anything to do with rice cereal so our doctor said that we needed to start her on baby food..... yes I said baby food, She LOVES peas and sweet potatoes and she'll now eat rice cereal silly girl, but she doesn't like green beans, carrots, applesauce, pears and raspberries, she will eat some peaches but not very much. Oh the fun with the baby food. She sure gets messy. Mckay is also rolling over both ways and loves being in a johnny jump up!! LOVES IT!! She hates to sit down and loves to stand. As much progress she's making I think we are taking a step backwards in sleeping through the night the last couple of nights she's woken up three to five times, not just to eat but to get her binki (I love the binki but I hate it at the same time!). All in all Mckay is doing well. Mike and i are doing great, we love being parents and love having the opportunity to have me stay at home and be with Mckay as she grows and develops. Michael is still pursuing school, it's rough at times because of homework but we're getting through it. "It'll all be worth it int he end, right??" I just keep telling myself that, you almost have to.

 

Welp, we are now down to days! Hopefully Mckay decides to come on her own, however We both mike and I don't think that she'll come on her own, This little girl has my temper and I am in for a real treat. I haven't had any "REAL" contractions at all, I have had braxton hicks contractions but they haven't been consistant at all! Dang it!

Our next appointment is set for June 2nd, and hopefully we don't end up going that long but this little girl doesn't seem to want to come out at all or have any interest in coming out, maybe if the weather warms up she'll be more willing to come on her own. That would be nice.

Everything is ready, the doctor says that she's looking good, her legs measure a little small but they have the whole pregnancy, but there isn't anything to worry about. She'll probably just hit her growth spurt later in life like mike did, in high school.

We are just so excited to meet her, and want her to be here I'm getting really anxious and ownery becaue I don't like not knowing when something is going to happen, It is too stressful. I hope for mike's sake she decides to come sooner then later because I need to start being a happy momma, which right now I'm not so much.

My parents are so excited, my mom texts me everyday to see how I'm doing and see how Mckay is treating me. My dad will text me when he's doing something and ask if he needs to keep doing that certain thing longer because he thinks that if he's doing something then Mckay will decide to come and he'll have to drop everything he is doing and come to the hospital. It hasn't worked these last couple days. :(

Mckay will be here soon. We can't wait to meet our little princess!! I think that I am mostly ready for her to be here and to get some time off of work! I need a break, I know I'll only get one from work for a little while but hey, something is better than nothing. My mom is going to watch Mckay untill she has to go back to work in august and then we aren't sure what we are going to do but we have about two and a half months till she goes back to school to get that figured out.

I will let everyone know when Mckay decided to make her arrival into this world to be a part of our eternal family here on earth. I will be taking a ton of pictures that is for sure! I can't wait her to meet everyone! Especially Mat, Ashley and the girls! I know it won't be for a while till they get to meet but it will be an exciting time when that does happen.

Ashley if you read this, which I am not sure if you do, but if you do, we are almost there! Hang in there and be strong. Our little girls will be here soon. They already have their own ways. Both seem to not be ready enough to come on their own. Hopefully we add two more little girls into the Wilson family this week!! Good Luck! We love you guys and miss you guys!