Where is the time going?

I can't believe it's already so close to Christmas! What has happened to this year - I feel like it was just February when Mac was being born and now it's almost Christmas and my little girl is 10 months old!

The day before Thanksgiving Mac started getting her first two teeth! I can't believe it already. The next two days were pretty rough for her but she's doing better now (besides the nasty pink and cough/cold/maybe croup? she has yuck). She has also started saying "mamama" finally :) Makes my heart melt.

Tricia is getting so big. She is saying so much and doing so much - she loves her sister though and looks for her every morning when they get up! She doesn't want to go anywhere without her and questions us a million times about when they will be together again.

Just wanted to do a quick update. I really need to get better about blogging and do more regular updates about what's going on. Maybe 2014 things will settle down a bit and I will be able to do that? :)

Mac Update

So Mac had her 9 month appt - she is quite a big girl! 20 lbs 14 oz, 27 1/4 in long and all around a happy girl! The day before Thanksgiving she started to get her 2 bottom front teeth in and was quite fussy for a few days. She is doing better now though thank goodness! And I think as I was getting on here to write this she took her first solo step! She has been working on getting up on her own but she always plops right back down. I think she is really close now though and it wont be long! It's amazing how time flies. I can't believe it. I wish I had more time to get on here and update what we have been up to and how things are going but life has been super hectic. I plan to do a full update though soon!

Mackenzie 9 months

Well we haven't had Mackenzie's 9 month appt yet but she is growing and getting so big! Here is an update...

-Size 3 diapers
-9-12 month clothing
-She loves pulling herself up on everything and is a power crawler
-She still wakes up once a night to eat (although she didn't last night! it was wonderful!)
-Naps 1-2 times a day but this is getting harder and harder for some reason. Yesterday she didn't nap until 4 pm and that was only a hour. May have contributed to her not waking up at night...
-Loves to put everything in her mouth right now - i mean EVERYTHING
-Her favorite toy is her camera and the stand and walk toy we have
-She follows her sister everywhere
-Eating 7 oz at a time and gets baby food 2-3 times a day. She loves all foods pretty much but can be picky depending on the day about what she will actually eat
-Loves both puffs and yogurt melts
-She is a daddy's girl...she lights up every time he comes home or she sees him and cries when he doesn't pick her up or take her with him
-Loves the bathroom - she loves to stand in there and watch us in the shower. A bit creepy but I think she loves to hear the water run.

I will come back and update once I have her 9 month stats!

Mackenzie 6 months

My baby girl is 6 months old today - say whaaaaa?! I don't know how times flies so fast but it does. So here is an update on her:

- Still in size 2 diapers
- In 6-9 month clothing
- Laughs and giggles a lot now
- Has started eating food and LOVES it. She has had bananas, apples, peaches, green beans and carrots and loves them all so far.
- Has started to sit on her own
- Loves the playmat but is starting to roll a lot so probably won't be for too much longer
- Loves grabbing my hair, the remote, my phone
- Drooling a TON right now, no sign of any teeth yet though
- Does some army crawling

Update on the girls

On July 8th Tricia turned 3. She is just so cute at this age (Minus her lovely tantrums). Her well child visit is next week so I will post her stats after that. But here are a few updates about her:

-Her vocabulary is really taking off. She says so many things now and repeats pretty much anything she hears.

-She still takes a nap most days (sometimes she doesn't and those days can be brutal)

-She started potty training about a month ago and has just done wonderful with it. We are still struggling with nights but during the day she has no accidents at all.

-She loves playing outside - mostly riding her bike, which she is finally getting the hang of how to do that, playing in the sand, playing with bubbles, she loves swimming too in her little slide pool.

-She loves to go to the park, so much so that it's a disaster to try to get her out of there! We go about twice a week. 

-She loves to eat and eat and eat :) She's not too much of a picky eater. She will eat at least some of anything that is put in front of her. 

Mac's 5 month update:

-She is doing the high pitched screech now which is adorable

-She is a VERY smiley baby

-When she gets hungry she lets you know, and it's happy to crying in 2 seconds flat

-She is eating usually 6 oz at a feeding now. She still wakes up most nights at least once to eat a bottle. She loves to eat and eat and eat just like her sister.

-I have started her on foods recently because she is acting interested in our food. So we have had apples and just started peaches yesterday. She doesn't quite get it yet, she usually spits most of it back  out but she loves the spoon!

-She loves playing on her playmat. Tricia likes to lay there with her when she's on it - adorable!

-Tricia likes to try to get her to smile by tickling her which is so cute

Overall they are both doing wonderful and I'm loving every minute of the two of them!

Mackenzie - 4 months old

I'm a little late on this but here is Mac's 4 month stats:

-She was 14 lbs 1 oz and 24 in long
-Still in size 1 diapers
-Has recently started to giggle and it's the best thing I've ever heard :)
-Likes to blow raspberries now
-In 3-6 month clothes
-Likes to be held a lot - trying to break her of that
-I stopped breastfeeding (well pumping) shortly after her 4 mo bday, just have such a busy schedule and can not find time in a day for all the pumping anymore
-She looks so much like Tricia when she was a baby!
-She still wakes up about twice a night to eat
-She loves her rock n play and this pillow that a girl got for her that I work with
-She is sleeping in her crib now - but usually on that pillow
-She likes this little giraffe taggie/rattle a lot
-Likes her binky - she usually wants it in her mouth or she is crying

Happy Mothers Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms, moms to be, step moms and fur baby mommas!

Mackenzie - 2 months

Wow can't believe we are past the two month mark already!! Time is going by so quickly. We went to the doc last Monday (she was 9 wks) for her 2 month check up and shots. We have some concerns that she may have a lazy eye - Tricia has one too but not this bad - but other than that she is doing great! 11 lbs 4 oz and 22 in long. I can't remember her head circumference but I think either last time or this time they measured wrong because that went almost straight up on the chart that he showed me! She got one oral shot and 3 shots in her little thighs, I cried a bit but she got over it quickly. She was really fussy the next few days though and slept a lot. Some things to remember:

- This past week or so you have started to smile a lot
- You like to be held a lot which is way different then your sister
- I am still doing some breast milk and some formula. This may be ending soon though because being back to work, caring for a toddler and newborn by myself most nights and on the weekends a lot, and everything else I'm quickly getting overwhelmed and finding time passes so quickly I don't get a chance to pump.
- You are still sleeping in your rock n play by our bed. May attempt to move you to your crib at 3 months though. I'm thinking you may end up being a stomach sleeper.
- Your sister adores you :) I know this may not always be the case
- You are eating 4-5 oz at a time between 3-4 hours between your feedings.
- You have a pretty bad bewitching time between 6-8 at night where if you aren't eating you aren't really happy but sometimes you don't want the bottle so you are just unhappy and crying.
- You love to lay on my chest and sleep and sometimes I just let you.

Mackenzie is 1 month!

Wow I don't know where this  last month has gone. This is crazy! And it makes me so sad because I know this is our last child and this time is just going too quickly for me to enjoy it all as much as I want to. I can't believe in a month I will be going back to work. I have to say I am going stir crazy right now but I don't want to leave my girls. Most days I do love being home with them but I miss normal conversations and life. Knowing that it's temporary makes me want to go back all that much sooner because I know I need to get back into a regular routine.

Just a few things I want to remember:
-You are generally happy unless you are hungry or have gas
-You eat ALL the time and you eat A LOT but (between 4-6 oz usually). You are chubby but so cute!
-You are the spitting image of your daddy when he was a baby and you look a lot like your sister when she was a baby too
-You are still in newborn clothes but you are starting to get too long for them so I think we will be moving you soon
-You don't make a lot of noise besides crying at this point
-You are not a big fan of the bath until we get you in there and get you wet but then you seem to be ok
-You HATE to be cold (just like momma!)
-Your eyes are a deep blue right now (to Mom they look black but every one assures me they see deep blue)
-You are mostly still in newborn clothes still but you are starting to out grow them quickly. I have a feeling in the next week or two you will be out of them completely
-You like to sleep on your daddy's chest and it's hard to resist holding you all the time but we do
-Not a big fan of the pacifier right now, sometimes you will take it when you are being held but it's rare
-Momma is still pumping breast milk for you right now but only getting about 2-3 oz at a time so we are usually supplementing with formula. We recently switched you to the Similac sensitive but you might be going back to the regular Similiac because you have been more gassy since we switched you
-You went to the doc today - you got shots - weight:8 lbs, 10 oz (30th percentile), length: 21 in (50th percentile) may have been a bit overstated because I don't think your head was all the against the top of the thing they measure you in), head circumference didn't get but you were 34 percentile for it

Overall she is doing so great and I couldn't be happier with our complete little family - definitely wasn't sure how I would love another baby as much as I love Tricia but I do!

Mackenzie Faith

Well our new little girl is here! I can't believe it - she is just so perfect.

So here is what happened:
On Monday around 2 am I started having some contractions that were pretty close together (I had been having them off and on for the last few weeks but these were different). So I timed them and they were between 3-4 mins apart sometimes closer. I called the on call doc and he said that unless my water broke or they started to get really painful I didn't need to come in just yet. So I just laid there for a little while and then at around 5 am I had a gush of fluid and I was pretty certain my water had broke. So I hopped in the shower and started getting all my stuff together to head to the hospital (my husband was on his way home from MI). We called Ben's Aunt around 630 am and had her come down to watch Tricia.

I got to the hospital right around 7 am and they checked me. They said I was only 1 cm dilated but my water was broken but I still had a lot of fluid there so it hadn't all come out but I was definitely in active labor and would be staying. So they got me moved to a labor room. I started antibiotics because I was group b strep positive (which I didn't even know until I got there!). They didn't want to start pitocin until they were sure how things were going to progress. My doc came back  in to check me at around 9 am - at which point I was having some pretty good and painful contractions - and said I was 5 cm already! So no need for pitocin I was moving right along. I decided to go ahead and get the epidural since I couldn't have one with my first I  wanted to get it this time for sure. The anesthesiologist came in pretty quickly and got set up to do it. It was a lot of pressure and some pain but man was it worth it!! It was in after about 15 mins and I was feeling much better. So over the next little while doc came back in and checking me and I was progressing pretty quick. By 1045 am I was about 8 cm. He checked me again at around 1230 and I was still only 8 but a much better 8 then before. Next thing you know though I was having a TON of pressure and the doc came in around 1245 and said I was complete and it was time to start pushing. So they got everything set up and I pushed for about 20 mins and she was born at 1:11 pm! I was in disbelief about how quick it all went and that she was here. Her cord was wrapped around her neck two times and her and my temps both jumped after she was born but everything settled out pretty quickly.

I didn't get moved to my room until around 4 because of my bleeding. They did end up having to give me a shot and then 4 pills every six hours to get my bleeding under control because it didn't want to slow down. But everything was good other than that. I was released yesterday afternoon around 130 pm and I am glad to be home. I have been pretty emotional and want to cry at everything. Which I know is normal but still. It's hard. She slept awesome last night - ate at 1230, woke up at 4 to eat and went back to sleep then woke up around 745 am again. So I'm a happy momma this morning :)

I just love this little girl so much and couldn't be happier!


Stats:
Mackenzie Faith
1:11 pm
7 lbs 1 oz (dropped to 6 lbs 12 oz after birth)
19 3/4 in long

Happy New Year!

Well it's finally 2013 - the year of our new baby's arrival! Can't believe it's here already. We spent New Years Eve at Ben's grandpa's house like usually then headed to our friends house to watch the ball drop. I couldn't believe Tricia actually stayed up. She was slightly cranky but did really good overall! Hoping this is a really good year :)

As far as the new baby goes, we are totally not prepared at all. No name chosen. Room hasn't even been started! I feel so far behind but with Ben working out of town a lot and me being 8 months pregnant I can't do a whole lot. There's still things that need to be cleared out of that room before we can even begin to put the baby's stuff in there. I did have a baby sprinkle today that was thrown by my sister and mom. It was at Spaghetti Warehouse and it was a really good time. There were only about 15 people total because of people who couldn't make it but that's ok. I think we got a lot of the little stuff (and diapers/wipes!) that we need for the new little one. I have a few things to return that will help with credit towards the stuff I have to get. The biggest thing is ordering the crib this week so we can have that. I also need to figure out what we are going to do about a dresser - whether we move the changing table from Tricia's room to the new baby's and get her a new dresser or maybe buy another one for the new baby. Don't exactly know yet but we will figure that out here soon. Just so much going on I feel like there's not enough time left to get everything done.

Work has been completely crazy which probably hasn't helped the whole not preparing for #2 thing. With my boss being out due to her husband, my work load is just insane right now. She should be back in a few weeks now but things have been so insane I feel like I don't have a minute to breathe. And by the time I get home at night and do dinner I am exhausted and ready for bed.