Mac 15 months

So Mac went for her 15 mo check up today. Her weight was 28 lbs 4 oz and length was 29 3/4. According to the doc she is in the 98th percentile for weight and only 30th percentile for height for her age. The weight is sort of concerning to me. She doesn't eat a ton or overeat. In general we don't do a lot of snacks so I'm not sure how she gained so much weight between the last appt 3 months ago and today. The doc said we will just watch it since she is so high in the range but I am worried now. She goes back in August for her next appt so we will see what they say at that appointment. She only got one shot and she took it like a champ! Barely even whined when she got it - such a big girl!

Other misc things:

• Size 3 diapers but the next ones I buy will be 4's
• Size 18 month clothes (some stuff is 12 months still but mostly 18)
• She loves having her shoes on - she always brings them to us to put on!
• She LOVES the outside now that it's finally warming up. She loves exploring the yard!
• Her giggle is the sweetest sound but she's serious a lot of the time
• Still napping 2 times a day, usually goes to sleep between 8 and 9 at night and sleeps until around 6 or 6:30
• Follows her sister everywhere!
• Hates the car seat usually and cries most of the way home when I pick her up in the afternoon

Kid & Life Update

So I am hoping to get back on track and update this blog more regularly! So here is what has been happening - the kids are going stir crazy! I wanted to go to the park today but I had my niece so its a little hard to take all 3 of them and keep an eye on them. I may attempt it soon though once the weather really breaks (since it's going to drop down to 19 degrees on Thursday!).

Mackenzie is doing well and getting so big. It absolutely blows my mind that she is a year old now. She is walking, waves hi/bye, says ma and da but not too many other words yet! She loves to stand on things and is a daredevil for sure! She can be pretty cranky at times though which is so opposite from Tricia! Mac can be quite needy too. Hopefully she starts getting over that real soon!

Tricia is doing great as well. She loves to play with her sister! We have started working on her learning her alphabet and drawing the letters. I feel like she might be a bit behind in this aspect. I feel like other friends their kids already know their alphabets and are doing letters. So I'm trying not to read in to it too much because I know each kid goes at their own pace. She is fully potty trained now and only wears pull ups at night. Hope to have those off of her by the time she turns 4 though!

As far as me - work is going well and I'm really starting to get in to the groove of things at work. I am extremely busy though and I find myself working some nights at home too. Although one thing I am doing for myself now is I joined Planet Fitness! I have been doing a Biggest Loser competition at work but I feel like I need additional motivation to keep on working out once the contest is over. So I joined and so did the hubby. I want to go at least 3-4 times a week (because let's be real I have two kids and a house to take care of) so me and Ben will switch of days to go. What's awesome is that they offer tanning! I really wanted to start tanning soon anyways and a tanning pass would have been more than the gym membership and tanning combined so win-win here! I really love the gym and can't wait to get in a routine and  get myself fit and toned! I would like to lose about 15 more pounds for sure and do a lot of toning especially in my stomach area and thighs. So this blog will also chronicle this fitness journey as well for me. So here is some of my information:

(I haven't taken body measurements yet but hope to do that soon)
Starting weight for my competition: 159
Last Friday 3/7/14 weight: 153
Goal: 135

Here's to hoping with better eating habits and working out that I will obtain this goal!

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

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