Our first two weeks

My dad has a saying that he loves to use all the time, and that is "Once you have children life as you know it ceases to exist" and I now believe it. The life that Blake and I once had is gone and a new one has begun. I already love this new life, even with the late night feedings and her pooping all over me. All that I have ever wanted to do was to be a mom and now I finally get to be one! It is tough sometimes, especially when she is crying because her tummy is upset and it makes me cry cuz I can't do anything for her except hold her close and wait. But it is so fulfilling every time she grins or falls asleep in my arms or the way she looks at me when I am talking to her. Blake loves to comment everyday that she is such a good baby and she really is! We feel way lucky to have her.

Here are some pictures of our first two weeks with Jaylee



Our visit to Manito Park with mom and Lacey



Our first experience eating out with Jaylee at the Spaghetti Factory




Cute pictures of Jaylee with Grandma, Grandpa and Lacey





Jaylee's first bath tub experience (she loved it until we took her out of the warm water then she screamed at us!)




Jaylee chilling in her swing

Meet Jaylee!

The long wait is finally over! Jaylee was born on May 6th at 3:03pm. She weighed 6 lbs and 14 oz and was 19 inches long. It was a crazy experience starting out with a regular doctor's checkup and ended up a natural child birth. When I went into the doctors I didn't feel like I was having regular strong contractions but apparently my body was because when the doctor checked I was dilated to an 8! So he told me to go straight to the hospital because there was a bed with my name on it. Ha ha so to the hospital we went. When we went to check in the front desk lady was like "can I help you" and I said "ya we were just sent over by Dr. Maughan", and she was like "I expected you to be in a wheelchair, who walks around dilated at an 8?" So we laughed and got settled into our room. Now don't get me wrong I was having cramps but I wasn't bent over in pain like I thought I should be. When I was hooked up to the monitor I kept asking Blake if I was having a contraction (sick I know!) So when the doctor came I was at a 9 and he broke my water which actually seemed to slow down my contractions so they started me on pitocin and man did that get things going! About 5 minutes after pitocin entered my body the contractions hit hard. They had discussed the possibility of getting an epidural but said it could slow me down and I would have to deal with the after effects, so we decided that we would wait to see how it went. But it turned out that I was only in pain for about an hour and a half which included 45 minutes of pushing and out she popped! We were way surprised to see lots of hair! They did end up having to cut me twice but I still consider myself lucky! Here are some of our pictures of our cute bundle of joy!


Here we are checking in and as you can see they were renovating!



Blake trying to study, he had a final the next day


Me dilated to a 9!



My doctor and the resident that helped deliver






You can NOT take my binky!





Don't worry we did tighten the car seat straps, we aren't horrible parents



Ya we made it home!