Birthday Day

Well... the day has come and gone that I have to say goodbye to the love of my life and watch him walk out (the hospital room) door... not knowing when I would be able to see him again. :/ It was hard to say the least. Harder now because of everything we have gone through this weekend with this baby. Nat made it safe and sound to CO. and by the sound of his voice, I can tell that he is enjoying himself. I know that he'll have so much fun. He is just really missing us.

I am home now from the hospital. Home and on bed rest. Have you ever had to tell everyone what to do for you every second of the day... and tell them how to take care of your children?!? It really sucks! I don't want for people to have to wait on me hand and foot. I don't want people to have to take care of my children. I can tell this is gonna be hard to get used to. But.. gotta do what we gotta do to keep him in there as long as possible.

Anyways.. last Tuesday was Madelynn's birthday and we surprised her by going up to MDO and bringing her some cup cakes. She was very surprised and enjoyed us being there so much.

We walked in and she was shocked.

finishing up lunch

cupcake time. Yes... I am in a cake decorating class and I did what I said I would never do!!! I went out and BOUGHT cupcakes, and I didn't make them. Horrible mother award. Tuesdays are the busiest day of my life.. and there was no way in heaven I was gonna fit in making cupcakes while trying to get everything ready for our trip the next day, and my cake class that night. I know, excuses, excuses.

she enjoyed us being there and wanted to show us her room. Don't mind the ginormity on the right side of the picture.

Placenta previa

Well... its happened again... and turns out third times a charm. I started bleeding again this morning.... except this time it was extremely heavy... and enough concern for them to search out a problem and they found one. Turns out I have a low lying placenta that is partially covering the cervix (placenta previa). So here I am in the hospital, on bed rest. Not quiet sure why God is choosing to throw this at us right now with Nat getting on a plane tomorrow to leave for a week.. and then move to NM. Our girls lives have been turned upside down with this move, and we JUST got back from our vacation yesterday evening so our girls our even more thrown off by being away from "home" and their beds for the past 3 days. Pray for us. We have A LOT going on in our life right now and this was the last thing we ever expected or needed!! All will be fine, I will just have to be on bed rest basically until he gets here as far as I know... and no one knows when that will be. Fingers crossed he'll stay in there until the d date so that Nat will be able to be here... but if we have another episode like this, he'll more than likely have to be delivered. They are giving me steroid shots to help develop his lungs so that if I do end up delivering early his lungs will be developed. We'll know more tomorrow when we talk to the Dr. but hopefully I will be able to go home tomorrow. So far I have done great at this point with the bleeding so that is good news.

I have so much to blog about.. and will have plenty of time so I will hopefully have an exciting post next time for you. We did have a great time on our vacation. Other than the fact that we definitely have a 2 year old on our hands. :) Its only been what... 4 days that she has been 2?? and we definitely are knowing all about it! They weren't kiddin when they said terrible 2's. Whew.. that girl is wearing me out!

Anyways... please keep our family in your prayers.. I can already tell that I am going to be a basket case tomorrow when Nat leaves. I already was but with all this happening now, I think that it is going to be even harder. We have never been apart other than overnight so this will definitely be something new to us.

Birthday Party

We had a birthday party for my 3 children (no, I didn't give birth, figure that one out??) Nat called it "The 1,2,3 party" Payton's first, Madelynn's second, and his 23rd. It was wonderful day. Hot and wonderful. Like I had said before, we wanted to go ahead and celebrate the girls birthdays before Nat left.

My baby is almost 2!!!!!!! Tomorrow is her real birthday... and if you missed it last year when I blogged about her birth story, and are a sucker like me of hearing birth stories, here is the story the day before she came.... and since I have a lot on the agenda tomorrow and probably won't have time to sit and blog... this is the day the little blonde headed joy came into our lives.

This is the best I could get of the 2. I have come to find out that you take what you can get when trying to get "good" pictures of your children.

This was Paytons reaction to us setting her little cake in front of her...

she devoured it! I turned around for 2 seconds to cut Nat and Madelynn a piece and by the time I got back over to watch Payton eat her cake it was practically gone. She pretty much ate all that she could and only a few crumbs were left on the plate. It was awesome!

My birthday babies.

Madelynn didn't really even care about the cake. I had some dessert mints out on the tables and she pretty much devoured those. She specifically told me she did not want cake... she wanted mints.

Payton even got in on the opening presents. She was so lively and animated... especially compared to Madelynn last year at her first birthday. She still has another month to go till she is actually 1. I definitely think having an older sibling makes a world of difference from the 1st kid to the second.

Madelynn had a lot of fun seeing all her new goodies. She was so confused as to why we were taking everything from her right after she opened it. How do you explain to a 2 year old that we gotta hurry the process along?!? She did good tho. No horrible 2 year old melt downs.

Stetson got his first pair of work boots. :) Nat is so excited to be having a boy!

They both conked out as soon as we got in the car

I retardedly scheduled the party right smack dab in the middle of nap time... and surprisingly they both did awesome! I know that the sugar from all the cake kept Payton going... not sure what kept Madelynn going tho.

and this... is a priceless video! Madelynn is still really into Toy Story and here nana and papa got her this card. It was one of those music cards and when you opened it, it sang a song on Toy Story... and her reaction was so adorable!! Luckily she kept doing it each time she opened the card so we were able to get it on video. So sweet.

We got all moved in to my parents house yesterday.. and our storage room is packed! So we'll be livin on the bare essentials for a couple months. Do you know how complicated it is to figure out out what to, and what not to bring here for the girls, much less a new born baby. We decided to move me and the girls into my parents house instead of Mertzon that way I can have lots of help these last few months of pregnancy... and lots of help once the baby comes. It will also make being without Nat a little more bearable. Not to mention Madelynn is in hog heaven getting to be with Na Na and Kay Kay. She is a bit thrown off and has had a lot of accidents the past 2 days. Its been hard on her in that area of life. I am hoping things turn around pretty soon.

Class #2

I had my second cake class last night... I don't feel like I did as well on this cake as I did on the first one I made and I figured out why. Time. There is just not enough time in the class to get it just the way I want it so I kinda just had to settle with it not being my best. The instructor said that this was her first class to teach where you had to ice the cake in class rather than at home... I personally would rather ice it at home and decorate it there.. but I don't have a say so in the matter. Anyways.... Enough being rough on myself.

as you can tell... I had a lot of trouble getting the icing smooth and even.

We have been soooooo enjoying time with Nat. His last day at work was Friday and we have had him with us ever since then. We have never spent so much time together. It has been such a blessing for me. (not gonna cry) Its hard to think that he is going to leave us for a few months. Its especially going to be hard when we will have been with him for 2 weeks straight!!! But I am looking forward to the days to come.

We are slowly but surely packing up our house, and taking stuff to our storage room. Our house is pretty empty and I don't feel like we have a whole whole lot to do in order to be outta here... guess we'll see this weekend when it comes times to move out!! This weekend we have the birthday party, and we are moving... pretty sure we did birthday party and moving the same exact weekend last year. Crazy how life plays out sometimes!!

typical them.

Ice cold milk....

I really, really, REALLY like Oreo cookies with this pregnancy. I like them a lot anyways... but right now they are like heaven to me. So In order for me to eat one when I want to, I gotta share. Now lemme tell you about Payton. She will attack you (or rather attack Madelynn) for food. A lot of the times Madelynn will get her snack in a bowl at her little table... and alot of the times it ends up all over the floor and Payton has a hay day with it. She is quite an aggressive little girl as it is. She'll have Madelynn pinned down on the ground in no time at all. So needless to say, she got the cookie from Madelynn and enjoyed the heck outta it!

P.S... we may or may not have had oreo's in our Pj's soon after we woke up.

P.S.S... I am a horrible mother.

Pride issues.

So.... something that I have always wanted to do since forever was take a cake decorating class. My mom decorated cakes my whole life and I was always really interested in doing it myself. I have been hesitant to blog about this simply for pride reasons. Not knowing how I would be at it.. and not wanting people to think my stuff is horrible. I decided to let my pride down and go ahead and document my cake decorating class venture in life.

We had our first class on Tues. and just learned the basic stuff. Not even anything that I attempted today. So knowing absolutely nothing about what I'm doing. I decided to give it a whirl. Nats birthday is on Sunday so why not??

I'll definitely need to work on writing. It is a lot harder than it looks. Lot harder than I thought it would be. I am sure that we'll learn more about writing in the weeks to come.

It turned out alright I guess. I am a major perfectionist so the fact that everything isn't straight and perfect irritates me. I did learn a lot of what not to do this time around but I guess thats what practice is for!!

Whats that???

I have a feeling to some extent, this is normal for her age... but my Madelynn, oh my sweet Madelynn. She asks " wu shat" (whats that) 1,000 times a day!!!!! Literally. I exaggerate none when I say that. Every single thing in every single room, she points her little double jointed finger and goes at it.

"wu shat" thats your nose.

"wu shat" thats the wall,

"wu shat" thats a chair

"wu shat" thats your daddy.

and it goes on and on and on and on! and God forbid we go out in public. She is overwhelmed by the newness and it gets even worse. I took her into the Dr. a couple weeks ago, (our first big outing in big girl panties), and she was a crazy lady. Everyone was laughing at her and got such a kick out of her questions. They asked me if this was normal for her to ask so many questions... I just laughed and said.. "oh you have no idea!!!!!!!"

What do you do?? I don't wanna get mad at her about it but goodness gracious, when your not having a great day and your mood is not the greatest, THAT can get very old, and very frustrating. I do my best to take her mind off of it. But does she really need to know who her daddy is??!? I mean, come on, he has been around for 2 years now, its not like he's a new fellow hanging around! Most days, we just laugh about it and flatter her... and there are times we just ignore her when she is being just plain silly!! Just one of those things I want to remember about her.

Madelynn is most definitely hitting the age "2" I always said "terrible 2's" was a joke... blah, blah, blah. ITS NOT A JOKE!!!!! It really IS terrible!! She is pushing buttons, she is testing patience, she is being a 2 year old. Were learning, and working through these difficulties of growing up. I told my dad the other day, the "spoon" is like a magic wand... you get that thing out and direct her in the right way and its like magic!! Not that we go around beating our daughter by any means. We just truly believe in spanking when the time is right!

Potty training, I LOVE to tell you is a done deal!! I am sooooooooooooooooo thankful that I didn't give up when I was just ready to throw in the towel. For the most part, she will just tell you when she's gotta go and your good. She does still have accidents here and there, but only when she is waaaay to distracted to stop what she is doing and potty... and that is to be expected as far as I am concerned. She has got down the "sensation" and knows when its time to go. Going out in public is been quite successful... and bed/nap time is fantastic!! She holds it all night long and at times comes bursting out of her room (did I mention she figured out how to open doors?!?!) yelling POTTY!!! and sometimes she will wake up just fine and dandy and not have to go for a couple hours.