3 month old and a 22 month old!

Our babies are just growing u! sometimes I still can not believe that we have two beautiful daughters! Joslyn is only 2 months away from turning 2!!!!!!!! That I still can not wrap my mind around. Katelyn just turned 3 months on Valentine's Day.
Joslyn is just the most loving big sister out there. Not once has she shown jealousy toward Katelyn. There may be times where she needs more lovin' but not jealous at all.

Having two babies sometimes has its rough moments..... but take one look at the miracles they are........I am still in awe.




Jacky

happy valentine's day!
well below are our valentine's day pictures! can't you just feel the love!?Hehe. (kit kat turns 3 month on Valentine's Day!!! How cool is that?! And Joslyn is 22 months old today!!!!!!!)

The girls are doing good. Joslyn loved the Super Bowl last weekend!! Well she loved the half time show!!!!! we put the video here


Katelyn's reflux has been acting up. She seemed to be handling it well while on her medicine, but now she has been inhaling the liquid, instead of spitting it out. She has had a few not breathing episodes following the inhaling. All very similar to what Joslyn did, and there is nothing we can do....except pay close attention. She has no problem when she spews across the room... but when it has no force behind it is when she inhales it back down. Poor baby. Just hard to watch her go through that. But for the most part she has no pain, thanks to the medicine.

We hope everyone has a special valentine's day!!!!! We already got Mackinac Island fudge and flowers from daddy!!!!!! He is the best!!!!!!!

Jacky

Merry Christmas!

What a wonderful Christmas this will be! We not only have one miracle this year... but TWO! There are 4 stockings hung this year... well 5 including our fur baby, Mackinac! What a sight to see so many stockings in our home!
Katelyn turned 5 weeks old today and Joslyn just turned 20 months! We are a busy family now..... but it is just so amazing!

Merry Christmas everyone! Enjoy your blessings and be with the ones you love!

Jacky

reflux again?!

Yes that is right! It seems as though Katelyn has been hit with the reflux ball! However, her reflux is not like the kind Joslyn had. Katelyn is a spitter, not silent reflux at ALL! At first she would just spit up after and before feedings, with no sings of pain. But now that is changing. She will spit up A LOT or not so much. Sometimes it will even come out of her nose at the same time. Her doctor said that if it comes out of her nose, then that means it is a forceful reflux. GREAT HUH?! Just what we need, another poor little love with reflux.
Katelyn will turn beat red, stick her teeny tongue out, shake her precious little head side to side, wiggle her body, and cry..... then you know something is coming up. She will do this every day, for most of her feedings.
We are trying to give her a breast milk bottle during her worst reflux episodes. We do not know how that is working yet as we just started it... but it worked really well with Joslyn.
It would be nice if Katelyn was what they call a "happy spitter", but she is showing signs of pain and discomfort. It is so heart breaking to watch her suffer. She is not even 1 month old yet and she is feeling pain.
I do not think that she spits all of the liquid out. I think she swallows some. But she is not showing ANY sign of breathing problems (which means no apnea) so we are counting our blessings with that. If we had another baby with breath apnea I think my heart would sink!

Jacky

SHE IS HERE!!

Katelyn Isabel was born on November 14, 2009 at 9:27 pm. She weighed in at 6 lbs 14 ounces and was 19 inches long. She is a teeny one! Here is our story!
At 11:30 am, following lunch, I had a decent contraction and I felt a "trickle". I looked at my Stephen and said "oh oh" and then responded with "oh oh?!" I then went to the bathroom to find my panties were a little wet. Not knowing what it felt to have myw ater break... I decided to wait to see if it happened again. Within 10 mins it happened 3 more times. So I called my doctor's office. They told me to head to Labor and delivery to get checked seeing that I was 40 weeks and 2 days and only 2 days away from my scheduled induction.

We dropped Joslyn off at my inlaws and off we were. By the time we got to the hosp I was having contractions and my pants were WET. We got in to the triage at 1 pm and within 5 mins I was having hard core contractions every 2 mins! YIKES! So I was tested and my water had broken, well really sprung a leak! So I was admitted. At about 2 pm I was given my epidural because they thought I was progressing rather rapidly. Then all contractions stopped for 2 HOURS! Pitocin was given and within one hour they picked up again.

Katelyn's heart rate was all over the place. For about 45 mins hr heart rate was in the dangerously high zone (due to juice I was given at then hospital! hehe) then it was in the dangerously low zone. I was given oxygen and it began to return to normal.
At 6 pm I was dilated to 3 cm so we had to wait some more. By 8 pm I was having major pain and the epidural man was called back into my room. He added more medicine and no sooner as he had one foot out of my room I looked at the nurse and said "I have to go to the bathroom." MAGIC WORDS! She checked me and I was 8 cm! 10 mins later I was fully dilated and ready to go! (As with Joslyn it only took 2 hours to go from 3-10cm.) We decided to wait on pushing for 2 reasons... Stephen's mom and sister in law were not there yet and Katelyn was still really high up. The family arrived at about 8:45 pm (really ran into the room!) I said "we have been waiting." hehe.
By 9:15 I told the nurse I had enough and I was ready to go. She told me to do a practice push and when I did she almost freaked out and said "ummm okay! stop." She ran for the doctor and 3 pushes later (less than 5 minutes) Katelyn Isabel was born! She came out so fast that her head had no cone and she looked like a C-Section baby!




We are all doing so well and adjusting to being a family of 4! Katelyn is the best nurser I think I have ever seen and Joslyn just loves her new baby sissy!



Welcome to the world Katelyn Isabel!
Jacky

we have made it to full term!

Well last week i turned 37 weeks! For one I am shocked! I have been having pre term contractions since 31 weeks.... but nothing to be put on bed rest for. I just had to take it pretty easy for a while. But Katelyn hung in there! This pregnancy has been very difficult, from severe morning sickness, contractions, pressure, being super tired and chasing a one year old! But we have made it to full term! How wonderful is that?! Two weeks ago I began to dilate to 1 cm and I was the same last week. We go back again tomorrow, so I am curious to see if there has been any change.

Joslyn is doing amazing! She has so many words now! Doggie, more, bye bye, Mac.. just to name a few of the new ones. She is 18 1/2 months now! Pretty soon she will be a big sister! That is something I can not get over! My baby will be a big sissy?! MAN OH MAN!

We went to a pumpkin patch the other weekend and Joslyn loved it! She is such a fan of pumpkins!

She would have stayed all day long if we let her! Pointing and screeching at all the pumpkins. I think she was the only kid who was that excited! But it was so much fun.

For Halloween she is going to be Little Red Riding Hood and Mac will be the wolf. hehe. Now if only we can get her used to the "red hood" part of her costume!

Maybe the next post will be the announcement of Katelyn Isabel! You never know!!!!

Jacky

week 29!!!!!

Not too much has happened in the past week... JUST KIDDING! A ton of
stuff happens when we have a Joslyn running around!
She has learned how to "say" no no no, with her fingers. Looks like I
shake my finger at her when I tell her "no no no." hehe. She thinks it
is funny now when I say it, because she copies me! Goof ball! (that is
the picture below.)




She has also learned where her arms are! Also she knows how to turn on
the tv for us! She loves to turn it on and off... but we were teaching
her not to touch it, as she would turn it on and off ALL day long if
she were allowed to. So now, all we ask is "Joslyn can you turn the TV
on?" and she gets all excited, runs to the tv and pushes the button!
Then she runs back to the couch to look at what she did!

Oh and her video monitor broke this week! ohh I was so mad! We use
that video monitor every day, for every nap and all night long too. So
to be without it for one nap was a nightmare for me! So after her nap
was over, we picked Daddy up from work and went to buy another one.
We are not too happy with it, so we are going to exchange it for
another one tomorrow. But we had to get something to get us by! The
one we are getting, will work with 2 cameras. So when Katelyn is born
we will be able to see both of our babies on the video monitor. (if
all works correctly!)

Joslyn also cut her lower, right molar! No wonder she has been less than cheery lately! The other lower left one is trying to make an appearance too!

I am 29 weeks pregnant! All is going well. I passed my glucose test with flying colors, so that was nice! Katelyn is now head down and ready to come out in 11 weeks! 11 weeks!!!!! Oh man! hehe. Her heart beat is still in the 150's to 160's.. strong little thumper! Just the way we like it!

Jacky