Ashley's blessing

We blessed Ashely on April 17. It was such a nice day! We had most of our family there. It was fun! Ashley did so good all day. She was just Super happy! Thanks everyone for traveling to be here with us and for all your help!

Us & Grandma & grandpa Turnbow

Grandma & grandpa Turnbow with Ashley

Us with Grandma & Grandpa Hess

Grandma & grandpa Hess with all the grandkids- Jayden, Jennilyn, Austin, Ashley

The Hesses- missing Tyler & Mckenzie & Curtis

They really hate taking pictures! But they were so good

My grandparents, me & Ashley

My grandma & grandpa Andrews with Ashley

Jayden & cousin Jacob- he just loves him

Cousin Brinley, She is 6 months older

Cousin Austin-He is 2 months older then Ashley

Time Flies!

It's amazing to me how slowly the time passes while you are pregnant and then all the sudden the baby is here and now a month old. It just goes by too fast! The past month has been just wonderful! The kids LOVE her to death and always have to know where she is and want to hold her all the time. She's been doing really great at sleeping at night.. Well all day actually, but this is my first that hasn't had her days and nights mixed up from the beginning. So far she will go anywhere for 2 to 4 hours at night and one week she went for 5.5 hours one night, then 6 and then 6.5. Not all right in a row, but she can sleep. It's great for me.

We've had lots of help. My mom was here for a week right after she was born and Chris' family was all here 2 weeks ago! The kids have been pretty spoiled (And so have I) They got out to the park every day and I got to sleep in plus get a nap. It was a good week. We are back to reality now and it's going ok. It's been raining and super cold so the kids are just dieing being stuck inside. A friend came and took them for a few hours one morning last week and that was so nice. :) I spent the time cleaning bathrooms and the kitchen, but doing that without the kids around was very nice.

As far as the other 2 go.. Jennilyn thinks she is done with naps. I don't know what it is about my kids and giving up naps too early, but oh well.. I'm trying to figure out a good thing, but I still just don't know what to do. If she takes a nap she won't go to bed until after 9. Without a nap she will go to bed at 7. But with the summer coming I wanted to push their bedtime back to 8 or 8:30 so that we could enjoy the summer evenings... taking walks or playing outside. So we are still up in the air with that. We started potty training her this week. So far it's not terrible. I'm just trying to teach her how to recognize when she needs to go. But she goes through all of her pants plus a few of Jayden's every day. lol. And she has like 10 pair of pants. Jayden is LOVING getting to help with the whole potty training. He told me today "mom, I'm so glad that Jennilyn is wearing underwear like me." lol He's a great big brother. He's been in this trowing fun little obnoxious fits lately. I honestly don't know what to do with him when he does that. And it's over things that he already knows, but all the sudden he freaks out about it. But he can officially ride his big boy bike all over the place. (It does have training wheels.. He's not that big yet) And he just LOVES it! He would ride back and forth in the driveway all day if I would let him. He's getting so big. I can't even believe that he'll be 4 in August! It's so crazy how fast they grow.

I'm so lucky to get to spend all day EVERY day with these crazy kids. I honestly don't know what I would do without them. They are my everything (And Chris, of course)

We are now a family of 5! Crazy!!

Kids helping!

Our Family

So I walked away from the computer and left my post up and apparently the kids posted it for me. I'm not yet done. lol!

So it was a much better labor then Jennilyn's and I was very glad that my doctor was there! She weighed 8 pounds 2 ounces and was 20 inches long! We named her Ashely and she is such a good baby! She was having some gaging issues in the hospital so they sent us home with a monitor that watches her breathing and her heart rate. Which is kinda nice, because I think I sleep better. And she is on the lights at home for Jaundice. Not so fun, but oh well.

Well we failed at bringing her home with us. It wasn't because of the low blood sugar tho. She didn't have any problems with that, but because of her gaging thing they kept her a day later. :( I guess she stopped breathing 3 times. 2 of the 3 they had to give her oxygen. So I guess it's ok that they kept her for that. But still, it was not fun! The one time she did it the pediatrician was there and it freaked him out. He said it took him like 2 minutes to get her breathing again. So he did a chest xray and ran all these tests. All of them came back PERFECT! So it will just take time for her to figure it all out I guess. But she hasn't done it at all since she has been home. So hopefully that will be done with. We are just so glad that she is here and doing good! She's even going 2-4 hours at night between feedings. It's very nice for me!

If you go to bellababyphotography.com and click on view photos and type in 0324ashleyhess for the password you can see some pictures they took at the hospital. They will only be up for 2 weeks! But I'll get my pictures and post soon!!

Jayden and Jennilyn are LOVING having Ashley around. They are going to be very helpful and protective of her I think! :) It will keep life fun!!

New Addition

I had a Dr appointment on Tuesday and first of all the nurse couldn't find the heartbeat. Freak me out!! She tried for a few minutes and found nothing but mine! So finally she says, "Don't panic.. I'll go get the nurse who is really good at this." So I tried not to panic and the nurse came in felt my tummy and put the thing on and BAM! There was the heartbeat! 151- Perfect!! WOW... So then the Dr said he thought her head was thrown back, looking up. And it's suppose to be down with her chin to her chest. So he did an ultrasound and her head is back, but also turned sideways. So she's looking at my hip. So he wanted to talk about it. He said that it didn't scare him, but he has other doctors helping him right now, cause he just let his partner go, and he needs to breath everyone other weekend. And of course he wasn't on call this weekend. And he could see this scaring some doctors and then they would just do a c-section. So if I wanted to he would induce me on Thursday. I of course was like yes, but I needed to talk to Chris first. But Jennilyn was the same way and my doctor was NOT the doctor on call. So after her turned her completely face up and after pushing forever he used the vacuum and then said want a c-section or call your doctor? I said call my doctor and he was on his way in already. Within 5 minutes of him walking in the room he had her out. So I didn't want to have that experience again. The doctor just didn't seem very confident, and I go to my doctor because he is and I TOTALLY trust him! So we decided to do it. They called me on Wednesday and said "We will get you in, but we have no clue when. So you just be ready. It could be any time from 7am to 7pm. WOW, that makes for a LONG day. I guess I was a little excited, or nervous or whatever, cause I slept terribly. I just kept checking the clock. I didn't wanna miss their call and what if I just didn't hear it. Well at 7:30 they called and we headed in. They got me all hooked up and started the pitocin at 9:10. At 9:45 I was dialated to a 4. At 11 I was ready for my epidural, but he there were 2 people in front of me. So finally at 12:30 I got the epidural, which was wonderful! My dr came and broke my water at 1:55 and I was a dialated to a 6. So I decided I was gonna take a nap. Chris left to take a walk and at 2:10 I started feeling TONS of pressure. I really thought I was gonna have the baby in the room by myself. I called Chris and he didn't answer and I couldn't find my call button for the nurse. Then Chris came back in and got the nurse and I was fully dialated and ready to go. They called my dr back and she was born at 2:21. She was face up, so he used the forceps to flip her, but then did not use them to get her out. He has had to pull the other 2 out. And she was bigger, so that's weird. But it was really quick.

Disney on Ice

A friend of mine was able to get tickets to Disney on Ice for us. So we all went together. It was so much fun and the kids absolutely LOVED it! Toy Story didn't come out until the very end and it had me worried that they wouldn't be there, but thankfully they were. That was who we were waiting for!

Me with my 2 kids

The opening act

Daisy Duck & Minnie

Cinderella & Prince Charming

Micky & Minnie dancing through the princesses

The Toy Story Gang

Micky & Minnie on the sleigh

Jesse, Woody, Buzz Lightyear & Army man waving to us

Friends- Austin, Emma, Jayden & Jennilyn

We got a van!

We finally did it. We got a minivan! :) I'm so excited! I absolutely LOVE it!! It's a 2010 Dodge Caravan, and we got a really good price on it. So we are very excited about that! They gave me the roses after we decided to buy it! It's so fun!! Now we're are just waiting for this little girl to come!!

Update- Only 3 weeks to go

Well we are down to only 3 weeks to go! I can't believe it's almost here. Some days I think I am so ready for her to be here and other days I think there is no way I can handle 3 kids. It's definitely going to be interesting at our house for a while! I've been measuring big the last half of the pregnancy, so maybe she'll come early, or just be very big. Who knows! Last week my doctor told me he is just waiting for me to have her. Any day really. I've had lots of contractions for the past 2 months, which I don't remember having with the last 2 kids, so that's been not so fun! I had an ultrasound last Friday and it was so fun to see the baby so late in the pregnancy. I've never seen them past the 20 week ultrasound. She is quite a mover. She was going crazy in the ultrasound, but everything is looking good. We even saw some hair floating around in there. Pretty amazing what they can do with technology these days!

So I haven't yet been able to bring my baby home from the hospital with me. They have low blood sugar when they are born and they have a hard time eating at first so they can't bring up their blood sugar. So they put them on an antibiotic and have to monitor them for 48 hours. But since they only put them on it the second day, I leave and they keep my baby.. It's hard. I really hate it. So I've been trying to fix it. Really all they can say is that it's the kids fault. There is nothing I can do to fix it. But one nurse mentioned how the sucking reflex is one of the last things that a baby develops, so since my kids come early, they have a harder time eating and can't fix the problem. (And that's also why they can't get rid of the jaundice either.) So I am hoping that she will stay for another week or 2, but we'll see!

I'm pretty excited about having Jennilyn so old when this baby gets here. Where Jayden was only 17 months when Jennilyn was born, it was really hard. But Jennilyn is so much older and I'm excited. It will be so totally different. Also, since the first of the year we have really worked on getting our kids to put themselves to sleep and sleeping through the night and I have to say, 2 and 1/2 months later, it is finally paying off. It's exciting to think that the whole house won't be up all night. The kids are doing wonderful. And it's much less stressful on me..

I got sick last week. Just a cold, & cough, but it is so annoying! I'm afraid it might not leave me until I have the baby, but I'm hoping. The kids got it too, so hopefully we can at least get them healthy before she comes. I don't really wanna bring my new baby home to a sick houseful.