Isabella's {BIRTH}day

Wow did 9 months fly by so fast! Here's how Isabella's BIRTHday went. At five in the morning, I woke up feeling like I had just peed the bed! But the spot in our bed wasn't that big, about the size of my hand. I woke up Caleb and told him I thought my water had broke. Both of us were puzzled, so I called my mom. She said to call the hospital. I scrambled to find their number. They said to come in and I would get checked out. After telling Caleb what the nurse said, we decided to shower and eat because you never know how long your day at the hospital will be. 

At the hospital, we were taken to a room to get tested to see if my water broke. It came back negative. I was bummed! Then the nurse asked, "Well I can probably pull a few strings around here, do you want to have her today?" AHH!! I didn't hesitate, YES! I blurted back at her. She said to wait a few minutes and she'd call the doctor to see if we could stay. Very shortly, she came back with a sly grin on her face. It's your lucky day, she told us. Your going to have your baby! We were ecstatic!

We left the first floor and headed up to the delivery room. By now we had called both our moms (Carol was in Salt Lake at Linzy's house) and they were both on their way. We got settled into our cute little room, I was hooked up to some IVs and monitors. And the wait began. It was only 9am and after a nurse did a little check, I was still only 2cm dilated, but 90% effaced. I was started on some pitocin to help thing get moving along.

Hooked up in the delivery room

Our doctor came close to 11am to pop my water. After he did, I now know that it didn't pop earlier that morning! No contractions had started, so Caleb and I broke out the cards. Contractions slowly began to start. We (and by we, I mean Caleb) watched some bowl games and sort of relaxed for a while. By 2pm, I had had enough and wasn't going to tough it out any more, bring in the anesthesiologist! All I felt was a cute little pinch and on came the relief. With in a few minutes, I couldn't feel my legs, or contractions!, any more. 

Carol, Linzy, and Londyn arrived shortly after that from Lehi, and then my mom showed up all the way from Idaho. Now that baby could make her grand entrance, everyone was there. At 5pm, I was 5cm dilated and the nurse informed me I'd progress a cm an hour. Another 5 HOURS, I thought. I was exhausted. I decided to take a little snooze. A nurse came to check on me at 8pm to see how things were moving along. Linzy and Carol jokingly said "Think 10cm!" and what would you know I was fully dilated to 10cm!! I was a little groggy from my nap, but this baby was ready to be here (still unnamed by the way). 

10cm, here comes a baby!

After a little practice push the nurse told me to stop, she needed to get the doctor. He was out to dinner and arrived in 15 minutes. He suited up and at 8:24pm our sweet Isabella Grace was born. The doctor said is was an almost textbook perfect delivery. We couldn't ask for anything more.

First time to hold her

Getting cleaned up

Skin-to-skin

He's a daddy!

Stats

We are so excited to raise our sweet girl and what a blessing it is to be parents!

Flag Football

As the semester is winding down, Caleb could pass up an opportunity to play football one more time. Since it was flag football I wasn't as nervous as I am in real football games... Well, I should have been.

Just as the game is winding down, one more play can be squeezed in to see if their team can score one more touchdown to make the blow out an even better one. The ball was thrown to Caleb and some airhead has to come full speed to try and get his flag. They end up colliding shoulder to face! And no, Caleb's shoulder wasn't in the equation. After having a little freak out, I gathered my things so we could get those three front teeth fixed. After calling both our mother's to see where we should go or what to do, we called our landlord who is a dentist. He very kindly left his kids' recital (they hadn't started yet thank heavens) to come help us out. He met us at our house to see what needed to be done. He said that the teeth had been knocked out of their sockets. (Who knew teeth had sockets? Not me!) He tried to pull them back into place at our house, but it was to painful, so over to the office we went. 

At our landlord's office before getting his front teeth pulled back into place.

After an x-ray, a shot, and a little yank, Caleb's teeth were back in their normal place.

Later that night as we were talking, we both we afraid that Caleb would have no teeth when the baby was born. He said we would have to move to Louisiana so we didn't look out of place when a dad has no front teeth in a family picture. Anyway, our landlord said they'd be fine, maybe a root canal in the future, but hey, at least my husband has teeth for now!

Baby Shower #2, 39 Weeks

My wonderful friends of St. George threw another shower for me! 

Eating came first, popcorn because I was about ready to pop, and then the games! Seeing who could stuff the most balloons in their shirt to look like me was definitely my favorite one. So thankful for the ladies and for the great time we had. 

There's light at the end of the tunnel, 38 weeks

Well I'm really pregnant now and am ready to have this baby! We were able to take some pictures thanks to Alyssa Ence!I just love how they turned out. It's so surreal that this baby will be here so soon. We went to the city park to take these pictures. 

Although I love this picture, getting up off the ground after wasn't so easy!

Can't wait to see him with our baby girl!

Baby Shower!

Linzy threw a awesome baby shower for me while we were up there during Thanksgiving. Taya, Jen, Jesika and her girls, Grandma Liz, Teri and my mom were all able to make it since everyone was up for turkey day and Carol was there via skype. We started by having some really yummy chicken salad sandwiches with fruit and dip.

We played games like guess the baby food and remember what's in the diaper bag. Next was presents! There were so many cute little clothes. They were so tiny it's crazy to think our little girl will fit in them. One of my favorite gifts was the crib bedding from Carol.

Can't believe we are going to be parents! Especially with a dad-to-be face like that!

So glad my mom could make it! Love her so much!

Thanksgiving 2011

This year we were able to see pretty much everyone in one trip! That doesn't happen very often. We left St. George Friday after classes to go to Lehi to begin our holiday. We stayed we Linzy and her family for the first few days mostly playing with Londyn and Jackson and just hanging out.
Then we headed to Pocatello to stay with Aaron for a few nights. While we were there little Kord man had his first birthday. At the party we were able to see my mom and little brothers, Dad and Ronda, and Grandma and Grandpa Perry. Barrett followed Caleb around like a shadow the whole time. He wouldn't even let him go to the store without going with him. We even babysat (while all the kids were asleep) so Lynzi could go watch Aaron play basketball.
Thanksgiving eve we headed back to Salt Lake. We stopped at Taya's to see the whole family. We ate dinner, kids first then adults, then all the kids stole Caleb to play basketball and football. We spent that night back at Linzy's but then went straight back to Taya's for Thanksgiving day. This time there were three different tables set up so we didn't have to eat in rounds. The rest of the day was spent watching the football game and playing games like what if and mexican race horse. My horse's name was ahted. Caleb had once again little shadows following him around the whole time. All those kids just love him to death.
We came back Saturday to give us time to unwind from our crazy families! The next time we see everyone we will have a little baby!

Caleb's Senior Day

Although the football season hasn't been going that great, we still love our boy!

I have loved watching Caleb play, but I am also glad that it's over too. Definitely a bittersweet day for my sweetheart!