1 Month Old

The time just flies by with a newborn! Hard to even believe that Mallorie is already a month old. At her 1 month check-up she half smiled at the doctor and is clearly interacting, which the dr. said was pretty early! She grew 2 inches since her 2 week checkup and over a pound in weight. She is now 21inches, 7lbs and 12oz. Due to a little baby reflux and gassy tummy, we got some meds from the doc to help us ALL sleep better!

2 Weeks

2 weeks old today! Doing great! Gained 7 ounces last week! Making her way into some newborn size clothing this week.

Mallorie Arrives!!!

Baby sister is coming soon!

Only 3 ½ days left until our new little one arrives. I can hardly believe that it is already here, but yet like most pregnant women… SO READY! Charlotte seems genuinely excited and I cannot wait for her to meet her baby sister! It is fun that she has been so interested and excited. She talks about her baby sister a lot- and just refers to “sisters” in general a lot right now. She was playing with two toy animals last week and I asked if they were friends. Her response was, “Yeah! They are sisters!” She also tells everyone... "Baby sister is coming soon!" Love it! I have a feeling the weekend ahead of us will feel long. I was notified yesterday, after having a planned c-section date for August 3rd for over 5 months now- that they want to move the date of the delivery. Talk about some major anxiety for me. Yes, I realize that most babies come on their own time-table, but when you have been planning for months around a specific day, it is a bit upsetting 4 days out to hear otherwise. Our choice came down to bump the c-section out or be surprised by the doctor who walks into the room. The biggest dilemma was that both Matt and Juju (my mom) have already taken time off work around Tuesday, August 3rd. Really bummed about this situation, but I have to trust that things will work out ok, and it is all for a good reason!

The Belly

38 weeks: 37 weeks:

Baby Sister TV Show

Charlotte joined me this morning for one last ultra sound, or as Charlotte calls it, "the baby sister tv show". She is looking great! She already weighs about the same that Charlotte did when she was born! We have 5 weeks from yesterday until her scheduled delivery date, so she should be a pretty normal sized baby! Amazing! We can't wait to meet her!

Double Baby Bumps

We are getting closer! Only 40 days left until baby sister gets here!

The Bump

Daddy Duty

Matt took this picture to document that YES, he can do a ponytail!

Daddy has been on duty a lot recently as I recover from all this mess. He is doing a good job! I think he has amazed himslef at how much he can do. He was a Daddy whirlwind last weekend (the weekend before Easter), doing dishes, cleaning up, taking care of Charlotte, mowing he lawn, working on home improvement projects... whew! BUSY!

We "bit the bullet" and agreed to put me back on Remicaid (regardless of the financial burden) last week. Then immediately, just as I was feeling better from the crohns and anklosing spondylitis, I got a terrible bug! Ya know... the one with the cough, congestion, fever, etc... Yuck. I am in bed today, but thats it- I am sick of being in bed, so tomorrow I better be feeling good- cause I got stuff to do!

SO much for Spring Break...

No, I am not referring to the crummy weather... I mean that is to be expected around here this time of year! It was exciting to have a Spring Break (like the good ol' days of being a student) and instead of enjoying it or getting to finish projects at the house, we spent half of it in the hospital. BUMMER. It didn't help that both of my doctors were out of town on Monday (one still in Disneyland until next Monday) and so I could get no help! It is funny how even a hospital like TG doesn't know how to take care of some one with chronic illnesses like mine. Pretty Ridiculous, but I won't bore you with the details. Lets just say I had a few fights before getting my orders fixed to include necessities such as IV FLUIDS!!! Anyway, poor Matt was so stressed out that he broke out in the worst case of hives I have EVER SEEN! If i had had my camera I would've taken a picture... he was just one big hive. SO now we are both on Prednisone (steriod) and recovering. We have had lots of help for Charlotte from family! She had a mini vacation in Vancouver with Grammy & Grampy Kohler and now we are lucky enough to have Grandma Kohler here visiting during her spring break from school! We feel very luck to have the family and church family that we have for love, care, and support! Thank you all!

Gonna be ok

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who prayed for us. We appreciated the messages, phone calls, and little notes to tell us "that is was gonna be ok"! We are doing well, and I will try to post some recent pics soon. We worked a ton on the house this past week. It is looking pretty good. We scraped the rest of the popcorn off the ceiling- then mudded- then painted! Whew!

It has been crazy at my work recently too! We started enrollment for next fall and within the first week 3 of our classes are overflowing! This is a good thing for the school... a bad (or stressful) thing for the admissions coordinator (AKA...ME!). But, I do love my job! Thank goodness for that! Our school has a 2year olds class, so I enrolled Charlotte for next year!!! WOW! I cannot believe that my baby is going to preschool next fall!!! We all say it all the time... but isn't just amazing how time flies???

Humira

Today will be my second time with my new Humira injections. Two weeks ago I got my first 4 doses and today I will get 2 more. I have to admit, that I was pretty proud of myself because I administered 3 out of the 4 initial shots! Pete, my previous infusion doc, helped me do it though... or actually made me do it! I hope I can do it today without the help... or at least the prompting to "just do it". It really was amazing to feel a difference within days of getting this medication. I still have a ways to go to get back to 100%, but at least I feel like I am on the right track! Thanks everyone for all of your thoughts and prayers!