Well- yes she's here, but let's back track a bit...
Tuesday I had another appointment. When my doctor was checking me she said I had made some really good progress (perhaps because that Sunday and Monday I walked Spring Lake a 3+ mile walk with some hills) My cervix was efacing (?) I was dilated to 4cm and even more thinned out. However since we had been saying all month how she was going to come and she hadn't we made an appointment for me to get induced Saturday evening, my 41 week mark (this evening) and that was that. Off again to Spring Lake both Wednesday and Thursday- yes thanksgiving morning. That afternoon we went over to my parents for the holiday dinner, had a nice time came home and asleep around 11-1130. Well come 230 am I was woken up by a contraction but this one was different from the others and I knew it was happening however my next 2 or 3 were still 20-30 minutes apart. I figured we would be able to wake up normal time with Naomi, around 8, and then head to the hospital. About an hour in I had one that was a little more intense and I guess I was shaking the bed because it woke Keith up and when he heard how I was breathing he knew what was up. It was getting to the point that with the adrenaline I was so cold I was shivering and teeth rattling uncontrollably for a few minutes after a big contraction. I ended up jumping in the shower around 430ish because I didn't want greasy hair at the hospital which speed up my contractions. I was throwing up and other lovely details I'll spare you. At 5 I started calling my parents so they could stay here until Naomi woke up then take her to their place. Well apparently while Naomi was over there a few hours earlier she was playing with their corded land line in their bedroom so they unplugged it... dun dun DUUUUN! So for about 40 minutes I called their house until it went to message hung up and dialed again. We called other family but they didn't answer either, I called a girlfriend of mine who did answer but wasn't home or with her car. During this I had a contraction that I could have pushed and she was coming out. To say I was terrified would be an understatement. I nearly started to cry. Keith was about to wake Naomi up throw her in the car with us drive 20 minutes to my parents drop her off then back to the hospital. Oh and did I mention we were on empty?? I really didn't want to do that. For one I hate waking kids and two I didn't want her to see me in so much pain. I called my parents again, it was nearly 6 now, and eureka my dad answered! I had to throw the phone at Keith because I was having another contraction thankfully not one where she was coming out but intense all the same. We ended up leaving before my parents got there, hated to leave Naomi alone with the door unlocked but we HAD to get going. Got to the hospital around 6 and while still in the car I had another baby is coming contraction and it was all I could do to "hold her in" and I was loosing. Waddled in to the ER check in and had another baby coming contraction to which I loudly told the receptionist. With in 60 seconds I had a nurse with a wheel chair booking me up to labor and delivery me telling her I want an epidural and her asking me questions like if this was my first and so on. I was immediately brought to a delivery room, asked more questions took forever for me to get from the wheel chair to my bed but in that quick leap I also managed to change in to the gown in one swoop! I had great staff. My doctor was also called. I was completely ready and baby was there. 10cm, efaced everything. So guess what they said about my epidural? Yup, too late... However I didn't have any back labor. The resident doctor (?) had a glove on and would not leave my side for fear she was just going to fall out. Other nurse was amazing I could barely move from pain so she most literally moved me and did what needed to be done, I couldn't pull my legs up so she did, she was a tough cookie, I kept saying I need an epidural even though I knew I couldn't have one and she was so sweet and said if it makes you feel better keep saying that, and you know what it did make me feel better. My doctor showed up and since the "action area" was being handled she was my cheerleader, totally love her. The doctors were blown away with the size of her head and after a few tough minutes she was finally out. At 6:38am less than 40 minutes after arriving she was here, no way would we had made it if we had to drive to Windsor get gas and back to Santa Rosa...When they told me she was 9 pounds 5 ounces I nearly fainted, no really, and had to ask again... I still can not believe I got her out with out an epidural and lived to tell the tale! They didn't need to cut me and I didn't tare that horribly. When I finally got her she started nursing perfectly. So from first contraction to wonderfully huge Paige Haley Gevas was 4 hours.
My mom and Naomi showed up a few hours later. Naomi was only so interested the first time but the second time she was all in to her saying "take this out" when she was in the crib calling her "mine" desperately wanting to show her the painting she did and wanting to hold her so well see. I'll get some pictures but I know a lot of people wanted to hear about it and yes I didn't get induced I would be heading to the hospital in about an hour and a half.
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
very short sadly
We are also in the boat of not knowing what her name is again. Keith has backed out of Kalyn. I think that Keira might be back on the table but still nothing for certain. We will probably have to just wait and see what she looks like... sigh. Not my style but Keith's just not bonding with any name.
Well until either next weeks appointment or she finally comes...
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
#2 update
ok so short and sweet: over the past like 3 weeks I haven't put on any weight which I guess means baby is gaining and I'm loosing? at the same amount? I don't know. 2 appointments ago I was a tight 2 cm.and baby was very low. Last weeks appointment I was about 60% thinned out (and by that I mean my cervix) and was an easy 2.5 cm. Baby still very low and we started the membrane taring/ stripping. Today- still pregnant- I was a very easy 3cm, thinned out to a strong 70% and she only got up about one and a half finger joints before she felt baby's head! I have been having my intermediate contractions and while they have stayed random and inconsistent they have been getting stronger. They are more often in the evening/ night time sometimes waking and keeping me up. joyful. I did walk Spring Lake which is a little over 3 miles with hills yesterday pushing Naomi, which I haven't done since at least just before she was potty training so like 3+ months! I did ok considering. Naomi was perfect then later that day we played at the beach. Hoping that, along with the taring, will get this little girl out. At night I have been feeling either her knee or foot and its so small and so sweet I just can't wait. However it's also starting to get cold and also very hard to put socks on... hmmm hopefully she comes this week!
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Getting there
I feel "getting there" is very suiting for this time in our life. I'm getting there with this pregnancy- both in preparing and popping, were getting there with siding, were getting to the holidays and to our 1 year mark with this house.
So I guess start off with the pregnancy, I'm 36 and a half weeks. Had an appointment on Monday and I know its not abnormal or that my doctor had never seen it before, rather felt it, but when she checked me she was honestly a little surprised at how low babies head is. I was 1.5 cm and next week we will start membrane taring. I have been having intermediate strength random contractions some lasting a few seconds some what feels like a couple minutes but probably only one. Ok the gross part, I think I have lost or am loosing my plug. All this along with the taring next week and that this is my second baby the thoughts of her coming around 38 weeks are looking promising, that means only 2 weeks left. I am glad to know that, didn't know how dilated I was until that appointment and now I know how long I have to get things in line. Between Keith's car getting moved to a friends shop, and therefore out of the garage, the rain and this new information, we finally got to clean up the crappy dresser I got for #2 earlier in the summer for $25 off of, yes Craigslist. It was one of those cheap wood and plywood made, tall 4 drawer dressers with the crappy kind of laminate-ish type top. I was just going to throw it up in the room since it will just be going in the closet but Keith insisted that I sand and paint it white. I didn't think it would look very good so I didn't take a before shot but it actually turned out really well and I saw some light blue spray paint we had and made Keith paint the drawers. All in all the dresser has 4 coats of white and the drawers have 2 plus the one coat of spray. I put it all together this morning and it looks great, I mean as good as the crappy dresser could look. Only problem is now I want to paint Naomi's dresser except reverse, blue dresser with the white drawers. Haha I think that one will have to wait... anyways here is the finished dresser:
So I guess start off with the pregnancy, I'm 36 and a half weeks. Had an appointment on Monday and I know its not abnormal or that my doctor had never seen it before, rather felt it, but when she checked me she was honestly a little surprised at how low babies head is. I was 1.5 cm and next week we will start membrane taring. I have been having intermediate strength random contractions some lasting a few seconds some what feels like a couple minutes but probably only one. Ok the gross part, I think I have lost or am loosing my plug. All this along with the taring next week and that this is my second baby the thoughts of her coming around 38 weeks are looking promising, that means only 2 weeks left. I am glad to know that, didn't know how dilated I was until that appointment and now I know how long I have to get things in line. Between Keith's car getting moved to a friends shop, and therefore out of the garage, the rain and this new information, we finally got to clean up the crappy dresser I got for #2 earlier in the summer for $25 off of, yes Craigslist. It was one of those cheap wood and plywood made, tall 4 drawer dressers with the crappy kind of laminate-ish type top. I was just going to throw it up in the room since it will just be going in the closet but Keith insisted that I sand and paint it white. I didn't think it would look very good so I didn't take a before shot but it actually turned out really well and I saw some light blue spray paint we had and made Keith paint the drawers. All in all the dresser has 4 coats of white and the drawers have 2 plus the one coat of spray. I put it all together this morning and it looks great, I mean as good as the crappy dresser could look. Only problem is now I want to paint Naomi's dresser except reverse, blue dresser with the white drawers. Haha I think that one will have to wait... anyways here is the finished dresser:
The siding has been going, slowly but surely. We have also been hung up because the first rains have been coming and its too dark to work by 630... Although I guess we are going to have 4-5 days of no rain, including the weekend, so we are hopeful to find some helpers and get a going on the rest of the front. We did find some pretty awesome rot under the two windows, like so much so that you could punch, not even at full strength, and get through the T 1-11. Keith's plan is to now build a long flowerbed in to the frame under the 2 windows. Add a little class and pizzazz I have some reserves, like watering but he insists it will all work out. Anyways here are a few more recent pictures.
The entry way is totally done (for the exception of literally 2 pieces) Looks great though!
So the flower bed will span the 2 windows.
Rot. Awesome.
With Halloween coming I think I should take advantage of all the "Caution" tape out there and perhaps leave it up? What do you think?
Also today I got really excited about Christmas. I was in Costco and Naomi saw a play house thing, actually it was just a kitchen but she called it a house and started exclaiming "Mommy! Mommy house! Get house down! Mommy house peeeeease!!!! Mommy, mommy, mommy get house down peeeease! Mommy house!" I told her maybe Santa will get her one for Christmas. EEEEEEK!!! I can't wait!
However Halloween comes first and this Sunday we are hosting a pumpkin carving and pot luck dinner at our place with the Cali Gevas clans. Naomi loved carving so much last year so we plan on clearing out our front room, covering it with newspaper and going to town. I'm really excited for it and hope that over the next few years we can continue this and even have a little party on Halloween and be a meeting place for those living in apartments or not so trick or treat friendly neighborhoods and to just hang out since little kids don't usually go out for very long.
Anyways. I'm sure I will post again next week after more siding get done (hopefully), my appointment and hopeful progress and Halloween.
Saturday, October 6, 2012
lots of little stuff
Oh man, so like the title says there are lots of little stuff to blog about! Take a look!
Yes I did post this on Facebook but I still love it. It's not every time she'll let me do it and I don't try every day but sometimes she doesn't mind and it's adorable! She looks so grown up with it.
She has also been maturing SO much! She talks in decent sentences like here she's saying "Dios good cat, I like him too!" and she'll take toys or just random things and say they are friends or best friends and then they hug and kiss. She's getting so good about saying please and thanks which comes out as "anks" and actually the first time she said she also said another first... "mommy" I have always been "mama" and about 2 months ago I became "mom" and its been about 2 weeks now that I have officially been upgraded to "mommy" so you can only imagine when she looked up at me and said "anks mommy" for the first time I melted bad! So sweet. I try to write down all the cute things she says but I forget so much and then the ones I do remember are just cute because of how she says them haha. Her understanding has just increased so much along with her memory and it just blows me away so much! She has also sort of gotten the idea of her bike. She's still a little short for it but she can get it going. Only when she get distracted with turning or something that she gets all mixed up. Keith brought her outside even though I wasn't really down since shes still too small for it and our side walk is far from smooth! Well she went about 20 feet or so and then Keith was going to send her back and she caught a crack and ate it... Tears (mainly out of fright) came, scrapped her nose and knee but so slightly, no blood, no scab, just a little red and a small bruise. It took a while but I did get her back on the bike. I wasn't too stoked on the fall, I know she'll fall and get hurt but I didn't want it to happen her first time out when the bike is just a little too big for her anyways because I didn't want it to ruin her experience so I was really happy she got back on. She also can do a summer sault (is that how you spell it?) maybe 1 in 10 times but still for a 2 year old I feel that's pretty impressive. All the more reason I would love to get her in to gymnastics. And one more bragging right on her, I know I posted this on Facebook too but, Naomi is starting to take dirty dishes and silverware and put them in appropriate places in the dish washer! People say oh good job mom but really I don't ask her to do these things or have her help me load it but she just does it. She is just simply perfect! Such a helper!
Ok I am in love with Craigslist, I know out in Utah it's all about KSL and supposedly its even better than CL but its what I have and I'm in love hee hee. Recent example number one. Our old fridge was leaking and starting to mess up our new floor. Found this one, its a little on the small side but we got it for 50-70% off a new one in the store and its pretty new. Only a couple issues, which aren't really the worst things. We love it. it gives the kitchen a whole new vibe!
So then because the guys like to fish but we can't eat it fast enough and our new freezer is kinda small we desperately needed a garage one, we had wanted one for a long time now but with the new freezer and the increase in fish we were getting desperate. I called on a few around $70-85 but they were always gone. Then I found this one. $30!!! I couldn't believe it! AND the fact we got it! So nice to have. Now when there are deals on food I can stock up and put it in here. So great!
And then this is my last one. It was one of three. In this picture you can kind of see the castle in the back ground, another young mom went with me and got that one. These new would cost $400 +/- and we got them for $75. Yes they are used but in just fantastic shape, not even much sun bleaching! I have it being stored at my parents house and Christmas Eve after she goes to sleep were going to set it up in the living room with either one big bow (depending on how much the dang bow is) or a bunch of little ones. So when she comes down Christmas morning she will have a house! I can't wait to see her expression! I figure we have the room and it will help keep her busy during the rainy days and with me being a little distracted with #2. I'm so excited!
Ah yes and siding continues!!
It just looks amazing and when we can get a new light in there, of course that will be after we paint but it just looking so amazing! and yes more and more un level lines are being brought to light but Kyle is a master at hiding the fails the absolute best anyone could! We are so lucky to have him here helping us!
Still lots more to do for the entrance but its coming along and that is all we can hope for!
Yes back to the construction site of a yard...
So fall is here and its lovely. What are the best things about fall? Hot chocolate and or cider? Cozy blankets? Warm weather clothing and accessories? Holidays? The beautiful change of leaves? I agree with what ever you think! However all the trees around the neighborhood are green, yellow, red, and there are a lot of Japanese Maples that turn almost purple! So so so pretty! But what do we have in our front yard? This fugly bush tree monstrosity! It has those nasty spiky seed balls too, ouch! and yes its changing colors on the top, from green to brown! seriously? We all want to cut it down and get something else. I want something pretty. Something that changes pretty colors in the fall! Something that when you rake the leaves in to a pile to jump in you don't have to worry about getting gouged by a prickly seed ball! Besides we could use some fire wood haha ;)
See like this red to yellow to green and you can kind of see in the back to the let the dark red. Fall is so wonderful!
Ok on to the Crafty part of this blog, I warned you there was a lot of little stuff! I saw this idea from online (here is the how to blog: http://www.imperfecthomemaking.com/2012/03/simple-thrifty-diy-art.html ) What I really loved about it was this: "I like the idea of shopping for art. But finding art for a specific spot in a home is hard, isn't it? I want something that is the right size, incorporates the right colours and is affordable." Which is so true! And laying in bed and looking around it seems like we JUST moved in instead of being here for almost a year. I didn't get the exact foam as she did but same basic stuff. I got a 3/4" by 4' by 8' piece at Home Depot that after tax was just over $8. And the wonderfully sweet guy that helped me even cut it down a bit so it would fit in my car! I got the fabric at Joanns which came to about $22. So I was able to do this for less than $30 with insane extra! Its great!
Finally got it on the wall today. I didn't hang it like she did either, I just used the Hercules hooks we already had. If you don't know what those are google it and buy them! They are awesome! And cheap. And yes, its not centered over the bed, but that is because the bed isn't centered. I need to rearrange the room a bit and get some night shelves, I don't want night stands so were just going to make a shelf, big enough to have a phone charger, light and like a book on it. I'm excited for when it happens.
Well Naomi loved it SO much but I didn't want to over do the idea that I thought I would try doing her name.
It was a messy ordeal haha.
So here's how it turned out. NOT NEARLY AS AWESOME AS THE ORIGINAL!!!! I'm not super crafty but it just didn't work as well but I figured she's still too young to care that much! I thought of another way to do it but still not sure if that would look good. I think hot glue might have helped... Naomi loves it though. When she saw the ones hung in our room she says "WHOOOOOA!!!" and then I brought her in to her room and she does the same thing and says "I like it!" And just now she climbed up next to me and goes "WOW!!! Wow! Its my room!" just from the pictures. I love it! She's adorable.
Ok so another bump shot. I'm 34 weeks today. Thing's have been going ok. Last weekend I did have some serious sciatic nerve spasms from things widening and relaxing. It was crippling and bringing me nearly to tears... My doctor said I could take Tylenol but it didn't help. Thankfully it only lasted 2 days and since Sunday I have been ok. Knock on wood that it doesn't happen again.
He's just too cute
Oh yeah ok so this is the new born beanie my most talented sister in law made for the little one. I had them for Naomi and I just loved them and got a bazillion complements on them. If you have a youngster, girl or boy, in your life this is a great gift! Here is one link to her store: http://www.etsy.com/listing/108328597/new-color-newborn-hat-in-navy you can customize the hats to a point as well. Like most of her flowers on the site are white but I asked for pink and well as you can see that was totally doable!
Well I think that is about it. I know there will be more to post as the siding keeps going up and the pregnancy gets further and further along. Hope you enjoyed and didn't fall asleep!
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
past month or so
So not a whole lot has been happening and yet nearly 2 months has past! We are done with the bank. cashed the last check and paid off the contractor. Naomi has been such a rock star with the potty training. Hiccups every now and then, only during sleep times though and I will take partial blame for some of them. I had to take the dreaded glucose test which has changed since I took it with Naomi, all but the nasty drink. I ended up laying on the floor in the waiting room in between getting my blood drawn because it was the only way I didn't feel like throwing up, since that would veto the whole test. I had an appointment the other day and she didn't say anything about it so I guess I passed? Is that the correct terminology? I don't know. We went up to the cabin for Labor day weekend with Kyle and Myra and well it was nice to get away but it was a meat bee year (Myra sat on the couch and got stung and bit and I was getting up from the floor and got stung) the fishing sucked and because of fires hopes of gold mining were put out. After we got back the guys measured out siding and we got that ordered so when ever they get a chance they can start pulling double shifts again (work and then work on the house) thankfully the only deadline we have are those we set ourselves. I had hoped to already have about 3 weekends of siding down but between the cabin and friends who are going to help having things come up we haven't had one =( It will get done though. Maybe we can just post pone rain until December? Naomi has been talking and so out going lately. The things she comes up with, I can't even remember them all! She has started remembering primary songs, the first one was the wise man and the foolish man, she doesn't really sing it but she does the hand motions. Then over the monitor one afternoon I hear her singing "I looka window what I see? popcorn tree!" and she will do all the hand motions for that song and say key words like surprise and treat. While we were at the cabin one morning she started jumping and saying "sun BEAT! sun BEAT!" it look us a minute before we realized she was doing the sun BEAM song. haha. Which lead to all of us trying to remember all the words to the song so she could jump at the appropriate times, far too cute. She will say "time to goooo!" "Stay here" "Perpect" (after she does something which translates to perfect) while we were driving home from the cabin she had to pee and told me and I told Kyle who was driving, we were planning to stop in about 15 minutes so he wasn't going to pull over. She just kept asking me and I kind of knew she needed to go so I told her she had to tell Kyle. She looks at me for a minute looks at Kyle and goes "Kyle! STOP!" And raises her little hand up motioning him to stop. We all were dying. Luckily there was an on/off ramp right then and she got to pee. She also is learning to say please on her own and does this intense girly please with the head cocked to one side and the hands clasped together in between her cheek and shoulder when shes not sure if it will really work. There are so so so many other little phrases like these that I just cant remember. Myra left us the movie the Lion King and Naomi is obsessed with it! There are definitely worse movies out there but its funny HOW much she could watch it. She has calmed down but still. She calls it the tiger movie, sometimes the king movie but mostly the tiger movie. Anyways here are a few pictures from the past month or so:
A while a go after church, I'd say it's juuuuuust about nap time
Morning snuggles with Ozzy as I get my morning things done.
Sorry Brittany, Ben left your comforter at our place and I walked in to see this. Little dogs need to stay warm too!
After a drift event the NOS girls attacked Keith's dirty hood and then everyone joined in.
Oh yeah and one night Keith and Julian (or Junan as Naomi calls him) decided to put a much needed bench in the garage.
Not perfect, but defiantly an improvement!
Oh yeah a new bump shot, after the cabin about 30 weeks (I'm 31 weeks now) I think the altitude helped expand me out a bit and she has had a growth spurt for sure. I feel her thrash up by my ribs and on my colon at the same time. My body is also seriously prepping. My hips have been killing me and so has my pelvis to the point that when I stand up sometimes I can barely move and am hunched over like an 80 year old in a walker... I feel I need one of those at those times. I have been having the Braxton Hicks contractions (which is when your uterus practices contracting- doesn't really mean anything) and well when those happen or if I'm bending over or doing anything that pushes in on her she pushes back making more room for herself. Not the most comfortable for me but I know it can be soooo much worse. Also anything can happen but our front runner name for her is: KALYN (kay-lyn) haven't come up with a middle name but I am thinking either Kalyn Alisa or Kalyn Alyssa
Here it is the rest of our siding! I can't wait for it to be done, in one day I had 2 people come to the door one person wanting work and another sales man trying to sell me siding. I was like we have it all, it's sitting the the driveway... (you know the driveway you just walked up?!) It's not so bad but it always seems to happen when I'm alone at the house with Naomi. Makes me a little nervous especially when I see people in unmarked cars scoping out my house then coming to knock on the door. And they always seem to do it when Naomi is sleeping so I can't just let them knock and ring the door bell and get Ozzy barking. She sleeps through a lot but still.
So between life and helpers having their own lives (psh- just kidding) it's been a slow start but Keith has started getting the trim off.
trim and worthless screen door
I'm not a contractor person but I feel like the sheets of siding should be closer together than this? I mean I see my insulation! hmmmm
Yeah who thought it was a good idea to just smash the trim down and then pour the concrete front porch? Going to have to figure out what were going to do there... Freaking track home builders...
Well that is about it for now! I am sure I will post again soon as the siding goes up and windows go in!
Friday, July 27, 2012
summer time
I think the last blog was about the bank coming out in like 2 days. Well the appraiser came and went aaaaaaaaaand looks like we passed! I emailed out loan officer the other day asking what was up because I hadn't heard anything and she said that there was some issues or troubles or something with getting the title but all is done and she sent the paperwork to the bank on Wednesday and she should get the last check early next week and will send it our way! So hopefully this time next week we will be FREEEEEEEEE! So exciting! The guys have enjoyed the house breather not that much breathing has been going on between work, visitors and fishing (yes they got their first salmon off their kayaks in the ocean about 22 pounds!) but still. We will probably order the remaining siding in a couple weeks and then hopefully starting the last weekend in August and all through September it will be siding, siding, siding, calking, primering and painting! Very busy but then it will be done! And as the siding goes up more windows upstairs get replaced! I feel bad saying I can't wait because I'm not the one doing any of the work... but you understand! I really can't wait! In less than a year this house will have gone through SUCH a transformation! New siding, windows, roof, gutters, 70% ish new floors, all new paint inside and out, bathroom remodels, slight landscaping (as in getting rid of the crap that was here), epoxied garage floor and have things just actually work. It will be nice.
And surprisingly we got all that done with so many visitors! We have been so blessed to have Keith's parents and oldest sister stay with us for a few day early this summer, Denae and her family came out for a quick Sonoma county visit over the 4th, Keith's other sister and her clan stayed with us a while ago, a couple of Kyle's Utah buddies just left after staying with us over a span of a week getting a drift car built with a Formula D cage put in, Ben and Brittany will be coming out in a couple weeks, another Utah friend we haven't seen in forever is thinking about coming out, Denae is hoping to come out again late September/ early October and then Suzie and Joe in October! Oh and then of course baby girl #2 in November. It has been fun and may seem crazy but really its been spread out enough that it has been totally cool. Its nice to have a place for people to crash at and we are blessed that its big enough that were not all in each others faces.
And of course with all this going on and Naomi turning 2 and baby #2 coming we've been potty training. I took a week to prep her since we really hadn't been talking about the potty at all. My wonderful mom bought us a portable potty that sits on the ground that she would sit on every once and a while and an adorable little book but that's it. Taking that week to talk to her about it, sit on it and get a goodie (a resses pieces) really helped by Thursday she tinkled in the potty for the first time and she did again that Friday. Monday came around and it went ok. Tuesday and Wednesday were awesome with really only little half messes when it would sneak up on her and she would hold the rest in and coming running to me and wed both book it to the potty. We did end up getting one that sits on the normal potty and she does like that better I think. More adult which makes sense she has never been the child to take a baby step, All or Nothing just like her daddy <3. We even didn't have any messes for nap or bed time. Thursday was a different story however I will take some blame for some of the accidents. Today, knock on wood, has been good but she is down for a nap we will see if we make it to the potty in time when she wakes up (yup she woke up just before I posted this and she was dry!). But she gets so excited when she goes in the potty and more than half the time really puts together the feeling and what it means and well maybe a quarter of the time she verbally will let me know she has to go so I would say shes doing great! Even though yesterday I had to keep reminding myself that. It's only day 4, it's only day 4, it's only day 4... I think some of the best advice I got was to restrict liquid intake before naps and bed time, be there just as they are waking up to get them on the potty and while my child isn't a stick and does have a Gevas booty she is just in 2T bottoms and undies come in 2/3T size at the smallest but Fruit of Loom brand I guess has the smallest undies out there and they fit her perfectly!!! So major shout out to Brittany for the advice.
Well here are a few pictures of life recently to make this entry a little more interesting:
And surprisingly we got all that done with so many visitors! We have been so blessed to have Keith's parents and oldest sister stay with us for a few day early this summer, Denae and her family came out for a quick Sonoma county visit over the 4th, Keith's other sister and her clan stayed with us a while ago, a couple of Kyle's Utah buddies just left after staying with us over a span of a week getting a drift car built with a Formula D cage put in, Ben and Brittany will be coming out in a couple weeks, another Utah friend we haven't seen in forever is thinking about coming out, Denae is hoping to come out again late September/ early October and then Suzie and Joe in October! Oh and then of course baby girl #2 in November. It has been fun and may seem crazy but really its been spread out enough that it has been totally cool. Its nice to have a place for people to crash at and we are blessed that its big enough that were not all in each others faces.
And of course with all this going on and Naomi turning 2 and baby #2 coming we've been potty training. I took a week to prep her since we really hadn't been talking about the potty at all. My wonderful mom bought us a portable potty that sits on the ground that she would sit on every once and a while and an adorable little book but that's it. Taking that week to talk to her about it, sit on it and get a goodie (a resses pieces) really helped by Thursday she tinkled in the potty for the first time and she did again that Friday. Monday came around and it went ok. Tuesday and Wednesday were awesome with really only little half messes when it would sneak up on her and she would hold the rest in and coming running to me and wed both book it to the potty. We did end up getting one that sits on the normal potty and she does like that better I think. More adult which makes sense she has never been the child to take a baby step, All or Nothing just like her daddy <3. We even didn't have any messes for nap or bed time. Thursday was a different story however I will take some blame for some of the accidents. Today, knock on wood, has been good but she is down for a nap we will see if we make it to the potty in time when she wakes up (yup she woke up just before I posted this and she was dry!). But she gets so excited when she goes in the potty and more than half the time really puts together the feeling and what it means and well maybe a quarter of the time she verbally will let me know she has to go so I would say shes doing great! Even though yesterday I had to keep reminding myself that. It's only day 4, it's only day 4, it's only day 4... I think some of the best advice I got was to restrict liquid intake before naps and bed time, be there just as they are waking up to get them on the potty and while my child isn't a stick and does have a Gevas booty she is just in 2T bottoms and undies come in 2/3T size at the smallest but Fruit of Loom brand I guess has the smallest undies out there and they fit her perfectly!!! So major shout out to Brittany for the advice.
Well here are a few pictures of life recently to make this entry a little more interesting:
Lets see... absorbent sheets, lots of tiny undies and treats!
Rocking out with daddy
He strummed and she would hit the Uke for some added rhythm. As Keith would speed up so would she as he slowed down she followed really smart and sweet!
He was tapping his foot and so of course his mini me had to too, so she got off the couch and you can see her right foot pounding away. Keith is cracking up sorry the lighting sucks and the table is in the way.
One of Keith's co workers got rid of some of his girls stuff so Naomi got a bike! She loves it but her legs are about an inch too short to push the peddles but she loves sitting on it and turning while you push her and using the bell!
Ok Keith isn't a big fan of these kind of naked shots so Ill keep them off Facebook but I mean you got to have some fun when you're stuck at home potty training all week!
Hiding her toes
being silly
We don't have to have an accident to get our undies "soiled" hahah this picture cracks me up, sorry if it offends anyone else. If it does well... ummm... look how long her hair is!!!
I enter my 3rd trimester tomorrow (Saturday the 28th) I can't believe I'm that far already. With the cooler weather this past week I keep thinking it's fall and that she should be just around the corner when in reality she really is just right around the corner!
And no, we have not settled on a name. We haven't been too in to it. There are a few we are playing with but nothing that is standing out as "the name". Will keep you up to date as that progresses!
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