Katelyn's Blessing!! *Updated*

It has been such a long time since I have written, time has flown by!! Well I'm gonna post LOTS of pictures and maybe update with whats going on. Starting with Katelyn's Blessing!

Katelyn just turned 5 months on the 14th!! My sweet baby girl is so big! She is now laughing, not just smiles, but full on, from deep down in her tummy laughs! I LOVE to hear them. She loves ME, she sees me and smiles, and only wants ME. I'm sure later that will get annoying, but as of right now, I'm LOVING it. I am loving this little girl!! She has totally stole my heart away! In October we finally blessed her, she was 4 months and her Great Grandma made the dress.This is us trying on her blessing dress a couple of days before the actual blessing.

We then had a professional photographer come and take pictures of the blessing too:

 This is OUR family! Not all of us, but most! Thank you for being there to celebrate our important day for our tiny baby. I know the other family members wanted to come and I totally understand that its sometimes not possible! But thank you for your sweet messages and phone calls.

 Our sweet Katelyn!

 My Mother inlaw made the blanket and my grandma made the dress! =) Perfect!

 This picture makes me laugh! Bridger is so funny!! Love that boy!

 Abulita, ME, My Mom, Katelyn

 Val, Julieanne, ME, Karrie, Robyn

 My Mother inlaw with Katelyn, they are matching!! How cute is that!?

 This is Jed's mom, and seriously couldn't of asked for a better mother inlaw. She has been amazing and my kids love her so much. We love going to WYOMING and getting to play games and visit. Its a lot of fun.

 YUMMY

 The food was SOOO yummy!! We did Cafe rio style food..and it was amazing!

 Emily helped me out so much this day cooking and preparing for me while I was at the church or tending to other family members! I love this girl so much!! She takes me flaws and all! =)

My Mom! What would I do without my mom!! I dont' know. She is such a huge part of my life and I love her so much. We live 10 minutes apart and sometimes thats close, but most of the time we love it. My kids adore her and know her since we see her on such a daily bases. We are so lucky to have family so close around us!

I'm so grateful for everyone that came to Katelyn's blessing. We loved having you with us and in this special time of our sweet baby.

Katelyn is a MONTH OLD!! *Updated*

Katelyn is fill out SOO much. She is so chunky and growing so fast, her Newborn clothes are not fitting her anymore. LOL she's growing so much! She's still so tiny and little though, and she's starting to focus on my face and voice.

She is so smart for being such a tiny baby! What other baby "talks" at one month? Seriously shes always using her voice! Its so funny, if not using her voice she makes these little "Horsey" noises that are SO cute! I have to record them and put them up.


Cat

Sisters and a Brother!! =) *Updated*

August 10th, 2010

I have an obsessions with "Sisters". I have this eluded fantasy of how incrediably amazing it would be to have a sister. To have a instant best friend, to have someone to talk to, to have someone to grow up with, to have another women to understand you, have memories with, love you, love her back, appreciate you, taking care of your little sis, Ect. Someone that you know, NO matter what happenes, it won't matter because in the end, she's your sister.

                                                         (She is totally smiling in her sleep! LOL!)

I don't know...I've always wanted a sister, ALWAYS! I've always tried to find that person, and I had to face facts that I don't have one. But Heavenly Father gave me something better. A daughter...a sweet perfect incrediably adorable daughter!! Her sweet name is Jocelyn....How I love this girl, you'll never know. She's my everything, I adore her to the core. She's my sweet girl...so giving, so loving, cares about others, so ..my Jocelyn. But then Heavenly Father gave me 2 wonderful gift...he gave me a son and another daughter....so now not only do I have 2 beautiful girls in my life, but I get to give them the wonderful gift of having a sister!!! I told Jed that I would not stop having babies until my sweet girl had a sister!!

You NEED a sister I told him, something that I never had I wanted so desperately for Jocelyn. She is OF course in love with her sister, and I'm just loving the fact that I have these great girls in my life. These amazing people that I get to call my daughters. I am so incredibly lucky right now. Not only do I have these wonderful sweet girls, but I have such an incredible little boy (my other amazing gift, now needs a brother, we'll see) that loves his sisters to DEATH! =) (Bridger loves to hug Kate sometimes a LITTLE to tightly, but she doesn't mind most of the time. hehe)

...to my sweet babies.  Jocelyn, Bridger and Katelyn. May you ALWAYS remember that you are BEST FRIENDS, that you respect, and admire each other, that you remember each other in your prayers, and that you never lose sight of whats important. May you always be a blessing in each others lives that bring happiness and hope. I love you guys so much...Thank you for being MY babies!!

Love, Mommy!

KEEP Isn't sleep deprivation a source of torture that they use in War? *Updated*

DAY 8

Ok  last night Kate was naughty, I'm trying so hard to write and keep on my blog to remember this beautiful girl. But I'm sooooo sleep deprived that ALL I want her to do is sleep and I want to sleep and ahhh...thats not fair! They are only little for such a SHORT time that I want to take it all in!!!

But one thing she is doing that I LOVE is that she is a smily baby!! ALL she does is smile smile smile!! She's been a good baby in when she is full she is content , goes to sleep, and has a clean diaper. BUT our Mt. Everest has been NURSING!

She latches on, sucks and then starts crying....then latches on sucks and then again starts crying. I don't know why

Also my milk coming in has been so painful. I can't sleep on my side, my chest is so painful, engorge and it hurts to nurse. I think I know what a breast augmentation feels like, ugh, I'm in so much pain. WHY oh WHY don't we remember these things. LOL. ?!?!? This is why I'm journaling it down, incase I get the crazy thought of getting pregnant again.

My hip, pelvic bone, and all of the bones by my hips are still so sore. I can get up now a TON better and walking is now not such a chore.

But all of my complaining, and the one thing I do know that it was all worth it, is my beautiful Kate. She is so beautiful and I LOVE her tiny cheeks, nose, eyes, everthing about her. She loves to be with me, she knows me.....she knows my voice....my sweet girl.

Cat

Baby Kate is 5 days old

So last night my sweet girl woke up at 3:00am. I nursed her thinking she would go back to sleep. She didn't. she was wide awake...her beautiful big eyes looking around, lookign at me and smiling...she is a smiler!!

So I woke up with her and talked to my sweet girl. We had a great time talking and gooing at each other, until she wanted to nurse. We are having a really hard time nursing, and this is killing me. With my other babies, I could nurse in bed and stay half way asleep while they nursed. But we have to get UP and struggle a bit with the whole nursing thing. But 4:30am I was tired, this little event lasted until 6:30 when she finally latched on, had a diaper change 3 times, and latched on again.

For some reason I don't remember these first few days!! I think I blocked it out with my other 2!! ....ahh...Sorry so short, just wanted to remember what it was like after a newborn is BORN!!! ahhhhhhh

Cat

No sleep means ENGERY!! Wait a minute!?!? KEEP

OK! So I haven't slept for days, and I woke up today at 3:00am with Kate, and then at 6:00am and then I had to wake up at nine with my OTHER kids.

But I woke up with ENERGY! I got up, cleaned the kitchen did some laundry, nursed Kate, changed her, got the kids in clothes, got lunch ready, eaten, cleaned up....It was good. THEN I sat down and I felt the drain. I then took a little nap while the kids watched some TV.

I am trying really hard to update everyday, but its not working out very well. Just an update so that I remember what I am going through, I am sooo engorged, I think this is now women with breast implants feel after surgery. So painful, nursing isn't going very well. She latches on, then latches off. She takes a bottle very well though, we are TRYING very hard to give her a Binki but she isn't really liking that either.

My ligament pain is still there, BUT its way better than it was before. Mostly the left hip , pelvic area is still sore. The first few days I still couldn't sleep on my side without a million pillows because my hips were so incredibly bad.

Cat

Baby Kate with Jaundice KEEP

Our poor baby has Jaundice. Its something you hear about babies having but when they get to high it can actually hurt their liver among other things. They turn a slight yellow, and their little whites of their eyes turn a yellowish tint too.

We had to experience Jaundice with our sweet Jocelyn, and that was an awful experience. She cried and cried in the "Suitcase" mostly because at that time they had to wear a ski mask looking thing to protect their eyes. Now they have that shield that will cover their face.

While they are in the "Suite Case" they have to be completely naked for the lights to work on their skin. Its hard because there isn't any heater installed so its cold. But this one does produce a LITTLE tiny bit of heat, and then we put a blanket over it to make it nice and toasty.

Her sweet little face looks so tiny in this big ole suitcase. But she's taking it so well!! I feed her and got her naked, and she hasn't fussed not one bit!! She is being so brave!!

Her heels are so bruised and bloody from being pricked so much. There is no room on her little feet to draw blood from. Its so sad to see her tiny feet so abused at only 4 days old. It breaks my heart, I just cry. Thats all I can do. But hopefully this will be the end of the stupid heel pricks and in 3 days we won't need to worry about jaundice.

She's so strong, I am so lucky to have this little girl in our family!! She has brought so much in these last 4 days I can't imagine life without her now. My tiny baby.....Sleeping away. I'm so lucky that she is sleeping through the suitcase and she can have both lights on her.

Until next time!

Cat