Volcano Fun with Daddy

Rhett, Bennett, and Jordan made these volcano's a few days ago and were finally able to watch them "blow" when the "ash" came in the mail. What fun!! (sorry that the first part of this is sideways!) Make sure you look at the before pictures and see the little men trying to flee for their lives!







With the lights off

Here's the recovery efforts

Shelby

My computer shut down on me right as I was finishing typing up Shelby's birth story. Oh well. I'll save it for another day. I thought I'd give you an update of how our little angel is doing. To sum it all up, she's doing really well. We're surprised that she's as well as she is though...
When we were getting ready to leave the hospital they told us that she'd lost 12% of her body weight which is the most they'll let her loose without keeping her. They told us that they'd let us take her home if we started supplementing with formula and take her to her pediatrician the next day. So she started out at 8lbs 1oz. When we took her home she was 7lbs 2oz. We took her to the Dr. the next day and she was back up to 7lbs 13 oz already! Go girl! So the Dr. said we could stop supplementing if we wanted and then to bring her back in for her normal 1 week check up. We brought her back in a week later and she weighed in at 8lbs 9oz. Couldn't be better as far as that goes. She did have an ear infection though =(. At only 10 days old, her ear drum was bright red and bulging. Great way to start hu? And she had a little cough (but I started getting sick just a couple days before she was born so I'm sure she picked it up from me...). So we stared on some amoxicillin which she quite enjoys. The coughing continued to get worse and worse. We brought her back in on Tuesday of this week and they said she has a lower and upper respiratory infection. Oh boy. So they took a sample of it (very thick and colorful) to send it to the lab to see what we're dealing with. Her oxygen level was at 95% which is still pretty good. They also sent us to a medical supply store by the Children's hospital to get a nose suction machine. It's really cool! We use that every couple of hours to clean out her nose. We get TONS each time. I called the doctors office Thursday to see if they'd gotten the results back yet and they told us it was negative for the flu but positive for RSV. Yikes. She wasn't even 3 weeks old at the time! She's getting hit hard, really young. Her retraction in her ribs continued to get worse throughout the week so I took her back in yesterday. Her oxygen was at 93% so she's still holding her own as far as that goes. They sent us home this time with a prescription for our nebulizer machine to give her breathing treatments and told us to go to the hospital this weekend if it gets much worse. so far we're hanging in there though. I hope it just gets better from now on. She's had it for about 2 weeks now. The poor girl just coughs and coughs =(.

Here are some pics for you to enjoy.
The most recent pictures were from Valentines Day. I don't have my others uploaded yet so stay tuned!

I love this outfit! My mom made it. She used the top part of a onesie and then made the bottom using the same fabric as the quilt she made for Shelby, which she's laying on in these pictures. At the bottom it has a draw string ribbon thingy so you can close it up and she'll stay nice and warm! My explanation doesn't do it justice. You have to see it in person to really see how neat it is.

Cute dimples just like her brother. She looks JUST like Bennett except for her hair has a lot more red in it.

I LOVE my Grandma!

Shelby Joyce Lindsey

Shelby is here! We got home from the hospital just a little while ago. I'm feeling a little too tired to tell the "story" right now. Maybe if I get some sleep tonight. I just wanted to let you all know that we're doing great. Here's a couple pictures.

Shelby Joyce Lindsey
Feb. 6, 2009 at 10:19pm
8 lbs 1 oz and 20.5 in long

How?

I don't think my body knows how to go into labor on its own. Both Bennett and Jordan were at least partially induced. Who knows, maybe we won't have this baby until they induce me in a week. I hope that doesn't happen but I guess anything is possible. I'm 2 hours away from being past my due date. I need to just quite complaining and know that she'll be here soon. I walked the mall with my mom today for a while but that only seemed to make me contract less. I have a doctors appointment Friday so I'll be able to see if I've progressed at all. Hopefully we'll have a baby by then but I'm not going to hold my breath anymore!

No baby yet =(

Still no new baby. I'm very anxious. I'm having a hard time keeping up with things around the house and with the kids and I'm just exhausted all the time. This baby's been moving lots lately (except for today...) and I've been having contractions quite a bit. Last night they were coming at about 10 minutes apart but they didn't hurt much at all so I knew it couldn't be the real thing. So I went to bed hoping to wake up in the middle of the night in pain but that didn't happen. Bummer. I have a Dr.'s appt tomorrow so we'll see if I've progressed since last weeks check. Hopefully I have and they decide to just take the baby. I would be completely fine with that. Only 2 days till Grandma gets here. Bennett's been doing a great job keeping his room clean since he'll be sharing it with Grandma while she's here. I'm glad that's an incentive to him =). Too bad he can't work the vacuum yet =).

I'm working on getting some prego pictures but haven't remembered when I've looked decent =). I'm going to try to get a couple done before she comes!

Here's some fun pics to enjoy. We've had a bunch of snow lately. The news said the other night that we might get up to a foot. I don't think we got quite that much but it was a bunch. Rhett and Bennett shoveled our driveway the other night so these are some pictures from that. I'm sure with just normal snow it wouldn't be that big of a deal to dig out but since we got about an inch of freezing rain before the snow, it's made for some lovely driving (or avoiding it at all costs!). Our driveway is snow free but has a lovely sheet of ice on it. They canceled preschool Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Rhett's University was closed all day Wednesday. The Air Force Base here in town was closed Wednesday and Thursday. It's been pretty much a ghost town around here since the storm hit.

Short quick post...

I had the Dr.'s check me at my appt today and I'm dilated to a 3, only 50% effaced, and at a -1 station. The 3cm's makes me excited though. The Dr. said that since it's my 3rd I'll probably have a very quick labor once I start contractions. So she said that once they get to 7 minutes apart I better get to the hospital. She said that when you have more kids you end up dilating and effacing rather quickly at the same time once labor starts so to be on alert. I hope this baby waits for another week but we'll see =). My body is DONE!

Another baby update

Well, tomorrow marks week 38! I can't believe it's going to be here this quickly. Any time I guess. Bennett was 4 days early and Jordan was 6 days early but they were both induced to some extent so I don't really know when I'll go completely on my own. I'm hoping for sooner than later but my mom doesn't fly out until Jan. 30th so I need to wait until then =). With Rhett's grad school schedule and the kids preschool/Dr. appts, I can't go into labor without the extra help.

At my last Dr.'s appt (last Friday) the Doctor told me I was measuring small. She's told me this a few times but I've tried not worrying about it too much. I guess in the last 2 weeks my stomach has only grown by half a cm, and it's suppose to be 1 each week. I think I'm only measuring around 34 or 35 cms and I should be about 37 or 38 by now. Anyways, she told me she wanted me to have another ultrasound done to make sure I had enough fluid and that the baby was growing well. They were able to schedule that for today so we only had to wait 3 days to find out what was going on with this little girl. I may be measuring small but this baby is NOT! She's already measuring in at 8lbs. And I've got 2 weeks left! Yikes. She was so cute on the screen. They could see some hair on her head, she was munching on her fingers, and kept sticking her tongue out at us. She looks like she has chubby cheeks but who wouldn't look like that when they're squished up so much =). My fluid level was in the normal range. So, we're going to continue playing the waiting game. I have quite a few contractions throughout the day and they're starting to get painful but nothing that's regular at all. I don't have my hospital bag packed yet so that's on my checklist. Also, I need to finish washing a few things to be completely ready for when she comes. I also need to pick out an outfit for her to come home in. Oh the list could go on and on! Times ticking. I really just need to get my house in order.
Me and Bennett got his room pretty clean (this is a daily thing to keep up on now...) and Rhett and I cleaned out our really well too. I'm not too concerned about Jordan's since I know it's not her making the mess, and the baby won't be in there with her until she's older. I just need to keep up on the laundry and dishes and picking up around our family/living room. I hear that once you have 3 kids it's almost not even worth trying to keep up on the laundry. Yikes. I guess it just needs to be done by the time she's here. That'll be the best I can do =)

So, you out there that have reached the 3 kids or higher. Give me all the advice you can about what to do to stay organized when number 3 comes home. Or even if you don't have 3 and have some great pointers that you'd like to pass on. I REALLY need to get myself ready for what I'm in for =). THANKS!!!


And some pictures:

Rhett and Bennett are VERY proud of the snowman they made a couple weeks ago. There was barely enough snow at the time to do what they did here. And it wasn't the greatest snow for snowman making. They could get the smarties to stick to make his smile=). I'm glad they were able to actually make some sort of snowman though because right after this we had an Arctic Blast come through that gave us some lovely wind chills down to -30ish. It was great. Preschool kept getting canceled and everyone was told to stay inside as much as they could. I'm glad that that's over and we have some 20 and 30 degree weather now. Time to break out the shorts! Just kidding.