6 years...

I hate this day every year.  It never gets easier.  I have just learned to deal with it better.  I'm so grateful for the gospel and can't wait until I can see her again.

One month and then some

Blakely turned one month at the beginning of this month.  I'm a little behind.  She weighed 9 lbs. 15.5 oz. (70%) and is 21 inches long (75%).  I think both of my girls are going to be taller than their brother.  She is such a good baby, when I remember to give her her acid reflux medicine.  She wakes up once a night, between 4 and 6.  The other day I had to wake her up at 6:40 to eat (she last ate at 9 the night before), because I had a dr.'s appointment and I was afraid she wouldn't wake up until it was time to go.  She is starting to smile, which I love!  Maicee loves her to pieces, and Kyson adores her.  Kyson is doing better eating, he gained a whole pound in one month, which is more than he gained the previous 7 months!  His appetite is getting better, as long as he doesn't have any milk products.  Poor kid.  And Maicee is enjoying school and learning so much everyday!  She is so smart!  She is going to be really bummed when she realizes she can't start school with all her friends in the fall.  Dan is in an internal medicine rotation right now.  It demands a lot of his time, especially when he is on call.  But he's not interested in it.  He just got accepted for a 6 week rotation this summer in Hawaii.  I'm super jealous that he gets to go to Hawaii for free, and get paid while he is there.  I'm tempted to find someone to watch my 2 older kids and go join him for a week or two.  But that probably won't happen.

 



I got one good picture of her at one month.  I love this outfit Aunt Tracie bought her.

She is so stinking cute!

And I had to throw in one of Kyson on his roller coaster he got for Christmas.

Maicee and Kyson cheering for the Broncos.

Last weekend Dan was on call and didn't get to come home, so we went down to Colorado Springs and spent the day with him.  There is this fun little place called "Focus on the Family Welcome Center".  The kids had a blast there.

Maicee cried when we had to leave.

Daddy all dressed up waiting for a call to go into the hospital.  Luckily he didn't get called while we were there!

Kyson loves his baby sister!

Maicee really likes putting this little crown on Blakely's head.

She is so cute!

Here is the start of her smile.  She smiles with her whole face, mouth wide open.

Here it is!

Stuck in a rut...

It's true, I have been such a slacker lately.  I feel like our lives are terribly boring, and no one wants to hear about that.  And I'm still having issues loading pictures.  Thanks for the suggestions (Beth, I swear you are the only one that reads my blog) but I don't have a slot for a memory card on my computer.  Lame, right?  And I seriously don't take enough pictures of my cute little baby.  Poor thing.  Maicee has hundreds of pictures, Kyson has about half that, and Blakely I fear is just not going to have as many.  I should get over the anger I have for my mom because I only have 1 baby picture- I was her 4th child.  Now I get it.  Maybe when the weather gets nicer, we won't be as boring.  Maybe.  But we are all still alive and well.  Oh, and an update on Blakely.  In the hospital, the pediatrician was doing her normal routine, and she asked me if Blakely was ever breech.  She was for like a month or two.  She informed me she could possibly have hip dysplasia, which is congenital dislocation of the hips.  If caught early enough, it can be treated with a simple brace.  I take her into her first dr.'s appointment with our pediatrician, and one of the first things he says is "hmmm, she may have hip dysplasia."  He then wrote a prescription for an ultrasound on her hips.  We didn't have her insurance card yet, so we had to wait on that.  At each appointment, he would test her and she kept getting better.  So when I took her in for her ultrasound, I was pretty sure she didn't have it.  And the ultrasound came back normal!  Well, that's all that's going on with us.

An update

I'm sorry I'm such a slacker in the blogging department.  But I do have a good excuse.  I don't like to blog without pictures, and since Dan wiped my computer clean, I'm having a hard time getting pictures from my camera onto the computer.  Like it doesn't happen at all.  Before, when I would plug my camera in, a little screen would come up and ask if I wanted to download all the new pictures.  I would say yes, and ten seconds later I would have pictures on my computer.  Well, that little screen doesn't come up anymore, and the only way to get pictures is to transfer them from the camera to the computer, so they are not on the camera anymore.  So annoying.  If any of you have any ideas how to fix this, please let me know.  
Blakely is just growing like a weed.  She loves to eat!  I had to take her in last week, and she gained about a pound and a half in one week.  She weighed in at 9 pounds.  I'm pretty sure Maicee and Kyson didn't hit 9 pounds until their 2nd months.  She is such a good little sleeper as well.  I think I would die if she wasn't.  She wakes up around 2:30- 3:00 to eat, then goes back to bed until 6:30- 7:00.  And her siblings sure do love her.  Kyson is always very interested in whatever she is doing.  He likes to help me burp her, too.  Maicee is always loving on her, giving her kisses, hugging her.  One of the first days we were home from the hospital, Maicee came upstairs with me to feed her.  She was sleeping in her little bassinet, and Maicee was sitting on my night stand trying to wake her up.  I walked into the bathroom for 10 seconds to finish brushing my teeth, came back out, and Maicee was sitting on the night stand with Blakely in her lap.  I about had a heart attack.  Maicee had the biggest smile on her face.  I calmly explained to her that she can't pick sister up without help from mom or dad, or she might hurt sister's neck.  She could seriously hold her all day long. 
Blakely goes back to the dr. next week, and we find out whether or not she has to wear a brace on her hips.  The dr. says it's no big deal, but I would rather not have to deal with it.

I love this little purple outfit.  It used to be Maicee's.

Maicee is always in her face like this.

This is her favorite sleep position.