Sigh

Well things have not gone so well since being laid off. I don't know up from down, left from right. Nothing seems to be going right.

Babies are doing good though.

Chloe is 14.4lbs and 23 3/4 in long. She smiles all the time. She was trying to roll from her back to her front last night.

Mr. Gage is sick today, so he got to stay with mommy today. I had to keep the kids in daycare for 2 weeks since she requires a 2 week notice.

I got laid off today. I saw it coming. Oh well. I think this will actually be a good thing. We'll see what comes of it.

Monthly Update...so it seems

Little miss Chloe is getting so big. She has tons of fat rolls and definitely not skipped a meal. :) She has her 2 month check up (one month late) this week. So we'll see how much she weighs! She has some seriously pretty blue eyes. I'm wondering if they'll stay that way. I hope they do.





Gage has become such a nut. He is getting into EVERYTHING. I found him on top of the dryer getting his fruit snacks from the shelf. Then I found him climbing on the dresser trying to get candy. He is a very determined little boy. He says the funniest things. AJ will say "How 'bout, no!" and so something Gage will answer us with "how 'bout, no!" He also says lately "I stay home" when he doesn't want to go anywhere. Or if he doesn't want to eat something he'll say "Makes my face break out." He is such a nut.



Christmas was good. We got a lot of fun stuff. My dad got me the Wii Fit and I love it. AJ got something for our computer, a hard drive or something. He's been building and fixing computers again for extra money.

My younger sister moved about 15 minutes away and it's been fun since we can hang out much more often.

My birthday was last weekend and I turned 27! Ah only 3 years until I'm 30!! Weird!

Well I need to run. Have a nice week everyone!

Back to Work

I don't really update this much because as far I know only one person reads this. LOL. So if there are more, sorry for the lack of posts.

I am back to work now. I started yesterday. It's been fine, I guess. Leaving Chloe is weird. I am used to having her right there with me. I miss it too. Back to pumping three times a day. Fun times. I did enjoy my time off. I spent time with my sister and her baby.

We went to Disney on Ice back at the end of November. Gage LOVED it. He thought it was a cartoon. I had to bring Chloe because of some drama with my mom. She was supposed to watch her but she didn't show up. Nice, right?

We are going to my dad's house for Christmas. I'm excited. Everyone will be there.

Anywho, time to go home for the day.

Chloe and me (au natural!)

Crap it's been a while

Well let's see. Chloe will be 4 weeks old tomorrow. She has been a dream baby! She sleeps in her bassinet, something Gage never did. She nurses really great. Her weight on 11/07 was 8lbs3.2oz and 21 inches long. 50% for weight and 75% for length. She is gaining about 1.5 oz per day. Her pedi said "I guess you are making the good stuff." Hehe. I guess so!

Gage is taking it pretty well. Bedtime has been a struggle, but other than that he is just being a SUPER active 2 year old. He loves her and wants to kiss her all the time.

I am doing pretty good myself. I am not sore any longer and healed much faster than my delivery with Gage. I guess because it's my second and she was smaller.

I spent some time with my sister which is not something I've done recently. Her baby is 3 weeks 1 day older than Chloe so it's fun to compare. She isn't competitive with me about her at all, which is bad to say I kind of expected it.

I still have 4 weeks left off of work. I hope the transition back to work is smooth. I already have about 25 oz of milk pumped. She took a bottle this weekend and she did great so that is nice. I left her to go see my dad and my step-sisters boyfriend run a race. Adrean watched both of them for the first time alone. Gage didn't like that I left but he said Chloe drank the whole 5oz I gave him for her.

I will try and upload the pictures from this weekend and post them later. :)

Chloe is here!

I had Miss Chloe on 10/21 at 6:41pm. Long labor, but short pushing. She was 7lbs 4.8oz and 19 inches long. She is perfect and so pretty.

We have had a roller coaster time since she's been home. They almost didn't let me take her home because of her bilirubin level was 9.8. Her pedi said that we could just follow up with him on Friday. Her level with the head thing was 15.7. So he sent us for blood tests. It came back 14. So they sent us a photo therapy thing called a Biliblanket. It's a machine that looks like a paddle that goes up her back so she stays on it. It has to be on her 24 hours a day. They also send a nurse out to take her blood and check her weight. She was 6lb8oz on Friday and yesterday she was 7lb2oz. She has been finally nursing like a newborn and I know that is helping too. Her level last night came back as 12. So it's going down!!!

The actual PEDI called me last night here at home. I thought that was really nice and surprising. He said that if her level keeps going down we'll be able to take her off the phototherapy today. YAY! We've had to camp out in my room because she can't go anywhere until her level is down.

Okay, enough of the boring stuff...here are a few pictures: