Cute kiddos

Robbie turned 2 months today!! He is too stinking cute.  He is learning to smile and I can just eat him up! That is one of my favorite parts of having an infant their first smiles. Robbie still loves to eat and sleep a lot and he has been such a joy! He now sleeps 6-7 hours at night wakes up to eat and goes back to sleep for another couple of hours. It is crazy how night and day him and Makayla are. 

 Makayla still loves him to pieces.  She has really exceeded my expectations on how she is with him.  She never tries to pick him up, she just loves to kiss him and give him pacifiers when he cries.  She really is an amazing big sister and we feel incredibly lucky and blessed to have these 2 cute children.

 Makayla had her swim lessons this year and she LOVED it up until the last 2 days hehe.  She had swim mon, tue, and wed for 3 weeks.  Fun story....the first day of swim, the first 2 min we had got there she got into the water, the teacher said hi, then took off to take one of the kids to practice kicks, well makayla didn't see where the ledge had ended and fell in the water.  I was right there watching trying to get the teachers attention without looking to dramatic, but I realized she wasn't going to get her in time, so I had to jump into the pool in all my clothes to pull her out.  Yeah the first 2 min of swim and I was drenched.  She found out quickly where the ledge ended and didn't go off again hehe. All in all she has a blast and had so much fun.  The teachers were pretty intense which is what I like and she learned a lot. She is not fully swimming, but practice makes perfect and she is pretty darn close.

 Oh how I will never get sick of looking into Makayla's beautiful blue eyes!

Baby boy is cuter than ever.  I woke up to him sleeping in bed with us one morning.  I had nursed him in bed at 6 and we woke up at 8 and he was sleeping like this.  So cute!! (he doesn't sleep with us in bed only the morning feeding is when I bring him into our room so I can nurse in bed and sleep some more)

I cant believe how blessed I am.  I have the greatest husband and sweetest kids.  I had 4 of my wisdom teeth pulled yesterday and Rob has been such a help.  I have to pump and dump and he has been feeding Robbie a bottle (which is so cute) and taking such good care of me and the kids.  He woke up sick this morning and that really sucks, but hopefully its a quick sickness.  He's so funny and while I didn't get "put to sleep" for the wisdom teeth removal, I did take a sedative to calm my nerves and help me get sleepy and needless to say I was pretty loopy! ha I took it an hour before my procedure while at home and Rob decided to record me for a bit. lol He said I was pretty funny and yet stubborn, He told me to sit down so he could get the kids ready and he would help me downstairs and I guess I tried to go downstairs by myself, but he found me in the guest bathroom on the tub ledge I told him I tried to make it downstairs and I couldn't stop walking so I ran straight into the bathroom haha Oh how I wished that was recorded.  I'm not going to lie it feels good to feel normal again but I'm grateful for strong drugs for getting wisdom teeth out awake cuz I was in and out of sleep and barely remember anything. I am still in pain and cant eat much but that's whats to be expected from getting teeth removed, although recovery is not as bad as I was thought it would be thank goodness.

1 Month

Baby boy is 1 month old! I cannot believe it. Wasn't it just yesterday I gave birth to him??!!

I have to say being a mom to 2 kids really isn't all that hard yet. I didn't really know what to expect but he has really been so sweet I haven't felt stressed out at all and Makayla has adjusted really great too. It could have been the fact that I have nannied all of my motherhood life, so I have always had makayla and another kid with me and makayla had to share her time with me early on with other kids but it has been so wonderful.

The past week in a half he has started to get super fussy in the evenings. Some nights he cried for a long time 3-5 hours and some nights 2 hours. We literally try everything to make him happy and other than feeding him for hours on end that is the only thing that will make him happy. Its weird though because even though he cries a lot at night it still hasn't stressed me out to much,

He has been sleeping in his crib in his room since we brought him home from the hospital after the rsv because we had the humidifier going and our room is too big for it to really work and it has been so nice. I always liked having my babies in the bedroom with us (I don't know why) but I have to admit I like having him in his room and nursing him in the chair as opposed to my bed. I get so tired that It is hard to function in the middle of the night when I am in bed but being in his room has helped me feel a different bond with him, and knowing rob doesn't wake up cuz he is not in the room makes me feel good too. He still sleeps 3-4 hours at a time at night, eats and goes right back to sleep for 3-4 hours again switiching from his crib to the swing. I have also been able to get him to take a nap when makayla naps most days which has given me opportunities to take a nap too and that has been really nice and has helped me function and have energy.

Things he loves...
Sleeping
Eating (loves breastfeeding too much where he wants me to be his pacifier)
Pooping
The sling (I carry him in it everyday when going to the park and he feels like he is in my belly all over again
His bouncy seat
Baths (we take one every night together)
His mommy, daddy and sissy

Things he's still getting used to...
The pacifier (each day he will take it more and more)
The car seat

We still are loving every minute with him and our new family. He is such a huge blessing in our life. Oh and we love his awesome hair!! If you havent noticed he's got the best hair ever!

Poor sick Robbie!

So I know this is a little old but I wanted to post it since this is pretty much my journal. Feel free to read or not.

Robbie has been such a good little baby. Since day one he would just sleep all day and he eat so great. At night he will sleep 3-4 hours, wake up eat and go right back to sleep for another 3-4 hours. He doesn't fuss much at all.

Well Makayla had gotten pneumonia and a double ear infection right after bringing Robbie home from the hospital after he was born and everyone in our home got sick so he was bound to get sick too. He was 2 weeks old and got a stuffy nose and started getting a fever. One night he felt warm so we took his temp and it was 99.8 so that got us a little worried because he is so young, we decided to keep an eye on him. We put him to bed and when he woke up to eat at midnight he felt even warmer so we took his temp again and it was 105, we didn't want to take any chances so we took him to the children's ER. Well I took him to the ER, Robert stayed home with Makayla there was no reason to wake her up just to have her sit in the hospital and because I'm breastfeeding I went. Well right when I got there they immediately took us back and took his temperature again. By that time it had jumped to 108. They told me because he was only 2 weeks old they would have to do the "work" to make sure everything was okay and rule out anything super serious.

They first started with getting blood which consisted of them having to poke him in 3 different parts of his arm because they couldn't get any blood out. He screamed and I eventually cried and it took 45 min. I thought that was bad,

Then they went onto doing a catheter to get a urine sample and he cried

then they told me they had to do a spinal tap. I started to really freak out inside. I asked a bunch of questions because obviously I don't want my baby to get paralyzed at 2 weeks old if something went wrong and the doc reassured me he had done it thousands of times and nothing has happened to one of his patients and there was no choice in the matter he had to get it done so I sat in the room and watched him get crunched into a ball and scream his poor little lungs out.

then they had to put tubes into his nose to check for RSV and at that time when they told me it looks pretty scary, I decided I have had enough and could not watch anymore, so I left the room but could hear him crying.

Oh how all that was so traumatizing for me and my little bean. After all that it was the waiting game. Robbie fell asleep and I stayed in there just comforting him. The doc came in and told us he was RSV positive and would need to be admitted to the hospital for at least 48 hours because of his urine sample it takes that long for bacteria to grow on it if there would be any and they wanted to monitor him with the RSV and from the spinal tap. at around 5 in the morning we were able to get a room and it was a long 3 days with rob and I taking turns staying and going home with makayla. I was able to go home and take a shower and nap then going right back to the hospital.

Thank goodness he is all better now!!

We had so much support from our ward, we got meals brought to us which was a big help especially while I was in the hospital with him my hubby and daughter was able to be fed. We are so greatful to be in such a good ward!

Home Photo Shoot

We did a photo shoot of Robbie at home and I think they turned out pretty dang cute!

Warning there are a lot of pictures

he was wide awake and was not having the photo shoot so we had to keep the pacifiers in his mouth pretty much the whole time, but they are such cute Binky's that they turned out adorable.

he is such a good baby. He eats soooo good and and loves to sleep. He is such a blessing in our lives

Announcing Robert Dale Miller aka Baby Robbie

Baby boy is finally here! His name is Robert Dale Miller he was born on 2/21/12 weighing in at 8lbs 1 oz and 19 3/4 inches long. He is sooo perfect and we are so in love!

my birth story is kind of long so I'll try to keep it semi short. Feb 19th at 8pm was when we were to go in and be induced, but the hospital called us that night and said there were no rooms available and they would call us when something opened up. We got the call at 4 am am that we could head to the hospital, so we did. It wasn't until 7:45 until they started the whole process. They started with cervidil to help dialate and soften me (I was only dialated to a 1 and 50% effaced) that had to be in for 12 hours before they could remove it. 4 hours after getting the cervidil I started having some pretty intense contractions. Luckily I didn't have to be hooked up to the monitors the whole 12 hours so I was able to wear my pj's and walk around the hospital. Well the contractions became stronger and stronger to where I could barely walk and was pretty much crying. well 12 hours go by and it is now 8pm and they take the cervidil out and I thought for sure I was dialated and had only a few more hours until It was time to give birth. So not the case my nurse informs me that I was only a 2-3. NOT EVEN DIALATED TO A 3!!! That was a complete shock because I was in sooo much pain for 8 hours! so I knew from then on it was going to be a long time. An hour later they put me on pitocin and my contractions picked up just a tad more. Midnight rolls around and I am finally dialated to a 3 and can get my epidural. I was so numb that after hours I had to call in the anesthesiologist to turn it down cuz I literally couldn't feel a thing and it was pretty uncomfortable, so they turned it down, but they told me they really didn't want to turn it down because it was already on such a low dose, but they did anyways, well on the 21st at 6:30 my doc came in and decided to break my water (at that time I was only dialated to a 4). I was feeling so defeated that after almost 24 hours I was only a 4 I just started to cry and told rob I didn't want to hear when someone texted us asking us if we'd had the baby yet it was just too hard. But once she broke my water things started to finally pick up. A couple hours later I dialated more and more by 11 they checked me and I was at a 7, but at that time I started to feel more and more of my legs and then my contractions then all of the sudden I was crying in pain again and my epidural was wearing off. The anesthesiologist had to come in and keep giving me doses. They think it was wearing off from it being so low for so long my body was in too much pain to mask the epidural. Well since I was now feeling all my contractions I felt soooo much pressure, 5 min after they checked me when I was a 7 I told her I was having tons of pressure and I think it was time to push, she waited to check me again for a little bit since she had just checked me, we finally got the epi working 80 % and the next thing we knew I was a 10. So in less than 5 min I had gone from a 7 to a 10. I asked for a mirror so I could watch Robbie being born (totally recommend it) and the doc came in and asked me to do a practice push and the head just popped out and the next push his shoulders and the next he was out. In less than 1 min my baby boy was born and I cried my little eyes out! It was such an amazing moment and to be able to see him come out was incredible! Luckily he came out so fast I didn't even feel any pain and if I had to push for a long time it would have been so hard since I was feeling some of my contractions still.

Okay sorry that was a lot to read!!
This is right after he was born, from the time we called my mom to tell her I was a dialated to a ten (she was 5 min away) she wanted to come in to see the birth, it was too late if you weren't in the room you were going to miss it, so my mom missed the birth but she is loving every moment with her new grandson!

Makayla holding Robbie for the first time. She loves him so much!!

Daddy is obsessed with his little boy! The second he arrived there was no getting his attention when he was around him. I would talk to Rob and he was so zoned into holding, or looking at Robbie everything else didn't exist.

He has been such a good baby we are so lucky and blessed to have 2 beautiful healthy children.

On other news 2 day after Robbie was born Makayla turned 3!! We bought a little trampoline for her birthday and she loves it. Her favorite things to do are playing with her friends, riding her bike, and playing baseball. She is crazy and fun and amazing and we love her more and more everyday!

Friends and Pregnancy

Makayla has a best friend who lives right across the street from us. Every single day she has to play with her friend Brynlee. I just had to do a post of them playing dress up. Brynlee is such a girlie girl and always had bracelets on and loves playing dress up and all the girlie things girls do, and Makayla is more of a tomboy. She loves playing with dolls and dress up when she has friends around, but when she is at home by herself she is all about playing baseball, basketball and wrestling with her dad (with the exception of dance, she is obsessed with dance and has been in dance for a year now) So it is so fun to watch her be girlie with her friends. We are so lucky to have such great neighbors and to have a best friend for Makayla right across the street.

I think this is my first and only "pregnancy" picture I've taken with this pregnancy, I don't get dolled up very often to want a pic of myself done. (not that I'm very dolled up in this pic anyways haha)

This is my week 36 belly. My pregnancy has been going pretty darn good, other than the normal aches and pains that are associated with most women's pregnancy's it has been so so so much better than my pregnancy with Makayla. I have some back pain, but some days its not too bad where with makayla everyday no matter if I relaxed or worked i was in constant pain, so just that has been nice. I'm still sleeping pretty awesome!! Some nights I'm uncomfortable and cant sleep, but thats prob only once a week the rest of the week i sleep like a baby with the occasional waking up to pee. I still have energy for the most part, some days are very difficult though depending on what I've done that day, but I am happy. I am sooooo ready for Robby to be here. I cant wait to hold him. I do feel extremely crowded in my belly (I don't remember feeling that way with makayla) and he kicks my ribs so much that I feel like they are constantly bruised. I'm hoping he will make his entrance at 38 weeks, so here's to hope!!!

Lions, Tigers and Bears Oh My!

This past weekend we went to the zoo and had a blast. Makayla just loves animals so watching her was so cute. I didn't take many pictures in fact I don't take many pictures these days at all, but here are a couple cute one's I got.

Rob and Makayla watching the Giraffe's.

hehe look at that little toosh! She has the cutest bum =)

For FHE on Monday night we also went rollerskating with some friends of ours and their kids. Our friends have 3 kids and one of them is Makayla's best friend. We bought matching roller skates for the little girls and they loved skating! My friend is pregnant too so her and I didn't get to skate but it was still fun for everyone!

they were so cute !!

This little girl is growing up so much and is such a joy to our family!