My name is Sarah and I have been happily married to Mike since July 8, 2000. During those 7 years we have seen quite a few changes in our lives, but none compare to the birth of our daughter. Makaylee Ann Hale was born May 11, 2006 at 11:23pm. My how life has changed.
For those interested, here is a link to my pregnancy website:
http://www.babyhomepages.net/babyhale/index.php
We have now added Kaiden to the mix on January 8, 2008, what a wild and crazy ride!
Kaidens room will be the old guest bedroom. Which we already have painted a light cappacino color with green carpet. So we tried to find a theme that would go with these colors. We could repaint without a problem, but changing the carpet is another story. Here are some pictures of the room right after we got the carpet in:
So here is the nusery set we are thinking about going with:
We have decided to not purchase a new crib for Kaiden. Instead Makaylee will be getting a new bedroom set, and Kaiden will be using her crib, changing table and dresser. We figured this would be better rather than having two cribs. Plus her stuff is like brand new anyway. So, that is the plan at the moment!
FaceFace Profile Profile.....Is it possible for him to have my big lips already? Face and belly Profile Profile
Profile It's a BOY! There is a tiny arrow pointing to his boy parts! Face Profile The ultrasound went great! The tech actually remembered us from Makaylee. Kaiden was SUPER active to the point where she had trouble getting all her measurments, but she got them eventually. We were in there for about 25 minutes. He was flipping and turning every time she tried to measure something. The first couple of times she tried to get the gender shot Kaiden had his legs crossed, and Mike was getting really nervous that we wouldn't be able to tell. Then she was checking out his belly and he spread his legs and she froze it cause his little boy parts were right there. I thought Mike was going faint when she said "there is his Penis!" She knew he wanted a boy. So it was really cool. The tech said that it was a perfect ultrasound because he was in a wonderful position right on top. Which would explain why he has been so super active. We could really tell everything we were looking at and got some great pictures. Mike also got to feel him kick for the first time last night. So everything looks good and now we will have one princess and one prince! The tech gave us a ton of pictures. I wish we could share the video, but it is on VHS and I don't have the right tools to get it onto the computer. I wish they would get a DVD recorder, but this was our last ultrasound with them, so I guess it is not a big deal. We do plan on getting a 3D ultrasound in California like we did with Makaylee so our family can experience it with us. Hope you guys enjoyed the pics!
The body is green, but we added a red accent seen below. Our deck out back is going to be painted the same color. We will be painting the deck in the next month or so, so I will post pictures when the deck is done. Hope you like it!!!!
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Makaylee is walking! Sorry for not sharing these sooner, but here are her video's. She is really getting good at it now. I think she forgets that she can walk sometimes because she will start crawling somewhere but if we tell her to "Stand up and Walk" she will stand right up and walk to where she wants to go. She does not like to go on uneven surfaces. So like between the hardwoods and the carpet she will get down and crawl past. Or if she steps on anything in her path she gets down and starts to crawl. But she is doing really well, and I am sure she will be a full time walker before we know it!
We went to the beach over the weekend and had a ton of fun. Makaylee LOVED the beach. I only wish it had been warmer because the weather never got above 65. She she didn't really get to get into the water to much. She loved walking around in the sand, and bending down to pick it up.
As you can see from the pictures she has FINALLY started making progress on the walking front. She is standing on her own now and taking steps! YAY! I think 5 is the total now, but she is starting to walk more on her own free will as appose to us behind her trying to coax her into it. So I am sure we will have a walker any time now.
Makaylee has really started to catch on a lot to the baby sign language. It is so wonderful being able to communicate with her. She tells us what she wants when she wants it. It makes life a lot less frustrating for everyone in the house. Well, enjoy the pictures!
We had our appointment last week and everything looked great. My official due date is January 13, but my estimated c-section date is January 7. So looks like my dates were really close. Baby was very mellow and slept through the whole affair. (S)He had their hand covering their face the whole time. So that is a hand right above the head. My next appointment is July 16!
Our little toddler is still not toddling :) I think she is not walking just to drive us crazy! She is getting braver and starting to stand on her own a little more, but only for a few seconds. She is crawling at the speed of light though and can go from zero to in trouble in 2.6 flat :) Her favorite thing to crawl to is away from us and off the side of the bed. We have made several dive attempts to prevent her from going head first off the bed. She thinks it is the best gave ever!
Makaylee is getting really independent in her play. Basically if you are in the same room, she is good. She will play on her own and do her thing. But she doesn't like it when you leave the room. Luckily she can follow us by crawling. Our biggest problem with the crawling is Zoe is loosing her winter coat and there is white dog hair all over the floor. I vacuum almost every day and the floor is still covered in dog hair. Which means Makaylee's knees, and hands are covered in dog hair as well.
We got a swing and sand box for Makaylee out on our deck now. She LOVES both of them. She starts giggling as you walk out to the swing getting so excited to go on them. The sand box is only for bath nights because she is a pro at getting sand everywhere.
Well, that is about it for now. Hopefully we will be updating on the walking soon!
Well, there is really not much to update about yet. My first appointment still isn't for another 2 weeks. June 18, the day after fathers day. I am still exhausted and napping every afternoon with Makaylee. Then going to bed usually by 9, sometimes I can make it till 10. My morning sickness is coming and going throughout the day. I got a pill called morning sickness magic and it is really helping. The only problem is the cravings have started. If I am not craving something then I have to choke it down and it will usually upset my stomach. Last night I made dinner and everything tasted funny so I ended up not eating. Dinner was a basic marinated chicken, garlic bread, broccoli and potatoes with cheese. Everything was gross. LOL. Though Mike said that dinner tasted great to him! My belly is already starting to pop out a little bit, but truth be told it was still popping out from Makaylee :) So that is our update. Just waiting till our first appointment. We will have an ultrasound, so we will have pictures of baby then.
So, if I haven't spoken with you, or the growth ticker at the top of the page didn't give it away. We are expecting baby #2! SUPRISE!!!!!!!!!! We are due in mid January. I am saying January 15th right now, but will have an official due date when I go to the DR on June 18th. Sorry for such a quick update, but pregnancy symptoms are in full force with exhastion and all day sickness at the top of the list. I will keep everyone updated!
****** The ticker is blue in hopes of a boy, but we will be happy blue or pink as long as the baby is healthy.
My poor baby is having such a rough time right now. She is teething. She is getting 4 teeth on top and 2 on the bottom. Two teeth have actually cut through, but the rest are just making the gums swollen and her miserable. She was up every two hours all night long just crying and she has a fever. I know the fever is from the teething because she has nothing else wrong. She just sounds like she is in so much pain when she cries. I hope the teeth pop through soon. I am almost glad that she is working on 6 teeth at once just so we can get it over with, but it seems like these teeth are taking forever to come in. This weekend is the spring fair, and the daffodil parade was today. We were so excited to take Makaylee to the parade and she was just miserable so we left after about 15 minutes so she can come home and nap. I hope she is feeling better either when she wakes up or tomorrow so we can get some good fair time in. We took her Thursday night, opening day, and nothing was open. So it was a bust. Luckily Mike's company has a booth at the fair so we get in for free.
Makaylee did succesfully stay with a new baby sitter last night. Yeay Makaylee! It was a friends niece. She drove over here and got here about 45 minutes before I had to leave. I let them play together in the living room while I finished getting ready to make sure she wouldn't freak out. Though everytime she saw me she would start crawling to me. I did have to turn on a baby einstein DVD when I left, but Melissa said she did okay after that. She did have a couple minor freak outs, but eventually went to sleep. Melissa also said she would be willing to babysit again. It will be nice to have someone come over here because usually we take her to Tabi's which is 20 minutes from here and then we have to transfer a sleeping baby home.
I left last night for Mike's quartly banquet for A plus Mortage. His office was the number one producing office! YAY Mike! He got to speak any everything. He did great in his speach and I am very proud of him. He was also the 2nd ranked net broker for personal loans in the company. Another Yay Mike!
THis is her new thing with all empty cartons, bowls or anyting on the tray. She sticks it on her face just to make a bigger mess. But she has so much fun doing it!
I am so sorry I have been such a terrible blogger. I am going to try better, I swear. Just a quick update for today
Makaylee is fianally mobile. On her 10 month birthday she learned what we affectionatly called the peg leg crawl, Here is a videa why:
I am happy to say she is now a normal crawler.
Makaylee can wave, give kisses, dance (super cute, I will have to post a video), sometimes blow a kiss if the mood strikes her. She claps, does so big, she says dog, dada, and mama, and means all three. Sometimes she says hi and yay though we are not sure if this is on purpose or not. Her dog is also without the "g" sound. Mike has been trying to get her to do the "g" by sayind doooooooog to her so now she says dooooooooo when she copies him. Long o still no g. Again, super cute.
Makaylee has been working on getting her top 4 center teeth which makes for a miserable Makaylee lately, but she is getting better and I do have hopes those teeth will break through soon.
Makaylee is now officially a "wanderer" in our Little Gym class. This is what the kids who do not stay with their parents are called. Now that Makaylee can crawl as soon as we enter or class she leaves me to do her thing and doesn't look back. Though we made several errors today as she does not always watch where she is crawling to when she gets so excited. She just puts her head down and goes. So today we ran into a wall and balance beam. Also a mat, but that didn't hurt. I added some pictures to flickr and will try to add them to the blog
If you notice there is now flashing pictures of Makaylee to the right of your screen. Don't get to excited yet, there are only 4 pictures of her loaded right now :) I am working on loading more pictures so that I can share pictures that are adorable, but don't make the blog cut. So you can click on the flashing pictures and it will lead you to a website with nothing but pictures of Makaylee. How wonderful is that. Give me a little bit to actually get pictures uploaded. It will take time :) For now, enjoy!
