My little, big girl!

So back a month ago I had my baby girl.  Jacee Ann came on May 19, weighing in at 8 pounds, 8 ounces.  I am now overwhelmed with blogging, which is why I haven’t kept up.  I am just thinking if I am going to get back in this for scrapbooking purposes, I better start soon!!

To start at the beginning, a week before Jacee came I was put on bed rest.  My blood pressure had started getting really high so we got a little worried.  On Monday before she came the dr wanted me to go to the hospital to monitor Jacee and my pressure.  Jacee was doing great, but the blood pressure was not, so she decided to induce at 38 weeks, on May 19!  Here is my bed rest companion until Jacee came.  Sweet Sadie is so neglected.

My labor was super fast and easy this time.  I started my meds at 6:30 and had Jacee 4 hours later.  I got my epidural really early on, so never really had a ton of pain.  If this pregnancy had been a little easier I would have 5 more babies…well, maybe not. 

Here is proof I can have a big baby!!

She did not enjoy her first bath, luckily at home she enjoys them!

Love those chubby cheeks!!

She looks HUGE here, but I never really thought she was in my arms!

Adlee got to come in that afternoon to meet her baby sister.  We had Jacee in the nursery and talked to Adlee before we brought Jace in.  She was very excited to meet her sister and give her the bunny she had made her!

Since this first kiss, there have been many many more.

Adlee was beyond thrilled that Jacee had made her a kitty.  She said “Oh thank you, Jacee” about 100 times!

Adlee wanted to help right away!

And of course hold her!

First attempt at a family pic. 

Sweet sisters!

I will leave you with the most recent (yesterday) picture of my girls.  It pretty much says how my life has been lately.  Jacee wide awake with Adlee close by, and Adlee full of attitude!!

Big Sister Day!

In about 2 months my daughter’s life will drastically change.  Now, I know this is going to be good in the long run, but I feel that in the beginning Adlee’s world will completely be rocked.  So today we had a fun day just spending time and doing fun things with her.  We told her it was all about her being a big girl and being a big sister.  All 3 of us had a great day!

It started at build-a-bear. Adlee got to pick out and make her baby sister a bear…er, bunny!

She did great realizing it was for baby sister and not her, and then we got home and she wanted to nap with it.  We let her.  She doesn’t know it, but her little sister made her a cat, they can exchange at the hospital when they meet!!  Adlee got a cat because this entire pregnancy I have had a baby in my tummy and Adlee has had a kitty.  Really we have no idea where that came from, but she has even told my doctor about it!!

Our next stop was Chuck E. Cheese.  Adlee had never been so I thought it would be a fun trip.  Adlee had fun in the end, but was very overwhelmed for a while. 

She finally got into some of the games!

We then went home for a nap, although we didn’t quite make it.  Big sisters need naps too!

After naps we went to get snowcones, then to the playground.  To be honest we could have skipped all of the stuff that cost too much and played at the playground ALL day.  She loves playing!!

Big girl going to do it by herself!

We are proud of our big girl!!

Jerred did manage to steal the camera and get one picture of Adlee and me, however that will not be a published picture.  I will surely use it during teenage years to show both girls a) what I went through for them and b) a little visual during “the talk.” 

These are the months of the year...

The other night Jerred was giving Adlee a bath, that his is daddy duty! He yelled at me from the bathroom and said "I think Adlee is saying the pledge of allegiance!" I went in there and sure enough, she knows the whole thing. She says is at Amie's house every morning and it has stuck. Smarty-pants.

Typical Minister’s Kid

This last weekend we went to Texas for my cousins wedding.  Adlee tore up the dance floor at the reception.  Before anyone had even started dancing Adlee warmed up the floor. 

Jerred couldn’t make the wedding so Uncle Markie filled in and let Adlee dance with him and his girls. 

Dancing with cousin Johnnie.

This is Mark holding ALL 3 girls!!  He said the high pitched squeal was ridiculous!

Grandad and Lydia getting down.

I think Dad and Mark wore themselves out, but these girls were not hanging up their dancin’ shoes just yet.

Cousin Abbie joined in the fun!

Notice the older girls watching Adlee, she really was just in her own world dancing her heart out! 

Beyonce’s song, All the single Ladies, came on which is Adlee’s favorite.  I went out there to sing and dance with her and she told me to sit back down.  Needless to say I did not leave my seat again that night.

A slow song came on, so Adlee just decided to take a minute and have a special dance with Minnie.

Since then she has told me several times how much she loves to dance.  You know those Church of Christ Minister Kids…they are t.r.o.u.b.l.e. 

I wanna be a cowgirl!

I have an amazing Dad!  Every Friday my Dad goes to the Coffee Creek Riding stables to help kids with special needs ride horses.  You can check out more about the stables here.  That is right, my Dad is the greatest.  This is of course just one of those things about my Dad that I love!! 

Last Friday, Adlee and I had off school so my Dad jumped at the chance to get Adlee at the center to hang with the horses.  She was a little apprehensive at first. 

She got to brush and pet several horses.

This one gave kisses(licked) just like Sadie!

And then we decided to push it by putting her on a horse!

And it was over!

She cried until we left.  We got in the car and then she cried because she wanted to go back to the horses and Grandad.  I asked her if she would go back and play with the horses to which she said yes.  She was very specific though, she likes to pet the horses, not ride them!