Ultrasound Pictures

This is a picture of his face with his hand on the right. We can tell he is going to have chubby cheeks.

The last two are profile pictures of his face.

These are ultrasound pictures that were done a week ago when I went to the doctor. I'm still at home on bed rest. For those that know me well, you know how hard it is for me to sit around and do nothing. I'm trying to keep my sanity and count down the days until I hit 37 weeks. I have 2 more weeks to go. I hope I don't go crazy in the mean time.

Scary

I am at home now on bed rest. So today I have been surfing the Internet. I was looking something up with baby #2's due date. Look what I found below.


Your baby will start kindergarten in 2014, be old enough to drive a car in 2024, finish high school in 2027, and will graduate from college with the class of 2031, give or take a year. Can you imagine?

That is a scary thought!

Shocking News: We are having a BOY not a girl!

A lot has happened this week, I am going to do my best to catch everyone up to speed. My blood pressure started to get to high so I was transferred to a new doctor. I went to my new doctor on Monday morning and my blood pressure was pretty high. They did an ultrasound while I was there to make sure the baby was ok, which the baby was and is ok. This is when I got some shocking news. We found out the baby is a BOY. In our ultrasound before (at 19 weeks) we were told we were having a girl so we had prepared ourselves for a girl. I had gotten all of Kaden's clothes out and sorted them by size for this baby. Now at 34 weeks we find out we are having a boy, and we have NO CLOTHES for this baby. I had already sent out girl baby shower invitations and registered as if we were having a girl. I have already started fixing the registry and we will have to make sure everyone knows our big news.

Now to get to my blood pressure. The doctor sent me to the hospital for observation on Monday from his office. After waiting for ever at the hospital, I was finally seen and they ran some tests. He decided to keep me over night which turned into 2 nights. Right now it seems that I just have high blood pressure and not preeclampsia like I had with Kaden. However, because it is so high the doctor said I will not be able to carry the baby to full term. I received 2 steroid shots to help develop the babies lungs faster since he will be born early. Now the goal is for me to make it to 37 weeks. I am on strict bed rest now and will remain on bed rest until I deliver. I am still at the hospital hoping to go home today. I am going crazy here. This is the first time that I have been away from Kaden and I'm dying to see her and be at home. The doctor is waiting on one last test result to decide if I can go home. Once I see him today he told me that we would make a plan of action. I will be sure to keep everyone updated. The good news is that since I have been on bed rest here at the hospital my blood pressure went down and is considered good right now and this was without medication!

Happy Friday!

9 month check up

Kaden went to the doctor yesterday for her 9 month check up. She had a good check up, the doctor said she is a very healthy baby.

Below are her stats:

weight: 21 pounds 14 ounces

height: 28.5 inches

Kaden has been a very busy girl this month. She is working on 4 teeth at once! Yikes! Two on the bottom have already come in on either side of the middle 2. You can see them in the picture above. Her top 2 teeth are breaking the gum on the top.

I can tell Kaden really wants to walk on her own. She will pull herself up and then let go and try to walk but she just can't do it yet.

NC State Fan at Heart

Even though we can't see many NC State games here in Miami we still are cheering them on. Hopefully we have a better rest of the season, since our start has not been that great.

Pics at 9 months

Now that Kaden is 9 months old she thinks she is a grown up!
Kaden helping Mommy and Daddy grocery shop.

Sorry this is blurry. We were trying to show off her 2 new teeth. She got 2 teeth at the same time which was a nightmare: one on either side of the 2 in the middle on the bottom. Now Kaden has 4 teeth. All on the bottom!

Kaden's favorite toy: a balloon

I am too cute and I know it.

Maddie thought she would see if Kaden had a dirty diaper.

Now Kaden only wants to be on the floor so she can crawl and pull up on things.

I did it!

Now it is time to relax and take my bottle.

First ER Visit

Last Wednesday Kaden had her first trip to the ER. I received a phone call from day care about 3:30 saying Kaden had a fever of 106. Of course this made me panic. Her pediatrician told me to go to the ER. When I got to the daycare, Kaden's hair was soaking wet from sweat and she looked like she felt horrible. I made sure to ask the day care 3 times are you sure it said 106, because I had a hard time believing it was this high. They reconfirmed the temperature. So I did not want to take any chances, off to the ER we went. They ran several tests to see what could have caused the her temperature to get this high. I am not sure if the drawing of the blood, taking a urine sample, and the taking snot sample was more traumatic for me or Kaden. I had to hold back tears while I watched my poor baby scream. Thankfully all the tests came back negative. When we left the hospital her temperature was 101 and two days later the fever was completely gone. I am still not sure that her temperature was that high but it is better to be safe than sorry.

Update in Pics

Kaden loves Mommy's sunglasses.



Kaden at Chucky Cheese with her cousin Clara.

Kaden with her uncle Stephan and cousins Clara and Anna.




Gilbert's sister and family came to visit from France. Kaden loved playing with her cousins.

Pregnancy Pic

I realized I have not put any pictures up from this pregnancy. This is me at 28 weeks.

Aunt Hannah comes to visit

Aunt Hannah came down to visit us. We had a great time. Hannah helped me out so much. It was nice to be spoiled. We will miss her!

Bath Time

Kaden loves bath time! She loves to play with her rubber duckies. She especially loves when I get the shower head down.

Standing

Kaden now loves to stand in her crib. This was taken this morning at day care.

8 months old

Kaden is now 8 months old. It is hard to believe. She now does the following:

Kaden can sit up from lying down

She can pull up to a standing position

She can walk when holding on to our hands!

She is crawling fowards now!

She talks more and more.

She holds imaginary conversations with herself.

She has almost grown out of her 12 month clothes.

I have a few videos I want to upload. I don't know how to do it yet. As soon as I figure it out they will be up. Kaden is growing so fast and is so active now!

Misc Pictures

We had a baby shower at work for Luly and Jean Max (they are expecting a baby boy on August 26). Kaden attended and wore this special outfit that Granddaddy gave her.
Kaden loves to look at her book of pictures. It is so cute, she talks to the book like she is having a conversation.

Now Kaden can stand up alone. She can almost pull herself to standing as well.

Look at those curls.

I love this picture of Kaden and Gilbert. This is from when we went to watch the Dolphins practice.

Yum! Yum!

Then and Now

This is Kaden before at 3 weeks old.

This is Kaden now at almost 8 months old. She has grown so much. We also had to put the bouncy seat up. Kaden was leaning out of it to the point where she was about to flip the seat over. We decided it was time to put it up. My baby is growing so fast.

Wake Up Call and Pregnancy Update

This weekend I had a big wake up call. Kaden has just started wearing size 12 months clothes. She only wore 9 month clothes for a month or a month and a half. When I went to buy some 12 month clothes she has moved up a section. This just reminded me how fast she is growing.

Her hair is curling now. Her hair on top of her head is curly. This weekend the curls were just standing up on her head, it looked so funny. I am going to try and get a picture of this.

Pregnancy Update:
I realized I don't talk much about this pregnancy. I feel bad for the poor little girl but we have not forgotten her! I am 25 weeks pregnant now and just went to the doctor. I had a great check up!

Weight Gain so far this pregnancy: 3 pounds: excellent!

Blood pressure: excellent!

Protein in urine: NONE: excellent!

Swelling: NONE: excellent!

I have been worried that my blood pressure was going to get high like it did with Kaden. But so far so good. We just keep praying that it will stay in check.

Other than feeling tired and that how am I going to make it 3 more months (especially in this heat), I am doing good. I miss being able to nap when I want too like I could when I was pregnant with Kaden. It is very different to be pregnant with a little one at home.

New Pics

Kaden is doing very well moving and crawling around now.
We went to our friends baby shower last Saturday and Kaden just couldn't make it the entire time before she fell asleep.

Kaden is still just crawling backwards. She can get up on all fours and rock. Also yesterday her teacher told me she is trying to pull herself to stand now!

Kaden always wants to eat what Mommy and Daddy are eating. Yesterday she helped herself to Daddy's plum.

7 Months Old

I love this picture of Kaden with her Daddy.
Kaden loves to reach for the tv remotes and change the channel.


I am such a big girl that I can hold my bottle and I like to drink water now too.

We told Kaden that this is not very lady like. She loves to put her feet up on the things on her bouncy seat.

Kaden playing in her play pen.

I can't believe that Kaden is 7 months old now. She is growing so fast.

Things Kaden can do at 7 months:

Wave bye bye

Say PaPa

Drinks water

Crawls but just backwards

Loves to talk to the dogs

Loves to talk in general