LONG Update

Well I can't believe how long it's been since my last post but things have been pretty crazy around here.

To start off on February 20th, 2011 at 11:14am our beautiful little Keylee Marie was born. I had went to the doctor for a doctor appointment and was scheduled for an induction to be done on February the 22nd, but on Saturday the 20th my mom took methe hospital because things just weren't right. We started that night out at the er at st lukes with my brother becuase he thought he had alcohol poisoning and wasn't able to breath right so we rushed him to the er and then as soon as my mom walked in her house with him I was calling her asking her to come over and take me to the hospital just to make sure everything was ok. I had been leaking fluid all day and wasn't really sure if it was my water breaking or not so I just wanted to be sure. Well when we got there it wasn't my water that had been leaking but they checked me and I was 5cm dialiated and having contractions every 2 minutes apart so they decided to admit me. My poor mom was exhausted because since I wasn't prepared thinking it was going to be nothing she had to keep running back and forth to my house to get my vehicle and our bags and everything else and help me notify Chantz who was at work thinking we were going to just get a "dear it's false labor go on home". Chantz's mom and him stayed with me the whole night while I just "coasted" and then at 7 am they woke me up to tell me they were putting the edpidural in and the petocin in to get the baby out. I started telling people and they were in route thinking it was going to be a while like it was with Dalton however at 10:30 the nurse came in and said you're almost at 10 were getting ready to get the doctor in here and deliver your baby. I almost freaked because I couldn't believe I had jumped that fast with her and I really did not feel anything I wasn't sick, hurting, NOTHING. It was extrememly weird but I figured they knew what they were talking about. Sure enough at 11 Dr Reeves came in and said lets get the baby out. I pushed for maybe 6 or 7 minutes and she was out. I didn't throw up like last time or even break a sweat. My doctor says it was probably because she was WAY farther down and ready to come out so it was quicker for her but if that's the case I hope any other baby I ever deliver will be "that far down". Anyways she came out at 7lbs 6oz which is 2oz bigger than Dalton was and she was 19.25 inches long which was shorter than Dalton at 21 inches. I have to be honest as soon as she came out I had a guilty feeling like "where's Dalton" that was all I could think about was that if he didn't come in immediatley he would think I didn't want or love him anymore. It was a very emotional day as I was overwhelmed with joy and love for her but also so worried and upset about Dalton and that he still knew he was my little angel also and I didn't love him not one ounce less just because we had Keylee now too. The first couple of days were pretty much an emotional roller coaster. I was sad that Dalton was at home with other people and not with Chantz and I and Keylee at the hospital so I was definitely ready to get out of there and be at home with my family. Keylee's pediatrician told me he heard some fluid left over in her lungs since she came out so quickly and wasn't in the birth canal that long it didn't give it time to get pushed out which worried my completely being a mom. She also dropped all the way down to 6lbs 11oz which concerned the doctors so it was a little nerve racking just hearing all of these things. When we arrived at home things were pretty hard at first with the jealousy issues from Dalton of Keylee and the annoyance of not being able to go up the stairs in my house and being so uncomfortable from nursing her. When we took her to the doctor and found out she was gaining and healthy a huge relief lifted off of my shoulders and once Dalton started acting sweet and loving towards her all the weight was gone. I was able to enjoy my family being together and eating up every sweet second of Keylee being with us. I just also need to say that I really didn't think I was going to care if I had two boys and never had a girl UNTIL I had Keylee. I am SO happy she is a girl and am having so much fun dressing her up and putting matching bows in her hair and can't wait to take her to get her nails painted and watch her carry little purses and so much more!! We love you sweet baby girl and are so glad you are here with us and as healthy as can be after a VERY frightful nine months of pregnancy and premature labor with you.

Now with Dalton.....Dalton was so excited to have his baby sister come join us, at least that's what he thought lol. He would love putting his little head up to my belly and kiss my belly every single day but when she actually came he was confused. I was showing him how the ball in my belly was gone at the hospital and he just kept starting at her like what is my mom doing holding that baby. The way he said her name at first it sounded like he was calling her "kiwi" which was pretty funny. After about the first week he really turned around to where every morning when he came downstairs he would ask "where's kiwi" and go look in her bassinet to see if she was still sleeping in there. He starting giving her kisses, fed her some pumped milk and was even laying down on the floor next to her when she was getting her diaper changed. He is now to the point where he won't go anywhere without her and if he does he asks where she is the whole time. He always brings her her "paci" which is her pacifier and everytime she's crying in the car he will find her paci for her and give it to her. I love when he says "she just want her paci" whenever she cries. Lately when we're in the car and keylee starts crying he will get extremely mad at the car in front of us and SCREAM "move lady my baby's crying" or "go lady my baby's crying"...it just cracks me up that it's always a "lady" never a man lol. This is kind of embarassing but i want to remember this...Keylee had been sucking improperly on me when I was nursing her at first and so the "tips" became really red and Dalton was walking by one day when I was trying to latch her on and goes "mommy what's that" and I said ummmm what are you talking about completely embarassed and he goes "is that a strawberry" lol and I was like yup that's a strawberry trying not to laugh and so he'll always say "she's eating her strawberries" when he sees her nursing on me. Another funny thing he's been doing is there is this song called like a G6 and for some reason when it comes on in the car dalton sings "like a cheesestick" and it just cracks me up!! And another funny thing he's been saying is "i'm gonna kick nana"....he spent a couple of nights with my nana since Chantz works nights she comes to our house and sleeps with him in the guest room so I'm not alone and he'll say yeah I'm gonna kick her and he thinks it is just the funniest thing. A couple of other funny things he's doing is with Yo Gabba Gabba. He used to be into this show where this was like the only thing we were allowed to watch....so my mother in law drove all over florida looking for Gabba toys for his birthday last year and finally found him a plush plex and brobee. Well this year he still watches Gabba every now and then but he is really into Fresh Beat Band (which has the jerk according to him and nana that's what they call him but his real name is twist) and Backyardigans and movies Toy Story, Cars, Stuart Little and Finding Nemo. Well he used to have his buzz and woody go everywhere with him and one day I hear him talking amongst his "friends" and he's telling them that's it's you go to timeout. Well I was cleaning and wasn't really paying attention to him and I go outside in the garage to throw something away and see the plex doll in the trash. So I picked him up and took him inside and said ummm Dalton why is plex in the trash and he goes on we don't like him anymore he's being mean to buzz and woody. so I told him ok honey we don't throw him away just because he doens't get along with them we just put him in another room so I set him on the bottom of the stairs. So later that day I see the downstairs bathroom door shut and I went to open it and Dalton dashes across the room to stop me and yells no you can't go in there plex is hiding in the dark. So I open the door and see his plex doll in the corner by the cabinets in the dark and I said what is he doing in here Dalton and he once again told me he was in timeout haha. The next day my mother in law came over to the house and was changing in the bathroom downstairs and Dalton went in there to talk to her and he picks up his plex doll and goes you see him his name is plex and she told him I know I drove all over florida trying to find him for you and Dalton tells her "don't blame me" lol. He is just too smart for his own good. Speaking of Dalton's "friends" he has a group of toys (whichever ones it may be that day) that he carries EVERYWHERE and those are his friends. They have to sleep with us go to the grocery store with us and even sit under the blankets with us on the couch to watch tv. Whatever is new in Dalton's life that day becomes his friends....or at least is added to his collection of friends he already brings everywhere. It's really annoying in the middle of the night when his buzz lightyear or mac goes off and starts talking or when he has so many friends in the bed with us that I get no sleep becuase I'm completely squished with no room. He has had mostly cars, buzz, woody, mac, water guns, bullseye, jesse, and just random action figures but sometimes it even goes as far as the metal pieces to the monopoly game and yes even the cup and dice that go to yatzee. My do I just love the random "friends" that sleep with us every night hahaha. Also with these friends if one of them is being to loud and I tell him to be quiet because Keylee is sleeping he will yell at them "lightning you be quiet keylee is sleeping I said no more talking or you're going to timeout" and sometimes I even fall or trip over toys as I'm coming in the door who are in the timeout spot and Dalton is extremely serious that they are not to move until they say sorry or their time is up. I'll also hear him talking to his friends at the bottom of the stairs and he sounds just like me when I talk to him he'll tell them "just wait a minute policeman my mom said when she's done she will come get your drink" lol. He is just too much and I can just eat him up. I love him more and more every day and am so excited that I now get to stay home with him and Keylee every day so I get to hear all these adorable little things that they say and these little memories that they make:)

Until next time.....

2011 so far...

Well so far 2011 has been pretty crazy. We've been adjusting to chantz's new schedules at the police department which has definitely been a challenge on all of us but we're pushing through it. We got a chance to take some pregnancy pictures this time around which was really neat and I love the way they look in her nursery. I'll have to post the pictures on here when the link it working because right now it's not connecting to our session. On January 9th my best friend through me a baby shower for Keylee and it was such a blast. We made tutus, onesies, bloomers and played some fun games also. It is so amazing to see how truly blessed we are to have such loving and caring people in our lives and we are so thankful for all of them. Keylee got plenty of beautiful and thoughful gifts that I look forward to her getting to use in the next month. The weekend right after the shower I wanted to start rushing around to get everything I needed to set up her nursery and get that finished...well I guess I overdid myself becuase I went into premature labor that night. On Sunday January 16th my mom took me to the hospital and the nurses had to give me injections to stop the labor because Keylee is still not mature enough to come out just yet. The injections cause her heartrate to go way higher than the "safe zone" which was the most nerve racking thing I've ever been through in my life. Luckily the first two doses were enough to stop the contractions and my heartrate went to high that they couldn't give me the third dose and I pretty much didn't need it anyways so that worked out to help her heartrate not continue to rise. The next day my mom took me to the doctor and he put me on bed rest from then until the end of the pregnancy with absolutely no excersice except for getting up to use the restroom. I am not someone who likes to sit still and especially when I have a list of 100 things that need to be done before my baby gets here so this has been extremely hard for me to do but knowing that it will keep my daughter safe and allow her to continue to grow I am able to stick it out. My doctor did give me pills to stop contractions when they start and I have had to take those four days out of the past two weeks so I'm pretty sure once he takes me off the pills at 37 weeks she will be coming not too much longer after that just becuase the contractions are not stoping on their own. We have had great support from our families during this time to help me out with Dalton while chantz is working and if it wasn't for my grandmother, mother, mother in law, and Brittany, I'm not sure what we would do right now. They have all four been so much help with taking shifts and helping out with preparing the house for the baby to come in so many ways. I am just so thankful for all of them.

On another note Dalton has been having nightmares lately which is really scaring me. All of the sudden he thinks that there are monsters that are going to get him throughout different times during the day and he has to make sure he brings his gun to bed with us at night so that he can kill the monsters if they come to get us. I keep reassuring him that there are no monsters but he doesn't seem to believe me. I just hope this phase ends soon because it's very upsetting to me when he tells me " mommy I'm scared the monsters are going to get me".

On an exciting note, this year for chantz's birthday which was just a couple of days ago on January 25th, Dalton finally used the big boy potty!!!!! I had pretty much given up on trying to get him potty trained since he had no interest and would tell me he was not going to go on there constantly. It's like one day he just woke up and decided hey I want to go on the big boy potty now. so I hope this sticks out and that in the VERY VERY NEAR FUTURE he will be 100% potty trained with no more accidents. That would be nice with little Keylee coming soon so that we go back to just ONE being in diapers and not two.

Here we are 2011!!!

Well it is just crazy to me how long it’s been since I’ve posted. It’s like the whole second back half of 2010 just flew by. We started out the summer finding out some very exciting and important news…..we were pregnant. I thought this was going to be a super easy pregnancy like Dalton’s was however I was majorly wrong. I have been so sick this pregnancy and we have had more scares than I ever thought possible. Right on top of us finding out the good news Chantz’s police academy started. He was elected Class Leader and had a ton of studying ahead of him. My company that I was working for finally was divested and I got promoted to the VP’s secretary for Superior Energy Services when it was all said and done. Day one of the merger happening was also my first day of fall semester PLUS I was still in the first trimester which was the worst sickness wise. Through September and into the beginning of October our lives mainly revolved around school, pregnancy, working and spending time as a family any chance we got. Unfortunately we had some early scares in the pregnancy which ended with us having to give Aggie to a new family. Even though this saddened me greatly, it was necessary and it ended with him being in a better home anyways. With us he had to stay in his crate most of the day while we were all at work and babysitting and our yard is really not big enough for him to run around completely so he really wasn’t getting to “live” that great of a lifestyle. The family that we gave him to has two little boys 10 and 12 who run with him constantly on their acre property home and the Dad gets to stay home with him during the days while the mom is at work and the kids are at school so he really doesn’t ever have to go in a crate. I thought Dalton was going to be really upset and he does still to this day ask where he is but we told him that Aggie went to live with his mommy like he lives with his mommy and Dalton was ok with that. There are times where I want to cry I miss him so much but we had to do what was best for our family and new baby. October 13th we went for the 20 week ultrasound (we as in me, Dalton and my nana because Chantz had to be at the academy) and we had a gender reveal party with all of our friends and family afterwards. I told the ultrasound tech that we didn’t want to know what the gender was but instead to color either pink or blue in a card that I had bought and that night when everyone got there we would open the card and Dalton would reveal which color was used. We did this so that Chantz and I got to find out together at the same time along with all of our friends and family and it was a lot of fun so I’m glad we made that choice. When Dalton opened the card I asked him what color was in there and he said white (the color of the actual inside of the card) and I got impatient and crazy and looked and screamed out it’s a girl!!! We were all so excited beyond words. So October 13th was the day that our second baby became Keylee Marie Humphreys to us. Shortly after this was Halloween which was a lot of fun this year because Dalton was actually old enough to pick out his costume that he wanted to wear. Luckily my best friend moved home in August so she was able to be with us for everything this year including the picking out of the costume which is a story in itself. Brittany, I and Dalton went to all the Halloween stores to try to find something for Dalton to be and everything that we picked out he wanted nothing to do with. Finally we went to party city and we picked out three costumes to try on. One was really cute a little skeleton creature and that’s the one I really wanted him to be. The other two Dalton picked and they were the DJ Lance from Yo Gabba Gabba and a football player. Well he thought he wanted to be the DJ Lance until I put on the football costume….once he was in it he screamed bloody murder when we took it off of him. He wanted to wear it right then in there and not take it off but I needed to pay for it so Brittany had the honor of holding the screaming child who sounded like we were just abusing him in there. On Halloween itself we went to the Houston Zoo for the “boo zoo” with Gigi. It was a lot of fun but it was super packed and extremely hot. Dalton had a good time though playing in the water gym and at the petting zoo. He liked looking at the “Jafar” snake since he was so into Aladdin at this time. He also like looking at the little Abus and the tigers like Jasmin’s. He made Gigi a little pumpkin and got to do some trick or treating while there too. We ran into our friends the Trevinos while there which was neat getting to see them dressed up in their cute little costumes. After we left the zoo we came home to the house where Brittany Scott and Cali came trick or treating with us along with Nana Papa and Hunter. Cali, Dalton and Hunter were all football players and all looked adorable together. Dalton got a ton of candy and had a great time running let me repeat running not walking to the houses. The month of November we were busy again with school getting ready for the semester to end and also with Thanksgiving holidays. Chantz passed his TClose exam on the first try awesome job babe  right before Thanksgiving so we were extremely thankful for that. This year was a little hard it was the first year I was away from my mom for Thanksgiving since I’ve been born. We went to San Antonio to visit with my Dad’s family and spend the holidays with them. We ended up having a great time and it was awesome to get to see everyone. We didn’t know at the time but this would be my grandmothers last holiday so I am extremely glad that we didn’t miss it. Dalton gets so spoiled every time we’re around family it’s just crazy. I don’t know how Aunt Martha and Valerie didn’t just fall over dead with how much they ran and played with him. Right after Thanksgiving was Chantz’s Police Academy Graduation!!! This was really a special night because I was able to pin his badge on and he had a full speech he had to give at the graduation plus he was the one who ended up handing out all of the awards. Just seeing him up there on stage with all of those honors made me so proud and I just wanted to stand up and say yes that is my husband we are so proud of him. He truly did everything he could and gave more than 100% between taking care of my needs with the pregnancy and Dalton and school and trying to balance everything out and here he did it!!! That weekend after his graduation I had a surprise dinner for him at one of his favorite places to eat and with the help of his best friend we were able to shock him with everyone being there. Even friends of his that were in the army with him and he hasn’t seen since February were able to come out and support him which was awesome. He was super surprised and said that was one of the best things anyone has ever done for him Another fun memory of December 2010 was Santa’s Wonderland. We got to attend this event this year up in college station with Uncle Randy Aunt Stephanie and the kiddos which was a BLAST. The kids had such a great time and Stephanie and I loved shopping for little girl stuff for Kyelar and Keylee. We went on a personal horse drawn carriage ride through the lights which were amazing and the kids got to ride the ponies and go into the petting zoo. We didn’t end up leaving there until close to midnight and would you believe all four kids were still running wild as we were trying to get them to load up in the vehicles. That next day however we were hit with some shocking and sad news…my grandma connie had passed away while in surgery that Saturday. I was overwhelmed with emotions both good and bad and so our holidays did not start off looking too great that week. That Thursday before Christmas eve though, we got the best Christmas gift we could’ve gotten. We went to the doctor for another ultrasound because the doctor was concerned that Keylee was not growing properly and we found out that not only is she on track but she is a little AHEAD!!!! She was so cute on the screen trying to grab her little foot and making cute little faces at the screen. Dalton loves loves loves to see his baby sister on the screen. As soon as I tell him we’re going to see her he starts jumping up and down. With that good news, it really did kick of the Christmas spirit just in time for Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve we all went to church and then got SOAKED going to the car which Dalton just thought was hilarious and from there we went to my aunt’s house for the family Christmas. We did a secret santa this year which was really fun and we had a great time with this. Of course Dalton and my younger cousin Hunter were excluded so everyone bought them gifts and Dalton was once again completely spoiled. About half way through Chantz had to leave to go to work which was hard because I haven’t been away from him on Christmas since we’ve been together. Luckily Dalton went home with me and fell asleep in the car and what do you know it when we woke up in the morning Daddy was home and Santa had came to visit. He had eaten all the cookies Dalton and I made for him and drank the milk and he left Dalton a bunch of cool things including his very favorite a buzz lightyear convertible. We got to open presents with Daddy and then Chantz went to bed and Dalton and I played with his toys. Later that day my mom brought some lasagna over, so Chantz got to eat a good meal before he had to once again go back to work. Even though it was hard with Chantz having to work both Christmas even and Christmas day it was nice to just spend the day the three of us instead of running around like our heads were chopped off visiting everybody. We actually got to enjoy Christmas and lay down together by the fire and watch Christmas movies and play with Dalton with his new toys and actually spend some quality time together the three of us. That next weekend brings us to New Years which Chantz also had to work so Dalton and I went to stay at nana and papas house since the fireworks are so bad on our street and they are outlawed in their neighborhood. We had a lot of fun watching the ball go down in New York and Dalton loved it this year because he loves the pop artist Kesha and she performed live at celebration so he was dancing and singing to all of her songs. Since New years Day we’ve been doing just great, getting ready for the babyshower this coming Sunday and trying to get started with keylee’s nursery. I hope we get everything done that we need to before the end of January since she is supposed to be here in February but we will see how that goes….. and hopefully 2011 I will be able to keep up with the posting and not fall months and months behind:):):)