I am SORRY!!!

This was about 2 1/2 hours after she was born, my second time holding her

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Next Day less than 24 hours old NICU

I need to apologize to my dear blog, I have neglected you and now it is time for an update!
Lets see I forget where I have left off, I know I was still pregnant last update, but I am not now. I have had Baby Lily! She is now home and her birthday is June 3 2009. She had a hard time getting started into this world. When she was born she did not breath on her own. It took them about 10 minutes to get her to breath on her own, they called it resuscitating her, I don't like to use that because her heart was beating, slow but beating. She was in the NICU for 4 days. The hardest part of all of it was that she was not allowed to be with me in my room and then on Friday after she was born they kicked me out and they had no room for me in the hospital, so I had to end up going home that night and she stayed at the hospital. I cried all the way home that night. She never had to be on any oxygen after she got to the NICU and she looked perfectly healthy. They had her hooked up to and IV and heart moniters and two other cords that kept an eye on her, but she was perfect. I did not fully understand why they kept her for so long in there, but am grateful that they were taking her not breathing serious enough. Well she is now home and is doing great! She is eating very well and sleeping great as well! She is not a fussy baby, and she rarely crys. She looks like her daddy and is very beautiful! She is different than Christian in everyway and I love her very much! She is my angel! Christian has adjusted well considering that his 24/7 mommy attention has got to be split between the two of them. I have really tried to make it a point to spend as much time with him as possible. He loves his new sister and he loves holding her too. He has only steped on her twice now, (she is going to be one tough chick) but that is okay no harm done! He loves singing "twinkle twinkle little star" to her. Around 4pm he starts misbehaving a little, so I have to remember to keep my cool, which is hard sometimes. I have to remember that he is only 2 almost 3 and he is going to get into stuff and throw fits. So far I love being a mom of two! I guess it is to late to change that! LOL

Well I have lost about 20 lbs since I have had her, about 20 more to go! I can't wait till I am cleared to start working out again! I want to be in a two peice swimsuit by the end of summer! I know I can do it!

We are going to the lake this weekend! I cannot wait! She will be 2 1/2 weeks old and on the water! Oy! What am I thinking!?!? I know Christan can't wait to go swimming! He loves the boat! Thanks Adam and Paula, for letting us go down and enjoy the lake with you all! It is great to have friends like you!

Well I know that there is more I can update you on but I really don't have the time! I will update again soon!
Ciao!

Ahhh, the kid is getting older!

Well I wish that was true more ways than one! He is still not potty trained, but I have read that with having a new sibling coming into the picture, that it is not worth the fight! Christian is getting older though in so many other ways! He is SO into trains right now that Jory and I are thinking about buying a train table for our basement for him to play with! I cannot tell you how many times I have watched Thomas the Train in the last few days! I cannot wait till it gets a little warmer so we can go to the park and play and just be outside more than indoors!
Jory and C made a deal the other day, I think that it was Sunday, that if he goes without his paci then he would get a new train from Daddy! Well C went to the trash and threw away the that he had and he sat down and played with the trains that he had already. It was so funny, C asked Jory every ten minutes or so if he could have his new train. So funny! He has been doing very good all day without the paci, right now he only gets it if he goes night night. When he falls asleep we take it out of his mouth so he does not have it in all night. So far so good!

I will have to get his elephant march on camera and post it so you can see! He is SOOOO funny when he does it. He likes watching the Jungle Book and the elephants on the movie march. He tilts his head up and counts and marches around the house! We march wherever we go! You have to see it to know how cute it is!

Well my salon is done! Yea! I can do hair in the basement and I don't have to move stuff from my guest room to the kitchen and back again! No more hair on the counter and on my floor! It is great! I am just waiting on my ceiling to be done and some different lights. But I have used it a ton already! I am so glad that I can work out of the house and make a little money! The entire basement is almost done too. We are buying some couches from a friend of ours, just to get us by for a while! It will be a fun place to have friends over and just relax down there! I will post pictures soon.

We are getting very close to when Lily arrives! I can't wait! She is going to be so beautiful! I hope she gets Jory's eyes! I will get the bedding in the mail today and it is purple with butterfly's on it! I will take pictures of her room when it is all done! She is slowing her kicking and movements a little, she is just getting big! She should be around 3-4lbs, right now! I have 7weeks left and I am feeling pretty good! I am not getting a whole lot of sleep, because I am up every hour and a half going to the bathroom! Uggg, it is because I drink so much water during the day! I kick myself every night for not stopping the drinking earlier! Oh well I am just SO thirsty!

I guess that it is okay to say that I am going to be an Aunt again! Yes Meg and Drew are pregnant! She has been really sick. I feel for her! I remember that when I had Christian. She is about 13weeks now and she should start feeling better before too long! Congrats Meg and Drew!

Well I guess that is all I have for now! I will post pictures soon!
Ciao!

Oops!!!

Well the other day Jory and I were talking about baby Lilly, well we were talking about how to spell her name! I thought that we were going to spell it with 2 L's instead of one! He said no I want her name to have one L. LOL silly Dyan!!!! So her name is Lily, with one L not Lilly with 2! It is after the flower! I could care less how we spell it, I just love the name! So oops on my part! I hope that this does not confuse people too much! Just thought I would let you know!

Update?? Whats an Update???

Hee hee!!! I know I know it has been a LONG time since I have filled you all in with what is going on in my life! Well here it goes!

The end of February Jory and I went to San Antonio, TX for a weeks vacation with some friends of ours! It was a fun time! Jory's dad Scott gave us a weeks long stay at a time share he owns for Christmas. I have never been to Texas, so it was fun! We went to the Alamo, Riverwalk, shopping, and mission. We hung out by the pool a few days, got really burnt...completely my fault! Yeah I forgot to put sunscreen on my legs! Well I did not FORGET, I just didn't! LOL Oh well! Besides me getting burnt, we had a great time!

March is here...Spring has almost sprung...The baby is growing! I had my 26th birthday, a few weeks ago now. It was nice, I am getting older!

My cousin just got married this past weekend and ALL of my family came into town from all over the country. It was so nice to see everyone! I miss them all! The Wedding was at Club 1000, on 10th and Broadway. What a cool place! Very urban! It was a nice wedding and it looked like form the outside, that everything went smoothly! Congrats Hyler and Katie!

Jory and I went on Saturday morning to go and get a 3D sonogram (pictures are below). How cool is technology these days that you can see what your baby looks like in the belly! Little Lilly is growing growing growing! 10 weeks left, I am on the home stretch!

Musical time is upon us! I am working hard with my kids to have them learn their dance! It is REALLY simple! We start combined rehearsals this week, so I will pull them out for just a few minutes to work on it each rehearsal! They will get it and besides that they are SOOOO cute!

Well I think that is all I can do for now! I will try and keep up a little more!
Ciao

Baby Lilly!

Heart Update #2

Hey all...I just wanted to tell you that I wore the heart monitor for 24 hours and I also had my echo done. Everything looked good on the Echo exams that I think that I have nothing to worry about. I will tell you though that the heart monitor sticker thingies that they stuck on me, must have had a latex adhesive on the backs of them, because I was itching like crazy!!!! I am so allergic to latex. Oh well when 3:30pm came around I was ready to get those things off of me!!! So anyways, my heart is fine and all that is happening with it is a premature heartbeat. Nothing to worry about. It will just drive me crazy for the last 3 months! Oh well as long as there is nothing wrong with it I can deal! I just wanted to let you all know what was going on!

Heart Update...

Well I had my appointment with the heart doctor today. I really don't know anything else more that I did before I went, except that I am needing to go back on Monday for a Echo and to get a heart monitor to wear for 24 hours. After that I will know a little more. I will update when I find those results.

Well this morning I let the doggie out to go potty. I am watching Cali, my Mom and Dad's dog while they are in Mexico. Guess what she found????? A possum!!!!!! I could not believe it! It was hiding behind my BBQ grill. She was going berserk by barking and running side to side trying to get to it. She never acts like that unless the cat is outside. So I went out to see what all the commotion was and I about died!!! I grabbed the dog and we both went inside. I did not her to get hurt. So I called animal control and said I had a possum and asked if I could get someone out to get it. I told her I was about to leave and is it okay for him to still come out. She said no they will have to set a trap and stuff and they would have to talk to me about it first! I said okay I will call if it is still here when I get back home this afternoon. Well thank God it is gone...I think it got the heck out of dodge! The ferocious Cali scarred it to death!!! LOL

Well I really don't have much else to talk about, so I will update again soon when something worth talking about presents its self!!!

Ciao!

Belly Casting

Well thanks to my friend Emily Neeld, I am going to do a belly cast of baby Lilly! It is SOOOOO cool! I have heard of people doing this so they can remember the fun times of being pregnant! Emily has a art degree and this is right up her alley! I was reminded last night of it when I was watching the Bachelor on TV. They (the girls) did a bust cast for breast cancer research. It was so cool! They go to paint it with whatever they wanted and then they were going to be sold, and the $ was going to go toward cancer research! Anyways, I have wanted to do this since we found out it was a girl. It would have been cool if I could have done this with Christian, but I am going to put this in her room, and I think that it would have been a little weird if I would have had a cast of my bust and belly in my sons room! So I did belly pictures with him instead! I will do this instead of pictures with Lilly. Something special for each of them! Anyways here are a few pictures of what they look like! It is SO cool, at least I think it is. Other people might think that it is weird! Oh well! I will have it painted pink with butterflies and her name on it! I will post pictures of it when I get it done. I will wait till I am about 7mths along so it is a really good cast! Enjoy the pictures!

Lilly Dyan

Okay so that is our little girls name! Is it cute or not??? I LOVE it! Jory picked it all himself! Well I was doing some research online about the meaning of the names Lilly and Dyan and all I found, was Lilly means "lilly" really?? That is all they have?? The meaning of Dyan is "divine" Who knew! I guess I AM divine!!!!! LOL Just kidding! So my little girls name means, lilly divine! LOL I guess that is fine, I was just hoping for a little more! So if you know anymore about those names please let me know! Anywho that is all I wanted to say!

Book Two...

Okay I am such a dork! I am totally sucked in to the Twilight books! Everyone said I would be, who knew a book about Vampires could suck me in. They are not bad, like evil. They just get you imagination going. I really liked the last half of the book, that is when it started picking up. It was a pretty slow start. It took me 4 days this time to read it. Meg says that the next one is pretty fasted paced, so we will see. I plan on starting it tonight. I have to go and buy it first though! I figured I better get some stuff done around my house today so I refrained from going to Target this afternoon! Well speaking of stuff that I need to get done, I better switch the clothes around so Jory has clean socks for tomorrow! LOL

I made it!!!

Well last night was a success! I think that I did a outstanding job with those kids! Who knew! My nerves just melted away when I got in front of them! Just thought I would update you on last night!

Choir 1

Well tonight is my first night teaching choir. I have to admit that I am a bit nervous...I mean I love to sing and I love to teach, but those two together, OH BOY!!!!! I guess God does not call those who are equipped, he equips those who are called!! At least that is what my mom says! We will see. I just got done making my lesson plans for tonight and I sent them to my mom to see if I have enough stuff on there! With the little ones, I have to keep stuff moving otherwise they get bored! I am teaching Kindergarten and First graders! Most of them cannot read yet, so teaching them songs is completely by memory. I have different rhythm activities and silly songs and games to play with them. I feel like I am ready. I just hope I don't forget their names! That will be the hardest part for me! I will have great teen helpers and wonderful Karen Fields! I will be fine!

Twilight

Okay so my Sister said that I should read the Twilight books. I for a long time was like no, no they sound okay, but I don't know. They are a about vampires. Enough said. I like movies like Van Helsing(SP), and other mythical movies like them, but I did not know how I would like a book about it, I honestly thought that I would have a hard time sleeping at night if I read them. Really the only time I have time to read is at night after everyone has gone to bed. I can usually get a chapter or two in before I fall asleep. I last week gave in and got the first book of the series. It was not huge, only 25 chapters. I thought that it would have taken me a month or so, with the way that I read. Well it only took me 1 1/2 days to read it. It was way better than what I thought that it would be. I was not scary at all, it was more of a love story. I found my heart jumping and beating fast during intense parts, and books do not normally do that to me. Stephanie Meyer is the author, she is a really good writer. It completely held my attention and I can't wait to see the movie now. I am going with my Mom and Sister on Sunday sometime. Anyways if you want a good book to just escape from out world, this is a good one. It was an easy read. I am reading a few other books too, Dr. Dobson's "Raising Boys", and "The Strong Willed Child". So it is not all about Vampires. Just the last day and a half! I will let you all know how the movie was!

The Chart Sucess!

Well ever since Christian has had a hard time going to sleep, I have been racking my brain with new ideas to get him to not fight me when it is bedtime. I was at my whits end the other day, because he has now started to fall asleep around 10:30PM!!!! That is just too late. I am tired he is tired and we were fighting like crazy! So I was at my moms house on Monday, and I just asked her what I should do. She was so funny, she asked me if I wanted her to tell me what to do or what!?! I said I want to know what to do! I have not done this before and I need HELP!!!! She suggested that I make bedtime a fun time, make a chart hype it up to him. I said "make a chart??" and she said "yes, make a bedtime routine chart of everything that you do before you go to bed, like get PJ's on, brush teeth, go potty, take a drink of water, read two books, pray and at the end of the chart NO CRYING!!!" Well I did it I made the chart when we got home. Christian helped me flip through magazines and cut out pictures. We glued them on a poster board and then I found some stickers. When Jory got home we had a family meeting to explain what the chart was and how much fun it will be to do this every night! Christian was excited about it! When we were done eating dinner, I told him it was time to pick up toys and get ready to go to bed and do our chart. He picked up the toys and practically ran upstairs! I thought well this is a good thing! He did the chart and got into bed and I told him I would stay for 5 minutes and then I was leaving and he had to stay in his bed and not get up otherwise he would get a spanking. Well lets just say that the first night was not such a huge success. but he did fall asleep in his own room, not down stairs. Well I asked my bible study to pray for me yesterday and I think that it worked, because he was asleep in his own bed with no tears before 8pm last night! So I hope that it is only going to get better! I will not give in, I will not give in!! So anyways Mom you had a GREAT idea and I guess I just have to learn from the best! LOL

The time has come...

Yes Yes it is time at last to take down the Christmas Decor. I am so sad! I love Christmas and I don't want it to go! My house will look so empty when everything is down. Now a days I get really tired really fast, so we will see how much I actually get down today! It seems like it takes forever to put up the stuff, but not real long to take down! We will see tho.

Christian is of course up to no good today! He does not want to take a nap and he wants candy instead of his sandwich I made for him! I did find out the other night that he does like crab legs! Of course I had to break them open for him, but he could not get enough of it. He did not even want to eat his noodles. Funny at least I found a meat that he does like. Can't get the kid to eat chicken or pork. But he does like fish. Weird huh?? Most kids would eat chicken before they eat fish! Leave it up to my kid to do just the opposite!

Well on Weds morning I woke up with the flu! Yes the barfing, yucky, feel like crap flu! I thought that it had to do with the antibiotic that I took the night before for my sinus infection, but when I called the doctor, she said it was not because of that. Well crum...not only did I have a sinus infection, I could not keep anything down! I was planning on having a New Years Party at my house that night, but I had to cancel that. I was in no condition to play hostess! I felt so bad that I had to cancel. Oh well I had to get better tho. I am MUCH better! Thank the Lord for that! Funny...The last time that I was throwing up I just asked the Lord to make it stop! He answered my prayer. I know it was him, I just know it! So really it was thank the Lord! LOL

Last night was fun. We had Scott, my (FIL) come over and watch Christian while we went down to the Plaza for dinner at Hibachi Japanese restaurant and a walk around the Plaza to look at the lights. It was great food and great company. My sis and Drew came and Brandon and Janell meet us down there. They normally sit 8 at a table and we sat with a girl that I went to High School with. Shannon, I think...well she was the class before me, so I asked her if she knew Jeremy Buske...and she said she did. Not surprising, he was very popular in high school. I don't like throwing out his name, but she looked VERY familiar to me. Anywho they were a VERY interesting couple. They gave Jory a shot of Hot Sake...don't know how much he liked that, but he took it and he did not die! LOL Anyways the evening was really fun, it was like a post New Years thing. Too bad Adam and Paula could not come! I am sure that they are having a blast skiing in CO!

Well little baby girl inside of me is sure kicking around a lot! It is so cool to have that feeling again! I can't wait till people can actually feel her kicking. I really can't wait till Christian can feel her. It will be so cool to see his face. I doubt he knows what really is going on, but it is still cool!

Mom and Dad get back late tomorrow night from their New Years cruise. I think that they had a fun and exciting time! Can't wait to see pictures. I know Cali will be very excited to leave my house, poor doggie, she had been picked on all week and I know that she misses my mother. I have been home with her a ton, so it is not like she has been alone, but she has a bond with my mom that she does not have with me. I have decided that I do not want a dog tho, they are just a lot of work. We like to be gone to much for long periods of time that I would make it had if we had a dog. My mom's dog is really good and she has put up with a lot this week with Christian constantly on her case. But she will be glad to get home I am sure!

Well I think that I will stop rambling for now! I will post pictures of the basement, when the floor is dry, Jory stained it today...It looks really cool right now...Can't wait till it is completely done!

Ciao!