One Week....

I have the most darling 1 week pics of Lexei....

of course i dont have time to upload them.

She's now almost 2 weeks...

so i'll upload both at the same time.

I love being a mommy...

but between being a mom, recovering and trying to not put so much stress on Nicks shoulders i am SO busy.....

i will update soon.

Promise.

:)

May 17th, 2011... a day i will never forget

Alexei Kaye Van Komen

May 17, 2011

7:48 p.m

7 pounds 9 ounces

19 inches long

(mommy was 7 pounds 8 ounces 19 in. long<3 )

I never thought being a mommy could be this great.

i love my baby girl so much! i could not immagine life without her.

I am SO in love!

and she's forever mine!

keeping myself busy!

This past week since ive been home from the hospital ive been pretty miserable.

i cant move, im 100% dependent on Nick to help me 24/7 and it sucks.

i want this baby out so bad now that shes ready but i can only wait till she decides to make her arrival...

Sooo to keep myself busy ive been doing lots of crafts!

My cousin Hailey is having a baby any day now here too and she's also having a girl!

I was in the hospital during her shower so i was unable to go :/

Here are my crafts for her new baby:

Brekin Riann

i crocheted around this cute little blanket and burp rag for her :)

This is her cute bow holder i made. her colors in her room are light pink, brown and cream.

and this is the cute sign i made to hang up in her bedroom!

i love having Vinyl projects to do, so let me know if you need any!

hopefully i can find more crafts around here! My good friend gets married here in a weekish or so, so i'll have another vinyl sign to make!

lets just pray my little girl decides to make her big arrival here soon! like today! haha

May 9th 2011

Happy Birthday Chewy!!

the day after we got out of the hospital was chewy's 1st birthday!!

Nick and I were still super tired from getting no sleep in the hospital...

so we just took chewy to Arctic Circle to get an ice cream cone...

He LOVES vanilla ice cream....

needless to say he was on quite a sugar high after this and he had a great day!

i love my puppy.

i was so happy to see him after spending 3 days in the hospital.

He's such a good boy :)

1 whole year!!

May 7th 2011 was our 1 year mark!

We had some fun plans to go to the Melting Pot (one of my favorite resturants) and go shopping and stuff....

well Friday the 6th i was having really bad pain and contractions 4 minutes apart so that morning at 7:30ish we headed to Ogden Regional Hospital because we didnt know if we'd be having a baby that day! well we got there and the doctor put me on a monitor and i wasnt dilating so they werent too worried about my contractions. They were more worried about the fact that my temperature was super super high. So they ordered some blood work and it turned out that i had a really high white blood cell count... They were mostly worried for the babies safety so i was kept on monitors all day... When the doc came in he informed me that i had a terrible Infection somewhere in my body and they couldnt figure out where at. He told me that if my white blood cell count didnt go down and my temp stayed high then he was going to deliver Lexei the next day.... (which happened to be May 7th.... our Anniversary...) we were excited but hoping they got this infection under control... so the doc told me he was going to keep me for 24 hours to make sure that nothing got worse and he left... we figured it was all okay cause we'd either get to go home the next day or have a baby...... :)

well the next day they took more blood cultures and my white blood cell count had only gone down to 14 from 15 and thats mega high.... my temperature was still spiking when the Tylanol would wear off so the doc said 24 more hours..... i was so sad... so we spent our Anniversary in the hospital together! haha My mom and Grandma Cox came up and played cards at the hospital with us. it wasnt quite how i expected my 1st anniversary to go but im just glad im okay now.

Sunday (Mothers Day) this way sweet nurse did every thing she could to make sure we'd be going home this day... of course with no baby because they finally got my temp under control... and about 30 minutes before we were about to leave we had a little scare and they thought my water broke.... so about an hour and a half later and a million tests they found out that it was just my catheter leaking..... (UGH) haha

needless to say, i got home and Nick and I both slept all day and all night... i never realized how much i love my bed!

the hospital was miserable so im just happy to be home and have all those I.V's out of my arm and nurses bugging constantly...

Now if my sweet baby would just come already... im 27 weeks today and she's developed 28 and 1/2 weeks... so she could come any day!

please pray that she comes soon.... like tonight :)