April Baptism & Baby Blessing

Saturday, April 10th Calvin will be getting baptized a member of the LDS church by his daddy and is so excited!!! The very next day our baby Sophia will be getting Blessed by her daddy. We are thrilled that it will be on the same weekend in case family flies/drives in etc. For the blessing our church starts at 1:30pm and we have sacrament first hour.

We would love to have you all join us for these two once in a lifetime events if possible. :o)

Advice anyone???

I know I've not updated my blog with a ton of pictures and details of the past 3 weeks like I had expected to by now but I did upload several pictures on facebook but I will update my blog hopefully very soon.

We are having family pictures this coming Saturday, Feb. 27th and they will be outside with the same lady that took our last family pictures (like the one at the top of my blog) and I'm wondering if any of you have some ideas for me because my mind is blank. Not sure if we should do dressy or just sun dresses for girls and jeans for boys??? It's a little different with an infant. I would have waited a little while but Margo the photographer is from Utah and can only do it this weekend.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated! :o)

Visitors Welcome

Baby Sophia Lauren

has arrived on Feb. 1st, 2010 weighing in at 7 lbs 10 oz and 20 inches long.

I'm going to post a ton of pictures hopefully in the next few days...but I wanted to let you all know that we would love visitors! Healthy of course and preferably after 10:30am :o)

Another change hopefully the last...

I got a call yesterday saying that my surgery time is now Monday at 7:30am so we have to be at the hospital at 5:30am so we will need to leave our house at 4:45am! I think I liked 2:30pm much better but I didn't get a choice. :o) At least it is still with my own doctor. :o)

Change in Plans

I got a call today saying that one of the c-sections cancelled and so I get to have my own doctor do it now and at Chandler Regional Hospital on Feb. 1st at 2:30pm instead! YEAH!!!

The only bummer is that the other hospital was newer, nicer and both kids could see the baby since they lifted the kid restriction but it was way further away. I'll stick with Dr. Carrion and love to do all of my follow up with my own doctor who I've been seeing for the past 8.5 months here in Maricopa! YEAH!!!

Quick quick update

Went to the doctor today and unfortunately she was somewhat rude and in a hurry, hopefully she was just having a busy stressed day and it was a bad first impression. I so wish my own doctor could do the surgery!!! boo hoo New doctor told me she wouldn't do the c-section on Monday unless I went back to the specialist and had another fancy ultrasound today or tomorrow even though they did an ultrasound at their clinic so I had to hurry and call and luckily Fetal Women Center worked me in today. I personally think it was a waste of $1200 bucks.

Baby Sophia's blood was even better she is only MILDLY ANEMIC at this point which is fabulous! She weights 7 lbs 14 ounces already! Little chubby girl :o) She is in the 84.2% overall for her age of babies....her belly measures in the 98% and her head is 79% so she has a big belly to match her cheeks I guess. :o) At 37 weeks and 3 days the perintologist told me she would probably be over 9 lbs if she went full term.

No pictures because yesterday she flipped and is now BREECH! Yes I felt it yesterday and thought good grief what is this baby doing to me. lol I guess after being head down for several weeks she decided to get comfy so luckily I was scheduled a c-section or would be having one due to the breech condition. ha ha

Only a few days to go & Thank you!

Only a few days to go before I get to hold this precious baby girl! I'm so excited! So nervous too about my surgery since the last two were terrible but I'm trying to be positive at least I get a darling baby out of it right! :O)

Tomorrow I go meet the doctor who will delivery her unless she can't wait that long...yes every time I move I get contractions and then sometimes even when I'm not moving I'm still getting them about every 20-30 minutes.

I have about 101 things to do before the big day and it is frustrating sometimes that I can't do it all the way I want to and when I want to but I'm being good and laying down. Will has been such a wonderful hubby and has really helped me out with so many things....too many to list and is constantly telling me to SIT OR LAY DOWN! The kids have also been pretty good helpers and pick up everything I drop or need to be picked up because it's so hard to bend over these days. :o)

I feel like this is my first baby and that everything needs to be perfect for some silly reason probably because she's our miracle baby and more than likely our final baby. We feel so blessed though to have such a great ward with such great friends! All week long friends have dropped by with treats or baby gifts etc. So many friends/family have offered help with practically everything and have been checking in on us...it is so so so nice. Thank you THANK YOU!!

I'm excited to have my Mom come for a couple of weeks, wish my sister could come but she's got to report the news. I'm so thankful that sweet Sophia has stayed put for so long and that her blood tests have been improving and she should be totally fine.....SOOOOO thankful to Heavenly Father for that!!!

Five days to go...then off to Banner Gateway on Monday, Feb. 1st with surgery start time of 5pm so delivery of baby Sophia probably 5:15pm. Can't wait well maybe cuz it's flying by!!