Shenanigans with Daddy

I work part time Monday through Friday from 12-5.  Jake comes home and gets to spend the afternoons with Naomi.  I would rather be home all day with her but right now that's not gonna happen.  So it gives Jake plenty of Daddy time.  I spend all morning with her and she naps most of the afternoon.  Works out well for him :)

He is a great Dad and husband.  He sends me photos almost everyday.  Here are a few....

I

Love that face!!!

Laundry

Helping Mommy do laundry....

Helping Daddy do laundry.....

Father's Day

This was Jake's first year as a father.  Naomi had a horrible night leading up to Father's Day so I started the day of at 4:30.  Naomi watched me as I made French toast for breakfast, which was slammin' by the way.  We gave Jake his presents before break fast. 

I had spent all week sneaking around getting these photos taken, printed, and put in a frame for him to keep in his office.  Tracie (my sister in law) had done this last year where you take photos of your kids with the letters that spell DAD.  Naomi did a great job and I thought they turned out really nice.  Jake loved it!

We spent the morning hanging out together and then we got ready for church.  Dinner was at our house this week.  Jake requested butternut squash risotto and garlic pull apart bread.  I also made some steak roll ups I had seen on Pinterest.  Tracie brought dessert and it all turned out well!

Naomi loves her Daddy and I am pretty fond of him too.

(Mom why am I dressed like this?)

(What is this?)

(Tastes pretty good I guess)

(Daddy's tie is cool)

This girl is sweet but....

She doesn't want to sleep...

Nomi can only sleep for about 3 hours at a time during the night.  She doesn't always sleep in stretches that long mind you.  She just won't learn how to put herself to sleep.  I am unwilling to let her "cry it out" so I won't complain to much since we haven't really given it a real try.  For now we swap off every few nights or so.  I sleep in the spare bed in her room and Jake will take a night when I ask him to and I get to sleep in our bed. 

This week I had one of the worst migraines hit me while I was at work.  It was so bad that I couldn't see out of my peripheral vision and Jake had to load Naomi in the car and pick me up from work.  That night Jake sent me to sleep in our bed.  I only had to get up at feed her once around 3:00am.  Love him and appreciated that so much.  Naomi is almost 7 months so she doesn't need to eat during the night but she always screams as if she is hungry so for now she still gets a late night snack.

She is doing better with naps during the day.  She even surprised me two mornings this past week with a 2 hour nap!  She kept waking up during her late afternoon nap so Daddy held her for the last bit of it.

Love her to pieces though!

A few scary days

We took Naomi to her one week appointment last week.  Her body temperature was at 96.7 so her pediatrician had us wrap her up and see if she would be able to raise it by herself.  We waited half an hour and it dropped to 96.0

We were sent down to the children's ER which was a fee floors down.  It was a long walk, very long.  The doctor said that we would be admitted to the hospital for a few days to run a number of routine tests.  She said it was most likely nothing but since she is so little it had to be done.  

They put her under a heater and her temperature came up.  We had to leave her alone in the room while they did a spinal tap, but we could be with her the rest if the time.  We cried a lot.  It was absolutely terrifying.  We were in the ER from 9 am until almost 8:30pm.  They finally admitted us and we spent 3 days waiting.  They gave her several rounds of antibiotics just in case...it turned out to be nothing.  

She was fine.  She kept her temperature up for those 3 days.  We were sent home.  I am so thankful that she was ok.  I feel for the other families that were there for much longer.  Very scary but all turned out fine.  

Baby girl

Jake and I have been married for over 4 years now.  We decided that we wanted to start a family back in 2010 when we were in Chile.  The plan was to get to it when we got back to the states….Well, that didn’t go exactly as we had planned.  It turned out that we needed a little help with fertility.  Without going into all the details, we found out I was pregnant while sitting at our favorite Mexican restaurant in March.  I didn't get that moment of satisfaction when the stick turned blue or pink, or if it had two lines or one.  I had a blood test done at the doctors and they called with the results.  It didn't matter we were so happy.  We had tried and waited for what seemed like forever and it was actually happening.  I know there are people who try and try for years and never get to have children.  I feel for them and am eternally grateful to my Heavenly Father that he blessed our family so much.

November 28^th 2012 I was 38 weeks and 5 days pregnant.  My feet and legs were horribly swollen.  

I spent the entire day yesterday resting at home.  My blood pressure was pretty high when I went for a checkup and my OBGYN was afraid I might have pre-eclampsia.  I waited to hear from him all day to see if we were going to go in for a c-section that night.  Our little baby girl was breech and if it turned out I had pre-eclampsia he was not letting her stay in past tonight.  I wanted to have her normally, but if having a c-section was the best and safest way to get her here then I was ok with it.

I left work and headed to campus to pick up Jake.  My doctor called while Jake and I were waiting in the parking lot. He said that my test results had me barely under the line for pre-eclampisa (something about the Uric acid levels) and that I had gestational hypertension which leads to pre-eclampsia so we needed to head to the hospital because we were going to have our baby that night.  Jake and I headed to Vanderbilt medical center around 6:00PM.  We waited for about an hour before a nurse came and brought us back.  It took another hour to get me prepped for the OR. 

I was taken in first so they could give me a spinal block, not a full on epidural.  A spinal would only last about 3 hours.  It took about half an hour to get everything done.  It was a bizarre experience to be naked from the waist down and then for it to go completely numb.  Oh the glamour of child birth.  Jake was allowed in once the sheet was up and we were ready to go.  I felt a little bit of tugging and then we heard this little cry.  Naomi Alexandra Sauer was born at 9:35PM, weighing 7 lbs 15 oz and measuring 21.25 inches. 

They took her over to the warmer to get her cleaned up and checked out.  Jake went over to her once the nurse said it was ok.  I couldn't see her at all.  Once she was declared to be healthy Jake brought her over to me.  The way my body was restricted, I couldn't really see her face, but I could hear her.  

Jake then went with her to the nursery while they stitched me back up.  It felt like forever for them to get me sewn back up and back into our room.  I waited a little more than an hour before they finally brought her into the room.  She was absolutely beautiful and all ours. 

Jake said she got her first bath while she was in the nursery and that she grabbed onto his finger and wouldn't let go the entire time.  After all the morning sickness and the swollen feet and the sore back, we finally had our own little family. 

ok...FRESH new start....

So a lot has happened since I last posted.

Jake did NOT get the BYU job, instead he got a job here at Vanderbilt.  He is doing this advising program for undergraduates which he only has to do for like 2 months out of the year and then he gets to teach a class in the Spring semester and that's it.  He could goof off for the entire time in between and get paid for it.  Of course he would never do anything like that...  It is basically a sweet set up AND we didn't have to move all of our books!  That would have been a pain, reason enough to not want to move.  He can renew up to two more years so we could be here for another 3 years if he doesn't get a teaching position somewhere else.

Oh, and another thing, Jake and I are gonna have a kid!  We are pretty excited about it.  I have been absolutely miserable, but I keep telling myself that I wanted this.  We have an ultrasound scheduled for next Monday to find out if it is a boy or girl.  I personally think it's a boy, not sure why, but I just do.  Jake and I keep joking that the poor kid is gonna come out looking like a bobble head doll, nothing but feet and head. 

The due date is Dec 8th, which is my birthday.  I may just cross my legs for a couple days so it can be born on 12-12-12!  Yeah, we'll see how that goes.

Mandy