Our sweet baby Camrie

Yesterday we took Camrie to get her first pictures taken. She was actually awake the whole time and did really well. None of her cute outfits and sundresses fit yet so we opted for all the naked pictures. They all turned out so cute, I love her pouty lips!! She is changing so much every day, yesterday was her actual due date, it's hard to believe 3 weeks has already been and gone.

36 weeks and almost there!!

The week started out with a Monday late night trip to Labor & Delivery after throwing up a few times and not feeling so great. We thought we'd make sure everything was ok, so we got all hooked up and sure enough nice, steady contractions a minute or so apart. I got the usual look of confusion from the nurse when she asked if I could feel them and I said "Nope!" They monitored me for about an hour and called my Dr. who graciously let me go home and follow up with him the next day if I was still sick. He figured it was the throwing up and being a little dehydrated that caused the contractions. I had an NST appointment at the Perinatolgist the next morning and the contractions had stopped, but baby's heartrate was higher than they liked so I drank some water & it came back down. I still didn't feel great so we went to see Dr. Lunt. He said anytime this week baby Camrie should make her debut. I knew this would happen just when he said I could go back to work!! Oh well how can one argue with 4 months of staying home and still getting a paycheck?? Braxton is so excited & told his teacher on Tues that if he wasn't at pre-school on Wed that meant that his baby sister was here. Well, I let him stay home with me today and teacher Kim was shocked to see me at pre-school graduation tonight still pregnant. A big shout out to Nick and Paige who have been so great to watch the boys while we have run into the hospital. We are so thankful to have them as friends and neighbors - as always, we "owe them big-time!"

Still resting...

So my 1 week of bed rest has officially turned into 4 weeks - much to my dismay, but after my next appointment on Wed. I should be good to 'do anything I want' as my dr. put it. I will be 36 weeks by then, which is usually when I deliver so we will wait and see what happens. I've also been doing Non Stress Tests 2x's a week and so far she does great, they've had to buzz her a few times to wake her up but after that she moves everywhere! We are pretty much ready for her and are so excited to meet and hold her. Tanner points to his belly now and says 'Baby' he also carries his bear around calling it baby. We wonder how he will do with a new baby around since he is such a DADDY's BOY and loves our attention. Tonight Troy and I wrote down our predictions for date, time, weight, etc.... I think May 15, he put May 22.
I've gotten a lot of scrapbooking done the past couple weeks, Braxton's is almost caught up and maybe when Tanner is 5 I'll start his too :) All I can say is thank goodness for DVR and neighbors with a great movie collection. Our receiver & DVR was on the fritz last week, & Troy kindly let the repair guy know that I was in serious need of the DVR & basically we weren't going to wait out the weekend until Monday to get it fixed. So it was working the next day...yay!
I had a couch partner today, Troy has cellulitis in his elbow and is on IV antibiotics. We don't know where it came from but it started to swell the other night & now extends from mid humerus to mid forearm. They drained about 5 ml's of fluid off it today, he's got a high white count and fever. He came home with his elbow bandaged & IV port in the other arm. They cultured it and so far we know 4 colonies have grown (apparently that means it's a pretty bad infection) but we don't know what it is yet. So needless to say we are a pathetic pair...it's not very often we are home together without kids & we can't even take advantage of the opportunity to go do something besides lay on the couch & whine!!

Ultrasound Pictures

More Easter '09

The Easter Bunny came!!!

The Easter Bunny found our house last weekend and brought lots of yummy treats! He leaves a jelly bean trail from the kid's bedrooms to where ever he hids their baskets. He left one for Tanner from his room to his basket, and one from the garage this year for Braxton since he would be coming from being with his dad in Cedar. Tanner wasn't too sure about the trail and would point and say "uh-oh". I caught him at the top of the stairs with buldging cheeks full of jelly beans he'd collected on the way up. Tanner loved his sunglasses and wore them to church. During the Sacrament I asked him to fold his arms, so he grabbed his sunglasses, put them on and then was ready to be reverent! So much for the reverence on our bench... we all laughed so hard! Braxton came home missing his 2 front teeth & had his first visit from the tooth fairy while in Cedar. He waited to put the 2nd tooth under his pillow here to see if the t.fairy would come again, & she did. His 2 permanent teeth had already started to come in & pretty much pushed the loose baby ones out.

Redcliffs