One healthy baby

We had Jordan's two week check up today and she is declared healthy! We've been waiting to take her out anywhere until we had this check up and made sure of her health. We also discovered that she has gained almost a whole pound!! She was born at 6lb 5oz and she now weighs 7lb 3oz! What a little eater!

She also got a to meet her Great Grandma Goulet today and her cousin Roxana. This is quite exciting because Grandma doesn't get out much especially when it's cold and snowy like it was today.

Hair today, gone tomorrow

Jordan has got a headfull of beautiful dark hair which you probably won't see much of on here because we always keep it covered with hats (they lose too much heat through their heads without hats and with all this cold weather we've been having we don't want to risk anything). Brandon & I both had lots of dark hair when we were born so it wasn't a surprise. I was really hoping she'd have hair just like she does; and it's got natural curl! You can only really see the curl when she's getting a bath but once her hair dries and gets hats put on it straightens right out, probably because it's so baby fine right now. Anyway, she doesn't really like her baths yet but she's definitely a true girl and LOVES to get her hair washed! She'll be crying her head off during the entire bath and as soon as I start rubbing that soap around on her head she quiets right up and just lays there perfectly content enjoying every minute of it. She's been like this since day one. It's so fun to see her personality! Oh and she is a definite daddy's girl! Which I actually don't mind one bit...I think it's quite sweet. She loves to cuddle with her daddy and he can give her a diaper change without her making a peep! She tends to fuss when I'm changing her. Just some news I wanted to share real quick-like while I add another picture. I suppose a bathtime picture would have been perfect since that's what I was talking about but, sorry, I don't have any bath pictures yet. That's something I'll have to work on getting one of these days. It'll be a little easier once that umbilical cord falls off and we can actually lay her in her little ducky bathtub.

Fun in the Sun

We are trying to make sure that Jordan doesn't get jaundice because we really don't want her to have to leave and stay at the hospital. She was a little yellow but nothing they were concerned about but it was suggested that we strip her down to her diaper once a day and let her sit in direct sunlight. I think she was having a good time with this today! She seemed to be smiling a lot; I don't know if she knew that's what she was doing but regardless, it melted our hearts.

We had a follow-up appointment with her on Wednesday and she checked out just fine! When we left the hospital she was down to 6 pounds which is normal for babies to lose a little weight in the first couple days. They expect them to be back up to birth weight by their two week check up but at this appointment she had already gained weight and was 6lb 3oz just 2 ounces away from birth weight so she's doing wonderfully in that area. They were a little concerned about this because she was not nursing very well when we left the hospital, which was why we had the follow-up appointment in the first place because they wanted to check and make sure she was eating ok.

She's here!

Wow! Jordan has already celebrated her one week birthday (yesterday)! It's amazing how quickly time flies. I have been meaning to get on here all week long, I even took the laptop to the hospital with the hopes to blog right away; the farthest I got was one picture added and then saved to my drafts. It was just crazy with visitors (which we were very thankful for!), trying to figure out nursing and mostly just admiring the wonderful little girl that God created specifically for Brandon and I.

Jordan entered the world on Friday, February 20th at 12:56 AM weighing in at 6lb 5oz, 19 1/2 inches long. I was very blessed with an easy pregnancy and labor/delivery which I am thankful for regardless but also because I wanted to give birth naturally without any drugs. God blessed me with a short labor of only about 7-8 hours. We waited and waited calling the hospital twice to see if we should come up because absolutely did NOT want to get sent home! So when we finally decided to go to the hospital the nurse didn't think I was in labor because I was so calm but sure enough I was dilated to a 4 and in active labor. They moved us to our labor and delivery room where we waited for the time that Jordan would arrive. The contractions came and went continuously with me falling asleep in between. Brandon was so wonderful and comforting helping me through each contraction. Next thing we knew I dilated from a 7 to a 10 in no time which really surprised the nurse! She called the doctor immediately then had me do practice pushes which turned out to be a little more successful than she thought. Next thing I know she is telling me I had to stop pushing because the baby's head was right there and the doctor was not! For those women out there who have given birth know that when you get that urge to push there is not much you can do to stop it. The doctor finally arrived but still had to change, I think this really panicked the nurse so she left the room to see how close he was. I freaked out telling Brandon "I can't believe she just left the room!" I was involuntarily pushing while it was just the two of us in there and Brandon was about ready to head to the end of the bed in case the baby came out. Finally the nurse & doctor came back into the room and minutes later Jordan's head popped out...which happened to be at the time the doctor turned his back so again Brandon was about to go to the end of the bed and catch her but the doctor turned around just in time and helped her the rest of the way out. It was a pretty crazy experience and I'm sure that the doctor & nurse were quite surprised how quickly it went. I am so thankful how fast and "easy" it was. I don't regret at all not having any drugs and I will definitely be doing it that way again with our kids down the road. I did tear which made things very uncomfortable for a few days afterward but I'm up and running (not literally) and feeling terrific! Anyway, on to the baby!


This was taken while we were still at the hospital. I can't stop looking at her!

Look how teeny she is! I don't think I've ever been around such a small baby.

This was so funny, my mom was feeding her and kept moving the bottle around, she finally had to grab on to keep her from taking it away.

Little bit of this, little bit of that

I hate when I make something really yummy for dinner or even for any meal or snack BUT I just threw it together so I don't know measurements of what I added or even remember all the ingredients I added! It's such a pain; especially when Brandon really likes it too and would like me to make it again sometime but I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW!! That happened tonight. I made this Three Cheese Chicken Penne Pasta Bake only I didn't use Penne pasta, I used bowtie pasta and probably not even half as much as they recommend (I think I used 1 1/2 cups of COOKED pasta and they wanted that much of it uncooked). I didn't have any spinach or diced tomatoes on hand so those were omitted. Instead of 14 1/4 oz jar of spaghetti I had a 26 oz jar on hand so I used part of a jar of that...over half because I like things with a lot of sauce. THEN, I didn't have any mozzeralla cheese so I used monterey jack instead. So in all reality I did not really make this recipe tonight; there were WAY too many deviations from the original, but you know what? Brandon & I loved it! I just don't know how to write a recipe down like that!

I have some other exciting news! Brandon is officially out of the military!! He got his honorable discharge paperwork last week! It's kind of weird to think that he's been in the military for eight years. We just don't seem old enough for that (I do not mean that offensive, I promise!) But thank God he is done!!!!!

Please listen while I blab away

Ok so I didn't quite meet my goal of having that rocker/glider cover done by the end of the month BUT I almost got there! The back & bottom cushion have been done, it's the arm rests that I still need to work on.

I am finally 37 weeks pregnant which means I am considered full term right now. With only having three weeks left until my actual due date we are getting pretty excited...and impatient too! They started a wager at work for what day I will have the baby and how much she will weigh. It's kinda fun to see what people's guesses are and I can't wait to hear who actually gets it right!

We rearranged the baby's room just a tad bit (actually all we did was switch which wall the changing table was on). Oh my word! What an incredible difference it has made! It really opened the room up and it looks SO much better! I am super happy with the change!!

Brandon's parents got him a digital frame for his birthday! We are pretty excited about it! We had put one on our baby gift registry and hadn't gotten one yet. It's something we really wanted with Baby on her way.

I've been trying to imagine what our baby is going to look like lately. I've been staring at her ultrasound and at Brandon's & my baby pictures. Trying to guess how much hair and what color eyes she will have.

It's done!!

The baby's room is finally done!! Well...actually I have to finish sewing the cover for her rocker/glider and get a couple shelves hung up, but other than that the room is totally complete minus Baby. My dad made it over last weekend and got the molding hung up, which was the final step.

He did a great job, didn't he?! My mom & I made the curtain a few months ago. I love the colors in it; it reminds me of this crib bedding set in Pottery Barn that I absolutely love but couldn't bring myself to spend that much money on for a wee baby that wouldn't fully appreciate it because she's just too little to know. Besides, my parents found the adorable crib set pictured below for $24!! That included everything: crib skirt, sheet, quilt, and bumpers. Amazing deal!!

Here is the ugly blue rocker/glider that I am working on making a cover for. My mom is helping me with this too. We make quite the perfect team together when it comes to sewing crafts. She likes to do the pinning and cutting but yet hates doing the actual sewing, where me on the otherhand HATES the pinning and cutting side of it but LOVE to do the sewing. So when we work on things like this together it works out perfectly!! She's done her part on the cover and now it's up to me to get my part done which I am really hoping to get finished by the end of the weekend but I'm giving myself a little more reasonable goal to get it done by the end of the week which ultimately I guess is the end of the month. So you guys better hold me to it! ;)

The little brown jacket in this picture is my absolute favorite piece of clothing this little babe of ours has. We've got it in two different sizes because we love it so much! And do you see my diaper bag hanging on the left side of the picture? It's actually a knitting bag but I loved it so much and it seems like the perfect size for just a normal day out. My aunt got us another cute diaper bag that is bigger that will be perfect for when we are going to be out for longer periods of time and need to pack extra of everything. Who knows, maybe as I get to figuring all this new mom stuff out I may realize I need that bigger diaper bag on a "daily" basis!

Sorry it has taken SOOO long to post anymore about her room. I realize I got started on it in September and never quite picked back up until now. The important thing is that I DID pick back up, right?

I've been feeling great and quite honestly would forget sometimes that I was pregnant because I felt so much like normal ol' Kayla but yesterday when I woke up something changed. This girl must have grown about ten pounds overnight! (ok, I know that is entirely NOT possible but that's what it felt like) It suddenly became that every second of the day I can tell I'm pregnant because of this heavy weight on the front of me! She seems more squished too because her movements have changed and feel much more "defined." Is it possible for her to go on a major growth spurt overnight? I can barely roll over in bed anymore and definitely not without making a huge earthquake as Brandon likes to call it, which makes me laugh every time.

We got the carseat installed on Monday, wrote our birth plan a few weeks ago, got pre-registered at the hospital last month and have our hospital bags packed. I am now 36 weeks and we are definitely ready for this baby to arrive! They consider full term anywhere between 37 to 42 weeks. We are really hoping she decides to make an early appearance!

Spring Fever

I already have spring fever! Not only am I just ready for February to get here so I can meet our baby (next month!!) but I am ready to start my garden and I'm so ready for the delicious produce (even at the store) to start coming in so I can make those yummy spring/summer dishes. I'm tired of heavy winter recipes (not to mention all the snow). I'm trying to make some of those more summer recipes but the produce at the stores just isn't that great since those veggies & fruit aren't in season. Oh what I'd do to eat some fresh strawberries right now!

New Year 2009

Happy 2009 everyone! I had a few of my friends over to celebrate the new year on Friday. We had a blast! Most of the pictures I took didn't turn out because I was laughing too hard that I couldn't keep the camera steady. Here are a couple that turned out the best. This one even though it's really blurry was too sweet to not use.

We had a wonderful time playing Rock Band. Erica and I are addicted to the game! She comes over every Wednesday, which we now have declared Rockin' Wednesday, and we play our world tour with the band that we've created. We have recieved our own personal jet, a sound guy, body guards and so much more. I didn't think I would like the game when we first got it but I am SOOO glad I gave it a chance because I think it is my favorite video game of all time! Anyway, back to New Years.

And here we are trying to get a picture of all of us using the self timer on our cameras. We had 3 cameras sitting across the room. We'd push the go button on our cameras then run across the room to the couch and wait it out to see whose would go off first. It was quite an experience the first time around.

By the second time we were a little more prepared for what to expect so it turned out much better.

Later when I was telling Brandon our self timer story he wondered why we didn't ask him to take the pictures for us. I wonder why none of us thought of that! Goofy girls we are! I didn't get a picture of the dessert we had but Amanda made this really yummy chocolate & peanut butter dessert. I made a recipe from Cooking Light. It wasn't bad. I'm still trying to decide if it is blog worthy, I'm going to take a vote from all the girls and Brandon to see what they think. So be checking out my cooking blog cuz that's where the recipe will be if we decide to add it.

Maternity pants & blessings

Last week my mom & I had gone to Old Navy to find me some maternity pants. I have been able to wear my regular pants up until now but as of late all my pants seem to be getting more and more uncomfortable each time I put them on and button them all the way up. I found two pairs of maternity pants that fit great and I really liked. One is a pair of jeans and the other is a pair of khaki colored cords that I can wear to work. I was super excited how easy it was to find them...until I looked at the price tag! Each pair was $32.50. Now that may not sound like much for some of you out there but I just couldn't see spending that much money for pants I'm only going to wear for TWO months! I knew I needed them and was able to soothe myself a little by remembering that we DO plan on having more children so these pants WILL be used more than just two months. After I got home and was showing my purchases to Brandon I got to looking at the receipt and discovered that one of the pairs was 60% off!! What a blessing!!