Pictures

Just in case anyone who reads my blog isn't on facebook, here is a link to the album I have of baby Camrynn.  (copy and paste it.)  It's a billion times easier for me to put pictures on facebook, so sorry if I hardly ever put pictures on here.  :)


http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.809568313384.2245808.193302356&type=1&l=66eea35e91

nursing help

So...I'm just gonna get straight to the point and ask for help from anyone out there who successfully nurses their kids.  Any tips you have...advice...pain management solutions...the works.  I read everywhere over and over that nursing shouldn't hurt that bad, but for all 3 kids I've been pushed to the point of almost cursing out loud and then sadly I get pretty grumpy.

I really want to get thru this.  Maybe there is a good way to dull the pain???  Or maybe I should get a good stick to bite onto. 

Thats all.  Please help me. :)

Camrynn Marie has arrived!

What a wonderful day it has been!  A few times here and there I was worried she might not be coming today, but it all worked out AMAZINGLY well.  I couldn't have asked for a better labor and delivery, and baby and I are doing fantastic.  So here's the gist of how things went to get our little angel here!

(yesterday) 3:00 - membranes stripped
7:00-midnight - contractions 7-9 minutes, but everytime I got up and moved around, they'd stop!
1:00 - we went to bed
3:30-4:30 - contractions 2-4 minutes
6:00 - checked into the hospital
6:30 - only .5 cm more than the day before, and contractions had completely stopped
6:38-7:35 - we walked the hallways hoping they'd pick up again, but much to my dismay NOTHING happened.  I was convincced we were going to be sent home, and had to fight to hold back the tears.
8:00 - they chcked me again, and I had gone from 3 cm to 5cm!  We were staying!
8:30 - checked into our L&D room.
9:30 - got the epidural
10:00 - got pitocin started because my contractions were fairly spuradic and not getting consistent or closer than 7-9 minutes apart.
11:00 - the nurse checked me to discover that Camrynn was "right there" and we were okay to push! 
11:20 - the doctor got there, and they set everything up to push.
11:24 - (after 3 LAME pushes) Camrynn Marie was born!


Camrynn Marie Buttle
6 Lbs 7.3 Oz (bigger than Kendalynn, but smaller than Logan!)

18 inches long (shortie!)

So far she seems as sweet as can be, and is an amazingly good little eater!  (When I can wake her up that is!)  Tyler brought the kids by with grandma and grandpa, and Kendalynn was constantly wanted to hold her and to see her toes and tummy.  Logan was happy, but was more excited about playing with things in the room.  :)

 comparing the size of my hand to her body!

 Her hair was so fluffy and long when they brought her back from her bath.  Sooo cute!

trial run

(excuse her little blurry bum...they just got out of the bathtub.)

So I'm gonna try out the whole sharing room thing. As you can see I only moved her mattress in case it doesn't work out and I move her back. So far they've been in there about 20 minutes.......and they're still awake. Normally when I lay each of them down, once I leave the room they are SILENT. And that's the end of it.

For the first little while Kendalynn kept asking Logan to say "toot" over and over again and each time they'd crack up laughing. Then I heard her later saying to him, "don't ever wake me up ever ever ever again." He keeps saying "nite nite?" to her, and then she says yes, and then asks him right back, "are you going nite nite?" to which he says yes as well. If only they'd actually go nite nite...

As of this moment I'm not so sure about this!

some thoughts

I need some opinions. :) When Camrynn arrives, all my kids could still have their own room. I know I want baby C in her own room (for at least a year or so) since who knows how her sleeping habits will be and all of that. But lately I've gotten to thinking...and I'm wondering if I should put K & L in the same room, keep a guest room, and then put baby C in her own room.

SO. There are just too many pro's and con's that I can't make up my own mind.

If you even care about all this...here are some thoughts. :)

1. If no one shares...there is a queen bed in C's room. With it in there, it really squishes the room. Where do I put it? Do I keep it? Do I trade it for K's twin and put the twin in the nursery? (I like the idea of having one of them in there for the late nights.) If we keep a guest room and combine K&L I could keep it out of the way and put a little couch in the nursery instead. I could fit the changing table in the nursery!

2. Logan's room is painted boy colors. Sad to put that to waste as a guest room, so do I put K&L in there? Her bedding actually coordinates with his wall colors. :)

3. K&L's furniture are really different. One is cream/ivory, one is flat white. They'd look kinda ugly together!

4. K&L both sleep through the night without interruption so I don't have to worry about either of them affecting the others sleep. (only bad thing..if one would wake the other one up earlier in the morning. Sometimes L wakes up an hour earlier than K so that would kinda stink.)

5. K&L have done AMAZING sleeping in the same room together when we've gone on vacations and things. In fact, I think K helped L calm down the nights he would cry.

6. I'm a HUGE believer in kids sharing rooms because of the lessons they learn. Sharing space, getting along, cleaning together, late night silly chats that are fun. Carrie used to practice all her different "laughing styles" late at night when I was trying to sleep. :)

7. the fact that I'd have to move all their furniture around.

Not a crazy serious situation...but if anyone else out there has any thoughts, experience, whatever, please let me know!

buggy prayers

So for the past few weeks I've been making sure that we have Kendalynn say her own prayers at night when we put her in her bed. I always remind her first that we start our prayers by saying the things that we're thankful for, and she ALWAYS wanders off to talk about the weirdest things. Tonight...this is about how it went.

she skips saying the actual "thank you for" or "bless us so" and all those things.

Kendalynn: Heavenly Father, and that we don't have any mean caterpillars in our house. That we only have nice caterpillars in our house, and that there be no more mean giant caterpillars.

Me: Okay...remember to say what you're thankful for.

Kendalynn: That we don't take the bandaids off our feet so they get better cause our shoes hurt us.

Me: Okay. Thank you for our family.

Kendalynn: " " our family.

Me: Thank you for Jesus.

Kendalynn: " " for Jesus and the farm. And the cows. (???)

After that point she said a few more bizarre things I don't remember, and then I had to help her finish off the prayer with more "normal" things to talk about in prayers.

It cracks me up. The whole caterpillar thing was probably inspired from seeing a dead one outside the church tonight. (which she then waved goodbye to and said "see you later dead caterpillar!") But the farm??? No idea. But she sure is cute.

weird

So if by chance you read the post a few posts down about our 5 year anniversary, you'll recall how we joke that we're definitely meant to be because there couldn't possibly be anyone else that we could enjoy being weird with and such and that I call Tyler my forever weirdo . :) My sister came across this quote and sent it to me. It's perfect!

Thanks Jamie! It will definitely have to find a home on one of our walls. :)

a kid picture!

This post is completely random, (and yes...the 4th post in just over a day) but I finally got Kendalynn to smile for a picture with her teeth closed normally! She usually sticks her lower jaw really far out, or just makes those typical cheesy fake kid smiles. It made her look so old! I can't believe she'll be 4 in just 4 months!

just so you know...it took me about 3 hours to get it to finally upload.

families are forever

Last week my grandpa passed away. (my dad's dad...Gumpa as we called him.) As sad as it is to know he's gone, this was one of those things that was more of a good thing than a bad thing. Nani (nanny...my grandma) passed away last October, and since then my grandpa went into a home and slowly started to wither away. It was very obvious that all he wanted was to be with Nani again. It's a wonderful thing to have knowledge of the gospel and that families are forever, and comforting to know that my grandparents are together again.

I was very blessed to have had such wonderful grandparents on both sides of my family. (they are all gone now.) My dad's parents lived just down the road for something like 13 years of my life, and we were able to see my mom's parents every summer for usually 3 weeks at a time, and for other special occasions. Tyler was able to get to know my dad's parents fairly well, but he never met my mom's mom, and only knew my mom's dad once my grandma had died and grandpa was not very much himself anymore. It will be a wonderful thing to see them again someday. :)

Last picture of me with Nani & Gumpa. (Logan was there...but he was asleep in his car seat.)

Kendalynn made nothing but cheesy fake smiles at this point in her life. :) It makes me laugh.

5 years!

Wow. We celebrated our 5 year anniversary last Friday! Well...Tyler forgot, and scheduled us to feed the missionaries that day, and then to go on splits with them afterwards, so technically we didn't "celebrate" till Saturday. :) His mom came over to watch the kids and we went to Outback for dinner (best...food...ever) and then we went to see Harry Potter afterwards and then we topped off the night with some yummy Coldstone.

So over the weekend we've randomly talked together about all the things that have happened over these last 5 years. How many times we've moved (11 times), the wards we've been in, (7 wards), how we've added 2 crazy kids and are about to add a 3rd. We graduated college (doing the last 2 semesters starting with a 3 week old baby), and Tyler got an awesome job and is doing AMAZING at his job. We bought our first house which we LOVE (going on 2 years at the end of this month, thanks Uncle Ron!) and just a few weeks ago had to buy our first car. (2007 Toyota Sequoia which we also LOVE.) We even have a dog who Tyler pretty much detests, but because he loves me (and she's pretty much the perfect dog) he puts up with her and even pets her...every few months for about 15 seconds. (and then usually kicks her away. Ha!)

Like most people I imagine, we've had rough times, but now we can hardly remember them. But more now than anything we joke all the time about how we're both so weird that there can't possibly be anyone else out there that we could have married and got along with. :)

We have been blessed more than I would have ever imagined. I think to myself all the time that we may not be living what the world or others would see as the most perfect life, but for us it is perfect. So happy 5 years to my forever weirdo and here's to eternity!