happy days

well, jayden is 13 days old today and we praise God daily for this new little life. what a joy she is and will be. big brother has done so well with her! he loves to kiss her and hold her and wants to play with her lots, but he needs to learn to be a little more gentle. it was adorable last night he found one of my neckwraps and put it on his neck and then he got into the drawer and pulled out some oven mits and put those on and he walked around clapping his hands like a seal. ;) he is such a joy! we are soooo blessed!

the nurse came to the house this morning and weighed jayden and checked on me too. jayden is now 8 lbs. 6 oz. she gained a lb. since last week when the nurse came to the house. at least we know she's eating enough. ;) well, i hope everyone has a wonderful labor day weekend!

she's here!!!!

well, she's finally arrived! jayden elizabeth hullinger arrived saturday the 16th at 10:16 a.m. weighing 7 lbs 14.8 oz. and measuring in at 20.5 in. what a blessing!! we are celebrating her arrival with her brother daily. i think he is so totally in love with her we won't have to ever worry about her being able to date, because he's going to take care of any other boys. ;) he loves to kiss her and hug her and hold her any chance he can.

please pray with us as she is a little jaundice and she will be under billi lights here at home for a little while until we can control that and she has also lost some weight... she is now 7 lbs 3 oz. i am sure she'll come back from this quickly though.

we went to the dr. today...

so, the new news is... if i don't have her naturally by monday, i will be enduced monday morning. the pains in my gallbladder have been enough, and the dr. has decided that enducing would be good. i will be 39 weeks and 2 or 3 days by then, so it is pretty much full term and everything, but even one day sooner for me is good! that is one day sooner to my gallbladder being taken out and that will be a great day too! so, we'll try to keep you all updated.

dr.'s report

well, we just came back from the dr. and everything looks good. the dr. said that jacob looks well and she didn't even hear his little heart murmur and she said that the baby sounded good and i am now dilated to 3. we'll see our little girl soon hopefully.

dr. today...

well, both jacob and mommy have dr.'s appt.s today so i will let you all know how everything goes. i forgot to mention in the last post that as of a week ago, on the 30th, my cervix was thinned to 80%, so we are just waiting... we'll let you know what she says today.

bed rest

so, i started a post 2 weeks ago, but i got bumped off the internet, so i lost everything. i'm trying again...
i've now been on bedrest for almost 2 weeks, at that time, i was dialated to 2 and my cervix was thinned 50%. the dr. could feel the baby's head in position already. so, another week has passed and on friday (the 1st) i was in a car accident. i had gone to the dr. on thursday and she told me i could do a little bit more, but still to lay low. so i thought i would go to my students graduation. on the way, i thought i would stop and see the boys at work, so i was about a block away from the shop and a girl ran a stop sign and i hit her. it was her fault, so she got a citation, but i was transported to the hospital immediately and they checked both me and the baby and we both seem to be fine. the dr. has now taken me off of the contraction medication that was stopping my contractions and said if i go into labor, i go. she feels perfectly comfortable delivering the baby now and all is well. i also found out on wednesday that i have gall stones, so after the baby is born, they will be taking out my gallbladder. what fun!! hope all is well and if you don't hear from me in a while... that's why. please pray for jason as this is extra work for him.

oregon trail days

where we live, in western nebraska, we live right on the old oregon trail. so, every year it is a big thing here to have "oregon trail days" where we have parades, a carnival, a craft show, an art fair, and other activities. it's always the 2nd weekend in july. this was jacob's first time going to anything related to "ot days" really. we went to the international food fair on friday and of course jacob wouldn't eat anything because he was too busy watching people, but mommy enjoyed "nebraska twisters" which are homemade potato chips/french fries. they were really good! daddy got hotdogs and potato chips... how exciting... but they're his favorite and it benefitted the alzheimer's association. then on saturday, we got up and went to the otd parade. this was jacob's first parade ever and he seemed to really enjoy it. he loved whinnying at the horses and honking at the firetrucks. there were a lot of really "normal" style floats with the ribbons and kids just sitting on them and waiving, but there were a couple really cool ones too. one of my favorite floats was the one from the bank, they posed as the statue from the twin towers. jacob also really enjoyed watching all the people. he is definitely his mother's child. at the parade, one of the banks was handing out ice cream push pops, so jacob tasted a push pop for the first time and devoured it! he also enjoyed it when the people threw candy, because even though he was too little to go and fetch it, he had his own little fetching mate. one of our friends from church would run out and get candy for him, so it was even better, because he didn't have to fight through the other kids. that was about all we went to as a family for ot days. i went to the craft show, by myself of course. ;) it was a great weekend overall.