June 2013- calming down... maybe?

Andrew's such a funny monkey. He can't have a haircut without sucking on a lollipop. He did a great job and didn't freak out.

We also (finally!) did London's baby blessing. We ended up doing it at the bishop's office since I have to work every Sunday now- booo! Great-grandma Billings made her baby blessing dress out of my wedding dress. I couldn't be happier with how it turned out. Even the beads were from my dress! 

Then London turned 4 months old! She started to giggle and makes lots of babbling sounds. This is the beginning of my favorite baby/toddler/child stage.

We also tried to get her to eat rice cereal but it didn't work out. Oh well, we'll try again in July/August.

May 2013... Even busier!

Uncle Victor graduated from college! WOOT WOOT! So proud of him :) 

Then London and Andrew had photo shoots for a website and they turned out adorable:

In the middle of all the craziness, London turned 3 months! Her smiles were even bigger and brighter, and she makes her brothers laugh :)

These kids are cute and yet drive me so crazy... How's that possible?! 

...And I got a job! I work as a unit clerk in Shock Trauma ICU back at the hospital I worked at when I was pregnant with J. I absolutely love all the action!

April 2013- new home, back home!

So we moved back to Utah (should've never left in the first place)! 

Jacen turned 5 years old and he loved having his friends over for his party. It was a blast!

A few days later, London turned 2 months old! She was giving us the cutest first smiles... Love this little girl. 

Trying to settle down after yet another interstate move has been tough! But we love being back.

So much happened... March 2013!

Well, holy cow. So much has happened since London was born. 

In March, we celebrated London turning one month old! That dress actually didn't even close on the back, but that's okay because she just wore it for this picture hahaha

Then we met Grandpa Gary for the first time in Virginia! He held London for me while I packed our stuff up for the move- Elijah had to move earlier to start his new job which meant I had to stay behind with the kids. Not fun but we made it work.

... and we moved to Utah at the end of the month! What a crazy move it was but we were happy to

come back home :)

Our baby girl is here!

 

On Feb. 17th, I went to the hospital at 2AM with some cramping/contractions. After being there for 7 hours for observation, the doctor called it false labor and sent me home because there was no progression and the pain wasn't getting worse. Because I had been up for over 30 hrs, they gave me some Ambien on my way out the door. The Ambien made me forget a lot of what happened between leaving the hospital and getting home and going to bed, but apparently I was saying off-the-wall things and even threw up and laid on the bathroom floor to go to sleep, good thing Elijah was with me and got my semi-conscious bum to bed.
About 4 hours later, at 2:30pm, I woke up. IN PAIN. I quickly went to the bathroom and got in the tub. The contractions were coming every 3 minutes, and I could barely breathe through them. I figured if I could just relax, they'd go away (I was told just hours earlier I wasn't in labor, so why would anything change now?!). Shaved my legs, and the contractions were just getting worse with each one. Got dressed, got in the car at 3:10pm... the 20-minute drive to the hospital took 12 minutes (including parking)- I don't remember going that fast because I was hurting so bad, but I do remember Elijah's white knuckles on the steering wheel.
Still under the influence of Ambien, I hardly remember what happened afterwards... lots of people in my room, was dilated to a 6, then 20 mins later I was dilated to a 9, then felt the urge to push.... I was climbing up the bed, and a contraction hit and I pushed, and when my water broke, she rode the wave out (with a couple of other pushes to help). The doctor had to dive in over the bed to catch her- honestly, I think she had just barely enough time to put her gloves on!
Our sweet London Sofie arrived at 3:42pm weighing 8lbs and measuring 19.75". It was definitely the craziest delivery we've gone through!
We're so glad she's here; I had had it with this pregnancy! Twenty weeks worth of weekly progesterone shots and 11 weeks of modified and complete bedrest did the trick to keep me pregnant until I was full term. Not to mention the heartburn and the nasty hormonal migraines... She is so cute, it was worth it in the end :)