Thanksgiving 2009

Well this Thanksgiving Grant and I did something we've never done before with or without a child. We made the 7-8 hour trip to Nebraska. This was Grant's first time ever there. He seemed to have a good time. My parents took Nolyn up with them since they were leaving before we were and we left after work and drove through the night. So we left around 5:30 Wednesday night and got there about 2-2:30ish Thursday morning. Grant caught up on his movie watching while I drove. He watched, I listened to, GI Joe, Angels and Demons (he had to keep pausing this one and explaining to me what was going on since I never read the book), Transformers 2, Bedtime Stories (This was the only one I actually got to watch), X-Men: Wolverine, The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. On the way home we actually had Nolyn. The drive went really well actually. While we were up there we watched a lot of football, played cards and just hung out. On Friday I took Grant to town and showed him a few places, this took all of about 10 mins, that just how small the town is. I showed him the park, the high school and the hospital where I was born. On saturday we started the morning with going to get professional family pictures done. This was for my Grandparents 55th wedding anniversery. My mom had us go ahead and get a family picture done of just the 7 of us because that will be the last time it will just be the 7. After all that we went to Red Cloud and had the Delka Family Thanksgiving. It was good to see everyone since this was the first time in 10 years I've been there for Thanksgiving. Here is a picture from the family Thanksgiving, my family is the ones in red. And let it be known that a lot of the family isnt there so this picture doesnt really do justice to how big the family really is.

The First of Many to Come

Well this was Nolyn's first Halloween. And if you know anything about her you know what she went as... a ladybug. We took her to our Church for Trick or Trunk. She did so good, holding Daddys hand and walking up to the trunks holding out for candy bag. I dont have any pictures from Halloween night but I do have this one of her in her costume.

Also yesterday evening we had Nolyn's birthday party. Her birthday isnt till the 5th but the Saturday after her birthday my Mom was going to be gone on her 3 day walk for Breast Cancer so we couldnt do it then. It was great got lots of toys we dont have room for but it will be ok. Or little girl partied so hard she was passed out by 9:30, but the downside was she was up at 6:30 this morning. But I blame that on daylights savings time. Here are a couple of her 1 yr pictures we had done last weekend. My goodness where did the year go?

Pumpkin Patch and More

Saturday my best friend and I took the kids to the pumpkin patch. I just wanted to go for the pictures since this is Nolyn's first Halloween. Poor girl missed Halloween by 5 days. Since she still is a little young to carve pumpkins we of course didn't get any, but I did get some cute pictures which I will share.

Last Monday I went to the specialist. We didn't get to do the Echo because the way she was laying and no matter what she wasn't going to move. Stubborn child, I wonder where she gets that from? But they did get to check the heart and do measurements. Everything looked good, they guessed her a little ahead of schedule and the Dr did see a SMALL hole in the heart where mine was but its VERY tiny ,this isn't uncommon, and should close up on its own. My heart condition isn't hereditary there is only a 2% chance I would have kids that had it as well. But on the other hand girls are 5 times more likely to have it then boys. So no more going to the specialist, YAY!

Ok here are the pictures I promised.

Where does the Time Go?

Goodness Nolyn is almost 11 months old now and I'm almost 6 months pregnant with Camryn. Seems like just yesterday we were bringing Nolyn home from the hospital. We have reached the "fun" stage. Nolyn says "dada" and "bye bye" a lot, but its funny because if you try and get her to say it she refuses. What do you expect with 2 stubborn parents? Shes also starting to try and walk. She's taken a few steps here and there and stands on her own from time to time but nothing for sure yet.

Everything with Camryn is going great so far. Well great besides the consent back pain and leg cramps. My Dr and myself are very happy with how everything is going since this one could be much more difficult. I still go to the Dr every 2 weeks and have sonos each time, and I dont see that changing anytime soon. I also go next month and do the fetal echo on Camryn. This is very important with this baby being a girl, because girls are 5 times more likely to have the heart problem I was born with then boys. Also if I can make it 6 more weeks with no complications I get to go to Nebraska for Thanksgiving.

Ok, I think thats enough for today. I'm going to end this with a few new pictures of Nolyn.

What do you expect I was born in Nebraska and
all my Dads family still lives there.

This picture was taken 2 days after her

1st fat lip crawling to fast.Don't worry I didn't pull and Britney Spears the car was parked and off.

But this is how she spent her time while we were getting her carseat

moved into the truck to go see my Grandparents.

Anniversary

Yesterday Grant and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary. When I got home with Nolyn I went to put her in her crib for a nap and noticed my bedroom light was on. Took and quick glance and Grant us new bedding. The bed now looks like a grown up sleeps in that bed. Next Sunday Grant and I are doing my gift for the anniversary. We're going to get massages. We both need them really bad so I knew it would be great. Then afterwards were going to eat at Razoo's. It will be a great day. But I have to say the greatest gift of the day was getting a name for baby #2. As I said yesterday we just found out its a girl. Her name will be... (drum roll please)

CAMRYN GRACE STOGDILL

It just fits so well with Nolyn Joy.

We're Having a...

Ok so the picture is a little hard to see so here you go. Looks as if were having another GIRL.

Grant and I are working on names but this time its much harder and we cant agree on any. Hopefully soon she'll have a name so I can start getting stuff for her room.

New Baby News

I went to the Dr. Tuesday and everything looks great with the baby. I got to hear the heartbeat and it was good and strong. Then he sent me back to do another sono and scheduled to come back in two weeks to do it all again. For those who know you usually go back every four weeks in the 1st and 2nd trimesters, but I had a LEEP done right before I found out I was pregnant again. So because of this we have to keep a close eye on everything to make sure things dont turn bad. I was already a high risk with having PCOS and now even higher with the LEEP. Only I would have to most annoying, but easiest pregnancies. But the good news is that I get to see baby a lot, and that I love. So I thought I would end this with a couple of the sono pictures. Enjoy.

This is baby at 8 weeks. Looks like a Gummy Bear.

This is at 13 weeks, no more looking like a Gummy Bear.