Zai Zai turns 1!

I can't believe Izaiah is 1! Maybe it's because he has only been home for about 6 months, but time sure did go by fast! We had a party planned for him on Saturday and then we had our beautiful early arrival so I was unable to do anything for it! Luckily, my mom came over and helped clean my house and get stuff a little organized and Christopher's mom came up a little early and decorated and made cupcakes. I couldn't have done it without them! I love you guys! It was a fun afternoon of BBQ and family. We tried taking pictures of all the kids, but you can imagine how well that turned out! Happy birthday baby boy! I can't wait to see how fast you grow over the next year!

This picture cracks me up! My parents wanted to get a pictures of them with all of their grandkids and you can see how well it worked! Mae is bawling, Kenna couldn't care less, Zai is so confused and the 2 babies are dead asleep! what a portrait!

averie jayne wilson

She waited as long as she could, but finally gave in! Here she is, little miss Averie Jayne. Born Sept. 21 at 9:23 am. She weighed 5 lbs 8 oz and was 17 3/4 inches long. Aside from being so beautiful, she is also doing wonderful. She had no problems right after birth from being premature except having a little hard time keeping her body temp up. We just have to keep her wrapped in a couple blankets and keep a hat on her most of the time, but other then that, she is perfect! There wasn't very many pictures taken right when she was born, but here are some from the following days.


This is almost a spitting image of kennedie in her birth announcement! I'll have to see if I can post them together!

my beautiful babies!

With me being on bed rest, I get a little bored and my poor children are the ones who suffer! I decided to have a photo shoot to fill the day and, if I do say so myself, some of them turned out sooo cute. It might have something to do with the fact that i have the most adorable kids in the world (no offence to everyone else) but I'm going to give my photography skills a little credit!
Doesn't she just look like a little model?

I tried taking some pictures of the two of us by myself, and as you can imagine, this is the only one that kinda turned out!

Jumping the gun!

We have had an eventful (and unwanted) few days. Saturday I started feeling some contractions that were only coming like every hour or so. They were not very painful, just uncomfortable so I assumed they were braxton hicks. Sunday, they were getting a little more painful but still really far apart. I've never had braxton hicks before so I, once again, assumed it was normal. Monday, they became pretty painful, but I sucked it up and went to work. I had my boss do an ultrasound just to make sure everything was ok. With my track record I was just a little nervous! Everything looked pretty good except my uterus was contracting. We were not to concerned and decided I just needed to relax. Monday night, the contractions woke me up because they were so painful and I realized they were coming a lot closer together. I went to the doctor Tuesday morning and they hooked me up to the fetal monitors and by now my contractions were coming every 7-8 minutes. They checked my cervix and I was dilated to 3. they had to give me an injection to try and stop the contractions, but wouldn't you know it, after 3 hours it didn't work. They then had to give me a magnesium drip which is one of the worst things I have ever had! The side effects were nausea, burning, nervousness and tremors. All of this on top of the contractions! Poor Christopher probably wanted to run away! I think I was so irritating to be around! But being the great guy he is he stuck around and held my hand! 7 hours of the mag drip and it finally slowed things down. I was eventually able to go home with a pill form of the magnesium. Now It looks as though I will be on bed rest for the next 7 weeks. I guess whatever it takes to keep her cooking a little longer!

my big boy!

Izaiah has been doing so great lately. he can finally sit up all by himself! I'm so excited that he has reached this milestone! He struggled for so long and now, SUCCESS!! I can't wait to see what he learns next!

Kenna sweet Kenna!

My beautiful baby girl turned 3 this weekend and for months she has been begging me for a castle cake. Seeing her cute face (and wonderful acting job) I couldn't say no and I looked everywhere for someone to make the perfect one. Of course, I was unsuccessful, unless I wanted to spend $200.00. Now call me cheap, but I figured I could make one just as good as theirs for a lot less money! After about 4 hours of perfecting my masterpiece, I was finally done! I must say i was pretty proud of myself. I thought it looked great! As soon as I was finished, I had Christopher put it in the fridge. NOW I could relax! OH NO!! Why would anything go that smoothly for me?? Kenna, sweet Kenna. I shake my head and laugh even now just thinking of it! Kennedie decided she wanted some juice and went to the fridge to get it. Now, mind you that she has been getting her own juice for quite a long time and NEVER a problem! For some wonderful reason, today was the day it would all come crashing down. LITERALLY! She knocked everything off the shelf right onto the cake! The entire back end was ripped off! I'm pregnant so of course the first thing I wanted to do was cry, but Kenna, bless her heart, had the saddest face of remorse! She kept saying "sorry mommy it was an accident", over and over. Just hearing her call me mommy again was enough to melt my heart, so what could I do. I doctored up the rear and called it a day! The rest of the day was VERY eventful! She started off by playing in her pool with her cousin alex until the rest of Christopher's family arrived. Then we went to the park and met the rest of her party guests for lunch and cake. She opened her presents, broke her pinata (well dad did) and ran through the sprinklers, then we ventured to the splash park. After that Papa Dave and Nana Pam took us out on the lake for more water fun! Kennedie had a blast on the boat! She and her dad road the tube and were having such a great time until...DISASTER! They tipped over! I, of course, went into panic mode and was on the verge of jumping in to rescue her, when I decided that, in my condition, I would probably just sink like a rock and someone would have to jump in to rescue me! Well, needless to say, she was fine. Just a little shaken up, but being the big girl that she is now, she got right back on and went for another ride! I was so proud of her! It was a very fun filled, LONG day, but I think Kenna loved every second of it. Happy birthday baby girl. MOMMY loves you!

My dad has always made mickey and minnie mouse pancakes on our birthdays. He thought he would keep the tradition alive with the grandkids but, of course, Kennedie has to be different! She decided that she wanted a chocolate chip elephant! Here is the outcome. Way to go dad!

YUMMY!

I just thought I would share zaiah's funny new habit! Instead of sucking his thumb or using a binky, he prefers his big toe! Whatever makes him happy!