The Long Awaited day is over... Finally!

Everett Lee Green

Born September 18, 2010

Weight: 9 lbs 14 oz

Length: 21 1/2 inches long

Time: 6:50 am

The first time with baby brother. She was so excited to finally meet him and hold him.

Everett is our favorite little boy. can you tell?

So it all started friday morning. We went to the clinic and waited for forever then finally was called back to see the doctor. She checked me and I was dilated at a 4. 1 cm difference from the last checkup. She then decided to strip my membranes; a very painful process. She said that doing that can speed up the process of going into labor. I was very hopeful. If he didn't come soon then our induction date would have been the 20th on a monday. We left the doctor, Emma did really good. then we go to the store to get some groceries and a gift for baby brother from Emma. It was very difficult to walk around. I was huge. It seriously looked as if I were carrying a giant watermelonin my belly. I sure felt like it.

So we get all of our running around done and friday night Chris and I had our date night. We decided to watch a couple of movies. during the first movie I start having contractions. I started timing them and they were 6 to 8 minutes apart pretty consistently. after the first movie we put Emma to bed and start our second movie. I am still timing my contractions and they are still 6 minutes apart. I was waiting for them to get closer together and harder for us to go to the hospital. I did not want them to send us home if they were false labor. that would stink. after the movie we go upstairs and play some phase 10. My contractions werestill being consistent at 6 minutes. then Chris and i decide to read a sheri dew book together. It is pretty late by now. I am exhausted and so is Chris, but I wasn't about to go to sleep and not have this baby. all during the book I would fall asleep and wake up while having a contraction. by this time they are getting worse, but I still thought that they were not strong enough. I finally decide that we should go to sleep and hope that during the night they would get closer together and harder. then as we were going to bed I asked Chris to just call the hospital and double check with them and tell them that my contractions are consistently 6 minutes apart. They said basically that we should come in. This was around 2 am. We called Randall, Chris' brother who lives just two blocks away to see if he can stay with Emma. He came and we were off.

We get there and I was dilated to a 6. Yay! I was elated. We get ahold of Jerusha and she comes after showering. She had a busy day that day. I was glad that she was there, though she missed the birth completely. She had to leave to go home to get the kids ready for their games that day. she left at 6:00 am. at 6:30 the nurse checks me and I was all the way dilated at a 10. I had the epidural, but before they gave me that they tried to put the IV in me. they stuck me six times and each time my skin would start ballooning or they would hit a vessel or something. finally they called in the anesthesiologist. He checked my arm and put it in the inside of my elbow. Not the best place. It was very uncomfortable. I felt like a pin cushion.

So back to the dilated to 10 part. at 6:30 I start pushing and by 6:50 he was out. It was the fasted labor. I didn't expect it to go that fast. They gave me the epidural at just the right time. So we were there only about 4 hours and he was out. I was so happy.

It is now tuesday and I am feeling really good. we came home yesterday. They found a small hole in his heart but nothing to worry about. Everett is a very healthy boy. His is such a good eater. They weighed him the other day and he was 9 lbs 2 oz. but he will quickly get his weight back in no time I am sure of that. My milk has come in and I can pump a lot, so I know that he is eating good.

Baby Everett, we are glad that you are finally here!

Something new!

No, it isn't a baby yet! But I did get a new calling again. The Lord just wants to keep me busy learning new things. I was just called yesterday as the Secretary in the Stake Primary. I have never really been in the primary before but I am excited and happy to learn anything that I can. I was in the nursery, but not in the primary with the other kids. When I graduated high school I was a sunbeam teacher, but then I went to the singles ward so that didn't last very long.

Two Sundays ago was when I was asked and when I went into Young Women's for the last time I already felt separated. It is very interesting how that all works. I will miss being with the girls each week, but I will grow in my new calling. I feel like my mission in Young Women's was fulfilled and that I accomplished tons. I worked hard and loved the girls very much. I still love them. They are amazing girls. A good thing is is I am still assistant camp director for this coming camp. I am happy about that. Well, I am unless they call someone else. But the camp director from last camp is still the camp director and she said that I was still her assistant. :D No complaining there. I love camp and love any opportunity to be able to go and be apart of the young women's lives. They truly are amazing girls.

I am a little sad. Chris just left this morning to go to Arkansas for a training and to become certified to work in Wichita. He might have to miss the birth completely. I was hoping and praying that Everett would be here before he left, but the Lord has his own timetable for things. I have to be okay with that. At least he isn't going away for a two or five year mission like the pioneer wives had to deal with. That would be hard.

I am super big and waddling like its nobodies business. I truly look like a penguin when I walk. I will be super happy when he is out of my body. I think I will have another painful recovery, but it won't last long. I am just ready for the recovery part so I can get on with my life.

Ahhhh!

So the other day Chris called Wesley to see if I can go in to be induced. Chris is leaving Monday thru Thursday for a training for his job so he can be licensed here in Wichita to work. I am still pregnant. Well, the hospital said that I have to see my doctor and schedule an induction. So we decided to go to the Hunter Health clinic again. We went yesterday and waited for what seemed like an infinity since we had no prior appointment set up. We finally go back to see the doctor about 3 hours later. They check my urine sample, check to see if I am dilated and how effaced I am. I was dilated to a 3 and effaced about 80%. The doctor tells me that there was a little protein in my urine and that my blood pressure was a little high which is a sign of preeclampsia so they wanted to send us to the hospital so they could do some more tests. So, we leave hunter and head to the hospital. They check my blood pressure, take some blood and check my urine. My blood pressure was good, no protein in my urine and the baby was fine. They kept us for a couple of hours still, just to make sure that everything was fine. They wanted to check also to see if I was contracting and see how the baby's heartbeat was. Very little contractions and the baby's heartbeat was awesome. Well, they sent us home and now I have to have a 24 hour urine sample for them, so we have to go back to wesley and get some cups for that. Yay! I am so happy. I just have to continue to be patient. At least I am at a 3 and 80% effaced.

Still no baby

I am still pregnant. I feel like he is never going to come. Chris and I have been taking walks and throwing the football every night for a couple of days. I start to have contractions when it is over, but then they stop. Ahhhh! I just have to keep being patient. I am going to go see the doctor today and see if I can be induced today. If not, I will have to wait a little bit longer until he is ready to come out. I hope I don't have to wait very long.

It's Birthday Time again!

So yesterday was my birthday and I had such a good day. I got to sleep in which was nice. Well, the night before we went to the Favre's for dinner like we usually do every sunday, played some games with Jacob, Taylor, Uncle Alan, Michael, Aunt Rhonda, Chris and Emma. We played Farkle and Rummy. We always have so much fun over there. It is always hard to leave. We got home way late, but I am glad that we got to sleep in. I slept really good. We woke up at 9, got ready for the day, left at around 10, went to Panera Bread for breakfast because I wanted a Cinnamon crunch bagel with hazelnut cream cheese spread, yummlicious, and a cinnamon chip scone, double yummlicious!! I also got a mango smoothie. It was all so very yummy. It was a perfect start of avery good day.

Next we went to Target to look around. Chris wanted to show me theGPS he wanted to get for his job that was on sale, which was not on sale anymore. We walked around some and wandered in the baby clothes section. It was really cute to see Chris' reaction to some of the clothes that we saw and then purchased. You would have thought we were at a baby shower opening gifts. You know how women react to cute gifts! That was Chris. It was cute to watch.

"Daddy's happy I'm A BOY"

cute little zip up jacket. We also got him a blue jacket that looks like this one. They are way adorable. They would look better if he were modeling them, but he isn't here yet.

"Cuter than the dog"

"I love Mommy sooooo much"

We saw some cute little kid costumes for Halloween. One was a giraffe that we wanted to get for Emma but it was too small because Emma is too big. We decided to go look at the other Target by the mall but it wasn't even there at all. Darn!

After we left the first Target storewe went back to Panera to get another bagel and scone for dad. I was telling Chris that I bet dad hasn't eaten anything and if he has it was probably a can of tuna with some crackers or something. We get to dad's and I ask if he has eaten anything and he said he had. He ate crackers with mayo. I sure do know my dad. I was happy to feed my dad some good food. He is such a good man. We sat and chatted with him for a while then headed to Burlington coat factory to find some onsies to decorate for our little guy. We didn't find any, so we just went to Hobby Lobby to get some fabric and stuff to put on the fabric that you can iron on to clothes. Chris and I are going to decorate some onsies for Everett. I am excited. We were going to do it yesterday, but we ran out of time. When we do I will make sure I put the pictures on the blog.

After Hobby Lobby we go home, I clean the kitchen and make myself a birthday cake. I had to use the skills I learned in my cake decorating class.

I know, Isn't it beautiful. I used the cheap icing though which was not the best idea. It was still good.

So a funny story goes with this cake. We told the Favre's that we would share the cake with them. After I got done with it Chris decided to multi task and put it in the car all ready to go. This is a double layer cake by the way. So we get into the car and I look at the cake. Chris looks so sad. The top of the cake starts to slide off the bottom. It was hot in the car and the cake couldn't handle the heat. Chris felt so bad. I thought it was so funny. I told him that Aunt Rhonda would get a kick out of it. Well, it still tasted really good. We got some Rocky Road ice cream to go with it. Mmmm! The flowers and letters and bottom of the cake was made from buttercream icing so they were nice and stiff still.

When we got home Chris put Emma to bed and we went out to throw the football. Chris really wants my water to break. Well, it didn't work. Oh well!

So this week is Jared, Michael and Matt's birthday as well. Happy Birthday guys!

Jared's is today. He passed away a year ago. Time fly's by so fast. I can't believe it.

Today I plan on making a nursing cover for my friend Caren who is also expecting this month. I am excited about the fabric I got. I am going to make myself another one out of the same fabric.

This is the blanket I made Everett. I am proud of my handy work. It only took a couple of hours to do. I made it out of a blue sheet and a white fuzzy blanket cut down to size then put brown ribbon around it. I love it. It will be really comfy for him.

This is a picture of me 9 months pregnant with our little boy Everett taken today. Not much longer and I will have a smaller belly and be able to fit into my clothes again! I cannot wait for that day to be here. P90X here I come!!! After Turbo Jam of course. I have to work slowly into it.

Nothing is working & Things I look forward to!

I have been trying everything to get my water to break. I have been unsuccessful. I went to fill up the water jugs at Walmart today. two of them are 3 gallon jugs and two are 5 gallons. I was sure that something might happen. I think that every time I roll over in bed that it will break too. Nope. The placenta is just too strong. I even tried throwing a football. I guess I am just going to have to be patient a little longer! I am utterly miserable and hot and my hormones are always up and down. I started to tear up watching Madagascar this morning while making a baby blanket for our little guy. I finished it today. I had been meaning to make it for a while now and finally decided to do it. It turned out pretty okay. I am not a pro or anything, but it will be warm for him in the winter. Maybe he was waiting for me to make the blanket to come out. Okay, now he can come. Hmm, is there anything else I need to do before he comes? I don't think so.

Things I look forward to:

I look forward to being able to lay on my stomach again, to easily tie my shoes, to paint my toenails without having to catch my breath, being able to sit without having to rest my stomach in between my legs, not swelling and not having cankles (for those of you who don't know what that is it is ankles and calves mixed together). I look forward to doing Turbo Jam again. I look forward to being able to wear smaller clothes and not look like I am wearing a tent. I look forward to being able to shave my legs with ease and washing my feet with no pain when I try to lift my leg. I definitely look forward to not waddling anymore. Most importantly, I look forward to holding my little guy in my arms for the first time!

I guess He is worth the sacrifice.