2 months old!

i can't believe my little bug is TWO MONTHS OLD!!! she is getting so big! she is becoming very alert and she is such a happy baby! i LOVE her to PIECES!!! she is so much fun! i am SO lucky that i am able to stay home with this little miracle!!! i just LOVE it! :) she now weighs 9lbs 13oz!!! holy moly! she is doing SO good! she is gaining weight just at the perfect rate and the doctors are very happy with her progress! GREAT NEWS!!! so when the doctors talk to us they tell us SO MUCH that it is hard for me to comprehend it all and remember everything! ha ha ha! so while she was in the hospital for the first week she was able to skip her first surgery! amazing! we were SO HAPPY! then there are 3 surgeries that she needs to make her heart workable until she needs a transplant. the first surgery is the worst. she would be on the heart bypass machine for the longest and the recovery is longer. the doctors had mentioned that she MIGHT be able to skip that surgery which rarely happens with heart babies. so they sent us home to have her gain weight. well....the other day when me and trav woke up to feed her we were talking about her first surgery and i asked him when she would have it. he told me that if we make it to 4 months she won't need the first surgery!!!!! WHAT?!?! i couldn't BELIEVE it! i was SO HAPPY when i heard that!!! i guess the first surgery is suppose to get her to 4 months old. well where she is doing so good on her own she won't need it!!!! oh my heck! i get so excited and happy when i think about it!!! i must've missed that part of the conversation with the doctor!!! we are SO BLESSED to have this little miracle in our lives!!! she truely is our little miracle baby!!!! we love her SO MUCH! anywho...that was my GREAT and EXCITING news! :) now here are some pics of her lately!

2 months old!

here she is in her OWN BED for the first time! :)

i put her in it for a nap. not for the night. i'm not quite there yet. ha ha ha.

here she is with daddy on his first father's day!

she just LOVES to fall asleep on his chest! she loves

him so much! he is the best daddy EVER!

here she is givin us a little smile!

funny story...she totally pooped on me so i put her

in the tub and then i took this pic with her little horns.

ha ha ha. i love it! :)

taylee's blessing day

my little bug is getting SO BIG!!! she is becoming more alert and she is still eating SO MUCH! ha ha ha! we went to the doctor again on thursday and he said that she looks GREAT and she is gaining weight just perfect! YAY! it is so good to hear great news like that! i can't believe she is almost 7 weeks old!!! it kinda makes me sad! :( we're getting closer and closer to surgery and i HATE thinking about it. but it's gonna happen whether i like it or not! so we decided to bless taylee on June 6th. it was such a PERFECT DAY! the blessing daddy gave her was AMAZING, the weather was perfect, the food wasn't too bad (i prepared it) ha ha ha. it was all around a GREAT day! if you are wondering why her dress is somewhat 80's like...we blessed her in MY blessing dress so that was pretty cool. :) here are a couple pics that we took!

oh i just love her to DEATH!!!

one month old!

so....my little bug is ONE MONTH OLD ALREADY!!!! oh it just makes me so sad and happy at the same time!!! i'm sad she's growing so fast but i can't wait for all the little milestones! we had our first appointment at primary's since she's been home and they said that she looks good! :) which is always good news! GREAT news! :) this little girl now weighs......NINE POUNDS!!!! holy moly! she is getting so big! i just love it! we got her pics taken and she was SO GOOD for the camera!!! i absolutely LOVE them! i'm gonna have a hard time picking my favorites to print off!!! anywho...taylee is doing GREAT! :) and we just LOVE having here home with us!!! :) here are a couple ADORABLE pics that we got.....

look at those stinkin CHEEKS!!! you can't tell by

this pic but she really is a happy baby i promise! :)

i stinkin HATE this binki cause it's pretty much as big

as her face but it's the only one she would take in the

hospital so i have to adjust. ha ha. is this not the cuteset pic ever?!

yep....LOVE it! this is daddy's favorite pic. :)

....tell me this buddha belly isn't proof of her weight gain.... :)

pretty much ADORABLE!!! :)

taylee

well! i cant believe i have a minute to update! :) this might be a quick one! any who...i was thinkin that we were SO EXCITED to bring her home i forgot to let you all know what we actually found out with our little girl when she was born. from week 20 till the day she was born there was never a FOR SURE thing about her problems. we were just told that different things COULD be wrong but we wouldn't know till she was here and they could do tests/echos/x-rays on her. so here is what we were told.....besides the many heart defects that she has, she also has two right lungs...which they say is just fine to have! all of her little organs in her belly are flipped. so her stomach and everything else is on the opposite side of where it is suppose to be. but by the proof of my little girl....that seems to be just fine as well! everything is hooked up right and she is eating and pooping like a CHAMP! :) she is gaining weight pretty fast actually! which is what we want! she needs those pounds! :) we were also told that she does not have a spleen. :( the doctors said that this is ok because people are born without it as well as get it taken out! the only worry with no spleen is that she has no way of fighting off infection. but she is, and will be, on an antibiotic for probably the rest of her life just to help fight any bacteria. so if any of you wonder why we are so distant or won't let you come see her....don't be offended! we are just being EXTRA careful that she stays as healthy as she can be! :) she is doing just GREAT here at home and is LOVING the fact that she is off all of the monitors and is no longer bein poked! :) i will try to keep you all updated! here are a couple pics of my cute baby girl! :)

all bundled up after the tub!

she's lookin a little angry here...

this is what you get when you take cute wanna-be professional pics! ha ha ha! look at that face!!!

our little miracle

wow! can i just tell you what a MIRACLE our little baby girl is?!?! i don't even know what to say!!! she is one week old today and she has been doing SO GOOD! all of the nurses and doctors are SHOCKED with how well she is doing for as many problems she has with her little heart. since she's been here she's been eating AND pooping like a CHAMP! :) she has been keeping her oxygen level right where it needs to be which is GREAT! she is keeping her levels just right during feedings and they are no longer dropping like they use to! she even got to nurse for the first time today and did AWESOME!!! today was the "big day" and we met with the doctors to hear what the plan was for her. before she was here we were told that we should not plan on being able to hold her and expect a LONG stay at the hospital. well! amazingly we were told today that we will be bringing her home this weekend!!!! AMAZING!!! after the doctors left i cried! what a miracle! being able to bring her home a week after she was born was not even an on our minds and here we are going to be able to!!! she will still need surgery on her little heart but we get to bring her home and make her fat before she goes in at about 4-6 months. we are SO happy and SO BLESSED!!!! we cannot thank everyone enough for all of the thoughts and prayers for this little girl! :) here are a couple pics of our sweet baby.....

don't you just love her "stunna shades" :)

1 week old with her first clip bow in her hair. :)

April 21, 2010

our sweet baby girl Taylee has finally made it! and OH what a miracle she is! so the story.....after going 3 days over my due date we decided to be induced. it was time for this little girl to be here! so we got to the hospital late. ha ha ha. signed in and got to the room. they gave me my i.v. which didn't work the first time so they had to poke me again. yep! i pretty much ALMOST passed out! ha ha ha. no lie. anywho, so they checked me and i was still a 2 and 70%. so i figured with the pitocin i would get rollin. 4 hours later at 2pm they checked me and i was THE SAME!!!! AHHH!!! i've been a 2 and 70% for FOREVER!!! ha ha ha. so they broke my water and as soon as that was done i was a 3 plus and about 90%. wow! i was gonna get the epidural beforei had my water broken but i wasn't in pain so they just did it. well, about 2 minutes later the pain began! ha ha ha. i was gonna be a tough girl and go as long as i could and that didn't last long. ha ha ha. so i had the epi-man come in and talk to me and he talked me into getting it when i did. i was nervous but i guess i handled it pretty well! ten to fifteen minutes later i was a happy girl. pain free. except for on the left side. the pain would not go away so he had to come back in and adjust the tube. then after laying on my left side for a little it kicked in. i was kinda pooped by now so we tried to take a nap. but i couldn't fall asleep. go figure. so hours later they checked me again and i was a 7. oh i felt like this little girl was NEVER gonna be here! now the pain is starting to come on again. i thought getting an epi would get rid of the pain?! WOW! that TOTALLY didnt work. ha ha ha. so the epi-man came in and gave me a stronger dose and it worked GOOD!!! for about an hour. ha ha ha! then the good ol pain came back. HARD! epi-man came BACK in and "gave me another dose" ....or so i thought! apparently he gave me a dose of something else that didn't even TOUCH the pain! so here i am at an 8 and not pain free. ha ha ha! oh well i guess! they wheeled me into the room that i was going to deliver in around 11:30. they checked me and i was a 9! what?! she's not even gonna be born today?!?! an hour later they checked me and i was a 10! FINALLY! well, a ten and having STRONG contrations with an epi that didn't work means......EXAUSTED! and the work was just about to begin! i began pushing and was so pooped! but i just kept pushing! i had no other way of getting her out! after each set of pushes i would look at the doctor and say....am i even DOING ANYTHING?!?! IS IT EVEN WORKING?!?! he just said...yeah. i was like...that was not very believeable! so i just kept pushing. one hour.......an hour and fifteen minutes......an hour and forty five minutes......by this time i was passing out between contractions! i don't even remember between each one or even pushing! i don't even remember pusing my baby girl out!!! how sad!!! we were planning on not being able to really see her or hold her because of her situation but guess what!!! they threw her on my chest for about 10 seconds and i got to give her a kiss! :) AMAZING! she was SO CUTE! all i remember was all the hair she had! ha ha ha. then they tossed her off and took her away. we had to wait an hour before we got to see her for about ten minutes then they took her over to primary childrens. we slept for about 3 hours then daddy woke up to go see her and i laid in bed. ha ha ha. well! that's the scoop! :) after 16 hours of labor and 2 hours of pushing she FINALLY made it!!!!!!! and we are SO happy and love her to PIECES!!! her is a pic of a pic that the nurse took. :)

our little bug was 7lbs 11oz and 21" long with TONS of hair and SO CUTE!!!