Our Life

Our life has pretty much revolved around doctor's appointments these days it seems. Yesterday I had another doctor appointment...I have had one every single week since Pyper was born. My blood pressure was down again, it was up last week, so the good news is I get to take my bp medicine once a day now instead of twice. I will be so thankful when all this is behind me. The medicine makes me feel terrible. I was also told that getting pregnant again right now is not a good idea...as if I needed someone to tell me that!!! Anyway, we also had another doctor appointment for Pyper yesterday as well. She was a whopping 6 lbs 12 oz!!! Two weeks ago she was 5lbs 12 oz! She is also 6 weeks old today. She is such a big girl. :o) Not really, but she is getting bigger all the same. We were told we should keep her away from people for another month or so to be safe. We were denied the RSV shot by insurance, she had one in the hospital, but you need them every month during RSV season. So, she won't be getting another one as they are $1000 per shot! Holy moly! We just have to be very careful so she doesn't get sick.
We have been pummeled by rain the last couple days and because we are so lucky, our power went out last night around 5PM and is still out this afternoon. I have a freezer full of breast milk and I will be super upset if it goes bad!!! Right now it is still frozen. We had a slumber party last night in my room and dined on chips and salsa by candlelight. Every few minutes Kensley asks me to watch something on TV or for some hot chocolate. Try explaining to a 3-year old why I can't produce those things! I guess I could try and make her some luke warm hot chocolate. :o) Stephen started up school full-time this week again so we are home without a car. Not that I would try and go anywhere with my baby alone and with out parking lot a lake, literally.
Now I am just waiting for the battery in this computer to die before I move on to the next thing. Most likely cleaning. Bleh!

Nap Time

January 11, 2010

Pyper is now one month old! It is hard to believe that a whole month has gone by since she was born and I still should be pregnant!! She had a doctor's appointment last Thursday and she was 5lbs 12 oz. That means that she gained 6 ounces in one week. So, she is doing really well and the doctor said we could go two weeks before her next appointment which will put us right around my due date. Hopefully she will be full birth weight by then and we can relax the heinous feeding schedule that is leaving us completely exhausted. Knowing my luck, the doctor will say it is okay to let her sleep and she will decide she doesn't want to! We have also found a solution to the gross vitamin she has to take. Instead of forcing it down her throat and having her throw it all up a half our later, we mix it with her milk over several feedings throughout the day. Now she doesn't even know that she is taking it and she is still getting the iron that she needs.

Sisters

Three Weeks Old

Pyper has been doing really well since we were able to take her home from the hospital. She spent a little over two weeks in the NICU and we brought her home on Dec. 28. On Dec. 27 she weighed 5 lbs 1 oz and at her first doctor's appointment on Dec. 31 she weighed 5 lbs 6 oz. We just had another doctor's appointment yesterday, Jan. 7, and she was 5 lbs 12 oz. We are still on a 3 hour feeding schedule that has left us exhausted but it looks like it has been paying off. Because she is doing so well, we don't have to take her to another doctor visit for 2 weeks instead of 1 and that will put her right around my actual due date and we are hoping that she will still be doing well and then we will be able to switch to a normal newborn schedule of visits. In this picture she is three weeks old, but as of today she is a big girl of 4 weeks! She is a tiny little thing and we are happy she is growing so that she won't seem so fragile.

Our Girls

Christmas Morning

Christmas this year was really fun for Kensley. She was so excited about all the presents and couldn't wait to open all of them. Several times a day she would get all the presents from under the tree and let us know who each one of them was for. She had it memorized. One day she went to Aunt Lois's house and said "I have one present under the tree and Pyper has two!" Lois was mortified and let Kensley know that she had some more presents for her. :o) Not to worry, we hadn't bought her Christmas presents yet and she got a new scooter and a laptop computer (not a real one, of course). She was very happy. Kensley does not like Santa, though, and became completely hysterical when she was told Santa was coming to our house and didn't want to go home. I had to reassure her that Santa WOULD NOT come to our house and that she would be safe so that she would calm down. She was obsessing about it constantly and would keep asking me if she was going to be safe at our house from Santa.

Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas!

Our Little Blondie!

Pyper's first time eating. The nurse put a little milk in a syringe and stuck it in a nipple and she slowly drank it.

Hospital Pictures

These are some pictures of Pyper shortly after she was born, I think. I was still in the surgery room.