Happy Birthday Brinlee Lynn!

My sweet little Brinlee is 3 today!! I can't even believe it! It seems like just yesterday I found out we were going to have a baby and now we have a 3 year old. She is such a funny, happy smart little girl. She is always cracking me up with what she says. The other day Dave was fixing something on the DVD player while she was watching TV and it kept making the TV go black so she yelled out "Dad your killing me" :) Who knows were she heard that before :)
She makes my everyday fun and reminds to find the fun in everything. She is such a great helper and loves doing things herself. I always tell her I am sure if I would let her she would already want to live on her own :)
She loves Hadlee and makes me so proud when she already wants to share her toys with her or puts her binky in for her. The first thing she asks every morning is wheres Hadlee even the most days I am holding her.
I am so grateful Heavenly Father sent her to me to be my daughter. I love you Brinlee!

Fall Leaves

Saturday we decided to drive up American Fork Canyon to see the leaves. Of course I really didn't take any pictures of them because I forgot :) We decided to drive up to Tibble Fork Reservoir so Brinlee could throw rocks in it. The whole way up she asked if she should close her eyes for her surprise even though we had already told her what we were going to do :)
Look at Hadlee's double chin :) I love it

Hadlee's Blessing

My computer is seriously going to be the death of me. I hope and pray we can afford a new one for Christmas so I can actually upload pictures so I can blog more often but anyways...I finally got it to upload some of the blessing. I didn't really want to bless her so early but I figured since I was still warm and people wouldn't be sick yet and Ashlee hadn't had Nikson yet so she could come I would do it the last week of September since General Conference was the first week of October.

The week before it I ended up with a sinus infection that was awful. I went to the Dr Friday hoping he could help out but since I am breast feeding they couldn't really give me anything or it would dry me up. Saturday I woke up in incredible pain with my left ear. I felt like it was on the verge of bursting. I couldn't hear anything out of it and the pressure was awful. I spent all day trying to relieve so I could feel better for Sunday but no luck. I woke feeling a little better but not being able to hear at all. So I had to have Collette write down the blessing because I couldn't hear any of it :( Later that night my ear finally starting to drain pus because it had ruptured Saturday so that explained a lot. But minus me feeling awful it was a wonderful day. Dave did such a wonderful job.

I had Ashlee take some pictures of her in her dress but she was to tired to cooperate :)

In other news, Hadlee is 7 weeks today. She is growing so fast. At the Dr she weighed 10 and half lbs and was 23 1/4 inches. That means in a month she gained 3 lbs and and more than 3 inches. She just might pass up her sister. She is such a happy baby. She has started to smile and coo. I love it. Physical Therapy is going great. They realized when we went in for her arm that she only turns her neck to one side so we had to work on that too. The bummer is that is 2 different things so she has to go to 2 different therapists which makes it busy and also means I spend a good part of the day doing stretches on her. But when we went in last week she was doing so well in both we don't have to go in for a month!! Her is a cute picture of her. She is starting to get rolls which I love!! Chubby babies are the best :)

1 Month

I would be blogging a lot more but I have been super sick with a sinus infection and a broken ear drum from it for the past 2 weeks and my computer is a piece of junk and won't let me upload pictures with out a fight so I apologize.

But in other news Hadlee is already 1 month! I can't believe it. I thought it flew by with Brinlee but the second goes even faster. Her Dr appointment isn't til next week so you will have to wait on stats but I definnently think she is taking in her sister steps. She is such a wonderful baby. I couldn't have asked for a better one. She sleeps great through the night and doesn't even cry when she gets hungry. She just smacks her lips loud enough to wake me :) She is great during the day and loves to be awake and just look around. She still has all her hair and it is stick straight. I tried to comb it down after her bath and it just stands right back up again,which is ok because I love it.
Brinlee is very much in love with her sister. She loves to hold her and help burp her. She is so funny she runs over to her every time she cries and says "it is ok little fella". I have no idea where she got that from but its cute.
We started physical therapy last week and it went really well. They are pretty sure she won't have any long time effects with her arm. We learned some stretches to do to it and I feel like she already moves it better. We go back in next week to see how she is doing.
Here are some pictures

This shows how much Brinlee loves Hadlee. Her doll and blanket are her favorite things in the world and she loves to put them on her.

This is her first real bath. She didn't like it much :) but now she loves them. She loves her hair to be washed. She rolls her eyes back in her head when you rub her head. It is really funny

Brinlee needed to wash her baby after

We blessed Hadlee Sunday. This is just a preview. Ashlee has all the cute pictures on her camera

Maternity Pics

I never had a chance to post these before I had Hadlee. Ashlee took them for me (thanks Ash) and like always I love them :) I am pretty proud of how calm I look in them because this is the park we saw the sign that a cougar had been spotted there and if you know me I am terrified of pretty much everything :) but especially cougars.

My favorite thing ever

At the hospital they had the option of having a professional photographer(Bella Baby Photography, if you are interested) come into the room and do some pictures. I had looked at her blog before through the hosptial website and absoulty loved the pictures so of course I jumped at the opportunity, little did I know how much I would love them. I don't think anything else could have captured what I was feeling about my new little baby. It was so funny when the lady came back later in the day to show me the pictures on her laptop I started crying because of how much I loved them. Ashlee was with me and she started to cry too (Ash and I can pretty much make each cry about anything). Then the photography, who was about 6 months pregnant also, starting to cry too. It was awesome :) Here are some of my favorites
In other news..Hadlee had her MRI Tuesday. It was a pretty traumatizing day for me and her I am sure. I was really nervous about it in the first place so that didn't help. First they blew a vein giving her an IV, which is understandable since she was 8 days old and has tiny veins, but I just cried the whole time. Another thing I didn't know is that it would take 45 minutes to do it and we couldn't be back with her so that made me even more upset. They since she was so little they had to sedate her for the MRI and she woke up half way through so they had to give her more medicine and when they brought her back to us in the recovery room, she started to relax too much and her oxygen dropped way low and they had to put her on oxygen. But after awhile of being on it she started doing a lot better and they took her off. Because they had to sedate her we had to be admitted to the hospital for 12 hours to watch her. They put us in the tiniest little room with a chair and tiny chair bed. It definnelty made it interesting to get any sleep but finally at 4:40 am they released us. But after all that we got great news...none if the nerves were torn and the nerve damage in her arm is starting to heal on its own! SO hopefully just physical therapy with help with that and she will be perfect! We start physical therapy when she is 6 weeks old.

The Delivery

I was scheduled to be induced Monday but Sunday night the hospital called and said they were so busy that we shouldn't show up in the morning but just call and see if they could fit us in. I was a nervous wreck all night thinking they wouldn't fit us in and we wouldn't be able to have her til Tuesday. Finally around 10am Monday they let us come in. I got there and they got me all hooked up and ready to go. I wasn't having contractions or hadn't progressed any since the Dr examined me on Wednesday. I was strep positive so they got me going on my antibiotics and after a few hours the Dr on call came in the break my water. While he was doing it he said he could still feel a hand or something (which wasn't a shock) but he decided to order an ultra sound to make sure it was a hand. The nurse did the ultra sound and shocked us all and said she was completely breech.They went straight into action calling my doctor and get an OR ready to do a c section. I wish they hadn't broke my water because my contractions picked up majorly then and trying to talk my self in to a c section while feeling like I was dying was not very fun. Within the next 30 Min's I was sitting in the operating room getting my spinal. I was terrified. I knew there was a chance of a c section but this is not how I pictured it. Thank goodness it went by quick and there she was! She was born at 3:21 pm

The 2ND part of her delivery is, like I mentioned before, when the Dr examined me the for the first time her hand has been on her head. This isn't that uncommon and so they thought that when I went in to labor the contractions would make her move her hand, but what happened with Hadlee is that somewhere between Wednesday and Monday she flipped breech making her arm bend completely backwards. When they got her out it looked like it was broken or dislocated. So after 2 sets of x rays her Dr told us it is Erbs Palsy. This means that the nerves in her arms are either stretched or torn. My obgyn has never seen it before and my pediatrician has only seen it once in his 11 years of practicing. If they are just stretched it can be fixed with physical therapy if they are torn they either have to be fixed with surgery or a nerve replacement. We have a MRI set up at Primary Children's on Tuesday to find out exactly what is wrong.

But minus all the drama she has brought :) jk she is a wonderfully precious baby. I think she looks a lot like Brinlee did. She hardly ever cries and sleeps like a champ. Infact she sleeps so well she is making breast feeding hard because she wont stay awake:) I love her so much and already can't imagine what life was like with out her.You can see her poor little arm in this picture :(