Makenna Grace

As most of your know, our sweet Makenna Grace was born on Tuesday. She was born at 1:41pm, and weighed 7 pounds 12 oz and was 19 1/2 inches long! (Quite a shock to me, who was for sure thinking I had a 10 lb baby inside of me!). She is doing really well so far. She seems to be eating and sleeping good and is a sweet tiny little thing. Miss Kailey is doing pretty good. She is really sweet with Makenna. She wants to give her kisses, and hold her constantly. She is obviously having some adjustment issues, but hopefully things will continue to get better over the next couple of weeks. I am doing pretty well also. I am pretty sore, and I hate taking the pain meds because they make me feel loopy, which is a catch 22! Each day I get better though, so hopefully within a week or so my pain will be pretty much gone. Here are some of my favorite pics of our sweet family so far:

Here is us before we left for the hospital:


Here is me before they took me back to the OR:


Since my spinal worked, I was actually awake for her birth and Casey was in the room, which was great! It was really hard when we didn't get to be there for Kailey to be born. Anyway, I totally burst into tears when she arrived. Such a great moment! Here are some pics of the delivery:







Here are a few more of my favorites:






And as always...there are more on facebook!

B-day!

Well today is baby girl's birthday! We have to be at the hospital at 9:00, and she should be born around 11 or 12. I am doing well, just nervous. Actually the worst part right now is that I am extremely thirsty, because I haven't been able to have any liquid or food since midnight! This, is like torture, because when I am pregnant I drink like gallons of liquid each day. I am just ready to make it through the surgery so that I can have some ice chips!

Just keep us in your prayers today. I obviously am really nervous, but also really excited! I'll blog by the end of the week, but facebook will be updated today!

The day of Crying Fits

Well, today was not such a great day for me. I really thought it was going to be, because it was my last day of school, but it was definitely not!

Crying Fit #1: This morning when I was getting ready for school, I could not find any shirts that would fit over my ginormous drooping belly. Everything I put on came up too high and left my belly hanging out. So I did what any logical pregnant person would do, and burst into tears. The thing that made me laugh though was Kailey. I heard her say from the other room: "Settle down mommy! Settle down!". haha. So funny!

Crying Fit #2: For any of you that pay attention to my facebook statuses, I have been anxiously (or think of a word that means 10 times whatever anxiously means to you..) awaiting my TAKS scores. I could not make my maternity lesson plans for next week without them, because our incentives are based on those scores, our exam exemptions are based on them, etc. So I've been on pins and needles! Well, today the scores came in. However this morning, instead of passing along the info the counselors and principals all had their doors closed scouring over the scores, which honestly just means they were checking and comparing all the teachers to each other. It was just really hurtful that even though they knew all of us were anxious, and they know all the teachers work their tails off all year for these scores, they were keeping them a secret. I have no doubt they were under strict instructions from the district to keep them from us, which made it even worse. It is so hurtful the way the administration at district level sits in their offices and compares teacher to teacher without ever seeing our classrooms, our students, or even us! It is just really hard to take sometimes. I had heard that one of the counselors was allowing teachers to look, so I tried to find him, but he wasn't in his office. So I went in the other counselors office and she like tried to hide them from me and it was just really frustrating. So, I did what any logical pregnant woman would do, and I locked myself in my classroom, hid in the corner, called my husband, and burst into tears.

Crying Fit # 3: Ok so I didn't actually cry this time. By now, I had no tears left. They finally let us see the scores. I had more kids fail than I ever have. 14 out of 106 to be exact. I attribute this to two things: 1) My kids are more apathetic about life in general than I have experienced EVER and 2) The state raised the "met expectations" percentage to 70% instead of 63%. I was extremely disappointed, and that just made me feel like a horrible teacher, even though I know that I really worked hard to help the kids pass. The kids that I pulled for my extra tutoring did really well, with the exception of a couple, so that was good.

Crying Fit # 4: When I left my students for the last time...

JUST KIDDING. I have never been so ready to get rid of a group of students as I was this year. I know that sounds horrible, but seriously...you have no idea. For a little snapshot: My 7th period had 25 students. 4 of them were special ed. 14 of them were boys. 3 of them were diagnosed ADHD, that is not counting the others that I just think probably are ADHD. 2 of them had parents that thought their precious children could do no wrong, and if they disrespected me, it was me not allowing them to express themselves. Anyway....it was a pretty bad year. I am truly glad it is over!

Now...onto Tuesday and having this baby!

The End of the Name Game

This is the last letter that will be posted for the Name Game. I think the name should be fairly obvious after the posting of this letter, which is a bummer for me! But, you will all know the full name in 5 days, nonetheless! So here it is:



(sorry for the glare!)

I went to the doctor for my last appointment yesterday. (39 weeks!). My C-section is scheduled for Tuesday (the 25th) at around 11am or noon. Yay hooray! Oh, and tommorow is my last day of school, which I am totally pumped about! If only those dang TAKS scores would come in...that would make my life a lot easier! It is hard to make lesson plans for a sub that are contingent on the TAKS scores, without the TAKS scores! Oh well!

Random Kailey Sayings

Kailey is saying new things constantly. It is just amazing what she picks up on, just by listening to people's conversations. There are a few things that I want to make sure that I remember to tell her about when she is older, so I need to blog them!

When she doesn't like something that we give her to eat she says "I don like it, is picy!" (I don't like it, it's spicy!)That is so funny to me, that she relates things being spicy to not liking them. She will have to get over that one seeing as she has a cajun boy for a daddy and a mom who loves mexican food! The cutest part of this saying is the face she makes. I want to try to get a picture, but we'll see how that works out!

When she wants to be held she says "Hold you! Hold you!"

Everytime we get something new, like this weekend we got a roman shade for the baby's room, she carries it around and names it "Shelby". One time it was a curtain rod, sometimes it is her popcorn popper push thingie, this morning it was her toothbrush. She just carries "Shelby" around and rocks it like it's a baby. She put the roman shade in the baby's swing yesterday. She also laid the shade down one the laundry basket and said "Shelby diaper change". It is so funny!

She's also been asking all sorts of random questions about the baby:

"Baby paci??"
"Baby diaper change?"
"Where baby's diaper go??"
"Baby swing??"
"Baby cry??"

She calls herself my "big baby" because I try to explain to her that the bassinette is for the baby. Well she says "I a baby", so then I tell her it is for the little baby in mommy's tummy and that she is a big girl! She says "no big girl! big baby!". So, we call her my "big baby" because apparently she is not ready to grow up any more than I am ready for her to!

After my mom left a couple of weeks ago Kailey talked about her and my dad for the whole week. She kept saying "no mommy daddy! Want grammy and pawpaw!!" Finally one day I said "why do you want grammy and pawpaw?" and she said "grammy and paw paw loves you!", meaning "because they love me!". Isn't that sweet, that she knows they love her? Of course, we tell her that all the time too....apparently that was lost in translation.

This was definitely a scattered post, but I knew I needed to document these little sayings before I lost them completely. I just don't want to forget how sweet and cute her first sentences are!

Can I buy another vowel, please??

Here is the letter of the week:



Don't worry...it'll get more interesting next week. :)

Tiredness

I have been saying I am tired for the entire 9 1/2 months I have been pregnant. I really truly have been tired. But my tiredness has now reached a new level. You know that feeling when you go to Youth Camp, and you stay up til at least 2am every single night? Then everyday you play hard all day long, never stopping to do anything but eat? Then you know how you feel whenever you get home from camp, and you go to bed at like 8:00pm, and then you don't wake up until almost 8:00pm the following day and you are confused about what day it is? Well that ladies and gents, is how I feel. TIMES TEN. I know this is normal, but it is getting to be almost unbearable. I am sitting at work right now in the biggest cloud of tiredness. Part of this is because I am 9 1/2 months pregnant. Part of this is because I wake up every hour all night long to "use the facilities". The last part of this, is because my poor sweet angel baby has an ear infection and woke up last night at 2:30am and wouldn't go back to sleep until almost 4:00am. That my friends has happened 5 out of the last 7 nights. So sorry for the whining, but I am very tired and just thought I would tell somebody. :)

Oh, and 2 weeks from today I am having another sweet angel baby, and maybe then I will actually get to sleep. I know this sounds crazy to some of you, but I remember after Kailey was born, that waking up every 3 hours was like HEAVEN compared to waking up every hour. So yay for a baby girl in 2 weeks!