Christmas with Big Pop and Honey

Christmas with Big Pop and Honey was wonderful. Taylor got some many great things as did Clay and I but the best part about it was being able to spend time with Big Pop, Honey, Elle, and Marie. I know they all enjoyed seeing Taylor and getting to love on her. I forgot to take our camera so as soon as I get pictures from Cheri I will upload them.

Taylor has been doing great we think we have finally got her on a schedule. Thanks to Grin. We had a schedule for a while but it got all messed up some how or another. We have had to start putting a little bit of rice cereal in her formula because just the 4 oz. of formula was not satisfying her and if you gave her more formula she would spit it up. The rice cereal seems to be working very well. We also had a pooping problem for a little while and we tried everything to get that under control but nothing seemed to help her poop on her on. We finally tried prune juice and it worked wonderfully. Taylor is pooping all the time now. Crazy we are excited about our daughter pooping but we are. We have our 1 month check-up Jan. 5 and have to get shots, Mommy is not too happy about this but knows it has to be done. I will let you all know how that visit goes. I am sure it will go just fine.

We had a wonderful Christmas this year and Taylor's 1st Christmas could not have gone any better. Now we are looking forward to the new year. Although I am not looking forward to going back to school at all. We hope everyone had a great holiday and has a happy new year.

Christmas so far....

Well we have had Christmas at Lee Lee's and Grin and Pop's house. We still have Big Pop and Honey's to go. We have had such a great Christmas this year. Everyone has enjoyed seeing Taylor and we have enjoyed being with everyone. I have posted some pictures from Christmas at Lee Lee's and Christmas in Columbus. Hope everyone has had a wonderful holiday. We love you.

Lee Lee feeding Taylor


Lee Lee and aunt Catie


Me Christmas at Lee Lee's


Taylor got this from Santa "War Eagle"


Clay Christmas at Lee Lee's


Taylor Christmas at Lee Lee's


Grin says this is Taylor's pole dancing outfit


Trying to get a picture of the gran-babies


Taylor Christmas Eve


Abby Christmas morning


Alan and Sarah Christmas morning


Grin, Pop and Wesley Christmas morning

2wk weight visit

Hey everyone, I hope you are all doing well and are ready for Christmas. I know we are. Clay, Taylor and I are so excited about spending time with family these next couple of weeks. Christmas is a little scattered this year, we are having Christmas with the Enfingers this weekend, with Lee Lee and Aunt Catie on Tuesday, not sure about Big Pop and Honey yet, and Taylor and I are leaving for Columbus Tuesday afternoon sometime and Clay will join us Thursday night. Although it may seem crazy we are all just thankful that Clay is here and not at the academy and that we get to spend time with family. We have been so blessed this year and to end the year with a daughter is going to be so wonderful.

I have to catch you up on the past couple of weeks. Friday morning I woke up at 3am with a fever and chills. I took some medicine to see if it would help but by 7am the fever had gotten just a little worse. I called the doctor and they fit me in to come see her that morning. Clay and I both thought it was the flu but the doctor was not exactly sure because I had my flu shot. She had blood test done on me and called me around 4pm to let me know my white blood count was twice as high as what it should be and that I need to go to the hospital. Not the way I wanted to start the weekend. At first they thought I my uterus was infected. I had 2 CT scans and a chest x-ray. They all came back fine. So when the doctor comes to my room the next day and says "so your the mystery women" I kinda freak out. They started me on antibiotics which reduced my fever and I finally got to go home on Monday. I would have gotten to leave Sunday afternoon but my IV went bad and made my arm swell up and caused my skin to have redness everywhere, so they wanted to watch me over night. I was so ready to go home because I had not seen Taylor since Friday. Clay stayed with me and Lee Lee and Aunt Catie watched Taylor and they did a wonderful job. Thankfully I am all better although they still are not sure what was wrong. The doctor did say it could have been a taste of the flu and that the flu test could have been wrong (it was negative when they checked for it).

As for Taylor's 2 week weight visit, it went well. She weighs 7lbs. 12oz. So since we left the hospital she has gained 1lb 3oz. The nurse said she looks great. She has a lot of eye boogies which could be caused from a clogged tear duct but that is normal in babies and we are doing what the doctor said to do and hopefully we will get rid of some of those eye boogies. Also, she may have a little hernia but nothing to worry about right now. I had one as well and look at me I good. So we are not going to stress about that. Overall Taylor looks great and she is gaining weight just as she should be. We could not be happier.

Like I said before we can not wait to be with everyone for Christmas and we are so excited for those of you that have not met Taylor to meet her. She is just precious and will have you wrapped in no time.

Taylor is finally here!

I am sorry it has taken me so long to update everyone on Taylor but yes she is here. Saturday Nov. 28 my water broke around 3 or 4 (cant remember) so Clay and I put our flashers on and headed to the hospital. The contractions were pretty heavy and it seemed like forever before they could give me any medicine. They did give me some pain medicine to help out a little before the epi. It did not really help it just made me sleepy. I dilated pretty fast and before I knew it I was pushing. I pushed for 2 hours and she was just not going to fit. So they get me ready for a c-section. In the mean time my epi. had worn off and I was in some pain but they finally got that under control. I did not even know they had started the c-section until Clay looked at me and said "your daughter is here". Clay got to go back with the nurses and take pictures of Taylor getting cleaned up and taking a bath and getting weighed. He also got to bring here back to the surgery room to meet her mommy for the first time. It was the sweetest moment. Taylor was born at 10:09pm Nov. 28, 6lb. 15oz. 20in. She is so beautiful.
In the hospital Clay and I were both getting cabin fever and we were ready to leave. Although I will say this everyone at the hospital was great and exceeded our expectations. They kept me good and doped up lol, and complemented Clay on what a wonderful job he had been doing. I have to agree he was so great in the hospital and still is.
We brought Taylor home that following Tuesday (the day I was supposed to be induced). The first couple of nights I will have to say that Clay and I began to wonder are we going to be able to do this? But after those nights everything has gotten so much better. Taylor is sleeping 4 hours straight at night. Clay and I take turns on who gets up to feed her. He usually takes the first feeding and I'll take the second. (cant wait to sleep 8 hours again) Although it gets hard sometimes, Clay and I could not be happier. Taylor is a blessing and we would not change anything. She makes the cutest and some very funny faces. She seems to always projectile poop when her daddy changes her. We actually had to shampoo the carpet the other day because she had pooped during a changing and it flew straight out onto the carpet.
We have our first visit to the doctor Dec. 16th. She goes in to be weighed and I go to my doctor for a check-up as well.
We are going to Mississippi for Christmas and cant wait for everyone to meet our little precious angel. She is more than happiness to us and we look forward to many years to come with her. I have posted a few pictures and I will get more asap.