Case Is Here!

 

 

 

 

 

  It all started on Tuesday when we woke up I was feeling kind of crampy and was having a few contractions.  They picked up throughout the day and they didn’t go away when I sat and rested for a couple of hours so I told Denver that we should probably head over to Flagstaff because we might have a baby tonight!

So we packed up our things and called Grandma to meet us there.  We checked into our hotel and told Daley and Grandma goodnight and headed to the hospital.  When we got there my contractions were strong but not regular and I was only dilated to a 2.5 so they sent Denver and I walking for an hour to see if we would have any progress.  We got back and there was no progress so we went back to the hotel and got a good night’s rest thinking the action would happen Wednesday.  So we woke up and decided to do a big day of shopping to get the contractions going.  We even went to the pool and swam with Daley.  She is such a little fish! The only bad thing that happened was Denver got in the pool with his phone in his pocket so he was phoneless for the rest of the trip because we thought we could fix it when we got home.  We had little luck on Wednesday so we called and talked to Jennie and she was giving us all kinds of ideas to get my contractions going.  One of the ideas was castor oil and spicy food so we decided I would take the castor oil Thursday morning and we would do another big day of walking and shopping and eat a bunch of spicy food.  Contractions started up again on Thursday just like they said they would and that afternoon Denver and I decided to go to the hospital again because the contractions were getting painful.  We were excited because we just knew this was it!  Well we get there and I had only progressed to a 4 but when I laid down for them to monitor the contractions, went down to almost nothing.  So they sent us home again! 

I was feeling really embarrassed because we were texting family and telling them we think this is it and then having the hospital send us home.  I was also feeling bad because we were just hanging out in Flagstaff with nothing to do and spending money.  But we sure had fun spending time with Mom.  I also felt embarrassed because I thought other ladies would think I was just paranoid and I didn’t know what the signs of labor were.  I do admit that I probably was paranoid because we lived so far away from the hospital and with how fast labor went with Daley I didn’t know what to expect with Case.  Everything about my pregnancy with Case was different especially the labor part.

Well after we got back to the hotel after the hospital sent us home we decided that we were just going to hang out and enjoy the next couple of days until my induction date on Sunday April 7^th.  Pop and Madi Mad came Friday night!  It was so fun having them there!  We went out to eat and enjoyed the rest of the evening just hanging out.  We woke up Saturday and took Dad to the  Cal Ranch store which is like a Tractor Supply store and we had fun looking at the baby chicks and ducks and we showed Dad a really cool picture that we thought reminded us of him.  It is called Elk Omelet and it’s a picture of a man with his pack horses just about to have a wreck and an elk in the background that probably started the whole thing.  It’s a really cool picture and Dad had to buy it!  We were contemplating on whether or not to go to the Grand Canyon but we decided that we should stay close to the hospital just in case!  Wade, Nanette, Jennie, Koley, and Bentley all came up on Saturday afternoon.  Dad had to do some work on the computer and Wade was exhausted from work so we left them in their hotel rooms and the rest of us all went swimming. We were really hoping that my contractions would start up again but we had no such luck!  After we all got cleaned up we decided to go to Native New Yorker for dinner and cold stone for dessert.  After that we went back to the hotel and went to bed because early Sunday morning is when I was going to be induced and the real party was going to start!

Denver and I got up at 4:30 and headed over to the hospital to get there on time at 5:00 am.  We got there and they did the gels to loosen things up and had us walk for an hour.  When we got back they started the pitosin, which was about 9:00.  Grandma, Nana, and Jennie all came in shortly after leaving Wade and Dad out in the waiting room with the kiddos and Madison.  My contractions started to get painful around 11:00 and so I got my epidural about 11:45.  I was comfortable and enjoying everyone’s company when I coughed and thought I had wet myself because they hadn’t given me a catheter yet.  This was about 1:00 and the nurses looked at my contractions and they were all really strong and happening one right after the other with little breaks in between so they decided to check me.  When they lifted up the sheets they saw stuff that wasn’t urine so they did a quick check and sure enough my water had broke and I was dilated to a 10. 

So the doctor came in and as I started pushing Case’s heartbeat went way down so Dr. Grant had to use a vacuum to get him out really fast.  Mom & Jennie even said that the doctor even had both her hands in there to help get Case out even faster which meant a lot of pain in the recover process on my end.  But surprisingly I am healing quite well!  I have lots of energy and not too painful with the help of some Advil.  After just a few pushes and with the help of the vacuum Case was born at 1:15 pm, weighing 7lbs. 15oz. and 20.5 inches long in Flagstaff, AZ.  Nana and Papa Platt came up from Payson to see him even!  After he was born everyone got to come in to see him.  Daley had a hard time seeing me in a hospital.  Whenever she would come in she didn’t want to look or talk to me much.  It wasn’t until we got settled in postpartum when she would finally sit in the chair next to me. When she sat next to me she would say “Owee Mommy. I’m sorry Mommy.”  It wasn’t until right before her and Denver left back home that she would sit in bed with me.

Case is a healthy baby boy! Denver spent the night with us the first night.   We were thinking we were going to get to come home the day after but because I was trying to breast feed they had us stay one more night in the hospital.  So Denver and Daley went home because Denver had to get payroll done for the restaurant and they left Monday night in a snow storm.  Mom stayed the night with me the second night.  Well Case finally latched on that night and cluster fed so Mom and I were exhausted when they released us the next day.  Before we were released we found that Case had jaundice so we were sent home with a belly blanket and orders to see the pediatrician the next day.  So we had to get another hotel for the night.  So we check into the hotel and kept Case on it all night so at the appointment on Wednesday his numbers were good so they finally let us all come home to be reunited!  We missed Denver and Daley sooooo much! 

When we got home we found out that our power had been out since earlier that morning and it didn’t look like we were going to have power anytime soon.  The funny part of the story was before we got discharged from the hospital and sent home with the florescent belly blanket the questions that they asked me was do you have power at home? And of course I said yes haha.  I guess a transformer went out on our block and they were having a hard time finding where it was.  They did however bring in a generator for us until they got it fixed.  The joys of living on the rez!  Denver went out and told them that we just brought home a brand new baby and that we had to have power that night!  Thank goodness for Denver!  And to top things off, they finally get everything working the next day and  as the power people were leaving they must have cut our phone lines so we didn’t have any internet for another whole day so we were really delayed in getting pictures posted for family and friends to see.

 

Case has been a great little baby so far!  He use to squeel when he was hungry when he was in the hospital and all of the nurses thought it was the cutest/funniest thing! (So did we;) But now he just gives us a patient  yelp.  He gets really hungry A LOT!  Haha...we have cluster feeding days ever few days which nothing gets done around the house but its all good!  It's a great excuse to not do anything haha.  The pediatrician was really impressed when we brought him back for his 1 week apointment when he had gained 6 oz. from his birth weight.  They said they are happy when the babies gain 1/2-1 oz. a day.  Case gained 3oz. a day!  He is changing so much. 

 

Here are some pictures...not in any order...of our fun filled week in Flagstaff!

 

 

 

 

 

Our Little Daredevil

Well I have spent all day on trying to upload all of our pictures...internet on the Rez is worse than dial up to say the least! Haha.  Well here is another picture of the coffee table getting another coat of poly on it. 

 

 

 

We had a couple of windy days up here but they were on the warmer side so we decided to take Daley out to the church parking lot and fly a kite.  It was a cheap one so it didn't fly too high for very long but Daley sure had a good time!

Brook, Dallas, Shelby, Houston, and Sterling all came up to visit us during a big snow storm!  We had a good at Pizza Planet (that's what Shelby and Houston called the pizza place ;) and going to the movies! We went and watched Jack the Giant Slayer and it turned out to be a cute movie.  We are so glad they got to come up and they made it safe and sound.  We had a blast!

 

 

 

The other day we found ourselves on the north side of Monument Valley.  We had seen it a couple of times but never took any pictures.  This time we had our camera ready!  These pictures don't do it justice but I love the view from the north side! 

Here I am at 35 weeks.

 

My Stud Muffin!

 

Denver got a good pic here with the horses in the front!

 

In this pic you can see Monument Valley on the left.

 

Our little Princess!

 

 

Daley loves our puppy Scout!  They are so cute together!

 

Here is the finished product of our coffee table!  We found the wood from Clints Well off Denver's Dad's and Uncles' Ranch.

 

 

 

 

Notice Daley on the ladder?  Funny story!  So we had been working outside the other day on our coffee table and the swamps. I was over on the other side of the house putting a coat of poly on and Denver was on the roof. Daley came over and said she was going to check on Dad. So I told her okay and make sure he doesn't fall off. Well a few minutes later Denver calls out for me to come around and I found Daley up on the roof with Denver. He said she came up and tapped him on the shoulder while he was working on the swamp and said "Hi Dad!"
She is too brave! Thank goodness she didn't fall! Her guardian angels were close by!

 

 

Here are some quilts my Mom, Grandma B, and I had worked on over a weekend when they came to visit!  They turned out so cute!

 

 

This one I found a picture of on Pinterest and Denver and I fell in love with it! So I found a pattern of how to do chevron and told my mom about it.  We put it together and had my amazingly talented Aunt Cindy do the chevron quilting part of it!  It looks amazing and a big thank you for everyone who helped me out with it.  Denver and I found these cool Case patches on Ebay and I sewed them on a couple of quilts.

 

 

 

The last quilted quilt in the picture is one my good friend Suzanne Tomkinson made for Case!  It is soo cute!  I have a few more projects we did but they are packed away ready in case we have to make a quick get away to the hospital.

January-February

What a boring title post huh?  I couldn't think of anything exciting to put there because there really hasn't been anything too out of the ordinary happen in since Christmas.  We have had some visitors come up!  Blake and Martha and their family, and my parents, Grandma B, and Madi all came up to visit in the past couple of months.  We had a good time just hanging out as usual!  I don't know if I posted this or not in the last post but just a couple of weeks before Christmas I was dumping pictures from our camera memory card onto our computer and we stick the little card in the side of our all-in-one computer.  Well little Miss Daley was watching me and pulled out the card and it hadn't been seen since.  So our picture taking has been pretty lowsy because we didn't have a camera really. 

So Denver and I had been talking about possible getting another camera and we finally decided to get one because the xD card for the other camera costs $40 for a little 2 gig card (I think they have stopped making them because they are outdated).  We just couldn't pull ourselves to spend that money on a card when similar SD cards would only cost about $5 tops for 2 gigs.  So Denver let me get a new camera!  It's a Canon DSLR camera that we will be able to play around with.  There are so many tutorials on Pinterest and how to use them on there.  We really like the camera it takes awesome pictures on auto!

Oh yeah back to Daley loosing the xD card, well low and behold the day after we ordered the camera, I found the card stuck in the side of the computer sideways so it was almost impossible to see unless you tried to put another card in there which was exactly what I was doing.  Haha.

Well just some updates on what we've been up to....Daley is almost 100% potty trained!  She was doing good before Christmas but when we visited family she was too busy to take care of business.  But when we got home she did great!  We took our first 2.5 hour drive to Flagstaff with out a diaper on and she did so great!  Now if we could get her out of diapers at night we would be completely done. We have been finding her singing about everything.  She sings to Mylie Cyrus, ABC's, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, counts to 10, and makes up her own songs about people she loves, pizza, cars and trucks, and her dog Scout!  It's so fun listening to her songs.  She is growing so fast!  She is in 4T clothes and we can hardly keep up with her.  She loves to help me cook and clean (except vacuuming...it scares her to death! haha)  and take care of her babies, and do my hair, and dance!  She is a pro at doing puzzles and she could work on her puzzles all day if we let her!   She has been into wearing dresses lately too.  The only dresses she had for a while were her night gowns that are too small for her but she refused to wear anything else.  She loves the movies Tarzan and Peter Pan too right now. 

Oh, I just realized I didn't post anything about our new puppy!  We got a miniature Australian Shepherd and we named him Scout.  He is the cutest little dog and we have fallen in love with him, especially Daley!  This is as big as he will get in these pictures which is the perfect size for little kiddos. 

Denver is working away at the pizza store and on homework.  He is taking classes again this semester and is doing great in them!  He has been working hard in getting ahead in them so when we have Case he could be practically done.  He also decided one day he was going to build us a coffee table.  It's coming together quickly and I can't wait to see the end results!  He's my Superman!  And on top of it all he has been the best Dad and husband a girl could ask for!  I'm so grateful for everything he does for our little family!  I still can't imagine how I got so lucky!

Here is a little update on the pregnancy...everything is going really well!  I only have 2 more shots left!  I can't believe our little Case is going to be here in a month!  I am scheduled to have him on April 7th for travel reasons!  We are all ready for him except to set up the little bassinet in our room and that's it!  We can't wait! 

 

 

Daley still loves watching her Madi Mad video! 

 

She loves riding her trike!

 

She got a sliver and while Denver was working on getting it out she would cover her mouth in fear because it hurt her a little bit.  I didn't get a picture of it but here is one of Denver reinacting it.  She wanted a turn getting a sliver out of Denver's hand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Denver has been working on a coffee table that we have been needing for a while.  We are building it with scrap wood that we have collected from various places.  The top of the table will be out of old wood from the Crooked H Ranch from some old corrals.  Here are some before pictures of it.  We still lack the paint and poly for it but when it's done we will post more pictures of it!  We have been enoying our evenings going out when Denver gets off work to work on it.  Daley is such a good helper!

 

Here is the top wood for the table.

 

Here Daley is saying "Surprise" in sign language haha.  That is also the base of the coffee table all sanded and ready to be painted!