2 weeks

I know I'm a little behind!!! But here are some of my favorite pictures Melissa took of Dallas.

Now that I feel like I have a little control and time in my life I decided blog and give some details! I must say that being pregnant for me, luckily, was very pleasant! I didn't have any problems and didn't have to go through the dreaded "last month" of it! Dallas was born 3 weeks early! Since he came out healthy and strong I will say that I'm grateful he came early! At 2am on the 17th my water broke with no contractions. I called the hospital because I didn't know what to do! It wasn't supposed to happen that way- I didn't have makeup on, my house was a mess and I still didn't know what to take to the hospital! When we got to the hospital I still was 80% effaced and dilated to a 2. They let me hang out for a bit to see if I would progress by myself, but I didn't. They gave me pitosin and about 40 min later at 7:30 I got an epidural-p.s. my IV hurt more than the epidural!! Once I got the epidural I progressed very quickly. They thought he would come really fast so we called family and told them that he was coming. They got there and I was still pushing. I pushed for almost 2 hours but Dallas was transverse and not budging, not even the Dr. could get him to turn. They got another Dr opinion and they decided to prep me for a c-section. I was ok with this decision! As soon as I was completely numb and feeling like I weighed 800 pounds they checked Dallas one more time and to our surprise, he turned!! The Dr quickly did an episiodomy and used the forcepts. Five pushes later Dallas was born!! It was an amazing experience! As soon as he was out, there was an instant outpouring of a new kind of love for this addition to our family! I've never felt a love like it before! He is a huge blessing in our lives!

When we got to the hospital. I can't believe he fit in me! And I can't believe I got so big! I will admit that at times I miss feeling him move in me. But he's so much more fun to play with now!

That's our little guy!! I wonder how big he would have been if he came when he was supposed to! He's just perfect though!! I love my tiny baby!!
He is so precious!! He's such a good sleeper!! He loves to lay on our chest and sleep and don't you dare try to move him to his bed because he knows and isn't happy with it!!

I love his little face!! He makes such fun faces!! He has little dimples when he smiles- I have yet to get a picture of it!
He has a cowlick above his right eye! I love it!! It's so cute!! And notice how his forhead wrinkles go up where it is?!
I just love him so so much!! He's such a good baby!! He had jaundice for a week. I hated that he had to be on this bed all the time. He hated it more I think though. We had to take him in to get it checked every other day too so he has a collections of pricks on his little heels. So sad. I'm glad he's done with that though!!!
I don't think Mike will be happy with this picture! But I just have to show you how Dallas sleeps!! He keeps his legs straight up in the air! If they start to fall he quickly gets them back up in the air! He keeps us smiling every second!! We can't even explain how blessed we are and just how much we love our little boy!!

One Week Old

I can't believe how quickly this week has gone. Every second has been a joy and we feel so completely blessed to have Dallas join our family. We are so in love with him!! He is such a good baby. Always so content and rarely cries. He LOVES his binki and holds it with his hands to keep it in!! He loves to be on his side. You can't get him to be on his back for anything!! He has the longest skinniest little legs and he sticks them straight out all the time! It is so hilarious!! He is such a joy!! We love you little Dallas!!!

Pictures

Here are some pictures of Dallas at 2 days old. We are going private with our blog. If you'd like to be invited leave your email address in the comments or email it to me.

He's here!

Dallas Michael Draper
May 17, 2009
12:45 pm
6 lbs 3 oz
18.5 inches

Cute or not cute?

I just have to tell you all that first I love birds!!! I love hearing them chirp and seeing them bathe in puddles and get worms and everything!! They are so peaceful to watch!! I used to have a bird in fact- he was a lot of fun!!! My love for birds is beginning to be less and less I'm afraid. The reason is because our neighbors have a birds nest on top of one of their pillars on their house. The eggs hatched not too long ago and all I EVER hear is the annoying squawking of these baby birds. It really is quite annoying!! I just want to tell the mama bird to give them more food to keep them quiet!! They are so super loud and squawk at the worst times of the day (like my nap time!!!). I can't wait for these baby birds to be big birds and can go build a nest of their own somewhere else!! Until then I get to be annoyed!!

Picnic and our scare

I love Friday's because I don't have to work!! A few weeks ago Melissa and I decided to meet at Thanksgiving point and go to the tulip festival. Things didn't work out so we didn't see the tulips but we went to Provo and ate lunch with uncle Mike at a park! It was so much fun!!!
Mike and Tyler found this drinking fountain that sprayed like 5 feet in the air!! They had a ton of fun with it!! They were rude to Dylan and would turn it on while he was walking past it!! It was pretty fun to watch though! We had a blast!!
Melissa is so good at taking pictures of me to keep record! This was at 34 weeks I believe. I can't believe how big our little guy is getting!! Watching Mike play with Tyler and Dylan it just makes me so excited!! He's going to be such an amazingly wonderful father!!
And for our scare...last night I started to bleed quite a bit so we went to the hospital about midnight. They hooked me up to all the monitors and watched me and Dallas for a little over an hour. I was contracting about every 7 minutes and when they checked everything I am dilated to a 3 and 80% effaced. They sent us home around 3. I went to the Dr this morning and I'm still at a 3 but 85% effaced. He told me to try to keep him in for another week. It's crazy to think it could be really soon, but it could also be 4 weeks too!! Mike said he was so excited and was hoping that we could have had him last night! He can't wait to get his hands on him! We'll see what Dallas has in mind!!

SO grateful!!!!

Since the weather has been so "nice" I have been more and more grateful!! No, not for the "nice" weather but that I don't have to be pregnant through the WHOLE summer!! Today when it got up to almost 80 degrees (that might be an exaggeration, I don't know) I seriously thought I was going to roast and die!! I am also grateful that it's going to cool down again for the weekend! If it could only stay cooler for another 5 weeks then I would be a very happy mama!! I'm sure many of you are glad that I don't control the weather!!

Lately

I feel like I put so many pictures of me on here and not many of Mike and always talk about Dallas...so before I get to me and Dallas..I want to talk about Mike!! I am so grateful for him! He is such an amazing husband, worker, friend, and man!! He has been so great to me since I've been pregnant (he always is great to me but he's really looking out for me!!). I get a leg and foot massage every night, he cooks dinner every night, and does everything he can to make sure I'm comfortable! He cleans the house, does the laundry...He even put up with my obsession of organizing and organized the crawl space for me while I told him where to put everything!! He is wonderful to me!! He is still going to BYU and is going to take classes through the summer. I don't know how he does it!! He is also training for a race (the Wasatch back) coming up in June. He constantly amazes me!! I love him so much and feel so blessed every day because I have him in my life!

Now onto me and Dallas!! He definitely is growing as you can see!! I am now 32.5 weeks. I feel like the end is in sight! I love feeling him move and can't imagine how he is fitting inside of me! I am still feeling pretty good!! It could be worse!!:) I can't wait to meet him but want him to stay in there as long as he needs to!!
Mike said the top picture makes me look smaller than I am so I decided to put this one too!! I'm getting so big!!!

These are a few pictures of the shower I had in Logan. Thanks so much Mom, Melissa and Jen for putting it together!! And also to everyone who came and for the wonderful gifts!! It was a lot of fun!! We had a chocolate fountain-yummy!!! We got this pic of Kelly and Jen at the table but really everyone had their moment of 30 min straight just dipping and eating- mine was more like an hour! It was all so good!!
I got some really GREAT gifts!! I can't wait to use them!! Thanks so much everyone!!!

Happy Easter!!!

We had a fun Easter this year!! On Saturday after we did some "spring" cleaning we went to lunch and I ran into the mall to get Mike's Easter present. I bought him a hat and had it sprayed with the protectant spray stuff. When I got in the car he asked what hat I got him! I was a little bummed but if you know me I can't keep anything secret so he would have gotten it that night anyways!!:)
We colored eggs Saturday evening and had fun doing that!! It's tradition in my family to make an egg for everyone with their name on it so we made one for Dallas too!!

Mike barely made it through coloring 8 eggs thanks to the game he was watching while doing it!
So, I couldn't wait till Sunday to find baskets so we did it Saturday!!!! Dallas got the egg and the stuffed fuzzy chick from his Great Grams and Gramps!! It is the softest chick ever!!! And his Grammy sent him a book!! He'll love them!! Thanks so much!!
Mike gets better and better each year at doing an Easter basket for me! He actually hid it this year too! He gave me money to buy a new book!!! So any suggestions would be great!!!
This is Mike with his hat that doesn't fit and the shaving cream I got him. He doesn't like to shave cause it makes it so sore. Dawn (one of my clients) told me about the shaving cream that Bath and Body sells that makes it so it doesn't hurt. So I got it for him and he loves it!! It works great!!! Thanks Dawn!! We had a great Sunday as well!! We had a great ham dinner and got to spend time with the Drapers! We hope you all had a great Easter!!

Baby Dallas' Room

I have taken a while to get these pics up but I wanted the crib to be done before I did!! We got the crib from Shelley (my boss) for free and it had a dark stain on it. So, Mike and I spent many many hours sanding it down and getting it ready to paint. I didn't want to use a paint brush because I didn't want to see the marks from it. We were going to pay an insane amount to get paint in aerosol cans and then I remembered my dad has a sprayer!!!!
We took the crib to Logan this past weekend and used my dad's spray gun!! It was so nice!!! Thanks for all your help dad!! You're amazing!! Mike had a good time painting it and it turned out so so great!! I love it!!
We could have bought a new one but it's the feeling of accomplishment and knowing we saved so much money that brings me satisfaction and more appreciation for it!!
Here is the finished product. And isn't my bedding SO cute!! I can't take any credit for it!! All I did was picked out the fabric!! My mom and dad paid for it-thanks!! And Melissa sewed it ALL!! The bumper pads, the bed skirt even the fitted sheet!! Yeah, she's amazing too!! She also sewed the quilt but I just realized there's not a picture of it. I will put on one later because it is gorgeous!! She quilted it by hand even! WOW!! I know!!
This is is little book shelf!! I refinished this WAY back in high school!! Who would have thought I'd use it for my child's room!! It is the perfect size though!!
And this is the glider. Since this picture I recovered the ottoman and it's attached! My mom and I made the curtains and the little pillow!! It was fun!! I'm not a seamstress though so it was nice to have help!! Celeste (my sister in law) redid the cushion covers. They turned out SO great!!! It's so nice to have talented family members who are so generous and willing to help us out!! Mike and I also spent a WHOLE saturday painting the room. I hated the green at first but now that there are things in the room it's growing on me!! It's so much fun!! We also got our stroller and car seat!! I'm feeling a little more prepared and ready for our little guy!

I lied...

Melissa came to my house on Sunday and insisted that we take some pictures. So I decided it was a good idea. Mike wasn't so happy about the idea but was a great sport. We took some pictures and then Melissa did her magic!! I thought they turned out so great that I decided to put a few of them on here. Thanks Melissa!! We had so much fun with you and your boys!