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Happy Sunday

Kayla — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:47:57 +0000

Everything has been going well except for me being tired and not being able to go back to my normal amount of caffeine because my son would be up 24/7 so I am stuck just struggling with it on my own. I am still developing getting on some type of a schedule but really Silas makes up the schedule as all babies do!
I have found breast feeding is the hardest part it takes alot of effort and patience,and it’s very over whelming at times especially with multiple children. But I have learned ways around it. I know that you have to be relaxed or else your milk wont come down. That was my biggest problem me relax are you kidding me. I found myself walking around the house doing laundry with a baby attached to my boob. I have to just say screw the laundry it will be there in a hour stop get your son and go sit down and feed him and that is what I do. I have also learned it is very hard with eating to. I am really not used to eating and I have to make myself stop and eat for him and I have to remember to take my vitamin and to drink lots of water and to try and get rest so i am ok to take care of him. I cant stand to nap during the day if I have things that need to eb done. If I get it mostly all done in the morning and Lucian naps in the after noon if Silas is asleep then I will lay down other wise I am shit out of luck because I like to spend as much time with Lucian s I can as well. Especially before I have to go back to work I want to spend as much time with all the kids as I can. My family means the world to me.
Lucian got his first boo bo the other day on his chin. He is starting to walk now and he fell and got rug burn on his chin. Poor little guy. So we had to put a band aid on it and it was so funny he was trying to lick it off because he had no idea what was on his chin. I had to take pictures of that.
I need birthday ideas for Lucian because I am having a hard time because his birthday is so close to Christmas. The kid has practically everything. I mean there is stuff he doesn’t have but he has alot of stuff to choose from as well. He shouldn’t get bored any time soon.
Well I guess I had better get off of here for now I have a few things I have to take care of. Everyone have a great Sunday night.

Life is different

Kayla — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:45:31 +0000

Wow seven days into the month and I haven’t blogged one time. I have been so busy with an 8 year old a six year old a 23 month old and a 12 day old sweet little baby boy that I don’ know if I am coming or going. Wow seriously I thought i was tired before I am beat now. I thought I got no sleep before I am on just loven every minute of my life high now because sleep really is not an option at this point in my life. But thats ok time goes by way to fast. I enjoy every minute I get to spend with my kids even though some times I get so frustrated. I try and just take a deep breath and just realize it is not always going to be this way. I am so blessed I am at home with my family. I am not looking forward to going back to work at all when I have to which hopefully wont be until the first part of the new year.
Lexi Jordan and Lucian are loving Silas so much. I have had to keep them away from him though. Jordan developed the flu type a and then Lexi got it as well. They both got put on tamaflu and Lucian got put on it as a preventive which has so far thank god worked. Lexi and Jordan both stayed at my moms while they had the fever so we could keep the germs down around Lucian and Silas. If one of them gets sick and has to be in the hospital it will not be as easy this time with two babies. But I pray for good health about every night.
So as for right now every one is in pretty good health. Lexi and Jordan have had a small cough still but nothing to bad. Lucian has a slight runny nose but he is also teething. He just got off a antibiotic for an ear infection so hopefully he was over his sinus infection and ear infection. We are probably going to have him end up getting tubes so that we don’t have to battle this very two weeks or even every month. But our first ent appointment is not until Dec. 16th. We were going to go to st. Louis for an ent but it is just to far with a new baby right now and with the kids being in school. So we found one here.
My days are long and my nights are some times longer. A typical day sun rises at 5:30 up by quarter til six. Change Silas feed him and I breast feeding so it takes more time some times I pump and he gets it in a bottle and I will pump so I have some for ahead of time as well. But while I am doing that I go in and wake up the kids and have them get dressed, get there breakfast pack there school bags then Lucian is awaking I put Silas down long enough to change Lucians diaper and feed him and give him his medicines and then he wants to try and walk every where so he is occupied while I am finishing up feeding Silas. At that point the kids are catching the bus for school and then they don’t get home from school until the after noon. So I spend my day with Travis and Lucian and Silas. Lucian requires alot of attention. He is sch a doll I love him so much and he is doing really well with Silas. He wants to touch him alot but doesn’t get that he has to do it nicely. And is not quite sure that it is ok for him to have a pacifier as well but I think he is starting to get it now. But he still questions it.
Silas is such a good baby . He spits up alot out his nose and his mouth and that is the only thing I have found that really freaks me out. I am ok with it I just use the bulb suction and suction him out and he is fine but you can not feed him and then lay him down. I either have to feed him and hold him up or I have to put him sitting up in his seat. Other than that thats about it. He is such a good baby just like what Lucian was. I love my family so much and I am so blessed to have them. So once the kids get home from school it is non stop its a snack and then a little free time then ti is home work and feeding Silas in between, starting dinner then baths and then bed time. But after all of that I have to get things ready for the next day. Set out lucians clothes can of formula medicine and a diaper. I clean up dinner and set the coffee pots have to make sure the kids lunches are made for the next day. Make sure there clothes are laid out. Its a crazy schedule but some how between the two of us Travis and I we get everything accomplished. He is a great daddy, I love him so much. So we have the Lexi and Jordan today because there dad had a funeral to go to. It is nice having them here on a Saturday it has been a long since we have had them on the weekend. Usually there gone from Friday night to Sunday afternoon. Anyways I still have alot to get started on so i need to get off of here. I will try and get back here to my website to update it more than I do.

My Birthing Experience.

Kayla — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:47:43 +0000

Having Silas was truly amazing. I was in labor for so long. I went into labor actually on Friday the 23rd early in the morning. I had taken Lucian into the doctors office for an antibiotic because he still had an ear infection. She then looked at my ear that I have been complaining to my obgyn for about 2 weeks and they would n do anything. So I decided to go to prompt care at 5 pm that night on Friday and they did not want to let me leave it was about 7pm and they said honey I think your in Labor. Can we call you an ambulance or a cab or something we are going to send you straight to the hospital from here and I kindly told them no it was ok I could drive. I was in pain but it was not unbearable so I honestly thought that I was just getting close. So I left telling them I was going to go to the hospital called Travis and ended up going home. I did not end up going to the hospital until Friday night late which it was actually early Saturday morning the 24th at about 4am. The sent me up to and said they were just going to observe me for 23 hours. They had also informed me I had a uti and that was why I was in so much pain and that they were going to give me fluids because it would help my contractions. By this point it is 10am or so and I was hurting with what at that time I thought was the worst pain ever came to find out it was not the worst yet. I ended up having to have Travis leave to go get Lucian from his brother because he was upset and it just so happened that that weekend was Travis’s dads birthday so they were out of town. So I spent the morning by myself until his parents could get home and his mom could get Lucian. I went that while entire day being in so much pain. When they finally checked me they said I was dilated to a 5. So when I was at prompt care I was dilated to a 3 to a 4 is what she said. So then by late after noon I was asking for pain medicine and all they would give me is this shitty drug they had to inject part of it through my iv an i had to get the other half in a shot in my hip. At that point I didnt care I just wanted something anything at all. They finally got me my epidural. after two shots of that crap not doing anything all it did was make me tired it took no pain away at all. I found myself seriously gripping the side rails on the bed like I was going to snap them in half or I was gonna ring the next person that walked in my room with out an epidural. Finally I got it he came in and gave it to me and I finally felt a small bit of relief. However about two hours later I find that I am able to lift my legs again and I was starting to feel the pain all over again well I think they thought I was nuts until they checked my blood pressure and realized hey it is sky high she is not kidding its like what you couldn’t tell from the tears rolling down my face. So they had the anesthesiologist come back in and give me what was so post to be a bolus dose and it still did nothing. I was dilated to an 8 by that point so I was feeling everything full force and it was seriously the worst amount of pain I have ever been in my life. He asked me if I could feel it going in through my back and I did but it just wasn’t working. So we decided to try and have him re do it and that was a good choice because it had worked its way out of my back so no wonder it wasn’t working. Shortly after he got it back in I felt alot of relief compared to the pain I was in however it still did not take the pain away like it has with my other kids. But I was just glad to have some kid of relief. Shortly after we got it in I waited around like another hour or so and ended up having to push about 20 minutes and he was out. So worried and so scared. They kept telling me that his heart rate was dropping while I was contracting but assured me that it was ok because when I moved or the contraction was done he was fine. We had him and he was completely healthy baby boy. He weighed 6lbs 7.8 ounces and was 19 inches long at 12:52 am in the morning on October 25th 2009 Silas Parker William Samuel. It is amazing how fast the pain goes away after you have your baby. I didn no what to think, I was so tired and wore out all I could do was cry when I found out he was healthy and we were going to be able to bring him home to his brothers and sister. I had a great pregnancy and worked the whole time up until I was about 35 weeks then I went on maternity leave. I was up and out of the bed after I had him with in a hour I would say. They were like eat some food then in a couple hours we will come back in and help you get in the shower. The hell with that I ate and could feel my legs and I wanted out of that bed and that’s just what I did was go and take a shower all by myself and they couldn’t believe I was up that fast. I couldn’t believe I was up that fast but it felt good to be up and active again and honestly I really haven’t stopped since. It has been so hectic but things are finally beginning to slow down and mellow out. The kids were just really excited about having him home and I cant blame them at all so were we. Everything has gone great i am breast feeding so it takes alot of time and I have to plan things around it but it is well worth it. I have developed a supermom 2-4 routine. I wake up at 6 with Silas feed him and get him changed then I wake up Lexi and Jordan at 7am to got o school and usually have silas attached back to my boob by that point and then he is settled at that point Lucian is awaking so then I grab his stuff that I set out the night before and feed change and medicate him and then go on and do things around the house. The days after the kids get on the bus things mellow out and then when they get home I usually want silas awake so that he wont be up all night I get dinner home work baths and meals in between and bed time for the 3 little ones is at 8:30pm so it all works out. He has been doing very well at night he is a little fish though I will tell you he likes his milk. I wont knock it though. The doctor said don’t be surprised if he goes down to 5lbs 13 ounces but he was at 6lbs 2 ounces two days after he was born and he was discharged at 6lbs 3ounces. But for the most part everything went well. And things couldnt be going better at home. The kids are doing very well with Silas and I am so glad no we just have the bink war going on because Lucian thinks he needs silas’s bink so I have to keep things always picked up. Kids are great I don’t know what i would do with out my kids they keep me going and for sure keep me busy. My family is great and I am so thankful for them . If I didn’t have Travis and all the support form him and the kids I would be so lost. I love you guys so much. You are my world.

Welcome Baby Silas

Kayla — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:01:40 +0000

Baby Silas is here at Last

Kayla — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:00:16 +0000

Boy I thought I was busy before I am so much busier now. But no matter how exhausted I may be I am loven life every minute of it. I am so blessed to be able to be at home with my kids and are new addition Baby Silas Parker William Samuel. He was born on October 25th at 12:52 am weighing 6lbs 7.8 ounces 19 inches long and completely healthy. Big brother Lucian is learning to adjust to him but he is doing well. Every minute of my day is completely filled with something to do. I am also breast feeding so it takes up alot of time as well but in the end it is what is best for him and that is what we want.
Our first night home was the toughest. The kids were all wound up. Especially Lexi and Jordan and doing anything and everything to compete for attention. They have learned that just because there is a new baby in the house that I still have time for them as well. I just have to organize my day and plan everything out ahead of time. I set out all of there school stuff the night before make there lunches the night before and lay out lucians medicine and formula and feeding device so it is all right there and all I have to do is grab it when he wakes up. I try and start dinner before the kids get home from school and usually I have a baby strapped to my boob when I am cooking or helping with home work or giving the kids baths but it is just a little thing called multi tasking. Last night was the first night I have gotten any sleep in a week. Five hours felt excellent.
Everything is good though we had silas at the doctor for his two day appointment and they said he looked great he goes back in one month. Lucian is still trying to knock his sins infection and ear infection and we couldn’t get him into the ent until December 16th. If he doesn’t knock it completely here soon I am going to have to call his pediatrician back. But I just wanted to give an update and let everyone know what has been going on in our world. I haven’t blogged in awhile and felt the need to drop a few lines. More updates later. Thanks for all the continues support.

I have been so Busy.

Kayla — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:26:34 +0000

I have been so busy trying to keep up with things around the house. And I truly mean trying. It is so hard some days to get out of bed, let alone wanting to do all the stuff that needs to be done but some how I always manage. The kids have been doing excellent in school. I have noticed a huge improvement in Jordan since he switched schools. Home work is not such a battle anymore it is still alot of work wanting to get him to do it but it is not as bad. I now feel confidant that I have made the right decision.
We have all had colds except for Travis really. It started with Lexi and Jordan and then went to Lucian and I and mine has been hanging around for almost a little over two weeks now. It was really bad congestion and coughing and headaches and just cold stuff. Then I started getting a little better and now I am more convinced I have a sinusitis infection. My nose is so congested and my eyes feel like they are going to pop out of my head. I go to bed and awake with a headache. This morning I got up feeling sick to my stomach and coughing my head off from everything settling in my stomach and kept coughing and ended up getting sick, blew my nose a few dozen times an i was ok after that. Now most of the day it just feels like I have to blow my nose every 5 minutes and I have a bad headache other than that I am ok. I am not sure if the headache comes from a few things. One my back is out so bad because I am carrying our baby and then the whole sinus thing and I have migraines anyways. I know my blood pressure is good it has been taken a million times and I have a blood pressure machine here as well. Guess it will go away eventually. Lucian seemed like he was getting it cause he was all congested an coughing and couldn’t breathe out his nose and all I have really had to do for him is suction his nose once and use vicks baby rub in the humidifier and it works very well. But I have also noticed he is cutting his top front tooth on the right side. So that always makes him have a runny nose and get kind of cranky. I did a couple neb treatments in the past but not since and he has been doing well. The pediatrician wanted me to make him an appointment last Friday so that if we needed to get in by the weekend that we would have an appointment and not have to go to an urgent care like we did that last time when they had everything messed up. But I felt that when I called I was going to see if they would just prescribe him an antibiotic but obviously that wouldnt treat a cold . So I canceled the appointment not wanting to expose him to any flu types and for sure not h1n1 so we stayed away and he is doing well. He has woke up the last few mornings with a matted eye and a runny nose but other than that thats it I am hoping that is just a him teething. I am sure it is.
I have to get Lucian in to get a flu shot the pediatrician office is out and are not going to be getting anymore in. I just hate to take him in to get it. Aghh.I think I am just going to go stock up on things so that I dont have to get out except to go to the doctor that way I don have to be exposed but we have to worry about our therapist for Lucian. They make me worry we only have one that washes his hands.
I am hoping my day is going to get better apparently some days I do or say nothing right no matter how much I do. I will be so glad when I have the baby so that all my hormones can get back to normal so that I wont wanna cry all the time.
Anyways I went to the doctor yesterday and they said I was dilated in between a 1 and a 2 but you cna stay that way for forever so I hope it doesn’t stay that way for to long. I am so uncomfortable. I just about have everything done except keeping the house clean is a daily task sometimes several. But I atleast have the hospital bag packed and Lucians bag is all packed except for the things he uses on a everyday basis. But I guess I am going to get off of here for now I have alot to do laundry in the washer and dryer and dishes to put away in the dishwasher. Dust ,vacuum ,take out the trash and clean the bathrooms as well as moping the kitchen floor that is a daily must with two older kids who want to go inside and out all the time and sometimes forget to take there shoes off plus our cat is in door out door and it just gets tracked on and I don’t want Lucian crawling around on that and I don’t want to walk on it. Maybe somewhere i between I can catch a nap but its doubtful. Until next time hope everyone has a good Tuesday.

Today Apparently I was Ment to get up at 3:30am.

Kayla — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:08:58 +0000

I am so tired I am honestly hoping I can fit a nap in sometime today. I went to bed at a little after midnight and Lucian woke up at 3:15am with a stuffy nose and could barely breathe. Needless to say we were both up and out of bed by 3:30am. I have a long day ahead of me. the speech therapist will be here in just a couple of hours. I have to get the kids up in an hour and I am seriously sitting here wondering when I will ever get one good nights sleep like everyone else. I have came to terms probably not for another 21 years or so.
I have company coming over tonight and I have alot to get done today during the day. Apparently if I want to get any sleep I am going to ave to say the hell with everything and everyone else around here and am going to have to climb in bed at 8:30pm right when the kids go to bed at least then I am guaranteed atleast 6 hours wow that sounds really nice. But then I wonder when will Travis and I really get to talk if I do that. 8:30 on is really our only private time. I don’t know everything always ends up working out for the best. I feel really sick to my stomach today.
Lucian after 2 1/2 hours is finally back asleep coarse it is to late for me to lay back down if I do that then I wont wake up to put the kids on the bus and it will just put me in a worse mood. So I am just going to stay up. It could be alot worse that is all I tell myself. I apologize for not taking as much time to work on my website as normal in the last several months. I have been so busy with everything around here and working and all.
I am finally on maternity leave the doctors said it was a good time to take off now so as much as I didn’t want to I did. I like making our money. But I have also worked my buns off the last year so that I would be able to do so. I am so ready to have our baby it is not even funny. I am so uncomfortable. I have had sonogram after sonogram this time an they keep telling em everything is perfect. They said last week he weighed 5lbs 1 ounce. So either way even if it is off by a pound he is going to weigh what lucian weighed thank god. I went to the doctor yesterday and she said it is just a waiting game now it could be any day. At the end of this week she said I will be considered full term so that is super good news for sure.
I guess I better get off of here I have to get the kids up in less than an hour but I will be back with updates very soon.

Very well Said Nick

Kayla — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:53:38 +0000

I recently read a post by a good friend of mine that has a son also about the same age as Lucian with down syndrome. The things that he stated in his Blog are so very true. It was so delighting to read a blog that some one else has written that came from there heart that knows exactly what I mean and how i feel as a parent to a child that has been diagnosed with Down Syndrome. (Yes Nick I am speaking of you.)
In his blog he says…. That his son so long ago became “normal”. I can relate to that. I saw nothing un normal about Lucian except for the fact that he was born with esophageal atresia. The down syndrome when he first got diagnosed I was wondering what we were in for because I didn’t know to much about it. But seriously what is there to learn? Exactly nothing. Nick states that his son learns things more slowly than they did but already he’s shaping up to be every bit as much a pain in the backside as they are, and it cheers him up no end. He’s going to get shouted at, and that is fine. He’ll make us furious at times, and that is great. He’ll wreck the place and we’ll put our faces in our hands or – more likely – have a shouty fight with each other about something apparently entirely unconnected. There will be strife, despair and a sense that somebody, somewhere, pressed the pause button on our two lives when we weren’t minding the shop. Same as our Lucian. Another thing he put in words very well is that….If you have a kid with Downs who has health issues, then of course these issues can bring hardship and suffering, but they are not Ds. Your child is not Ds. Your child may have it, but that does not define them, any more than being blond, Asiatic, left-handed, good with science or fond of natural fibres defines them. It’s an aspect of their lives, one that most people do not experience up close and therefore fear, or are made uncomfortable by. How Godforsaken would the world be exactly if we were to strip away every aspect of our otherness, each and every one of us? What ‘common’ traits would be left? I couldn’t have said it better myself. I mean seriously. What is so Normal about the people who don have the diagnosis d.s? Nothing. We are truly the ones that are not normal. I notice everyday something that Lucian learns that is new and he amazes us everyday as well. He picks up on things so quickly and mimics his older brother and sister all the time it is quite scary. So for those of you out there that are so terrified of having a child with down syndrome maybe you should sit back and think about how blessed those of us who do have a child with that diagnosis are so blessed. The people that are so scared should no that there is nothing to be scared of it. Us parents out there have these children for a reason and it is because we are strong enough to handle whatever is thrown are way and not everyone can handle things like this. Why I ask myself it is no different. Lucian having esophageal atresia was far more frighting then some diagnosis from a geneticist that was trying to tell me how my sons life was going to be when he had no clue at all.

My Chunky Pregnant Belly 3 1/2 weeks before I am Due

Kayla — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:12:27 +0000

New things in October 09

Kayla — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:40:34 +0000

My sweet baby Lucian giving momma kisses. O it just melts my heart I love it so much. And the new puppies we got by surprise!