My Cold Week in Hell!!

So, everyone has probably heard or seen about the ice storm that hit Oklahoma to Kentucky last week - well, we were lucky enough to be right in the middle of it!

Last Monday, I was at work, and it started raining about noon. The rain was starting to freeze after only a few minutes on being on the vehicles - which caused a small panic to those that had to travel out of town to get home. By 1:30pm, I was ready to head out the door - and all the schools in the area were closing. I got home a little before 2:30, and a few minutes later Payton got home from school. Being that our house is very prone to power outages during ice storms - I decided to head to Oklahoma and stay with my mom with the girls.

The trip to my mom's was a scary one. Not even a mile from my house, a car had flipped upside down coming around a corner - and the backroads were just sheets of ice. Luckily, I only had 1 backroad to contend with before getting on to the highway. After a very scary car ride, we finally made it to my mom's. That evening we kept power, although it flickered several times. Tuesday, we were also lucky enough to keep power, although there was about 2 inches of ice on all the trees and power lines. Tuesday night it snowed - and being that none of the ice had melted, it put the accumulation up to about 4 inches. By Wednesday morning, the powerlines around my mom's house just couldn't stand the weight - and we lost power. The ironic thing was that Steve stayed home - and he had kept power the whole time, and had power after mom lost hers. Mom is lucky enough to have a gas stove, but has an electric water pump - so without power we were able to cook, but no running water. Also, she has a fireplace and a kerosene heater that kept the house warm despite of the below freezing temps outside.

Thursday was the first day that temperatures were going to be high enough to melt some of the snow and ice, so my family decided that being as Steve had power at my house - we would all head to him. Well, we waited until about 1pm before leaving so that there had been some melting - and just as we were heading out the door, Steve called to tell me that he had lost power. :( Because of that - we had no choice but to stay at mom's. We still ventured out to the store, because we were in serious need of bottled water and basic supplies. The weather was so bad, that it took my dad 30 minutes to be able to get out of the driveway, and he got stuck on the way to the store. I had problems getting up a hill, as I just kept sliding backwards. After a while, we finally all made it.

Power didn't come on all weekend, and yesterday Steve and I decided that we needed to find somewhere else to stay - as we still needed to get to work, and my parent's house is a 2 hour drive from where Steve and I work. A friend of ours told us that we could stay with her for a few days, as she lived in town and had power. So, that's what we did yesterday. It was so nice being in a home that had a running shower and power!! We got a phone call at 7pm last night that our power had finally been restored at our house!! YEA!!! Being that it was so late, we decided to stay with my friend - but that's where I'm going as soon as I get done with work and school today. It will so nice to get home - it sux being away for so long - and sux even more when you have no power or water. Something like this has really made me appreciate the little things in life, that's for sure!!

Oh My - Over a Year Later!!

I cant' believe that it's been over a year since I've updated this thing. I've gone from miserably pregnant to having a 1 year old in what seems no time at all.

My beautiful Jada Kindle was born on December 5th, 2007 around 5am. It was a less bumpy road that I expected. My doctor arranged to admit me at 4pm on December 4th to start a 12 hour induction process. Well, luckily enough, when I got to the hospital I found out that I had dialated to 4cm and so they could hook me straight up to some pitocin. The pitocin kicked in pretty fast and by 2am, I was in some pretty severe pain. I managed to keep going with no drugs - and after yelling and screaming for about an hour - I delivered a very healthy bundle of joy weighing in at 8lbs 14ozs!!!

This past year has been such a wonderful time. By 2 months old she was sleeping thru the night, at 4 months old she was starting baby food, at 6 months old she started eating "real people" food, she had cut 6 teeth by then too!! She was crawling around at 8 months old, and taking her first few steps around 9 months. By 10 months old, she was a walking pro - and we tossed out the baby food and made the complete transistion to "real people" food.

Jada's first birthday was spent surrounded by family. My mom, brother, sister, grandma, grandpa, Steve's parents, brother and sister, Jane, and Sierra all came over to celebrate the big event. We had food, Jada opened up all of her presents, and then Jada enjoyed her cake. It was a long day for my baby girl - she didn't sleep all day long, so by 6pm that night she was out for the count.

Jada's first real Christmas was an exciting one too. She loved opening all of her presents, and unlike most babies - she wasn't only interested in the paper and boxes. After the first couple of presents, she seemed to realize that there was toys under all of the wrapping paper - and started tearing up the presents to see what was inside. She even had a go at trying to open her brother's and sister's gifts too..LOL

New Year started just that - a new year. Jada decided she wasn't going to miss out on the festitivites, and woke up at exactly midnight!! It was wonderful to have her awake so that I could kiss her just like I did with Payton and Brayden.

So - everyone else is fine and great!! There has been some changes, but nothing too major. I am in my last semester before getting my associates degree - and next semester I leave community college and go onto University. I'm excited about graduating. I'm working hard, studying lots, but still making time for all of my kids - and that's the most important thing to me.

My New Year's resolution is to keep this thing updated better - but I've said that before. Hopefully I can be better at it this year.

Almost There - THANK GOD!!!!

Ok, so I'm down to the final stretch. Just 4 weeks to go until our bundle of joy is due to arrive. Of course, if I really have to wait that long I will be insane when she gets here. The past couple of weeks have been very hard on me. I'm really huge for as far along that I am, and it's beginning to affect my life. I'm barely sleeping because my back hurts so bad and it's almost impossible for me to find a comfortable position. I have heartburn 24/7 no matter what I eat or drink. Sometimes it's so bad, it makes me feel sick.

Now don't get me wrong. I wanted this baby more than anything, and I really can't wait for her to come.. but enough is enough!! At 35 weeks and 5 days, I'm measuring to be about 44cms!! I'm usually off by 1 or 2 cms, which means the doctor will probably measure me around 42cms. That's the size I was when I had Brayden, who weighed 8lbs 11ozs. I had him full term. Now I'm really hoping that I'm not carrying around a 8lb baby this early - but I would like to know exactly how much baby I am carrying around.

I go to the doctor on Wednesday. At my last appointment he told me that we would probably get to do an ultrasound to see how big she is. He better keep his word!!! Unfortunately, my doctor is the kind of doctor that really doesn't care too much about how bad the mothers are feeling. As long as the nurse gets a heartbeat at my appointments, he sends me on my way telling me that everything is ok. I don't like this approach. I am gung-ho on having a natural delivery, and I'm going to be very pissed if the baby gets too big to deliver vaginally. I don't mind a c-section if it's an emergancy situation, but I will not be happy if I have to have a c-section because my doctor wasn't competant enough to keep an eye on the growth of the baby.

Ok, so I guess my rant is over. As you can probably tell, I'm very tired and cranky. I'm ready for my little girl to be here already!!!

She Finally Has A Name!!!

Wow, I can't believe that I'm down to 8 weeks left. I'm 32 weeks pregnant on Thursday, although I believe my lil bundle of joy will be here in about 6. I'm very big for how far along I am, so I'm hoping that my doc will give me the thumbs up to have her around 38 weeks. That will be the end of November, after Thanksgiving hopefully, which would be nice.

I finally managed to get Steve to come up with a name for our lil girl. Her name is Jada Kindle Davis!! I love it! It's unique, not too out there, and it sounds cute. I will now have a Payton, Brayden, and Jada. I had always loved the name Jayden. Having a Payton and a Brayden already - I really didn't want to have 3 kids with names that all rhymed. Having Jada will still be along the same lines, but different enough not to rhyme.. LOL

I go back to the doctor on Halloween, and I'm going to beg and plead for another ultrasound to see how big Jada actually is. I'm a little nervous that my doctor isn't that concerned with how big I'm getting - and I really don't want to try and naturally deliver a 10lb baby. I have full intentions of having her COMPLETELY natural - no drugs!!! I already hear the "yeah, rights", but I did it with Brayden and I preferred it hands down to having that horrible epidural. That thing was a nightmare, and has made my life miserable ever since. Thanks to the stinking epidural I had with Payton, I now how the most horrible back pains and will more than likely have back labor. :(

That's it for now, update again on the festivities of Halloween no doubt.

15 Weeks to Go!!

I can't believe I'm already 25 weeks along. That means only 15 weeks to my due date, but probably closer to 13 weeks to delivery. The baby is due the week after finals, that's just a little too perfect.. so of course she'll come early so that it will mess it all up. LOL

Last week, I got the first glimpse of her movement from the outside of my belly. It's so cool to see the little "bops" of my stomach when she kicks, and to see the little lump of a foot or an arm as she moves around. At first Brayden was the only other person besides me to see her moving, which really upset Payton. She thought the baby didn't love her because she never moves or kicks when Payton is around. Last night, baby made it up to Payton. She gave her a good couple of kicks to her hands and cheek (Payton put her head on my tummy) and also gave Payton quite a show of movement. It made Payton feel a lot better.

We still don't have a name for her. I've been on Steve's case about getting a name picked, but he thinks we still have plenty of time to worry about picking a name out. I don't! I just have a horrible feeling that we're going to be scrambling while I'm in labor for a name - and I don't want that to happen.

Well, that's the update for now... more to come soon!!