Embrace the Camera

The End is Near

Some people say that they enjoy pregnancy. They say it's is nothing but flowers and butterflies. This was not exactly my experience. The first trimester I was VERY sick and VERY tired. The second trimester was definitely better. The third trimester, I felt large, uncomfortable, and it was 500 degrees outside.

Call me vain but I just wanted my body back. I like my brand name jeans and I really wanted to be in them. So at my 35th week appt. I asked my doctor how things were going to work and what the options were for scheduling an induction. I was expecting her to say I had to go to 40 weeks. I knew that she would not let me go over 40 weeks because Paxton had been measuring big. So, when she told me I could go in at 39 weeks I said "I will take it!" So we were scheduled to be induced on Wednesday, June 23rd.


I had my last doctor appt. on Monday, June 21st. I had not progressed at all. This was very frustrating. I cried. Then, I cried more. I wanted things to start up on their own, but that obviously was not going to happen! So, the Doc scheduled us to come in Tuesday night at 7:00 pm.

We were instructed to call L&D before leaving the house to make sure they had a room available. It was a good thing we did because 7:00 turned into 8:00. Then 8:00 turned into 10:00. Just after 10:00 the called us and said we had the green light.

We got to the hospital and got all checked in. They then started the process to "ripen" my cervix with the cytotec (I think that's what it was). They also gave me an ambien to sleep because of the discomfort that can come along with the ripening. I have never taken a sleeping pill in my life- I was OUT!

Back in Action

So it has obviously been forever since I have posted on here. I am going to try to keep this up as a journal of our life with Baby Paxton. I want to be able to share everything with our family and friends and also use this for Paxton to be able to look back on in the future.

So I will try to be better with keeping up to date on everything. I will start by back tracking to the end of my pregnancy and work my way to the present.

Talk to you soon!
-K

Embrace the camera

I was recently reading a blog that I look at every now and then and then as always it led me to another blog, and then another (this why I have to be careful reading blogs, it can eat up my day) and I came across Emily and her "Embrace the Camera" challenge.

Basically it is a challenge for you to take pictures with your children. What she is saying is that we are mostly behind the camera taking pictures of the babes and we do not get in the pictures ourselves. Mom's always have excuses about the way they look- no make-up, bad hair day, still in my jammies. But when your children are older these are the pictures that they will cherish most! Even though I hate to say it, she is right.

So here is the start of my baby girl Paxton and I embracing the camera!

Fall and go Boom?

That's exactly what Jud did while playing basketball. Can you imagine being 6'7" and falling down. Ouch! Check out his ankle. This picture is about a week after it happened and it still looks this bad!

I know how some of you guys l-o-v-e feet. This one is for y'all!

x x x
Kristy

My Precious Little Things

Check out our Fur Babies...

Pierce (Impiercinator/ Piercie Poo)

He looks so sophisticated!

Bella (Bella Roo, Poopy Roo, Toot Toot)

Play Ball with her and you will forever have her heart.

Clyde (Clydius Maximus, C-Unit, Devil Cat)

If you don't this is precious, then you are probably evil!

xoxo

Kris

It's Spring Time!

We have been keeping busy around Casa de Adams. We planted our flower bed for the spring and put a little stone border around it. For some reason, I did not get any pictures of the stone border so I will try post more soon. In the meantime, here are some of our pretty flowers.

Now I am not claiming to be Neil Sperry or anything, but these are pretty dang good considering I can't ever keep anything alive! Maybe I will get better every year. Oh and yes, we were taking pictures at night :)

Check out the daisy in the middle below. It's a conjoined twin!

Now we are just playing with the new camera... A lot to learn but the pictures sure are purdy!

We will see how long we can keep them alive!

x x x

Kristy