New Things

New sister, new school year, new car...

After Greg's car failed its state safety and emissions testing, we decided it was time to part ways with the beast. We didn't want to pay the $1500 that was quoted to us as the price that would get it fixed up enough to pass. So we started searching for a new (used) car and finally found one on KSL. We took a test drive, were satisfied, and wrote a check. We donated Greg's car to the Kidney Foundation of Utah and watched it get towed away. It all happened so fast. But we are now the proud owners of a Hyundai Elantra.
Andrew and Nathan started their new school year on Monday. I'm not gonna lie. Having them in school has been good for everyone. I can continue to heal from surgery and have some down time a lot better with the number of children I'm responsible for cut in half. And since baby Elizabeth mostly sleeps all the time, I've been able to have some sweet one on one David time. Andrew is in 3rd grade and was lucky enough to be in the same class as his best friend, Brevin. Hope the teacher doesn't go crazy..She'll learn soon enough that maybe they might need to be separated because she had them right next to each other in desks on the first day.

Nathan is in first grade and was a little nervous as I left him that first morning. He's definitely not as social as his big brother and I hope this is a good year for him. I hope he can make friends and love going to school.


Goodbye old, dead, white car. Hi new car that runs!

Meet Elizabeth Elaine Wilding

Baby Stats: 6lbs 14 oz. 19 inches long. Dark brown hair
Greg and I woke up after a very short night and left the house around 4:45 early Sunday morning and got to the hospital by 5ish. I got checked in, gowned up, needle inserted and all prepped by 6am. Then we waited. I was supposed to have a 7:30 cut time, but was bumped back to about 9am after an emergency came in and pushed us back. I've always had a spinal done for all of my c-sections and was a little concerned when the anesthesiologist came in announcing they would be doing an epidural. I've heard too many stories of epidurals not working right, or only numbing half of your body. The difference between a spinal and an epidural is that the spinal is done just minutes before the surgery starts almost instantly paralyzing you. The epidural was done a couple hours before and took some time to get me completely numb. After that not fun experience we had a couple more hours to wait and my blood pressure would severely drop randomly bringing on terrible dizziness, crazy shaking, and nausea. I threw up a few times waiting in my bed to be wheeled to the OR. Anyway, the surgery began and Elizabeth was born at 9:24am.
Greg left with the nurses and Elizabeth leaving me to get all stitched back up listening to the doctors banter behind my screen. My anesthesiologist would peek around the screen and whisper to me what they were doing. Things like "they have your uterus out of your body lying on top of your stomach right now so they can sew it up...."
With my last C Section I had an allergic reaction to the morphine they gave me so this time they didn't give me any pain meds until the epidural wore completely off. Full on pain of the surgery isn't fun to experience and I was pretty miserable. I was finally given my pain pills and they didn't do anything to help. So they called my doc at home and he authorized a straight morphine injection into my hip. Which helped considerably. I didn't have any weird reaction this time and got the shot a few more times throughout the day. I didn't see Elizabeth much that first day because I was just too miserable. Monday was better, but I mostly slept as much as I could. By Tuesday morning I'd had enough of the hospital and was asking if I could go home. Surprisingly my doctor authorized my discharge and away we went. I was checked every 2 hours during the nights I was there and didn't get much sleep. I was much happier to come home and rest in my own bed.
So here we are at home with a 11 day old baby who is the sweetest blessing in the world. She is so precious and darling. The boys can't get enough of her and neither can her daddy. Greg is doting on her so much. Even more than with the 3 boys when they were little. I think she's got her Daddy wrapped around her finger and will likely keep him there for a good long time.












Welcome to the family, sweet baby! We love you!!

3 days and counting...

My C is scheduled for this coming Sunday at 7:30am. I am more than ready. But at the same time, apprehensive. I HATE hospitals. I HATE, HATE needles even more than hospitals. And I HATE IVs more than anything else on this earth. And that includes spiders. And I really HATE spiders. I've even got David my three year old trained to kill spiders in the house. He just grabs a wad of toilet paper and snatches the little beast up and throws it in the toilet. With our last baby I was so nervous about the IV that my veins collapsed because of my racing heart and blood pressure. The nurse could not get my IV started and she took a hit to her nursing skills ego because she said she's never once in 20 years been unable to start an IV on a patient. Too bad. She hadn't met me. So I've been mentally preparing myself for the drama that I turn into when faced with an IV. I know I should just grow up and get over this mental block, but it's what I dread even more than under going a major surgery like a C Section.

Anyway, we've got family coming to town, lots of pink stuff around the house, and the bassinet and crib all set up and ready to go. We're ready and just hours away!

Hooray for Andrew!

How much do you wish you had this guy for your primary teacher growing up? He and his sweet wife are Andrew's primary teachers and they are amazing! Andrew earned a ride in this bad boy by being the top earner on the sticker chart that they have. Stickers are earned by things like reverence during sharing time, bringing scriptures to church, reverence during class time and being a great student in class. I'm so glad to get positive reinforcements like this at church because school is often another story. It could have something to do with Andrew's primary class being mostly girls. It's just him and one other boy in a very large class so he doesn't have many chances to be silly and goof off. (Not the case at school). But I was proud of him for earning a ride with his teacher. By the way, this guy built this thing from the ground up by himself. It took him about 10 years he said.