Latest Dej-isms!

Our first born turns 3 next month :( How did this happen?  

Here are some funny things she has said and done lately!   

                                    
She LOVES her little brother and expresses that love unfortunately through touch, haha.  She always wants to hold his hand, hold him, put there heads together, hover directly above him (which mom and Calvin aren't much fans of).  She can often be heard saying things like, "Calvin you look like a Gummy Bear!" or "Calvin you look like a Door!  Knock, knock, knock."  haha  I don't know where she got either of those, but if you ask me he looks more like a gummy bear than a door.  If she doesn't see the baby around, she doesn't hesitate to ask and/or look for him.  Last but not least she loves waking him up from his naps, grrr.

Her favorite animal is a Pig.  I'm still not sure why... maybe because they're pink...maybe because she thinks Dogs and Cats are the scariest things on the planet...probably because she's never actually seen a real pig...  We have cats that live next door and they often like to hang out by our entrance to the house.  There have been 2 times that Deja was almost literally scared to death by them because they were lurking in the bushes and jumped out when they saw her.  To be fair, she probably scared them before they scared her haha.  Hopefully one day she won't be afraid of common house pets *crossing fingers*
John-"I am so not a cat person."
Random girl-"I am so not a dog person."
Deja-"I'm a pig person!"
Hahaha who knew she was even comprehending that conversation!

Favorite movie is Frozen.  So far her biggest request for her birthday is a Frozen Balloon. 
When we were in Park City my sister Meri brought up "Frozen Cereal."  Deja ate it every morning until the day after she got sick :(  She's obsessed. Meri was nice enough to let her take the remaining cereal home so she could have it again when she felt better.  While we were there she also kept quoting the line "Nobody wants to be alone, except maybe you!"  and would reenact Anna climbing up the mountain, except she would climb the side of the pool, haha.  She still loves Daniel Tiger and will often quote/reenact scenes from that!  This is her wanting to wear Calvin's Clothes and succeeding ;)  (similar to Daniel wanting to wear his old baby clothes)

There are often times I hear Deja say things and I know she got them from me haha.  For example:

"Can I have a treat or something?"

"So... I was thinking we could watch a show or something!"

Apparently I add "Or something" to a variety of my sentences... 

Also sometime during my pregnancy she started looking at her wrinkly fingers after bath time and calling them her "protein."  John and I talked a lot about protein in those days, and since I pricked my fingers 4 times a day,  I guess she put those two concepts together and went with it ;) 

She went through this really cute stage where she would set her clothes out at night!!  I think she did it because I like to do it on Saturday nights before church (when I remember).  I loved going in there the next morning to see what she had chosen, but alas, it only lasted a month or two... maybe I'll try to talk her into start doing it again.                                                

There was one afternoon where Deja randomly busted out the Kelly Clarkson song, "This is my heart beat song and I'm gonna play it, been so long..mumble.. up up up up all night long."  I just looked at her in amazement and laughed, but seriously it must have been stuck in her head because it came out of no where.

"The potty looks like a drum! Drum drum drum!"  

Luckily the toilet lid was down at the time of her drum solo.  

"Can I talk to comma?" also "Comma play Frozen" (I use the talk to text feature on my phone like an old person does, because lets face it, it's twice as fast, and being a mother of a newborn you have to get used to doing EVERYTHING one handed.  Anyway, because you have to say the punctuation you want, Deja now thinks "Siri's" name is "Comma," and it's pretty hilarious :) 

Deja during dinner: "Can we talk about Dad?"

Me: "Sure what should we talk about?"

(Silence)

Me: "How about, What does dad like?"

Deja: "Running....doing homework....coming home..."

Me: "Haha, well alrighty then!"

"Is it to-now? Or to-yeah?"  (I keep trying to figure out her logic on this one, but I think "to-now"="today" and "to-yeah"="tomorrow")  It's weird, but cute.  

Deja borrowed some underwear from her cousin, but forgot about it, so when she got home and went potty we had a conversation that went like this.  Keep in mind she's in the bathroom going potty and I'm in the kitchen:

Her: "Mom am I wearing Audrey's underwear?"

Me: "Yeah, she's sharing it with you, isn't that nice of her?"

Her: *Shouting at the top of her lungs* "THANKS AUDREY!!!"

She will frequently ask me if different characters on TV are boys or girls.   Mostly she'll ask about "Sadness" from inside out, and then ask about the rest of the characters.  So one day we were out driving and she asks,

"Is Cafe Rio a girl or a boy?"
I just laughed and said, "I don't know the answer to that one haha"

 

And then there's this kid!  He doesn't have very many kidisms yet, unless you count hard core spit up, like the kind where it comes out of his nose because it's so intense ;)  But he smiles and coo's at me when I'm having a hard mom day.  He has started to sleep a little longer at night, but still likes to eat about every 3 hours.  Good thing he's cute ;)  Everyone loves his hair and comments on how big he is!!  At his two month appointment he weighed 13.03 lbs (78%) and was 23.03 inches (50%).   He also favors looking to one side.  Dr. Schmidt says he was probably positioned like that in the womb, so we're supposed to stretch out the other side of his neck 3 times a day, and hold him so he faces the other way.  He hates it with a passion and shows it through tears and yelling, but hopefully it'll make a difference in the long run! 

No Time!!! July-ish

Seriously though, so much has happened since my last post and I feel like there is not enough time to adequately put to words all our experiences, but I will regret if there is nothing, so here goes nothing!

For father's day we gave John socks chocolate chip cookies, and some of his favorite treats. We are very grateful for him, and he has been working so hard in his new position as a nurse.

The 4th of July we went to a neighborhood breakfast with my parents and then had a Bbq over at the Southwick's. It was nice that John had work off!  We traveled a lot during the month of July, enjoying a trip up to Idaho for John's cousin, Michael's wedding, a trip to Boise for the Southwick family reunion, promptly followed by a trip to park city for DuPaix family reunion! The kids were great in the car and we only had one malfunction when the car overheated in Twin Falls.  Luckily we were in the city when it happened!! We also successfully kept Calvin a secret from John's brother Kyle who was serving a mission in Hawaii. Kyle found out he was an Uncle again when we picked him up at the airport in Boise! John asked him if he could name all the grand-kids and was holding Calvin at the time. So naturally Kyle looked and pointed at Calvin and said "Jenny's son" to which John pointed over to the correct child and said, "no that's Jenny's son." Kyle then had a good long stare at Calvin and said "Who's this?" To which John said, "This is my baby, Calvin!" And Kyle said, "You had a baby?!?" It was pretty funny to watch, but I'm not sure how funny Kyle thought it was ;) Deja's favorite part of the trip was probably playing with cousins non stop, fun kids crafts, and the bounce houses. I was also able to sneak away to see our good friends Skye and Michelle perform as the leads in the Scarlet Pimpernel.  They were both phenomenal :)

                                       

John and Brian singing "I'm not crying" for the talent show!

In between our reunions we had a fun Hawaiian themed party for Kyle and blessed Calvin on Pioneer Day. It was a nice day were everyone finally heard Calvin's secret middle name, "Henry." Wayne was nice enough to let us host a luncheon in his back yard afterwards and it was perfect :)

Park city we enjoyed shopping, swimming, playing games, yummy food and spending more time with cousins! Besides all of those things, Deja's favorite part was the Arcade haha. Our least favorite part of the trip was when Deja and I got a bad stomach bug :( trying to teach her how to throw up and not swallow anything back down was so hard emotionally to deal with. I'm so grateful John was there to help us. Because of our sickness, the kids and I were only able to make it to Kyle's talk and didn't make it over to the house afterwards.

We went to a sock shop, so naturally I had to get John's picture with all the socks ;)

My mom stitched together this cute quilt for Calvin!!  I love the colors and design :)

Also, John's Dad got married!!  The wedding took place in their backyard and it turned out to be a really nice day :)

Getting a real smile out of Deja has been a struggle lately, so I'm loving her in this photo!

Introducing Calvin!

Calvin's birth story coming right up.
                                                   

During my final appointment, the doctor told me that the hospital would call to schedule my induction the night before and then call again the morning of, in case things got too busy during the night and there were a lack of rooms.  What really happened was they called me the night before and  said "we'll call you in the morning as early as 5:00 AM to come in, however if we don't call you, you can call us after 9:00 and see where we are in the schedule."  Becuase of that we decided to send Deja to Grandma's the night before, just in case they were going to call super early.  Well one thing lead to another and John and I decided since Deja was going to Grandma's that night we were going to catch one more movie before the baby came, so we went to the 9:30 showing of Captain America: Civil War haha.  Grandma doesn't know about this sshhh ;)

After we got home, sleeping was a rough probably because I was anticipating the phone call. I just kept waking up, checking the time, and checking my phone "just in case" they had called and I had missed it.

7:50-They finally called me to come in, which don't get me wrong, I was grateful it wasn't at 5:00 just because of my sleeping situation!!  They asked how long it would take us to get to the hospital.  I started telling them about 20 minutes, but John interrupted and said it would take at least half an hour.  I was antsy and got ready as fast as possible like last time!  We didn't actually arrive till about 8:45 haha. 

9:00-Dr. Terry came and checked me (I was still dilated at 2 1/2) and broke my water (more painful than I anticipated, but nothing awful). As he left the room he said I could have my epidural at any time :)  Well John and I started to settle in for the long hall because last time things evolved so slowly and I felt my first contractions around 9:45ish. 

10:30-The Nurse came in to see how I was feeling and kept asking if I was ready for my epidural.  I thought she was a little epi-happy, and asked if I could have fentanol because I wanted to wait as long as possible.  She said that was fine and as she gave me the medicine it made me dizzier than last time.  By now we had started watching Into the woods and I kept my eyes closed to feel less dizzy.

11:00-The medicine didn't stop the pain as much as I wanted, so I decided to ask for the epidural.  The anesthesiologist came in and was a pretty happy fellow, a lot more congenial than the guy who did my last one.   After it was all put in, the nurse checked me and I was dilated to a 7! I couldn't believe it, haha.  Talk about waiting for the last minute to get the epidural.  If I had waited much longer, I probably would have missed my window of opportunity.  She then immediately started prepping the room for the delivery and said we would probably have this baby within the next hour!

11:30-I was having a lot of burning from the litocain used for the the epidural in my back.  It was even more painful than my current contractions, so the anesthesiologist came back in and gave me a second dose, luckily it kicked in right before pushing time and I literally couldn't feel a thing past my waist.

12:00-Dr. Terry came in and I started pushing.  They could see the baby's hair and knew he was facing the right direction this time :) They had me push 3 times at the beginning of each contraction, have a quick break, followed closely by a set of 4 pushes during the 2nd half of the contraction. (John had to explain this to me after because I thought each set of me pushing was a new contraction).  It took about 4 contractions before he was out.  Right before my final contraction Dr. Terry pulled in one of his assistants to come push on my belly in order to pop this little one out, which I was perfectly fine with ;)

12:23-Calvin was born! 8 lbs, 5 oz, 21 inches, and BLONDE!  John cut the cord, and then I did skin to skin for about an hour, during which Calvin burped twice, haha.  He must have had a good breakfast before entering the world ;)  I was so shaky! It's crazy all the things I really truly don't remember with Deja.  John and I were in a little bit of shock having the labor go so quick.  The nurse pointed that out and we agreed.  I tried breast feeding throughout the day, but problem was he just didn't want to suck... Which was the opposite of Deja. Luckily he's got the hang of it now ;) My legs stayed numb for about 4 hours after the delivery, probably because of that second epidural dosage. 

Other fun/random things about my hospital stay included the fact the nurses seemed so anti-binky!  I finally asked someone about it and they said they tried not to offer them to the baby too soon so that mom's wouldn't get offended, and also so that babies who were nursing wouldn't get nipple confusion. I thought that was interesting...mostly not wanting to offend the moms.  This was the same with giving the babies bottles!!  The on-call pediatrician was very cautious about telling us we may want to consider supplementing with formula till my milk came in, which was funny just because we supplemented a lot with Deja, and got the breast feeding thing down eventually, but we were perfectly fine making sure our baby got the food he needed ;)   Because of this, I want to remember to bring my own bottle/formula next time because both Calvin and Deja needed them for different reasons during our hospital stay!  On a positive note, the Breastfeeding Specialist was very impressed that I breastfed Deja for almost 18 months, haha.

One of the first things I ate after the delivery was a chocolate chip cookie dough shake from Iceberg courtesy of my parents, and a chicken bake from Costco courtesy of John's dad ;)  Our parents and Deja were our first visitors, and Deja absolutely loved seeing the baby!!  

Calvin got pretty yellow that second day, so Dr. Schmidt Junior told us we would need to start doing labs to see where his bilirubin was on a daily basis.  It was pretty annoying having to go back to the hospital every morning and watch them prick my baby's foot to fill up vials of blood. Luckily after day 4 they cleared him to be at a good enough level to not go under the lights and to not have to come back for more blood work, which I was so very grateful for!!!

After checking out of the hospital, we went to pick up Deja.  I had told John that maybe I should go in first without the baby and make sure to open my arms wide and give Deja a great big hug to show her that she hadn't been replaced.  Well, I walked in, did this at exactly her level and said "Deja it's so good to see you!" her reply was "Where's the baby? I want to see the baby..."  Glad I was so cautious ;) 

We are so excited to get to know this kiddo of ours!