Grandma came to visit

So I have been a bit lazy on updating this thing but I am lucky enough to remember to get myself dressed most days so cut me some slack. My mom came back out to visit us last week. Maddie was so excited to have grandma come visit. Kalab was happy to see another face that he knew and Kane was so thrilled to have someone else to torment for a whole week. I was happy to have some extra arms so I could take a shower without maddie under my feet or having to worry that Kalab was awake in his crib and I couldn't hear him. Of course the kids got spoiled but I don't expect much else from grandma. As in spolied I don't just mean gifts I mean a whole lot of grandma time which was a real treat for them I'm sure after staring at my mug for the last 5 months :) Of course the week went by WAY too fast and I wish she could have stayed longer and brought out the rest of the family since when they did come out we barely did anything. We still didn't do alot but it was alot of fun.... I knew once my mom left it would mean we would be one week closer to Cody being home. I am finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel... its a flickering light but damn it I see it :) Here are some pictures of the week with grandma

Thank you

So Maddie, Kalab and I took a trip to walmart a few days ago ( yes walmart is my second home right now... I need a intervention.) Now trips to Walmart aren't all that bad taking both kids it just gets to be too much with Maddie asking every 5 mins "Mom can I have that.... Mom....hey mom.... look mom.... OK lets go, I'm done." After what seemed like a 3 hr trip to make sure we got everything for Cody's package we got in line. Now Maddie has decided she wants to place everything on the moving belt for me even if it is too heavy for her. I was already over my limit of patience at Walmart, which seems to get shorter and shorter due to little sleep. Maddie had asked for a bag of Cheetos so being the wonderful mom I am and picking my battles I got her a bag of Cheetos. She placed them on the moving belt the cashier scanned them and handed them to Maddie. ( Maddie had made sure to let the lady know over and over again that those were her Cheetos.) Maddie told her thank you. The cashier looked at me and told me she was the first little kid that had said thank you all day, granted it was about 6pm when we were checking out. She said that Maddie has renewed her faith in polite little kids. After all was said and done I was a little proud that we have raised a polite little girl..... It looks like daddy has taught her something good other then " SILENCE! I kill you." (Jeff Dunham)

We make beautiful kids

My awesome neighbor took some pictures of the kiddos. She is in school for Photography so Maddie and Kalab got to be her little models. Anything in the name of education :)

Pictures of our little peanut

I thought I would post some pictures of Peanut.....

This is one of the first pictures my mom got of Kalab since she didn't get to see me deliver.

Maddie meeting her brother for the first time.... she has a thing with poking him all the time

Freedom calls.... Cody got to see Kalab for the first time via the sandbox. I started to cry when I walking in the room and saw Cody I think he even teared up a bit.

Grandma soaking up some baby time before the rest of the family got here

Maddie loves to hold her brother for about 2 seconds then she is done

Gotta represent daddy and uncle Randy's favorite band... this is the day we went home

Grandpa's new buddy. The first grandson.... he was really enjoying the testosterone

My little muscle man..... This was his first bath and he HATED it!

I love this onesie :)

Auntie amber took this picture

He has Cody's and Maddie's appetite

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for the swing I love it!

I love visits from my family

I had the joy of having my family come visit the 3 ( or 4 if you count the dog)of us this last week. My mom had been out here since the 13th of May to help with Maddie and drive me to the hospital as I screams profanities and peed myself lol.

My dad, sister and niece showed up on the 23rd to entertain the dog who is now known as Kane the dog and Maddie while Kalab got all the snuggling and loves he could ever dream of. Maddie was so excited to have Kee-Kee here to play with becuase you know mom is just not as fun as kee-kee. I enjoyed having the company. I forgot how much I miss having a busy house ( 7 people and a dog in my house) It was nice to wake up and hear more then just silence.

We didn't do a whole lot for the week due to I was suppose to be resting ( ha me rest good one) We did take the girls to the aquarium and the ocean. Kee-kee ( who is also known as Kaydence lol) loved the water, if we could have stayed there all day she would have been perfectly content. Maddie wasn't so sure about the water and had to hold grandma or grandpas hand most of the time. I sat back on the beach with Kalab and watched them play. It was so peaceful. See even auntie amer and grandma had fun.......

Amber and Kaydence got their first taste of a North Carolina rain storm. Grandma and the girls decided it would be fun to go play in it since the rain was so warm and it was still over 75 degrees.

It was like pulling teeth to get them to come back inside once the rain stopped.

Kalab spend most of his time on grandpa and his warm chest. My dad was so exctied to finally have a grandson since its been all girls. It was like for once testosterone was around him instead of all the estrogen.Kane the dog just loved having someone to torment. He liked to herd Maddie and Kaydence around the house and annoy grandma to no end, but thats what he does best.

The week went by way too fast and I was very sad to see them go. I wish they could have stayed longer. Maddie thinks that they are going to come back anytime now and its hard to explain to her that grandma grandpa and auntie amer had to go home. I know Kalab is missing all the cuddling and snuggling, but in a few short months we will be out to Utah to visit the families.

Kalab is here!

Kalab Frank Knaus

May 20, 2008

6lbs 14 oz

22 inches

This is a story I will never forget and never thought that would happen....... the story of Kalab's birth something other then the orginal water broke, go to the hospital have the baby, get some popcorn sit back and enjoy.....
On Wednesday, I woke up with some pains not thinking much of it since I had been having some pains on and off all week. After getting Maddie to school I told my mom that we should go to the hospital just to be on the safe side. I got admitted and all that jazz, we sat there for 2 hrs to see if thepains ( which later would be contractions) would get any stronger, of course they didn't until the nurse told me that all my pains were bractions hicks contractions and to come back if the contractions got stronger ( as the nurse said the kind that makes you double over in pain and takes your breath away) and where about 5 mins apart for longer then a hour.( I gave her the WTF look but she never caught it lol) Once we walked about the the hospital the contractions got stronger but I figured it wasn't labor yet. We came home and the contractions got stronger so I took a bath ( hey thats what the nurse told me to try so hell why not) The contractions got even stronger. I told my mom we had to go we got maddie to Heathers and back to the hospital. Well the entire way to the hospital I am using every swear word know to man and I don't doubt made up a few of my own. My sweet mom just laughed at me ( to keep from freaking out like I was) I even told my mom to pull over a few times so I could pee but she never did, good thing too. We got to the ER and she asked me if I needed a wheelchair but the car didn't even stop and I was out and hurrying in screaming I was in labor, the ER nurses looked at me in shock , you would think they would have dealt with a woman in labor before.They got me on a bed and a ER doctor checked me to see if I was in labor, yup I know what you are thinking well no shit she is in labor. They wheeled me up to Labor and delivery triage room, at that point I had to push ( i had been asking to push since i got to the ER.) The doctor had just got off call and the next doctor which was my doctor was paged. They decided to wheel me over to a labor room. Within 5 mins of being in there Kalab was born all NATURAL! now for all that decided that all natural is the way to go more props to you. It was something I never thought I would do but Kalab decided different for me. I became the talk of the Maternity floor, all the nurses asked me about his birth. :)

Maddie loves being a big sister! She wants to hold him all the time and is so helpful

I did it!!!

Well I made it through 8 weeks of pure hell I mean school and I didn't have to tie up Maddie or Kane even thought I had thought about it a few times. It has been 3 years since I had been in college and I completely forgot all the busy work that goes into school. My grades you ask..... I got a A and a B. For all that know me thats AMAZING! You would have thought that I would have learned the last time I was in school that going to school and being pregnant does not work all too well but I guess I didn't learn the first time :)
I must say I am proud of my myself for make it throught the term, I thought it would be so easy everyone told me " hey it will help keep your mind of Cody being gone." It did that, but it didn't help add to the stress of being overly pregnant, trying to divide my attention between Maddie and Kane and still having some sorts of social life and to think I get to start all over again on the first of June but take away one class and add a newborn.... Yes I know I am crazy but it's one step closer to being Cody's sugar momma or so he thinks........