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........

even more adventures of the belly

33 weeks..... We went to cody's unit easter party and the ladies there talked me into painting my belly.

35 weeks.... Im ready for this is be over

I will make sure to add more before I pop

Welcome to the house of sickness

I am starting to wonder if anyone in this house will ever get 100% better from sickness. It hit all 3 of us about a week before Cody left, but had been plaguing Maddie and I for over 2 months before that. It went from allergies and bronchitis to the lovely stomach bug in a few short days. I tired so hard to get better before Cody left but no such luck. Once he left it went all down hill from there. My allergies turned into a sinus infection which I am still taking medication for and being pregnant there is little medication they can give me and believe me I asked and asked. I wondering when Urgent Care is going to get me my own chair since in the last 2 months I have been there so much.
Maddie was still suffering from "allergies" and then got a fever for a few days and the last diagnosis was she now has pink eye. I am finally after almost 3 months getting over a cough, not that it hasn't made my sides feel like I have done a million crunches and a voice of a 14 yr old boy going through puberty. Maddie is slowly getting better but you would never know she is sick since she acts like her normal self.
Hey at least the dog is healthy right?!?

hippy hoppy easter is on its way.......

So yesterday was Cody's unit easter party. I was a little aprehensive to go since I didn't really know anyone, but I figure what the hell Ill go and see how it is and I knew Maddie would have fun. Well I was right she had alot of fun and I met some cool ladies. One of the ladies took picture of the event so that they could be sent over to the guys in the "sandbox" to help show them that their wives and family were doing well and not just sitting in our houses all depressed.

Here the pictures that she got of Maddie and I......

Maddie and the easter bunny she chased him down

Maddie would only sit by the easter bunny if I was sitting next to her so we both got our picture taken with the big bunny ( I actually like this picture which is completely rare for me to like a picture of myself)

The ladies talked me into painting my belly..... the paint was cold as you can tell by my face :)

Maddie made off like a bandit and of course all the eggs had candy in them.... lucky me!

She keeps asking me if we can go on another egg hunt.... good thing she has one for school comming up this week.

one of my favorite pictures

I had to post this picture since its one of my favorite right now. Maddie is such a daddies girl!

The countdown has began for us!