HELP!

Baby Adan has developed acid relfux along with colic...yup, not a fun combination! My other 2 had reflux but never as serious as his. He literally sounds like he is choking all day long, then screams out in pain and discomfort. His pediatrician has put him on Zantac for the reflux and I am now on my 3rd formula to see if this one will be any better for him and have started adding a bit of cereal to thicken up the milk. But I have yet to see any difference with either. I have run out of ideas and find myself crying right along with him at 4:30 am...I just feel so bad for the little guy! Any suggestions, mamas? I'm desperate and will try anything to help ease his pain. Please comment... : ( Please keep him in your prayers!

Easter Pictures

Easter pictures...yes, I know they are late, but I wanted Adan to be apart of them so I waited until he arrived. I had planned to take them on a dock so I would have the water and beautiful flowers around. We got up early Saturday and had the kids looking cute shortly after breakfast, only to realize that the rain that was expected for the evening time was already coming down...yes, I was very disappointed. Since they were already dressed we went ahead and waited until there was a break in the down pour and took some pictures outside of our house. They ended up coming out pretty good. But what did I expect...my babies will look good anywhere...yes, I'm biased....

So here's a post for the grandmas!

typical crazy kids, always making faces at each other

Hope you like...Baby announcements coming soon!!! Havn't taken those pictures yet. :)

The First 2 Weeks

We had an exciting 2 weeks. Between the sleepless nights, Adan trying to adjust to 'day and night' schedule, MiaLuz potty training, and the holiday, there was more than enough to keep up with. Here are just a few pictures for the grandparents.

Adan's "gift" to the kids were these bikes. Chris has never had a bike, nor has he ever been on anything other than a tricycle or scooter so he was sooo- excited and took off immediately. MiaLuz can't quite reach the pedals but she didn't seem to mind since there were plenty of buttons to push that played music and talked in the Dora the Explorer voice. The voice tells her which way she is going, in english and spanish! 2 points for Baby Adan!

We have been attempting to try to get MiaLuz potty trained. She has not shown any interest until this week so we decided to capture the moment. She is all too happy about it. Too bad she hasn't actually done anything. But she cheers herself along the whole time!

Daddy time~

Baby's First Bath~ He actually enjoyed it; unlike the other two...

Chris has really been into playing the drums lately so we bought him some drum sticks. I walked into the room yesturday to find that they had set up their version of a drum set with their stools and were jamming out. They looked so cute. If only it sounded as cute! lol

Here are videos of the kids enjoying their first rides on the bikes and MiaLuz singing to Adan.

Happy Easter

Our Easter Sunday consisted of a small Easter Egg Hunt for the kids in the morning, enjoying General Conference on BYU TV, relaxing with our little family...and trying to rest!

Because the delivery of Baby Adan was so close to Easter, I really hadn't put much thought into the actual holiday. Fortunately, Meemaw sent a box of "Easter supplies" so the kids could have some fun. Thank you Meemaw for saving the day!

Before we headed out, Daddy sat the kids down and explained the true meaning of Easter. Chris has been learning about the resurrection in Primary so he was able to help the story move along...MiaLuz, mmm... we had her for about 30 seconds before she walked out...we tried!

Here they are, waiting to attack the yard!
What is Easter without the cascarone?

Lil Chris hit the biggest target he could reach...lol

...and that was the target for the rest of the morning!

While the boys played, MiaLuz paid no attention. She was on a mission...

finding one of their favorite summer activities, sidewalk chalk!

MiaLuz kept saying, "Gotcha!" every time she found an egg or candy. It was so cute.

There are all of Mia's goodies.

...and then they got right to playing...

...and eating!

We kept trying to get Mia to break a cascarone on Daddy. She would try but all we could get out of her was a "tap" on daddy's shoulder! She is so delicate with everything she does, it was too cute.

And while the kids were having a blast outside, you could find Baby Adan right where he always is, asleep on his swing, swaddled up nice and tight!

Welcome Baby Adan!

Okay, so here's the story.

We arrive at the hospital at 6:00am. I had already been contracting a bit through the night so I knew it wouldn't be long before I could get my epidural. Well, they hadn't even began the Potosin to induce before my contractions were at the #7 on the pain scale. They checked me and I was ready early on to get the epidural but because of an emergency with another patient it took them a while to get to me. I waited about an hour and within that time my contractions hit their peak. I had NEVER felt them that hard before because I always had the epi early on. I seriously didn't know how to handle them. I remember one of the nurses coming in during one and trying to comfort me...she said,"just breathe honey, it's all in your head. Just breathe." WHAT?!?! are you kidding me? I wanted to slap her, and probably would have if I could move any to reach her, but I was literally paralyzed with pain. When she finally left Chris came to me and said, "I know you wanted to slap her. I could just here what you were thinking when she said that!" I thought that was funny. He knows me so well...

Once they came in to give it to me they realized their medicine wasn't even on the cart...Grrrr....So there I go, waiting another 20 minutes. By this time I pretty much knew I was ready to push, but they never checked me until after they gave me the epi. I received it but it was too late. The contractions came back down to a #7 but into the delivery I could still feel everything. The doctor even said, "Hmmmm, you are flinching, you can still feel this!" Yeah, why did I even get the epi!?! Anyhoo, 2 pushes and he was out...Ta Da! Our little one joined us at 11:08 am. He was 7 lbs. 20" long.

We had a HUGE room, and they said it was one of the smaller ones!

There was even a waiting room attached, only divided by a curtain, for family and visitors that wanted to be apart of the delivery...I thought that was so cool.

This was obviously before my contractions got serious.
This was the picture that you would see once my contractions reached the #10 on the pain scale. All I could do was push my hands into my head...And while this was going on....

This was the picture you would see of Chris....reading a book,

...and jamming out with his ZUNE....yeah! you can imagine what I was thinking! But I couldn't blame him too much. He was just excited to be apart of this experience!

Literally 20 minutes after receiveing the epidural, I was READY to push. The nurse told me she was going to run for the doctor and told me not to even push a bit cuz he was 'right there'. After she left, Chris looked at me and said, "Do Not Push! DO NOT PUSH because I do not want to have to catch the baby. Do not push!"

And there's the doc. Dr. Hutchinson, WONDERFUL man!

There was 2 emergency c-sections that morning so my nurses kept changing. I didn't mind since they were all so sweet. It was funny to me how I ended up having all 5 with me for the delivery. Talk about support! I loved it.

Welcome to the world...

All cleaned up, finally!

The first picture together.

The first meeting... Chris couldn't have been more excited to see his new brother. MiaLuz, well she didn't know what to think...

Chris wanted to check out the little body. He got a kick out of how tiny his feet were.

I could only handle so much weight on me so Chris took over. Big brother followed immediately. Mia...mmm. not so much.

As Chris was full of hugs and kisses for his new brother...

MiaLuz proceeded to go the opposite way. She sat herself on the chair beside my bed and watched cartoons. After a while, she did come around and played with him a bit. She had her moments, but 90% of her hospital visit was spent sitting with me on the bed.

Bishop Strickland, one of our many sweet and thoughtful visitors!

(Adan's face looks so cute in this picture.)

The hearing test. One of my good friends, Jenn Watts came from another hospital just to conduct the test on baby Adan. Thanks Jenn!

Getting ready to leave the hospital : (

His first picture at home...all snuggled up.

Here's a video of Baby Adan getting his first bath! Poor baby...