Cornbelly's

This past Tuesday we went to Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving point. If you haven't been there or heard of it, it's like a month long ultimate halloween carnival and it's a blast for kids. They have tons of fun things there. We didn't do everything we wanted to and we were there for 2 hours.

This was a huge hay stack. They had multiple slides and ways to get up on to it. They had a few of these huge haystacks there.
Jace coming down the slide.

Wooden vehicles that had few different wasy to get in and usually a slide to come out. They also had an airplane one. So fun for a 2 year old boy.

These were these huge rubber pillows! That you could jump and bounce on. These were Jace's favorite by far. He really loved the huge one that's in the far back of this picture.


Bounce House. It was hard to get him out of here, literally, because we couldn't go in and get him. lol
And the last thing we did was go on the hay ride.
Glad we went. It was a really fun family evening and Cienna slept through the whole thing. :)

1 month old

Cienna is one month old as of yesterday! I can't believe how fast time flies. She is changing everyday before our very eyes. It seems like it is going a lot faster than it did with Jace. A little about Cienna. . .

1. She is a very calm baby. She is easy to console and rarely cries loud. You pick her up and she's already cuddling into you and about to fall asleep.
2. She is cuddly! Which I LOVE! Jace wasn't that cuddly of a baby, so I am loving that she is! She will just lay her head into my shoulder or chest wide awake and just enjoy being close to me. Love love love it.
3. However, with all this cuddliness and easy to console she doesn't sleep well during the night (which jace did better at). She'll do 1-2 hour stretches (sometimes a 3 hour but it's rare) and be awake for an hour or two at some point during the night. Oh well, I still love her. I don't mind waking up with her. However, I am starting to miss a good nights sleep, but I know it will come soon enough so I am trying to enjoy her while she is so little because I know she won't be for much longer. :(
4. She is a really good eater now. No worries there.
5. She loves to be talked to. She looks you right in the eyes and it seriously feels like she can read you and see your soul. It sounds weird but it really is quite a tender thing about her. It's almost like you become best friends with her instantly just by talking to her and looking into her eyes.
6. She actually likes tummy time. Jace didn't hate it, but he wasn't a huge fan. She likes it. She'll bobble her head for a little while and then just lay there on her belly awake until she goes to sleep. This could change.
7. And today she smiled at me, a few real smiles, for the first time :)

So there's a little info on our sweet 1 month old Cienna :)

Cienna's Birth Story

So this post is mostly for me because this blog is also my journal/scrapbook but anyone is welcome to read it. :) It will most likely be pretty long.

So sweet little cienna's birth started at 33 weeks. . . Aug, 13th, this is when I went into a false labor for the first time. I had consistant smaller contractions all of sat and bigger ones through sat night. I told myself that if they continued through Sunday we would go to the hospital, well they ended on sun evening, so we didn't go. I had a doctors apt the next day, told him what happened, he was surprised and said I should have gone to the hospital. He also was concerned and warned me that another episode like this could and most likely would happen again in the near future, but we would hope that it wouldn't. Well he was right. The next week, on our way home from our trip to Las Vegas I started having consistent contractions again. ( I know what you're thinking. . I shouldn't have gone to Las Vegas. But I didn't do anything strenuous. Jace and I stayed at the hotel the whole time, except for when we went out to eat, but maybe I still shouldn't have gone, who knows) We arrived home and the contractions continued through the night, so early the next morning, Aug 24th, we went to the hospital. They gave me a shot to stop the contractions, but the contractions did not stop, so the doctor on call decided to keep me until they could get the contractions under control. They then gave me another shot, which didn't help and finally some medication started to help but they still watched me through the night, cause they wanted the contractions to subside before they sent me home. So I was able to go home the next morning on bed rest, and taking the medication they gave me. My lovely sister and mom came to help during this time. Through out the next 2 weeks I went to the hospital 4 or 5 more times to have the contractions stopped. I had a ton of different shots, medication doses bumped up and changed from scary side affects I was having. The Sunday before she was born they even gave me Morphine. HORRIBLE stuff! I was so sick and out of it for like 24 hours. Of course though, the contractions started up again. By this time too, I was having quite of bit of soreness where my incision was, and they were concerned about thin uterus. So after all the different treatments and doctors I saw while coming and going to the hospital. . . My doctor finally decided to deliver her on Tues Sept 6th, at 36 weeks and 2 days. She was delivered by C-section at 12:30 Pm. Weighing, 6 lbs 9 Ounces, 20 inches long. She was beautiful! With lots of dark hair. And of course I couldn't hold back the tears once I saw her. She was healthy and strong. The only thing that was not okay, was that she wasn't sucking/eating so they had to keep her in the hospital until she could do all that on her own. I was discharged that Sat, but had a room rented out to me so I could nurse her when she wanted to nurse. I would also travel back and forth with my sister, to go see Jace, who my mom was taking care of. And Joe at this time was at a PA school interview in New Mexico, so it was definitely crazy times. But in the end it was all worth it, to bring home our little girl that following Monday and she has done great with eating since she has been home. :) So that's Miss Cienna's birth story. We love you Cienna! We are so glad you are part of our family now. And that you made it to us safe and sound :)

Newborn Pics

Yesterday I took Cienna's newborn pics. I wanted to do it before she doesn't look like a newborn anymore and time is a flying past me. So here they are. Ps. I am really starting to love this photography stuff. It really is a lot of fun! I learn a little more every time :) And some are obviously better than others. I just felt like posting them all.

Cienna Came Home! Lots of Pictures!

Getting ready for surgery


She's here!


First time seeing her after surgery.

First time holding her
Jace seeing her for the first time. His first statement. . "Oh my gosh! She's so cute!" haha Just like his aunt Jessica.
One of her wonderful Nicu nurses

Daddy!

Her spot. She stayed there the whole week except sometimes when I would feed her they would bring her to my room but still hooked up.

My Best friend Karah came to visit. Love her!

Chillin with Aunt Jessica

Trying out the headband
More of her awesome nurses
Me and my girl the day before she got to come home.


Going home!
First time Jace held her
Kisses from brother
Don't know what Jace is doing in this one. lol

Grandma Stubbs

We are loving having our sweet baby girl home! However, there is a new stress. . . We discovered tonight that Jace is starting to get sick. . . Yeah I am super worried. Because he has been around her a lot and has given her lots of kisses. Time to bump up the sanitation and no more contact, while sick, from brother.

He is real

These last couple of days I have been able to feel and learn a lot. As I have watched my baby girl eat, I see her struggle to do her best to get the nourishment she needs and most the time has been unsuccessful in completing a feeding on her own. She is exhausted and has given her best effort and although unsuccessful only proudness wells in my heart at her progress and the effort she makes. I can see how hard she tries. And then the thought occurred to me that our Heavenly Father probably feels the same way when he sees us struggle and give our best and give all our energy but we usually end up falling short. His heart too probably beams with pride as he watches us do our best and give what we are able to give. And just like my baby girl is able to get the remaining nourishment that she needs, our Heavenly Father gave us the Savior to make up for what we can't do on our own, through the atonement.

I am so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father and for my Savior. This past week I have felt he is very near and aware of each of us. He loves me and loves Cienna and loves my little boy who is missing his mom but is being such a good patient little person, we have had to explain things to him and he has done really well in understanding, even when he is sad that his mom isn't around, or when I was on bedrest and couldn't do anything for him.

The Savior is real and he lives to comfort us in time of need. I couldnt do life without him

Cienna Silvia Walker

Cienna Silvia Walker was born on Tues Sept 6 at 36 weeks and 2 days. She weighed 6 lbs 9 oz, 20 inches long. She is in great health. She was born breathing great and all was well and healthy with her. However, she is not eating as often and regular as a full term new born would, she sleeps a lot. So she has a feeding tube and as of right now they are having to feed her through it every other feeding and I am feeding her the other feedings. She is doing great at nursing when she does nurse. So I am very proud of her. I am being released tomorrow, but she will most likely have to stay here in the hospital until she has the energy to eat every feeding on her own. And I will commute here to nurse her or stay here in the hospital on what they call "boarding" in the hospital until she can come home. I will post more on her and more pictures when I can. But for now we are loving our baby girl