Our Early Christmas Gift from Above

We are excited to announce - Abigail Ruth Street arriving 6 weeks early on November 28, 2009 at 2:28 pm. She weighed 4 lbs 2 oz and is 16 & 1/2 inches long.I was concerned about the way she was moving/not moving and decided to come and get it checked out. The placenta wasn't giving her the oxygen or food she needed so the umbilical cord was trying so hard to compensate that it had almost shut itself down overworking. Abby was delivered by emergency c-section just hours after I got to the hospital. She is in the NeoNatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) being very well taken care of. She has been breathing on her own since she was delivered (just needed a little help at the beginning). Her biggest battle is her glucose levels right now. They just won't stay up where they need to be. But she is starting to eat - the nurse last night said, "she didn't love the last bottle we gave her, but she ate about half." I thought that was a funny way to describe it.

They tell you to expect your baby to be in the NICU until their due date (Jan 7), but we sure hope she can come home earlier, but of course want her to get the biggest and strongest with the best care at the hospital!!

The kids are so excited. They can't come in and see her - so they are stuck with pictures and videos and our stories. But they are excited none the less.I think Barry and I are still in shock. I am sure glad he made it home from school. I had a dream before he left that I had the baby while he was gone. And I have to tell you - that little Abby looks just like she did in my dream. I am so grateful to Heavenly Father for helping me (and Barry) to know when to get to the hospital, for allowing Barry to be home, for good family and friends to pray for us and take care of us and for the safe arrival of Abigail Ruth Street. You are our gift from above and we love you already sweet girl.

Bumped Heads and Homemade Jam

Jacob had a birthday party on Saturday night. He was having so much fun and his friend made him laugh really hard, he threw his head back and then just kept on going right off a bench. He has the biggest goose egg I have ever seen !!! I tried to take some pictures, but it does NOT do it justice. Luckily, he is OK. It is hard to see, but right there in the middle of the back of his head, right on the edge of his head where it is sticking out - BIG. I almost didn't make it myself. You may know that moment, you get a call on your cell phone from the kids parents and you think, what is wrong?! Thankfully Jacob has a really hard head, just like his dad (barry said it, not me!!)

Nana is HERE!! We are loving having nana here. We kept her busy yesterday, Christmas shopping and making batch after batch of homemade jam. I kept her so busy she didn't have time for any pictures, yet!! When Jacob got home from school everyone had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches - look at these HAPPY faces!!

Miscellaneous pictures

Miss Ella Bella on her way to take the kids to school. Lots of times we have to wake her up to go. So she has to have blanket and hoo-hoo (Her monkey)

Jacob is playing soccer again this year. He likes it, but isn't having as much fun as last year. He is thinking he might want to try baseball next year.

Jacob's school did a fundraiser. If you sold so many cookie doughs you got a ride in a limo to lunch at McDonalds. So thanks to our nice family and friends, Jacob sold enough and got to go. It is a little hard to see him in this picture - he is in the light blue shirt behind the pillar in the back.

Here is the limo. Neither Barry or I have ever been in a limo. He LOVED it. Said they had a lazer light show and all kinds of stuff in there.

The kids and I made a paperchain to count down the days Barry is gone. We color coded it so we know the couple days he gets to come home, when Nana is coming and when Grammy is coming. They love ripping off a link each day. It is much too long in my opinion.

Madelyn's First Day of School

Here is the princess Madelyn headed off to the first day of preschool. Got the good attitude going and all.This was the second day (but actually the first where they stayed by themselves) Aren't her and Ella cute. Holding hands and all.

Daddy and the girls on the steps of the school. (LOVE and MISS you B!)
In her classroom. Madelyn LOVES school as well. Every paper she brings home she calls homework and is quite excited to bring it home to us. She is making some good friends and has fun fun fun!!

She already is checking out what others look like and wear. She wanted me to do her hair like another girl in her class one day. She grabbed two chunks of hair and said she had two ponytails. So I put in two ponytails and she freaked out and said it wasn't right. So I finally came up with something that passed her inspection. Barry took her to school that day and I told him - you find out who that girl is and check out her hair. So he tells me when he comes home - she has LONG, STRAIGHT, RED hair. Hmmmmm.....Madelyn LOVES Little Mermaid - no wonder she loves this girls hair. Barry and I have been telling her - just have Madelyn hair - you don't have to look like anyone else. So one day she tells me, I want to have unicorn hair. OK!! Is she going to be fun as a teenager or WHAT?!

Jacob's first day of school & 6th Birthday

Yup, it's catch up time. It isn't that I have any more time on my hands with Barry gone (less actually), but I feel like I have to stay busy or go absolutely MAD! So, catch up time it is!

Jacob's first day of school!

Welcome to full-day kindergarten. He has a sweet teacher and seems to really be enjoying himself. He is learning lots and loves everything they do and learn. He especially loves science. I can't believe all they do for kindergarten.

Here is the big SIX year old boy!

Grandpa Street made a great electric train table and brought it for Jacob's birthday. Jacob had a great time being an engineer all day long - his dream come true! He got to drive Thomas and Gordon all over (sometimes a little crazy too!!)

Here is the GREEN Birthday cake (we made Greg's pistachio cake recipe)

Seriously, isn't he handsome!Face in the cake - only allowed on your birthday.

The MOM'S are coming! The MOM'S are coming!!

Barry left this morning for his 6 week school. To say I am a wreck would be an understatement. Why can't I just get it together?! And when will I stop crying at the drop of a hat? The kids are doing great, thankfully. We actually made it to church only a couple minutes late. I sat there in sacrament thinking, I made it, I am doing this, we are all dressed and looking nice and I am not crying. I actually made it the whole church without shedding a tear. Then it was time to go, when Barry usually picks us up (he has to run home early to get ready for work) and I lost it. I am trying to stumble out the door with the three kids in tow and not let anyone see my face. It is the overwhelming fact of how long six weeks is. Now I know others who leave for much longer (thank you military people), I don't know how they do it. I am hoping that most of this craziness is from being pregnant and a little kookie to begin with!

Now, some good news. The MOM'S are coming. Both my and Barry's mom have generously offered to come for a few days to help take care of me, oh, I mean the kids. THANKS MOM'S! The kids are so excited to spend time with their grandma's! They are counting the days till you get here.

I love and miss you B!

Think PINK & 6 weeks is a LONG time

I don't think I even told my whole family - WE ARE HAVING A GIRL!!

I talked to Jacob the day before we found out and said, Now it might be a girl what would you do? He said, I'd go like this. And he crossed his arms and did a big mad grunt. When we told him, he was a little disappointed, but got over it quickly and told me he was just kidding and would love her. It was very cute!

Since then Jacob has been obsessing over names. He will list off all the names he can think of and ask me, what do you think? Is that a good one? Then he said to me the other day, what about a middle name? I said, I don't know. We haven't even thought of that. He said - it is HARD to name a baby. It was funny!

A long six weeks......
So this coming weekend, my dear husband is leaving us! Yep, you read right. He is going to a school for his work for 6 weeks. Why else would he leave a crazy 6 month pregnant woman by herself with 3 kids 6 and under? Wait, when I read that - maybe he WANTS to go?! hmmmm All I have to say is, I hope we all survive. Housekeeping please.......

We have some cute pictures that I will try and get posted soon.