Walk Around the Park

Yesterday was Navie's first trip to the park. The weather was wonderful! Fall is my favorite time of the year. I can't wait for the weather to get cooler so I can wear a sweat shirt : ) Walking around the park gave me a chance to get out and get some exercise. It probably didn't do much considering I stopped at the grocery store and bought some ice cream on the way home : ) Navie handled it pretty well. We even had time to take some pictures. She did get a little fussy but I think that she was trying to go to the bathroom : ). I really enjoy doing things with her. She is starting to react to us now. She still doesn't smile on her own yet but you can tell that she is trying. Hopefully in the next week or two she will be able to. I can't wait to have her look up at me and smile. She melts my heart already : )

Good Night

I just wanted to share a little something with everyone really quick. I think that you might like this one Uncle Sam : ) Its 5:18 am and I just got Navie back to sleep after being up for just over an hour. The trick was playing the Lullaby version of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven. How cute is that!?! That with a little bit of rocking put her right back to sleep. Rocking helps but not all the time. The key was Zeppelin : ). Well, I'm going back to bed now. I just thought that was cute and wanted to share it with everyone.

Big Blessings

Today was a special day for our family; Cris blessed Navie at church. Of course as a mom I was all teary eyed during the blessing. I can't even begin to describe the joy and comfort it is knowing that our family is forever and that I have a wonderful husband who holds the priesthood. There is nothing else in this world that can compare.

We had a lot of family there and took up two full pews at church! We only stayed for sacrament meeting and then we all went back to our apartment for a small lunch. It was fun having everyone here : ). Navie looked so cute in her dress too. Grandma Chick made it for her and it was perfect! I don't think that I could have found a prettier dress in the stores anywhere if I tried. Navie is so small that the smallest size in the pattern was too big and Susie had to make her own pattern and had to sew several parts by hand because it was too small even for the machine : ).

Navie has her next doctors appointment on the 3rd. I have a felling that she is now at least 7 lbs. I stepped on the scale in the bathroom holding her after I weighed myself and there was a 7 1/2 lbs. difference. We will see how everything goes and keep everyone informed after the appointment.

Swinging Good Time!!!

Today was Navie's first time in her swing. I'm so happy that she will take to it! Her personality is so much like me when I was a baby...... she has to be held all the time! After holding her all day my back really starts to hurt and she doesn't even weigh much. This swing is saving me! When I turned it off she started fussing again so I turned it back on and she fell right to sleep : ). I still have to keep and eye on her though because she is so small, the swing picks up speed and starts to go a little fast. I hope that she continues to like it that way I can get a lot of things done around the house. Navie is getting blessed this Sunday and our apartment is a wreck (I'm still learning time management with a little one in the house, plus holding her all the time makes doing things one handed a little hard). We will have roughly 15 people in our little living room so this will be interesting : ). I can't wait though. Family is everything to us so this really means a lot that there are so many people who want to be there for us and Navie.

Num Nums

Cris just keeps blowing me away. Not only does he do great at work, is a great father, but now he is showing another side of himself...... a great cook! I always knew that he could cook but wow, was this turkey good!!! He cooked everything and made homemade gravy from the drippings and everything. Usually we just use the mix gravy because its fast and easy. It took about 3 hours to cook the 13 lbs turkey but boy was it worth it. If he keeps this up I just might make him cook more often : ).


Of course I couldn't make a post without putting on a picture of Navie. Isn't she so cute.....then again I'm a little biased : ).

Kool Chick

This has to be one of the coolest things that I have ever seen! It is a blanket that attaches to the car seat. This way in the winter Navie can stay covered and the blanket will never fall off. It has slits cut in it where the straps and buckle slip through. Then the extra fabric folds over and keeps her warm! Navie is modeling where she would go if it was in the car seat. It makes her look so small. I would go ahead and but it on the car seat but I don't exactly know how to remove and readjust the straps yet. At least this give the general idea of what it looks like. It is so cute. It has these little chicks on it wearing sun glasses and has "kool chick" written in the background. I love it and can't wait to use it for real.

By the way......... I have lost a total of 24 pounds! 20 lbs of that was from delivering Navie and the other 4 lbs. I lost on my own! Yes, I still have a lot of weight to lose but you have to start somewhere and celebrate the little achievements : ).

New Navie Pictures

I don't know how to get all the new pictures we took on the photo link that Cris has set up so for now I'll post a few of the cute ones. I'll Cris add all the pictures later and put the link on the right hand side of the blog so it will be easy to find all the time.

Snug as a bug in a rug......well at least a soft fleece blankey : )

Out like a light.......Down for the count.......whatever you want to call it she's not waking up : ).

Last night was a lot of fun. Craig, Sharla, and their two kids Heather and Will came over to see Navie for the first time. Craig is Cris' older brother for those who don't know : ). Cris' parents and little brother Corey also came over and we made it a family get together. Craig and Sharla brought ice cream and a very delicious chocolate sauce that Craig made. Boy was it good!!!!


This is Heather and Navie. Heather was so good with her. She was very gentle. Will was to busy having fun playing with the box that our new printer came in : ).

Cute Little Belly Button

Navie is growing up so fast.....today her umbilical cord fell off! We opened up her diaper and there it was, a cute little belly button. We still have to wait a little to see if she will have an inny or an outty : ).

I'm doing pretty good too. I haven't had to take any pain medication for last 3 days but today Cris was mean......he was making me laugh so hard that it hurt : ). I did take some ibuprofen today to help with that. Other than that all is going well. I have removed all the tape off my incision. Boy was that a chore! It really wasn't too bad but the idea of what I was doing made me sick to my stomach so it took longer than it should have. I have my 2 week follow up appointment on Tuesday (wow! Its been 2 weeks already) and the doctor will tell me how my incision is healing. I think its healing well but I do have pain every now and then along it and some areas are still red. I let everyone know how it goes on Tuesday : )

Navie's First Doctor's Appointment

Navie had her first doctors appointment today. It went perfectly. She has grown 1/4 of an inch and is now 19 3/4 inches long. She is nursing well because she is now back to her birth weight. She even weighs and an once more at 6 lbs. 6 oz. : ) She has another appointment in 3 weeks (the 1 month old check up). They want to make sure that she continues to gain weight the way she has.

Boy is she a sleeper!!!! She literally sleeps all day! I even have to wake her up to nurse which isn't as easy as it sounds. She sleeps like a rock : ) She is up several times in the middle of the night but it isn't too bad. I have to do most of it because I want Cris to get as much sleep as he can. Since he drives for FedEx I don't want him to be drowsy. He keeps insisting on helping but since I seem to wake up before Navie starts to cry I kinda get there first : ). My mother's intuition gets me up so Cris most of the time doesn't know : ). Cris has been such a great help. I couldn't have asked for a better husband. It was hard at first getting out of bed because of my C-Section and Cris was right there to get Navie and comfort her until I could get up. Its still hard to do things around the house but I'm getting a lot better. I can even sleep on my side now (with a pillow under my side to help support my leftover belly : ) ). I have lost 20 lbs since before Navie was born. Most of that was from the birth. I can't really do to much right to loose more weight because of my C-Section but as soon as I can I want to get the weight off. Wish me luck : )

All the Pictures you could ever eat...i mean look at!!!!!

Here you go everyone! Since it would be too difficult and time-consuming to put all the Navie pix on the blog you may go see them for yourself

HERE

enjoy and feel free to check it as we will update all new pix here.

thanks!

Navie is here!!!!

Well everyone, i'll apologize in advance if this isn't grammatically correct. I'm in a little hurry. We went in yesterday at 7:00 am for a biophysical profile sonogram. they said everything was normal, but navie had flipped into a breech position. this worried us a little bit, but not too, much thinking they were going to just have her wait a little to see if she would turn. so at 8:45 we head to mcdonalds to get brooke something to eat, when lo and behold, the doctor's office calls saying that we need to come in immediately and brooke's not to eat anything because she will have an urgent c-section. needless to say this upset us greatly. brooke was totally frightened and worried. we get to the office and they say that she wasn't dilated at all, and the cervix didn't drop and since she was breech they needed to go in right away. we get to the hospital at around 10:15, get prepped and shuffled off to the OR. Navie was born at 11:15 am. She was 6 lbs. 5 oz. 191/2 inches long. she's doing great, having a little trouble feeding, but what do you expect? she was forcefully extracted from her cozy warm house. :) she's cute as a button too, the little pumpkinhead. thank you for all your prayers and support. we very much appreciate it. more updates to follow, but for now, i have to run back to the hospital. ~~~Cris