Dezi's birthday

Dezi is 9 years old now. She hasnt been feeling very good this week so she missed a couple days of school. she is feeling better now just in time for halloween. She got some good stuff. My sister made her cake for me. Really nice of her since im still recovering from having Makenzi. Blowing out the candles

all the kids have done really well adjusting to a new little sister. they all love her and want to hold her. even Carter is gentle with her. I was really worried about him being rough. He is really loud and wakes her up a lot and that will be hard as she gets older and doesnt sleep as good as she does now.

Dez loves her but wants her to be her baby doll that she can take and do whatever she wants with. Then she realizes that she cries and moves too much to take anywhere. So she barely has the patience to feed her a 2oz bottle.

Sim is really funny. He doesnt seem to care much about her. He is to busy doing boy stuff. But if I ask him for help he always helps me.

Makenzi's Firsts

Makenzi had her first dr appointments and bath. Everytime I take a picture of her she makes a funny face like this one. She is so tiny and it makes her look really big and chunky. I think she is my skinniest baby. Her arms and legs are so small. She doesnt have any rolls until she makes her funny face, then she has a double chin.

I took her to her 2 week appt yesterday and she weighs 7lbs 11oz. and has grown a 1/2 inch. She will be a big chunk before I know it. She already looks different. I dont like how fast newborns grow. It is my favorite stage and it doesnt last as long as I would like. Her hair is still very red but the pictures dont show it very well.

This is right after her first bath at home. She did not like any part of it. She screamed like this almost the whole time. Luckily she likes baths now but she doesnt like to be dressed or have her diaper changed. She is sleeping pretty good. she is going about 3 hrs at night sometimes 4. If I let her sleep on me she will sleep even longer but then i wake up with my back or neck hurting really bad cause I didnt move for hours. I really cant get enough of her. I hold her all the time. I have a feeling she is going to be very spoiled and ill be the one to blame for not putting her down.

This was at her first appointment when she was 2 days old. She had lost almost a half pound. But has gained it all back plus more now.

Makenzi Jet Rucker is here!!

Makenzi Jet Rucker is here. She came 11 days early just like her brother Simeon. She's 7lbs, 2oz. 20 in long. Born at 9:02 am Tuesday October 12Th. She is so beautiful with red hair and chubby cheeks. This picture shows her red hair best. She is only minutes old here.

I don't know how this got into the middle of the pictures. But we were on our way home.

Here is me and Makenzi right after they gave her to me after she was born. I was going to edit the picture of me and make me look better. But then I thought I worked hard for her to get here and this is what I really look like after Having a baby. No make up and all.

There will be plenty more pics to come. As I feel better and after she gets her first bath at home we will be taking lots of pictures.

Now for the story...... Monday night when we were going to bed i was getting some good contractions which is not abnormal at all for me. So I just ignored them and went to bed. They woke me about 12am but they did this a week ago. so istill ignored them and went to sleep. Then about 1245am they kicked it up a notch. So i thought alright ill get up and walk around for a bit. so i did for an hr and they were getting worse and were now 5-6 min apart so i woke Scott and we got all our stuff together and put the kids in the car. we left for the hospital around 3ish. Betty my mother in law met us there and took the kids home. So at this point my contractions are still bearable, I'm joking with the nurses, laughing at the mean lady ahead of me getting mad at the nurses cause she was in pain and i guess they were asking too many questions. But i still made it very clear that i want my epidural as soon as i can cause i know whats to come. So the nurse in triage checked me and said i was a good 5 with a bulging bag of water. So yay great news, they are keeping me. They get me in my room and i got a contraction that was like WOW OUCH as the epidural lady walks in.......awe the best ever. She gave me an awesome epidural. almost too good cause i was very very numb. I couldn't feel a thing and slept on and off for the next hour or so. But like always i get to a 6-7 and they slow way down till my water gets broken. so unfortunately it didn't get broke for 2-3 more hours. so i just sat there. finally its time for the Dr to come. he broke my water and 20 min later i was a 10. but now the Dr is gone. so i had to try and hold baby in for 10 min while he got there. it was soooo miserable!!! so he came in i pushed a couple times and baby was facing the wrong way so i had to quit pushing and he turned her the right way and pulled her out. 9:02 she was here. every baby we have is as special as the

first. we feel blessed and were very thankful shes healthy and here. we have been enjoying every minute of her here in our arms.

Date night & False Alarm!

Scott and I went out last weekend. We figured we better try to get in 1 last date before it will be awhile after baby comes. Since i havent been feeling real great lately I told him it has to be now I dont know if i will feel like it next weekend. Which I am very glad we went out cause I am very tired and the last thing i want to do right now is get all fixed up and try and be in a good mood. Here is our last picture together of me presentable and pregnant. Dont look at the picture to closely ha ha. The end of pregnancy is not the best a woman can look.......

I had a Dr. appointment on Monday and the Dr. checked me and I had no change from the week before. So I was a little disappointed but none of my other kids had been born this early so I got over it. Later that night I went to bed and woke up with horrible pains around 1am. So I thought well maybe.... but decided to try and go back to sleep and not get to excited. But they just kept coming and coming and I couldn't sleep cause i just wanted to curl up and cry with each contraction. Over the next couple hours they got a little closer together about 10-13 min apart but they weren't getting any more intense. So I sat up an watched some TV cause i couldn't sleep. I had not woken Scott up because I have a history with my other kids to go into labor early early morning like this and then it quits when the sun comes up. So that's exactly what happened right about 6am they had almost completely stopped and were coming every 30 min for the next hour then nothing at all!!! So I called my doctors office to see what they wanted me to do because with Sim I went to the L&D and my doctor got me started and I had Sim very quickly after that. So they told me to go get checked and see what was going on. Scott met me there and they monitored me and the baby and I got maybe 5 contractions in a hour and a half. But I had dilated to a 2 that night with the contractions I had for 5 hours. Not a good day.... They sent me home and told me they wouldn't be able to do anything for me since i wasn't in labor anymore and they were behind on inductions and if my doctor were to help me along in any way it would be considered inducing. So we were sad. I got a real awakening of how contractions feel again and that was only for 2 cm. So now I'm scared of the pain, since getting a taste of it. Scott and I went home and I went straight to bed for a couple hours then was up long enough to eat dinner and was back in bed again sleeping. I slept better than i have in months waking up only 1 time and having no contractions. But here I am 2 days later still pregnant. The doctor and nurse said they didn't think I was going to go very much longer with how soft my cervix was and already going into labor. But I guess only time will tell. Its not looking like baby will make it before my doctor leaves out of town on the 9Th. If I'm still pregnant on Wednesday of next week that will be the longest i have ever been pregnant. Also baby is measuring normal now. The same as Sim and Dez did. So that's a relief knowing she wont be super tiny like we all thought.