baby o baby!!!

i didn't get much sleep last night. surprise surprise! we got up this morning and had to pretty much leave for the hospital to get a big fat needle poked in me! the sheer thought of what was going to happen was far worse then the actual procedure. i worked up a sweat and like my dr said...i wouldn't feel a thing. she was right. after the test i was hooked up to a monitor to see if everything was still great with the baby. we then had to play the waiting game for awhile. we got the green light to go forth with the delivery.
we had a long walk to the birth area of the hospital. i got settled into the room and was hooked up to a pitocin drip. this was about 12:00 in the afternoon. during this i was experiencing contractions but nothing that i couldn't handle. nothing really was happening and it was already 7:00 at night. my dr. came to see what was going on and we decided that the pitocin be stopped and i could rest for the night so that i could have the strength for the next day...when hopefully we would have another baby.
friday morning i started the petocin at 6:00. i continued to have strong and regular contractions but no progress. then at 12:00 my water was broken. this would hopefully get things moving in the right direction. i was experiencing very strong contractions so at about 3:00 i had an epidural. still though at 7:00 at night i was nearly 3cm. my goodness...how much more petocin could i handle? the dr. gave me a choice to either continue with the petocin or have another c-section. i was at the point that i could no longer think about having more petocin in me (my ankles were cankles at this point and swollen tight) and maybe i didn't have the right kind of body to deliver babies. who knows?
so at 7:20 pm Claire Elizabeth Johnson was born. this time around there was not as much pain and was a better experience for me. she was 6lbs. 4 oz. and 20" long. like her sister, claire had lots of hair too! my intuition was wrong! randy said "i told you so" as he had always thought that we were having another girl.
the one cool thing about having a c-section is that in about 20 minutes you are guarenteed a baby if everything goes well. we got to see lauren before we had claire. then while i was in the operating room...lauren was eating dinner. then after, when lauren came back, voila she had a sister. she was so proud of her little sister and i will never forget the look of adoration in her eyes when she saw claire for the first time! oh how proud i am to be the mom of two great little girls!

i yi yi!

at our appointment this week we have decided that it would be wise to try to deliver two weeks early in hopes for a bit of a smaller baby (not too small though) so that i wouldn't put stress on my body which could result in rupturing parts. because of our decision i will have to under go an amniocentesis test to measure lung development in the baby. this is the only real scary part that i am worried about. sticking a needle into my belly. oh goodness! we will have this test done on thursday morning and if all is well with the baby we will go forward with getting induced that afternoon.

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goodness how big can a preggo person be? well i feel like i have surpassed the size that i was when i was pregnant with lauren. my maternity clothing doesn't even cut it anymore. shirts do not cover where they are suppose to. that poses a problem if i am to go out at all! yikes! i am starting to get really uncomfortable too! muscles are stretching in places where they shouldn't and as my dr. has said...those pains will only get worse! not the best news. so in other words....i am ready to have this baby. we are shooting for having a vbac. i didn't have the best experience with lauren and delivering via c-section. there was pain during the procedure and the recovery was one that i would like to forget. the more people that i talk to the more i am convinced that i want to go forward and try to deliver the "normal" way! time will tell if this is possible.

Happy Birthday B

how fast does a year go? in the eyes of parents~very quickly! it is my little god daughter's first bday. brooklyn is such a little sweetie...who by the way is walking ... i mean running all over. she has a great little personality and is full of so much joy! happy birthday 1st brooklyn!

Introducing....

...Darling Daisy

This has been a work in progress for about a year now. I have finally set out into something that I have wanted to do for awhile now. So along with a lot of persuasion and support from family and friends (you know who you are) and help from family...I can now proudly say that I am my own boss!! Yeah!

Although the timing is not ideal...I am the worse procrastinator...right now I am having a lot of fun making items to sell. I am also having a great time with sending out orders too! I just hope that the baby will hold off for a couple of more weeks so that I can continue to sew new stuff to put into the shop.

So please go ahead and check out the shop using the above link to my website. I would love to have feedback, comments, or an order! Just kidding! Happy looking!

Family of Three

I have been wanting a family photo shoot for awhile now. Since our family will be expanding I wanted to capture our family before the little one arrived and also to get some shots of just Randy and I together...that doesn't happen very often. We hired my sister's talents to come and help us out...and I think that their are some very good shots and we had great fun...can't you tell from the last photo...randy may have gotten a little "too" into it!