Its been a month?!!

I so can not believe it has been a month!! Time is flying!!

Here are some pictures of our last month!

Madilyn Alayna

I ALWAYS forget to download the pictures backwards so that they show up in the correct order on the post! Oh well! I'm way too tired to fix that right now!!! (Start at the bottom :))

Anyways! Meet our little girl!!

Lainey!

Cate meeting her little sis Lainey

This part was sooo fun!

Cate is slowly, very slowly adjusting to this new little person in our home! She loves her little sister and is so motherly to her but I can tell its pretty hard for her at the same time.

This baby is so sweet! She is calm, content and happy. Just like Cate she has a beautiful strong spirit. She loves her mama and loves to cuddle me. She is a great eater and has been since the second she tried! She looks a lot like Cate but at the same time looks a lot like Matt and thats funny because Cate looks like me.

Isn't she gorgeous!

I skipped posting any labor or delivery pictures....you would NOT want to see those!! They started my pitocin and broke my water at 7am so Labor was about 8.5 hours long. I was only in Labor with Cate for 5.5 hours so I was expecting less with this one! Oh well! I didn't pass out this time!! Yay! This is crazy but this Labor was such an awesome experience. I loved every minute of it! (Hmmm maybe not those last 10 minutes!!!) And I KNOW that its all because of the people I had with me! Matt was perfect. He rubbed my feet, rocked back and forth with me for hours, rubbed my back and was very gentle and sweet even when I got grouchy with him! My mom was there, she's a pro at this stuff, she's been thru it 9 times so she was VERY helpful! Especially when Matt or I weren't quite sure what to do-she knew. I'm glad Lauren was there too. She made sure the WHOLE time that things that were happening I wanted to happen and she made sure I was comfortable. I'm grateful she was there to do that! Oh she also snuck some video footage!! Hahah its not allowed at my hospital but she did it!! Breanne ended up coming too! She was awesome because she took lots of pics and some video too. I also had amazing nurses. One especially was just awesome! I am so thankful for her! I wouldn't have been able to do it the way I did with out her I don't think. She was very compassionate, calm, supportive and she knows her job very very well. I really couldn't have asked for anything better! The whole thing was perfect and beautiful and I got a perfect, beautiful little baby too!

Here is Madilyn with Daddy we all think she looks a lot like him.

So, Wed Feb 16th I went in for my normal weekly check up and blood pressure was up, I had a little protein in my urine and baby was still measuring 36 weeks (this normally probably wouldn't be scary but since Cate stopped growing at about 35-36wks and could have been really sick or died if she wasn't induced, I was nervous this little girl was in the same boat!) so Dr. Lunt decided it was best to get induced. I was really disappointed. I soooo wanted to experience going into Labor on my own! BUT I also wanted my baby to be safe. The induction was scheduled for the next day!!

We're getting ready!

Tomorrow I will be 34 weeks! I seriously CAN NOT believe how fast this pregnancy has flown by!

I remember being pregnant with Cate and going back and forth between feeling very overly ready to have her out of there and feeling not ready and scared and wishing she could stay inside a while longer!! But mostly I just wanted pregnancy to be over!!

Baby 2 is so different.

I'm loving every single minute of this pregnancy!

And this time its not because I'm scared and feel nervous (cause I can't wait to hold and squeeze and kiss this little girl!) Its because it feels so.....special &/or sacred (is that crazy?!). Those might not be the best words to describe my feelings but I don't think I could describe it in words.

Right now I'm really wishing time would just slow down a little

It might also have a little to do with her...

I think every pregnant mama with baby #2 feels the same way!!!

Crazy Girl!

Cate is so crazy! Look at her go! She did this all on her own and does it all of the time!!

CoOkIeS!

GG (Great Gramma Hawke) invited us up to decorate some yummy Christmas Cookies!!

They were soooo Yummy and soooo Pretty!

Avrie

Devyn

And Cate she, of course, couldn't stand it and just HAD to eat the yumminess!

Christmas Time!!

Hahaha, well, these pictures are all loaded backwards! I'm way too tired to fix it though!!

We had Christmas with our family in Las Vegas this year! It was so much fun!

Here is Cate with her beautiful Gramma Winder :)

Cate LOVED her uncle Mason and Braden pushing her around in her brand new car!

Matts fav part was flying this:

with his brother Braden

Our Christmas morning fun!!

I HAD to post this picture! Cate is obsessed with "Cany" and "Gum"

Besides the car Christmas morning, this was her favorite part of the whole thing...Candy!

Christmas Eve Play Time!

Cate was so amused by Grampa's Guitar!

She loved watching him play and listening to him sing!

Christmas was so fun this year! We actually had a few between Vegas, Toquerville and then our own little family thing at home!! We are so blessed :)

I can't wait till next year!! Cate will be 2 1/2 and little baby #2 will be 9 months old!!! I can't even imagine!!

18 Months

I still can't believe Cate has gone from this....

1 Day

6 Months

1 Year

To this!

18 Months

Weight 18.12 lbs 0%

Lenght 31.5 lbs 45%

Head 18 in 28%

NuRsErY!

Can you believe she is in Nursery!!

Cate made this "big change" so easy for us!! I was super nervous it was going to be a heartbreaking moment and it turned out perfectly fine!!

She's such a good girl!!

Look how big she looks!

Baby Names

Lainey ______

or

Makenna Morgan

(We would call her Kenna)

I'm also trying to talk Matt in to Avenue

We need ideas for a middle name for Lainey too, if thats what we choose. We like Love (I read a blog and one of her daughters name is Lainey Love), but that might just be too silly or Jayne or Beth or Morgan!! We still aren't dead set on any of these names so any other suggestions would be great!