3 Months

Yep, 3 months!

It's been another fun month full of changes.  Mollie progresses everyday.  She is soooo close to rolling over.  Once, I put her on her side and she went to her tummy then back to her back.  I know she will do it on her own though soon.  She loves to talk, and we love to hear her sweet little voice.  Sometimes it seems as if she almost yells at us when she wants our attention.  She loves to be sang to and read to.  She loves books that play music and sings along with the music.  She smiles all the time, it is so awesome!  She also has the cutest little dimple on her check.  She sleeps good too and has since she was born.  I think she inherited her father's ability to sleep, which I'm so grateful for.  She is just one awesome baby but of course I am bias.

And even better than all of the things listed above....she has the sweetest, most amazing Spirit.

Lorin had training the 1st through the 4th in Vegas so Mollie and I packed up and went to Flagstaff to stay with my sister for a couple days.  Lorin met us there Thursday night and we stayed until Saturday. On Friday we took a drive up to Snowbowl, with my sister and her two boys, to see the changing leaves on all the trees.  I always talk about how much I love Flagstaff but I love it more in the Fall.  It's so beautiful.  We had alot of fun taking pictures and enjoyong the weather but when we were finishing up and heading back to the car my nephew got stung by a bee and all heck broke lose.  He freaked his brother freaked and so did my sister.  I was too busy trying to keep Mollie covered and safe.  Lorin stayed calm (even though he got stung by a bee too) and helped out and luckily there was an ER nurse at the top of the trail to help out too.  Thankfully my nephew was not allergic and just had a sore hand.  But we still got some beautiful pictures.  

 

 

BEFORE the Bee sting

And of course here are Mollie's 3 month pics.

She wasn't happy with Rocky

2 Months

Seriously??

2 Months since this beautiful little girl joined our family and changed our lives.

At her 2 month check-up she weighed 9lbs 11oz and was 23 inches long.  She also got her first shots and was a trooper.  I know I cried more then her.

A lot of changes happened in the last month:

The biggest change was Lorin went back to work,  AND that same week Mollie caught a cold and Rocky also got sick.  Needless to say I had a rough week.  There was a lot of crying on my part.........but I made it.  =)

Mollie began smiling around 5 weeks and smiles all the time!  Lorin and I put her on the bed with us in the morning and talk to her and she will smile like crazy and coo at us.  It really melts my heart, we love it!  She has the sweetest little voice and I love to hear her "talk"

She has been a good sleeper from the start and continues to sleep well.  She loves to sleep on our chests and when given the chance will sleep there for hours.  I love to cuddle her....she is such a cuddle bug....and I take advantage if it.  When I need to get stuff done she will nap in her bassinet but sometimes I just sit and hold her for hours....

She is getting bigger everyday.  Her newborn clothes are getting too small (some of them, depends on the brand) so she is finally getting into her 0-3 month clothes.

She is so alert and always seems to be learning.  I read to her and sing to her all the time.  She loves to play in her bouncer, she always gets very excited when I put her in it.  She does great with her tummy time and holds her head up so good.  When she is on her back she rolls to her side.  She is progressing just as she should.

Mollie's Blessing

Mollie was blessed by her Dad on Sunday Sept 2nd.  It was a beautiful blessing.  Lorin did an amazing job and of course I cried all the way through it.  Another thing that was special about the day is she was blessed in her Great Grandpa Creamers baby dress which we figured is at least 110yrs old.

We had a ton of family that made it for her special day.  Lorin's sister was married the day before so all of his brothers and sisters were here (minus Kirk) and most of mine were here as well.  We enjoyed spending time with everyone and Mollie got to meet a lot of her Aunts, Uncles, and cousins.

Things got crazy and we didn't take any pictures with our families.....I could kick myself now.....but we did get the most important picture and that is of our little family.

(Also a special thank you to Aunt Von and Uncle Trent for the beautiful blessing bracelet.)

1 Month

I have a 1 month old!!

Where has the time gone?

It's crazy how much our lives have changed in a month.  But I wouldn't trade it for anything.  I've gone from being selfish and materialistic (that's what "dual income no kids" people do right??) to diapers, diaper bags, bottles, formula, 3:30 am feedings, spit up on, pooped on, and peed on at least once a week, showers once a month (just kidding, but it feels like it), coupon cutting, bargin shopping, and I LOVE every second of it.  Being a mother is so amazing.  It's made me realize what's really important in life, and that's Family.  Of course it hasn't been easy and trust me I've had have my days but it is so worth it.  And it helps that I have an amazing husband who has been with me every step of the way.  He even changed the first few poopy diapers......now THAT is love.

Little miss Mollie is growing bigger and stronger everyday.  We had her 1 month check up today, she weighs 8lbs 4oz, has grown 1 1/4 inches and is progressing just like she should.  By the second week we had her home she was already working on holding her head up.  By the third week I swear she was ready to stand, anytime she would get some footing she would try.  She loves to chill with Lorin and I, after a full belly of course, and just study and stare at us and our surroundings.  Since birth she has been very alert and always seems to be thinking and learning.  She HATES her diaper being changed, getting dressed, taking baths, getting lotion put on AND heaven forbid you take your time to feed her.  She gulps her bottles down so fast and gets so mad when you stop to burp her because she wants to keep eating!!  She is starting to smile and get excited about things and will let out her little voice here and there.  It's so amazing to see her change and grow daily.  I'm excited for her to get older but want her to stay like this at the same time.

Here are her 1 month pics.....

Labor and Delivery

I know people love to hear the story about the how, what, when, and where.

Here is my story.

Labor and delivery was not as bad as I was anticipating (at least for me).  Especially since when I got to the Hospital there were two women that delivered babies within about 15 min of each other and they were both screaming their heads off.......Im not even exaggerating.  It was total Hollywood Movie screaming their heads off.  I looked at Lorin and started crying and told him "I can't do this!"  He held my hand and said "yes you can!"

When I got the hospital at 6pm Thursday I had already been having contractions consistently since around noon.  They checked me and I was only dilated to a 2 and about 70% effaced.  They admitted me to a room after a couple hours and the Dr wanted to start me on pitocin to get my contractions going.  I told them I wanted to wait and walk around the hospital.  They let me go out and walk for and hr and then they wanted to start pitocin.  So I walked.....and walked.... and came back to the room and started the pitocin.  Long story short, after an hr of walking, 4 1/2 hrs of pitocin and now being about 14 1/2 hrs into labor they checked me and I had only dilated from a 2 to a 4.

I told Lorin I couldn't do this all night.

I was so exhausted and after all of that I still wasn't making much progress.  So after talking crying to Lorin, my mom and the nurse I finally decided to get an epidural.  I had planned to have a natural birth....no epidural....but I couldn't do it anymore, and I felt like such a failure.  Not that I was trying to prove anything to anyone....I wanted to do it for me, and I think if I had made more progress it would have inspired me to keep going, but only being a 4, after all of that....no way.  So I felt like a failure and was really upset about it.  (I don't feel that way now, I know I made the right decision for me!)  

By 3:30am I had gotten the epidural and it had taken effect so I went to sleep.  The nurse would come in every hour and help me turn from side to side but other then that I slept like a champ.  About 7:30am the nurse checked me to see what kind of progress I had made.  I was now dilated to a 6 and my water had broke.  By this time I could feel the contractions I just couldn't feel the pain.  The nurse said since my water had broke it wouldn't be much longer so she started prepping the room.  Around 8:20am I started feeling really sick and started dry heaving.  At the same time I started feeling a lot of pressure "down there".  So I finished dry heaving and told the nurse I was feeling the pressure, she checked me and said "yep, there's the baby..." so she had me do a couple pushes while we waited for my Dr.  My Dr came in and I started pushing about 8:45am and Mollie was born at 9:04am.

It was the most unbelievable experience of my life.  As she was coming out my Dr told me to look down and there was her head, I watched her come out, then I heard that amazing little cry and I started bawling.  I could barely see her through all of my tears.  They put her on my chest for a min then Lorin got to cut her cord.  One scary thing to note is that the cord was wrapped around her neck twice.....but thankfully she was ok.  The nurses took her and did all that stuff that they do then brought her back to us.

9 months of waiting for this beautiful baby and now she is here.  Lorin and I are so in love with her.  She is absolutely perfect!!

The Nursery

I meant to do this post a long time ago but time just got away from me.

Here are the before pics of Mollie's nursery.

 

and here is the finished product.......

She is Here!

MOLLIE LOUISE LARSON

07-13-2012

6 LBS 20 INCHES

100% PERFECTION