Delivery

I got in my room around 10:30 Sat night, Adrian went home for a little bit to pack our stuff and get the babysitters situated. I was having contractions every 3-4 minutes and my Dr. prescribed me a little pain killer to make me a little sleepy plus it took the edge off of my contractions enough for me to hold off on the epidural. We had a long sleepless night and about 6:00am I got my epidural. The entire time I was in the hospital the baby's heart beat was on the low side of what it was suppose to be and the last few hours it dropped below where it was suppose to be, so they had to hook the heart monitor on the top of her head inside of me (which left a pretty good bruise on her head). My Blood pressure dropped pretty low, so I had to have oxygen (which drove me nuts!)

While I was pushing, I think Adrian sensed something and backed away and told the Dr, that he would just watch (normally Adrian is in on the action and helps deliver the baby). Sure enough the nurses were telling me to push and my Dr told me to stop pushing and to slow down.

The cord ended up being wrapped around her neck 2 times, but my awesome doctor that we absolutely love, quickly fixed the problem, and all was well!
I did get sick with this one and was throwing up and very week the rest of the day. I could barely hold Bella because of it until that evening.

The boys came that evening to see their new baby sister and me!




They sure love giving her kisses and squeezes! It was a great Mother's day, one I will never forget!

Labor

My due date was May 11 and on Friday, May 7, I was barely dilated to a 2. We didn't know what to think because with Cal I was dilated at a 3 a month before he was due, and I went into labor on his due date. With Cade I wasn't dilating at all and I went into labor 2 weeks early.

All we knew is we were ready to have this baby. I started going on walks a few days before, "A" a foreign exchange student at our church came over and cooked us Spicy Thai food Thurs. night, and Sat night we decided to go out, we had one of the girls from our church come and babysit and we headed out for dinner. We went out and got wings for dinner, spicy of course, and while we were there I had a couple of contractions, which was exciting, after dinner we decided we had to going walking, not just anywhere, we had to go to a STORE. (Cal my water broke at Target, Cade my water broke at Costco). We went to Target and started walking around, both of us were thinking this is a waste of time, like if my water is going to break tonight at Target. But we were enjoying ourselves and decided to continue, when all of a sudden I had a contraction, a little while later, I had another, so we thought this is fun lets time them. We started to time them and they were 7 min apart. My Dr told me if I was having contractions 7-10 min apart to go to the hospital, but we were still hesitant, so we kept walking. By now my back started to hurt so we decided instead of driving all the way home and coming all the way back maybe I should just go to the hospital and get things checked out. By the time we got to the hospital my contractions were 4 min. apart and getting pretty painful. The nurse checked me and I was STILL at a 2, I was so disappointed, but she said she needed me to stay for an hour so they could monitor my contractions and they would check me again. After an hour, I was dilated to a 3 and they took me to my room!
I don't know if was all the walking, the spicy foods or what that put me into labor, but Adrian and I seem to think it was TARGET!!
So all 3 of my kids I have started labor at a store, pretty funny!

Mother's Day Suprise!

Bella Sandi Reeder is here! She was born on Mother's Day 10:30 in the morning. 20 inches 8.4 pounds! We are so excited to have her with us!

Disneyland!

We went to Disneyland, a few weeks back with 2 of my sisters and their families! Here we are meeting some of our favorite characters!

Cal was not shy at all and would run and give each one a big squeeze! My little Cade on the other hand was so excited until it was our turn and he would totally freak out, so I had to go with him!

Pregnant Sisters and Baby Girls

Yup, we are having a baby girl! And so are two of my sisters! SO fun that we are due so close to each other! This picture was taken a few weeks ago, while I was up north visiting some family. Hopefully, we will all be together again before the 1st baby comes so we can do another belly shot! (Easter at my house girls!)

Happy Birthday Cade

On Dec. 23 was my little Cade's birthday! We started it off by going to Jumping Jacks! The boys always have so much fun there!



Cal jumping
Cade loves to go down slides!
And he loved having daddy throw him!
We then came home for some Mickey Mouse cupcakes and ice cream!
His Mickey Mouse cupcakes-he thought they were pretty cool! We also all wore Mickey mouse ears except for the birthday boy, he wanted nothing to do with them!
Opening presents
Cal wanted to give Cade a present this year and picked out Mickey Mouse sippy cups! This is Cal telling him all about the cups and giving squeezes!
Cade is such a fun little 2 year old! We love him so much! Here are some fun things about him
He LOVES anything Mickey Mouse
He loves to play with Cal (for the most part) and copies whatever Cal says or does
He loves to jump especially off things (like curbs and stairs)
He is the best sleeper ever!
And a great eater!
He is becoming quite the talker and is VERY loud
His favorite things to say are "Look mommy" or "watch this daddy" as he does something silly!
He likes to talk on the phone
Happy Birthday boy!

Halloween

Cal and his preschool friends at their Halloween party!


Carving pumpkins
Woody and his dragon friend Zack. We went to our church for the trunk or treat, and then decided to go to about 10 houses, so the boys could knock on doors.


Cute little Woody out Trick-or-Treating

Nemo and Woody

The boys and their big friend Dan. (one of the Adrain's YM that the boys totally love), he came over earlier that morning and carved pumpkins with us and then came back over all dressed up, and hung out until it was time for him to go to the church dance. My boys thought he was pretty funny in his penguin suit!

I'm Back

My life has been pretty uneventful for the 2 months that I haven't blogged. I have been hanging out in bathrooms for those 2 months, neglecting my children (good thing for Aunts, Uncles, cousins, Adrian, and friends), and my house is a disaster! I keep telling my self that it is worth it, and I am finally now starting to believe it, since I am starting to feel better! For those of you who haven't heard the news! I am pregnant, and it has to be a girl! I am 13 weeks, and due May 10th!

I thought i would tell Cal that we were having a baby, I'm pretty sure he doesn't get it, I figured we will talk more about it when the time is closer, but for now this is what he had to say about it:


Me: Cal guess what?
Cal: What?
Me: We are going to have a baby!
Cal: ( A little concered voice) But we already have a baby.
Me: I know, but were going to get a new, tiny, little baby!
Cal: (Very, Very concerned face and voice) But mom, I want to keep Caders!

Oh what a sweet boy he is, he sure loves his little brother. I assured him we are keeping Caders!

We went up north for a month and stayed with my awesome sister Kristie and her wonderful family, because I was just to sick to take care of my kids all day and Adrian was super busy with work. They spoiled me and the boys! I will post about our stay up there another time.

Catching Crawdads

Last night for FHE we went over to Grandpa's pond to catch crawdads! We had a great time!

Getting the bait ready

We used hot dogs to lure the crawdads over so we could catch them (it didn't work to well but that's what we were told to use)
Waiting for the crawdads
Cute little Cade
Playing with the crawdads that we caught ( I think we caught 4-5)
Checking them out
Taking a closer look! Cal wanted to take one home with us and said he wanted to take a bath with it. If it were up to daddy, a video clip of them taking a bath would be following this post, but fortunately mom is there to ruin the fun and take care of her babies-no baths with crawdads!

Boogie Board

Cal had an awesome time boogie boarding! He did a great job! He kept asking to do it more!

Cade at the Beach

For me there is nothing better than having one of my boys sleep on me. It doesn't happen too often because they like their cribs/beds too much! SO this was pure heaven for me. Sitting in the shade on the sand , listening to the waves, watching daddy and Cal boogie board with little Cadders sleeping on me!


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I got to love this face! He is always so dirty, not to mention the snot coming from his nose! Poor kid I think he has allergies, his nose is so runny all the time!
Cade absolutely loves to give kisses right now, on the lips. He won't give up until he gives you one and most of the time his face looks pretty much like this! But I love it!

Buried In the Sand

San Diego
I remember when I was little my brother and I buried each other in the sand from the neck down, on one of the beaches in CA. I thought it was the coolest thing, we have pictures of it and it brings back such fun memories. So, of course I had to bury my boys in the sand and take their pictures. They were a little nervous about having their arms buried so I just did their legs. Cal loved it, Cade not so much!