poor ella shay

Okay.. so once again you get to be entertained by my version of the story ;).. got a frantic call on the way out of Elders Quorum meeting from the wife that (and this is what I heard) Ella had fallen off the couch and had a big bleeding gouge on her head and Chrisitine didn't know if she was going to need stitches .. please get home.. NOW.  .. okay.. so I fly home burst open the door.. 

theres the wife on the edge of the couch breastfeeding.. semanee on the other end watching a show and Ella shay just smiling up at me from the couch.. and I was like "HUH"?  to which the wife told me to walk around and look at the other side of ella shays mouth..

HUGE gash through her entire upper lip.. it was split apart to the point where it looked like it may never get back together.. well.. first things first.. call Koshar.. ;)  took a few pics.. there was question of worry as to whether this consittuted an emergency room visit or just a painful natural heal.. after showing her to Debbie , we got the bad (but good) news that this was indeed an emergency room worthy injury.. because the cut had breached the vermillion (sp?) border.. that ridge between your upper lip and the actual skin.  Which if it didn't get fixed could adversly affect her smile.  So off we went.. just me and ella to the er.. at mayo.. 

we get there and its just happy smiley ella.. except for her constant picking at her mouth making it bleed... 

we go in to start the admittance process and she starts freaking.. from the nurse trying to listen to her heart, to the temperature to weighing in.. EVErything.  and from her perspective I can understand .. she had been to the Doctor and it usually ended in shots.. which hurt.!

well we get into a room an hour later.. and then wait in the room for another hour.. (by the way.. emergency room was EMPTY)... and you can imagine.. tired little 22month old.. going stir crazy and I'[m running out of entertainment Ideas.. sleep out of the question... lol.. 

finally the doc comes and tells me the process for what they have to do to repair it.. 

and they bring in a baby back board with Straps.. and im thinking to myself.. great.. she's gonna remember this night for the rest of her life.. how her dad took her out for a drive and she ended up in pain in the hospital... 

she did well though.. she freaked out.. top of the lungs.. sting me to the soul screaming.. tearing up.. the doctor jabbin in the local anithestic with a needle.. and then ella just went calm.. didn't squirm.. didn't move and just let the doctor do her thing.. two black stitches to the skin above the lip and a few dissolvable ones to the lip itself and she was unstrapped... I put my arms out to her half expecting her to hate me for the trauma and she jumped right into my arms and snuggled up to me.. tears again.. grateful ones.. and we were released. on the way out she was thanking everyone and blowing kisses.   Her lip is healing well.. I just keep hoping the doc got it straight.. her smile that is.... but since then she won't leave those lil itchy stiches alone I tell you what.. Sunday or monday they come out.. yeah.. 

wow we are behind

So heres the short of it... WAter broke at 230am march 19th.  Christine didn't wake me for a bit.. I think she was letting the Benadryl wear off a bit so that I would be able to coherently drive her to the hospital.. Anyway after showering for the long haul ahead and packing up the kids we made our way down to parents to drop off the kiddies then off to the hospital.. (assuming like previously.. we were in for the long haul).. got to the hospital around 4:30am.  the minute we walked in we expressed desire for an epidural which the nodded and moved us around filling out paperwork.. verifying her water had broke etc.. kept reminding em of the epidural.  Christine is fairly silent so as she progressed through the contractions all you would hear were little grunts and grimmaces of pain.. ( i knew the extent by the fingernail gouges in my hand.. j/k) so by 6am we were finally in a delivery room nurses running around.. got the IV up and the antibiotics flowing.. (still no epidural) said the Iv had to get in first.. the Nurse tending to us hadn't had much time to check the baby.. by 630 you could see the head.. (can I just say at this point that this was awkward for me that I was the one pointing it out.. lol)  so the nurse keeps trying to calm christine down.. with her soft passive motherly voice.. then I would chime in.. and christine told me to shut up ... lol.. that it wasn't relaxing when I did it.. (how rude.. but funny) anyhow.. the nurse kept tryint to get her to stop pushing cause.. there was no doctor there to deliver and as the nurse exclaimed many times she did not want to be the one to deliver this baby... Christine kept telling her she couldn't help it.. it was her body doing it.. well in walked Dr. Mckernan just in time .. he encouraged Christine to push.. as the head crowned we were worried cause the cord was around the neck..  He was able to get it off fairly easily and asked for one more push with which he yelled to Christine to "grab your baby"... frantically christine tried to get her hands down there and he lifted the baby up to her.. scared the bajeeebies outta me.. but lil Sada Shade was born..  okay... so Sada came from Semanee.. as so many name ideas did.. from Star wars to snow white.. but sada had a nice ring to it.. which I attached May to for a middle name.. but Christine wasn't feeling the southern influence of the may.. so from ella she took shay, and from sem she took jade and made shade.. lil sada shade beazer.  oh.. 8.9lbs 21.5" and Au NAturale.. (against her will).

Baby Boo.. Thats what I'm calling her now.. she's gone from "Star vorce/ star wars" to "Annika" to "Colby" to " Shelby" to "Diamond ruby... yadda yadda" .. You all now how we are with names..

with "Semanee Jade" and "Ella Shay"  were in a quandry over the new little girls name.  Suggestions are welcome.. lol.. These ultrasounds were taken today.. yes we are still having "ONE" baby "GIRL"  not a boy.. not twins. not twin boys.. as the many chart errors from the OBG have dictated.. confusing staff and ourselves at times.. lol.. but looks like this little one will inherit the "lips" as well.. and from the looks of that foot. she'll be Semanee sized.. poor christine .. that exit strategy is going to be painful.. ;)

Ellashay didn't really want to play in the snow.. so much as stuff her face with it.. lol!
Semanee.. the princess of the snow!.. always able to strike a pose!
Semanee didn't really want us to shoot this picture until she had made a Mrs's snowman.. problem was.. there wasn't much snow left at the cabin.. we told her we could commence with Mrs's snowman the next day... (as it was supposed to snow all night).. well.. it ended up raining all night long.. and washed poor mister snowman away. ;(...

Star vorse glam shot

Well.. As most of you know.. my little ones inherited the lips that make em look like lil Angelina Jolies.. anyhoo.. you can see.. a nose and two full lips by that little hand popping up.. and of course daddys belly. .lol.. what a cutie


For those of you who love the 3-D images.. here she is.. no her name will not be Star Vorce.. but thats what Semanee calls her.. so until we have a better one.. we'll refer to her that way. I had to turn this one around a few times to make out the picture.. then I saw it.. the nose and lips.. my little Shar pe' .. ;)

how to extract many thorns from a hand.. wax. lol

K.. so Semanee.. playing with her little friend Logan across the street saw what she thought were flowers on a cactus. which turned out to be little yellow thorns. After trying to pick them out one by one was entirely too tedious.. tried duct tape first.. lol didn't work so well.. then thought of Christines eyebrow wax.. (hey if it will pull out hair it should pull outt little yellow thorns right?) so heated applied and pulled and sure enough.. they all came out. her fingers are now hair free as well. lol

This years haunt

This is our haunt this year.. it really wasn't very scary compared to years prior but was still alot of fun. It always gives me a kick to hear a little shrill of surprise. The fogger worked amazingly well with the FroggysFog (professional grade. well enjoy the walk through.