Bored??? Nah...entertained!!

What in the world do I do at home all day long, you may ask? Simple...I get up at 10 (you have to understand that I'm constantly waking up during the night), I feed and tend to all of Kaylee's needs, check my email, facebook, myspace and my blog, and by this time, Kaylee needs to be fed and changed again! Well anyways, today, I thought I would try out the photo booth on the iMac since Kaylee was in my arms and awake, came up with some pretty good ones, check them out! I better get going now though, my hand on Kaylee's bottom has suddenly become warm after some crazy rumbling noises! Time for another diaper change!!! Maybe I should really consider cloth diapers!

First Sunday

I want to start by saying that Thanks to God, Abner is feeling much better!! Thanks for all who prayed in his favor :) My big girl is growing up...last night she slept 5 hours without waking up to eat!! Finally after 5 hours I got up and woke her up myself, b/c I felt bad. I know, I know, I should have just let her sleep, but she's sooo tiny...she needs to eat!! I must say...she is becoming quite the chunky monkey! I'm pretty sure she's weighing in at about 7 pounds now...in just 3 weeks, that's amazing!! Praise God for that :) Two sundays ago was her first time to church, and I just have to post a picture, she looked so darn cute in her sunday dress.

She's brown!

Yesterday, Kaylee and I joined Abner in his dentist appointment, and I just have to share a comment from one of the assistants. Let me start by saying, she was a very, very, very nice girl, who is expecting her second baby in about 8 weeks. She began talking to us as if we were her best friend, she just couldn't get enough of Kaylee. Anyways, the first thing to come out of her mouth was..."she's soooo cute....she's brown!" LMBO...she of course, very quickly apologized and said, it's not a bad thing, my daughter's brown too (she was a caucasian gal). I, of course, didn't mind at all, that she said my baby was "brown," I personally thought it was actually pretty funny and couldn't stop laughing with her! Anyways, Kaylee seems to be doing better and sleeping better at nights, praise the Lord!! Abner took another day off from work today for being sick :( Poor guy...we have him "quarantined" from us so he doesn't get us sick. We miss him and want him to get better already, so please keep him in your prayers! Sorry, no picture today, I'm on abner's laptop, and there are no picutres on here to upload, maybe tomorrow!

Update

I must start this post by apologizing to all my faithful viewers for not updating as often. You see, the problem is not that I'm super, overwhelmingly busy with Kaylee, the truth of the matter is that my laptop crashed, and Abner has been working on recovering it. Yea, we have a brand new iMac, but Abner spends most of his free time on it and I hadn't yet figured out how to upload pictures to it. So, Abner's back at work, and now I know how to do pictures...so no excuses, right?!

Anyways, last friday we took Kaylee to her first check up, and she is doing just fabulous! She had already gained a pound, weighing 5lbs 6 oz. The Dr. was astonished and even had to weigh her twice to double check. Abner went back to work on Monday, so now it's just Mommy and Kaylee!! Which was going fabulous, until yesterday, something seems to be wrong, and I can't figure out what it is. I'm assuming it's colics, and so I'm trying to treat that with gas relief drops, sometimes it seems to work, and sometimes it doesnt....so I'm not sure. I think she's just liking to be carried b/c she fusses only when I put her down! She doesn't seem to be sleeping very well the last two nights, so it's been tough. Especially b/c Abner is coming down with something, so he is forbidden to be around her. I give props to all those single moms who do it alone! It sure is tough. I am constantly asking the Lord to give me patience and strength to keep going...sometimes I just break down and cry, but still, I can't complain. I would rather not sleep a day for the rest of my life and have her by my side, than not have her at all!
Well, I could make this a really long post, with so many updates, but it looks as if Kaylee is falling asleep, which means that's my cue to also lay down for a nap! I need to take advantage every chance I get, since I don't get much rest at night! Please continue to pray for the three of us and our health and for lots and lots and LOTS of patience and strength but most of all LOVE!

Announcing Kaylee Elise

As I mentioned earlier, we got a brand new iMac the day our Kaylee was born. Abner has been playing around on it since the second we got home from the hospital, b/c of this, I wanted to give hims his first "project" he could work on with this awesome new machine. I ever so kindly asked him if he would create Kaylee's announcement cards and he ever so kindly accepted. Well, he did such a great job I wanted to post them up for everybody to see!! Thanks hun for being so good at this stuff, love you! :)

In awe...

I am so overly blessed and full of joy to be holding my daughter in my hands as I one-hnadidly type this blog. I am running on about three hours of sleep but that doesn't matter to me...how can I sleep when I can sit here and stare at this amazing creation of God all day long.Words can truly not describe the excitement and flow of emotions that are flowing through us right now. I'm sure when teenager years begin to approach we will quickly forget this awesome feeling but for now we are embracing every waking moment and just trying to take it all in. We had our first outing yesterday at only 5 days old but I will have to post about it later b/c doody calls!! No really....diaper doody!! Ahhh...even a dirty diaper is so cute!!!! :)

garzacreations strikes again!!

At just 4 days old, Kaylee had her very first photo shoot. Now, I'm not only saying this because she is my daughter, but these pictures are absolutely amazing!! Some of the best baby pictures I have ever seen. Martha, once again, out did herself, for sure! Here are a couple and you check the rest of them out on their website: http://garzacreations.com/maggieblog/

Kaylee's Hospital Picture!

I've had some people question whether or not we have came home b/c I have not updated my blog since Sunday. Well YES!! We finally got to come home at noon yesterday, and we couldn't be happier to be home. Things have been going great here at home, my mom came to stay with us for a few days and she has been a huge help. Abner has been the most wonderful husband a gal could ever ask for, helping in any way he can. There are definitely some adjusting to be done, but we are heading towards it full forced and excited to be doing it. My sister in law came over and Kaylee's first photo shoot, the pictures turned out great, I'm so excited. I will post them up as soon as she sends them to me. They are to die for!!!! So Thank God we are all doing wonderful and we couldn't be any happier. We have our first appointment back in the hospital tomorrow, so I'll let you all know how that goes. Thanks again for your continued prayers, phone calls and visits. Also thanks for visiting my blog; according my google analytics, we had 69 visitors on Kaylee's birthday!!! :) Here is the website for Kaylee's hospital picture, take a look!
Kaylee Elise Garza Picture

First family photo

Just about 48 hours later, and we're still doing fabulous! Kaylee is out of NICU and came to share a room with Daddy and I yesterday around 1pm, we were very excited to have her with us, finally! She is maintaining her temperature very well and feeding very good also. My mom has been a huge help with us from helping me shower, to getting the essentials we didn't have time to go out and get. Friends and family have been texting, calling, commenting and visiting like crazy, which is very much appreciated; it's good to know people are still willing to help and really care about the well being of our family.
Abner has been the most amazing father, husband, friend, helper a woman could ever ask for!! He was the first and actually is the primary poopy pamper changer, for now anyways. It's still a bit difficult for me to be bent over changing her. He has not had any complains and does everything while singing, talking and playing with his baby girl. He has been absolutely perfect. He feeds and is at her every call, as well as mine. Thanks babe for being so wonderful, I LOVE YOU and DEFINATELY could not have done it without you. I'm so lucky to have you.
God willing, we will probably be going home today, if not today, definately tomorrow. It's nice being pampered hand and foot by hospital staff, but we are anxious to go home already! Anyways, just wanted to share a quick update and post our first family picture just minutes after she was born, that one of the Dr's in the OR so kindly volunteered to take :) P.S. see how awesome my God is...I'm sitting there, cut open, and I'm still smiling!!!!! Have I mentioned how much I LOVE MY GOD!!!

Hello World!!

I sit here in my hospital bed with the most gratitude I have ever felt towards my God and savior; it is to him, and him alone who goes all the victory of today's amazing events. Kaylee Elise Garza was born at 3:34 pm, weighing in at 4.6 lbs and 17 inches long. She is currently in the NICU but nothing to worry about, she's eating and doing amazingly well. As for me, I am also feeling very comfortable and pain free!! :) God is soooo amazing! Here is a picture of our beautiful baby girl. Her daddy and I are extremely proud and happy to be her parents and can't wait to go home and start our life together.

The waiting game!

So ok...I'm sitting here in my hospital bed all hooked up, and still I wanted to be sure to keep my faithful viewers up to date on the happenings of the delivery of Baby kaylee. We were sent here from the clinic yesterday due to low amniotic fluid levels. The Dr is concerned that the umbilical cord might be crushed due to low fluids, so they set me up on monitors yesterday at around 5:30pm. I had no pains or contractions, to my knowledge. I am exactly 36 weeks pregnant today, so baby is still a little early, but we have hope, faith and trust in God that she will be just fine :) At around 9:30 this morning they started adding pitocin to my IV to speedy up the contractions, now that there is room for Kaylee in NICU. It is now 11:15am and I am having frequent contractions, thank God no painful ones just yet! So here we sit and wait...I am a little frightened..ok, A LOT frightened, but I know that God is on our side and I pray that he gives me the strength I need to continue through this as well as to take my nervousness away!! and that he gives Kaylee all the strength she will need to fight this long battle! Also strength for Abner :) So thank you all for your prayers, calls, and texts, we will try t0 keep you as updated as possible! Please continue to pray for us :)

Ok results...

Well...I went to the Dr. today, and the news wasn't as great as I had hoped. It wasn't horrible either, just not great. My fluids are low again, and this time they wanted to do something about it instead of just sending me home and not re-checking them. So the Dr. gave me two options: I could go straight to the hospital, get hooked up to an IV and have fluids pumped for 24 hours or I can get hooked up to a monitor for about 2o-25 minutes, checking the baby's heart beat and motions and then go home and get bed rest, drink lots of fluids, and go back again tomorrow for another ultrasound and check up. So of course, I chose the second option! Well, here I am at home, drinking lots of water and sitting with my feet up! It's nice, but I feel a little bad b/c I had a 3 hour meeting that I set up and and couldn't show up for at work, oh well, things happen! So anyways, lets pray that tomorrow's appointment goes better and that my fluids are back up; I'm not sure what the next step will be if they're not. We couldn't get a could picture of the baby today, so hopefully we can get one tomorrow!

On a lighter note...today marks 2 years since my hunny bunny got down on one knee and proposed, making me the happiest gal ever! I love you baby, thanks for all you do, you're the greatest!!