K-falls and 7 months

Analise has turned 7.5 months old and still has no teeth or shows any signs of crawling but is cute as can be :o) She "talks" all the time I guess taking after her mommy, and shows lots of facial expressions while talking to really make her point. We are enjoying early spring with some yard work and getting some spring cleaning done. Jesse finished making Analise a toy shelf which she has tried out and loved. And her dress collection is growing thanks to grandma hunt and her sewing skills.

Jesse has gotten a new job in Klamath Falls and will be moving there by June 1st to start work for the Kingsley air field fire department. We are actually in K-falls right now spending the day looking for apartments to rent for the next year for Jesse to live in while Analise and I stay in Culver and try to sell our current house. Noah and Javan made Jesse a fire truck cake to celebrate his new job.

6 months +

Well this is a little late but we have had some exciting events of late. Analise ended up getting RSV which meant a long week of trying to keep her medicated, nebulized, and eating well enough to stay out of the hospital and we made it!!! She is on the mend now and doing so much better we just need to chunk up again as she lost most of her extra fat stores during this time. Throughout the whole time of looking so sad she was still the happy baby.

Another accomplishment is Analise is sitting up alone and can go to rolling both ways then sitting again. I think we need to get on with baby proofing the house here soon before she surprises us with crawling one day. We had her 6 month birthday complete with a cake from Grandma Dana, a short vacation to Salem for Jesse's fire conference week where we intended on visiting all the family but ended up with all getting sick instead. My friend Stephanie and I took Analise, Javan, and her two boys to the Portland zoo one day, which was cold but a lot of fun.

Jesse has gone back to school this week at COCC as the fire station decided to send him back to school to get his paramedic degree. This means over the next 1.5 years he will be extra busy with school and still working full time so us girls will just have to stick together. I am sure a lot more has happened I will try to update more often.

Lots of firsts

Well so far we have started eating rice cereal and attempted green beans which got a horrible face and spit out everywhere, went on our first train trip to visit Aunt Margaret and Uncle David in Olympia Washington, try to sit up on our own, roll and turn circles when on the floor and had our first cold that turned into a lung infection which Analise nicely shared with mom and dad too, gone up a size in diapers, up two sizes in clothes (12 month now), grown 3 more inches, and laugh so many times a day at nothing :o) Wow I guess a lot has happened in the last few months, maybe I should update this more often.

Time flies...

Well I had planned to post this when she turned two months old but a few weeks late :o) Time has flown it seems still like yesterday when we were waiting a long three days at the hospital wondering if she would ever be born.

We (Grandma Dana and I) survived the two month checkup and shots :o( I work for the pediatrician that Analise sees so we are blessed that Dana who is watching Analise on Thursday's is willing to bring her to her doctor appointments. Analise weighed in at 12 lbs and 8oz and just over 24 inches long. She is really gaining some chubbiness. She drooled and smiled plenty for the Dr and impressed him with her head holding and trying to sit up skills, until the five needles came. Then she screamed until she turned purple for quite awhile. I was expecting to have a fussy baby for the next few days but instead she slept for about 2 days straight, even with no Tylenol, I was impressed. We are very blessed to have such an easy baby who rarely cries, sleeps 7 hours at night, and is very healthy.

Analise does have a new talent which the first few times we were going to forgive but not now it is documented for life. Pooping in the tub multiple times each night seems to be fun. We have tried baths at different times of the day, after she already had a dirty diaper it does not work so instead we just take pictures. Another thing we realized is she loves mirrors and will look in them for hours, I put her chair in our bathroom and I am able to get ready, clean things up and get all our bags packed for work and she is still sitting there just talking away. My Grandma Hunt got her another mirror for the crib so now she falls asleep and wakes up talking too.

Dedication Day

Last Sunday we had Analise dedicated at church and had the opportunity to have my parents, sister and nephews come and play for the weekend. So here is a few pictures of our weekend fun. I am getting ready to head back to work this next week and not looking forward to it at all. I have really enjoyed staying home and getting to play every day. Analise is 6 weeks old now and starting to smile, talk, and laugh a lot, she is really an easy baby to please and still is sleeping great with the exception of two nights but she did have a bit of congestion going on also. She has also learned how to become the poop explosion queen, we have gotten the bathtub many times, changing table, wall, and the new clean diaper before it was all the way attached :o) If this continues we might have to post some pictures of our new talent.

2 Weeks already

Wow two weeks have already gone by and life has really changed. Analise had a bit of a scare with some incredibly high jaundice levels so spent 8 days in a bili blue light bed 24/7. She was only allowed out for a quick feeding, diaper change and our daily hospital visit for yet another blood draw. We survived these long days and nights although I admit I nearly had a breakdown everyday knowing I was taking her to the hospital each day were she would be poked by yet another needle.

At our two week checkup she was almost back to birth weight weighing in at 9lbs 3oz and had already grown 2 inches to be 22 3/4 now. Yep, I think she is taking after her daddy and new name will be string bean :o) I was wondering how she had outgrown so many of her clothes already we are into 3-6 months for the length in things with feet. Another trait we have found to be just like daddy is our hair, our rather uncontrolled hair. No matter how much you paste it down her it always pops right back up.

Analise Grace St. John

Well this is only a few weeks late but Analise was finally born on Thursday night September 17 2009 at 702 pm. She was 9lbs 4 oz and 20 3/4 inches. We were admitted to the hospital early Tuesday morning due to my blood sugars going too high and Analise was starting to show some distress from this happening. The plan was to induce labor and have a baby that day. Well apparently my body decided to take the hard route once again. No matter what they tried to induce it did not work. All the medications would produce lovely, perfect contractions for a few hours then just stop no matter how much they increased the medications. Needless to say Jesse and I had much fun during the three days we had so many doctors racking their brains trying to figure out how to get the baby out without doing a c-section. We had finally decided to go for a c-section instead on Thursday afternoon as I was getting a little worn out from being in having contractions every 3-5 mins day and night. But then Analise decided to surprise us and arrived 3 hours after that. So the whole experience was not fun but well worth it when we saw her.

We had known that she would have some complications from the diabetes and prior ultrasounds so were not surprised when she was whisked away. They had to pump out her stomach to place a feeding tube in order to stabilize her blood sugars, and had to draw blood every 30 mins to test her levels. She was and still is a real trooper though. Even now when we have to do sugar and jaundice checks she hardly cries. We got to leave the hospital on Saturday afternoon and come home to my parents help for the weekend. Grandma got to rock, bathe, feed and spoil her new granddaughter while Grandpa installed a pellet stove and I got a much needed nap :o)