matt melissa+june+drake and baby nora: 2012

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Update

So I haven't written about the kids in a really long time so here's a little update:
June:
She loves to pick out Nora's clothes
She loves going to preschool and asks everyday if she can go
She's on a play dough kick
WE still have to pretty much force her to eat meals
She is super bossy and always has to be in charge
She had been coming in our room every single night for a few months and we finally figured out something to keep her in her room. Well Matt did! If she stays in her room all night and doesn't come out except to go to the bathroom she gets a quarter. it works and we are all getting more sleep!
She is so sweet with Nora and loves to hold her and kiss her
She loves TV and watches way too much of it
Her favorite shows are Backyardigans and My Big Big Friend in NetFliks

She will ask if things are good for her to eat and she's really Good about if if I tell her she can't have something because its not good for you.
She went to dance class for the first time this week and loved it!
She loves to watch herself dance in the mirror
She always asks me to snuggle her at night before bed
She loves to do any craft
She says prayers without our help now and they are the sweetest prayers! She always makes sure to bless Drake to get over his cough and mommy to know that she is loved and daddy to know that he is loved too.
She loves the song party rock and asks for it the second we get in the car
Drake:
He also loves Party Rock and loves to dance to it
He is the funniest little boy and I can't help but laugh at him when is does things he's not supposed to because he knows he's not supposed to do it!
He has started to run away from when when i tell him to come
his giggle is the best thing ever
He loves his big boy bed and sleeps in it because Hudsy and WyWy sleep in big boy beds too
He is talking so much
He loves to say prayers and he will repeat what we say
When i have just him he is the easiest easy going kid around. Seriously a different kids when he doesn't have to compete for attention!
He loves Nora and kisses her all day long and asks to hold her.
He loves bats and balls and cars and every boy toy
This kid is amazing at hitting his little baseballs with his bat. He has the best hand eye coordination
He is so excited to be batman for Halloween
Anytime he sees any Halloween decoration he yells in a growl Halloween! it's pretty funny
He knows all his colors
He loves to sing songs
He is obsessed with his blankie
Nora:
She is my most frequent eater. June and Drake never ate as often as she does and it's pretty much every 2 hours on Que
She is still super stuffy from birth
She wakes up screaming until she eats then she is perfectly content and usually falls right back to sleep
She is really tolerant already of her brother and sister!
She loves to be swaddled
She is hardly ever put down
She loves her mama most:)
I feel so lucky and blessed to have these 3 sweet kids and that I get to be their mom! Love you kids sooo much!!!

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Nora Ann

Nora is finally here! She was born October 15th at 9:13 pm.

She was 7lbs 4 oz and 20 inches long.

She is perfect! Everything went so well!

Labor Story

So my mom came in town on the 12th to try to be here for Nora's birth. I honestly thought I would have had her by then, but i'm glad I didn't so my mom could be there. I was scheduled to be induced on the 16th just to make sure my mom could see her before she had to go back to her mission. She could only stay until the 18th. I really didn't want to be induced, so monday morning I called dr. Huish to see if he could strip my membranes one more time. He had stripped them 2 other times and they gave me pretty good contractions each time, but never put me into labor. So I went in that morning at like 9:30 and by about 12:30 we were at lunch and Rumbi with some people from my parents mission, I started having contractions. They were like 5 min. apart but not painful, just uncomfortable. They started getting closer together but still not painful. They were like 2 min apart when we got home from lunch so I went on a long walk to try to get things going. I thought it was false labor and I really thought it would go away like the last times. Everytime I would sit down my contractions would go to like 10 min. apart but when I was standing and walking around they would be about 2 min apart. We decided to go to the park and by about 4 they were getting super painful so I said we should go to the hospital. We got to the hospital at 5. I was dialated to a 5 and I think 75% effaced. They admitted me and I got my epidural about an hour later. It was seriously the best thing ever! I don't think I had been that relaxed in months! My water broke pretty fast after that and by like 9:10 I was ready to push. Matt, My mom, and Julie were in the room and Matt's parents were waiting outside. I pushed 4 times and she was here! They put her on my chest and it was so surreal! I had been waiting and waiting for this little girl and she was finally here!!!! She had so much dark hair! I was so suprised at that. She hardly cried. I just held her on my chest for a while and it was perfect! I could give birth everyday. That moment of meeting and seeing your baby for the first time is unlike anything in this world! The best moment ever! She has been an angel baby. She is a week old yesterday and we are so in love with her. June and Drake absolutely adore her! When I got home from the hospital they heard the garage door open and they both come out yelling NORA!!!!! It was seriously the cutest thing ever. They both want to hold her and kiss her all day long. Anytime she cried Drake says "oh Nora" in this sweet worried voice. I was most worried about him but he is doing so well. June is doing well too, I think she's having a bit of a harder time trying to figure out what her place is. I just need to be better about keeping her busy and letting her help and letting her know that she is so important and just give her activities and things to do.

The adjustment from 2-3 has been sooo much easier than from 1-2. It's nice that June and Drake have eachother for company while I take care of Nora. I feel like I can take them all out and not get too stressed out! haha we just can't rush anything and take our time wherever we go:) I can't get out of the house before 10 that's for sure!

We are loving having a newborn in the house. The sweet snuggles and snorts and grunts of a tiny baby are the best! I could hold her all day long and I do hold her all day long! She hardly gets put down. I am absolutely in love with her and all my kids! I can't believe we have 3 kids!!

We love you so much Nora and we are so happy you are a part of our family!!!!

Thursday, August 16, 2012

31 weeks

I have been horrible about writing anything down this pregnancy. I can't believe 9 weeks give or take and we will have another baby in our house!! Some days I can't wait for her to get here and some days I need her to stay in my belly as long as she can! I still haven't decided if I'm going to put June and drake into the same room or if I'll put June and the baby together . What I really need to do is get drake to sleep in a big boy bed! But I still feel like he's not quite ready for that yet. I don't think I'm ready for that yet either! He's still my baby! June tells me everyday how excited she is for her little sister. I can't wait to see her with her baby sis. Drake is going to tackle and smother and be rough with his baby!! Haha he's definitely a boy and we're going to have to be really careful with him around her!!
This pregnancy is harder for me this time. The past few weeks I have been so hungry!! I haven't had any real cravings I just can eat all day long. I am really tired all the time too! I can't complain though because I really do have easy pregnancies! I have been feeling her move so much. She is super active all the time. I feel like she stretches out and tries to poke through. It's kinda hard to explain but shes quite the mover and it's starting to hurt and get uncomfortable!
I'm hoping to not gain anymore weight:) that's been the hardest part 3rd time for me is not looking good for not getting fat!! But it's all worth it:)

Sunday, May 13, 2012

18 weeks

So I really haven't written anything down about this pregnancy yet and I know i'm going to be sad about it later, So i'll try to start at the beginning. After Christmas we were in South Carolina and it was just after New Years maybe like the 2nd or so and I thought maybe I could be pregnant so I went and bought a test and it was positive! I was so excited, but more nervous. I told myself I wasn't going to say anything, but than about 2 minutes later I ran downstairs and told everyone. I was really nervous to have a 3rd and I kept saying that. Of course I was excited but I was just really scared. Fast forward 1 week and I was about 5 weeks along, I kept telling Matt how great it was that I was feeling so well. I hadn't been sick at all and I kept saying how I wish every pregnancy could be like this. It was January 9th and I woke up and I was bleeding. I was really scared. I told Matt but I wasn't crampy or anything so I thought maybe it was just spotting or something but than throughout the day it got heavier and I started cramping so I knew I was misscarrying. I went to the Dr. and they confirmed with blood test that day and I took another one the next day and they said I for sure was pregnant and that I miscarried. I was really sad and it was really hard. I don't feel like I mourned the loss of a baby, like I didn't feel attached to that baby, it was just the potential of a baby. I don't know if that makes sense! But I felt really bad about how nervous and scared I was for that baby to come. So then fast forward 4 weeks from then and I just had the feeling to take a pregnancy test again and again it was positive. This time I was freaking out because I had just miscarried! I was so nervous that something would be wrong or that I would miscarry again, but at 5 weeks along I got deathly sick, which was a good and bad thing:) so I knew that was a good sign! ha but I was sick it feels like FOREVER!! Being sick with 2 other kids and a husband in law school is just not fun! But thankfully for good friends and family and Julie we made it through!! Oh man I would pretty much cry everynight to Matt about how miserable I was! Sorry Matt!!! I started taking Unisom and that made me feel a lot better. I got an early ultrasound at 11 weeks just to see how far along I was and my due date is October 16th. The ultrasound tech guessed it's a boy, but we will see. I am 18 weeks right now and I am feeling so much better. I still get nauseous and I'm sooo tired this time, but I really am feeling better. I think I can feel the baby move sometimes, just flutters here and there, but i'm excited to start feeling those kicks! I have my ultrasound on May 30th and I'm not sure if we're going to find out what it is. With June and Drake I was dying to know what it was, but this time I'm really not antsy to know! we'll see though things will probably change when we're in the ultrasound and I can find out, I probably will! haha but I'm so grateful to be pregnant again and these little babies are just little miracles! I would post a picture but I look like I should be about 30 weeks along. This time around is not good on the body image!!

Junebug

Oh June you are the sweetest thing in the world and make me want to pull my hair out all at the same time! I am absolutely in love with you and you are my best little friend. You think you're 10 the way you talk. You ask a MILLION questions all day long!! and you won't stop asking the same question until I at least acknowledge you. It's really cute and you ask such good profound questions sometimes, but it gets tiring!! You love playing dressup, swimming, painting, reading books, getting dressed and getting your hair done, anything girly, painting your nails, you have to wear "spray" everyday. You HAVE to pick out your own clothes but you're very worried if they match. You always ask me if they match and you won't wear them if I say they don't which is nice if I don't want you to wear something you've picked I just say it doesn't match! ha but now you're catching on that it does match and you want to wear it anyways. She has this purple dress I bought a few months ago that she asks to wear it every single day, No joke she wears it 4 out of the 7 days and the only reason she doesn't wear it the other 3 days is because i haven't washed it yet. She loves that little dress I guess! At least it's cute:) If she's getting in trouble she always wants to give you a hug. it's the most frustrating thing ever, you want to give her a hug, but you're trying to get mad at her and to have her stop whatever naughty thing she is doing! WE're still having issues with the poop thing but I think its betting better. You just say it hurts everytime and you're scared to go I think so you hold it in than you complain for days that your but hurts. it's really frustrating, but I think it really is getting better! Hopefully!!! You are such a social little girl and you love your friends. You would play all day long everyday with them if I let you. I love going to church or anywhere and your friends all see you and love you, and you love them too! Its so sweet to see you with little friends! You would also watch tv all day long or movies if I let you. You ask to watch them constantly. I need to be better at keeping you entertained and not watch so much tv. We are so lucky to have you Junebug! You are such an amazing little girl and I'm so proud to be your momma!!

Drake

I just look at this little guy and I am smitten. I think he is the cutest thing ever. He is so dang funny and such a little stinker! He is the biggest tease! I don't think he will ever talk:) Actually he's finally started to say some new words. This morning he said bowl perfectly clear and he can say momma, ball, car, cool, sissy, jesus, nana, shoes, head, cracker. He can make animals sounds for cow, duck, snake, tiger, lion, wolf. He makes car and gun sounds all day long. He knows where his head, eyes, ears, mouth, belly, feet and toes are. He gives high five and pounds it, and everytime he pounds it he says "cool". haha it's so cute! He loves to spit water out in your face, very fun! We tried floaties on him the other day in the pool and he loved them! He's a little fish with those on. He waddles like a duck when he walks and he pretty much runs wherever he goes now. His shoes will not stay on his feet ever. He loves guns, swords, cars, any boy toys. He loves any toy anyone else has and he will go up and grab it from them and run and he thinks he's so funny. He hits a ll the time and thinks its so funny and I don't know how to dicipline this little kid! Today was his first day in nursery and he cried when Matt first dropped him off for about 5 minutes than he would be fun until anyone opened the door or closed it he would loose it. So about 45 minutes left in church and I hear him out screaming in the hall and his face was all red and puffy like he'd been crying for a long time! oh I felt bad for the teachers!! haha but I hope it gets better because he is so hard at church!! I am so ready for nursery!!!! hopefully next time will be better! We love you so much Drakers and are so happy your part of our family!!

Mothers Day

Whoops its been since Feb. since I last posted and I said I'd post about Christmas again! ha well There are so many things that I don't want to forget and that I need to write about, like finish Christmas, Junes birthday, My birthday, Valentines day, Pregnancy, Just life! But I wanted to write how grateful I am to be a mother and how grateful I am for all the mothers I have in my life. There is nothing in life that I've wanted more than to be a mother. I am so grateful to Matt, and to June and Drake, and my Heavenly Father for allowing me to be a mother. I am honored and humbled to have these two sweet spirits in my home. I know they are destined to be something great and I don't want to screw them up!:) Their little spirits are just so sweet and I can't even express how much I love them and how much I love being a mom. Of course things are hard and my kids are faaarrrrr from perfect and I'm even farther from perfect, but I am so grateful for the things that I have in my life and for Matt and how good he is to me and my kids. I am so grateful that I get to carry another child and bring that child into our family. I'm excited and nervous out of my mind to have 3 kids but I am so excited to meet this little one and to just have a newborn in our home again.
I am so grateful to have a mom like my mom. She is such an amazing woman and I miss her sooooooo much, but I am so grateful for her example and her selflessness and her willingness to serve the lord. I can't think of a better example of how I want to be as a mom than her. I have always know that she loves me and that she would do anything for me. I can't wait until she's off her mission and we can see her more, but those missionaries are so lucky to have her and my dad. They are amazing and they love their missionaries like their own kids, and would do anything for them and stay up late worrying about them, just like I know they worry about all their own kids. I am just so grateful for their examples in my life. I am so grateful for how much they love my kids. I know they miss their grandkids and would love to be with them, they are the best grandparents. I'm so grateful for both of my parents, but today for my mom! I love you so much mom!!!

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Christmas Morning

This year was so much fun because Santa got to come to OUR house. I loved being able to have my kids wake up on Christmas morning and just be at our house and start our own traditions. June was so excited for santa to come. We had our elf Lolly at our house watching June if she was naughty or nice, and I guess Lolly told Santa she was nice because he came to our house! June had been asking for a dollhouse so Steve and Jan were so nice and got that for her(that will be in the next post:) ) But She got a scooter, some clothes, a cute little princess drawing art set, and a few other things. Drake didn't get much 1. because he didn't really know and 2. because it was just his birthday and he didn't need anymore toys!

Family Pictures

So Matt had been growing out his mustache for Movember since October and I really wanted to do family pictures for a Christmas card this year because we haven't ever done one yet, but he didn't want to shave yet, so he came up with this brilliant idea of our Christmas card. Oh ya these are kinda embarrassing but so funny! We had Matt's sister Briana Take them for us at Wal-Mart by their Christmas trees, then we went to Freestone Park. Thanks Bri:) Matt even went to the DI and got us our outfits, I did make the designs on the turtlenecks though. He can't take credit for those:) haha we even wore them to an ugly christmas sweater party and Matt won! But ya needless to say these are some awesome photos:)

Friday, January 20, 2012

My Husband

I'm feeling sentimental tonight or something because the post before this now this one:) I am so lucky to have Matt as my husband. He seriously is the best and I am so proud of him for his hard work in Law School. He is exactly halfway right now and he is doing so well. He never complains when he has been at school all day, then he comes home and I unload on him and hand him the kids. He is always happy and willing to help and he keeps me sane. He is the best dad. June and Drake adore him. He always takes time to play with them and to make sure they know their daddy loves them. He always wants to make me happy. He is so selfless and he will do anything to make me happy. He got June this fishing pole for her birthday and I am in love with these pictures. He is the cutest daddy!

Matt has a passion for fishing and he is really good at it! I love that he has a hobby and that he has something that he loves to do. I should be a better wife and let him go more often, but if he could take the kids with him he could go whenever he wanted:) ha but I just want Matt to know how much I love him and how truly grateful I am to have him as my husband, and the dad to my kids!

A breather

I've been trying to get updated on my blog but that's going to take me a while so I just wanted to take a breather from updating to write down a few things so I don't forget. A few months ago, for a few months I was having a really hard time. My kids were really really hard. I don't know what it was or why, but I was just about ready to throw in the towel and just let Matt be the mom and i'd go to work:) jk but seriously it was a rough couple of months. Actually now that i'm writing this I remember that Drake was pretty sick so he was whiny a lot and wanted no one but me, and June wasn't getting very much attention so she was sooooooooooo whiny, always asking to be held, didn't listen, she was mean to her brother, mean to everyone around her, she was just really hard. But they both like flipped a switch or something because they are so much fun right now. Of course not everyday all day, but it is so much better around our house these days! I seriously can't get enough of Drake, he has got so much personality lately and he is so dang funny! He knows where his tummy is. He'll lift up his shirt and point to his belly button. I need to take a picture of his belly button, it is an outy, and it's kinda funny looking! ha it's super squishy and he just found it and he likes to play with it and he'll show you where it is! haha He has the fattest little cheeks and double chin and he does this little look kind of a shy look with his head down and he gets the biggest double chin and this goofy grin and it makes me laugh every time! He loves to yell. He yells gagagaga all day long. He gets right up in peoples face and yells at them. He is finally walking! Well he still crawls most of the time, but he can walk! yay i've been waiting for this! His little frankenstien walk is the cutest. When I get him up in the morning or from his nap he gives the best hugs. This kid will eat like there's never going to be food again. The other day for breakfast he had a whole waffle, not like an eggo, i'm talking the whole big homeade waffles, a whole orange, 2 eggs with cheese on them, a whole sippy of apple juice, a handful of blueberries and then like an hour later was whining for more food. Seriously I might need to put him on a diet! ha He's the complete opposite of june. This same morning I made her one egg and she didn't even finish that. The girl won't eat anything. It's torture getting her to eat anything, so i've kind of given up on making her eat anything. I'll still make her food and try to get her to eat it, but I don't make her eat it, so most of the time she doesn't hardly eat anything, but she doesn't ever act like she's hungry so lets hope she doesn't starve herself!

June just turned 3 last week and I still need to post about that, her little party was so fun and we had so much fun on her actual birthday. She is the cutest little 3 year old I know. Her turning 3 makes me so happy, but also sad at the same time. She is getting so big!! I want her to stop growing and to stay my little princess forever! It is making me teary eyed writing this because I don't want her to get any bigger! I love love love this age. She tells me she wants a princess dress on everyday. She wants her hair curled like a princess and that her bum is a princess bum. She wants to do everything like a princess. She twirls in her dresses like a princess. this dress that she has on in this pictures she has had on the past 3 days, even sleeps in it. She is obsessed with it. Matt got it for her from h&m and she loves it. She says the funniest things. I need to start writing them down because of course I never remember them, but she is hilarious. She is so stinkin smart. She can trace anything you give her, all her letters, numbers, she has known her letters for a long time now, she knows every shape, every color, count to 20, she can count to 5 in spanish, she seriously just loves learning. She could have books read to her for hours. She loves to have dance parties. I'll turn on the music and we'll dance in the front room and she just twirls and dances it's the cutest thing. but if I sit down she gets mad. I have to dance the whole time too! She always wants to hold Drake, but he weighs only a few lbs less than her so it's not very possible for her to hold him, but she still wants to try all the time. She always has to have one of my necklaces on. I wear the same one everyday so she thinks she has to have one on too. She started saying she's afraid of the dark so we had to get her a night light. When we put her down to sleep and i'm about to leave her room she always says i'm not tired. without fail everynight she says it. She also says that it's not fun to go to sleep alone. So she has to sleep with liike 5 stuffed animals and her baby doll. If you ask her who her best friend is she always says Katie. (her cute cousin) Every once in a while she'll say Drake, but most the time its Katie. I am so grateful to be a mom to these two little munchkins and I wish I could freeze time right now. I am so lucky to have them and am honored that I get to have their sweet spirits in my home to teach them. It scares me so bad what these two sweet little innocent kids are going to have to face in their lifetime, but I only hope that I can teach them to make good choices and I just want them to always know how much I love them! Love you June and Drake!!!

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Christmas Eve at GGpa and GGma's

It's tradition with the Harrisons to have Christmas Eve at Jan's parents house and we love going there! Good company, good food, it was so much fun. This year we even had a little nativity program. Of course that's all we got pictures of! We are so grateful to have such wonderful family to spend the holidays with!

My little Sheep. He kept this on for about 10 seconds.