On Thursday night I was scheduled to go to the hospital to do a cervadill so that Friday morning I could be induced to have our baby.
Friday - March 9 2012 at 5:19 pm
Hallee Ann Hargrove was born
7lbs 2 oz and 19 in long.
(Hallee is pronounced with a short 'a' so it's not Haley it's Hallee - hope that makes since)
She's been such a joy to our family. And she's beautiful and we can't imagine life without her.
We've been asked a lot if Jaedyn had as much hair as Hallee has and the answer is
Yes - She did have as much hair and just as dark the only difference is Hallee's hair is more thick than Jaedyn's hair was/is.
It's weird how having 2 kids seems so natural. Yes, getting everyone ready is a lot of work maybe more time consuming but at the same time it seems like I've been doing it forever.
It's kind of funny how we always thought Jaedyn was so little and our baby but you forget how small newborns are. When we came home and saw Jaedyn and Hallee both Luther and I were like wow Jaedyn is a toddler. She's so big. She instantly looked differently in our eyes as far as features goes.
Jaedyn has been doing pretty good with Hallee. She was so excited when we got home and there was a baby! She quickly realized that having a baby takes a lot of time and attention so Jaedyn has gotten a little jealous where she doesn't want to 'share her blankets' anymore and she has started to act like a baby. She's funny! Luther has taken off work this whole week. So we're trying to give Jaedyn is getting a lot of extra attention so Jaedyn doesn't feel replaced or abandoned. That's the last thing I want - is for her to feel those things. Luckily this week is in the 70's and 80's so we're playing outside a lot.
I was telling Luther how natural it feels and how I feel much older than I am. 2 kids at 22. I don't feel young. I feel like a more mature family. I don't know how to really describe this feeling but I love the feeling. I love my family and I can't wait to continue to mother my children and to do it with my best friend, my love, my companion, my husband!
Some pics of our Hallee:
Right after delivery
Weighing 7lbs 2 oz
Our whole family
Jaedyn meeting Hallee for the first time
Hallee Ann Hargrove
So Jaedyn has started this demanding yelling NOW. And when she demands NOW I try to correct her with what she is asking by replacing the NOW with a please. Here's a few examples...
- Jaedyn is taking a bath and the bubbles has disappeared because she was in there for a while and she runs out of the bathtub and covers herself and I said 'are you done Jaedyn' she said 'no' then I said 'what are you doing' she replies with 'MORE BUBBLES NOW!'
- DORA NOW!
- BUBBLES NOW!
- PINK MILK NOW!
- And we joke around with her calling her a turd when she's onery (which I now regret) So she asked me to do something (don't remember what) and she yells, 'NOW TURD!'
So even though I don't want her saying NOW and I always correct her and explain how that's not nice and we don't talk like that, it is and can be secretly funny!
I'll do a quick update on everything that's happened but then I would like to start being more current and up to date with everything. I'm really bad at keeping a journal but Jaedyn is just so funny and there's things I want to remember so I'm going to start putting stories, pictures, and reminders for my self and maybe one day I'll go back and record everything down or turn my blog into a book. But this post will be just an update on where life has been the last several months.
Well Jaedyn is growing like crazy! She is now 2. Oh man how time flies by: Here's a picture update :)
Johnson County Fair riding the Merry Go Round and she loved it! She was 19 mo.
She loves to help Pappy (grandpa) fix up his house
She's in the big girl bed
One of her favorite things to do is to color
For Halloween she was a cowgirl..Wasn't too crazy about the hat
Decorating the tree
Making our yearly gingerbread house
Sitting on Santa's lap. She HATES guys so that's why she was upset
For Jaedyn's birthday Dada and Mama took Jaedyn to Monkey Buizness and she LOVED it. It was her first time ever going and she threw the biggest fit of a life time when we left
This was a picture of Jaedyn at her birthday party. She LOVES Dora so it was a Dora themed party. She's wearing 'Dora's outfit'
We also did Family Pics
As you can see I'm very pregnant. We're about to welcome baby #2. Actually she's coming this next Friday. I'm going to the hospital on Thursday night and starting the induction. We're pretty excited we're having another girl!
Luther has been super busy with work. He has his full time business and in November he started his own business and it has been blowing up. We had no idea it would be so successful so fast! He's doing internet marketing for other businesses. He expected about 2 clients a month but just in January he got 9 new clients. He's got about 16 clients now and still getting calls like crazy. I'm so proud of him and his dedication to providing for our family.
He is also such an amazing dad and husband. With this pregnancy he has really stepped up and helped out with Jaedyn and house responsibilities. (I have really rough pregnancies)
So that's just a small update on our family! I'm going to try really hard to be better at updating! Mainly for myself so I can hold on tight to these memories and stories that are just too funny/cute/memorable :)
Today is Jonathan's 3rd Birthday! We may not be able to celebrate his birthday with him but we still celebrated his birthday together as a family! We got a cake and decorated it with a car and we sang the traditional song, Happy Birthday!!
We're going to make it a tradition from here on out to celebrate Luther's son's birthday!
Happy Birthday, Jonathan!!!
We love you!!
Love,
Dad, Selena and your sissy Jaedyn
This last weekend we went to Oklahoma to celebrate my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary party and I got to make the cake. I'm really excited about it because one day I would like to sell cakes. This is my VERY 1st CAKE (tier'd) EVER!
I'm super excited about it. I think I did a really good job for being my first! It definately could be better but I did learn a lot and it was A LOT of fun!
I tried to smooth it out but I have an idea for next time I make a tier'd cake :) Or a cake for that matter that needs some smoothing out :)
Playing a little 'Catch Up'
I know I haven't updated in a while so I'm putting pictures of up over the last several months.
Beginning of April it was one of the nice days! And Jae was so excited to play outside and play with some bubbles
Jaedyn giving her dada kisses! She loves him!
Easter! This was actually pretty funny! In Jaedyn's Easter basket there were toys and candy and different items. She immediately saw the mini m&m's and grabbed them right away and that was the only thing she cared about. LOL
We colored eggs the night before Easter and she had a blast until....
We were done and she cried!
In April we also celebrated our 2 year anniversary. We decided to go to coco keys water resort and take Jae with us. It was a lot of fun!
She loved the goats!
For my birthday Luther bought me a puppy. Her name is Bella and Jaedyn loves her. She's always playing with her and trying pick her up, and if she can't find her she says, "Bewa! Bewa!" looking for her. It's so cute!
Jaedyn is always doing something crazy but she's soo cute!! And she never keeps her hair in, (drives me crazy) I literally do her hair ATLEAST 3x a day
I love this picture!! Doesn't she look sweet!
Jaedyn and Luther just being silly :)
I love them tons!
I am so amazed at how much Jaedyn is changing! It makes me excited to know that soon I can do lots of fun things with her (preschool, potty train, go to zoo, go to the pool, etc.) BUT I'm so sad that she's getting big so fast...So it's very bittersweet. I'm going to list some of the adventures:
1 - Jaedyn has an old phone and she wants nothing to do with it unless the battery is charged so it can light up and make sound, (otherwise she wants our phones) So we keep it charged but took the sim card out. But there is still an 'emergency call' button. So the other day she pushes the button and a guy answered and Jaedyn says, 'HI, DADA!!!' with so much excitement. It was so cute and funny :) I finally threw the phone away because of the several 'emergency' calls. Luckily nobody came out.
2 - Our couches have a gap from the floor to the bottom of the couch. So anyways, Jaedyn says, "UH-OH, UH-OH, UH-OH" and gets on her tummy and looks underneath the couch and stands back up and put's her hands up and says, "Where'd it go?"...I know she was looking for the phone.
3 - Jaedyn figured out how to open the child proof safety locks on my kitchen drawers. "What, SERIOUSLY" Yep, I'm in trouble.
4 - Jaedyn also learned how to stand on the chairs, Yep, trouble x2
5 - We've colored here at home maybe like 5x and we were at the doctors office and she went to the coloring station and said color! So now every time she sees crayons she says, color!
6 - We went visiting teaching to a new lady and I told Jaedyn to say Bye-bye and so she puckers her lips up and wants to give this lady a kiss. Cute, huh!?!?!
7 - Every night in the last week or so, I tell Jaedyn to tell her daddy night-night, so she goes to her dada and says night-night and puckers up her cute little lips.
8 - Sometimes, when Jaedyn gets in to something I have to smack her and tell her no, so she hits me back, or anytime I tell her no she raises her hand up at me. I know she doesn't know what she's doing since she's started repeating everything. So anybody have ideas how to redirect her when she's getting into something she's not supposed to do.
9 - Jaedyn likes to try and put her shoes on all the time, and she concentrates really hard.
A couple things about Luther and I
10 - Luther has started back up MMA training, it takes a lot of time but we can't wait til he gets a fight
11 - I can't wait for spring so I can plant our gardens (vegetable, and flower)
12 - The trees are becoming popcorn trees but the weather isn't matching it, can it be nice out already.
13 - I've started this new diet/excercise thing and I've lost 3.2 lbs in 3 days, that's right 3 days! That's a little over a lb a day!!! I hope I keep losing a lb a day. That would be amazing!!! because when I lose my weight I'm going to have a shopping spree. Where I'm going to look good and have cute clothes again, and I'm going to get me some RED High Heels, like I've always wanted...and I'm going to try and convince Luther to take me to the beach, yep that's right, a vacation!
This week was a crazy busy week BUT very productive!
I love weeks like those don't you?!?
I know I do!!!
So I've been really trying to build a food storage and I know it's not canning season but I've been craving to can...SO I bought some items to can to go into my food storage. I was canning chicken but I kinda had a bad experience and the pressure cooker exploded because we're assuming it got too hot in there and it evaporated the water in the pressure cooker AND in the jars.
So because of the explosion it ruined the chicken. But I do want to try it again sometime!
I canned Beef Chunks/Stew Meat...Looks good it turned out so good.
I love this one meal where it's Beef Chunks and Brown Gravy over mashed potatoes. I know sounds simple but it's so good...So if you want a simple recipe there it is. :) And I can of course use the Beef Chunks in Beef Stew..So pretty accomplished there
I had to get another Pressure Cooker
I also canned 58 pints of beans! That's a lot!
I did Black Beans, Kidney Bean, Great Northern Beans, and Pinto Beans.
I actually hate eating beans UNLESS it's in my Chili and I have the best Chicken White Chili that consists of all 4 beans. So, that's a pretty big accomplishment.
So the canning took me 3 days to do that.
Thursday was St Patrick's Day and Luther took off and we went to the Kansas City Parade.
The parade itself was cool BUT the experience was crazy. There were literally thousands of people there. You could barely move and we even got there a little bit early and we still were WAY in the back. But overall it was pretty fun :)
I also painted my dining room and hallway. I originally started to just do touch ups but didn't realize I didn't have any paint to do so I had to go get some more and took some of the old paint with me for them to touch up. There were tons of places that needed touched up all over the walls, so I started to touch up paint. So I woke up the next morning only to see 2 toned paint all over my walls. There was no way around it other than RE-PAINTING! It was pretty annoying but the end results ended up a better paint job and a better yellow. So I'm happy with the results :) The pic below isn't my dining room but it's the same yellow I have :)
So these projects weren't the only things I did because of course there's the normal life. Taking care of my daughter and making dinners, the daily clean up and then my detailed cleaning on Friday. After I got done painting I kinda did a minor spring cleaning!
So this week has been crazy busy but very productive!
The other day it was really nice out and so I wanted to take Jae out. She is always pounding on the door to go out. So I took her little car out and she rode on it, we went on a little walk in our to our neighbors house and we played tag. She was having a blast!
This year I'm getting her a sandbox, a slide, and swing. We're going to have so much fun! I'm so ready for it to be nice out all the time because we're going to be having much fun in the sun.
Park, Pool, Deana Rose, Zoo, and much fun!
Jaedyn is so funny! I just got done sweeping and put the broom away back in the laundry room. I go upstairs real quick to find Jaedyn sweeping! LOL
Love her!!
This is about 1 1/2 months late but Jaedyn turned 1! Can you believe it?!?! She turned one so fast! I'm dreading for how fast the next 17 years goes. Can I just keep this age forever! Minus the tantrums :) She is so fun and independent. She is constantly on the go go go! She's been running since 9 months, Yep, I'm in trouble :)
Right after delivery
