38 weeks

Im 38 weeks today. My ultra sound went well on Mon. infact too well hahaha they found lots of fluid and say that baby Enslie is measuring big at 7lbs. 10 oz give or take a lb.!!!! But say that judging by the chunky cheeks she has  she is probably more like 8 or 9 lbs.!! They decided along with my doc that I don't need to go twice a week now for non stress tests. At my doctors apt on wed I was dilated to a 3 and 85% effaced so he told me that if I make it to Feb. 3 he will induce me a few days early because im scared im going to have a 10 lb. baby haha that means at the most I only have one non-stress test and one doctors apt left AHHHH I cant wait its getting so close! I'm having some contractions but they aren't regular at all I can go hours with out one then all of the sudden have a few in an hour. So now we play the waiting game we either need my water to break, my contractions to become more regular or Feb. 3 :-D

36 weeks 5 days

When I was pregnant with Erilyn i was told at my nst and afi that I would have to be induced do to low fluid at 36 weeks 5 days. This time I ended up having one done on thurs. I was 36 weeks 5 days I was worried that this would be it that I would have my baby at the same time I had Erilyn as I layed on the bed and the lady started to look for fluid I began to get nervous.... she wasn't finding much of anything. They have to find fluid in the 4 quadrants of the belly (imagine a big + on your belly with your belly button being the center.) The first one you could barely see the fluid the next was also small, the next she found a really big pocket but baby moved right as she was about to take the picture. Luckily she was still able to get a good sized one then another on the next. They then add the measurements together to come up with the fluid amount she says 10.97! (That's  good that's in the average range) Yay this meant that I was able to make it to 37 weeks witch is technically full term and the longest I have ever been pregnant :-). Now the count down begins she can come anytime! Everyday means a better chance of her being healthy though so our goal is still to make it to the due date. Iv got an ultra sound scheduled on Mon to make sure she is still growing on schedual if she is measuring small we will talk inducing if she is measuring right we will continue to be monitored either until my fluid gets to low or I go into labor on my own.

Erilyns 2nd birthday party.

Because Erilyns birthday is so close to Christmas (Dec, 22) We decided that will celebrate her Birthday on her due date Jan 13, For a few reasons its to hard to get people together that close to Christmas, Travis would never be able to come because of his lovely holiday work schedule and its just easier to wait till after so its not sooo much all at once.

Anyways, as we were grocery shopping about a week before her birthday party we decided to let her pick out a cake. She is really into mickey mouse and curious George  right now so we gave her the choice between those 2 she chose mickey. when we asked her if she wanted chocolate or vanilla she looked at me like I was crazy and said "coclate". After that she would not stop asking about her "coclate mickey cake" When we picked it up she smiled so big when she saw it all finished and would not take her eyes off of it. She was very concerned when it had to go up the escalator all by its self and the first thing she said when we got home was "coclate mickey cake ok?' 

She was so excited for her party. It was pretty low key we just had our families over for cake and ice cream ( I let Erilyn pick out the ice cream she picked it out by color..... the "green one"( mint chocolate chip),  the "orange one" (dream cycle), and "that one" witch was s'mores,) She loved playing with all of her cousins, seeing her grandpas and of coarse everyone else. :-)

Her cake was really cute and super yummy! She did so good blowing out her candles!

She got the first piece of cake and taste of each ice cream she was in heaven!!

She kept calling the party hats " castle hats"

Her cousins joined her to eat wich made her happy! She loves her cousins

Travis noticed that Minnie left a smiley face on her cake!!

opening her present from Kamrins family

A curious George book?!

Her present from us.

Checking it out its a leapster explorer we were hoping she would play with this instead of our phones but she hasn't quite figured out how it works yet. She also got a little piano and lots of money.

New years.

As I was looking back at my new years post from last year I'm really surprised at how well we did with getting them all done! This is the list from last year!

• Save up enough money to fly to Alaska to see Grandpa Troys house.
• Become pregnant with a little brother or sister for Erilyn :-D ( This wont be for a few months)
• Potty train Erilyn (ASAP!!! Im tired of Changing diapers!!)
• Get Erilyn in a big girl bed so Said little brother or sister can use her crib :-D
• Cook dinner for my family more often and by this i mean from scratch. ( o boy!!! )
• Keep paying off debt
• Get more Financially stable
• Get jaw looked at /fixed?
• Get out wisdom teeth ( OUCH!!!!)
• Pray more with Erilyn.

We did all of them but get my wisdom teeth out! We had TONS of fun in Alaska. Had success in becoming pregnant with a little sister for Erilyn. Potty trained Erilyn, we are still working on nap/bed time but she is catching on fast. She transitioned well to a big girl bed and hasn't asked to sleep in her crib once, I had fun coming up with ideas for dinners but do to my growing belly and loss of sleep I don't have the energy to do it any more haha! So we have lots of lasagna type stuff I can just throw in the oven. We ended up having to buy a new car so paying off debt was kinda put on the back burner but we are more financially stable! :-), I got meds for my jaw witch I was never able to take due to getting pregnant but honestly it doesn't bother me a whole lot any more it gets worse I'm stressed or eat lots of chewy food so I just try to avoid those things, it does hurt to yawn though because my mouth opens to wide causing it to pop. I wasn't able to get my wisdom teeth out because my dentist wanted to charge us $600 so we called the insurance and they said it would be free if we went somewhere that specialized in wisdom teeth..... when I called to schedule it they said we needed a referral from our dentist and he didn't back to me in time before I got pregnant. As far as praying goes Erilyn has gotten to the point that she reminds us to bless the food an pray before bed, she will fold her arms and hold still the whole time, says amen before we do and throws her arms up in the air.

As far as goals go for this year I really don't have any except for learn how to juggle 2 kids 24-7 and still give both of them the attention they need. Also be able to exclusively breastfeed longer then I did last time. Other then that I'm happy with were things are going for me and my little family and cant wait to see what the new has in store for us.
As far as our new years night went it was super low key we decided that letting Erilyn stay up was not a good idea so we got her to bed about 830. We watched TV and ate junk food till midnight when we watched the ball drop kissed and went to sleep. It was super hard for me to stay up this year! With my growing belly and added pressure on everything I cant get comfortable, the baby wont stop kicking long enough for me to fall asleep or finally get comfortable and I all of the sudden have to pee so bad I barley make it to the bathroom. :-)

Erilyns 2 year Pictures/ Family Pictures.

So I'm not a huge fan of how her hair looks (I'm lucky that it got done at all she isn't a fan of anybody touching her hair right now) but they turned out so cute!!!!

Erilyn is 2!!

I cant believe my baby is already 2!

 She is talking non stop and pretty well can say anything she is starting to put sentences together like "mommy Sippy milk please", " Erinyn bed sad Erinyn pee" and 'Erinyn hold you mommy".

 I love that she talks about her self in the first person and how she says her name. If you ask her what her name is she says " Erinyn name Riley Shorts!"

 She Is really into playing with baby dolls lately and carries them around the house wrapped in a blanket bouncing and saying shshshsh over and over again. I don't know where she learned that but she is going to such a good big sister!

 She loves playing in her big girl room and sleeping in her big girl bed she hasn't really asked to go back to the crib.

 She wears a size 6 or 7 shoe. And 2t everything else.

 She loves to color and read books infact this morning I could hear her through the monitor mumbling I figured she was playing with her toys... nope I walked in and she was sitting covered up in bed reading a book to her self. I love that she loves books!!

 She has become quite the little nudist and either refuses to get dressed or takes her cloths off and runs around the house butt naked!(witch makes taking pictures alittle difficult ;-D)

 She has also taken an interest in Band-Aids lately and needs one on every bump and scratch she gets. I bet people think we beat our child when in reality there is nothing underneath all those Band-Aids.;-)

 She knows what a star and circle look like, also E and R she knows what the colors red and orange look like the other colors are hit and miss some times she gets it right but most of the time not.

 She loves Monkey George.... better known as Curious George and Mickey Mouse. She knows all of the characters names and even surprised me the other day by knowing the dogs name on Curious George.

 She hates having her hair washed and can now get in and out of the bathtub on her own. She thinks brushing her teeth is pretty fun and asks to do it at least 3 times a day!

Her favorite foods are string cheese, pears, avocados, suckers and chocolate. She drinks 2 to 3 milk sippies and 1 juice sippy everyday. 

She weighs 26 lbs (50%) and is 36 inches tall( 90%) She passed all of her doctors questions with flying colors. The doc was very impressed that she had so many teeth and that she was potty trained. She also comented on how well behaved she was. And that she cant wait to meet Erilyns little sister..... I love our doc!!

We are having pics taken on wed so I will post those soon!

Also we are having Erilyns birthday party on sun so pics will be coming for that soon to.

Here we go agian!!!!

I had a doctors apt. the day after Christmas Travis had to work so Travis mom took me. When it was time for me to go back Erilyn wanted to stay and watch movies on Grandmas phone. So I went back by myself they did the usual weight, urine and blood pressure checks then sent me to the room to wait for the doc. They weren't that busy so he came right in we talked for alittle bit then he measured my belly he got a weird look on his face and checked the heart beat witch was normal. I could tell something wasn't right so I asked if I was measuring small he said yes your belly hasn't really grown, I want you to have an ultra sound done asap. So we scheduled one for the next day we went in first they checked the baby she looked perfect measuring right on schedule. Then the fluid I could tell right away that it was low and I was right it measured at 7.2 normal is between 9 and 22 dangerous is below 5. Of coarse my doc wasn't in that day but the nurse and one other doc was so they talked and decided I needed by-weekly non-stress tests and amniotic fluid checks I will be going on Mon. and Thurs either until I go into labor or until something goes wrong. This week we did Tues and Fri. Tues my fluid was 10.4 and Enslie passed the non stress test with flying colors in the first few min but I have to stay on the monitor for atleast 20 min. Today my fluid was 8.7 and again she moved like crazy the whole time so again she passed with flying colors. Hopefully they will continue to go well and I can keep this baby in  longer then Erilyn. Travis sis Tanisha is staying with us  few days a week to help me with the girls so that I can take it easy and it has been so nice!! Except Erilyn has been such a mommies girl lately so I don't actually get a full break but its still nice to have the help and some one to talk to. The girls are always asking and talking about " an eesha" (Aunt Nisha). They love playing with her until I leave the room then with in minutes Erilyn is right by my side.. hahaha

The "BIG" anouncement./ Elder Hammonds Phone call.

On Christmas  day After Hanging out at our house for while we headed to my moms to open gifts from her and my dad. About noon  we meant at Grans house to hear Elder uncle  Landis Christmas phone call and eat left overs. When it was Erilyns turn to talk to Uncle landis all she said was Happy Christmas over and over and over again (at least 20 times). She also told him she loved him and missed him and bye.

So a little background to this......Back in 2012 Before Landis left on his mission we decided it would be fun to have him announce the gender of our baby during the Christmas phone call. The original plan was to wait and find out with every one else on that day but decided to find out and  keep it a secret instead. Wich was fun, because everyone would try to get us to spill the beans. I sent him a package back in ocotber when we found out we filled balloons with the right color confetti and m&ms  and sent them to him with a note the read.

BLOW UP THE BALLONS AND POP THEM TO SEE

 WHO BABY #2 WILL BE

 DONT FORGET

ITS A SECRET!

After some planning we decided how the announcement would be made. He sent my mom 10 numbered envelopes that said do not open till Christmas phone call. The letters had little hints in them like the top of the package we sent him that was from "Big Sister shorts"  to "Uncle Landis Hammond" pictures of the balloons, a note that said "Merry Christmas hamma X7"( for the soon to be 7 grandkids), and the words ITS, A, ....... Seriously! Written separately on 3 papers in 3 envelopes. She then had to open the little package that was taped shut with 6 inch pieces of gold duct tape........ Opening envelopes........... 

The babies weren't to interested in what was going on so they entertained them self's.

WAITING AND WAITING!!

We did a conference call this time witch made it so that everyone could talk to him on their phone witch cut back on static and made it easer to hear him. Thats why every one is on their phones.

Opening the gold box....

My emotional self trying not to cry.

Pouring out the contents......

Maddies reaction.

So thrilled!!

Yeah the girsl don't care.

ITS A GIRL!!!!! Her name will be Enslie Jaylynn :-D

This is how we told Travis family. We are excited that Erilyn is going to have a sister so close to her age to grow up with. My sister and I are 5 years apart and even though we always got along really well we never could really ralate to each other until we were both pregnant at the same time. So im excited that they will only be 2 years apart and be able to relate to each other easier And hopefully get along well.