Our Precious Wittle Niece!!

Welcome to the world Macy Jai Cox!!!!! My brother and his wife Laura are the happy new parents! I'm getting this in a little late..she was born May 12, 2009, and she was 7 lbs 12 oz and 20 1/2 inches!!! And she has a full head of hair too!!! That must be from Laura and Tom's sides because Andy and I were super blonde and didn't have a whole lot of hair when we were born. She was a little stubborn on coming out to meet everyone, she thought she would just keep everyone in suspense for another day or so! :) So far, I've only been able to see pictures :( and I can't wait to meet the cute wittle sweet pea! She has a cousin that's pretty excited to meet her too!!! Here's some pictures that my brother sent me...I want to pinch those cheeks so bad! :)

Kenley's 3rd Week

Still doing great! I think we're starting a little growth spurt...she's eating more often and chowing down like a little piglet! She doing great with both breastfeeding and bottle feeding, so mama gets a break every now and then and daddy gets to have his special time with her too! She's starting to find her voice! She's still not fussy, but she has no patience when it's food time and she lets us know it! :) I can't help but giggle at her tiny little cry-it's kinda loud, but so puny at the same time! I'm sure it won't make me giggle so much after I've heard it nonstop for hours! I'm sure the day will come...

Kenley's 2nd Week

She's a growing girlie! At her 2 week appointment, she was up to 7 lbs 2 oz...she had been down to 6 lbs 1 oz in the hospital, so she gained more than a pound in a week! And she grew an inch and a half! She's up to 21 inches! She's finally started to fit into her clothes a little better...she's got a little ways to go though! She's still just as calm as can be...not waking us up much, and not fussing at all. Maybe a bit when she's hungry, but hey, I complain too if my tummy is grumbling!

Here's a little video I took when she was 13 days old...

Kenley's First Week

This child is spoiling us so far! She was pretty easy on us the first week. Of course we had to get up in the middle of the night to chow, but only once! She's not fussy at all either! Just sleep, poop, eat, sleep, poop, eat! She's awake for small amounts of time, usually after eating. She's so sweet and laid back...our tiny little princess!

Kenley Meets the Family!

This child is SO LOVED!!!!

Grammy Peggy;

Papa RC, & Great Gramma & Grampa Clements;

Papa Mason & Grammy Jenny

Gramma Val;

Uncle Ty, Aunt Ashlee, and Cameron; Uncle Andrew

I'm missing a picture with Aunt Katie...soon to come!

And Kenley CAN'T WAIT to meet Uncle Andy and Aunt Laura and new cousin MACY!!!! And of course she is really really excited to meet Uncle Kaden and Uncle Cooper! Those pictures will come later too!

Welcome to the World Kenley Sophia!!!!

So I'm a little late in getting these posts up! She is now 2 weeks and 1 day old, but I'll start from the beginning!

Thursday May 7th, 2009 6:30 a.m.-my water broke! Thank god it waited until 6:30 because I am there all alone at night...although I'm sure my lovely 2nd floor nurses would have taken care of me...anyhoo, it worked out perfectly cuz I had plenty of relief there already, and Tom was just on his way to work! I was doing some paperwork at the nurses station, and when I got up, I felt a little gush. My first though was, Oh god, I hope I didn't just pee my pants! Not that that has ever been a problem! :) But I had heard that a lot of ladies think their waters break and they really just wee themselves! So I yelled from the bathroom into the locker room that I thought my water broke and immediately got a bunch of squeals and my sweet girls at work got me the essentials...pads, chucks (waterproof pads for the car!), and a cell phone to call my Tom Tom!

I called Tom and told him I was pretty sure my water just broke. He really thought I was just joking, he said "Are you serious?" If I had been thinking straight, I would have said, "Honey, Thundercats are a go!!!" Any Juno fans will appreciate that one! Great movie-if you haven't seen it-I strongly recommend it!

So my contractions started about an hour after my water broke-right when we got on the road to Ames...reeeeally glad we didn't wait any longer than that! We got to the hospital at about 8:15. The nurse checked me at 9:30 and I was 1 cm and 60% effaced. She told Tom he would probably have time to drive to Minneapolis and back before I had the wee one! Hmm, little did she know...

At 10:00 a.m. the contractions started to get pretty darn strong...but I didn't know how strong they were supposed to be. I know they are supposed to hurt like hell, but I thought I was just being wussy considering I was only at 1 cm a half hour before! But they were tolerable then. I talked to Katie (Tom's sister) on the phone at about 11:30...by then it was hard to talk through the contractions. Shortly after that, the nurse came in and told me Dr. Beer would come check me over her lunch hour. I remember thinking how much I wanted an epidural at that point...just 15 more minutes til the doc would be there...

So Dr. Beer shows up at about 12:10. I think the contraction before she checked me, I said to Tom, "Oh god, she's really close!" That got Tom a little nervous, he asked, "What do you mean close?", but I was in too much pain to explain! So she checked me and she said, "Oh, hmm, she's 8 cm!" My response was "Oh shit!"-I thought I'd be able to control my sailor's mouth in the delivery room...not so much. I knew at that point I wasn't going to get my epidural, or any other pain medicine for that matter-I didn't even have an IV in! The next few minutes were pretty chaotic, people running around everywhere trying to get things ready for a delivery...apparently my bed was broken so they couldn't break it down into the "labor" position. I didn't even realize it until Tom told me about it later. I do remember thinking it was kind of odd that Dr. Beer sat on the side of the bed to deliver her!

She didn't have to sit there for long though, because at 12:41 p.m., after pushing for 3 contractions (I'm guessing about 5 minutes! woo hoo!), little Kenley Sophia made her grand entrance! She was ready to come out, that's for sure!! 6 lbs 4 oz; 19.5 inches long. No one could believe how fast everything went. Dr. Beer was pleasantly suprised and appreciated the fact that she still had time to grab a bite and get back to the clinic! Lol! She thought she was just going to come over to order an epidural!

It was an amazing experience! Yeah it hurt, but I'd do it all again! And now I know that I have a really really high pain tolerance!! The most amazing part though was holding that precious little bundle of joy and seeing Daddy hold her for the first time too! She's just perfect in every sense of the word!!!

19 days to go!?! What!

Well, I had my 37 week appointment yesterday. She didn't check me to see how I've progressed, if any, because I really haven't been having all that many contractions. No more than usual I guess I should say. Although I will say, I did feel them start to pick up a little yesterday evening-nothing regular though.

Apparently I measured a little small again, not always a bad thing, but it's a reason to do an ultrasound, so we get another ultrasound on Friday! She's doing it to make sure my amniotic fluid levels are still okay. I may just have measured a little smaller because she dropped a little bit. I haven't noticed that she has, but that would be a better reason! They'll also make sure she's in the right position-we're pretty sure she's head down. And I'm hoping they'll be able to give us an idea of how big this kiddo is!