Baby Bailey

Bailey Ann Anderson was born on January 11,2013 at 12:43 a.m. 7 pounds 8 ounces and 19 inches long It all started Thursday January 10...I went in for my check up. My Dr. Kari said I was a 3 and 80% effaced and then she stripped my membranes. I left her office feeling a little crampy. I came home, ate, showered, packed my hospital bag and then decided to go get a pedicure just in case I had her today. After my pedicure I came home and decided I wanted her out so I decided to do Just Dance 4 that I got for Christmas from Steve. I started playing it around 2:30 and started to feel more contractions then normal. I kept playing and then we decided to start timing them. I was having them every 2 min. apart so we decided to call my mom and she left work and came over to our house to make sure we were timing them right and wanted to bet the storm that was coming in that night. They kept getting more intense as I was playing and walking around so we decided to just go get checked out at the hospital. We left around 5:30 and dropped Emma off with Sara and went into the hospital. As we were waiting for a room to get open a lady came in looking a lot worse then I was and I said...She needs a room now! Come to find out she was a 9 and barely had time for an epidural. I bet she could have gone natural she was so close but I totally understand...I need my epidurals. :) Anyways, when a room was open they monitored me for about an hour to see if I progressed and if I did then I could stay. They checked me at 7 and said I was a 3+ and 90% and if I went walking around the hospital for an hour and come back to get checked then they would keep me. So I walked around the hospital for an hour...and boy were the contractions more intense. I came back after my mom and Steve got something to eat and Kimmy my nurse said I was a 4 and 90% so they would keep me. Side note...Kimmy was the nurse I saw twice when I was in labor with Emma and I was so happy to have her again. She is the BEST nurse and I loved her! Anyways, so it was 8 o'clock when they finally admitted me and I was progressing well. Finally around 12 I just knew it was time because I wanted to push really bad! I pushed for 10 min and out came little Bailey. It was a totally different labor then Emma. 38 hours compared to 4 hours...life was much better. We were so excited to have Bailey here and we LOVE her so much! It is a different world with two kids under the age of 2. I am grateful that Steve is home to help me around the house and with the girls. It truly is a blessing...but Steve is ready to find a job now. He is looking and I'm praying that he finds one before the end of February or I have to go back to work earlier then I want to. But I am enjoying him home now. :) Bailey is such a good baby. She eats, poops and sleeps. :) I think she looks like me when I was a baby but I thought that with Emma too. She goes in Friday for her 2 week check up. I can't believe she will be 2 weeks this week! Time does fly! Emma is adjusting well with baby sister. She loves to give her kisses and steal her binky and that is about all she wants to do with her sister right now. We will see what happens when she actually starts walking. She is so close. Give her a month or two and she will be walking around like crazy! I love my two girls so much and can't believe Heavenly Father sent them both to us! We are just a happy family and I love them ALL so much! Welcome to our crazy life's Bailey!

1 years old!!!!

I can't believe my baby is ONE!!!!! Time really does fly by. It seems like just yesterday that I was at the hospital in labor for 38 hours! She is worth every hour of pain. ;) Emma is growing up and developing her own little personality and we love it. She is such a social little baby one minute and a sassy little one the next. She is getting around on her bum and has NO interest in crawling. Her PT have her a little granny walker and she loves to stand and walk around the house on that thing. She will def walk before she crawls. She is pretty darn fast on that bum of hers though. She loves to watch Elmo videos on Youtube or in the car. She still loves to read books and to cuddle with her mom and dad. She is in the 68% for her height (36.5 inches) and 28% for her weight (20 lbs.) She is such a great baby and we LOVE her so much. I think she can sense that something is going to change soon cause her sleeping habits have been a little off lately. She normally goes to bed around 8:30/9:30 ish and will sleep until 8:30 or so but she has been waking up in the middle of the night and not going to sleep til 10:30/11:00. Baby sister is coming in 3 weeks and I think she knows it. ;) I am hoping she comes like in 2 weeks or less. I am DONE! My body is ready to have her and have a break from being pregnant!!! We can't wait to meet baby and love and cuddle her! Mommy just wants her to come now! I will get checked tomorrow to see if she is ready too. Steve has been home with Emma the past month because he lost his job at Provo college. They closed his campus and now he is being a stay at home daddy until he finds something new. :) Emma loves to be with her daddy and knows she has him wrapped around her finger! Hopefully my next post will be about Baby Bailey coming into this world. :)

10/11 months old

Wow...I am slacking on blogging. Emma is growing up so fast and we can't believe it! She is our social butterfly and loves to watch and play with older kids, scoot around on her bottom because she still is not sure about the whole crawling thing. :) She still has 0 teeth! I know right? 11 months old tomorrow and still no teeth. Maybe by her 1st birthday she will have some. :) She is growing up so fast and we can't believe she will be 1 yrs. old in one month!

Clark Kent an elephant and the peanut :)

To top that off we will have another little girl in two and half months! AH! Crazy how time flies by. She was a VERY cute elephant for Halloween and even went trick or treating with her daddy so her daddy could get candy. ;) She will experience her first Thanksgiving and second Christmas this year. We had another ultrasound to make sure everything was going okay still with this pregnancy and Emma's Dr. Helen who was our ultrasound Dr. while i was pregnant with her got to see how big she is and how Amazing she is doing. Helen said she was our miracle baby and I couldn't agree more! We were all worried about her but look at her...she is growing up as normal and beating ALL the odds. My testimony of the Priesthood has grown that much more since having Emma. I am so grateful for Steve and how much he loves and honors his priesthood! I love my family so much and can't wait to have one more addition to it in January! We still don't have a name for her but I am sure we will before we leave the hospital. lol

I just can't believe our little monkey is 9 months old...not only is she getting big but that means in 4 more months we will have another little girl around this house! CRAZY! We found out we are having another little girl and are so excited that we don't have to buy ALL new clothes. :) These two girls will even be in the same season clothes. Everything went well in our 20 week ultrasound and we couldn't be happier. They want to do another ultrasound in 8 weeks to make sure she is still growing and everything is fine. I am so grateful for modern technology and for the blessings we have received from Emma and baby girl #2. We don't have a name just yet but are still in the process of finding the right name. Girl names are hard! :) Emma is doing awesome! She is 17 lbs. 28 inches long and loves her mommy and daddy. She is our little social butterfly. Her doctor asked if she was starting to do the stranger thing yet but I think she is so use to people coming and going that she will look at you and then smile. She is so cute! I love her so much. She is eating and sleeping great at night between 9-12 hours at night. She is not crawling or walking yet but she is working on that stuff with her PT and OT. She is still stubborn when it comes to getting around. I KNOW she could do it if she just tried but she won't yet. I guess on her time she will do it. :) She will not eat BIG people food yet cause she doesn't like the textures but is slowly starting to let us give her BIG people food. She loves to read books, jump in her jumper, watch all the big kids around her play and is starting to give high fives and claps when she wants to. :) (Like I said...stubborn like her daddy.) ;) We just got back from visiting Steve's parents in Colorado and had a blast. We went mini golfing, did a lot of shopping and just hanging out with grandma and grandpa. Emma loved getting all the attention. I'm feeling great now that my morning sickness is over. Which wasn't even that bad. I would throw up in the mornings and then feel fine the rest of the day as long as I ate. I feel like a HUGE pregnant women but I guess that comes with being pregnant (even though Steve doesn't think I even look that big). :) I'm really excited about Halloween this year...Emma is going to be an elephant and I'm going to put a peanut on my tummy where our little peanut is growing. :) Pictures will soon come. I can't wait to start decorating for Halloween and we decided this year we are going to have a Halloween party! Let the fun begin!!!!

9 months old and styling!

She loves her jumper!

Mini Golfing in style

Pictures with Grandma and Grandpa Anderson

Big News!

So the reason I have been such a slacker with blogging is...(Drum roll please)we are expecting another little one in January!!!

I know right...didn't you just have a baby? YES! Trust me it was a BIG surprise for us to. :) The baby is due January 25th and we are excited! Don't get me wrong its going to be hard but we can do it...right? ;) We will actually found out next friday what we will be having. Since I work at the daycare for IHC I have a hook up to found out at 16 weeks. So my next blog will be about what we are having. We love our little family and can't wait to expand it more. I really don't care what we have. I think a boy would be fun but to have another girl would be nice because we have all the clothes and they are the same season clothes. :) Emma is growing up WAY to fast. She will be 8 months old next week and we love her more and more everyday. At 8 months Emma is probably around 19 or 20 lbs. She loves to just stare at her daddy and cry when her mommy leaves the room. She is sitting up, rolling over, pushing herself around on her back. Loves to jump in her bouncer and LOVES to read books. She is teething which is making her sleep patterns bad this week. She normally sleeps 11-12 hours at night but the last couple of days she has been up it seems like every hour. Hopefully those little teeth come out soon. Mommy needs her sleep. :) Her hair is growing in thicker at the top but we just need to work on growing in the back and sides. She is doing awesome with her PT and OT. Her PT Mark said that the Major concerns we had like CP is out the window. He said most babies who have CP don't start sitting up until they are like 2 years old so we are super excited about that. We just need to work on the minor concerns like her Fine motor skills. With the help of Kids on the Move I know Emma is going to be our little super star! She improves everyday and we are so blessed to have her in our family. She teaches us so much and we are so blessed to have her here. We have been a busy little family this summer. We went to Nebraska for a family reunion on Steve's side of the family. Emma finally got to meet GrandMary for the first time and got to ride on the airplane for her 2nd time. She was awesome. I think people were really nervous to be sitting by us on the plane ride but after each flight someone would say "she did such an awesome job. What a good baby." We know she really is a good baby. Since we flew into Kansas we had to stop in Lawrence to see Kansas University. :) Steve went there before his mission and is a BIG KU fan in basketball. So we stopped there and it was like Steve was a little kid again. We got a lot KU gear for the whole family. Steve's brother and sister were also there at the reunion to so it was really nice to visit with them as well. We have been to a lot of birthday's this summer and two new nephews on my side of the family. We have been swimming, trafalga,and watching the olympics. It was been a fun summer and can't believe we only have 5 more months until baby #2 comes. :)

6 months old

Emma and her new cousin Owen supporting the stripped outfits together

Daddy and Emma at KU

Rock Chalk!

GrandMary and Emma meeting for the first time

Cousins reunited

Swim Day

7 months old

Daddy did my hair :)

Someone got into the chips...

5 months old

5 almost 6 months old...I can't believe it. I have been behind on my blogging cause I am getting ready for Girls Camp. Emma and Steve will be joining me this year since Steve will be the priesthood holder all week and Emma gets to come cause I'm the Camp Director.:) So I have a few pictures of her at 5 months but I need to get better at taking pictures. Emma is such a good baby! I love her more and more everyday because she is so good! I think she will be just like her mommy..."the good child" :) She is probably around 16 lbs. and getting the best chunky thighs ever! She will eat any solid food that we give her but first she has to make a funny face like she doesn't like it but she will eat a whole thing of food. She is our little Rock Star. She will eat Squash, Sweet Pot.,Carrots,Green Beans, Peas, Bananas, Pears, Apples and Peaches. I told you she is a rock star! She is sleeping between 7-11 hours at night still and loves her sleep like her mommy and daddy. She is still working on reaching for things and is getting better. She is starting to set up a little better by herself but still shows no interest in rolling over. If she is on her side she will roll to one side or the other without help but still needs an extra push to get on her side. She will get...it will just take her some more encouragement from her mom dad and her PT guy. Next month she will start working with an OT (occupational therapist) to help her with her fine motor skills. Emma is such a Rock Star and we love her so much!

PS I forgot to mention she is FINALLY growing some hair! She has some sections that are longer then others but its HAIR!!!

4 months

4 months old and loving her! We love being parents to Emma. She brings so much joy and love into our lives. She is growing so fast. She is in the 66% for her weight (14.5 lbs), 89% for her height (25.5 inches) and 1% for her head. lol :) But we already knew that. She is sleeping between 7-10 hours at night and is starting to eat rice cereal. It is a hit or miss when she will eat it. We have tried putting bananas, apples, sweet potatoes and she did like pears one day but like I said its a hit or miss with her when she loves it or not. She is going to be just like her mommy probably...a picky eater. :) Let's hope not though. :) She is still not interested in rolling over but she is lifting her head up more while lying down so maybe she will start wanting to soon. He PT is working on muscle tone upper and lower and will start seeing her twice a month. So hopefully we can get even further. :) She is such a happy baby and loves to smile and laugh with you. She loves to talk to you and loves to watch your mouth move. We love her so much and can't wait to see her grow more and more. :)

Easter 2012

Family Picture

Play time in her jumper

Happy 4 months Emma!

Cousins Unite!

Here are the cute cousin pictures we did when they were in town! We love and miss you guys!


Just look at those cute legs!


They love each other! :)

3 months old!

I can't believe she is 3 months old actually almost 4 since I am slacking on updating my blog. :) Emma has had some adventures so far and she loves it! We went to Disneyland this month, had her blessing and meet her cousin Maggie and Aunts and Uncles on Steve's side for the first time. Her and Maggie love each other and had a photo shoot together and they couldn't be cuter! They are going to be Best Friends as they grow up. ;) I went back to work this month as well and its going well. I LOVE being back in the infant room with her...I mean i get paid to play with my baby...of course the other babies too but Emma is definitely the cutest baby back there! :) We are both adjusting to a new routine and she is doing well. We love her more and more everyday!
Update on Emma:
She is starting to laugh more and more especially with her daddy! She loves to see him when he gets home from work. She probably weights around 13 lbs. We will knew for sure in about 2 weeks for her 4 month old check up. :) She is starting to lose her bobble head and gain control of her head muscles. She is not a fan of tummy time but we make her so she can strengthen her muscles and learn to roll over. She works with her PT (Physical Therapist) once a month with Kids on the Move. Since she was finally diagnosed with CMV and PMG she qualifies for Kids on the Move here in Utah. It's a non profit organization that helps kids with Early Intervention. We love it and are so blessed to get to work with the wonderful staff there. I have volunteered there before and Steve worked in the same building when he was working for Friday's Kids. We love Early Intervention and I think its such a great thing. So Emma gets PT right now and if more is needed like Speech or something she can get that when the time comes. But she is going to be just fine...we might need to work on things like her gross motor stuff more intense but she will get it! She is such a strong baby and we love having her in our family! She is sleeping between 5-8 hours at night and we love it!!!! Thank you Emma! She brings a smile to everyones that she meets and is the cutest baby alive! :)

Don't you just love her!? :) I do!

Cute Onesie my mom made for Sophie when she was a baby but Emma got to wear it too! :)

Grandpa and Grandma Oldson came with us to Disneyland so we could ride the rides. :)

Toy Story Mania Ride

We LOVE Disneyland and Mickey!

PS Hopefully I can post there Cousin photo shoot next. :)

2 months old!

I'm 2 months old and getting big...I'm 10 lbs 5 oz. and 22 and half inches long!
Emma is such a good baby and we love having her in our family. She is defying all the odds so far and is doing great! She is getting "fat", sleeping 4-5 hours at night so mommy and daddy can sleep. :) She is smiling and starting to lift her head for longer periods of time. We love her so much!