Zoey {1st Month}

Zoey,
    Daddy and I love you very much and so happy that you have joined our family.  It is crazy to think that we were in the hospital with you a month ago just holding our little 5 pound 4 ounce baby and now today we are holding a 6 pound 8 ounce baby.  You are growing so much!  You have brought a lot of joy to our lives.  We love to watch you smile in your sleep and start seeing little smiles on your face while you are awake.  We have gone on walks, we have gone shopping, and we have been visiting family.  The kitty cats have decided that you are here to stay and starting to warm up to you.  Baylee has kissed the top of your head and KeKe loves to come up to you and rubs up against you.

 WE LOVE YOU VERY MUCH AND HAVE ENJOYED THIS LAST MONTH BEING NEW PARENTS TO YOU ZOEY!

Zoey's 2 week check up!

Zoey and I set off on an adventure today.  We had to go to Pleasant Grove for her two week check up.  We got to the doctors office early so that we could be ready for our actual appointment time.  The nurse had me undress little Zoey.  I have learned something this last week you don't let this girl go a minute after cleaning her bum without another diaper in the reach of you.  So I put on another clean diaper before the nurse goes to weigh her.  I follow and as soon as we get there she fills the pants.  Yes, I know what my daughters routine is.  The nurse weighs her and she is 5 pounds 8 ounces.  We head back into the little doctors office room.  I go to start cleaning her bum and I didn't have a clean diaper near me and guess what my little girl does?  Zoey peed all over the doctors office on the floor, on the patient bed/chair.  All after the final measure of her.  Last week she was 19 and a 1/2 now she is 19 so I'm going to stick with around 19 inches long.

Other fun facts about our little miss Zoey:
she lost her umbilical cord on Friday 3/2/2012
she gets up 3 to 4 times a night
she is a little piglet she loves to eat and you have to watch her closely to how much she over eats
she is very content when she is awake she just sits and watches you.
she looked at the pictures of LOVE YOU FOREVER while mommy cried reading it to her
she weighs 5 pounds 8 ounces and at birth she weighed 5 pounds 3 ounces
she makes noises while she sleeps like humming

and I thought I would share some photos of little miss Zoey's Birth.  Thank you to my best friend Janine for taking them they are truly amazing!

Friday February 17, 2012

Friday February 17, 2012

Friday February 17, 2012

while waiting for Dr. Willis

When everyone was laughing!!!

Here she comes with Aunt Laura right there

Zoey! 2:09pm February 20, 2012

Zoey!

Zoey crying!

Daddy cutting the umbilical cord

mommy seeing her for the first time

the amazing nurse!

overjoyed!

I love little Zoey so much!

Zoey Margaret Waite

daddy holding her for the first time!

already wrapped around her little finger!

pictures!

both of my loves!

so grateful she is here!

so grateful she is here!

Grandma Margaret holding her for the first time!

Grandma Margaret holding her little Zoey M!

Aunt Laura (La La) holding her after helping clean her off when she was born.

giving Zoey loves

Uncle Curtis holding little Zoey!

daddy taking her down to the nursery!

in the warmer

One happy family!

Couldn't Resist

Isn't she just a doll? We just love her so much.  Zoey is an absolute joy and we just love having her in our family. What she loves doing daily right now is: Eating, Sleeping, Diaper Changes, and Loves bath time.   What do the cats think of her oh she is just another tiny human being they are curious but not that curious they will be in a couple of months when she is crawling and chasing them.  For right now Baylee is your typical male she starts crying he gets up and leaves the room.  Keke however just watches her cry.

Well I'm off to cuddle our little sweetie pie!

HAPPY LEAP DAY!!!

WOW! TODAY ONLY COMES ONCE EVERY 4 YEARS AND HOW DID I SPEND MY EXTRA DAY GIVEN TO US THIS YEAR! SLEEPING WITH MY BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER IN MY ARMS.  GOING OUT WITH MY HUBBY TO HIS STUDY GROUP AND LISTENING TO THEM TALK ABOUT THINGS I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND.  GOING TO J-DAWGS FOR THE FIRST TIME..  NOW I'M DOING A QUICK POST BECAUSE IT IS LEAP DAY.  MY DAUGHTER IS AWAKE AND JUST STARRING AT ME SO I'M GOING TO SPEND THE REST OF LEAP DAY WITH MY DAUGHTER AND MY HUBBY!

HAPPY LEAP DAY EVERYONE!

Zoey's Birth Story

We found out on July 7, 2011 that we were pregnant and we were so excited.  We waited 37 weeks to meet little miss Zoey.  But not without some bumps along the way.  We had tons of doctors appointments we saw you in an ultrasound 5 plus times.  Every time we got to see you was wonderful.  We had some hospital visits once when mom caught a viral infection and had to go get fluids pumped back in.  That was wonderful because we got to listen to your heart beat for an hour.  We also got to hear you thump the monitors with your little feet.  We than had Non-stress tests with you the last couple of weeks you were in mommy.  Mommy went with Grandma Margaret to a Non-stress test the week you were born and they were worried about your little heart beat.  So they admitted me to the hospital for a 24 hours of monitoring your heart beat.  Mommy got worried and stayed an extra day because I didn't want to go home and have something go wrong.  Mommy and Daddy prayed that you would be healthy if they needed to deliver you early.  Mommy got a strong feeling while she was praying that everything was going to be okay.  Mommy got the steroid shots to help your lungs develop faster if in case they induced me at 36 weeks.  We went to Grandma and Papa Heaps house for the week before you were born.  We had doctor appointments every day.  Every other day we got to listen to your heart beat and the last Perinatologist that we saw called Dr. Willis and told him bring this little girl into the world on Monday February 20 and do no amino test.
Monday morning at 6am Hubby and I woke up to get ready by 7:00am to be at the American Fork Hospital.  We got to the hospital parking lot at 7 and made it up to labor and delivery before 7:05am.  We asked for room number 4 because this room is the room that has so many windows to look out and it is very bright and that is the room we wanted to welcome our little girl into the world.  Mom got her IV and everything else hooked up to her before 7:30am.  Dr. Willis came in at 7:40 and by 7:45 my bag of waters had been broken.  Zoey didn't like it at all her little heart beat went high.  But hey mine would to if all of sudden all the liquid I had been in was all of a sudden draining out.  Zoey got probed in the head with the monitors so that I wouldn't have to have the one on the belly.  I asked for the epidural as soon as I could get it.  Aunt Laura was the first one to show up she brought mommy and daddy a goody bag of treats.  Grandma Margaret was the next one to show up.  Than a couple of minutes later the nice guy who takes away all the pain showed up to give me an epidural.  By 9:00am we were rolling on with labor.  Than mommy's best friend Janine showed up to take pictures of this very memorable day.  We had a wonderful morning full of talking and laughter.  I would look at the monitor when I was having a contraction and say Mommy it really hurts, or that was a big one.  We joked about how the monitors in your head were anchoring you down because you loved to be head up in mommy and if you were to go head up we would just start pulling on the monitors.  By 12:30ish mom was dilated to a 5 so everything starts going faster after getting to a 5.  At 1:30pm the nurse came in to check me I was dilated to an 8.  By the time she got back down to the desk I called her back in to the room I was feeling pressure.  My mom and sister had me call her back because I wasn't sure if that was the right pressure I should be feeling.  The nurse checked me again at 1:40 had me do a practice push.  Than she said stop I have ears.  Zoey was already to come.  They went to call Dr. Willis and he said he was 15 minutes away.  (later he told me that he was debating about going to the staff meeting at the other office so he went because he thought he had time)  I had to hold you in until Dr. Willis got there he showed up at 2:05 he was going to come over and talk to me when the all the nurses told him we don't have time you need to gown up and put on your gloves.  (all the nurses were in the room because I picked their biggest room and they were being trained on the new warming device plus they all knew my story of little Lexy).  My sister Laura had asked if she could help deliver her niece Brandon told her that she could so she went and asked Dr. Willis if she could help he said gown up and you can stand right here and help clean her off.  I was than able to push I felt the need to push and my nurse had me start to breath and before I knew it my nurse was laughing hysterically she couldn't breath she was bending over with so much laughter.  Finally she got it together and at 2:09 Zoey had entered this world it took a total of 3 pushes to bring you into this world.  Zoey weighed 5 pounds 3 ounces and was 17 1/2 inches long.  Less than a minute later we heard your cry and than everyone started to cry.  I couldn't wait to see you and have you in my arms.  You were and are beautiful.  You were put on my skin and you put your little legs up stuck your butt up and looked like a little frog.  You looked up at me and my heart melted. All the nurses in the room were crying Grandma Margaret was doing her little jig.  Grandma Waite was out in the hallway and said it was wonderful to hear your cry.  Janine had taken pictures of you entering this world and captured the special moment.
I can't believe that Zoey is now 8 days old and is healthy.  We love her so much and are grateful to have her in our family.