Baby #3 a few days old with her big sisters 8-15-10

Baby #3 Delivery Day: 8-12-10

August 12th, 2010 was an early morning for Ryan and I as we prepared to go to Foothill Presbyterian Hospital in Glendora, Ca to deliver our third baby girl. We were scheduled to go in @ 5 am for and induction, but we both woke up around 3 am and couldn't go back to sleep. We tried, trust me. But my child inside the womb kept hopping around, and all I could think of was, "It's almost time for your appearance into this world." So we got up, got ready, and headed to the hospital.

We arrived just shortly after 5 am. We would have been on time but Ryan had to stop @ McDonalds for breakfast. We walked right up to the maternity ward and were led to our room, 308, where everything would happen for the next two days. Because I didn't pre-register it took a while to be inteviewed by our nurse before I could have an I.V. to start the pitocin. So, after our nurse talked a little too much and all the paper work was put into the computer, it was around 7 am when we were able to start the induction. I was dialated to a 2 for a few hours, but I scared my nurse by telling her that my labor goes really fast, even when being induced. So even though I wasn't dialated enough to get an epidural, she lied to the anesthesiologist and had him give me the epidural around 9 am. The hospital was very busy that day and he wouldn't be able to come back till later that day. So he came around 9 am. Even though my contractions were very close and very intense, according to the monitors (since I couldn't feel them due to the epidural) I was not dialating any more than a 2 for a few more hours. I thought, "Great, it will be this baby that would be stubborn and take forever to be delivered." But just before 12 pm, Nance came to check me before she went on her 1/2 hr break. At that point I was a 4. I asked her to cut back on the epidural cause I was so numb that my legs kept falling off the bed, and I couldn't even pick them back up with out some help. She obliged then, left and came back in around 12:25 to check me again when mentioned that I felt a little pressure "down there." Well, as I had told her, I was ready to go. She ran to get the doctor and a buzz quickly happened flew into the room. Dr Kassar came in with a robe on, asked for gloves and looked at the monitor. I watched his face as it turned from joking with the nurses to panic as he said, " we need to push cause the babies heart rate is dropping fast." The nurse came over and told me to push. Again! There was no counting to 10 while holding my breath. No one to couch or hold my hand or leg at that. I pushed 2 times, then I saw Dr Kassar turn around to grab something at the table. I knew it was the scissors to give me an episiotomy. I saw the motion of two snips and soon there after I felt a head release and soon a baby was lifted onto my stomach.

I'll finish later...

May 7th, 2010. Once again, Heidi loves to be silly and make other people laugh at her funny faces.

Jenn, Ellie, Wendy, Avery,

Heidi Silly faces

Heidi, 3 yrs old, is in a new faze of wanting to take a picture of her doing a silly face, then see it on the camera right after you take it. She even does this with the video camera, which is really annoying. She wants to see herself by turning the screen around to watch herself making faces at the camera. So at this stage of life, it is hard to get a picture of her smiling, unless she is being really cheezy with a scrunched up nose and squinty eyes. I'm sure she'll grow out of it, but for now it is an interesting part of her quirky little personality.

6-8-10

Tolman Wedding

Ryan and I had the privilage of attending the wedding reception of Brooke Tolman and Cyriss... The reception was held at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena, the old Ritz hotel. It was fabulously, amazingly beautiful. My sisters Wendy and Jennifer made the huge foral arrangements in large erns that sat outside the entrance into the main reception hall. The table and chairs with all the pictures on it was right as you walked in, just before the recieving line. Of course it is amazingly fabulous again.

My little camera didn't take great pictures inside cause the lighting was dimbed, but these are a few I did take to be able to show my sister Jana Lynn, who wasn't able to attend, how beautiful everything turned out.

I wish all the best to Brooke and Cyriss as they start life together.

Lights "Pure Imagination" 2010

Naomi was in her 3rd year performing in "Lights," The showcase for Center Stage Dance Academy. This years theme was "Pure Imagination." Naomi's Tap dance was to "Putt'n on the Ritz." It was very cute. The girls in her class are in an in-between age where they did a few more difficult steps, but it was still fun and simple. Each girl had a hard time keeping a smile on thier faces cause they would concentrate on the step, or what came next. It was adorable and they pulled the routine off in the end.
Naomi was also in the Opening number. "Don't Stop Believing," the Glee version. She enjoys performing more than class time, but I think she was ready to not be at the theater so often by the time the Saterday shows rolled around. As you can tell she loves to pose in her costume.

Easter 2010

On April 3rd, we went to the LA Zoo for the Spring Fling Exstraveganza! We arrived early since we are Glaza members this year and could partake of the festivities before the general crowd was let in. The girls pet real bunnies, colored paper bunny ear, got their faces painted like a bunny, received from peeps and a cup with carrot seeds in dirt, and the chance to walk around the zoo before it became way too croweded. It was hard to push a stroller all around since the LA Zoo is on a lot of hills and spread out very far. But the girls liked seeing the animals, especially the humungous hippo who moved so slow on his short legs.