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From our family to yours!

Little Miss Mya

What can I say about this little girl? She is definately the center of all of our lives right now. It is impossible for any of the kids to just walk by her and NOT touch or kiss her. They just adore her. I love how she has her daddy wrapped around her little fingers. (He offers to get up with her in the night), I love how when she hears my voice her little mouth immediately opens [that shows the kind of relationship we have at the moment :)], I love that she is getting so chubby she has a double chin and "rubber band" arms, I wish she would sleep better at night...but she is such a sweet little girl and we are sure loving every minute (except during the hours between midnight and five a.m.) :)

More pictures of our little lady!

Wow, this week has flown by. I can't believe our little baby is a week old already. She has been such a sweet little gal. She isn't the greatest sleeper at night, but we will hopefully work that out soon. She has had to go into the doctor every day since she was born to get her bilirubin checked. Her numbers kept going up and they wanted her tested everyday to see if we would have to put her under a blanket or light. But Wednesday her numbers finally went down and we took her one last time yesterday and they are still going down, so she is doing great. The kids all still love her. She has brought so much love into our home, we are so grateful to have her. Tyler has been amazing and even takes his turn during the night with her. Other than being tired most of the day, I am feeling really good. She is such a fun baby...i love her chubby cheeks and her long fingers and toes. She is hungry all the time...or at least it feels like that to me. She is growing like a weed and I already feel like time is slipping away. Brynn told me the other day that, Mya was the best Christmas present. I would have to say that I agree!

Miss Mya-Day 1

After taking her to the doctor, we had to keep her in the sun most of the day. She actually liked it and slept really well today. We are sure enjoying her!

Mya Kaye

This was my personal miracle!!

Dad, Peyton, and Landen came and visited us the next morning on their way to Brynn's dance performance.

Well, our pretty little lady finally decided to join us. I went in Friday morning about seven to get induced. They started my pit about eight and she was born by 2:16 that afternoon. That was definitely the fasted labor I have had. It was great. I got my epidural quickly, I even was able to get the anything-but-short-of-a-miracle pump, where I could pump up my dose of epidural as soon as I felt pain. I have to say that modern medicine is AMAZING! I was kind of slow progressing and my nurse kept warning me that I would probably be in labor for awhile. I was fine with it though because of course I had my epidural and my saint of a husband had brought his laptop and we were able to get some episodes in of Prison Break (we are obsessed).
We had some scares along the way. Little Mya decided to put her hand over her face and head, so the doctor had to come in and try and get her to move her arm. She finally moved it and things were good. And then my nurse noticed that after every contraction her heart rate would go down, so she was worried about that. She of course had to get me ready for the idea of maybe having to have a C-section in case the umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck, which at the time they thought that was the case. I of course asked for a tummy tuck and to have my tubes tied in case I had to go into surgery :) (I am totally half-way kidding)So I think it was around one or one-thirty they checked me and I was dilated to about a seven. They come in a little while later and start taking all the baby scales and beds out of my room, saying the lady next door was getting ready to deliver (we had been placing bets on who was going to go first...my doctor was suppose to deliver both of us). Anyways, as they were taking the baby stuff out, I started feeling "the pressure" and knew that it was time to push. They thought I was joking because I was only a seven, but then they quickly realized that the baby was coming fast. So they hurried and pulled all the baby stuff back into my room and the doctor hurried in to deliver me first and had to rush out of the room and deliver the other lady.
Mya was 7 pounds, 8 ounces of perfection. She was 19 1/2 inches long. She even came out with chubby cheeks and long fingers and toes. When they discharged us from the hospital her bilirubin level was kind of high, so we had to take her in this morning to get her rechecked and her levels were higher, so we have to take her back tomorrow.
Mark and Savanna were awesome and came and stayed the night and helped out a ton with the kids. Savanna helped them make a cake for Mya when she came home from the hospital. We had a lot of visitors at the hospitals and tons of calls and meals. I appreciate EVERYTHING!
The kids absolutely love her. Peyton can't stop kissing her head and saying how cute she is. He and Landen woke up at 6:30 this morning and I asked him why they were awake so early and Peyton said that he just kept waking up and thinking about the baby and he couldn't go back to sleep because he wanted to see the baby. Brynn and Landen want to help out whenever they can and are really big helpers. We are all just glad she is here!