love/hate

i have a younger sister that has down syndrom. in ways she is on the same level as jaxon. because of that they have a very love/hate relationship. sometime they play so well together while other times they fight like cats and dogs! yet she is one of jaxon's favorite people. well this day they each got some candy and were sent outside to play. jaxon had a toddler friendly treat while dani had chocolate. all of a sudden they both run inside giggling. they are both COVERED in chocolate! hands, face, and clothes! i was just happy they were getting along so well and SHARING!
after i got pics of the 2 chocolate monsters, jax layed down and posed like this! i thought he was so cute and smart! he has learned to look cute and it is too hard to get mad at him! i mean seriously! look at that face! could you get mad at him!???

Jaxon our little helper

So far jaxon loves to help mommy take care of baby grace. he is very concerned for grace when she makes ANY noise and will run to give her her binkie, that is when he is not "borrowing" it! he throws away her dirty diapers and will get wipes and diapers when needed. he loves to help feed her as well. he is usually very persistant about helping. i hope he stays this helpful and loving towards his baby sister.

provo

oh did i mention that we are MOVING BACK TO PROVO!!!! we will be moving back to our old house in provo by the end of the month! now if only greg could find a job we would be in business! of course i am thrilled however greg is a little bummed that there is no jobs in the koosharem area. still we are BACK!!!!!!

Grace 1 week old

our first day home went rather smoothly. grace slept a lot and was rather mello. i called the dr to make her 2 week apt. the nurse asked a bunch of questions, how is she sleeping, eating, how much is she eating, ect... after all was said and done she was concerned that she was sleeping too much and not eating often enough. she was eating about every 4-6 hours. well jaxon ate every 4-6 hours and it was never an issue. because when we left the hospital she was looking a little yellow that brought the concern with her eating. so the nurse told me that i needed to feed her at least every 2-3 hours. if grace didn't improve then i had to call in the next morning. needless to say that made for a very long sleepless night! the next morning i called in to see what counts as improvement. the nurse deccided that we needed to bring in baby for a weight check. just as we feared, she has lost 2.5 oz. in one day. not a good sign. so i had to continue to feed her every 2-3 hours even if i had to force her to eat or feed her with a syringe. we had to go back in 3 days to weigh her again.

i felt that after the 3 days grace had made a big improvement in her eating. she was eating more ofter as well as more food. yea! she had gained weight! although she was still less then when we left the hospital. but she is going in the right direction!

so i can remember, her weight went as follows: birth 6-11-09 - 8lbs 12oz

hospital discharge 6-15-09 - 8 lbs 4 oz

1st weight check 6-16-09 - 8lbs 1.5 oz

2nd weight check 6-19-09 - 8lbs 3 oz

over all she has been a great baby. she is getting more and more alert as each day comes. she LOVES her binkie, (in case you haven't noticed by the pictures!) just like jaxon. every once in a while jax will run off with it waiting to see if we hace noticed he is sucking on her binkie. she has a really good suck and can hold it in by her self very well! i hardly ever half to put it back in for her! she has her happy, content moments and her not so happy moments (greg and i call our kids angry elfs at these moments. from the movie elf).

she decides to be wide awake when it is time to go to bed and sleeps a lot during the day. she will sleep in her bed, couch, or floor untill it is time to go to bed then she will cry in her bed untill you hold her and then she falls sound asleep.

as a side note jaxon has continued to be as gentle as a 2 yr old can be and loves her to death! he has only had one jealous moment. one morning as he was asking to get out of bed and i was feeding grace. i told him that greg would come and get him out of bed. jaxon's reply to that was "no mommy, daddy hold baby, get me out!" i thought it was kinda cute they way he realized that i couldn't cause i was holding baby and that he wanted his mommy to get him out!

greg and jaxon have been gone for a couple days at his parents house. i have been in orem at my parents with grace. it has been great to just spend some one on one time with my new little girl. she has already been such a joy and i can't wait to continue to get to know her and watch her grow!

introducing Grace Michelle Sorenson!!!!

I know i am a little late on posting this! i really had planned to post right after baby arrived, but for some reason i was EXHAUSTED! everytime i would start to post i would fall asleep! better late then never!

Grace: june 11 2009 8:15 am

8 lbs 12 20 1/2 in

chubby with blonde hair

everything went well minus the nurse anesatists struggling with my spinal block (ya that was very unpleasant and that is putting it nicely!). grace did have some trouble with her breathing the first couple of hours. she was breathing very fast, which isn't that uncommon with a c-sec. then she has a bit of a heart murmor, it lasted about 3 days and then vanished. it lasted a bit longer then normal but at least all is well now!

She is perfect in everyway and we think she is pretty darn cute! she look exactly like her big brother when he was born except she has a much rounder face and blonde hair. speaking of big brother, he has been very good with her so far. the first thing he says when he comes to visit is " i want to see baby gwace!" or "where baby gwace?" he loves to "love" on her. he gives her lots of kisses and is very tender with her. his favorite part about her is her toes. he loves to play "this little piggy" with them.

hopefully i will be able to post more especially as we get home. i am sure there will be great stories about life at home with 2! thanks for all that visited and sent the well wishes!

baby day, sooner then later!

i have wanted to move our c-sec. up but the hospital has been booked solid. a little dis-heartening. i have been so miserable that the thought of another 2 1/2 weeks was quit depressing! this past thurs i had my 38 week checkup. as usual everything looks great and i am still retaining a lot of water ( the not so great part:) )

i had mentioned to my dr how i wanted to move the date up but everything was booked. well he decides to go check and see if anything opened up. i thought it would be a waste of time. then the nurse pokes her head in the room and says that something opened up on the 11th! so we didn't even think about it and told her to book it! YYYEEEEAAAHHHHHH! we got it moved up a week! but then it hit we have a WEEK! and then not only are we having a baby but we will then have 2 !!!! i got a little freaked out but excited at the same time. so the down side to having baby 1 week early is that she will arrive the day before jaxons b-day! thank goodness he is young enough that he doesn't even know it is his birthday and won't care that we will celebrate it later.

as of today we have 3 days till it is happy birthday baby girl!!!! since i get to hang out for 4 days in the hospital (visitors welcome) i will post pic's with a baby arrival update so stay tuned........

working is so overrated

well the job hunt still continues. greg was/does want to stay in the koosh area. there were a couple of potential opportunities there but unfortunatly about a week ago it was confirmed that none of them would work out at this time so on with the job hunt. there jsut are not very many opportunites there so he has really concentrated his hunting in utah/slc county. he has applied for several and now we are just waiting for the jobs to close to see if he gets interviews for any of them. there is one that i think would be great so i am crossing my fingers for that. he has been doing some random things and helping out with shifts at his brothers residential treatment center so that gives him something to do and a little bit of moola.

since he has had a little more free time he has been an amazing help to me with jaxon, along with the in-laws. as each day goes by it gets harder and harder for me to do a lot of things so i have beyond words appreciated all that they have done. greg has even taken jaxon to koosh with him for a couple days so i can just relax before the baby comes. greg is not always the most, "attentive" to when i need help but when it comes right down to it he is there for me. i love knowing that i have a great hubby that is there for me when i need it most! love you!!!