Stats

We had and awesome Christmas!  I’ll post some pictures of our Christmas festivities in a few days.  It has been so nice to have Casey 100% at home with no homework to do!  We got a huge early Christmas present with Casey being awarded the Hawes Scholar Award.  It is a big honor for the top all-around MBA students and it came with a $10,000 check which is pretty nice too! 

Yesterday I took Carly and Holland in for their well check-ups and here are their stats:

Carly

Weight: 29 lbs (37%)

Height: 38 inches (75%)

Holland

Weight: 16 lbs 15 oz (93%)

Height: 27 inches (99%)

Head: 17 inches (90%)

I hope everyone had a great Christmas!

4 months old!

Time has flown by!  Holland is already 4 months old!  She is the most precious baby.  She smiles and giggles at everyone.  She loves to play with toys now, and  she gets pretty fussy if she can’t reach one that’s close to her.  She absolutely loves any toy that has a face on it (like the one in the pic above).

  Lately she’s been a little scared of anyone besides Casey and me holding her, and I’m hoping that this phase doesn’t last too long.  She’s become quite the little sensitive girl in that if Carly starts crying she will too!  She loves getting kisses and we give her a lot,  especially on that chubby belly of hers!  We love you little Holland!

3 month stats

Holland has been sick for the past week. It's her first cold and it has been so sad. She's on the mend now but last week she was so miserable that I took her to the doctor. I was hoping that she had something bacterial that antibiotics could fix, but it was a virus. At the doctor she weighed in at 15 lbs 8 oz! At this age Carly weighed 13 lbs 6 oz and I thought she was so chubby! It's so fun to see the similarities and differences in my little girls.

My baby is 3!

I can’t believe Carly is already 3!  She is such a big girl now with a big personality!  She cracks us up all the time with what she says and does.  Here are some of her favorites:

Book:  She loves Magic School Bus books.

Food:  Mac and Cheese (pronounced “macamoni”)

Movie: Tangled

Color: Pink!

She loves doing puzzles,  playing “kitchen”, and reading books.  She also LOVES Little People.  She loves playing with her cousins and her cousin Sadie is her best friend.  She asks to go to Aunt Brooke’s house and play with Sadie like 5x a day!  If anyone messes with Sadie she will take them down (really).  She tries to do everything on her own, and often gets into trouble doing this.  We love our Carly Gwen so much!

3 months!

I love her belly!

Holland is still an angel baby.  She has been an awesome sleeper, rarely cries, and smiles all the time.  She loves her pacifier, and now loves to suck on her fingers and whatever else she can shove into her mouth.  She loves grabbing onto her little blankie, and nuzzling into it and falling asleep… All I have to do to get her to sleep is hand her her blankie and pop her paci in and she’s out – which was the total opposite of Carly so I am very appreciative!  She will never fall asleep while she’s nursing so I’m very glad that she can calm herself down and fall asleep on her own.

Carly has been a great big sister.  It took good a 2 months for her to start liking Holland, but now she gives her lots of loves and will put Holland’s pacifier back in her mouth if it ever falls out.

Jordan

Our Wisconsin friends, the Wehrhahns,  came out to Utah for their daughter’s wedding reception and to drop their son off at the MTC last week.  Their daughter Jordan was in my Primary class in the Lake Michigan ward and always would help me out with Carly at church.  Jordan came over to play with Carly and Holland while they were here. It was so fun to see Jordan again, and Carly was in heaven playing with someone who would do anything that she wanted and give her tons of attention!

Heehaw Farms

My Mom took all the grandkids (minus my sister Kari and kids who are in TX) to Heehaw Farms a few days ago.  At Heehaw you can pet all the farm animals you want, ride on a hay ride, pick pumpkins, shoot corn cannons, slide down a gigantic slide etc.  This was our second year going and it was awesome.  Carly was in heaven being able to touch all the farm animals!  It was a really nice day out and Holland loved it too! 

Recent pics

I can’t EVER get both kiddos to look at me at the same time! 

Holland’s 2 month stats

Weight: 13 lbs 4 oz (94%)

Height: 23.5 inches (85%)

Head: 15.75 inches (77%)

I love my little chunk!

2 months!

Holland is the sweetest, chill baby.  She just hangs out and goes with the flow.  She has been a great sleeper and goes to sleep almost every night at 9:30 and sleeps until 9 the next morning with 2-3 wake ups during those 12 hours.  She doesn’t like to be held when she’s trying to go to sleep. I just feed her and lay her down and she’ll fall asleep on her own.  She almost never falls asleep while she’s nursing. I had to hold Carly ALL the time when she was this age, but Holland would rather just hang out in her swing or bouncer by herself. 

She loves loves her pacifier, car seat, and “talking” to us - especially talking to Carly.  I’m taking her in for her checkup on Friday so I’ll post her stats then!

First time…

…going peep on the pot! 

I haven’t been too fond of the idea of potty training Carly.  Diapers are convenient right?  Really I’ve just been lazy and done ZERO potty training with Carly.  This morning she came up to me and said, “mommy I think I have to go potty.”  So I put her on the pot and she peed!  I guess I need to quit being lazy and just potty train her now.   Isn’t she so cute???

Holland’s Blessing

We blessed Holland last Sunday.  It was our last Sunday in our ward and it was so nice to have as many family and friends as we did participate in it!  Holland was awesome during the blessing and slept during the get-together afterwards.  Casey gave a very sweet blessing and I felt like the luckiest girl and mom in the world to have such an amazing husband and wonderful girls! 

My dad, mom, and sister Kristen. 

My Uncle Gregg (my dad’s brother) and Aunt Ann. 

Casey’s sister Mindy and her kids Brittyn and Landon

This is what Holland did pretty much the entire day!  I love those chubby cheeks!

Holland with her great Aunt Ann

I thought it was fun to see this picture of Carly’s bessing.  Carly and Holland look pretty similar to me!

My mom always knows how to get Holland to stop fussing.  Holland LOVES grandma!

We love you so much sweet Holland!

1 month!

 

My sweet Holland girl is 1 month old today!  She is the sweetest baby in the world.  I really couldn’t ask for a better baby! She loves to just hang out and look around, and when she’s tired I’ll just put her down on the bed and she’ll fall asleep! She has been an amazing sleeper (for a newborn). She usually only wakes up 1 time to eat at night which has been a dream come true. 

   She has been smiling for a few weeks and it melts my heart when she smiles back at me.  She has the most kissable cheeks, and I kiss them all the time. 

She loves her pacifier, and I love that she loves it. It helps her go to sleep and we don’t need to rock her for hours like we had to do with Carly every night. 

We are so grateful for Holland and her sweet spirit.  She really is an angel sent from heaven.  We love her so much!

2 weeks old!

Our sweet Holland baby is 2 weeks old! Time has gone by fast and slow at the same time.  Holland has been a really good baby;  She has slept really well at night, and she doesn’t cry a lot.  She’s been quite the little eater too-she gained a pound in 2 weeks!  At her doctor’s appointment today she weighed 9 lbs 5 oz (78%) and was 22.5 inches long (98%).  She’s been growing a ton. Carly has warmed up to her a little better.  She still gets jealous if Casey or I am holding her but she’s getting used to the idea of having someone else in the family.  It is a lot of fun to have such a precious newborn baby around.  It’s a lot of work but since I know how fast babies grow up I’ve been trying to enjoy all the cuddle time I can get.  We love you baby Holland!

Side note: We just found out yesterday that we got an apartment.  We’ve been on a waiting list for a while and we came to the top and we’re moving next week!  I have mixed feelings about leaving my parent’s house.  I want to give my parent’s their house back but I know I’ll miss having them around.  Our new apartment has 3 bedrooms so it will be nice to move Holland into her own room!

Holland!

Our sweet Holland Estelle Green was born on Tuesday night (my due date) at 11:25.  She was 8 lbs 4 oz 19” long.  I wasn’t expecting to go into labor on my own and I was just waiting until I could get induced on Wednesday morning, but on Tuesday afternoon my water broke at 3:45.  I was so excited when it broke because I knew I wouldn’t have to be induced the next morning anymore!  My contractions started pretty quick after my water broke so we headed straight to the hospital.  I had to wait in a triage room for a couple of hours because they didn’t have any open rooms!  It was a crazy busy day to have a baby I guess. 

When a room finally opened up I was having even stronger contractions but I was still only 5 cm dilated.  I was pretty frustrated that I hadn’t progressed very much in those 2 hours.  I had to wait another hour to get an epidural because the anesthesiologist was way busy giving the other 20+ ladies epidurals.  Once I got the epidural I started getting really light headed and I almost passed out a few times because my blood pressure was so low.  So  I had to lay down on my side for the rest of the time.  At 10 p.m. the doctor checked me and I was only at 6 cm.  Then during the next hour I started feeling a lot of pressure from the contractions and the nurse checked me at 11 and I was ready to start pushing!  I pushed a couple of times and then Holland came right out. 

Holland has been such a good baby.  She is so sweet and doesn’t cry a lot.  Carly loves her most of the time.  I made the mistake of calling Holland sweetie while I changing her and Carly heard and said, “No mama I’m your sweetie!”  She got pretty mad and has been a lot more clingy to Casey instead of me.  Hopefully she’ll warm up more to me and Holland soon. 

I am so grateful for Casey he is an amazing birth coach!

My sister Brooke came along to be a part of the birth.  It was fun having her there to help and lighten the mood. 

They had flavored ice chips -you could add snow cone flavors to the ice!  They helped to keep me from passing out!

We were lucky to have a lot of people come visit us in the hospital:  The Bergeses, The Whiteleys, Our bishopric, The McNeils, and The Edgmons.