Orlo, Jamie, and Rascal plus 1

Life with our new plus one is amazing. Its challenging, tiring, sweet, and bitter, but AMAZING! Its allready been a month and Kylie is still as sweet as a peach.There has been so many memories allready made and I feel like its a new experience everyday. Since we brought our peanut home its been a little different in the Cox home. Nights are now up to her, I am up about every three hours during the night to change her, feed her, or just give her a pacifier. I am a 24 hour milk machine, I tried breast feeding for almost 2 weeks and ended up hurting myself with doing it inccorectly.Although we rarely nurse, she is still getting the good stuff =] Kylie has allready been to the cabin 2 times and went fishing last Sunday! We stopped @ lake called Apsen Mirror Lake, she didnt catch much but a few Z's. She met her boyfriend Finn and boy is he ADORABLE! We love the Ruby family =]

Kylies first bath was around 2 and 1/2 weeks old and she LOVED it! She had the happiest look on her face! I am not sure if it was the warm water or the pooh she took in the water. Either way, I love giving her baths before bed, she loves it. Mmmm the smell of clean baby =]

 

We have a water baby on our hands! She took her first swim in Nana's pool. At first she screamed, then she loved it. We hung out in the water for a little while and she kind of fell asleep. Kylie has allready done so much, she has a huge smile and is getting to be a pro @ holding her head up! Life if deffinately different, there is not a second in the day that I am not thinking of Kylie. Life evolves around our sweet baby angel, and it goes too fast! We are head over heals in love with her and the way things are going. She is a great baby, her cries are few and she sleeps so peaceful. She likes to stay awake during the day and kick her legs as fast as she can and fling her arms all over like a crazy girl, she is so active! So far we are extremely lucky to have a healthy happy baby =] Next week are going to Lincoln County to meet everyone! She is going to meet her GREAT GREAT grandma Cynthia and so many others who have not met her=] We are going for a week and she is having her first Labor Day in Pioche with great family and friends =]
 

We finally got to meet handsome Dextri!!!!

Holding her head up =]

The birth of Kylie Ann Cox

I went to my full due date of 40 weeks and since there was not any progress my Dr and I decided to be induced on Friday the 22nd at 10AM. We did final touches the night before and woke up early Friday out of anxiousness:) Me, Orlo, and my mom showed up at the hospital ready to go just to find out I am still not dialated (which I could have told them that)so they decided to insert a medicine that softened my cervix and I can not be induced for 12 hours after it's inserted. In all honesty I wanted to just go home and wait it out but what the heck, were here. About 3 hours went by and I was contracting like crazy, getting more and more painful. I was nauseated and threw up 1 of my 4 times. I was concerned how much the contractions hurt an they were minutes apart and we convinced the nurse to check my dilation. ( they are not supposed to check until the 12 hours were complete)so she checked since I was feeling quite a bit, I was dialated to a 2! A couple hours later I was having a contraction every minute and my mom, Orlo, and Orlos mom, and Missy had to hear me every hour and vomit 2 more times :) the nurse came in and seen all my contractions and what was going on and she said she would give me my epidural and make me dialated to a five! Music to my ears! Turns out I was basically in labor once they inserted the cervix thing!Turned out I did not need to be induced which I was so happy for! So I got the epidural which was cake! Nothing to be scared of with the epidural:) my legs slowly started to turn to jello but I could still feel the contractions slightly, more so toward the end. A couple hours went by and I was feeling so much pressure to push and so we told the nurse and she checked me an we were ready to push! I think I shocked the nurses since it was supposed to be a 12 hour process before any of this was supposed to start. I was at a 10, and pushed for 2 hours until we got to see our baby girls face :) pushing was a challenge, after the first hour I was exhausted , but all worth it. She finally decided to arrive at 11:24 pm and had a fever and was not breathing so well, It took a good 4 to 5 minutes befor I could hear her cry and get her breathing, the longest 4 minutes of my life . Orlo was standing in my way so I couldn't see her and thank God I had him, his mom, and mine to get me through those horrible 4 min. I wanted to hold and see her so bad, but all I got was a quick hello , they took her straight to the NICU to keep an eye on her for a few hours. At 3am Orlo and I FINALLY had her in our arms. Much better to see her in person rather than pictures Orlo was sending from the NICU. It was a long couple of days in the hospital but she is healthy and happy and ready to go home to her new home and meet her big brother Rascal.

She is allready 2 weeks old today and time really does FLY. She is the apple of our eyes. I couldnt have asked for a more precious, sweet, beautiful, healthy baby girl. There isnt anything that could make me upset as long as I have her =] Orlo is amazing and everything is just coming so naturally now. This little girl will be nothing short of love from all sides of the family. Orlo and I are some lucky parents to a wonderful baby girl =]