First Bath

We gave McKenna her first bath at home yesterday. Of course, we couldn't submerge her in water, but we let the sink water run over her head to clean her hair and she loved it. It was when we exposed her to wash the rest of her body that she screamed!

McKenna Dean Andersen

McKenna Dean was born on Wednesday, December 26th at 12:38pm. She weighed 7 pounds 9 ounces (my weight when I was born) and was 20 inches long. She is a healthy baby girl with tons of hair and we love her! My mom made it to the hospital just in time for me to push McKenna out (my labor was only five and a half hours - lucky me!) and my dad surprised me by showing up last night! Here are only a fraction of the millions of pictures we already have of this little one.

This isn't so bad.

Oh, yes it is!

McKenna and Mom - she finally decided to come out and meet us!

Sleeping with Mom.

Saying Hi to Mom.They ripped the tape off of my chest, Ouch!All bundled up.

Ready to go home. Sleeping in car seat on way home.
Not happy in car seat on way home.
Grandma and Grandpa with McKenna. With Grandma or "Glamma."With Grandpa.
Daddy kissing McKenna. Smiling at Daddy.
Miley sniffs out the new member of the family.

Baby Update

No, I do not have a baby yet....but we should have one by the end of the day. My doctor is going to induce me today. This baby is a little teaser and I have been having contractions since yesterday morning - she wants to come out but then decides she likes it inside my stomach! It is three o'clock in the morning now and the baby has decided to wake me up with more contractions, so maybe we will go to the hospital and I won't have to have the pitocin after all. I will post pictures as soon as I can - Jade will try to email pictures later tonight...that is if she is here by then (LET"S HOPE!). We had a great Christmas and hope everyone else did too! I added some pictures of our Christmas below.Jade got me this beautiful nativity - I wanted it the first time I saw it in the stores.

Miley couldn't figure out how to get the bone out of the wrapping paper - we opened it and had peace for a long time while we opened our presents. When she was finished with the bone she helped clean up by taking my wrapping paper to Jade as I unwrapped gifts.

Here Jade is opening a gift at his mom and dad's house - notice the Blue Tooth in his ear. He didn't take it off after opening it yesterday...it was his new toy! This is the adorable charm bracelet my parents got me...it has all kinds of cute baby charms on it. Now, if we could get this baby here we will be in business!

No Baby Yet

I don't have a baby in my arms yet! And since we don't have pictures of a new baby to show you I will post one of Miley. Miley is getting ready for the baby by showing that she can be gentle. She got this bear from my mom's kids meal the other day and carried it everywhere with her. She ended up sleeping with it on her pillow downstairs. The next day she destroyed it - oh well, it is a work in progress.

Happy Holidays

I am hoping that I will have this baby soon and I will not have time to wish everyone a Merry Christmas so I will do it now! Here is our family picture - the fourth member of our family still deciding to stay in my stomach!

My mom came into town to be here for the baby's birth and it looks like she might not be here after all since she leaves on Monday. We have had a lot of fun having her around - Jade enjoys not having to be the only one at home with a 39 week pregnant person. This past weekend we went up to Temple Square in Salt Lake to see the lights and it made me remember how special this season is. I love being around family and friends during the holidays and I am so blessed to have such a wonderful family - my mom has been patiently waiting for this baby to come and Staci is putting off seeing her boyfriend even longer to stay here with me. Presents are great to get on Christmas, but I am more thankful for having people around that care for and love me. This baby is a lucky person to have so many people excited about her coming into this world - she will be perfectly spoiled! If she decides to come on Christmas Day I guess there is no other better present than a new baby - even if it means I have to wait four more days. I am so happy to have this season to remember another baby that was born who gave us something to believe in. Jade and I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and hope that you have a wonderful time with family and friends.

Still Pregnant

Yes, I am still pregnant. I feel like this child is just going to grow up inside of me!!! I have tried everything to get her out...all of the home remedies and folk myths suggested to me have not worked. I even tried castor oil - it just made me sick. I have eaten spicy food, whole pineapples, eggplant, and black licorice (yuck!). I take a vigorous walk every day - in fact, I have jogged a few times. My mom printed off what seems like an entire book on accupressure. My mom and Staci then proceeded to do the exercises to the point where I think I will have bruises the rest of my life! (Just joking!) The doctor stripped my membranes - nothing has happened and it has been three days. I think this child is just showing me that she can be more stubborn than I can be - Jade and I are in for a treat with this one. Hopefully I have her this weekend. I will keep you posted.

The Finished Nursery

The nursery is finally finished - almost...a shelf still needs to be put up. The crown molding ended up being harder than anticipated. We have five corners in the nursery - three of them are the easy regular corners - two are rounded.
My dad and Jade worked on them forever over Thanksgiving week and could not get it to work. Finally Jade figured it out last night - with the help of calking which covers up the gaps! We now have a place for this baby when she decides to come out!

Baby Update

The baby is still in me for the moment. Yesterday I went to my appointment and the doctor did a uterus check. I am dilated one and a half centimeters with thirty percent thinning. So in other words, I could have this baby in two days or I could walk around like this for three weeks. Let's hope it isn't three weeks!!!! I can't believe she is actually coming - the past nine months have flown by....let's just hope the next couple of weeks don't feel like nine more months!

My mom sent me this adorable onsie for the baby and I thought it was funny! I am sure I will get tons of advice - in fact, it has already started! I guess you just nod your head and smile!

Miley and a Baby

My family, including my grandma and grandpa, came to Utah for the Thanksgiving holiday since I am very fat and pregnant. My cousin and his wife came over to the house for Thanksgiving dinner and brought their little girl that is a year old. We had a great time and I was so thankful to be surrounded by family - it gave me something to take my mind off the constant feet in my ribs!
My cousin's little girl, Jenni, kept pounding on the sliding glass door and yelling for the dog so we let Miley in to see how she would do with the baby! It was so cute to see them interact. Jenni giggled the entire time and followed Miley everywhere. She wanted to crawl underneath Miley at all times, Miley would freeze and let her crawl under her legs for fear that she would step on her! We have it on video but I am retarded right now and cannot seem to figure out how to upload the video so pictures will have to do.
We don't have to worry about Miley being good with babies now, she proved herself this past week! Look at how calmly Mileystands there while Jenni pulls on her tail. I guess she better get used to it, soon she will have a baby around all the time that will want to pull on her tail, ears, and hair!

Baby Stuff Everywhere

Yesterday Jade's family had my baby shower and I got a lot of great things...but it made me realize that I had no more room to put them in the closet - Kyle has not found a place to live yet so his stuff is still in the nursery closet.
Staci doesn't have school all next week so she came into town on Friday. That meant I had someone to help me put together the baby furniture! We put together the changing table on Friday night and on Saturday night Jade helped us with the crib. We still need to put the dresser together, but since Kyle's bed is in the office we put a twin bed in the nursery for Staci to sleep in and there is no more room. We stuffed as many baby items in the crib and on the changing table as we could, most of the clothing is still in the closet in the office. I hope we can get everything squared away before this baby decides to come - last night I felt like she was kicking herself out! I even called my mom to make sure it was normal.
My mom got a belly cast kit for me to make a mold of my pregnant belly! We will see how it turns out - some people put a picture of their baby's ultrasound on the belly with their name. We'll have to see if it turns out. I'll post a picture of it when we are done!

Second Attempt at the Nursery

After Jade did all that work on the Nursery I ended up not liking it. The colors were too dark and too close together ... I felt like I was inside of a circus tent, we just needed the theme music going on in the background. So after I shed quite a few tears we went to buy new paint - lighter colors. Before we measured out the stripes Jade had me get butcher paper and tape it to the wall to decide what to do. After my wonderful husband spent yet another weekend painting I ended up with beautiful nursery walls! I will post more pictures of the nursery as we finish it off - my dad is going to help us put a window frame up and crown molding plus we have to put all the furniture in!

Here is the paper on the wall - we tried alot of different ways but settled on 18 inch light stripes and 12 inch dark stripes!

Here is the second taping, I tried to do most of the measuring and taping on my own so Jade didn't have to since he was the one painting.

And the finished paint job! I love, love, love it. Jade does like it alot too, but I think he will like it even more as time passes and he forgets about all the extra time and effort this room took him!

Getting the Nursery Ready

I had this crazy idea to do stripes in the nursery. I didn't think about the time and effort it would take to actually do it. Right now we are done with the first three steps and Jade will try to finish the fourth later today. He is really great to do this for me! I'll put up the final paint job as soon as we get it done~wish us luck that it works.

First Step: Priming the room so the aqua blue Kyle had in there would not change the color of the pink we chose.

Second Step: Painting the light pink on all the walls!Third Step: Measuring out stripes and taping them. Jade and I worked for two hours and only got three walls done. We ran out of tape!

What Miley Thinks of the New Furniture

Jade and I bought a new couch and love seat last weekend, so now Miley is banished from sitting with us while we watch TV. Kyle is going to take the old couch with him to his new apartment when he moves out so the couch is sitting in our dining area waiting for the move. Miley has decided that pouting is the best way to show her emotions about the new couches and has taken up residency on the old couch away from us. We find her there all the time - she is a spoiled puppy!

The Baby Shirt

My mom told me that I only put pictures of me in black shirts on the blog - slendering colors. So here is a picture of me in the shirt that makes me look the most pregnant! When I wear it everyone that passes me always chuckles a little - it is really cute.