Lindsay's 6 month Pics

Lindsay Jane is over half a year old!  She is growing so dang fast.  She loves to roll over from side to side and touch things.  She especially loves to touch her cd player in her room that plays lullabies, and she loves her white hair brush.  She loves her white teddy bear from Debbie Grandma and Bobby Grandpa that says the cutest little things when she hugs it.  She is always smiling, loves to say "dada, dada, dada" and loves playing with all of her toys.  We couldn't be more thrilled about her.  :)

Lindsay's cousin, McCall, made her gorgeous tutu  for Valentine's Day!  McCall is very crafty and worked hard to make it, we love love love it!!!

Lindsay's Blessing

Our sweet little girl was blessed by her dad on Sept. 26, 2010. What a great day! Lindsay wore my blessing dress that my mom saved which was made by hand. (Way to go mama!) It was so beautiful on her. I kinda want to dress her up in it again since she was soooo cute in it. These are all of the people that came to the blessing:

Dean, Donna, Terri, Norm and Betty (I have to put their names first because they kinda got there early...over 2 hrs. early, we had a mix-up~~at least they weren't late!) Matt, Melissa, Davis, Landon, Joel, Lydia, Julie and Miles, McCall, Mason, Rowan, Kevin and Linda, Katie, Cory and Danielle, Carson, my Aunt Cindy, my Uncle Doug and Aunt Vickie, Russ and Cathy Svedin and Greg Day.

The blessing was beautiful and the weather was perfectly sunny, not too hot. We couldn't have asked for a more perfect day! We forgot to take pictures of little Lindsay in her blessing dress so we put it on her after everyone left our house and I even got back into my dress to make it more realistic. JT wouldn't get back into his suit---but he was our photographer, so it was all good.

Lindsay Jane

Lindsay Jane is here!!! The delivery went great despite some extremely painful contractions, but once I had an epidural it was smooth sailing. I was induced on July 30, 5 days after my due date. Little Lindsay weighed 8 lbs., 6 ounces and was 20.5 inches long and was born at 4:15 pm. She has a lot of dark hair--we can't believe it! She is absolutely darling and it has been so much fun watching her grow! Although she had to be placed in the NICU for 3 days (long, sad story...), she is now completely healthy, perfectly happy and amazingly beautiful! And I am not being biased. :)

She is a great baby and sleeps really well in her little bassinet right by our bed---I only have to wake up 1-2 times each night to feed her. Which is much better than the 5 times a night it was for the first week or so.

She loves her sister Lydia and brothers James, Matt and Joel. She was born an Aunt to little Davis and Landon--we hope they will protect her when they get older. She has two sister in laws, Mary and Melissa who she has met already. In fact, little Lindsay will really get to know Matt and Melissa, Davis and Landon because they will help watch Lindsay when I go back to work. Which happens in a week and a half. Yikes. Not sure if I am ready to leave my little girl for over 8 hours!

I think Lindsay resembles me a lot. Not so much what I look like now, but she looks really similar to a lot of my baby pictures. She does a lot of things like me--she likes to sleep a lot, when she is hungry, she is HUNGRY!! She is an excellent burper, perhaps better than me, and she even sleeps like me with her arms up over her head. She smiles a lot in her sleep and we like to think that she is having sweet dreams. :)

JT is such a great dad. He loves holding his little girl and talking to her. He is even teaching/brainwashing her with his repetitive "I love daddy" phrases. Cute. Kinda. I like to think she will say mama first, but I bet I am wrong! JT also gets the best burps out of her, it is a real talent.

Lindsay has also met all of her cousins except for Wendy and Bret's children and she really likes all of the attention they give her. And she has met Debbie Grandma, Bobby Grandpa and of course Grandpa Dean and Grandma Donna. She will get to meet Grandpa Bob and Grandma Linda over the Christmas holidays when they visit. She loves to be held!

JT and I feel overwhelmingly blessed right now. Not only do we have the cutest baby girl ever, but we have felt so much love and support from family and friends, neighbors and strangers. We feel extremely spoiled!

There's More!

I thought of some more funny things that people have said to me while being pregnant:

"Janet, you're large and in charge, you can have my 2:00 shift if you want, instead of Eric." Large and in charge, eh? Gee, thanks!

There is this guy at work that wore this shirt that says "I like big bumps and I cannot lie". Not the most professional shirt to be wearing, especially since he's still a trainee, but whatever. So another guy asked him if he was wearing that shirt today because I have a big bump of a belly. I raised my eyebrows and said "Did you just say Janet and big in the same sentence?!". I love scaring these stupid boys with my dirty looks.

"Oh, look at your feet, they are soo huge!!!" What, like I haven't ever noticed? Hehe...

Something sweet that JT and I do every morning when we wake up, is I will say "7 more days", or however many more days there are until my due date. And then he always says back to me "When are you gonna start showin'?" He's just trying to get out of the doghouse for his basketball comment from a few months ago, haha! :) I love it, though.

Speaking of JT, he has been so wonderful throughout this pregnancy. He would give me a hug after I would throw up, he would look at me with love as I threw up, massage my feet and cankles, he rubs my belly and talks to Lindsay all the time, and has happily put together tons of baby things and helped me tape and paint stripes for Lindsay's room and accomplish lots of other "nesting projects". He has gone to every single doctor's appt. with me and even had to leave a mountain biking/rapelling trip early to make it in time to one appt. He came to the doctor's office with dirt and mud all over his clothes and legs from a few falls from the bike. I thought it was awesome that he didn't care what he looked like for the appt., but that he was there. :) He is a trooper, and I can't imagine life without him. He never ever complains (seriously) and is always pleasant and happy--he has the best smile, ever. He is such a great dad to his 4 children and will be wonderful to little Lindsay. He is such a giver. I love my JT!

Highlights of my pregnancy

Okay, just so I don't forget later, I thought I would share some of the highlights of my pregnancy. Well, here goes!

The negatives: morning sickness that lasts all day (at least only the 1st trimester), throwing up at work on the graveyard shift, my older brother Jared making me laugh so hard I barely made it to the bathroom in time (maybe this one should be a positive, since I made it?!), and my poor swollen ankles and feet! My back is even thicker and my face and neck fuller!

The positives: I am pregnant with child!!! Also, no complications! Some other good things include a very healthy appetite (wait, maybe this one's a negative?), still being able to run for the first 7 months of the pregnancy (if only I could still fit in my shoes!), having lots of energy, etc. And so far I have no stretch marks and my belly button is still an innie----but barely! Also, feeling little LJ kick, stretch and hiccup is so amazing! I told JT it's a good thing that women get to be the ones that are pregnant because I would be insanely jealous if he got to carry our baby for 9 months. Good thing I'm a girl!

Here are a collection of some of the dumb things people have told me while being pregnant:

Yesterday, a pregnant friend told me how it was bugging her that people were telling her she was getting big. Then she looked at my belly and said "Are you sure there's only 1 baby in there and not 2?" Un-freakin-believable! I told this to JT and he said "I hope she gets BIG!"

"When's that baby gonna pop out?" really? Like I know. And I really doubt it just 'pops' out.

"Oh yeah, you look the same size as my sister does right now that is pregnant." This was when I was 20-22 weeks along. I asked when her sister was due and my friend says "In 2 weeks, she is huge!" Gee, thanks Talitha. :)

"I didn't know you were in the lunchroom because Janet was blocking you." Said to my face! I told the guy at work who said that "I dare you to say that one more time" with a really rude facial expression. I am sure I really looked graceful in that moment! Ah well, he deserved to be scared.

"Hey Janet, have you seen my basketball?"

"How come Danielle is carrying a croquet ball and you are carrying a basketball?" Thanks, honey. Good thing I love you. ;)

"Wow, you're really rounding out!" Duh, that's what happens, people!

And the worst, is the constant staring! For some reason, strangers and friends just seem to stare at my belly---I just think to myself, "yes, it's big, that's because I am pregnant, now get over it!"

And the worst is when people you don't know very well start to touch your belly and get in your face. Ugh. There's one sweet lady at work that does janitorial cleaning. She bugs! Every time I see her I try to avoid her, because if I don't she will talk to me for what seems like 30 minutes and rub my belly and ask me what the baby is hungry for, etc. etc. etc.! And she is sooo loud.

It's funny when I am walking into the grocery store and I will see a woman that will give me this look, and I know exactly what she is thinking--"oh that poor girl, so totally huge and pregnant, I so pity her. Her life must be so miserable". And I think to myself, "Wow, that lady must have had a terrible pregnancy to be giving me such a look of sympathy, I think I have it pretty good."

Many people have given me nice compliments, and I appreciate those! Davis will even kiss my belly and say hi to "baby Windsay".

Some of the most memorable things I have done during this pregnancy include running the Salt Lake 1/2 marathon while 6 mos. pregnant, or should I say jogging--- and also, going to Hawaii with JT and hiking around and still feeling good enough to do things.

I am so excited to have this baby girl and hold her in my arms and hear her cry to the first time and see what she looks like. I can't wait to see what kind of personality she will have and knor what her favorite color will be someday. Yet, I am really sad to think that I won't be pregnant with her anymore. Weird, huh? I just love having her with me all the time, safe and sound. But I am soooo looking forward to having her on the outside! Whenever LJ stretches out a lot I tell her that there's way more space for her to sprawl out on the outside than in my belly. And that there are a lot of really cute outfits and accessories with her name on them, just waiting for her. :)

The New Graduates!!!

All graduated!! Congrats to Lydia and Katelyn! Aren't they beautiful?!

What we've been up to...

The nursery has sure kept us busy these past few weeks. First we painted the whole room, including the ceiling an off-white. Then it took over 4 hours to decide how to put the stripes on the wall and just to tape for them. The painting was the easy part! The green stripes only took me a couple of hours. Taking the tape off was magical, the lines looked so clean, and no seep-through, yay!! I did a couple of craft projects--I made the mobile from scratch. I used a craft wreath, wrapped it in ribbon and hung lots of cut-out circles from fish wire. I really like the way it turned out. And then the circles on the wall, that took forever, too. I wasn't super-sure about them (probably bc i was sick of looking at them because it took so long to cut and stick each of them together) but JT, Lydia, Matt and Melissa say they like them and reassured me it looked good. Phew! I was thinking about painting that wall pink if the circles didn't turn out, and I really didn't want to have done all of that work for nothing!


All we need is a cute baby girl to fill the space! 3 1/2 more months!

I painted the office a color called sea breeze, it's a little bright, but i wanted something bold, something not beige-- and then added the black decals (Costco, $6.99, gotta love it) which were really easy to apply. We added black framed pictures of JT's 4 kids on the wall and a 4 generation picture with Dean, JT, Matt and Davis from the wedding. Love this room!




My next project is to type up all of my loose recipes and store them in a binder--i have over 100, wish me luck! I have to get everything i can think of done before this sweet little baby comes into this world and changes my life forever!

And then the next project is to glaze the kitchen cabinets, i already have the glaze, all i need to buy is sandpaper. It's one of those projects that costs very little but takes a lot of time. But it will be worth it, i love the look of glazed cabinets. The glaze is nearly black. I will post before and after pics.