Baby Pictures

You can decide which boy/boys Maggie looks like. Here is pictures of all the boys and Maggie. What do you think?

Maggie

Kennie

Justin

Nate

Adorable

This is to prove that Maggie has more than just purple in her wardrobe. She is getting so big. She did catch the bronchitis bug that we have in our house, so now it's just Aaron that hasn't gotten it. He is going to Utah for the weekend, so hopefully we will get rid of the bug before he comes home.

A few things about Maggie

Maggie's 2 weeks old!

Since I have received a ton of e-mails with the same questions, I figured I would answer them all on the blog. That way I don't have to answer them a thousand times.

#1 - How was labor? Labor was ridiculous. I didn't even attempt to get an epidural this time since it hasn't really worked the other 3 times, and after Nate, I had extreme back pain at the injection site. I didn't want to go through that again. So, I opted for the IV drugs, which did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!! The only thing that saved me was the Phenergan. The reason I was admitted was dehydration. We had the flu at our house and I had been throwing up for 3 days and just needed them to put a few bags of saline in me to help me feel a little better. Aaron was working a ton and I really needed to be able to take care of the boys. My doctor drew some blood to do a few labs and determined that I was severly anemic. He was ready to do a blood transfusion right then, except, for some reason, Maggie looked great! He held off. They were concerned that I would lose a lot of blood during the delivery, but we were blessed. I didn't hardly lose any. My doctor was very pleased.

#2 - How did we come up with Maggie's name? For most of the pregnancy, we were going to name her Charlotte Rose. We both really liked Maggie, but couldn't find a "full" name to go with it. About 2 months ago, Aaron suggested we talk about other names. He totally threw me for a loop, I thought Charlotte it was! So, we went through the list of names that we could use Maggie as a nick name. When I suggested Magdaline, neither of us liked it, but the more we talked about it, the more we liked it. So, that is what we ended up doing. Ilene's (Aaron's mom) great-grandma's name was Magdalena which is where we got Magdaline (kind-of) and David's (Aaron's dad) mothers name was Rosalie, which is were we got Rose.

#3 - How am I doing? I am doing fantastic. I am so glad to not be pregnant any more. I am back in my clothes and finally getting some much needed sleep. Maggie is such a laid back baby. Friday night, she slept through the night. Imagine my surprise when I woke up at 7:30 and hadn't fed her all night. I about died. Nate just barley started sleeping through the night. I can't believe it. The boys love her and are so good with her, even Nate. We haven't yet had any jealousy which I totally expected from him.

If you want to see Maggie's hospital picture, click here.

She's here!!!

As many of you now know, Magdaline Rose Lewis arrived early today after a painful but relatively brief labor by her loving mother. She was born at 1:23 AM, weighed 8 lbs 4 ozs and was 20.2 inches long. Despite being sick for a couple of days prior to deliver, Sassy is doing well. The doctors told her that she is quite anemic (low blood counts) but she didn't have a lot of blood loss with the delivery and seems to be doing okay. She is a little nauseated, but this is likely from the stomach flu bug that we have had at our house for the past couple days. If everything continues to be good, they should be home on Thursday evening or Friday.

Sassy is the blogger of the family, and with her at the hospital it has been left to me to post some pictures. In doing so I messed up the rest of the blog, but at least you can see these.

Little bruised on the head, otherwise perfect

Tired and relieved mama

Proud papa

So far, a good little sleeper

With Kennie

With Justin

With Nate

If Sassy has her way, Maggie will be in as little pink as possible.

Purple is ALL the rage at the Lewis house nowdays.

She did have a pink bow on though.

Couldn't be any cuter!

Recent Activities

I will hopefully have Aaron take a picture in the next day or two of me so you can see an update on me. I am schedualed for induction on the 9th, so if I haven't had the baby before then, I will be done 1 week from tomorrow. I am dilated to a 3 though, so really, I could go at any time. Aaron has had the last week off, so here are a few pictures of our activities from the week.

We had some friends come over for a BBQ on Memorial Day. This would be all the dads playing Nintendo.

Mrs. Trish, Mrs. Amber, Mrs. Janean and Kennie at his Preschool graduation

Mrs. Mae, Mrs. Grace, Mrs. Sue and Justin at his end of preschool Ice Cream Party.

Kennie and Justin went fishing with Aaron at a pond by our house. These are the fishing poles they got for their birthdays.

More than we can handle?

I have always assured myself that the Lord would never give me more than I can handle. This is sometimes the only thing that would get me through the rough times. At times, I would take things by 5 minutes. I would pray, please, help me get through the next 5 minutes. Once those minutes were over, I would pray for help getting through the next 5. In all my doctors appointments and time in waiting rooms lately, I have been doing a lot of reading in the book by Sheri Dew, God Wants a Powerful People.

I have found this to be a very inspirational book. However, in my reading on Friday, I came across the following that negates the one thing that has gotten me through some of the toughest times in my life.

"We often reassure each other that we won't be tempted beyond that which we can bear. But the scripture are actually conditional on this point. We are counseled to humble ourselves before the Lord, to call on his holy name, and to watch and pray continually so that we will not be tempted above that which we can bear. In other words, the promise is based upon our righteous actions (see Alma 13:28-29).

Further, the Lord does give us more than we can handle -- by ourselves, that is. He does this so that we will have every opportunity and motivation to seek Him early, to put Him first. He atoned precisely so that we would not have to shoulder our burdens or the disappointments of mortality alone." (page 89-90)

Okay, so this blows everything I've ever told myself on this topic out of the water. I guess I need to work on humbling myself so that he will not give me too much more than I can handle. This will become my quest, however, I think I will wait until after the baby is born.

Thanks for listening to my rant.

A "KNIGHT" to remember

So, this last Friday night (May 9th) we had the boys birthday party. We celebrated with a few of their closest friends at the Magic Castle. It was a knights and dragons party. Here are some pictures of the event.

The whole group eating.

The king and Dragon of the Magic Castle

Sorry this picture is so dark. Kennie was sitting in a corner and my camera was running out of batteries.

Justin opening his presents.

The cake and candles. (Funny story, one of the kids blew out Justin's candles while we were singing Happy Birthday. Justin was so close to tears. I just laughed!!

Nate enjoying his time at the Magic Castle. He had a blast.

Kennie turns 5!

Yesterday Kennie had his 5th birthday. He is so excited for kindergarten and all the fun things that come with being 5! His favorite is being able to get his pogo stick. He wanted one for Christmas, but it says for ages 5 and up so I told him he couldn't get one until he turned 5. So, he wanted the pogo stick for his birthday.

For his "big" gift from Aaron and I, we are combining Kennie and Justin's birthday presents and they are getting a trampoline. We will have it in a few weeks! They decided to do a combined birthday party, so we are having their party on the 9th, so you will have to wait for cake & Ice cream pictures until then! Here are some pictures of our family party though!

The pogo stick!

Justin and Nate got Kennie a Spiderman fishing pole and tackle box. There is a pond pretty close to our house that they stock with fish. It's a catch and release pond. So, Justin will probably get a fishing pole for his birthday and then Aaron can take them fishing!!

8 weeks and counting...

Okay, so technically 8 weeks and 3 hours. Tomorrow I hit 32 weeks. I have hit the point where everything is miserable. I can't do much of anything without it being a production. Take putting away the dishes for example. I can put away about 1/2 of the stuff with no problems, but anything above the 2nd shelf in our kitchen cabinets I can't reach unless I get out the step stool. Seriously, ridiculous!! Starting the 2nd of May, I have to go do the non-stress tests. It's a once a week thing where I have to be hooked up to the monitors and the watch her heartbeat and make sure everything is okay. I've had to do this with Kennie and Justin as well. All of this hoop-la is because I have Graves disease and am considered high risk. I guess you can look on the positive side and say that it just means that I am closer to my due date. The countdown begins!!

On a lighter note, my mom purchased her blessing dress a few days ago. Now I just have to get cloths to bring her home in. Aaron's one job is to pick out a coming home outfit but he waits until last minute. I just have a hard time believing that we are actually getting a girl. We have now had 3 ultrasounds that confirm that it is a girl and even the Ultrasound tech offered to wash all the cloths that I have for me because I told her I was nervous to wash them on the chance that it wasn't really a girl. I have given away all my boy stuff already. Enough rambling, I just thought I would update you.