Shelby is on the move

She has been trying to walk alot lately. Well she is walking more and more everyday. She takes more steps and was long distances every time. I am still trying to catch her with the camera. It always seem that she does it and then stops just as I get the camera out of the bag. She is growing up so fast.

Well post new pictures and video when I can

Shelby's First Birthday

Well Shelby's first birthday didn't go as planned. For starters I had invited 4 other kids who ended up getting sick during the week and didn't come so my kids wouldn't end up getting sick. I had made party bags and planned to let the kids make their own party hats. So before the party started I had to make up a bag to take to their parents so that they could still get there party stuff even if they won't here to enjoy the party they could still have fun like we all did.

This is a picture of Shelby's cake before the party.
the party bags that I made for all the kids.


We made our own party hats. It was really fun. We did door hangers too.







This is my mom and Gabe making his door hanger. He didn't want to make a hat, he isn't in to hats yet.

My sister Jennifer working on her hat. And door hanger.

My brother in law rusty with his purple crown.

My sisters in law cherish, Kyle’s Grandma, and my mother in law making their hats.

Shelby with her aunt sam. Shelby likes her hat.

My sister in law Cherish and Shelby and my mother in law.

I love this picture. It has four generations of women in our family. This is my grandma, me, Shelby and my mom.

Now on the fun part of this the cake……

Gabe helped Shelby blow out her candle because she just wanted to mess with the cake and try to touch the flame on the candle.

Now Shelby has her cake ….

Shelby liked it so much that by the end of the night she looked like this. After all the gifts were opened I think she was done for the day.

Everyone got a gift for both Gabe and Shelby so that Gabe didn’t feel left out. They got a lot of stuff. Shelby got 3 baby dolls and a V smile Baby, and a play chair with a lamp and table that makes sounds and teaches colors and shapes. Gabe got a dump truck and an out fit and a movie viewer toy. And they each got a animal ball that shakes and giggles.

We had a full day. It was very fun but I am glad that each of my kids have birthday in a different month that are far apart. I don’t think I could do more then one party a month like this.

How shelby came in to this world

A year ago on this very day this is how my whole world changed. God sent me a little girl to love forever.


About 4 am that morning I got up to go to the bathroom and had some really bad contractions. I got on line and was trying to time them but it hurt so back in my back I couldn't sit for long. So I got up and got my mom up to rub my back with my little back massager she had bought for me. She asked what the pains felt like and when I told her she decided to start timing them. Well they were coming two to three min tunes apart with no break in between. I was lying on the floor of my living room in tears. Screaming in pain from how bad they hurt.

So my Grandma went to get Kyle up out of bed to come be with me. He touched my back and I looked at him and told him "not to $%^&*(@ touch me." I was in pain because of him. My mom thought I was going to do bodaly harm to him.lol. So we get ready to go to the hosptail and it took me ten mintunes to get to the front door and out to my truck to leave. Do to all the contractions and pain. We went by my MIL and picked her up on the way.

Kyle tryed not to hit the bumps that he had tryed so hard not to miss befor. And everytime he did he would almost lose his fingers because I was griping his hand so hard.

We live about 45 mintunes from my hosptail so we had called them to let them know we would be there in 45 mintunes and needed a bed. They said ok. So we had a room waiting for me when I got there.

When they got me back to my room they checked me. I was 7 cm's ( 6:30 in the morning) I got my epidual not long after that.it hurt at first but after a little while I was great. Until the Shaking started. I was shaking like I was have secures of some kind. It went really quick from there. I did infact speak to jessica at 10 cm. She wasn't just making it up. I almost dropped the phone because I was shaking so bad.

I felt my water break and called the nurse to come in. She came in and said that my water had a leak in it and had not fully broken. Shelby had moved her head to cork it . So the doctor came in a poped it with her fingers.

I am sitting there waitng for all the great pressure that you get befor you can push and the nurse come in and says that I have a lady out side calming to be my aunt mandy and wants to come in. So out of the blue my aunt mandy shows up to be part of the birht. She is my aunt that makes plans to do things and never shows up. But she was there so we let her be part of it..

But they said that the baby was almost crowing and wanted to wait a little while for the baby to come down more on her own. So I am sitting her waiting on that I felt this god awful pain down there and the nurse said ok it is time to start pushing again . Well when the hair on her head became visible the nurse tells me that she can see hair and lots of it.

She had me push one more time and then she was like a inch from coming out. And she runs out of the room to get the doctor and she had just enough time to get back and have me push again and at 12:55pm Shelby Joyce Cox was born. I was pooped on as soon as she was put on my tummy. LOL guess that is what she thought about her first look at the world.

I was told that the umbillical cord was twice the normal size and so was the placenta. She asked if I had been told that it was twins. And I said no but I had thought it was in the beginning. Due to the fact that I had a misscarriage and then I find out that I was 7 weeks pregant; so I was pregant with twins and lost one in the early stages and just never got my horomones back together after that.

Well I just wanted to say who all was in the room with me befor I forget, My dear Husband Kyle, His mom Venita, My mom Kathy, My aunt Mandy and My wonderful nurse Shirely. I couldn't have done it without all of them there to help me. Thanks guys!!!!!

Well I spent 4 hours in the L&D room after she was born because of my Blood Pressure was doing werid stuff; So when I finally got to go to my other room she had her first birth which she didn't like at all. She tryed to breastfeed for the first time and it went ok but I didn't have much milk yet.

I was in labor for From 4:30 am to 12:55 pm so that is 8 hours and 25 mintunes; But it was the best thing in the world. I felt so much better after all the swelling went down. Now I feel great.

Friday Fill in #47 A day late

Friday Fill-in #47

1. I enjoy _spending time with my family____ more than anything else.
2. Blogging satisfies my need for __vent___
3. When I look at a full moon, I feel _crazy____
4. If I want a snack, I usually reach for a _Swiss Roll ___
5. The most recent movie I saw, Hairspray___ made me __laugh___.
6. If only _4 inchs taller____.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _My mom and sister visiting____, tomorrow my plans include _relaxing____ and Sunday, I want to enjoy my daughter first birthday party_____!

Shelby and the spoon and bowl.....

We have been giving Shelby a baby spoon at dinner and she loves it. Well tonight she was eating mash potatoes with it and thought it was a blast. I had to take some messy face pictures to share.


this was before she realized that the bowl would come off the tray of her high chair.

This is after she got the bowl off the tray.


She had so much fun feeding her self tonight. It was cute to watch her do that for the first time. She is going up so fast. I can't believe how fast they grow in such a short amount of time.

Shelby's first advantage with a cupcake

Today I promised Gabe that we could make cupcakes together. Well I ended up making them by myself after his dad told him he would take him out side to play baseball (that is Gabe's favorite thing to do outside) So after dinner we had cupcakes for desert. Shelby has had pieces of cake given to her but she never had one all to her self before. I wanted to get a peek at what to expect for her party next week. Well lets just say it is going to be fun epically when she get to the frosting part of her cake. This cupcake wasn't frosted yet. She loved it.

Friday Fill In #46

1. The things I give thanks for this Thanksgiving are _my beautiful kids and my wonderful husband____.
2. My Thanksgiving traditions include _eating lots of really good food and spending time with my family and friends____
3. The best part about Thanksgiving is __pumpkin pie___
4. My favorite Thanksgiving food is _stuffing and gravy____
5. _Last year when I started having contractions during dinner ____ was the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me on Thanksgiving.
6. After the meal, I _clean up the dishes and relax____.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _going to a Christmas tree light of the biggest tree in Arizona____, tomorrow my plans include _ to work on homework ____ and Sunday, I want to _relax and spend family time____!

UpDate

Well...

I just finished my first two classes. Now I am on the next two. I got an A on my final project in one class and I am still waiting on the other one to come back to me. I am super excited. I love school.

Well Shelby got her a new bed the other day too. We paid 100 bucks and it is a pink race car bed. We are going to set it up in Gabe's room for now until we get her room done. I don't think she is going to be sleeping in her crib for much longer. She wants to sleep on her brothers bed. I think it is so funny.

She has been trying to walk this week. She has taken 4 steps and then drops and crawls. She is growing up so fast. We have been working on party plans. Just 3 weeks away.

Gabes New bed

I got a little tikes catalog in the mail the other day. Gabe found a race car bed in there that was 300 bucks. And that was all he talked about for like two days. So I got on the craigslist site and found one that cost us 60 bucks and it came with the board to hold up the mattress. So now Gabe has a new bed. The next adventure is to find Shelby a bed similar to it. She really likes it.