Lots of pictures...Stories to follow when I can catch my breath!

Daisy standing gaurd

I love my daddy pajamas

Steven and Evelyn holding hands

Daisy 'saftly' rocking the baby. Since she's still quite a puppy we had to get her a muzzle so no accidental nipping took place. She's learned really fast. Spending all day in it yesterday taught her quite quickly.

Nap time with Great Grandma

Changing to go home

Evelyn Rose Jarvis.... Welcome!

Evelyn Rose Jarvis

Born June 22, 11:35pm at Madison Memorial Hospital

8lbs 11oz, 20 1/2 inches long

3...4...or 5 Miles, It's All the Same

Anyone who says walking is supposed to induce labor is smoking something. We've been walking 3-5 miles daily, sometimes twice a day and no baby. But everyone is keen to give their input on what will help. Walking, castor oil, spicy food, showers, red raspberry tea,cleaning. But I've come to the conclusion that babies will come on their own time frame, and if you just so happen to be walking at the time....then walking works . If you just so happen to be riding a lawn mower at the time (no joke someone told me to do that) then of course, riding a lawn mower will work for EVERYONE. I am entering my least favorite part of being pregnant....the waiting game. However, I guess the game will end abrupty on Tuesday when I will be embarking on the only sure fire way to induce labor... PITOCIN.

Side note: althought this time of pregnancy is pretty hard (having a cold and being unable to sleep doesn't help) but I just discovered something. With the lap top on my lap and both arms extented to type, my forearms slightly pushing on the sides of my belly holding my side belly skin in place, when I breathe in deeply, my belly button pops in and out!!!! When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Or a better quote that I just heard...When life gives you lemons... punch the guy who gave you lemons and make him give you the oranges you asked for.

Something that made me smile today:

There was a thunderstorm this morning and Daisy hid underneath my blanket until it was over. She likes me.

Pregnancy is a Cruel Game

So I guess "technically" they can't induce me until 39 weeks even though I'm progressing so fast and the baby is huge, so once again they told me it should happen natually anytime this week, but just incase, I was scheduled to be induced June 22. So unitl then I wil be (and have been) doing everything that supossedly brings on labor. I'm rip roarin and ready to go.

Baby Update

Last Monday the doctor said the baby should be coming anyday day now since I've already started dialating and was almost all the way efaced...I've been having near constant contractions for almost three days now and still no baby. So...we decided to quit. Tomorrow I have another one of my lovely bi-weekly check ups and I am asking to be induced. They take the baby measurements everyweek and according to the ultrasound tech, this baby, a week ago, was between 7.5 and 8 pounds. If we wait until June 28 I will be delivering a bohemeth of a baby, and I think I can due without that experience. Wish me luck and cross your fingers the baby will be here by tuesday....wednesday at the latest.

Pet Peeves

I wouldn't consider myself a moody person. Prior to pregnancy, very few things set me into instant rage. However, I have found the longer that this baby is in me, the angrier I am, and at stupid things....sometimes. So I decided to make a list of my current pet peeves.

1. Windshield wipers that go faster than the amount of rainfall (always)
2. Greeters at DI (Welcome to Deseret Industries....Really?)
3.Indecisive humans (it's like this, grab your shampoo and get out of my way)
4. Things that seem to be magnetically attracted to my bulbus belly (i.e. Door knobs and Daisy)
5. Women (or men, but their opinon doesn't really count in this matter) who think they are cooler, or tougher, or whatever because they give birth "naturally". It's like this, WHY? If you go to have your apendix removed your not going to be like, "No, I don't want any anethetics, I'll do it naturally." There's a reason we have pain killers, and not using them doesn't make you or your birth better believe it or not. No harm done to the baby with an epidural, only harm to the mama. You'll take pain killers for some thing a small as a headache but not for pushing a cantelope out your who-ha...Seriously?
6. Car alarms (I didn't know you could have car alarms installed in a 70's Pinto)
7. Un necessary needs to urinate with unyielding results (aka gotta pee but no pee)
8. I haven't slept more that 1.5 consecutive hours in more than 2 weeks
9. The baby's due any day now and I have a miserable cold...so colds in June
10. I feel like only 9 things isn't a complete list but I can't think of a tenth...but I can tell you this. My feet were so swollen last night, they were actually white, like when you push really hard on your skin and all your blood temporarily leaves, and I couln't move my toes. When I asked my Doctor what I could do to help, he said, and I quote, Have the baby. Thanks doc, so number ten, feet and doctors.

Steven's Tri-Athalon

Steven did a tri-athalon this last weekend and won his division. The fat division he says. If your over a certain weight, you can enter the fatty division for races,and he was only ten pounds over, so he took first in his division, and 24th overall out of like 140 or something....he did really well. It was really cold though. The water for the swim was only about 50 degrees and the temperature outside was about the same.

This is him running to the transition area after the swim to get on the bike. If you look close you can see that he looks like he has a really bad sunburn line on his arms...no, it was that cold in the water. Everyone came out red.


Daisy made a friend while we were there too...

Just a tad bit bigger than her, but she totally tried to take him down. And yes...she is wearing a shirt, but we're not those kind of people who regularly dress up our pets. Me and a friend made shirts for ourselves to cheer on Steven and Kyle (who also did the tri-athalon) and well, we didn't want her to be left out. Daisy's shirt said "Yay Kyle and Steven" Rachels said "They Tri, I Don't" and mine said "Future Tri-Athlete On Board" across my belly and then to the side in a little voice bubble it said "Go Daddy!"

I tried to flip this picture in photoshop but it was taking too long, you get the point of the tee shirt even if it's backwards.

AND Stevens gold medal