Could You Just Die?!

There are no words to describe the love I have for this little guy. His smile brings so much happiness into our home, and his laugh melts my heart.

I decided to trim the back of his hair because it was out-of-control. I didn't have the heart to just shave his precious red locks, so we just trimmed it with the clippers. I think it turned out pretty good:)

I feel so blessed and content in my life right now. I have such a wonderful supportive husband who holds down the fort at the house at night while I'm gone during my externship, and 3 healthy beautiful children! I have a hard time believing it could get any better than this:)

Dawson's Blessing Day

Mark gave Dawson a beautiful blessing on Sunday, March 24, 2012.  We had almost all of our family members there, which we really appreciated. We missed my sister Tifani that lives in New York and couldn't make it.

After the blessing we had a breakfast at our house. We have 8am church so I stayed up until about 3am the night before getting most of it ready. Everyone hung out for most of the afternoon after we ate. It was such a wonderful day!

Update

I feel like the last few weeks have been SO busy! We have been slammed with Dr appointments up the ying-yang. Both Brock and Dawson were born with a Sacral Dimple. Brock had to get a MRI when he was about 8 months, they put him under and everything. Dawson on the other hand only had to get an Ultrasound which was SO much cheaper! I wish my old pediatrician would of thought of an Ultrasound. It was super interesting to watch because I had never seen one before. He was a trooper and just laid on his tummy with his little toosh tucked up in the air:) Both Kylee and Dawson had their cleanings where cavities were found, dun-dun-dun! I was so sad. I really had a goal that my kids would never have cavities, a girl can dream right? It was her first time getting x-rays done so that's how they found them. The evil cause is the dreaded flossing answer! Anyway, we went and got them filled this week where I opted out of the laughing gas. I vividly remember taking that stuff when I was little and then throwing up my wheat chex all over the hygienist and the dentist! I thought she would do fine without it, which she did. After we had fun taking pictures of her with her numb mouth! So funny. I love my Dentist! He is awesome. If anyone is looking for a new one let me know and I'll give you his info. I had to go get a Varicella vaccine for my externship. DANG those things hurt. I haven't had a vaccine in so long I had forgotten what they felt like. My arm was sore for a good 3-4 days. Dawson had his 1 month check up where he weighed in at 9.13 a whole 2 pounds up from his birth weight and over a whole pound in just 2 weeks. I'm glad my milk is doing his body good:) I finally feel today like things are slowing down, which I'm super happy about.

I went and got my hair done this week. Kylee came because she needed a trim. She always begs me for color in her hair so I talked to Suzy about it and she said she could use my left over bleach and add some to just a couple pieces for a few minutes. You can't even see it because it blends with her hair so well which I'm happy about. Kylee doesn't know the difference, she is just so happy she got color in her hair. She also got a cute little feather put in her hair. It was a much needed girls afternoon.

Our family of 5 is so perfect. Mark is so amazing with Kylee and Brock. He gets home and plays games with them, jumps on the tramp, wrestles all over the place. I'm so happy he is such a good, active, involved daddy. They look up to him so much and get so excited when they hear the garage open at the end of the day.

Dawson took his first nap in his crib today. I haven't had the heart to put him in their at night so he is still in his bassinet next to my bed. He has been my loudest baby! He squirms and grunts and snores. It's so cute! I can't believe how fast time is going by. I just wish it would stop or slow down so I can enjoy this phase a little more. I'm still waiting for him to smile! I stand over him and make weird noises and talk funny but still haven't gotten anything. I can tell that he is already a mama's boy. He loves to snuggle up on my chest. I just love this age so much, the sassy stage not so much, but this I could do forever:)

First 2 Weeks

Here are a few pictures from our first couple weeks as a family of 5! Dawson had his 2 week check up yesterday and weighed in at 8.5oz! Mama's milk is doing him good:) I am so in love with this stage! The first 2-3 months is my absolute favorite. It feels like he has been with us longer than two weeks, I just hope time doesn't pass too quickly so I can soak in all my newborness obsession.

For Valentines Day the kids and I went to the Dollar Tree and got a poster board and some decorations for the house. The Saturday before we went to the CheeseCake Factory so we didn't feel like going out on the 14th. We had a crab leg feast for dinner! I wish I would of taken pictures of all the decorations once we were done, it turned out really cute. The kids had so much fun spending the night with us.

I have the best husband. For reals. He loves me and the kids so much and I love that about him. He is always there when we need him, he plays with the kids, and gives me all the attention I need to feel important. I'm so grateful to be his wife. Hope you all had a good lovers day:)

Dawson Paul Svancara

Saturday morning on the 28th at about 4am I woke up from feeling my first contraction. I sat up and started timing them. They were about 3-4 minutes apart, lasting about 30 seconds. They didn't really hurt at first, just made me a little uncomfortable. I decided to wake Mark up at 4:15 because the contractions were consistent and getting closer together. We called my mom at 4:30 to come over to stay with the kids so we could head on over to the hospital. My mom arrived at 4:45am, we waited for her outside because by this time my contractions were about 2 minutes apart lasting about 1 minute and were SUPER painful! A little background, I have never gone past 4cm naturally. I've always had my blissful epidural:) I am not good with pain, I hate pain. I am in awe towards the women who choose to give birth naturally. I'm sure it's the most beautiful and amazing experience. I just know that for me there is no way I could do that, or really want to to be honest. Props to you all that do it though. Ok, we arrived at the hospital at 5am where they made me go over and verify all the paper I had sent in months in advance. Isn't the whole point of registering a head of time to prevent you from going over all that stupid paperwork? I mean hello, I'm in pain, turning around every 2 minutes and holding onto the wall. Can't you just get me into a room, drug me up, and then go over all these stupid questions? By about 5:20 I was in triage and dressed in a gown. My nurse came in and checked me and let me know I was 6.5cm dilated!! I seriously went into panic mode! No wonder I was in so much pain! All I kept thinking about was getting that epidural on time. I got taken into the delivery room at about 6am. At this point I was in serious pain, I kept breathing, moaning, I seriously tried everything I hear people talk about. Let me just tell ya, none of it works! Maybe I was doing something wrong but no amount of breathing or yelling could of made that pain go away. At about 6:15 the nurse anesthetist came in to do the epidural. I've never been so happy:) He did his thing and then left. I noticed about 10 minutes later that it had only taken to the right side, I could still feel everything on the left side. He came back in at 6:30 to adjust it and left again. 10 minutes later I was still feeling it on my left side. My nurse asked if I was feeling any pressure, I responded "no" when in reality I felt pressure, I was just too afraid to tell her I did. I don't know why I thought in my head if I didn't say it out loud that it wouldn't make it true or it would make the pressure go away. 5 minutes later I had Mark go get my nurse because I was really feeling the pressure and this intense urge to push. It was a really crazy feeling. The nurse came in at 6:45am and checked me and said, "You are complete, 10cm!" I about lost it! Luckily the nurse anesthetist came back in and adjusted my epidural AGAIN, I asked him to push the button to add more medicine. He said he didn't think I needed it and I responded that I did and he better push the button just to be safe. Pretty much instantly I felt the warm tingly feeling down my left leg and knew that it was finally working! Dr. Huish came in and 10 minutes later and 1.5 pushes later our sweet little Dawson was born:) 7:03am, 7 pounds 13 ounces, and 22 inches long (can I just clarify that 22 inches is almost 2 foot long subs!)

Adding another one to the mix hasn't been as hard as I thought it would be. I've ventured out a couple times by myself with all 3, just for quick little errands though. I just feel so blessed! I have 3 beautiful healthy little red heads:) Being a mother is such an amazing job! Even though there are days where I want to run out my front door and not come back for a few hours, I wouldn't change the life I have.

PS my friend Jana had the same thing happen to her at Banner Gateway. When I was describing the guy to her, her eyes got all big and she yelled, "That's the same guy I had!" So WARNING to the pregger women, if you are going to deliver at Banner Gateway and are planning on getting a epidural, don't let the same nurse anesthetist do the epidural on you. I can't remember his name, BUT he looks like he is 3o something, has some tattoo's on his arm, and has a beard/goatee thing. Good luck:)

The big 3

Brock turned 3 on January 24th! Seriously?! We had our family over for some cake and ice cream that night to celebrate. It was so nice just doing something small instead of throwing some huge party, I'm sure when the kids are a little older we will get back into the birthday parties with friends. We found our little man a spiderman bike....if you haven't noticed, Brock is just a tad obsessed with spiderman;) Mark decorated the cake for me. My husband can pretty much do anything. He grabbed Brock's pillow case and just looked at it as he drew spiderman on the cake. We had such a fun night with everyone.

A few facts about the Brockster:

1. He loves to wrestle. Every night when Mark gets home

from work the match begins. Mark lays on

the floor and Brock instantly takes his shirt

off and runs over for the attack.

2. He says "Bow Chicka Wow Wa" in about every

other sentence. Some how he makes it work.

He could say, "Mom, you are so bow chicka wow wa"

or something smells bow chicka wow wa.

You get my drift!

Where did he learn that you ask?

I have no clue:)

3. When I'm tired and taking a nap, or trying to

take a nap, Brock will come over to where

I am laying and brush the hair out of my face,

rub his fingers around my face, and kiss

my arm.

4. He goes in for his 3 yr check up tomorrow.

I'm excited to see how big he is.

All I know for now is that Kylee's feet are about

2 inches bigger than his and only maybe

half a foot to a foot taller than him.

He's gonna be a big boy:)

5. Brock has 4 toothbrushes of different super hero's.

Every night he chooses which one he wants and

then him and Mark talk like that super hero

and make faces that like super hero.

My favorite is the "hulk" face. Brock will walk around

and out of no where just stop and give you the hulk

face. It's quite funny. The picture above is the

classic hulk face:)

Kylee's 5th Birthday

Kylee turned 5 on Monday. I seriously cannot believe that my baby girl is 5! What the heck! It feels like it was just yesterday that I brought her home, time just goes by so quickly. We really got lucky with her. She is hands down the best little girl, probably in the whole world. She is so loving and kind, she loves to make other people laugh and feel good. She listens about 98% of the time. Seriously. She has her occasional fit but it's almost always because she didn't get enough sleep the night before. She is the best big sister. Always willing to roll around and wrestle with Brock. The sweetest is when he hurts himself and she runs over to comfort him. I couldn't ask for a better daughter. She really made easing into motherhood enjoyable and easy.

Cassie and Kevin invited us to go up to the snow with them on Monday. Kylee loved the idea of spending her birthday in the snow so we decided to go! We headed up to Payson and just kept going until we finally found snow! We thought we weren't going to find any because of how hot it has been the last week. I'm so glad we found some! The kids had so much fun. I didn't do much but sit on my butt in the snow. The joys of pregnancy!!

We got Kylee a bike for her birthday. She has been asking for a bike for a couple of years so we told her when she turned 5 we would get her one. She was so happy. After the snow we took the kids to the park and let Ky ride her bike around. For dinner she asked for a yummy salad and pizza and for dessert we had root beer shakes. I'm glad my little princess enjoyed her day!