Thursday, November 6, 2008
The Wonder Months
Since I have over 8,000 pictures on my computer I suppose I can show you Peyton's journey through the months:
7 MONTHS UFFDA
First I want to apologize for those of you who check this and get disappointed. I totally forgot that I started a blog. I think after I had a baby my memory reduced by 50%.
Peyton is now 7 months old. She is an awesome baby. She makes me smile and laugh everyday. She has already developed a strong personality. She loves to be outside, she loves the dogs, and she loves people. I didnt think she would ever be a shy baby, but I also didnt think she would be so open to strangers. People come up and talk to her all the time, and she just smiles and talks right back! I wonder where she gets her talkativeness??? hmmmm. Anyways, its been quite the year. Lets recap:
February- Grace's Wedding
April- Peyton was born
April- Peyton was born
June- Peyton's baptism
July- Tornado - We lost 7 trees in the yard, and had a ton of damage!
Bachelorette-Bachelor Parties
Bachelorette-Bachelor Parties
August- Crystal's Wedding
September-Our Wedding & Deer Season Opener
October- Heather & Sammy Wedding
Josh & Becky bought a house next to us!!!!
September-Our Wedding & Deer Season Opener
October- Heather & Sammy Wedding
Josh & Becky bought a house next to us!!!!
Its just been one of those crazy crazy years! Exciting & Crazy!!!
We are still cleaning up the tornado mess and fixing damages areas. Peyton loves to be outside so its kind of nice!!! We took her on a long 4wheeler ride and she fell asleep! It was hillarious!
Well i will try really hard to update every week.
Well i will try really hard to update every week.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Peyton & Gus
So we all have figured out that I'm horrible on updating this blog. Well, here are some newer pictures for ya'll to see! As of today, Ms. Peyton is 6weeks old. She LOVES to be outside and is getting more and more active by the minute. I know this sounds crazy, but she tries really hard to crawl and when I stick my hand under her feet she pushes off and makes it all the way across our bed! Its so much fun to watch her, I just lay there and laugh at her grunting and cooing! She also has taught herself to roll over. She is definately entertaining! You'll notice I added a picture of her frowning. Rich calls this the "Kelly Otto" frown. He swore she would come out with a frown and pigtails, and by-golly you could almost put her hair in pigtails and she defin
ately has a frown. I can't wait for her to start talking! Me and Rich have a bet going that she will be walking by 9 months and her first words are going to be "puppy" or "monkey." Her favorite spot in the house is her changing table... I bought a $1 monkey at Walmart after Valentines day. It was intended for Lewis my dog, but I just thought it was so cute, so I kept it. Well, good thing I did. Peyton LOVES him. She lays there and punches and grabs at his nose while smiling the whole time. I find it so amusing! She is going to be very aggressive... must get that from her dad (wink, wink)
ately has a frown. I can't wait for her to start talking! Me and Rich have a bet going that she will be walking by 9 months and her first words are going to be "puppy" or "monkey." Her favorite spot in the house is her changing table... I bought a $1 monkey at Walmart after Valentines day. It was intended for Lewis my dog, but I just thought it was so cute, so I kept it. Well, good thing I did. Peyton LOVES him. She lays there and punches and grabs at his nose while smiling the whole time. I find it so amusing! She is going to be very aggressive... must get that from her dad (wink, wink)
Mr. Gus- Well as you can see, he is growing like a weed. Becky texted me last Friday after his check-up and he was 18lbs and 28" long... AMAZING. He is going to be so tall. He is the cutest thing ever. He loves to push Peyton around all ready. We went over to Becky's sisters Sammy's house and had them both laying on the floor. Gus grabbed Peyton's shirt and rolled her over. I can't wait for them to get bigger and beat eachother up. I've already been preparing Peyton by having her watch fighting with Dad and Ultimate Fighter with Mom! :-) Its going to be intresting!!!!Well, I'll try and update more later. Peyton gets weighed in on Friday so we will see how much she has grown. Her 6week weight check brought her at 8lbs 14oz. I bet she is at least 9 now!
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Friends Baby Shower
ECFE & Friends Baby Shower
Peyton's awesome "auntie" Bria threw us a shower on 5/3/08. Before the baby shower there was a community "baby shower" that the ECFE class in Cannon Falls threw. It was nice to see all the new babies and get some pictures of the kids together.
The shower was great, We got alot of awesome gifts and it was really fun to see everyone and how all the babies were pr
ogressing and growing.
ogressing and growing. PEYTON MAE GUSTAFSON
4 Weeks Old
Peyton is the best baby! She already has such a funny personality. She has the "Kelly Frown" thats what Rich calls it, she loves to look or be outside, and she dosent stop moving. We have bets on when she is going to crawl and walk. Rich seems to think she is going to run before she crawls or walks! Shes been moving her head around since two weeks, she has a very strong neck. She likes to grab my shirt and crawl up my chest. When we go to kiss her she opens her mouth and turns towards us. She is hillarious. I'm trying to think of a nickname for her little squeaks she makes. She sounds like a baby lamb.
Weight gain- She just got weighed yesterday and is a whopping 8lbs 9oz. I find it hard to believe that she is that big because she still doesnt fit into anything. I had to buy her a couple Premie outfits. Soon enough she will be wearing some of the clothes that fill the closet!
Peyton's Journey
She is here. She arrived 4-6-08 at 4:47pm, after a long 24hrs. Her journey began around 5:00pm the previous day. I had been staying at my mom and dads all week taking care of Betsy and Yogi, my mom and dad were on vacation. My rents were coming back on Sunday April 6th so I decided it would be nice to do something with the kids. We decided to go to a movie. Friday night I was having some harder contractions then I usually had, Rich came over and we actually thought about going to the hospital. I decided to just keep taking baths, and they seemed to help. I didnt want to be one of those pregnant chicks that goes in and they send you home, so I just waited it out. Saturday came and the kids and I cleaned and decided to head to a movie. Rich picked us up and we went to "Horton Hears a Who" in Red Wing. Towards the middle of the movie I got a severe headache and started getting hot. My contractions were within minutes of eachother, but not unbearable like I had been warned. I didnt think much of it. As we left the movie I started seeing big orange bubbles in my vision. I knew I had to go to the Dr. At my last visit on Thursday they said that due to my pre-eclamptic symptoms that if I got a headache and blurred vision I needed to come in immediately. Well we did.
As we left the theatre I felt bad telling the kids and Rich we had to go to the hospital so I can get checked out. Everyone was starving and we were hoping to go out to eat. We walked into the urgent care section and were greeted by Tiffany Sjoquist. I've known Tiffany for a long time, so it was nice to have someone you know help you out. They brought us upstairs and hooked me up to machines. Low and behold, my blood pressure was really high and the contractions were between 2-5minutes apart. They decided to monitor me for 3hours. The doctor came in and talked about preeclampsia and how serious it was, and expressed her opinion on inducing me. She said in my case with how everything was playing with the blood pressure and with me already dilating that she would like to induce me, I told her I would like to let it go naturally. It didnt make sense for her to give me medication to have the baby when she was progressing by herself. She obliged and said she would be back in three hours. Being that I was going to be monitored for three hours it was a perfect time for Rich to bring the kids home and feed them.
During the three hours I dilated another centimeter and my blood pressure got as high as 152/92. I'm usually a 90/40 patient so for me, the blood pressure was extremely high. The Dr. came back in and said she couldnt let me go home. I was actively in labor and my blood pressure was just too high. So the wait began.
Sad part about the whole thing was, Rich went to bring the kids home assuming I would be leaving so he just came back. So now he had to run back home and get all of our stuff! He had to do alot of running around.
The night seemed to go pretty quickly. I couldnt sleep and the contractions got harder and more painful. Around midnight they offered me some medication to simmer the pain, of course I refused. I had already made up my mind not to take any meds or take the epidural. I sometimes get weird reactions to medicines and I didnt want that to happen when I gave birth, I wanted to remember everything and not have to go into a C-section due to me passing out or falling asleep. So.. there I sat in pain. I had an awesome night nurse Maggie. She came in around every 20minutes to check on me. She would laugh as she looked at the contraction monitoring, she said... oh you had some intense ones, and you seem so calm. I stayed pretty calm the whole time. Around 5:00am is when the back labor got super intense. I decided to take a bath, and that seemed to ease the pain a bit.You hear horror stories about back-labor and how you never want to have that. Its very true. I would have been totally fine if it hadnt been for that.
8:00am came and the Doc came back in. She said I was dilated to 5cm and that she wanted to break my water. The backlabor pain got so intense, I started vomitting like crazy. Not to be gross, but I filled a whole tub full in about an hour. It was not fun. I made trips to the bathroom every 1/2 hour trying to relieve the pain by moving. It didnt help much. There wasnt anything I could do to relieve the pain. The contractions were every 1-2minutes. I would just get my bearings back when the next one would come.
10:00am my new nurse Megan was explaining to me the benefits of Nubane. She knew my wishes on not taking any drugs and she sympathized because she didnt take any drugs with either of her kids. She finally looked at me and said, "Kelly, you are being really strong and calm, but you need to take the pain meds, the vomitting can dehydrate you and then we run into more complications." I said ok. She gave me some nubane, and it didnt help at all. She said it would help my relax and get some rest. It didnt.
12:00pm- I was getting delirious. The throwing up and pain was making me go wacky. I felt like I was going to pass out and at one point couldnt get out of the bathroom. Rich got really concerned and told me to take the epidural. The nurse agreed so they brought the guy up to hook up the epidural. It took him about 2minutes and 5minutes later it kicked in. Rich said my face went from Death to Smiling. I was super sad that I didnt take it in the morning. I went through all those hours of hell to feeling perfect. So sad. My philosophy was, if they could do it back in the day with nothing, I can. Well, I couldnt. Epidurals are amazing!
2:00pm- I was dilated to 8cm and the epidural wore off so they wanted me to start pushing. We started on my back. Pushing hard every minute. It didnt work. The baby was moving down but got stuck in the canal. We moved to a "Water-Skiing" position. They brought this bar in that goes over the bed and you squat on the bed, it was crazy, I had never heard of it, but we tried it. I pushed for another hour and the doctor could see the head pretty much the whole time, Peyton just wasnt coming out. Another problem came, I couldnt breathe. Every push they had to give me oxygen, that sucked and I was getting really weak. Finally I had the feeling that I was going to pass out, so I pushed with all that I could and she came.
Peyton- She came out quiet as can be. They set her on my belly and she stared at me and blinked twice. Being that she didnt cry or make any noise they quick took her and gave her oxygen. They wouldnt tell me what was going on and it seemed very very quiet for the next ten minutes. The Dr. wouldnt say a word. I knew Peyton was ok because she blinked at me but I didnt get to hold her for quite some time.
She came out with a full head of black hair, she weighed 6lbs 7oz and 19.5" long. She didnt even cry for the first day. It was amazing. She slept everytime we had company and w
ould be wide awake after they left.
Thats the start of Ms. Peyton's journey.
As we left the theatre I felt bad telling the kids and Rich we had to go to the hospital so I can get checked out. Everyone was starving and we were hoping to go out to eat. We walked into the urgent care section and were greeted by Tiffany Sjoquist. I've known Tiffany for a long time, so it was nice to have someone you know help you out. They brought us upstairs and hooked me up to machines. Low and behold, my blood pressure was really high and the contractions were between 2-5minutes apart. They decided to monitor me for 3hours. The doctor came in and talked about preeclampsia and how serious it was, and expressed her opinion on inducing me. She said in my case with how everything was playing with the blood pressure and with me already dilating that she would like to induce me, I told her I would like to let it go naturally. It didnt make sense for her to give me medication to have the baby when she was progressing by herself. She obliged and said she would be back in three hours. Being that I was going to be monitored for three hours it was a perfect time for Rich to bring the kids home and feed them.
During the three hours I dilated another centimeter and my blood pressure got as high as 152/92. I'm usually a 90/40 patient so for me, the blood pressure was extremely high. The Dr. came back in and said she couldnt let me go home. I was actively in labor and my blood pressure was just too high. So the wait began.
Sad part about the whole thing was, Rich went to bring the kids home assuming I would be leaving so he just came back. So now he had to run back home and get all of our stuff! He had to do alot of running around.
The night seemed to go pretty quickly. I couldnt sleep and the contractions got harder and more painful. Around midnight they offered me some medication to simmer the pain, of course I refused. I had already made up my mind not to take any meds or take the epidural. I sometimes get weird reactions to medicines and I didnt want that to happen when I gave birth, I wanted to remember everything and not have to go into a C-section due to me passing out or falling asleep. So.. there I sat in pain. I had an awesome night nurse Maggie. She came in around every 20minutes to check on me. She would laugh as she looked at the contraction monitoring, she said... oh you had some intense ones, and you seem so calm. I stayed pretty calm the whole time. Around 5:00am is when the back labor got super intense. I decided to take a bath, and that seemed to ease the pain a bit.You hear horror stories about back-labor and how you never want to have that. Its very true. I would have been totally fine if it hadnt been for that.
8:00am came and the Doc came back in. She said I was dilated to 5cm and that she wanted to break my water. The backlabor pain got so intense, I started vomitting like crazy. Not to be gross, but I filled a whole tub full in about an hour. It was not fun. I made trips to the bathroom every 1/2 hour trying to relieve the pain by moving. It didnt help much. There wasnt anything I could do to relieve the pain. The contractions were every 1-2minutes. I would just get my bearings back when the next one would come.
10:00am my new nurse Megan was explaining to me the benefits of Nubane. She knew my wishes on not taking any drugs and she sympathized because she didnt take any drugs with either of her kids. She finally looked at me and said, "Kelly, you are being really strong and calm, but you need to take the pain meds, the vomitting can dehydrate you and then we run into more complications." I said ok. She gave me some nubane, and it didnt help at all. She said it would help my relax and get some rest. It didnt.
12:00pm- I was getting delirious. The throwing up and pain was making me go wacky. I felt like I was going to pass out and at one point couldnt get out of the bathroom. Rich got really concerned and told me to take the epidural. The nurse agreed so they brought the guy up to hook up the epidural. It took him about 2minutes and 5minutes later it kicked in. Rich said my face went from Death to Smiling. I was super sad that I didnt take it in the morning. I went through all those hours of hell to feeling perfect. So sad. My philosophy was, if they could do it back in the day with nothing, I can. Well, I couldnt. Epidurals are amazing!
2:00pm- I was dilated to 8cm and the epidural wore off so they wanted me to start pushing. We started on my back. Pushing hard every minute. It didnt work. The baby was moving down but got stuck in the canal. We moved to a "Water-Skiing" position. They brought this bar in that goes over the bed and you squat on the bed, it was crazy, I had never heard of it, but we tried it. I pushed for another hour and the doctor could see the head pretty much the whole time, Peyton just wasnt coming out. Another problem came, I couldnt breathe. Every push they had to give me oxygen, that sucked and I was getting really weak. Finally I had the feeling that I was going to pass out, so I pushed with all that I could and she came.
Peyton- She came out quiet as can be. They set her on my belly and she stared at me and blinked twice. Being that she didnt cry or make any noise they quick took her and gave her oxygen. They wouldnt tell me what was going on and it seemed very very quiet for the next ten minutes. The Dr. wouldnt say a word. I knew Peyton was ok because she blinked at me but I didnt get to hold her for quite some time.
She came out with a full head of black hair, she weighed 6lbs 7oz and 19.5" long. She didnt even cry for the first day. It was amazing. She slept everytime we had company and w
ould be wide awake after they left.Thats the start of Ms. Peyton's journey.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Mr. Gus
I visited with my nephew and brothers on Wednesday. That was really exciting. Gus is getting so big. He is one of the cutest babies I've ever seen. He has big chubby cheeks and an awesome smile. He can really burp too! Josh is a very proud daddy. He takes pride in his little boy! I cant wait for Peyton and him to meet. I have a feeling little Peyton is going to give his as much hell as I gave Josh! It will be fun to see how genetics and personality combine!
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