Cambri Kristine Babb

Well, as most of you have probably heard, the time came a little earlier than we expected and we have been so blessed to have our beautiful baby girl born on Saturday, February 12th at 7:33am. We named her Cambri Kristine Babb (Kristine after Tyler's mom) and she was born 1 month early at 5lbs 7oz and 18.5 inches long.


I started writing this post yesterday and made it detailed and it was way too long so I'm going to shorten it up a little. (although it's probably still super long)

It was a pretty crazy experience because Tyler and I went to our regular 36 week doctors appointment and they found out I had pre-eclampsia which is really high blood pressure and can be dangerous to the mom and so they sent us straight to labor and delivery. Tyler and I were in complete shock. That definitely was not in our plans any time soon. So we go to the hospital thinking they would just send us home but the doctor decided to induce me! To be honest the first thing I thought of was "oh no, it's our 100th day of school tomorrow!" I really didn't want to miss that but I eventually got used to the fact that I wasn't going back to teach any time soon. So I called my mom and her and my dad get right in the car to drive to Utah from California but it was bad timing because Tylers parents were leaving on a cruise Saturday (this was on Thursday). So we had to wait for my mom and dad to come up but not wait too long so Tyler's parents could be there. I was in labor for about 35 hours because it took about 28 hours for me to be dilated past a level 1. They finally tried this thing where they put a balloon up me to dilate me more and boy did that work. I started feeling the contractions right away. Then all of a sudden my water broke and I went to a level 9.5 within 5 hours! So Saturday at 5:30 in the morning we found out we were about ready to deliver. I called my parents to come to the hospital and we call Tyler's parents and they were just leaving to go to the airport to catch their flight for the cruise but they decided to come to the delivery and try to catch a later flight. Also at that time the doctors were changing shifts and who was the doctor on call? Doctor Broberg! The doctor I really wanted because his dad delivered me when I was a baby (he's form my home town). Of course I got an epidural so the actual delivery wasn't bad at all! I was so shocked at how easy the pushing process was. and I pushed for about 40 minutes so not bad at all.

I thought for sure that I would cry when she was born but I was so full of happiness and shock that I have a baby that I couldn't cry and was just smiling the whole time. It was such a great experience. I even got to have my grandma be my nurse in the mother baby aftercare. I think the moment when I really had that bond with my baby was when she first opened her eyes and stared at me. It was such a deep stare and I felt this instant burst of love and joy for my baby girl. She is so beautiful and perfect.

When we left the hospital she was in the 4 lb range. But we got to take her home with us that Monday, Valentines day. So we were very lucky and happy. This first week with her has been amazing. Yes, it's hard having to get up in the night with her and getting used to breast feeding but it's so worth it. I've recovered very nicely so that's been a major plus. She is so adorable and I am still in shock that she is MY baby and I get to be her mom forever. She got Jaundice pretty bad this week, which is when their skin turns yellow so we had to put her in this UV bed all day except for when I fed her for a couple of days. That was hard not to hold her whenever I wanted but at least we got to have her at home. But yeah, being a Mom is amazing and Tyler is the cutest Dad ever! I love having a little family of 3 now. Here are some pictures of our sweet baby girl Cambri!

Bedding!

So after looking forever and debating over a few different bed sets we finally picked the one that we like the best! I'm loving damask right now on everything for some reason and you gotta have the pink. We like the mix of elegance and girly. I just ordered it and can't wait to see it in person!

And here's a picture of my 8 month belly

Post Christmas

We stayed in California the week after Christmas and for the most part just chilled and relaxed around the house enjoying being together as a family. We did a few fun things such as...

...See Christmas Lights

...Have a Baby Shower. My Mom and sisters were so great to put on a baby shower for me while I was home with high school friends and people from my home ward (church). I got some super cute things and it was great to see everyone. It was so crazy to be having a baby shower already! We found the cutest pac-n-play that we got for such an awesome deal and it is SO adorable that I had to get it even though it's a girl one and I told myself I was going to get gender neutral things. Oh well..lets hope for lots of girls in the Babb family!

 ...Celebrate New Years! We had my cousins come over for New Years Eve and played some super fun games and ate yummy food.

Story of The Rose: Tyler's and my engagement anniversary is on New Years Eve. So to celebrate our 3rd year anniversary we were going to go to Santa Monica where he proposed. When the time came to go we both didn't feel like going through traffic to get there so instead we decided to go to the Cheesecake Factory in Pasadena where we had dinner the first time he came down to meet my family. That was a really cute dinner because Tyler surprised me during dinner that night by secretly buying a rose from a lady outside the restaurant and giving it to our server who then gave it to me during the dinner. So cute! So anyways, we went there and we totally forgot that a million people are there to sleep over on the streets for the rose parade and the Cheesecake factory is right on the parade route but it was actually really fun to walk around see the crazy people and the cool cars cruising the streets. The line was actually only a 15 minute wait, wow! So we start eating and I surprise Tyler and pull out little martinelli's and champagne glasses. Then he leaves to go to the bathroom and few minutes later our server comes by and hands me a rose! It turned out that the same lady was selling roses who he bought one from 3 years ago so he surprised me with another one. Too cute! I love my Tyler and I can't believe we've been together for 3 years and are still SO in love! Life couldn't be better and I'm so excited for the new life we'll be bringing into the world this year starting our own family!

Finally feeling pregnant...at 8 months

Sad that I'm finally feeling pregnant, well not really sad more like awesome! This week I have been SO tired! I think its a combination of Being 8 Months pregnant (today!), getting back on the school routine after a long break, and having a cold this week. Last night I went to bed at 10:30 and was as tired as ever! I pretty much have no desire to teach and especially manage a classroom full of 5 and 6 year olds all day. It's starting to get uncomfortable sitting down. Like your belly feels squished into your thighs. I was testing some kids in reading today and was sitting in one of my very small kindergarten chairs like I normally do and yeah, that doesn't work anymore so I had to find a big chair for me to sit in.

I'm feeling our little girl kick a TON now! And I love it! I especially love how excited Tyler gets. The other night she had the hiccups and was moving all over and Tyler was so worried that something was wrong haha. He's been so great and supportive during the pregnancy. I'm so lucky to have him!

When we went to California for Christmas (2 weeks ago) we got another 3D ultrasound. I was so excited to see our little girl in detail. unfortunately she was not being cooperative and was hiding her face with her hands the whole time and facing the wrong way so we only saw her backside. I was pretty bummed. But everything is looking healthy and we found out that she is a fast growing baby! She was already 4.1 lbs 2 weeks ago! She's in the 95% for weight, 97% for height and 98% for Fetal Development. So yeah, I'm getting prepared for a big baby haha.

Anyways, being pregnant is so amazing. It's so crazy to think that there is a real baby inside of me just inches away and I can't believe how soon she's going to be here. It's going by SO fast. Our big debate right now is on strollers. Does anyone have any favorites? I can't decide between getting a good travel system or a 3 wheel jogger stroller that I can put a car seat in when needed. Let me know!

Christmas 2010

This Christmas must have been one of the most dragged out Christmas's we've had. Tyler and I slept in for a while thinking we would wake up from someone coming in and saying "Get up it's Christmas!" but nope. No one came and it was already 8:30 so we decided that everyone must just be waiting for us so we got up and no one else was up! Supposedly everyone was up early with the babies but then went back to sleep. Soon everyone crept in and finally around 9:30 everyone was up so we were able to start Christmas. We started opening presents and about half way through the kids started getting fussy so we had to take an intermission and put them down for a nap so finally when they were up again we were able to finish opening presents and were done around 1:30. Perfect timing for my brother to call from his mission! Is was so great to hear him and we were able to skype with my sister Kelly and her family in Pittsburgh at the same time so we had a full family gathering. Later we had a great Christmas dinner and my cousins came over for dessert. As fun as Christmas was this year I can't wait until next year when we will have our own baby to spoil and celebrate it with!

 I went over to the tree Christmas Eve and found this gift hanging on the tree. Pretty much the cutest wrapping ever!

The family on Christmas Eve

 Christmas PJ's!

 The stockings were hung by the staircase with care?

 Christmas morning. Thanks Mom and Dad for all the great baby stuff!

 My favorite part about the morning was seeing Ethan stand up and have a bow stuck to his behind. Perfect spot! haha

 One of my favorite gifts I got was a new lens for my camera. It's made to take great portrait shots. here's one I took of Kylie. I love how the person is so crisp and the background blurry!

 One of Tyler's favorite gifts was this slimy stuff that makes fart noises. He still tries to trick me every night that he's farting in the bed with it.

A yummy Christmas snowflake pie that I made.

Pre-Christmas Fun

Man, I've been so bad at keeping up with blogging! And then when I do find the time I do like a month in one post. Hopefully I'll have more time once the baby comes? probably not but I'll probably be more motivated since I'll have something great to blog about.

Anyways, we did some fun things before Christmas including Christmas Parties and even a weekend getaway...

We had some fun family parties. Here are some pictures of The Babb Christmas party with Tyler's Dad's side of the family.

They had some fun games to play including one where you had to put on gloves, race to the other side and get a Hershey kiss, then race back and unwrap and eat it. Here's the boys playing the game and below that is Kris and I racing. I felt bad because I made Kris race me and then she got way into it and totally tripped and slid across the floor at the end! It was kind of funny though.

 

 Tyler with his brother and our adorable Nephew

They also had a great game of 4 square going on.

There's a family at my school that has the coolest house set up. A bunch of siblings built houses next to each other and they have a train that goes around all of their houses. Well they are super generous and every year they have a haunted train ride and a polar express ride open for the public. I teach a couple of the kids in the family so they invited me to go on the polar express ride. I invited Tylers family to come with us but Tyler had a final that night so he couldn't make it. I was blown away by how much work they put into it! They had lights all over and music playing and we even stopped at the north pole and saw Santa. What was really neat is the 2nd half of the train ride was all focused on Christ and they had pictures blown up of Christs life from when he was born to when he was resurrected. It really reminded me of the true reason we celebrate Christmas.

Tyler surprised me with a weekend getaway in Heber which is about a half hour up the provo canyon. He actually rented snowmobiles and I was really excited to go but then I asked my doctor if that was okay being pregnant and he said that it was probably one of the worst things I could do being 28 weeks pregnant so I was really bummed and wasn't able to go so Tyler is going to take his dad and brother instead. But we still went up to Heber and we used a free stay at the Zermot Hotel that we got from babysitting a family in our ward. It's  way cute/nice hotel that has a Swedish Theme. We went out to eat at a really nice restaurant and enjoyed relaxing and using the amenities of the hotel. I wasn't going to post this picture but it's a good belly shot to see how big my belly is getting.

We had a great Christmas Party with The Nelson Side of the family (Tyler's Mom's Side). They rented out a couple of rooms at Noah's where one room had a pool table and ping pong and they rented out a wallyball court. We had yummy food and a fun gift exchange.

As for School, Christmas is one of the crazy times of years because the kids get super hyper and excited for Christmas plus they are stuck inside most of the time due to inside recess and testing starts so I get stressed out having to get subs and pull kids out to do testing. But somehow I survived! We had a school wide performance where every grade sang a song for all the parents. Kindergarten sang "Up on the House Top". The music was too quiet so half the kids were off of the music and half were on and yeah..it was a little disastrous but I guess it's Kindergarten so it's all good. We also had a polar Express Christmas Party where the kids came in their pajamas and we watched the polar express and then pretended to go on a train ride to the north pole. We then had a class party with games and made gingerbread houses. It was really fun. I had to show the pictures of the kids on the "train ride" their faces are priceless. haha

And last but not least I have to show my 7 month belly picture. The day I took the picture it snowed a ton! So Tyler had me take a picture outside as well and I took the picture of my car to show how much it snowed.