Alyssa's baby blessing

We blessed Alyssa on July 31, 2011. We had a little brunch before church at our house. It was well attended and lots of fun! We had sacerment meeting at 12 and we tried for a group picture after church. We also attempted a picture of all the hakes Grandkids but that was pretty tough. One huge blessing was that all of Josh's siblings and spouses and all of there kids and same for mine and our parents were able to attend so that was very neat. We also had my sweet aunt Julie and cousin Christin make it. We tried to get a group picture before but ran out of time and after word got one but the lighting was terrible. (We would have missed a few from the group picture either way we had done it.) It was a little stressful, of course, but so fun to see everyone!

Alyssa is 1 month old

Alyssa turned 1 month old and i've been wanting to document it. She is a great nurser and great sleeper. She still had her umbilical cord up until last week. We had to go into the pedtrician office to get it taken care off. She used silver nitrate (I think) to burn it off. It looked like she was touching her umbilical cord with a match stick and she got it off. All but a little tiny stub which is pretty much gone now. Her bump is pretty uch gone now and her eyes are all better too. As of lately she has started cooing and smiling. We love it, it is so adorable!

The last picture is one of what the kids have been up to lately and they were playing so sweet.

Alyssa 2 weeks old

WARNING: Picture Over load!

On July 1st we were admitted into the hospital because her Doctor didn't like her color or her weight and was certain that her levels had gone up for her jaundice. Sure enough it had and surprisingly the blue light treatment wasn't very bad at all. It's warm and cozy and apparently the babies love it, and so did Alyssa. I cried and cried that day because it's hard to hear that your baby is bad enough off that they need to go to the hospital but it really wasn't too bad. I guess a big part of her jaundice also is that she has "bruising" to work through, blood shot eyes and a big bump on her head from being pushed out so quickly. We were released like 7 hours later. (5 days old)

Here is baby Alyssa 2 days old.

This is her 3 days old. I love the sleeping position.

Okay this is my attempt at a baby photo shoot. Very fun, I wish I would have tried a little more with my other kids. I love this sweet girl she is so cute! This is her 2 weeks old. She is now 8 lbs 4.8 oz and 20.5 inches. She is doing good. And I think (Hope I don't jinx myself) she has been my easiest baby so far. She is doing really well a night, usually a 4 - 5 hour stretch and then usually a 3 hour stretch after that. We'll see if it continues but she is also very calm and easy going. I feel very blessed!










Hailey loves loves loves to hold her baby sister and is a great helper. She can't get enough of her.
(11 days old)



I love this one. I had her undressed to get some sun and I found her sucking on her thumb. She has done this a few times. You can see her bump in this one. (10 days old)

Happy Birthday Troy!

Happy 2nd Birthday Troy! His Birthday was on June 28, it was the first full day after we got home from the hospital. The best part was that Josh stayed home that day from work since we had just came home. That made it such a fun day for the kids. He filled up the pool and put the extra slide in and they loved it. They swam for like a hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon. They loved it. Then we made cupcakes and spent like 20 minutes relighting and blowing out the candles. I do feel a little like Troy got the short end of the Birthday stick but in someways it was way better for him, more quality time. I think in the future it will be fun to have their Birthdays close.

My two-year-old Troy is such a sweet heart. He will cuddle with me while we are watching a show or reading a book. We played duck duck goose tonight and he just loved getting up to run and always would come back and sit in my lap. Troy is also very active little boy and we like to say all the time he is such a boy! He likes to pretend to be a monster and sometimes he'll switch to be a kitty but he likes to pretend to be the monster the most. He will growl and put his hands up and act scary. It's very cute. Troy loves cars and will spend tons of time moving them from place to place and lining them up and such. Troy has been seeing a speech therapist and it seems like recently he is talking more. His most used word is "please" which he uses for everything. He also says mama, dada, juice, elmo, cars, stars, uh-oh, shhhh, what's that?, mo for no, mo for mine, Those are the main ones. He will sometimes pop out other little words. He often prefers to grab our finger and show us what he wants and grunts a lot and also does muh-huh for yes. He's very expresive as far as his head nods go too so that helps. Troy still has his pacifer as you can see but we hope to loose it in the next few months. Troy has really surprised me with the arrival of his new sister. He has seemed to really not mind at all and has been really very soft when he touches her head. He has seemed to cling to me just a little more but the first few days he wouldn't come to me at all. I really hoping he doesn't feel jealous but so far so good. Hailey just loves to hold Alyssa and does a really good job of that so that has been helpful. Hailey is really helpful expect when it comes to her teasing her brother. It's not all the time but sometimes she does. We love having Troy in our family! Happy Birthday Buddy!

Alyssa Irene Hakes

We welcomed our newest addition Alyssa Irene Hakes to our family on Sunday June 26, 2011. She was born at 4:40 am at MMC. She weighed 8lbs 4.2oz and was 18 3/4in long. Her blood type is O Negitive. I was so ready to not be pregnant any more that I was starting to feel like asking the midwives to induce me but I was actually really happy that she picked her own birthday! We named her Irene after Josh's Grandmother. Of course we were in the hospital until the very last second trying to pick the name. That is always the hardest part. We are very much loving having her home! Trying to figure out the new level of craziness it brings! We love you baby Alyssa!

Labor Story

Last pregnancy picture, almost 39 weeks.

Here is the amount of monitering they did on me from the time I walked in til the time I delivered.

FYI: this contains my labor story so if you'd rather not read about it skip this one.

A little preface after being on bed rest for 8 weeks to prevent preterm labor, I had then been off bed rest for almost 3 weeks doing everything I could to go into labor. I must say I was getting pretty frustrated not going into labor after so long of working so hard to stay pregnant. Now I can say I've pretty much test every myth and they all get an F.
On Saturday Night/sunday morning I got up once to go to the rest room and was feeling fine and normal. About an hour later at 3:15 I got up to a huge gush of water. I was completely soaked. I called the mid wife and my mom and with in about half an hour we were on our way to the hospital. The midwife suggested that if I wasn't contracting yet, which I wasn't at first, I could just stay home to labor but I told her I was really wanting an epidural so I was going right away. We arrived at the hospital around 4 and were up in our room by 4:10 starting the long list of questions. I kept asking about the epidural and the nurse told me that as soon as we got through the questions she check me and we could go from there. We got through them and I was at a ten, she told me sorry your not getting an epidural. They called in a midwife I'd never met to deliver my baby and all the nurses rushed in. I was needing to push so they all quickly gathered around and I pushed through 1 contraction and she was here. They told Josh he got to announce the gender but I saw it and couldn't contain myself so I shouted it's a girl! We are so glad that our new baby Aylssa is here safe!

Welcome to our family baby Alyssa!

Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to my sweet Hubby! He's such a great dad, and I'm always impressed about how much he cares about our kids and there well being! I love all the little things he does for them like playing on the floor and chasing them through the house or playing hide and go seek. I'm also very grateful to my wonderful dad! We also got to go see Josh's dad for Father's day!

In pregnant news, I'm still Pregnant! Can't believe it! I've been 3.5 cm dialated for 4 weeks and when they checked me on Monday I was at 4cm. I'm 38 weeks and 2 days. Almost the same as when I had Hailey (38 weeks 3 days). I'm going crazy, I've been trying everything I can think of to go into labor and nothing is happening! Good luck to me! Luckily no one stays pregnant for ever hopefully I'll be done soon! (I'll post some updated pregnant pictures soon.)