Easter 2013...

School Days...

With the school year coming to an end and all the funny stories I hear about Avrey I decided I really need to document those funny moments before I forget them. 

• One day I was at work and got a text from Liz telling me that Avrey only had one shoe. I called Dallas and sure enough she had taken her shoe off during the ride down and Dallas didn't notice. Luckily I had a pair in the back of my car so I quickly ran to the school to give them to her. 
• At the begining of the year every time I would pick Avrey up we would have a line of people we would have to say goodbye to. There was one little boy in particular that no matter where he was when he'd see Avrey leave he'd have to come tell her goodbye. So I asked Liz what his name was and she told me Louise. I asked Avrey who Luis was and she told me "he's a boy". It was so cute and he's all we heard about for a while. 
• While I was at work one day Dallas called me all upset. He had just dropped Avrey off and I guess Tay Tay ran up to Avrey and pulled her hair. Now since that day every day I pick Avrey up she tells me "Tay Tay pull me hair." After talking to Liz I guess Tay Tay gets so excited to see Avrey that she'll run up to her to hug her and Avrey doesn't really want a hug so then Tay Tay will reach for her hair. 
• She goes to the bathroom all by herself. Liz would help her in the beginning, but now she'll just go and Liz doesn't even have to ask her anymore. Which is so weird why can't she do that at home. I'm thinking it's because she see's all the bigger kids doing it and she wants to be like them. 
• One day when I picked Avrey up Liz had a serious look on her face and told me she had to tell me something. I was so nervous for what was coming next...I thought for sure Avrey had done something. Well I guess Liz was having the kids sit down to watch something and walked a way for a minute. When she came back Baylee was freaking out and told Liz that Deigo asked Avrey to sit by him..so she did and when she got up to sit by someone else Deigo started to choke her. I guess he didn't do it hard, but had his hands on her neck. I was glad to hear that Liz did punish him, reported it to the school and told his mom. Avrey seemed to be ok, but every time you would ask her about it she would say "Deigo broke my neck", and now she'll tell me "Deigo's mean".
• The principle sat in Liz's class to observe her one day and when Dallas dropped her off the next day Liz told him that the principle couldn't say enough about Avrey and how smart she was. Then one day when I was picking her up I ran in to the principle and he went on and on about her. He just kept saying how cute and smart she was. He told me that he's never seen a 2 year old as cute and as smart as she is. And as a pretty proud parent I'd have to agree.
• I went to pick up Avrey one day and Liz told me to start bringing her juice in a sippy cup instead of just the juice box. I guess what had happened was that while they were at lunch Avrey and her friend JJ decided it would be funny to squeeze their drinks at each other and poor JJ got his chocolate milk all over him. 
• Avrey has all the office ladies head over heels for her. She gets whatever she wants from them and they just LOVE her. She gets a sticker from them every morning and a sucker every afternoon. She also has the traffic lady wrapped around her finger.

When I was on maternity leave I had one rough night where I didn't get much sleep. So I told myself after I dropped her off I'd go home and take a nap. Well I got about a half an hour through my nap when Dallas called me. The school was on the other line with him saying Avrey was playing on the playground, fell into a puddle, got super wet and needed new pants. So I had to get up and go all the way back. I decided to just take her home so I wouldn't have to drive back for a 3rd time.

Baby Beckett...

I had a doctors appointment on March 14th...Dr. Hughes told me that I was dilated to a 2 and casually asked if I'd like to have a baby that next Friday. I was so caught off guard, but quickly told him yes with tons of excitement in my voice. He told me that he'd do it sooner, but he was going out of town. This made me super nervous because I thought it would be just my luck that I'd go into labor while he was gone. Well luckily I made it all the way to Friday. I took the Thursday before off work so I could clean my house, catch up on laundry and run some last minute errands. Friday morning came...we all got up, got ready and met my dad at the Hospital to drop Avrey off to him at 7:00 A.M. Once we dropped her off we headed up to Labor and Delivery, got registered and they took me back to my room. Once I was all settled in my nurse walked in and crazy enough it was the same nurse I had when I had Avrey (nurse Christi). Everything was going great the only thing that got a little discouraging was that I was progressing, but at a very slow rate. Finally around 12 Dr. Hughes came in and broke my water. Once my water was broke I got my epidural a few moments later. I did get a little nervous with my epidural because I was told it would take about 15 20 mintues to kick in and after about 20 minutes only my right side was numb. I kept pushing my button and finally my left side went numb. After that it was a lot of waiting and I mean a lot. We watched every show you could think of...Rachel Ray, Ellen and even some March Madness just for dad. Kailee and my mom were with me pretty much the whole day and then Debbie and Spen came up later in the afternoon. It was nice to have some company while I waited. Finally a little bit before 6 the nurse came in to check me and I was a 9 1/2...she had me push a little bit and just like that I was a 10. They called for the doctor and before I knew it we were ready to go. The doctor came in and I started pushing...the nurse started counting and only got to 5 before I was told to stop pushing. He was here! Baby Beckett was born at 6:09 P.M. and came out screaming. He was so perfect in every way. He was way smaller than Avrey 6 lbs 15 oz and 20 inches long. Once everything was cleaned up we were ready to let people in and it felt like everyone was there to share our special moment. Around 7 I was finally settled into my room and I made Dallas get me some Olive Garden since I hadn't eaten all day...and it was DELICIOUS!!! We immediately fell in love with our little man and we just can't get enough of him. We are so grateful to have him in our family and Avrey already loves being a big sister.

*Kailee did my birth story pictures and they turned out better than I could have expected.*