Landyn Aurielle Yates

Landyn Aurielle Yates

December 4,2008 6:42 am

Virginia Baptist Hospital

7 lbs 2 oz, 20.5 in

The Birth Story

Well, let me say that Landyn's birth was a whirlwind of activity and we weren't able to document it like Jordyn's, although there isn't much to document. While Jordyn's labor was about 16 hours, Landyn's was a total of 4, with only one hour spent in the hospital! Thankfully, we're alive to talk about it as I thought I wouldn't survive.

I woke up at 2:30 am in the middle of a contraction but since I had been having them for a couple of days I didn't think much of it. After laying in bed for an hour and experiencing contractions every 5-7 minutes I was pretty sure this was the real thing. There was only one problem, I was experiencing all the labor in my back and that had me so confused. I wasn't sure if it was real or just false because none of it seemed to be radiating to the front.

Around 4:15 I woke up Wayne and let him know I was pretty sure this was the real thing. After a shower and a call to the hospital I was now having contractions about every 3 minutes. Of course, both Cassandra and Aaron, who assured me they would answer their phones in the middle of the night, didn't. I called Cassandra almost 8 times before I got her on the phone to tell her "Come right away!"

We were checked into the hospital at 5:40 and by then my contractions were about every 90 seconds and I was already 7-8 centimeters dilated. All I could say the entire time was to beg the nurses to hurry up and give me the epidural before it was to late. They had three nurses working on me to get finished quickly, in time for an epidural, but I was to have no such relief. At about 6:20 I was ready to push and couldn't wait any more for the epidural to come. During the pushing Landyn's heart rate dropped dramatically and they ended up having to perform an episiotomy and use suction to help me push her out quickly. At 6:42 she was here and I was still medication free.

Come to find out Landyn was facing the wrong way and came out face up, instead of face down, which caused the back labor. She also had the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck which caused the problems with her heart rate. She was very healthy though and started screaming almost immediatly. To add to the excitement, about 5 minutes before Landyn was born Wayne blacked out and almost fainted. He stopped helping me push even though I was yelling at him and had to be seated by nurses after not sitting on his own. It was pretty scary for me to see him like that but he got over it fast and is now back to normal!

So now we are just resting in our mother baby room and I'm actually feeling great. I've been up to walk around some and have fed Landyn twice already. She's a hungry girl! Hopefully we will have more pictures and info up soon. We love you all and thanks for your prayers and calls.

Halloween

While we didn't have a halloween party this year, we still were able to enjoy a fun halloween day! Jordyn got her very cute costume from Grandma and Grandpa Beer and I was very excited for her to wear it...twice! The library had trick-or-treating and a costume parade that we were a part of. It was very fun and Jordyn loved seeing frogs, ducks, babies and all kinds of other costumes. We got to wear the costume again for trick-or-treating in the neighborhood. We visited about 8 houses and while Jordyn loved climbing the steps and ringing the door bell, as soon as the door opened she was jumping into my arms and acting very shy. Everyone was very nice though and loved her costume. One lady told her that she was the cutest trick or treater she had seen all night and that just made my day! Then it was back home to color her pumpkin and make spice cake cupcakes...mmm, were they good. We had a good night and Jordyn loved having kids come to the door in costumes. Thank you grandma for the cute costume!!

Pumpkin Picking

We went pumpkin picking on Sunday and it was a lot of fun. I had been telling Wayne that we had to go this season since I hadn't been in forever and while he wasn't all that thrilled about it he agreed. So after church we ate our lunch in the car and traveled to Laymans Farms. It was a pretty cool day which made it more enjoyable because it actually felt like fall! We were able to do a lot of fun things that I think we all enjoyed. We went on a hayride to pick pumkins, saw sheep, pigs and goats and shot pumpkins in a pumkin blaster! There was a cow train ride that Jordyn cried when she got on, then decided she loved it and cried when we had to get off too! There was also a mini corn maze for kids that Jordyn got to do with just Daddy! Overall we had a great time and got some great pictures. And come to find out, it wasn't just Jordyn's first time pumpkin picking but Wayne's too!

Long Awaited Update

Hey everyone! I know it's been a long time since I've uploaded the blog but things have been busy around here. Wayne just finished his 8 week class which was taking up a lot of time and causing a lot of late nights. I've been doing the math tutoring thing a lot more than normal to try and save up some extra money for when the baby comes and I'm to busy and exhausted to tutor. The few moments of free time I have are usually spent napping, trying to catch back up on some of my energy. The baby is getting more and more wild every day and my belly is definitely getting larger! According to the doctor everything looks great and I feel more in shape than I have in a long time. Jordyn keeps me busy and moving and most of the time unaware of my pregnancy pains! Jordyn is growing like crazy and many of you wouldn't even recognize her. I can't believe she's 14 months old. She's talking and running and has developed such a personality. There's just to much to describe about her so I thought I would post a video. I know it's long but for those of you that haven't seen her since Christmas or summer, I know you'll appreciate this!

13 Months Old

Jordyn is growing in unbelievable ways. It's hard to believe that just a month ago she turned 1 because it seems it has been so much longer. This past month she has begun talking and really developing her vocabulary. She loves to repeat anything we say which is really fun since she can only get one syllable of it, you never know which syllable she'll choose. All she ever wants to do it read and while I'm so sick of our 15-20 books it's been exciting too. I can now leave words out and she can fill them in. She's learning what so many things are because we point out all the different animals and objects. She also has favorite pages in certain books and they're the only page she wants to read, over and over again. We thought we would write up a quick little chart of all the words that she can say, of her own accord. There are tons of words she says when prodded but these words listed below she can just see the object and say them. Granted, they don't all sound like what they should sound like because again, she can only say one syllable, but enjoy the list, there's some cute words!

WORDS: no, yes, nose, duck, dog, cat, up, down, baby, snow, daddy, uh-oh, boop (the word she says when she falls), socks, bird, cookie, yum, book, shoes, juice, swing, bug, loud, fish, truck, ow, rock, hi, eyes, ball, stick, hot, mama, ice, whoa. (35 words)

SOUNDS: animal sounds for lion, dog, duck, monkey, sheep

SONGS: she sings "Row Row Row" and rocks her body from row row row your boat.

Also, she put together her very first phrase a couple of weeks ago. She was doing something disobedient and when Wayne tried to remove her from the situation she looked right at him and said "Dada, no!" Oddly enough, no is a word we barely ever here from her mouth so at this point, it's still cute when she says it. Lastly, she is now the proud owner of 8 teeth, she just had two come in this week. We just can't believe how much fun she is becoming, how verbal she is and how fast she is changing. I know it only happens faster from here on in. We hope you enjoy all our updates and are trying to keep you as posted on her changes as we can!

p.s. all the pictures posted are from the day at the park when we flew Jordyn's kite!

New Tricks

Here is a video we thought you might all enjoy, to show Jordyn's new tricks. We've been trying really hard to keep up on the video so you can all experience her as much as possible from whatever state you're from. This is Jordyn identifying all the body parts she knows. Unfortunately, she only likes to play this game when she's in her swing, so it might be hard to see everything. I slowed the video down some but you have to look closely, especially when she shows her eyes, because she doesn't point, she blinks! Enjoy.

Family Fall Day

Yesterday was family fall day and I thought we would share some pictures. Usually we call it our family fun day but since we did all kinds of fall things we changed the name. Neither Wayne or I had homework or anything else that was pressing so we were able to get up early and spend the whole day together doing something special with Jordyn. I chose apple picking. It definitely wasn't fall weather, it was 90 degrees but it was still an enjoyable day.

The apple orchard was about 40 minutes away so I decided to pack our lunch to take and have a picnic. I think that might have been Jordyns favorite part...being allowed to eat and walk around at the same time! Then it was off to pick apples. It didn't take us that long to pick because it was really hot and we had to take turns holding Jordyn so she could reach the apples. There were a few trees where she could stand on the ground and pick but when she was on the ground she wanted to pick the rotten ones up and she kept asking to get back up to reach the high ones. We did get a lot of different kinds and they were all very delicious looking. They also had animals at the orchard that we got to take a look at. It was fun to see Jordyn getting to put the sounds to real animals. We got to hear a pig oink, a sheep baa and we saw rabbits wiggling their noses. It was cool to see Jordyn make the sounds back at the animals too. She really enjoyed it. The days wasn't over though. There were still fall things to do! When we got home we made sugar cookie dough and Jordyn got to help with that too. She liked helping me hold the mixer and beating everything together. After dinner we got to take it out of the fridge and make pumpkin and apples sugar cookies. She liked rolling the dough but cutting the cookies got a little boring and she wasn't to thrilled about the sprinkles. I convinced her to stay and help me make 6 cookies but after that she was done. I think her favorite part about cookie making was getting to stand on a chair! We ended the night with a video in bed, all 3 of us, and then mommy and daddy got to watch their own video when Jordyn went into her own bed. It was a great day! Today I made applesauce and apple crisp from our apples we picked yesterday. Jordyn loved both although I think she liked the apple crisp better because she got to have ice cream with it! What a fun and tasty weekend.