Kynadi's 2nd Birthday

Kynadi had her 2nd birthday at the end of July. I think it was perfect timing to be able to have a day just for her since all the attention had been on the new baby. She is such sweet little girl and has been such a GREAT big sister, but I was feeling bad and was excited to focus just on her. I had been telling her that her birthday was coming and we made a little paper count-down so she would know when it arrived. I'm not quite sure she understood completely but it was so cute to watch her get excited each day about tearing off a piece of her "happy day count down" (as she called it). We also tried to get her excited about her birthday by asking her what she wanted for her birthday, and everytime I asked she told me "Cake". She obviously takes after me if all she wants is food!

Well, when she finally woke up on her birthday I showed her that there was only one loop left on the count-down so it was finally her birthday. She got excited, but was especially excited when I took her upstairs and she saw the balloons decorated over the table, and the CAKE she had been hoping for. I decorated the cake late the night before and it looked terrible (as you can see), but she loved it!!

That night we went to a park in RS to have a picnic, since she loves them. The weather turned bad on us though so we had to cut things short. When we got back home we finished opening her presents and the last one was her new bed, which I think I was more excited for than anyone. She was pretty happy for it though, but mostly because she loved jumping on it.

Then, the best part of her birthday (in a mother's eye) was when she threw her binki in the garbage. She had NEVER taken a binki as a baby and when we were packing boxes to move, she found this one binki and started sucking on it. At the time I let her because I thought she was getting her final teeth in and I figured it probably felt good to chew on. But then she became addicted!! YIKES! So I came up with a plan. I began preparing her for the day she turned two because then she would be a "big girl" and wouldn't need a binki anymore. We planned to throw it away on her birthday, which she seemed fine with when we talked about it, but I was a bit nervous to see how the actual event would take place. Surprisingly enough the tactic worked. That night, before she went to sleep in "the big girl bed", she threw the binki in the garbage. I think deep down she didn't want to let go but we tried to make it a good thing and she went right a long with it and she hasn't really mentioned it since. Actually, tonight was one of the first nights I have heard anything about it. She randomly just told me she wants to be little and have a binki again. It was too cute!!!

So our little Kynadi Bean is growing up fast. She is at such a cute stage and I love having her as my little buddy each day.

Some more pictures right after Brooklyn was born....

Introducing...Brooklyn Fairchild

Well, I had just gone to sleep for the night on July 5th, when I woke up to wet pants! I had broken myself of wetting the bed long ago (unlike some of my sisters) so I knew my water must have broken. I then started to panic, as I was not ready for this baby to come. It was two weeks before her due date and I had not prepared myself mentally for giving birth. It was too late though, so I woke John up in my panic. It was the middle of the night and unfortuneatly my parents (our babysitters for Kynadi) were out of town visiting Mindy and Kelsey, so we had to wake poor little Kynadi up and haul her off to the hospital with us. We checked in and went straight to a room where I stayed the rest of the night.

The night was fairly uneventful. At some point during the night my Mom and Dad had driven back from Laramie and picked up Kynadi--thankfully. Well, I was having contractions, but apparently they weren't enough to call the anesthesiologist. The hospital in Boise gave me a nice good epidural before they even checked to see how far dialated I was, but not in good old Rock Springs, they must have wanted me to feel pain before I got the epidural. So anyway, I sat all night watching the clock, waiting for it to be 6:00 am when the anesthesiologist would finally be in for work....not a fun wait.

So anyway I finally got the epidural at around 7:00. It was great at first, but did not last long and soon I was in pain again. The nurses insisted that the baby must be getting lower and thus the pain was lower where the epidural wasn't as strong...this didn't fly with me since I couldn't even feel my legs with Kynadi. But it didn't matter and after shedding a few tears of pain, John got the nurse to have her check on me. My docotor ended up coming in too and she said the baby was coming so they took me to the delivery room. This was a short, PAINFUL stay but after only 3 rounds of pushing little baby Brooklyn was born just after 9:00am.

Brooklyn was born on July 6, 2007(yes she must have her mother's luck because she missed being born on the luckiest day in history-7/7/07 ) She weighed in at 6lbs 14oz, much smaller than Kynadi who was 8lbs 8oz. This is a good thing too, since the epidural was not up to par. I didn't want to feel a thing, yet I did and it HURT!!! She came much faster than Kynadi though so I will be grateful for that. Most importantly everything went well, and we were both healthy and doing well.

Finally...

Our sweet little Brooklyn was born about a month ago, and I figured it would be a great time to start a blog page to keep a bit of a history on the adventures with our two little girls. I've been wanting to start one for awhile now, since poor little Kynadi's first two years have not been documented very well, so hopefully this will help.