disney day pics

I took some pictures of the girls after their disneyland party that I thought I'd share. They wanted to show off their face paint and stickon tattoos. Plus, I did their hair to look like minnie mouse and I thought it turned out cute.

In the News

On Friday, March 13th, the entire Kindergarten had a Disneyland Party as it was a half day and the day before spring break. They had to earn this party by walking enough miles to get to disneyland, 555 miles. Starting in January the kids would take laps of the field before going to play at recess and they could choose to walk as many laps as they wanted. When the kindergarten had walked enough laps to make it to disneyland they were given the disneyland party. Our newpaper just published an article on the event in their Schools section and Mckayla was in the picture for it! Here is the link to the full story:

http://www.svherald.com/articles/2009/03/23/lifestyle/schools/doc49c31145aba8c439327739.txt

More Baby Pictures

This is my midwife Stephanie Fritz. She is absolutely wonderful and I would recommend her to anyone considering a home birth or needing birth assistance in our area. She is writing up my birth story (in better words than I could), so if the gory details are interesting to you, you can check it out on her blog: http://thebabycatcher.blogspot.com/

More of Jaxon with his little sister.

Me and all of the kids right after birth.

Here is Kailey, pretty much right after birth. Still a bit smushy and red, but very cute.

I love sleeping baby pictures! Mostly because that is all you're going to get at this point. But I wanted to show off her hair.

This is Jake's first time holding Kailey.

This is the last belly shot. I couldn't hold still during the first couple of hours of labor so I put on some Pat Benatar and walked out my contractions until they were so strong I couldn't stand it. It did help things move along, and the music got me pumped and ready to go.

Meet Kailey Mae Pacheco!

IT'S A GIRL! Kailey Mae Pacheco was born on Monday, March 9th, 2009 at 5:35am in our home. She is a very healthy little baby at 7 pounds and 20 inches long. She has a full head of dark hair (and a back of it too), but not much baby fat. We are all very excited to have a new baby in our family. It took us awhile to pick a name for her, but we decided on Kailey Mae yesterday and made it official by sending out the stuff for a birth certificate before we could change our minds again. Yes, we did have her at home with the major help of a midwife. It was my first home birth and was a very different experience from birthing in a hospital. But everything went really really well. I am recovering quickly and Kailey is very healthy.
I woke up at 1am with regular stronger contractions, but I have had a few false alarms so I busied myself with housework and let everyone sleep while I waited to see if these were going to go anywhere. At about 2am I decided that this was the real deal, and I woke up Jake and called my midwife over. We just let all of the kids sleep, hoping that we would have a baby before they woke up in the morning. I'll spare y'all the gory details (for now), but she was born 3 1/2 hours later and we were cleaned up and ready to meet the siblings by 7:30am after they had gotten ready for school.

Though it is hard for Jaxon to not be able to climb all over me, he has been surprisingly great with Kailey so far. He is very gentle with her, and gets extremely concerned when she is crying. He loves to sit and watch her and loves it when we let him hold her.

This is Lyla meeting Kailey for the first time.

Here is Mckayla meeting Kailey.

Here is our first family photo after the birth. If it looks like I'm half dead- it's because I was at that point. It had only been 2 hours since birth, and no sleep for me yet, so there.

Another tooth down

Lyla lost her second tooth. Right next to the first one she lost. The bottom teeth are growing in pretty quick because the new one is already close to half way up, and the other new one is up enough that you can't hardly tell where she'd already lost one. Mckayla still hasn't lost any and is very jealous of Lyla. She does have one that is wiggling a little bit and she checks it everyday to see if it is ready to come out yet.

Girls day out

Last Saturday after all of the cleaning my girls and I went out to get our hair done. The girls have been asking to get haircuts for awhile and I had been itching to do something with mine for awhile too. The girls were really good for the haircuts, and I think theirs turned out really cute. I wasn't super pleased with mine though. I got a cut and color, and though the lady did really well with kids and the place was really kid friendly, she wasn't very good with me. I wanted layers and at least some sort of style, but she basically just cut it into a longer version of what she gave the girls. She butchered it too, she took off about 6 inches or so. Plus the color was much more on the orangey side than the auburn I was going for. I'm 0 for 2 on hairstylists in town to go to. I wasn't happy with the last one either.

Here we are showing off our awesome hair cuts before going to church. Jake did Jaxon up like that, and I think if we just added a bowtie he could pass for Barnaby on Hello Dolly.

Spring Cleaning

Last Friday and Saturday we decided to do an overhaul on our backyard. It started out with just pulling some weeds and racking up pine needles, but we ended up doing some heavy duty pruning and bush trimming and a lot of other things. At the end of all of the work we had a huge pile of branches and several bags of yard waste to get rid of. The kids were all pretty good sports about helping out. Even Jaxon wanted to lend a hand. We had one bag full of pinecones and Jaxon really had fun finding pinecones and throwing them in the bag.
One thing that stunk was I went grocery shopping that night and Jake accidentally smashed his finger when he was closing the trunk of the car. It was the worst finger smashing I've ever seen. His nail didn't break, but the flesh from under the nail squirted out like butter and was on top of it in a blob. Totally gross, and completely painful. He couldn't cut it off either, we had to wait for it to dry out and die before cutting it off. That was Friday night, and we had planned on taking all of the stuff to the dump on Saturday, but Jake was having a hard time doing any of that work with his finger in so much pain. Luckily, we had enlisted the help of some church members (one with a truck), who made a big difference in getting it all cleaned up and out. We still have some cleaning to do, but the big stuff is done. Our yard is pretty low maintenance, we haven't had to do any major work in it since last fall, and we never have to water. That is, until we attempt at bringing the patch of grass back to life. We'll see if that ever happens. Here are some pictures of the kids lending a hand in cleaning up:

Carnival in Town

A week or so ago a carnival came through town that we went to. It was the weekend I had been having some false labor, and we figured walking around a carnival might've helped things pick up a bit. It was a lot of fun. The girls are barely tall enough now that they can ride on almost every ride. Though they did skip out on a few of them that looked too scary. I was surprised though at some of the ones they did ride on. It made me feel old to realize that they were big enough to ride with all of the big kids and have a fun time. They are still small though, so it was funny that on every ride I tried to take their pictures, but I could rarely see much of them over the seats and bars. This is one of the "big kid" rides that they rode on:
Here's me and Jaxon. It wasn't much fun for Jaxon because he wanted to go on the rides, but obviously couldn't. Every time we put him down to walk around he would take off running to the steps of one fo the rides. I felt bad that there wasn't much that he could do.

Jono did take Jaxon down a big super slide on his lap, and he seemed to really like that. The girls went down this slide about 15 times. We just always get the wristbands so they can do all of the rides as much as they can stand in the short amount of time we are there.

I think that little carnivals like these are more fun than amusement parks at the girls age because they can ride everything and they don't have to wait in any long lines to get on. All of the "big kid" rides really aren't that bad, just scary enough for a 5 year old.

The trip to the carnival did get my contractions going alot so that we had to leave because I could hardly walk around anymore. We thought the baby might've been coming, but we were wrong. I'm still here, still prego.