Happy Birthday my baby girl!

3 years ago today my sweet, silly, goofy, smart baby girl was born. Super bittersweet. Shes no longer a toddler she's now a preschooler (gah, she'll be starting preschool in September! o.O)!! I can't believe how fast these last 3years have gone. She's a super huge goof ball, she loves to cuddle and read to us, she loves writing "O's", drawing stick people, she can identify 22/26 letters, she recognizes #'s 2, 3 & 5, and knows her basic colors except green and blue which she mixes up frequently. She's in love with her older brother and wants to be like him very much, so when he's at school she'll practice writing 'letters' (how she learned O's and stick people) to be like "Shay." She's obsessed with the color pink, and can be a huge Diva, sometimes telling us her name is Princess not Kieran. Lover that baby goofball Kiwi <3

5 years ago

July 18th, 2006 my life changed for ever. My precious baby boy was born at 10:12pm, weighing 7lbs 9oz and 21" long.








Happy Birthday my booger head!

Happy Birthday to my sweet baby!

I can't believe its already here. 2 years ago I was tossing and turning in my bed because I was going to have a baby in a few short hours! Baby Kieran was born via c-section on April 8th, 2009 @ 7:51am (due to being footling breach, and too risky to try a version). She weighed in at 6lbs 13ox and 19(or 19.5 I forget oops...lol)inches long. She took to breastfeeding like a champ, while I was in recovery still! We had some issues with her weight and latching after leaving the hospital but we pulled through and I'm proud to say that we nursed till she SELF weened in January of this year at 21½ months old!

Happy Birthday to my sweet, silly, goofy, lefty, dancing girly!

My baby boy is 4!!

Where did the last 4 years go?! It seems like such a blur at points now, and it makes me kind of sad. Seamus is such a silly, goofy, helper(at times lol), wild and crazy boy. I love him so much and want him to stay little forever, makes me sad thinking that he only has 14yrs (which I'm sure will go fast) left at home.

Here's his birth story that I wrote back in 2006

Seamus Patrick Allen was born on Tuesday July 18th @ 10:12pm he weighed 7lbs 9oz!!!!!! so much smaller then they thought! and he was 21inches long!

July 18th, 2006

We went into the hospital on Monday night and they put something called cyododell(sp) on my cervix to help to dilate, they inserted it at around 10pm Monday night. The nurse told me that most people just dilate with the pill in place and nothing else, well I had been having contractions that I couldn't tell and the pill made them worse. I called my mom to come at 3am and the nurse put in the iv and group b strep medication, at 6am she came back and started the piticon at 2ml per hour, then in an hour upped it to 4 and a half an hour later upped it to 6 and about every half hour after that she upped it 2 more ml, at 8am the doc checked me I was 70% effaced adn at a 2 cm and station -3 so he broke my water, at around noon I was at 4 and about 90% dilated (at 9 they put in the epidural and I didn't have any pains from contractions at all! :) ) at around 8:30 pm I was in and out of sleep because of a horrible headache I had and they had giving me something for it, I started saying my bum was going to explode(sorry for the info!) and my mom laughed till I said it a lot and they got the nurse and Ii was 10cm and fully effaced and a +1 so pushing began at about 9pm Tuesday, I was very sick feeling from the headache and though I was going to faint but never did and I swear I was going to rip every muscle down there I felt the stinging and pulling and stretching and pushed for an hour shockingly only screaming a few times and the doc used the vacuum because I was getting weaker and then with 4 pushes and vacuum help he popped out! they placed him on my chest and I just grabbed him and so did df, and I cried and said that df needed to cut the cord, and the doc let him and then delivered the placenta which felt a little strange. they fixed my epsiomity I believe it was a 2 so they have 4 stitches0 on the second layer and 4 on the top. Seamus' apgars were 8 and 9. he layed on my chest for an hour bare on bare skin, and we tried to breast feed but he would take then. the nurse then took him and washed him and gave him his eye drops and vitamin k and hep b shots and did his blood sugars which needed to be above 40 and it was 58 so he was good and they took his picture and gave him to df. i had to wait for the epidural to ware off so they could move me to the post pardum room, but it was too strong at 2:30 the nurse came in and said it was time to move because my left leg was starting to have feeling again but when they stood me up I fell to the floor because my legs were too week, which was shocking considering my right leg never went numb from the epidural but my left leg was dead from it, so df had to lift me to a wheelchair and when we got to the room they took Seamus to the nicu because his breathing wasn't good. df then lifted me to the bed and the nurse sat ice under me, and I said I needed to pee and she said wait an hour or two and i said no I'm going to pee now, and they got a commode and lifted me to it and I filled the bucket with a ton of pee which was good since I didn't fill the cathadar very well that was in place earlier. At around 6am they brought Seamus back and he was good, later that day the pediatrician came in and said that we would have to stay because he was throwing up pretty badly. Then the lactation specialist came in and we found out that Seamus would take my nipples because they weren't big enough for him to take so I got a nipple guard plastic thing that I put over it for him to get milk from. He got severe jaundice(sp) and had to be under lights from Thursday after noon to Friday morning but is ok now!

(This is how I wrote it in 2006(though I did go and correct some spellings), I believe the day after we got out of the hospital so its not very fluid lol)

July 14th, 2006

On this day(though it was a Friday), July 14th, 20006, I was 39weeks 2days(or 3) pregnant with Seamus. I had one of my weekly u/s's to watch my fluid levels and his size. I was also miserable, nevermind it was mid July and in the 100's, I was still constantly having nasty headaches and seeing stars all the time. I thought this u/s would be no different then my other weekly ones. When I got back to my room one of my OB's came in(at the time I saw 2 different once cause either could end up delivering(now it's 3)) and said that we were going to have a baby! He told me the u/s showed Seamus as being 8lbs 15oz and that he needed to come out asap, and that because my BP and headaches hadn't gotten better it was best to do an induction(but I wouldn't have been allowed to go past 40 weeks anyway cause of the GD). My OB had one of the secretary's call the hospital hoping to get me in soon. The soonest they had was Monday night, July 17th, so it was set. Weird to believe that just 4 days after this appointment my 'TINY' little 7lb 9oz boy was born!


Appx, 15weeks pregnant, while in the ER in Texas



Around 20weeks



(had others but not sure if we have them here or in Nebraska still. I'll have to look)

Happy Birthday my baby girl!

My precious Kieran you are 1 today! You have gone from my tiny 6lb 13oz newborn (down to 5lbs 9oz at 2weeks old) to my 18lb even 12month old. It was an amazing year watching you grow and learn things, and for me to grow and learn how different you are from your brother(and how much easier you were!) You are the most laid back, sweetest little baby I've ever seen, preferring to watch everyone and observe your surroundings, then to run out into them. My silly, face making, goofy little girl, I love you and here's to many more years of watching you grow and learn!
<3 Mommy

Kieran's Birth Story

This is exactly how I wrote it on April 19th, 2009.

Monday April 6th I had my 38week OB appt. I see 3 different OB's sense they dont know who would be on call if I went into labor on my own. One OB the week before had said it was ok to deliver at 38weeks 3days so we scheduled the c-section for the 8th of April the previous week. At my appt Monday I saw a different OB and he was worried about doing the c-seciton at 38weeks 3days(it would be him doing the section) so he said #1 we either wait till 39weeks and have issues with dh's work or #2 do steroid shots. He was worried about delivering her so soon due to the GD and the issues with lung development in GD babies. Dh and I opted for the steroid shots. The first shot was at 1pm Monday then the second was at 8am Tuesday morning.

Tuesday night I had to wash with some nasty smelling stuff called hibbaclense(sp?) and then wasnt' allowed to use conditioner for 24hrs prior to the surgery or any products that contained Alochol as an ingredent due to possible fire hazzards in the OR.

We woke up at 4:30am on Wed. morning and I had to again wash with this stuff, supposed to help reduce the chance of infections. We left for the hospital at 5am and got there at 5:15am, got checked in at the ER/registeration desk, then waddled my little butt up to L&D (I dennyed a wheelchair sense I wouldnt be able to walk for 24hrs after the surgery). We get up to L&D and they tell me go to room 6...we get in there and I relize that it looks really similar to the room we had Seamus in and then dh starts laughing and said its the same room that Seamus was born in. There was 5 nurses waiting in my room when we got there. I got my gown and monitors on, then they started all the questions sense I haddn't registered this time, and they started the IV.

I guess my office does this thing where they take a huge vial of blood(appx 6" long and 1.5-2in wide) and do something to it and in surgery they spray it on the paitent and its supposed to speed up the healing process, so they got the huge vial of blood from me and then got the IV and antibiotics started. The doctor comes in around 6:30ish with a portable u/s machine to check that she was still breech, during the u/s she had her head in my left side just under my ribs and her feet on my right side in the middle between my ribs and hip, her back was facing down towards my cervix. The OB gave us the option one more time to try a version but he also wasnt' too sure about it because of her odd possition, dh was competely agains it and I wasnt' much for one either so we dennyed it.

The OR room was right next door to the room I was in so they have me walk into the OR room around 7:05am and help me on the table. Man that room was freezing and it didnt' help my shakes from being nervous. I got the spinal placed, so much eaiser then the epi was with Seamus. The lyed me down and then hooked up these things to my legs like giant blood pressure cuffs to help from getting blood clotts sense I woudlnt' be walking/using my legs for around 24hrs. Then they placed the cathader..I wasnt' completely numb so I felt a small pinch but not horrible painful. They call dh in at 7:38am and he sits there, then next thing I know I here 7:51am then "congrats". They called dh over to trim up the cord, and then she started crying, her apgars were 9/9 slightly better then Seamus' who was born at 39weeks 6days.

They let dh bring her over to me for about 10minutes then they take her back to the room, and do all her cleaning and weighing and such. They came back in around 8:30 and told me she was 6lbs 13oz and 19.5in long, way smaller then she looked and almost exactly a pound smaller then the u/s on Monday had predicted.

They finally got done with me at 8:58am, all while I'm itching like mad in my eyes and nose. The itching I guess is a side effect from this medication they put in the spinal called duramorph(sp?), it was freggin horrible to itch that bad and not able to itch it. I was wheeled to recovery then asked if I wanted to rest or see the baby, sense my bp was doing great. Of course I wanted to see the baby. They brought her to me and she nursed for 20minutes!! I got to the recovery PP room at around 10:20am PST, and dh and the baby where there waiting for me.

I was starving when I got to the PP recovery room sense I haddn't eaten sense 10pm the night before and asked for food. I got some grape juice and water, I wasnt' allowed food. Thank goodness I didnt' get food..About 20 minutes after I drank the grape juice I puked it all up, another side effect from the meds. Even with the pain meds it hurt like heck to be puking. I found out from dh that she was really 6lbs 12.9oz but they rounded it to 13oz instead.

Later that afternoon I felt better and wanted to try to eat so my mom ordered me some jello and chicken broth from the cafitera (dh was gone with Seamus getting me a nursing pillow sense we haddn't had the chance to get one before hand) and I slowly ate the jello and felt great...about 20minutes later again I puked it all up. Finally the nurse offered me some anti nausia meds, and of course took them, and dh brought me a frosty from wendys and I ate that fell asleep and felt great by 7pm/dinner time, and ate dinner (chicken strips and brocoli) and kept it down just fine.
I lucked out and my first nurse in the PP recovery was my brother's girlfriends mom.

I got the blood pressure thingys taken off my legs on Thursday morning and was told to get up about an hour or so after the cathader was taken out to try to pee, the nurse helped me walk, I felt like I'd been riding a horse for hours but it wasnt' too horrible to walk thanks to the pain meds.
I spent most of Thursday by myself with Kieran because my mom had to work that day and dh had to stay home with Seamus till 11:30pm.

I got to go home on Friday, one of the OBs(not the one that did the section but the one that delivered Seamus) said I could go home at 7am when he came to see me but I had to have a bowel movement first...I haddn't yet. At 12ish I had to get a lovely enema and finally went about 15minutes later. We got to leave at 1:30pm. It was horribley painful in the car. The main street by the hospital, a highway, has horrible potholes and every one was super painful when the car went over it(Thankfully they are redoing the hwy).

Been doing pretty good at home the first few days were bad, was taking my pain meds every 6hrs on the dot. Thankfully dh has been off work all week, I'm now able to go 8-9hrs between pain meds and the OB gave me a script for a lower dosage of pain meds to start taking(was taking percocet(sp?) now with hydro's)

Kieran Elizabeth
7:51am Pacific Standard Time
6lbs 13oz
19½inches long
Blonde hair blue eyes

Aloha Friday #3 (March 19th, 2010)

Been Months since I've posted one of these!





In Hawaii, Aloha Friday is the day that we take it easy and look forward to the weekend. So I thought that on Fridays I would take it easy on posting, too. Therefore, I’ll ask a simple question for you to answer. Nothing that requires a lengthy response.

What do you do on YOUR birthday? Go out with friends and family, stay home like any other day, or do something fun with the kids?

I will be; first taking the kids to the doctor at 10am, Seamus has a med check and Kieran a weight check, then paying bills, then having some friends and family over for a Chicken BBQ and a Cake Seamus and I will bake in the afternoon. At around 8:30-9pm we are going out and my brother is watching the kids(Though they will be asleep, or should be in Kieran's case).

Head over to An Island Life for more Aloha Friday!!

This is for the 19th of March, blog says 18th cause I'm in pacific time and its only 11:15pm here lol so not quite the 19th yet but close

Birthday Party Planning

Its bitter sweet that I'm planning Kieran's first birthday. I've been slowly getting supplies for the last month, but it hit me today(her 11mo birthday) that she's actually going to be 1 in a month. This last year has gone faster then I ever thought it could. With my Nana dying so soon after Kieran was born, my mom living with us from March - July 2009, hubby's hours being so scarce we were applying for unemployment(they thankfully went back up soon after he got approved and we never got a check), to the h1n1 that Seamus had and we got some down graded version of it. Looking at her makes me want to cry, I want my tiny baby back, not that she's very big but still.
Her birthday is going to be on a Thursday so we are having her party on Saturday the 10th of April. Right now we still are not 100% sure on where it will be, I send out her invites just saying that her party will be at our house, but its possible, weather depending, that we can have it at a local park. Her them is mostly a Bold and Bright Color theme, with cupcakes and tea party thrown in. I was having just a cupcake-tea party theme before I realized how many girls were having that theme for their first birthday, and even slightly changing it up I found out a lot are doing similar colors(her primary are Bright Pink and Bright Green). Seamus' first birthday was so much easier, being in the summer I just did a Hawaiian theme and no one else I know(IRL or online) was doing it. So far it looks like it will be us, my mom and 1 brother (other is an iffy, with his marriage going up and down) and possibly my friend and her son(he will be 10.5mo then), but I've invited more just waiting to hear if anymore will come. I'm hoping to make a veggie tray like I did for Seamus, have some macaroni salad(though I wont eat it), peanut-butter sandwiches for the kids, cucumber sandwiches and tuna sandwiches and drinks. There's still a few more things that I'm not sure about but slowly figuring it out.

Here is her invite


(Pictures taken w/ a Canon T1i, Digiscrap kit, "Party Time," by Pure Creativity Designs, I did the layout, fonts from Fonts For Peas)

Happy Birthday

Today my husband turns 26. I keep giving him a bunch of crap about only having 4yrs till hes 30, and that he's old now. I mean, geeze, hes been starting to gray since he was 22, when I found the first gray one he said I was lying, now he listens to me. I think its cute, its flecked above his ears mostly, though I did find one in an eye brow a couple months back :P. Its not a lot, his dad doesn't have much gray but its also above his ears so I think hubby will be the same way. It's weird to believe that I've knowing him for over 5yrs now, we met while he was still 20 a couple months before 21, and now here he is 26, and still as cute as ever. I love him
Happy Birthday love.




(From July 09, Seamus 3rd bday)