Doing well!!

Things have been going well! Addisyn is starting to get more and more personality! She has started smiling sometimes when she's awake now, and makes some funny laughing sounds!! Late evenings aren't usually very fun...for about 4 hours every evening she is terribly gassy and fussy. She does pretty well at night though, usually only waking up twice to be fed and changed. Everything else in life is going pretty good too...we're hoping to get Shaylee started up with tennis in a few weeks through a program. She also recently got her ears pierced. Her daddy had been trying to talk her into it for about a year now but she was too scared. One day, without Tyler even asking her, she decided she wanted them pierced. Cayden is really enjoying Joy School. He is much more outgoing now...and makes his teachers call him "Spiderman", "Batman", or "Superman", depending on who he wants to be that day. One day I was scolding him and he said "Mommy I'm not CAYDEN, I'm SPIDERMAN". To that I said "When you are in trouble, your name is CAYDEN!!". It was funny. Well here are more pictures!

Addy is in her pretty pink princess robe that one of Tyler's coworkers gave us!

That robe is just too cute!

Sleepy baby.

Cranky baby. She's probably thinking "Enough pictures mom!!" The blanket she is laying on is a gorgeous blessing blanket her Grandma McConkie hand embroidered even though she has arthritis in her hands and also had carpal tunnel surgery in the recent past, thank you Mom, you're awesome!!!

This is the position Tyler puts her in to help her get out the gassiness (is that a word?? haha)

Shaylee lost another tooth recently so she is showing it off!

Addy is wearing an adorable dress/outfit Grandma McConkie sent us back when CAYDEN was born!! (He was "supposed" to be a girl!)

The headband she is wearing is one I quickly crocheted before church and wove a ribbon through it and tied a bow...she couldn't go to church without a matching hair-thing to wear with the dress could she?!!

***PICTURES***

Here are some more pictures (Thanks to my little sis Stacy for pushing me to post more!!!) ...sorry I haven't had much time to actually WRITE things in my blog, but Addy keeps me busy. She has been sleeping a lot less lately, and wants held whether she's awake or asleep...and I'm not crazy about typing with one hand!

She's actively participating in the Easter egg hunt!!!

More Recent Pictures

Here is a picture of me on April 3rd, my birthday (the big 2-6!!) , holding Addy. Cayden and Shaylee also helped me blow out my candles...you can't see Shaylee in this pic though.

Tyler is holding Addy before her first week of church. We have church in the afternoon so we don't get Sunday naps anymore :-( I love this picture.

Addy is snuggling Daddy in the morning. As long as she is face to face with one of us in the middle of the night, she sleeps very well!!!

Addy still doesn't fully enjoy her vibrating bouncy chair...hopefully she does eventually.

Cayden and Shaylee are really good helpers with their little sister.

*****More Photos of Addisyn*****

Here are more photos of our baby girl. I have to tell you that the black sheet I use as the background in some of the photos (it was like $3.88 at Walmart for a queen-size I think) is one of the best investments I ever made! Who needs a professional photographer?! I have to give some of the credit to my 12 megapixel camera though :-)
Addisyn is a big eater (just like the rest of her family!!) and isn't happy sleeping by herself for very long...she always wants to be snuggled in someone's arms whether it is day or night!

I LOVE pictures of newborns with their eyes wide open!

Awww, so precious.

I think she looks a lot like Cayden when he was a baby in this picture.

This is one of the very few outfits at the moment that fits her somewhat...

Her back arm is showing off her contortionist abilities!

This was SOOO funny...when Shaylee was holding Addy last night, her feet popped up and her toes spread out and she kept them like that for several minutes...we were all laughing so hard! Occasionally her Grandma McConkie has toe spasms (sorry for making that public mom!) and I wonder if Addy has inherited that from her, haha!!

Another cute picture of the ones I love most!

Please Welcome to the Family: Addisyn Mae Caudle!!

I can't believe she's finally here!! She was 2 weeks early, but arrived safe and sound at 6 lbs 11 oz, and 19 1/2 inches long!!!
So here's the whole story:
Around midnight on Saturday night, my water broke as we were getting ready for bed. Those of you who've had your water break, you know that sometimes it's a lot, sometimes it's a slow process. This time for me, it was a slow process, so we decided to still try to get a few hours of sleep. By 4 a.m. and losing more of my water, I decided to start getting ready to go to the hospital. I was so excited (and nervous) that I couldn't sleep anyway. By 6 a.m. we were able to get Tyler's dad over to watch the kids, and we got to the hospital. For a few hours I still wasn't having very big or consistent contractions so they induced me. After a few more hours, I slowly started dialating, and then all of a sudden, I was ready!! After I got my epidural, I was a very happy camper, just like I was with my son....but the nurses all thought I was so funny because I was so happy and giggling the whole time (even without them giving me any of those drugs that make you loopy!!). I get on a natural high when I know my baby is coming, what can I say, I was excited!! Well the doctor hadn't arrived yet and every time I giggled the baby was trying to grace us with her patience, so the nurses told me I really needed to try not to laugh til the doctor got there!! Once the doc arrived, the baby started coming out with one giggle, and with one push she was out!!! WOW!!
Now with Cayden, after 4 hours of pushing they still had to use forcepts. This was a COMPLETELY different (BETTER) experience and I'm still amazed at how it all happened!!
I don't know if that was too much information for any of you...I figure it's mainly my girlfriends that read my blog (probably not so much their husbands) and family so they've all heard and gone through these things too so I figure it's not T.M.I. but hey, if it is, oh well, such is life!
Well after 24 hours I was able to go home with our precious little girl! Wow, that's so much better than a 3-day hospital stay like last time!! I really needed to get home to my other kids. Shaylee is great, but Cayden was pretty confused, even though he'd known I was going to have a baby.
I will write more another time, but I wanted to get the good news posted and put up a few pictures that I have at the moment, enjoy!!!!



My beautiful family...man we bring some cute kids into the world!!!

Me...looking extremely fashionable and attractive, haha

Shaylee holding her new little sister... while she thinks "FINALLY...a SISTER!!!" Her friend Sara is watching closely!
Tyler is talking to his little Addy Mae

Grandpa Caudle holding the newest grandbaby
In this last picture, I caught Cayden just a second too late...he had just given his baby sister a kiss. He's not really mad and rolling his eyes like it looks in this picture!!!

My first crocheted baby outfit!

Here is my first completed crocheted baby outfit!!! I've made simple baby booties before (as well as hats, blankets, etc) but I hadn't really ever crocheted with thread, and I'd never made a bonnet or a dress before! It took me about 3 weeks to do the whole outfit but wow was it worth it. It's amazing the rush you can get from learning something new and then seeing the finished project!! Since I've been having to rest a lot the last few weeks, crocheting definitely has helped pass the time. There is another blessing outfit that I want to make next. There are craft shows here at the fairgrounds every few months so I think I'm going to try hard to get together a bunch of items to sell at a booth. The one nice thing about crocheting with thread is that it is very cheap!! It only cost about $5 in thread to make this whole outfit! The only downfall of thread is that it takes SO much time and precision!
Well anyway, I was so happy that I finished it and I'm excited to start the next dress and see how it turns out!

No News

Today I had another Dr. appointment. Everything was the same as my visit on Saturday, only I'd somehow managed to shed 5 pounds. (Probably because I was staying off my feet since Thursday so my body wasn't swelling up and retaining the water as much?!) SOOOO...I just have another appointment next Monday, which will be my 38 week appointment. It's so hard to be patient! Not to mention this baby feels like it's kicks get stronger by the SECOND and that she's getting heavier by the second, too!!! Oh the joy of the last few weeks of pregnancy!! It will all be worth it soon though.