Kasen is 9 Months!

  I seriously cannot believe  how fast he is growing up. Although I am glad he isn't growing up as fast as his brother did... He is big but at least he isn't running around yet!

He is weighing in at 21.6lbs
he is growing out of his 12 month clothes and getting into the 18 month ones, although there is still room to grow. he is measuring shorter than the other two were, I can't remember how short though. So he was blessed with his Father's genes, Haha.
He smiles a ton, babbles, claps his hands, army crawls everywhere. Is much happier just being on the ground than in your arms, but he still loves bottle cuddles. He is self soothing to sleep and sleeps a good 12 hours at night with one 2 hour nap during the day. He eats baby food 3 times a day and still no teeth or finger food. He doesn't really bring anything up to his mouth to chew on it or eat it... so this has become a challenge to try and get him to try small solids. He has two teeth ready to come in (any day now) He is very entertained by Jacob, although he doesn't like him to get too close.

Jake is always aware of where Kasen is. He loves him so much! Sometimes too much. We are still teaching him how to be soft and the "seeing" Kasen doesn't mean touching him.... haha

He is getting better at holding his own bottle, but still prefers to let us do it.

We are all getting over this nasty cold that has been going around... Kasen is doing much better after being hit with RSV. Luckily it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Hope you are all doing well!!

7 Months!!

Well in a week he will be. Look at my handsome BOY!!

Oh Kasen, he is such a love. I just can't stand how cute he is. 

I never want him to grow up. 

He had his check up yesterday and Doctor says he is perfect!

Weight: 18lb 14oz - 61%

Height: 27'' - 54%

Head Circ; 17 1/4'' - 40%

He can roll over from front to back. 

He self soothes himself to sleep

He is content almost all the time

He thinks Jake and Lucy are the funniest

He loves to be with them doing whatever they are doing.

He is sleeping 12 hours at night

His favorite foods are squash, sweet potatoes,

Bananas, pears, applesauce and rice cereal.

He thinks its fun to just let me hold his bottle, so lazy!

We love this boy and we are so happy that he is apart of our family!!

Brothers

Kasen at 4 months

Jake at 4 months

Time for your Check up!

Sweet Lucy turned 6!

 here are her stats:

Weight- 39lbs (17%)

Height- 3'' 9 1/2' (55%)

Blood pressure- 84/62

We are going to start Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy again to help her with school. She is lagging behind just a little. Other than that she is healthy and Happy!

 Jake Turned 2!!
Here are his Stats:
Weight- 27lbs (38%)
Height- 34 1/2''
Head circ- 19 1/4 (55%)

He is just so fun, putting words together to make sentences. He is also a handful, definitely knows what he wants and knows how to get it. Love him to pieces!

Kasen is 5 Months!
Here are his stats:
Weight- 17.2 lbs (70%)
Height- 25 1/4'' (36%)
Head circ- 16 3/4'' (38%)

He is smiling and giggling all the time. Sleeping through the night. He is now grabbing anything and everything within his reach. We started rice cereal once a day and he loves it!! Angel baby!!

Birthday party!

Thank you to everyone who gave presents, they loved every minute of attention. This may be the last year that I can get away with combining their birthdays, they sure had fun! 

Thanks to my cousin Brittany for making their cakes, and Stacey and Oliver for coming over to celebrate with us! 

Jake's Cake (jake and the neverland pirates)

Lucy's cake (Sophia The First)

Dinner at Wingers, our favorite place!

Decorations for the party

The Presents

Love this Baby!

Kasen is seriously the best baby ever, and no I am not just saying that because i am his mom. Other peope have told me that too! I cannot get enough of him.....

Rice Cereal

I was going to wait until he was officially 5 months old, but he just seemed so interested in everything we ate. He was envious. So I just thought I would try it and see how he does.

(He turns 5 months in 12 days)

Does he like it? You be the judge!

Toys EVERYWHERE!

I can't stand it anymore! I feel like my house is constantly a mess and I am the only one who seems to care! I spend all day long cleaning up toys and random crap or yelling at my kids to clean up their messes. So today I had had ENOUGH! After I asked Lucy to go up and clean her room, and she had come down and LIED to me and told me it was clean, that was my last straw. If they can't respect their home and their stuff, they don't get to have stuff. I got fed up tonight and packed everything up and put it away. Well not everything, I am not that terrible. The only things left to play with in this house are 3 balls, Blocks, and Books. We told Lucy that in the next week if she takes care of these and makes sure they are put away before bed every night then she could earn some of her toys back. Which I am sure she will want her ponies, since she was upset to lose them.

Being a parent is so hard. 3 is so much harder than 2. Today was one of those hard days where I had to teach them a tough lesson. Jake couldn't care less. He is a little young to learn anything from this, but he is okay with blocks and balls. They will survive. Call me mean... I don't care. I need my sanity and a clean house helps. I feel like kids grow up more humble if they are happy with the bare necessities. maybe not. but I think this is a good thing.

So if you want to get my kids birthday or christmas presents make it clothes or educational... We have enough toys. Thanks!

Rambling DONE :)

for sell

sewing machine (hardly used) $50

Samsung Galaxy Note 2 for Sprint $400 OBO

Samsung Galaxy S3 for Sprint $300

We also have some xbox 360 games <call of duty black ops2, NCAAfootball 14, lego star wars, 007 quantum of solace>

get out of debt

Okay we have finally made the commitment to get out of debt! So part of Dave Ramsey's step program is get a $1000 emergency fund before you can begin to pay off debt. He says to make the money however you can. Have a garage sell, get a second job. So here are the things that we are trying to sell to get the money. Also, Tyler is going to get a second job for the Christmas season. This is a serious commitment, and we are dedicated. Heavenly Father has asked us to prepare and get financially stable, and we are going to do it. So the next post is all the things that we are selling. If any of you are interested, just email blhaas22@gmail.com. Thanks!


PS.... I cut up every credit card I have..... BIG DEAL. There will be no going back

Give Away!

One of my good friends Lauren's Latest is having an awesome kitchenaid giveaway on her blog! Plus she has fabulous recipes to try!  GO check her out  HERE

I am trying to win too! (this blog counts as an entry)

Fitness update

Since I went on my change rampage last post I thought I would post an update.

This week i was successful in meeting my goals. Actually I did better than I thought I would have! I walked at least two mile everyday except Tuesday. And I did a jillian Michaels workout on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. during my walks I am usually burning about 400 calories, and then my workouts I burn almost 500. I also did pretty good at eating good and staying under my calorie limit (myfitnesspal) No change in weight yet, but i do feel better. Well not my muscles but my energy is up and i am proud of myself for the last week.

Next week I have the same goals, but to include Tuesday. I don't anticipate being as sore as I was this week.

Change

whew.... I went to bed feeling super motivated. In fact I couldn't fall asleep. I was thinking about change. you know that feeling after you have a baby, every day is the same. you feel like all you do during the day is take care of kids and clean and do laundry. Ya I am in that rut. So last night i started looking up cute short hair styles. I know that is so cliche... have a baby, chop your hair. Well I have always been this way. I grow out my hair and then chop it. I am starting to lose my hair now. Kasen is two months old and I am starting to gain weight. I need CHANGE. So I made a deal with myself. I need to lose about 50 pounds to be comfortable with myself, and 70 pounds to be at my final goal. I am going to just take each day one at a time.

My first reward will be at 20 pounds lost.... hair cut!! I haven't decided what the other goals will be. But I figured 20 pounds will mostly be my face fat... then a shorter hair cut will look better. I am so sick of my hair. All I do is put it up in a messy bun. I need something short and fun. So for now, that is what I look forward to :)

2 month check up

Today we had Kasen's 2 month checkup, more like 2 1/2 months. Here are his stats...

Weight: 13bls 10oz - 77%

Height:  23''  - 33%

Head circa:  15 3/4  - 36%

This is Kasen the day we took him home from the hospital...

This is him today. BIG BOY!  Doc says he is healthy, and there is nothing wrong with a double chin. lol

Other pics from the Doc office.

This is a picture from the last Doc visit, 2 Months ago!

I can't believe how much he has changed. He is getting so big So fast. He is starting to smile, and coo. He has been consistently sleeping at least 7 hours thru the night. Dream baby. We love him so much!

6 weeks old

Not the best picture, but it has been a while since I posted! Here is Kasen... he is 6 weeks today! He eating 5 oz every 3 hours, and most nights he sleeps 5-6 hours straight! I just love this boy so much! He is a good baby. Such a blessing to our little family.

Speaking of, we are blessing him in church on Sunday. Pictures will soon follow.

Grandma Haas is here and we are having a ton of fun! my kids are so lucky to have two sets of grandparents that love them so much.

progress

This was not me at my biggest but I was wearing the same shirt so i thought it would be good for comparison. 

This is me today. 3 weeks postpartum. I am 2 pounds below my pre-pregnancy weight, and back into non maternity jeans!!

I still have a lot to lose, but I am feeling pretty good about my progress so far. Feeling good and loving life. I have not yet had any baby blues which is huge for me!

Do they Look alike?

What do you think?

Jake at 3 weeks

Kasen at 3 weeks.

Cleaning up baby

Kasen's Birth Story

Tyler took the kids out to the store, so while I have a minute I wanted to just type down Kasen's birth story.

Thursday morning I was pretty fed up. After having my membranes stripped on Monday I figured it would just jump start everything and it would happen maybe a day or two after that. But no. Thursday morning my neighbor and I took the kids to walk around the track at the school down the road. I wasn't having any contractions so I was pretty mad. I even carried Jake around one time, and he is a beast! So i came home and things were pretty normal that day. I felt like he was dropping but i wasn't having contractions. Tyler had texted me and told me that NOW i could go into labor at any time because his all day training was over (thursday). So after we got the kids in bed we went for a walk together. We walked for 2 miles! I was in so much pain by the time we got home I figured it had to be tonight! My hips could not take anymore pressure. Well at about 1130 that night we turned the lights out and Tyler went right to sleep. But as I was laying there I started having contractions. Not just braxton hicks. These were uncomfortable. so i timed them. they were 4 minutes apart consistently. So I laid there for 2 hours. After that I woke up Tyler and said lets go to the hospital.
From there things happened pretty quickly. They took me into triage and monitored me for an hour and a half. When i got there I was still only at 3 cm dilated. (which is what I was Monday) So the nurse who checked me, did everything she could to get me going. If i didn't progress they were going to send me home. when they checked me again I was at a 4, but she could stretch me to a 5, so they said I could stay!! I was super happy.
My Doctor was at a scout encampment that was about a 1/2 hour away so he told them not to do anything until he gets there. When he was about 10 minutes away they broke my water. Kasen's head was turned so I was having bad back labor. There was no way I was going to be able to do this without some relief. I told them I didn't want an epidural because it didn't work last time. So the nurse talked me into getting an entrathecal, which is a shot that lasts two hours to block the pain. Then I started worrying that the shot would not last long enough. What if I didn't dilate fast enough. So then they decided to do a mix. An Epi with the entrathecal. So it wasn't the continuous epidural, but there was still a catheter in my spine with the shot, then he added one more tiny dose that will make it last a little longer just in case. Which I didn't really need since He came in an hour and a half. So timeline: 130am head to the hospital, 3am admitted, 455 they broke my water, 647 he was born! Only took 2 pushes. He was so tiny and perfect.

38 weeks

AND LIFT OFF!! Yay, Kasen came right on time. Daddy said he had to wait until after his training on Thursday and he decided to come Friday morning. I will tell the whole story later, when I am not on these drugs.  So here is a picture overload to hold you until then. He is the cutest thing. So far we have hardly heard him cry, he may still be tired from the fast birth, but i can't blame him. Mommy is so tired also.


Last belly picture before delivery

The board in our delivery room. LOVED our RN, Michelle. she was the best!

First pic, on my belly. First reaction.... TINY!!

Tyler fell in love instantly. I haven't seen him like this with any of the other kids. I think these two are going to have a special bond.

All cleaned up and smelling so yummy!

I am obsessed with his LONG fingers and toes. So cute.

Eyes open. I think I can count on one hand how many times this has happened in the last 40 hours.

First of the kids that likes a binky... May come in handy.

Headed home! Look how small.

The kids. Lucy is loving up on him all the time. Jake still is a little rough. We are going to have to teach him gentle real quick! He likes to tickle baby toes, and he likes to watch the baby faces.

We are so grateful to all who helped us these last two days. Our neighbors, Stacey and Cole. They took care of the kids, fed them, put them to bed. We seriously couldn't have done this without you. We are very fortunate to have you in our lives now. My visiting teacher who has cooked us meals, visited us in the hospital, and watched our kids for a few hours. Liz Davenport, thanks for taking your turn with the kids as well, you are such a great friend. All in all this was the smoothest and fastest pregnancy and birth. I feel so blessed and I couldn't be happier right now. Well... I am off to bed.