I Can't Believe I haven't Blogged since Khloe was 9 weeks old!!!

So, things are starting to slow down a little in the Yingst home... well, enough for me to take a breath and catch up on blogging. I cannot believe that I have not blogged since Khloe's 9 weeks checkup... yikes! And, she is 11 months old now. Can you believe it?? I can't! My kids are growing up way too fast... it's scary... and a little depressing!

Peyton is heavy into his baseball season right now. He is pitching for the first time this year... and playing Third Base (as usual). He is 11 1/2 years old and is girl crazy right now... he still thinks Meghan Fox is the love of his life. LOL He is graduating 5th grade in a few days and moving on to 6th (his last year in Middle School). Talk about feeling OLD... :(

Here is a picture of Peyton pitching this season...





Our family just got back this week from New Mexico. We actually hadn't planned on going together, but it turned into a family trip. Actually it was a 2 week motorcycle run for my husband and his dad and their friend. They were going to ride and explore the Westcoast... But, the first day, their friend, Bill, got into an accident and rolled his Harley with him beside it down a hill/mountain in New Mexico. So, he had the honor of spending an entire week in the Sante Fe Hospital (after an airvac ride). He broke two ribs, collapsed one lung and broke his ankle/foot in several places. Their trip was over. So... the wives to the rescue. We all traveled down there (seperately of course) and turned it into a vacation... without Bill, though... since he would be spending his time in the lovely Sante Fe Hospital after a couple of surgeries on his foot. :( Poor guy! We spent several days in Sante Fe and the rest of our time in Taos, New Mexico. It was such a neat place. We hikes mountains and stopped at many State Parks - including Rio Grande and Bandelier. Khloe and Peyton were such troopers... the car ride was nothing to them... although it took forever to get there and even long to get back. It was 14 hours there and 16.5 hours back. Not so much fun! Khloe barely let out a peep... and slept a lot of the time. You could expect that from a newborn, but an 11 month old. I must say I was very proud of her and Peyton.

We got some good pictures in New Mexico...

Here are just a few...

















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Just a few more... ;)

































Okay, so today, I am in major party planning mode! I am going crazy planning Miss Khloe's FIRST BIRTHDAY party! She will have two parties actually... one for friends and one for family/clients. The friend party will be a party for 4 babies... there is a group of us ladies whose husbands are childhood friends who all have baby's turning ONE in June (even though Khloe is July 1st - she missed June by 3.5 hrs... Grr!). This is the 2nd child for three of us in the group... and the other this is her 1st baby (Chandra McFarlane - her little guy, Jude). There will be two baby girls (one is KHLOE!) and two baby boys. So, it will be even. We met today about the party theme and ideas... I think we can make it so much fun! We all share a lot of the same friends, so this makes it easy for everyone! Khloe's other birthday party will be the following weekend - at her Nana/Papa's ranch in Missouri. My gosh, it is going to be a GIRLY GIRL Party... just wait and see the pictures. LOL I have already ordered so many custom things for Khloe... including custom address labels, postage stamps, birthday outfit/hat, custom invitations... OMG... it's craziness in Heatherville! I am obsessed with details and impressionable moments... I hope it turns out perfect and an event everyone will remember... like our wedding and baby showers!! I won't tell you the themes right now... you'll just have to wait and see! ;)

Khloe is getting so big, too. She has skipped crawling all together. Yes, she is extremely spoiled... I'm sorry to say. It actually makes me a little frustrated with her. She wants everyone to do EVERYTHING for her... and I'm not liking it! She is getting prettier every day and her complexion is flawless. :) I'm such a proud momma! She is still running in her walker and only walking around the house without the walker by holding our hands or walking along things. She's funny... stubborn stinker! She recenly got 4 teeth and has 2 more cutting through as I type this. I feel a lot more in that little mouth, too. She plays Patty Cake and waves to everyone (hi/bye)... expresses that she likes or dislikes something by nodding yes or no... and still only says momma, dadda and bub. She's getting there, though. She can hold up her index finger to tell you she's one and she LOVES food! She eats most table foods (including small chunks of meat). She only has formula twice a day (her morning nap and before she goes to sleep). She still loves baby cereal though... but WILL NOT eat baby food. LOL Again... SPOILED! She's so tiny. She still wears 6-9 months and only weighs 18 lbs. She is in the 45 percentile of all babies her age in weight and in the 75 percentile in height. She loves everyone... and smiles to prove it... often!

I'm an obsessed mommy... I get her pictures taken at the studio every month! But, when she turns a year old, I will start doing it every 6 months. :) Believe me... that will save loads of money and my husband will be proud of me! LOL I'm not going to post all her monthly birthday pictures, but I will post the most recent pictures that I took of her "playing dress up" in her adorable pale pink baby petti romper. I love those outfits... can you say DARLING?!!! Anyway, I was pretty proud of my camera and my picture taking abilities. LOL

Check them out... These were taken on 5-26-10 (very recent)...





I think that updates you on everything! I'll update you more about Kevin and I later on... I promise to do a much better job updating my Blog on a more regular basis (like the old days). ;)

Talk to you soon......

Khloe's 9-Week Doctor Visit...9-2-09

Khloe had her 9-week doctor visit last Wednesday. She is in the 45 percentile of all babies her age in Length/Height, Head diameter and weight. Khloe weighed 10 lbs 0 oz (finally she is starting to grow a little... she is so petite!). She measured 22.5" in length. She still has the longest fingers and toes. She is going to be a tall and skinny little girl!

This week Khloe noticed her tongue this past week. You can stick your tongue out at her and she will stick hers out at you. You can also say "tongue" and she will play with it with her little lips. Too cute!! She is getting frustrated with herself, though, because she wants to grab things and she cant quite figure out how to get her hands to do it! LOL This week she is 10 weeks (2 1/2 months old). She's also been going cross-eyed trying to look at her hand, nose and paci. Its hilarious! We've been going back to church, but every Sunday Khloe and I end up in the nursery together watching service from the flat screen in there. :) She loves the praise and worship (singing) part of Sunday service, but she doesn't seem to like the pastor's word/message... maybe it's his voice... not sure. So, bubby and daddy sit through service and we rock in the nursery. Hopefully that will change soon! We're very lucky that Khloe continues to sleep through the night... she is sleeping 7-9 hours straight through... God has truly blessed us!

Peyton has been in football overload mode... lots of practices and scrimmages. I love football season.. its so much fun watching their age play! His first game is Thursday! Go Bentonville Raiders! He is loving middle school this year... he's made more friends... good times! The homework load has been moved up a notch this year... but he's doing fine with it! He's still loving his little sister... they are so sweet together! :)

I'll post more later... gotta run!

Update on "Heather's World"...

Monday, I went in for my 6-weeks post-baby checkup with my doctor (Dr. Cunningham). I took Peyton and Khloe with me, because I wanted Dr. Cunningham and his assistant nurse, Becky, to see them. He has been my doctor for 12 years... he delivered Peyton nearly 11 years ago and Khloe this year. So, I wanted to get a picture of him with my kiddos. :) He was a proud doctor and even asked me to keep taking pictures so I could send them to him. LOL! What a trooper. I'm going to post some of the pictures I took... some are yellow tinted, because I took them in the clinic... and we all know how the lighting makes pictures. :)







Anyway, Khloe turned 7 weeks old last Wednesday and she will be 8 weeks/2 mos old this Wednesday. How exciting! She is growing so fast already. She has her 2 month pictures scheduled on Wednesday with The Picture People... their studio is really nice and open... and they take great pictures. Plus, you get to take them home that day - framed and all! Woo Hoo! Khloe has been smiling so much and laughing... she really thinks her daddy and brother are funny! She's hitting a major growth spurt, too... she won't stop eating this week. LOL She is such a sweet little girl! She lets us sleep all night long. She only wakes up one time to feed... sometimes she sleeps the entire night (6-8 hours straight). She got her days/nights straightened out immediately after being born - Good Girl!!! Peyton was the same way... I feel so lucky! :) Khloe is obsessed lately with looking at all the ceiling fans in our house... she will stare at them forever and just smile. I don't know what it is about ceiling fans and babies. Too funny!









Peyton started a new school this year... He is in Middle School now. Go OHMS! He is so excited to make new friends this year. A whole new bunch of 5th Grade girls to flirt with too. LOL He's so funny! A little girl gave him her phone number today (THE THIRD DAY OF SCHOOL!). He was so sweet to take it from her... but, when he got in the car after school he wadded it up. He didn't want to hurt her feeling by telling her he didn't want it. Sweet boy! All his friends from last year told him how different he looked this school year... he let his hair grow out all summer and he now has the Zach Efron look. :) He needs to trim it! Anyway, he likes his new school and had a great first week! His pod of teachers are really great, too! Peyton, also, started football practice this week. He is on the same team as last year (Go Raiders!). They started off the season this week with 3 (2-hr) practices and 2 scrimmage games... nothing like jumping in head first and cramming everything into one week. Coaches are good about that, though! Ha! He's playing Defense this year... he thinks he's big enough to do some serious tackling. LOL He is only 78 lbs wet. ;) Peyton has his first scrimmage game tomorrow... can't wait... Go Raiders!



I don't know if I shared with everyone before, but my little sister (Tasha) is expecting! I just found out a few weeks ago... Yippee!! She is expecting baby #2 ten years after her first child, Lexi. Congrats Tasha!! She is due in March. I'm really hoping that she has a little boy... I think she will. :) Her husband comes from a long line of males... no females in the family besides his mother. So the odds are in their favor! We are sad, though, because she just moved to Nashville... her husband's parents live there and he is going back to school to get his Masters. She is sad to be gone away from her home. We through her a going away dinner before she left... lots of friends/family sent them off with love! We are hopeful, though, that she will return in a year or two! We do not want to miss out on watching Lexi and her new baby grow up before our eyes! Besides, Khloe needs her cousin around to go to her birthday parties and play... they will only be about 9 months apart. How fun! Peyton (my son)and Alexis (her daughter)were only one year (exactly) apart. I can't wait to meet my new niece or nephew. I have already started buying baby boy stuff... I really feel that she will get her boy. :) It's funny because my brother has a boy and a girl... I have a boy and a girl... and my sister has a girl (so that means there's a boy to come to be just like her siblings... one of each!)! I'm praying... :) She's in town this weekend visiting already... and she's only been gone 3 weeks. Yeah!







Sorry I have procrastinating and not updating my blog regularly! Gosh, time just gets away from me with a new baby. :) I promise I will do better, friends!

Tootles!

Baby Khloe is Growing Fast...

Baby Khloe will be one month old already on Wednesday... where does the time go? Time flies... Wow! She is such a sweet little girl. We have really enjoyed loving on her every day. Peyton and Kevin are head over heels for her... it is really sweet! I took Khloe to the doctor this week and she weighed 8lbs and 20.5" in length. She gained almost one full pound in a week's time. Craziness! Khloe has had major acid reflux and it has gotten really scary at times. She throws up through her nose alot and it takes her breath away. Several times she has lost her breath and not been able to inhale oxygen because of the throw up and I almost panicked. It is scary when almost a minute goes by and she has not caught her breath yet. Yikes! I almost called 911 one time... Peyton and I both were scared. I had to use the aspirator to suction out phlegm and fluids from her mouth and throat. I really don't know what else to do in situations like that. I need to take a baby cpr class... for sure! The doctor prescribed us medicine for her acid reflux. She HATES the taste of it though... you should see her face when I give it to her... poor thing! We still can't decide who she looks more like... she's just too little to tell. She has her dad's eyes, but her nose, face shape and lips are just like her brother's... which I guess is like me. :o) We'll see in a couple more months. I'm sure it will become more obvious.

I have been trying to get out of the house more this week... staying couped up in my house has been hard on me. We've all had a good time! But, gosh, it is still such a huge transition for me. I really thought that I wanted to be a stay home mom, but I'm not sure now. I think it's great bonding for the mom and the baby, but I also selfishly feel like I need my adult time during the day (to run errands and do things that I need to do). Who knows... all I know is that my Bridal Consulting Business is on the back burner for now. Not a lot I can do with a baby... weddings consume my weekends and with a new baby - I don't want to take that time away from her or the boys (Kevin and Peyton). I'll keep you posted on what I decide. I feel very lucky to have the opportunity to stay home with Khloe, though... not alot of people can do that.

I have been a picture taking machine these past few weeks. I have gotten several cute pictures of my kiddos together and Kevin with the kids. I finally ordered Khloe's Birth Announcements today through www.tinyprints.com. They are going to be darling! I also ordered some personalized address labels with Khloe's newborn pic on it for the return address. Fun stuff!

Here are some of the pictures that I have taken these past couple weeks...

Baby Khloe's Birth Story!! 7/1/09

I have been so busy adjusting to our new life with Khloe that I have neglected my blog. There are so many things to talk about...

Baby Khloe Elizabeth Yingst was born on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 @ 3:26am. She was born at Willow Creek Women's Hospital in Johnson. She weighed 7lbs 2oz and was 20" long. I went in to the hospital Tuesday morning at 5am to be induced. My doctor was concerned that I had an excessive amount of fluid in my belly. When I got there, I was already having my own contractions... which were fairly strong! So, the nurses started me on a small amount of medicine to induce. About halfway through my Labor, I decided to get an epidural. Holy Cow... have you seen the tools they use to put one of those in. Yikes... it looks like a drill bit. Anyway, they told me that it should take effect in about 20 minutes... 4 hours later I was still waiting and they realized that they had done the trial run of the epidural, but had not turned on the medicine itself afterwards. When the meds started pumping through, it was so much more relaxing! LOL My doctor had to break my water and boy was that a mess. Remember he had told me that I had an EXCESSIVE amount of water... boy was he right! It was like running bath water at full force... the doctor and nurses were in shock. There was 4 2-liters of fluids that were relieved immediately! My doctor had only seen that much fluid one other time in his 15 years practice. The nurse had never seen that much fluid! My stomach immediately shrunk less than half its size right before my eyes! Crazy! So my entire pregnancy, I carried around majority water and less baby - aweful! Khloe was very stressed out during the whole process, so they had to stop labor several times and stick an internal heart monitor on her head to get a more accurate reading of her heart rate (which had dropped several times!). I was in full labor for 19 LONG hours and was seconds away from having to have a c-section... but, she had finally turned into full position and my body was ready to push her out! I really wanted Khloe to be born in June, but she missed it by a few hours and was born in July. I was so relieved when the labor was over and she was finally out!

Khloe is a very sweet and TINY baby girl! She rarely cries and she couldn't be a better gift from God! I really suffered with some major PostPartum Depression when she was born. I didn't know how to adjust to this new life with a new baby. Peyton is almost 11 years old, so it has been like starting over for me. It has been very hard... and unfortunately I had to talk to my doctor about it and he put me on some mild postpartum medicine. Thank God for it, because I would be a basket case right now! :( I truly thought that I had prepared myself for this change of life with a new baby... but, I never really prepared myself completely. At first, I felt suffocated and trapped... which is not a good place to be. But, I have gotten a lot better and am overjoyed to have her now! She has already been so much fun! :o) Peyton is such a good big brother... he helps me SO much with her and just adores everything about his little sister... which couldn't make me happier! He is a doll and I adore him so much! Kevin is a good daddy... he just lights up when he is around his little girl!! It has really changed him in a good way and he values that! She already has her own little attitude and she is funny! We laugh at her everyday. LOL

I went through a slight panic mode recently with her, because she hadn't had a bowel movement in 8 days... yikes! After taking her to the doctor, he said it was normal and sometimes they go a week without. But she finally went yesterday morning - which was a huge relief for us! :)She will be 3 weeks old this week and weighs 7lbs 4oz. she is so tiny and can only fit in preemie clothes still... she needs to grow! LOL She lost her cord this week... yeah!! She had her first bath on July 4th... she loves baths! Her features are starting to come in more distinguished as well... still not sure exactly who she looks like. :)

Here are some pics of baby Khloe...