life

working on chubbing up.

love it when she throws her arms up.

loves taking showers...or, as she calls them: shammers.

matt and his fire possy.

flying her kite with dad

matt took skylar on a date to the aquarium

on one of his days off.

kissing the penguin.

enjoying some ice cream after the aquarium.

[they went to a hawaiian themed place--hence
the gigantic flower in her hair]

bein' a goof.

i love this girl.

we're starting to sort of maybe

think about possibly trying to potty train

skylar.  she's gone a few times on the potty.

mostly she just announces when she's 

peeing/poopingin her diaper.  a day late and a 

dollar short, i guess.

he LOVES these girls.

i have definitely and indefinitely been demoted.

can't say that i blame him.

and then i lost our camera.  with about a months worth

of pictures on it.  damn.

life is good.  matt's crazy busy with fires/projects and we don't see him nearly as much as we'd like.  it's hard to have our family separated so much--don't know how my parents did it for so long.  the sacrifices you make for you family, i guess.

skylar is great.  she's as busy and talkative and independent and sassy as ever.  she loves playing outside and swimming.  if only i dared to squeeze my fat ass into a swimming suit we could really take advantage of our pool.  

sadie is great.  she's chunking up, which i love.  she's getting to be a better sleeper and is such a mellow kid.  she has made my life.

i'm good, too.  in case anyone cares.  i'm pretty much doing the mom thing.  trying to figure out how to get things done with two kids.  or at least that's what i blame the messiness on.  

we've been spending a lot of time in park city when matt's gone.  it's been nice.  i didn't realize how lonely i would get even with two kids at home.  my parents have been champs to put up with us and the chaos that we bring.  i'm sure they're counting down the days until the fire season is over.  so am i.

and that's it.

xoxo

we haven't been doing much other than hanging around the house.

i'm one of "those" moms who doesn't take her newborn out for at least 6-ish weeks.

whatever.

we're all going stir crazy.

well, except for skylar and matt who have been have a BLAST on daily excursions.

i'm jealous.

not that i would leave the house anyways.

come one.

that would require showering.

doing my hair.

having clothes that fit.

so home i'll stay.

thank you hgtv and oreos.

oh, and sadie makes it nice, too.

what a bunch of cheesers.

hanging out with is girls.

shhhhh. she's butterfly hunting.

4th of july.

throwing poppers with papi.

snuggling up before the 'dahl family' firework show.

a dougnut girl--just like her mama.

except i don't pick of each sprinkle individually before eating the doughnut.

a very proud great-grandma

(matt's grandma)

hiking with daddy.

bathing beauties.

and i guess that's it.

matt's back on call so now life gets real.

no more 'extra help' during the day.

time to put my man pants on.

it was nice while it lasted.

xoxo

my "baby" turns 2

right after we got out of the hospital we got ready for skylar's 2nd birthday.  

we had a mellow party at our house and skylar was totally SPOILED.

 we got skylar an owl backpack, doctor kit, and sand & water table.

'baby sissy,' as skylar calls her, got her a beauty kit.

 making her birthday cupcakes.

 i'm pretty sure she licked the frosting off of at least 3 cupcakes...

 more presents...

the next day we went up to my parents house to use the sprinkler she got.

unfortunately we forgot the sprinkler at home.  go figure.

but, skylar and genet had a blast swimming and swinging.

 she's turning in to quite the cheeser.

my girls.

i can't believe i'm the luckiest woman in the world

to have these kids in my life.  

xoxo

the last supper as a threesome.

after a quick visit to the olsen family reunion that we'd be 

missing, we took skylar out to dinner to celebrate our new beginning.

we checked into the hospital at 5:30 on friday morning.

i LOVED that i could shower and show up.  

when skylar was born she wasn't breathing and was taken directly

to the nicu--i never got to hold her or see her until i was in recovery.

this time around they held her up right after they cut the cord.

after she was wiped down they brought her over and i got to hold her

while they finished the surgery.  it was perfect.

my parents brought skylar to the hospital right after i left recovery.

skylar was a little confused at first, but couldn't get enough of her new 'baby sissy.'

later that day genet came over.  apparently she had been telling EVERYONE

in her day camp about her becoming an aunt again (not to be confused with the 

kind that crawls on the ground--she thought she was going to be change into that kind of 'ant').

SADIE ANN OLSEN

we let skylar pick out a toy to give sadie.  she picked out that duck stuffed animal.

it was in her bassinet the entire stay.

just the girls.

and then we took a turn.

when sadie was born she was coombs positive--long story short: i'm o-negative and saide is o-positive.  somewhere along the line our blood mixed.  not necessarily a problem for me because i got a shot to prevent future complications, but for her it was a big problem.  my blood was attacking her red blood cells.  usually your liver purifies these cells and makes them water soluable so that you can pee them out, but her liver was too immature.  this 'battle' caused her bilirubin levels to soar to an almost critical level. 

  it was a very emotional and chaotic 24-48 hours.  she had to be on bili lights (4, to be exact) all the time, in goggles to protect her eyes, and had blood drawn every 4-6 hours.  adding insult to injury, we couldn't hold her because she had to stay on the lights (the lights help the "bad" red blood cells break down so that he body can excrete them...the only way to get rid of bilirubin is to poop/pee it out).

our sun bathing beauty.

our nurses were absolutely amazing.  despite sadie's need to be on the lights, she

let us take her out so that skylar could help give her a bath.

skylar loved it.

sadie screamed.

you can see the tape on her head--they had to give her an iv in her head to 

get extra fluid in her body.  that was a painful thing to watch.

we got to take her out every other feeding for 15 minutes so that i could feed her.

best 15 minutes ever.

and then, after all my tears were cried, many prayers were said, and a

priesthood blessing given, sadie made a very quick improvement.

so much so that on monday night our two nurses came in

and told us that we could all go home.  

and so we did.

and now we have an almost healthy baby (bili is still working its way down) and 

a two year old--skylar's b-day is today!

life couldn't be any better.

xoxo

update and sign off

skylar l.o.v.e.s. choo-choo trains.  so when we took her to this little fair at the park, she HAD to ride it.  twice.

then matt got called out on a fire...after being gone all week on a project in central utah.  and was gone for 2 more weeks.  it was so easy being hugely pregnant with a sassy almost two year old and work and life.  i hope i get to do it again soon.  and matt loved being away with a bunch of stinky guys.  sarcasm, much?  the 'being away' sucks, but we are, actually, very grateful for such a good job.

when matt got back we took skylar to thanksgiving point to the baby animal farm.  she loved it.  feeding goats, riding ponies, going on a wagon ride...it doesn't take much to entertain us.

 petting the horse before she got scared of it!

she could've stayed on this pony all day.

and that's it for updates.  aside from the fact that in less than 24 hours we'll have a new addition to our family.  a nameless, new addition.

adios.

xoxo

nada

i neglect to post because apparently i don't take pictures any more.  but that doesn't mean we haven't been busy.  we spruced up our backyard with some stamped concrete (i know the BEST guy for the job if you're interested), celebrated matt's parents 40th anniversary, have been costco shopping to stock up for post-baby time, cleaning, going to zoo, the park, trying to teach skylar how to pedal her tricycle, etc.  

and now things are starting to slow down.  sort of.  matt's been gone (first field work then straight off to a fire call in new mexico/arizona) for a week so i'm running low on steam.  and i've started retaining water.  yuck.  needless to say we're just hanging around the house and crashing my parents house every so often.  

we still have a nameless baby...which is annoying.  maybe matt won't get home from the fire in time and i'll get to name her all by myself.  which, ironically enough, would be hard to do because even i don't have a name that 100% sold on.  time will tell.

skylar 1 day old

hard to believe she was ever this small

or this quiet

until next time.

17 days to go.