Logan Austin Payne

Well, as per usual I am a little behind in this post.  Two weeks ago on May 27, 2012 we were able to welcome Logan Austin Payne into the world.

Technically, I believe it all started Saturday night.  Right before we went to bed I started feeling some pains, but thought it was due to getting sick.  The rotovirus had been going around our house, namely, Rylan was trying to get over it for the second time in a month.  So as I started to show signs, I assumed I was getting it myself and that the pains were probably due to cramping.  Well as the night continued I was up often in the middle of the night visiting the bathroom and the pains kept coming and started getting stronger.  At about 6 in the morning I started to vomit as well.  So at this point I figured I was in trouble.  I talked to my husband, called my mom, and decided it would probably be best to go into the hospital to make sure things were okay.  Specially since at this point I was pretty sure the pains weren't just cramping anymore....they were coming to regular. I was having contractions!  So, pretty sure I'm sick, and I'm having contractions.  Wasn't how I was planning on all this going down...but it is better than having it be a C section, which is what was scheduled for May 31.  When we get to the hospital we they hook me up to an IV, start monitoring the baby and check me out.   Turned out I was already dilated to a 4.  So the admitted me and by 7:30 that evening we had a new Payne in the world.  The only problem me being sick caused was that when we had the epidural, my blood pressure dropped.  So that was touch and go for awhile, but everything worked out.  Here are some the of the pictures from the hospital.

Kiera with her new brother Logan and Aunt Mandi

Grandpa Mullis with Logan

Kiera loves holding Logan!

Great Grandma Mullis

Granda Mullis with Logan

Daddy with Logan

Mommy with Logan

Grandpa Mullis got Logan a stuffed animal

Here you can see Whinne the Pooh better

I got this from my Dad

Easter 2012

The bad thing about being so late to write your posts, you forget to the specifics of the day.  From what I can recall Easter went as such:

Saturday we colored eggs, which for the first time Kiera was very excited about.  We colored them with my family, here are some pictures from the occasion.

Wake up, kids looked at their Easter baskets and were excited to go looking for eggs. Kiera has officially gotten to the point where she knows the Easter Bunny brings her chocolate in those eggs.  We made them eat breakfast first though, considering Rylan's history.

It took a while to get a good picture of Rylan he was so into his chocolates.  Kiera at least took a minute for me to take a picture, granted her smile is a little fake....

After Easter Morning Celebrations we got to go to church and then after Jason's brother Dustin came over with his family and we had a good time catching up and hanging out with them.  It was a really good day overall and we were grateful to spend it with family!

April

Well April brought a lot of excitement.  At the beginning of the month Tex decided to be gone for two weeks.  So what do we do, we decide it was time to get some kittens of our own.  So started the great kitten search.  Jason first found this kitten:

She was so tiny!  Very low key temperament and loved to be up on the shoulder. We named her Shadow.  We then started to look for kitten number two.  We thought it would be good to have two so they would play together.  So we found this kitten:

This one Kiera named Tigress.  We kept both for a little while, but found that their personalities weren't really mixing. So we found a home for Shadow while she was still cute and little.  Then continued our search.  We finally found and settled on this kitten:

You can see that the kids love to torture them.  This one is male and we decided to name him Bandit.  Of course as our luck would have it Tex did decide to show up and some point in all this and was not happy to find two new kittens in his house.  Fortunately for him his original owners were ready to have him back so we let him go home to them and we continued to be just a two cat house hold. 

I continue to wonder what I was thinking allowing two new kittens into my life.  I just have to watch my kids with them though and I know. 

Kiera decided it would be fun to climb into my closet with all the blankets and cuddle with Bandit.

She stayed on the floor level.

Then it was Rylan's turn to cuddle with Bandit in the closet.

Of course he had to climb to a higher shelf though.

Then there was Easter, but I'll write about that later. At the end of the month we went to Idaho for a trip away.  I got to spend some time with my sisters and see my Grandma Theresa and Grandpa Jack, and the kids spent time with Grandma and Grandpa Payne.  My group spent a lot of time looking for my sisters prom dress, and I'm happy to say we found it. :0)  While Kiera decided to get sick at Grandma house.  By Sunday when we picked her we thought she was doing better.  She was eating and not throwing up.  By Monday though the diarrhea set in and by Wednesday she was throwing up and not keeping anything down.  We ended up having to go to the hospital because had gotten dehydrated.  I happened to have my camera on me, and debated taking pictures and decided that it was a moment to remember, even if it wasn't happy and cute.  So here is my baby girl in a hospital bed.  She was so out of it.

At the end of the month Jason thought he would get the kids a bubble machine. So here they are playing with it outside on the porch.