Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Babies

So I never have done one of these and saw it on Gina's and thought it was really cute. So I though I would post it! Thanx Gina!

E-Eben
A-Aylah

1- Where were you when you first found out you were pregnant?
E-At our apartment in Rawlins
A-At our apartment in Green River

2- Who was with you?
E-Arlin
A-Arlin's cousin Kari (I may want to explain that-Arlin's grandma was not doing very good and I was talking to his cousin that I thought that I may be pregnant and she said well lets go see. I first asked Arlin and he said yeah, but I don't know why cuz your not. Such as Arlin thing to say! Then we went back and told Arlin.)

3- How did you find out that you were pregnant?
E-EPT
A-First Response

4. What was your response to finding out?
E-very excited (we had miscarried our first)
A-very excited

5- Your Husbands reaction?
E-very excited
A-umm...i think he was excited

6- Who was the first person you told?
E-Arlin
A-Kari
7-Did you plan to get pregnant?
Yes for both

8-Was everybody happy for you?
E-Not exactly
A-Yes

9- Did you go out and celebrate?
E-Yes
A-No

10- Did you want to find out the sex?
Yes for both

11- What was the sex?
E-boy
A-girl

12-Did anyone throw you a baby shower?
E-yes
A-no

13- If yes, who?
E-my mom

14- Did you get any outfits at the baby shower that you just knew you weren't going to put on your baby?
E-yes

15- How much weight did you gain?
E-20 lbs
A-15 lbs

16- Did you loose all of the weight that you gained?
Don't I wish, but I am working on it. I have lost 10 since Jan.1 09

17- Did you get a lot of stretch marks?
E-oh yeah
A-didn't think it was possible but yep

18- What did you crave the most?
E-anything sour, it couldn't be sour enough; nachos
A-I was mostly really thirsty

19- Did you crave anything crazy?
I don't think so for both

20- Who or what got on your nerves the most?
E-not sure
A-I taught Kindergarten so I would say working and I hated it when people would say...looks like you are going to have that baby any day (I still had 2 months to go!)

21-Were you married at the time?
Yep for both

22- Did you have any complications during your pregnancy?
E-not a thing
A-Bladder infections, dehydration, aylah was breech the entire pregnancy

23- Where were you when you went into labor?
E-at the hospital
A-at school with all my Kindergartners

24- Did your water break?
Nope for both

25- Did you go early or late?
E-2 wks. early
A-4 wks. early

26- Who was in the room with you when you gave birth?
E-Arlin, Dr. Hansen, a nurse, and my mom
A-Arlin, Dr. Hansen, lots of nurses, the pediatritian, and the anisthesologist (u know what I mean the guy with the drugs!)

27- Was it video taped?
E-Not the acutal birth but the labor before
A-Nope I forgot the camera and the video recorder at home

28- Did you have any drugs for the pain?
E- oh yeah
A- u bet ya

29-Did you go vaginal or have a c-section?
E-vag
A-c-section

30- What was your first reaction after giving birth?
E-very happy
A- scared

31- How big was the baby(s)?
E- 7 lbs. 2 oz
A- 6 lbs. 12 oz

33- Did your Husband cry?
E-yep
A- not sure

34- What did you name the baby(s)?
E-Eben Bradlee Moen
A-Aylah Kathleen Moen

35-Did the name have any significance to you?
E-Bradlee my dad's name is Bradley and Arlin and his father's middle name is lee so I smushed it together
A- Kathleen is my mother middle name

36-Does the baby's name fit?
I think so I have never met an Eben or an Aylah.

37- Did the baby(s) have any complications?
E-he had low glucose and had to have an iv and had jaundice a few days later. Oh don't forget colic and reflux!
A-she was having a hard time breathing because she took her first breath when they where pulling her out so she had a lot of blood in her lungs (sorry that was kinda gross). She also had jaundice (not as bad as Eben) and reflux!

38- How old is your baby today?
E- 3
A- 9 months

39- When is the next one(s) coming?
Not for a long time, according to Arlin we are done.

40- If you could would you do it all over again?
Absolutely!

Sunday, January 25, 2009




When we were in Pennsylvania for Thanksgiving I found my first Christmas dress and put Aylah in it.

More Christmas Pictures







Here are some pictures of Gra and her beautiful gradbabies and also one of daddy. Have you noticed their are no pictures of mommy....someone else needs to start taking the pictures!

Christmas







I know it is a little late but here are some pictures of Christmas. We had lots of fun and lots of presents. Gra and Papa Carpenter came from Pennsylvania to spend it with us. When I was wrapping presents I gave some to Aylah and she had so much fun hiding under it!