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| Dorthy, Munchkin and sleeping Glenda. |
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| The Munchkin rebelling and ripping his hat off. |
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| Sleeping Glenda |
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| Glenda and Dorthy |
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| Dorthy, and Munchkin with Daddy after a long night of trick-o-treating. |
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Happy Halloween
This Halloween we did a Wizard of Oz theme. Valerie was Dorthy, Henry was a munchkin, and Julia was Glenda the good witch. I was supposed to be the wicked witch and Caleb the Scare Crow. Needless to say with a new born I didn't get those costumes done. The kids had lots of fun trick-o-treating with Grandma Tracy and Caleb this year. Henry hated his hat, that was until Caleb told him it was his candy hat. Once he realized what that meant he kept that hat on and ran from house to house. Between the trunk-o-treat and trick-o-treating the kids came home with a stash, which by the way we are still eating. There was so much I bet you I can use it in the Christmas stockings. That way I don't have to buy Christmas candy. Hahahahaha
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
My Little China Doll
I promise I will post Halloween soon, but I have to laugh. I just didn't understand why people would come up to me and ask if I was carrying a baby doll. I actually thought it was kind of odd, that was until the other day. Valerie decided to pose one of her baby dolls by Julia. When I saw what Valerie had done I laughed so hard. I finally understood why people kept on coming up to me. What do you think?!
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| Sorry for the sideways picture. I don't know why blogger flipped it :o( |
Monday, October 24, 2011
Julia Lorette Tracy
She is here! So far she has been the most perfect baby. In fact she has been the best baby out of my three so far. Valerie loves her and is always doting on her. Henry hasn't shown much interest in her yet but he had enjoyed being my helper. He does a great job toting and fetching things I need for her.
So here are her birth stats:
Born: 10-04-2011 @ 2:17pm
Weight: 7 lb 02 oz
Length: 19 inches
Dark hair! (my other 2 were blond from the get go)
She has very long fingers and toes. Poor little thing gets that feature from me :o)
For those of you who want to know her birth story here it is, and those of you who don't care, you are more than welcome to skip this part.
I went into the hospital Oct 4th to be induced. Due to my heart and extremely fast labors and that I was already progressing, inducement seemed to be the best and safest option for us. I was admitted at the bright and early time of 6am. About 8ish in the morning my Dr came in checked me and noticed that the little stinker had pushed herself as far up as she could. So instead of breaking my water like was planed, I had to be put on pitocin to try to get her lower. I had contractions but nothing strong and regular. Luckily for me when they came in at noon Julia had dropped low enough they decided it was ok to brake my water. Once my water breaks my labors are extremely fast! About 1 hour after my water broke I got my epidural. After my epidural was in place the nurse checked me and at the time I was 5 cm. For the next 15 min they keept a watchful eye on me because at about this point during my labor with Henry my blood pressure plummeted and I passed out. Guess what, I started to do that again with Julia. The nurse had to eventually give me a small dose of epinephrine. Shortly after, Julia's heart rate started dropping because the contractions were so strong. They put me on oxygen. Once every thing was stable the nurse left. No joke about a minute after the nurse left I felt this intense pressure and burning even with my epidural. I told Caleb to call the nurse. The nurse came in checked me, than looked at me with panicked eyes and told me I had progressed from 5cm to complete and the baby crowning in about 5 min. She yelled out the door for my Dr. Luckily for me my Dr was just around the corner. The nurse and the Dr were frantically trying to get everything ready. Before we knew it the Dr had one hand on Julia's head trying to keep her from falling out while she tried to get gloves on. My poor Dr ended up delivering Julia bare handed and with out any protective gear on. My body pretty much pushed her out with out me pushing. I only had to push once. Soon after Julia was born nursery came in. She was born so fast they were not able to get her first apgar score on her. Labor and delivery this time around was so fast I really didn't even feel like I had had a baby. We were doing so well that 24 hours after she was born we were released to come home. Since then we have been doing really well and have been enjoying family and friends visiting.
So here are her birth stats:
Born: 10-04-2011 @ 2:17pm
Weight: 7 lb 02 oz
Length: 19 inches
Dark hair! (my other 2 were blond from the get go)
She has very long fingers and toes. Poor little thing gets that feature from me :o)
For those of you who want to know her birth story here it is, and those of you who don't care, you are more than welcome to skip this part.
I went into the hospital Oct 4th to be induced. Due to my heart and extremely fast labors and that I was already progressing, inducement seemed to be the best and safest option for us. I was admitted at the bright and early time of 6am. About 8ish in the morning my Dr came in checked me and noticed that the little stinker had pushed herself as far up as she could. So instead of breaking my water like was planed, I had to be put on pitocin to try to get her lower. I had contractions but nothing strong and regular. Luckily for me when they came in at noon Julia had dropped low enough they decided it was ok to brake my water. Once my water breaks my labors are extremely fast! About 1 hour after my water broke I got my epidural. After my epidural was in place the nurse checked me and at the time I was 5 cm. For the next 15 min they keept a watchful eye on me because at about this point during my labor with Henry my blood pressure plummeted and I passed out. Guess what, I started to do that again with Julia. The nurse had to eventually give me a small dose of epinephrine. Shortly after, Julia's heart rate started dropping because the contractions were so strong. They put me on oxygen. Once every thing was stable the nurse left. No joke about a minute after the nurse left I felt this intense pressure and burning even with my epidural. I told Caleb to call the nurse. The nurse came in checked me, than looked at me with panicked eyes and told me I had progressed from 5cm to complete and the baby crowning in about 5 min. She yelled out the door for my Dr. Luckily for me my Dr was just around the corner. The nurse and the Dr were frantically trying to get everything ready. Before we knew it the Dr had one hand on Julia's head trying to keep her from falling out while she tried to get gloves on. My poor Dr ended up delivering Julia bare handed and with out any protective gear on. My body pretty much pushed her out with out me pushing. I only had to push once. Soon after Julia was born nursery came in. She was born so fast they were not able to get her first apgar score on her. Labor and delivery this time around was so fast I really didn't even feel like I had had a baby. We were doing so well that 24 hours after she was born we were released to come home. Since then we have been doing really well and have been enjoying family and friends visiting.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Well Needed Catch Up
Boy I really need to work on keeping my blog up to date, sorry ya'll! We as the Tracy's have had a nice slow end of the summer season. Probably slower and longer for me than anyone else. We haven't really done anything out of the extra ordinary, but still that isn't an excuse for my lack of blogging. So for your reading pleasure I will be giving a little synopsis of each person in our family. Here it goes. . .
Valerie- She is amazing us with how much she learns and remembers each day! She now can pretty much write all her letters in capital form, and she can write her entire name. She is now trying to learn how to write her numbers and is working on adding. One of her favorite games right now is to ask me to give her two numbers to add together. It is really cute to see her use her fingers to figure the problems out. She is trying to read. She can figure out and recognize some words, but we are a ways away before she can read a story to herself. Her two favorite things to do right now is to tell silly Knock, Knock jokes, and to dress up like a princess. She is also quite the witty one. I can't tell you how many times she surprises me with the quick witty things she says.
Henry- Oh Henry boy, that is all I have to say. Just joking. Henry gives Caleb and I a run for our money. He is such the active little boy. He is into everything and knows how to unlock any baby proofing we have. My mom found a saying on a t-shirt that explains Henry to a "T". It says "Mischief is my business, and business is good". Here are a few things he had done in the past few weeks. . . colored on my bedroom walls with deodorant, and then about a week later colored a lovely mural on my wall with a pretty green pencil. He some how figured out how to open up the guest room closest and got into my craft paints and painted a small portion of the carpet a pretty shade of yellow. Umm what else, oh he got into the charcoal for the BBQ and painted himself and the side of the house in charcoal dust. Other than his curious self he is a sweet and loving little boy. He loves to sit on my lap, and help me cook. He is starting to learn his colors, and he is amazing at puzzles and other critical thinking tasks. We are still working really hard on his speaking skills. He is getting better each day.
Caleb- Caleb who? That is what it seems sometimes. That poor guy works himself to the ground. He is still Elders Quorum President, is now the division director over the enlisted math department at the Naval Power School ( He is in charge of all the instructors that teach math. I think there are 14 people that he is in charge of.), and he is taking 2 classes for his masters right now. Thankfully after this semester he only has one class left before he graduates from Penn State with his masters in nuclear engineering, WoWo!
Lorette- All I can say is I have done lots of sewing and embroidery work to help pass the time before this little girl comes. I have made valances for my great room, made and embroidered decritive pillows for my bed, made a car seat cover and added heirloom decorative stitches to it, and I made a diaper bag. I also have done lots of other craft projects for Henry's room. My hope is to have his room done before Julia comes. As of right now I only have 3 weeks left until my due date. I haven't made it to my due date with my past two so I am hoping it is the same with this little girl. So far it is looking like she will come before her due date, but I am not going to hold my breath. Oh how could I forget this past month I celebrated my birthday. We celebrated by going to dinner as a family. We went to a Mexican restaurant I had a really good coupon to. Lets just say Caleb and I were grateful for that coupon. The food was HORRIBLE!!!! Lucky for us we didn't end up paying more than we would have eating out at Taco Bell. We then came home and ate delicious German Chocolate with vanilla bean ice cream.
Well that is all I have folks for right now. The next post will probably be about baby Julia!!!!!
Valerie- She is amazing us with how much she learns and remembers each day! She now can pretty much write all her letters in capital form, and she can write her entire name. She is now trying to learn how to write her numbers and is working on adding. One of her favorite games right now is to ask me to give her two numbers to add together. It is really cute to see her use her fingers to figure the problems out. She is trying to read. She can figure out and recognize some words, but we are a ways away before she can read a story to herself. Her two favorite things to do right now is to tell silly Knock, Knock jokes, and to dress up like a princess. She is also quite the witty one. I can't tell you how many times she surprises me with the quick witty things she says.
Henry- Oh Henry boy, that is all I have to say. Just joking. Henry gives Caleb and I a run for our money. He is such the active little boy. He is into everything and knows how to unlock any baby proofing we have. My mom found a saying on a t-shirt that explains Henry to a "T". It says "Mischief is my business, and business is good". Here are a few things he had done in the past few weeks. . . colored on my bedroom walls with deodorant, and then about a week later colored a lovely mural on my wall with a pretty green pencil. He some how figured out how to open up the guest room closest and got into my craft paints and painted a small portion of the carpet a pretty shade of yellow. Umm what else, oh he got into the charcoal for the BBQ and painted himself and the side of the house in charcoal dust. Other than his curious self he is a sweet and loving little boy. He loves to sit on my lap, and help me cook. He is starting to learn his colors, and he is amazing at puzzles and other critical thinking tasks. We are still working really hard on his speaking skills. He is getting better each day.
Caleb- Caleb who? That is what it seems sometimes. That poor guy works himself to the ground. He is still Elders Quorum President, is now the division director over the enlisted math department at the Naval Power School ( He is in charge of all the instructors that teach math. I think there are 14 people that he is in charge of.), and he is taking 2 classes for his masters right now. Thankfully after this semester he only has one class left before he graduates from Penn State with his masters in nuclear engineering, WoWo!
Lorette- All I can say is I have done lots of sewing and embroidery work to help pass the time before this little girl comes. I have made valances for my great room, made and embroidered decritive pillows for my bed, made a car seat cover and added heirloom decorative stitches to it, and I made a diaper bag. I also have done lots of other craft projects for Henry's room. My hope is to have his room done before Julia comes. As of right now I only have 3 weeks left until my due date. I haven't made it to my due date with my past two so I am hoping it is the same with this little girl. So far it is looking like she will come before her due date, but I am not going to hold my breath. Oh how could I forget this past month I celebrated my birthday. We celebrated by going to dinner as a family. We went to a Mexican restaurant I had a really good coupon to. Lets just say Caleb and I were grateful for that coupon. The food was HORRIBLE!!!! Lucky for us we didn't end up paying more than we would have eating out at Taco Bell. We then came home and ate delicious German Chocolate with vanilla bean ice cream.
Well that is all I have folks for right now. The next post will probably be about baby Julia!!!!!
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Scripture Power
So this is my primary singing Scripture Power. Our music leader is amazing. She comes up the most fun ideas to make learning the music fun. Hope you enjoy it. Oh and Valerie is in the video too, which makes it extra cute for me :o)
Monday, July 18, 2011
Diaper Bag
I had to post this because I am really surprised and happy with how this project turned out. This project began because I have always wanted a Petunia Picklebottom diaper bag, but I just cant bring myself to spend $150 on a diaper bag. Here was my compromise. I found fabric that I liked and a tutorial online of a bag I liked and I made my own.
I sewed away every night and during quiet time for the next 4 day's. The outside has two pockets in the front and one big pocket in the back. The inside I decided to have one half with elastic pockets for baby things and the other side with non-elastic pockets for my things. I am pretty proud of myself because it turned out so well and most of all I only had to rip one set of stitches! Not bad for following a tutorial off the web and not having a pattern. Next project is to recover the car seat. Wish me luck!
Here is the link http://www.warehousefabricsinc
I sewed away every night and during quiet time for the next 4 day's. The outside has two pockets in the front and one big pocket in the back. The inside I decided to have one half with elastic pockets for baby things and the other side with non-elastic pockets for my things. I am pretty proud of myself because it turned out so well and most of all I only had to rip one set of stitches! Not bad for following a tutorial off the web and not having a pattern. Next project is to recover the car seat. Wish me luck!
Here is the link http://www.warehousefabricsinc
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Summer Fun
It has been a busy summer so far. Lucky for us Caleb was able to take a few weeks off which allowed us to have some family fun. While Caleb was home he tiled the master bathroom. It looks so much better! We then headed up north to Indianapolis to visit my family and see Auntie Karen before she leaves on her mission to Albuquerque New Mexico at the end of this month.
While we were there we had lots of fun swimming and being lazy by the pool. Henry LOVES the water and was jumping in, going down the slide (with daddy) and trying to swim by the end of our trip. Valerie on the other hand was the complete opposite of her brother. She just enjoyed playing at the steps and floating around on the mats. I personally enjoyed watching the kids while I soaked up sun :o)
Some of the fun things we did while in Indy was celebrated the 4th of July by attending the local parade. Valerie and her uncles came away with TONS and TONS of candy. We then later that night had a bbq with family, shot off a few small fire works and then headed to the big fireworks. For years we have been going to the Enz's for fireworks. They are family friends of ours and Brother Enz is obsessed with fireworks. I remember when it used to be 10 or so families shooting off hours worth of fireworks and eating Chinese food and roasting marshmallows in a bon fire. Each year it has gotten bigger. This year there were at least 150 people, a DJ (someone in the ward has the equipment) and huge fireworks that lasted 1 hour! It was amazing. Henry and Val loved it. Henry spent the entire time on Auntie Karen's lap, holding her hands over his ears, and him saying WOW.
The last day we were in Indy we went to the Indianapolis Zoo. I love that zoo. Probably because I grew up going there all the time, but it is a nice big Zoo with an amazing aquarium and African plains exhibit. While we were there we got to pet sharks, feed giraffes, watch dolphins preform during the dolphin show and see lots of other animals.
Now we are back home and trying to stay cool in this heat! It has been between 105-115 degrees with heat index since the middle of June.
While we were there we had lots of fun swimming and being lazy by the pool. Henry LOVES the water and was jumping in, going down the slide (with daddy) and trying to swim by the end of our trip. Valerie on the other hand was the complete opposite of her brother. She just enjoyed playing at the steps and floating around on the mats. I personally enjoyed watching the kids while I soaked up sun :o)
Some of the fun things we did while in Indy was celebrated the 4th of July by attending the local parade. Valerie and her uncles came away with TONS and TONS of candy. We then later that night had a bbq with family, shot off a few small fire works and then headed to the big fireworks. For years we have been going to the Enz's for fireworks. They are family friends of ours and Brother Enz is obsessed with fireworks. I remember when it used to be 10 or so families shooting off hours worth of fireworks and eating Chinese food and roasting marshmallows in a bon fire. Each year it has gotten bigger. This year there were at least 150 people, a DJ (someone in the ward has the equipment) and huge fireworks that lasted 1 hour! It was amazing. Henry and Val loved it. Henry spent the entire time on Auntie Karen's lap, holding her hands over his ears, and him saying WOW.
The last day we were in Indy we went to the Indianapolis Zoo. I love that zoo. Probably because I grew up going there all the time, but it is a nice big Zoo with an amazing aquarium and African plains exhibit. While we were there we got to pet sharks, feed giraffes, watch dolphins preform during the dolphin show and see lots of other animals.
Now we are back home and trying to stay cool in this heat! It has been between 105-115 degrees with heat index since the middle of June.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
New Wheels
I finally succumbed to the stereotypical car of every mom. . . we bought a van . . . and I couldn't be happier. I promised myself I would never ever ever buy a van, but when it comes down to it manufactures have thought of everything a mom could dream of having in a car. I will admit
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