Life and Times of The Johnston family: September 2008

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Elizabeth update and...PICTURES!!!

So...I've been meaning to blog about life for a couple weeks now, so I'll just condense the last couple weeks. Mon the 15th after getting my staples taken out, they let Elizabeth and I go home. I was sooo more than ready, I couldn't believe it when they asked if I wanted to stay until Tue!!! But since it was up to me, we went home Mon afternoon, the pediatrician had come in before we left and told us that Elizabeth now weighed 6lbs 4oz(she'd lost 9oz) which put her under her percentile, so we were told, to make an appointment for Wed and get her checked out again. At that appointment she weighed in at 6lbs 3oz. They were concerned now she'd lost more than %10 of her body weight, so they had us bring her in on fri. Meanwhile we put her on the Goodstart formula as she was keeping infamil or similac down. On Fri she weighed in at 6lbs 6oz, they were pleased that she had started gaining weight again, but were still concerned as she was supposed to be back up to her birth weight of 6lbs 13oz in just a couple days, they told us that if she didn't get up to her birth weight by 2 weeks old they were going to deem her as failing to thrive and admit her to Primary Children's and tube feed her to catch her up, and then to test after test on her. I was horrified! We had only had her a week, and they were talking about taking her away again!! Not to mention that some of her major systems may not be functioning properly!! That weekend she got extremely constipated(not helping her weight gaining hopes) so we tried a free sample of similac soy formula we'd received, and it helped the constipation, but she threw it up alot. But when we went for yet another weight check last tue she was up to 6lbs 8.5oz Once again good but not as much as needed, so the nurse practitioner recommended we feed her anything we could get down her every hour and a half, we never really managed that but we did feed her every 2 hours(which was interesting as she took an hour to finish a bottle) basically we were feeding her constantly! But when we took her to her 2 week check up on fri she miraculously weighed 6lbs 14oz!! And looked perfect in every other way!! I was so relieved and soooo happy!!! I still have to take her back for another weight check in a couple weeks, and she has a mole on her birthmark on her back that our pediatrician wants there specialist to just check out, but other than that she is good to go!! 5 formulas later we found the one for her, and she gained the weight she needed!(I wish my dr would demand I put on weight!jk;)) After Liz's appt my mom and i went to Marie Calenders for lunch, then I had my appt with my OB, she said my incision looks good, and I appear to be healing from the surgery well so I'm free to start doing light housework, and light activities. YAY!!! It was a good day all around. For Tony too, as he went to his company's golf tournament, and played the day away! Lucky boy! Well next week is my first week on my own, just Elizabeth and I, it'll be a change but I'm actually looking forward to it! Well little butterfly is demanding to be fed so I must go!

Here are the pictures we promised. Enjoy!

Thursday, September 25, 2008

One word! That'll be a first!

Well I had so much fun doing the last tag, and Elizabeth's asleep, so I thought I'd do another one! I've seen this one on a few of our friends blogs, so I figured it must be a good one, and an especially challenging one for me, as I'm known as a woman of many many words!

I've got to answer all these questions with one word and one word only.

Here goes:

1. Where is your cell phone? coffee-table
2. Where is your significant other? outside
3. Your hair color? brown
4. Your mother? helping
5. Your father? funny
6. Your favorite thing? rest
7. Your dream last night? strange
8. Your dream/goal? house
9. The room you're in? living room
10. Your hobby? scrapbooking
11. Your fear? alone
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? debt free
13. Where were you last night? parent's
14. What you're not? dressed up
15. One of your wish-list items? furniture
16. Where you grew up? Bountiful
17. The last thing you did? eat
18. What are you wearing? loose
19. Your TV? off
20. Your pet? wining
21. Your computer? helpful
22. Your mood? tranquil
23. Missing someone? always
24. Your car? messy
25. Something you're not wearing? shoes
26. Favorite store? walmart(sad i know)
27. Your summer? grueling
28. Love someone? Tony
29. Your favorite color? lilac
30. When is the last time you laughed? today
31. Last time you cried? tuesday

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Linda Elizabeth Johnston!

Well after some intense time we can now offically welcome into the world Lind Elizabeth Johnston. Anni had a non stress test on Tuesday where the discovered that her amniotic fluid was low. Lately Elizabeth has been taking alot of time to get her kick counts in. She had an OB appointment right after. Her doctor was assisting with a delivery and was not able to meet with her. She was let go but her doctor called her and let her know she thought it was time to induce her and deliver Elizabeth. She wanted her to come in so they could rippen her cirvix, this needed to be done 12 hours before they would induce her with patosane. So we came to Labor and Delivery Wednesday evening at about 7:15 PM to start. Thursday morning they started Anni on the patosane. We went through the day and she started to have contractons and about 1:30 her doctor came in and checked her cirvix, it was dialated to 2 cm. At about 430 her doctor came in and checked again and she was still at 2cm. Dr Kinghorn was worried about the amount of patosane she was getting, at abou this time she was taking in about 30ml an hour. About 630 the nurse came in and informed us that Dr Kinghorn wanted to see if they could "reset" her uturus and dropped her down to about 12ml of patosane. This went on for a few more hours and there was no major improvment. The thought that maybe when she was having contractions she would tense up. The nurse came in and suggested that we give Anni and epidoral. This was to see if she could relax and as a precaution if a c-section was needed. After the epidoral was given her doctor came in to check her cirvix. She was still at 2cm and her condtions were improving at all. Dr Kinghorn told us she did not know what else we could do to give her the chance to deliever vaganally and suggested maybe it was time to do a C Section as she could not see her condtions were improving. At this point Anni had been in labor for 15 hours and not improving. She was coming up on 36 hours with not eating anything, was tired, hungry and just down right exhausted from it all. We decided that it was best to go with the C section, Anni was nervous about the recovery time but felt this was the only way we could deliver Elizabeth. So we made that tough decsion and with in about 1/2 hour of giving the ok we were in the operating room and they were preforming the C section, they really are dedicated and fast when that descion is made. So at 12:23 am on September 12, 2008 our daughter was brought into this world. She weighed in at 6lbs 13oz and was 19" long. It was a rough time for Anni and i am very proud with what she went through to bring our daughter into this world. She is a very good mother to our daughter and was amazing through the whole experience. Just thought i would share the news with the rest of you and show some pictures. I am sure Anni will pst more, as i am sure that alot of this does not make sense.

Monday, September 8, 2008

Busy fun weekend

So thanks to my absolutely wonderful husband, you know that friday was my birthday. It was a really good birthday too! My mom came down and we went to lunch at Hires Big H(one of my very favoritest places) and just had a good talk, mostly about how grateful I am she raised me the way she did(the hard way, not giving into my every whim, and teaching me to work for things, not assume they'll be givin to me, and that newest isn't neccisarily nicest, but to appreciate what I have because I work hard to have it and even if it's not the nicest or greatest, at least it's mine! and I can be proud of that)anyway, I hope I can be the kind of mom my mom was to me, cause she's really amazing! Then we came home and chatted some more about everything. I had quite a few of my friends text me and wish me a happy birthday, which I was not expecting so that help make my day! My good 'ol big brother called and we chatted for a few minutes, I love that guy, he's great! He's the reason I was hoping for a boy first, cause I look back and having a big brother to protect you was the best! He's still lookin out for me. My dad called and wished me a happy birthday too! Then when Tony got home we went to The Old Spaghetti Factory, as spaghetti is my favorite food, and they do it best! We had the greatest waiter ever!! He was on top of things, funny, and just really good. He brought out my spanoni with a candle in it, so I could make a wish, then he said since it was my birthday it was only right he give me a gift, and brought me a spaghetti factory glass, he even wrote happy birthday on our reciept!! We made a quick stop at Seagull Book to get our niece a baptism card and gift, and then we went and rented a couple movies we never got around to seeing in theatre, from Hollywood Video, as they give you a free rental on your birthday! Then we came home and watched 27 Dresses, we both really liked it, it was cute and really funny. Oh my goodness I nearly forgot the very best part!!! When we were at The Old Spaghetti Factory, Tony gave me my present. It was a Willow Tree figuring called Cherish.(It's a standing pregnant woman) I absolutely LOVE it!!!!!!!!! Tony called a few different places that didn't have it, and remembered we'd seen it at Cracker Barrel, so he went there and found it! He truly is the greatest man in the world, and I really don't know what I did so right to have him in my life!! But I'm truly blessed to have such a wonderful husband, and I love him with every fiber of my being! I had a really great birthday, so thanks to all!
Saturday, was a funfilled nonstop day! We worked on cleaning up this consrtuction zone in the morning(for the party on Sun) then at noon we had our neice emily's baptism, she looked so angelic in her beautiful white dresses!! She's just such a cutie all around! Then we went to the Nester's home for a little lunch after(oh and to watch some of the BYU game) We had to leave a bit early because we had tickets for Desert Star, so we came home real fast, and changed(all the while listening to the BYU game) and went and saw Scary Poppins(for my birthdayish),when we got there and went to pick up our tickets, they told us they weren't there. Turns out we had tickets for the noon show, and just totally forgot. luckily they had two seats come available at a shared table, but the seats were good, and at least they got us in! it was as usual hilarious!! And the family in front of us kept Tony updated on the game. When we came home we continued to clean, Tony's parents came over to help move furniture, and we vacuumed(with my parents mighty Dyson) and shampooed the carpet. It actually did a very good job!! Then we put the living room back together(it's so nice as it's the first time in months!) We listened to the U of U game while they were doing that. We really appreciate all the help we've gotten from family to put this place together again! After they left Tony was looking over the recipe for the lasagna and realized he still needed a couple things so he ran out to the store to pick those up.
Sunday I was so exhausted from the past couple days, that I slept til nearly 10 am, and since our church is at 9am, we kinda decided that it was better I rest. Tony spent all afternoon making really delicious homemade lasagna for the family of mine that decided to come to my birthday party(which sadly was only my parents my brother, my grandparents and my cousin Jake) but it worked out great in my brother Eric's favor cause he got 4 peices of lasgna! and took a few home with him too! We revealed our mostly finished nursery too! It's turned out so much better than I could have even imagined! Everything just fell right into place! My parents and grandparents and brother agreed, it was worth the work! Oh and of course we had yummy cake and ice cream too! Then my grandparents left and Tony and Eric had a nice long conversation, and me and my parents visited some more, and then we called it a night. It was a great weekend, (except for the lack of support from my family, I apoligized much to Tony for that, even good homeade food apperntly isn't a good enough bribe to get most of my family to our parties. but it was nice to have my parents, brother and grandparents down, oh and good 'ol cousin Jake too. We'll have to get more fish for him to look at next time he comes down!) One year older, and here's hopin' a bit wiser too!!

Friday, September 5, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNI!!!!!!!!

Anni celebrates her 24th birthday today! Happy Birthday Love! You mean everything to me and hope that your day goes well.

(O.K. so the picture is over a year old but seeming how i am at work this is the one of the only ones that i have on my computer. Looks like i need to update the pics on the good old hardrive.)

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

The weekend mostly

So it's been a while since our last blog, and plenty has happened I'm just so enjoying the nursery that i find myself up there all day. Tony and I will just sit in there and enjoy it, it's so nice and put together, being in there gives us the feeling we're in a new house. Tony and our family help did an amazing job!! It looks so good it almost doesn't look like it belongs in this place! Once we finish getting everything up on the wall, we'll take lots of pictures so you can see it for yourself.
So Tony survived his first week of school!! I'll let him tell more about that if he'd like.
We had a mostly enjoyable weekend, Sat we attempted to go to the BYU game, but the weatherman neglected to mention that it was going to be a hundred degrees!! So after hiking up to Tony's parents seats(they gave us their tickets as they were up at the spruces camping)which are WAY up there, great seats!!! But way up there. We made a very comfy seat for me, and smuggled in two bottles of water. By the end of the first quarter I was wading in my own sweat, as I figure it being 9 months pregnant in 100 degree heat, I must of been running over 200 degrees!!!JK but I was so so so so soooooooooo hot!!!! But because I'm such a loveing devoted wife(who LOVES football)and knows how important BYU football is to my husband, I just kept chugging water which i finished both bottles about halfway into the 2nd quarter, and by then you probably could have made hot chocolate with it. About 5 mins before the half we decided it was just too hot, I was starting to feel a bit whoozy, and with great sadness we left the game. We did grab a cold bottle of water on the way out though. The good news is the trafic was so good we got home about halfway into the 3rd quarter, and watched the rest of the game, in our air conditioned house. Tony did get too frustrated to watch end of the 3rd though, started cleaning the house, but came back when they started doing better in the 4th. I felt so bad we had to leave early, but I've never felt so miserable in my life, but at least I tried. Then on Sun we went up to the Spruces to join Tony's family for the day, it was sooo nice and cool!! It felt really good! Until it started down pouring right as our lovely dinner feast was done cooking, the kids fled to the trailer, and they guys put out the awning, and put up a canopy, and we made it work and the food was as always delicious!! Then we bagged the cobbler and everyone crammed into the trailer and we did gifts for Tony's dad, our brother in law Derek, and my birthdays. After Tony's mom scrounged up some cookies and ice cream. The cutest thing was our little 2 year old neice who loved being out in the rain and playing in the puddles!! Tony got a picture on his phone so we'll have to see if we can get that, she was sooo cute in her little rain coat! Mon my parents came down and my dad and Tony got the doors painted and put back up, Tony finished the window, put up the blinds and our cute purple curtains, with butterfly tie backs. my mom helped with the laundry and cleaning everything in her sight ;) jk mostly dusting and organizing things, but it helped alot. Then we all went to wal mart and target and got the last few things needed for Elizabeth(that i didn't order online earlier) like a diaper pail and bath tub, and bottles. And once the changing pad and cover, and baskets i ordered online get here the nursery will be complete!!! Oh and yesterday we went and picked up the rocking chair we got from The Wood Connection and had them stain to match the crib. It turned out perfect!!! It's the most comfortable rocking chair in the world!! I love it!!! It was my mother's day, anniversary, and birthday present.(as it wasn't cheap) Well I think I've caught you up! Only two more days til my birthday!!!:)