Our New Arrival

We would like to introduce you to our daughter Jaclyn Grace Heimsoth

Born on March 8, 2008 @ 8:15pm

She weighed 8lbs even.

Her arrival was an interesting journey for us. It started on Thursday March 6th, I was admitted into the hospital to be induced. I had been having problems with my pubic bone separating and my doctors felt that it was best for me to have the baby at 38 weeks. So I went in on Thursday to start that process. Thursday ended up not working, so I was back in on Friday and they tried again. I had contractions for most of the day and that evening I was sent home to rest and then come back in on Saturday. Friday night was a very long night for me, I was uncomfortable and in pain, but at the same time I felt like something was wrong. On Saturday morning I called the hospital and talked to the doctor and he wanted me in to be assessed. At 11:30am I was assessed and he found that nothing had changed and we starting to look into options for me and the baby. My doctor called the Obstetrician and she was in at around 1:30pm and she did an ultrasound to see what was going on. She discovered that Jaclyn was breached and she booked me into have a Cesarean for that evening. Chris and I were happy to know that we were going to meet our baby that evening, and that we were getting answers about what was going on. For the rest of that afternoon we spent trying to past the time. David came to visit and so did my mom and brother and sister. It was nice to spend time with them. (side note: Eric my brother turned 16 that day, he thinks that its cool to share his birthday with his niece)

When we were brought down to the O.R. Chris was left in the hallway to wait well they prepped me. Then they brought him in for her birth. When they were taking her out she was not wanting to come out. They started to take her out by her legs and she started to fight back, they realized that she was fighting because she had the umbilical cord wrapped around her leg once and her neck twice. Then then unwrapped her leg and then her neck, once this was done it was easier to take her out. The scariest part for us was when she wasn't breathing very much and her heart rate was down. The pediatrician started to stimulate her and got her heart rate up and her breathing going. That was the scariest moment in our lives.

We learned later that Jaclyn came out at the right time, because anymore time in she may not have made it.

We are so thankful to God for taking care of our little girl and keeping her safe inside and when coming out. As well as for giving the Obstetrician the wisdom in dealing with us, and to the whole O.R. team. We would also like to thank all of our friends and family for praying for us during this time. We now have a beautiful baby girl who is in perfect health and doing really well.

David loves being an older brother and wants to hold Jaclyn all the time and share his toys with her.

Our New Arrival

Belly Picture

I thought I would post an updated picture of my belly. Here is one that was taken tonight, I am 38 weeks now. This little one will be making an appearance very soon. I will blog soon after the baby is here.

Belly Picture

Update

In my last blog I said that I would be writing a full update for my next entry. So here it is.......
Chris and I have finished up our time in Kamloops at the end of last year and we moved our little family back to Abbotsford. We are in the middle of selling our house in Kamloops and have bought a townhouse here in Abbotsford. Right now we are setting it up and enjoying not doing any renovations. (This is the first time that Chris and I have bought a house that doesn't need any renovations on it. It is weird but very nice!) Chris has decided to go back to school for his Masters degree either in September of 08 or January of 09. For the time being Chris is working at a company doing shipping and receiving. Not exactly what he is use to but we both feel the that we need a break from working in a church setting. Chris is enjoying his job as much as he can, he has a lot of time to think and pray which is always good. David is just over 19 months old now and is keeping really busy. He is starting to talk a lot now and is developing more and more into his own personality. It is very fun to watch, sometime Chris and I just sit and watch him play or talk. We love being his parents. I am 37 weeks pregnant with our second child and am getting ready to meet our new little one. Every morning David will say good morning to the baby and give my belly a hug and a kiss, it is very cute. I am slowly setting up our house with the help from family and friends. Thank you to all that have helped me :)
Well that is the general update on the Heimsoth family.
In the past this blog has been mostly about David and how he is growing up. Well I am going to be adding updates on all four of us now. So that everyone reading will be able to keep up with what is happening with us.

Update

A few pictures from the past couple of weeks

Well our life has been really busy the last few months, but that will have to be a different blog. This one will be on a few new pictures of David........

I just thought that this pictures was cute, no story to go with it. David really likes to wear Chris's sunglasses, he likes to be like his daddy.
Here is a picture of him laughing well sitting with his dad, I just love his smile.
As I have mentioned in other entry's David has a friend Jenna that was born 1.5 hours after him. The best thing about these two is that no matter how often they see each other they play together really well. Here they are playing on Jenna's truck! On the same day that this was taken David was suppose to be taking a nap at one point and he just sat in his playpen calling for Jenna over and over again. It was very funny, but it did mean that our visit was cut short so that he would get his nap in.
My mom made capes when my brothers and I were kids, we use to play with them all the time. Well one of the capes was pulled out of storage recently and David along with his cousins love to play with it. Here is David wearing his cape and playing ball.
Well that is all for now, but I will try and blog again soon with an update on our family. I hope that everyone is having a good start to the new year so far!

A few pictures from the past couple of weeks

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas to all our friends and family!!

We went on a Sleigh Ride at Sun Peaks Ski Resort tonight (Christmas Eve) It was a really fun experience and David seemed to enjoy himself. Both Chris and I had fun as well, its one of those things that you think about doing at Christmas but don't always get a chance to do. We are glad that we took the opportunity.

Here is David waiting in the lodge ready for the Sleigh Ride!!
Merry Christmas everyone and we hope that you are all able to spend Christmas with your loved ones and have a wonderful time!

Merry Christmas!!

First Haircut

So Chris and I have never cut David's hair.

Over the last few months we have been watching his hair grow and delaying doing the haircut. (It was starting to look like hockey hair, so we had to do something about it)

We love his curls so much that we didn't want to lose them. Well tonight we did cut his hair.

Even though David was tired and not in the mood to sit still we managed to get it done with it still looking cute and curly!!

Before the haircut
Notice the beginning of the hockey hair.
After his hair cut, happy to play and not have us cutting his hair.
It almost looks like he has more curl on top!
Look at how much hair we cut off.

First Haircut

Snow Buddies

David was playing at some friends house this past week, and they took him out to go for a walk in the snow. David and Adam where all bundled up and ready to go when they took these pictures. I thought that they were so cute that I had to share them with anyone who reads this.

Adam and David
I love the look of kids in snow suits!

Snow Buddies

Starbucks Already

Chris and I enjoy Starbucks once in awhile and because of that David has been in and out of Starbucks his whole life. Last summer I shared a Strawberries and Cream drink with him and he really liked it. He has also tried a Vanilla Bean drink and enjoyed that as well. Since this past summer David will get excited when we go through the drive-thru Starbucks or walk into a Starbucks and thinks that he is going to get something. Most of the time he gets nothing but he still asked and hopes that he will get something. The other day Chris and I had hot drinks in which he is not aloud to have, but when we were finished he was aloud to play with the cup. It was so cute that we took some pictures of our "Starbucks Kid"

He even knows which way to drink out of the cups, I think that it is so cute!

Starbucks Already

David and his Buddy

Spencer is the son of some of our good friends Travis and Rosie. It was fun to be pregnant with Rosie and now it is a lot of fun watching our boys grow up and play together. Here is a picture that was taken last week when we were visiting them.

David and Spencer are about seven weeks apart. Spencer is older and the two have always "played" together...........during the last few times that they have been together they have started to really play together. It was so fun watching them with the toys, mostly cars. We are looking forward to watching them grow up together.

David and his Buddy

Cars

In the last few weeks David has been really into matchbox cars. I stated to buy them for him when we were out shopping or running errands for a long time. He hangs on to his cars and walks around the house saying "car-car". It's cute!

Anyway we where all out the other day and decided to buy the Cars Movie.........David was really excited and all he could talk about was "cars"

When we got home to watch it he didn't care to much about the movie and played with his cars instead, every once in awhile he would look up and say "car-car", at one point he sat in his chair holding the case and watched some of the movie. It was pretty cute so we took some pictures.

Here he is holding his case for the movie!
Watching the movie!
Looking up at the camera!

Cars

Bubbles!!

The other night David had a bubble bath. He really likes them, but we don't do bubble baths all the time (usually its just regular baths), so when we do, he really gets into it. It also makes it a little more G rated for pictures.

He has these bath toys that he loves to play with. In the bubbles he has to find them and it becomes a game for him. So much fun!!
Poising for the camera!
I just love this look of his, he has so many facial expressions. He is so much fun!

Bubbles!!

20 weeks already!!!

Well I am now at the half way mark in this pregnancy. I really do enjoy being pregnant, it is one of those feeling that's hard to explain to someone who has not gone through it. David really likes to give the baby (my belly) kisses and hugs. It is very cute!! This baby loves to move around all the time. Its great I think that I will miss that a bit when the baby comes this spring.

Here are some updated pictures for you.

David and me, you can see a little bit of my belly that he is sitting on.
Here is a better picture of my belly!

20 weeks already!!!

I love my son!

I love this picture of David playing by himself and looking up at us. He is starting to look so much older!
Reading, one of his favorite things to do. He loves to bring book to us to read to him, and then sometimes I will come into the room and he is "reading" his books to himself, it is so cute.
We bought this bin to organize our games and David thought that it was the perfect thing to climb into. (in the middle of getting ready for bed)

I love my son!

Daddy and David Playing

Here is a video of Chris playing with David. I thought that it was really cute so I thought I would share it. Enjoy!!

Daddy and David Playing

Ultrasound

Here is an ultrasound picture that I had taken earlier this week. Everything looks good with the baby. During the ultrasound the baby moved around a lot. It was fun to watch the baby move so much. I feel the baby move all the time, it is so wonderful to see the baby move at the same time as feeling it.
I love ultrasounds, they get me excited to meet the little person that is growing inside me.
God is so wonderful as to give this gift to moms-to-be, the joy of having a baby grow inside us.
I love being a mom!!

Ultrasound

And now for something else.....

There is one other thing that we have been meaning to share with everyone. We are expecting another baby this March. I am 17 weeks pregnant and everything is going really well. We have started to talk to David about the baby coming soon and he is starting to understand a little bit. He will come up to me sometimes when we are playing and give the baby a kiss and a hug (its cute he will life my shirt up to see my stomach and point and say "baby")

We are really excited about the new addition that is coming to our family. We always wanted to have our kids close in age since that is what Chris and I both had, we are praying that they grow up as friends. They will be twenty months apart.

And now for something else.....

Walking

As I explained in my other post it has taken David a little while to figure out and to become more confident in walking. He now walks everywhere, it is so much fun to watch him. Sorry that the video is on it side.

Walking

Summer Pictures

Here are some summer pictures......

Summer Pictures

So Its been a long time.....

First I am sorry that I have not been blogging over the last couple of months. We moved our computer downstairs and I am not able to get to it as easily with David. We have recently bought a laptop so I should be able to keep up a bit more with my blogging.

So here is an update. David turned one in July and we had a wonderful time for his birthday. I will post pictures a little later. David has also become more confident in walking, he first started to walk when he was 10 months old but fell and scared himself, this continued to happen until he was 13 months old. Once David got over his fear of walking he started to walk very carefully but he was still nervous about walking anywhere other then at home. For the last couple of weeks he has become more confident in his walking and walks in public places. Chris and I are very proud of him!! David now has 10 teeth and three more coming soon. He eats everything that we offer him it is nice not having a picky eater.
We took David camping for the first time and he seemed to enjoy himself, we are looking forward to camping with him next summer.

So Its been a long time.....

Family Photos

So we tried to take some family pictures a few weeks ago and these are some of the better ones.
The one on top of us looking up I really liked, I am not sure as to why but I do. The picture on the bottom is one of my favorites also so I thought I would share with you all.
Hope everyone is having a wonderful summer!!!

Family Photos

Funny Faces

So a couple of days ago David started giving us a new look. He scrunches his eyes, opens his mouth and snorts as he laughs, its is so funny that when he does is I laugh so he does it more and we will laugh for awhile. It is so much fun.
I am really enjoying watching David grow up and discover his personality. He is one funny boy.
Here are a few pictures of this new face of his, its hard to capture the whole look but I am sure you can get the idea.
Also David loves to laugh, we will be playing on the floor with his toys and all of a sudden he will be laughing, I am never really sure of what he is laughing at but I do love to hear it.
I also added some pictures to our flickr!

Funny Faces

David doing Laundry

Well David likes to help me around the house, for instance when I do laundry he is always tring to get into the basket. So sometimes I put him in........I thought I would share some pictures. He also likes to follow me when I vaccum, I don't think he totally understands what the noise is but he does like to be clean.

David doing Laundry

Are Little Basketball Star

So its been awhile since I blogged..........David has been doing a lot of changing lately. He will be 10 months on Saturday, wow time has gone fast.
First of all he now has 6 teeth and three comming in soon. I guess he decided to get it all done now.
Second he loves to crawl around and find me in the house, it is very cute. When I am in the kitchen he looks for me and then starts to laugh when he finds me.
David is really wanting to walk on his own, and yesturday on Mothers day he took his first three steps by himself. I was so proud of him it was a great mothers day gift! It was very cool and the best part was that Chris was home to see it. I don't expect it to be to much longer before he is walking all on his own. Also about a week ago David decided that he didn't want to eat baby food anymore, so we started to feed him more normal foods (not mushed up) he is really enjoying it. He loves his vegies, fruit and he likes garlic mashed potatoes and mushroom soup. So far I haven't been feeding him meat or to much spice but he is really enjoying his food.
Not to much else right now but soon I will blog some more pictures and little stories for everyone.

Are Little Basketball Star