9 months

Had your 9 month well visit and shots. And no surprise here, she is in 99 percentile for height at 30in and 97th for her weight at 23 lbs 2 oz. the doc said she is taller and bigger than most 16 to 18 month olds. Which follows suit of her siblings. Mason was always literally off the charts and Jayden had a fat head! 

You are walking along furniture and trying to stand up all by yourself. You are climbing on everything and your favorite spot is climbing up and in fireplace and climbing stairs. And pulling out all movies and books and turning off tv. You have such a silly cute laugh and you love to snort. Still sleeping through the night and just now started being ok with stage 3 baby food. You are in size four diapers now and just have two bottom teeth. You love to do fish face and curl and click your toungue. You are always licking everything. The fridge the Windows, doors, the floor. When you start crawling mason started running away saying spider! He says you are like a spider when you crawl and he is right! You are afraid of the vacuum now and just love to try and do whatever your siblings are doing. You don't like anyone but mom and dad and have cutest saddest pouty face when someone else tried to hold you. You are growing up so fast and have gotten so big it makes me sad! I even bought a 2t Easter dress and it is snug on you. You are such a fun cute baby and am so glad you came when you did and that I get to be your mom! I love watching you grow and learn and see your cute personality come out. You may be a baldy but you are so beautiful!!

Rolled over

Today you rolled over from your stomach to back! 3 months old. You are the happiest smiliest baby ever! You have been SO good throughout all this craziness of living in hotels and moving and traveling. Such a blessing. You like to sit up. You drool and spit up so much!! Your onesies are always soaked! Your siblings just love you to pieces and so do we. I love snuggling you and playtime and mAking you smile and laugh and you have been talking and squealing lots. It's very cute! I wish I could just hold you and play all day long! I already am slacking on so much from playing with you! We just moved in our house week and half ago. My fam came this last weekend for your blessing. You looked so beautiful in your dress! You have so mAny people that love you. I love watching you grow and can't wait to see the person you are becoming. Good night little Lexie! 

Birth

So I have started this post 3 times now and it won't save!!!! It is now June 8tg and you are two weeks old!! 

We are living with grandma and gpa Claybrook invmissouriwhile daddy is in agent training. He has been gone since February. You were due on May 26tg the day after Memorial Day. We found out daddy would have Memorial Day off so I decided to get induced with you Saturday may 23rd. We were not sure we would make it as you were so so low and I was dilated to 2 and 70%effaced when I was 36 weeks along. The next week I was at about a 3 and 80% effaced and stayed like that til I was induced. You moved around SO much inside of me I did not get much sleep at all. I also had the worst heartburn with you up until the very end. The beginning of the pregnancy was scary. All the preg tests were coming up negative. So they sent me to do blood tests and I had to do those every other day for a few weeks. I was actually scheduled to have a d and c the weekend we thought I was preg. So with all the nwgatice tests it was a good thing I really thought I was pregnant. Then at about 8 weeks in I thought I lost you. We had just take. Our family photos and we got back home and I went to bathroom and there was a lot of blood. It was a very scary and sad time . We hadn't told anyone I was preg yet and gpa stokes and Tyler were at our house that weekend. We went to doc next day and had more tests done and ultrasound and things still looked okay. I just took it really easy the next month. Which I still bled for lil while. I wasn't as throwing up sick with you as the others but we moved when I was about 26 or 27 weeks along. And that causes contractions. And had to travel three days to get here. And then find a new doc for you and me. Check out hospital and be here without all our atuff. 

Jake flew in Friday night and got in at about 2:00 am we then had to leave at 4 am for hospital. Jake came right in an crashed. I was up all night. You were my biggest mover. You moved so much it kept me up. It would hurt when you moved so much and you also got hiccups SO MUCH inside me. So I was up all night anxious for daddy to get home and then to meet you! I was very nervous. I have not responded well to epidural sand just have had harder time recovering before. So we left and it was very strange to be driving to hospital not in full on labor. I had had a few contractions that morning and think I prob would have gone that day anyway even if we didn't get induced. We got there and were the only ones there. They started the pennisilin at about 5:30 because for first time I had group b strep. Then at about 6 they started me on pitocin. It was really hard to try and get any rest even though I was completely exhausted. Then at about 8:30 they came in to give me epidural I was at about. 4 I think maybe close to five. I really can't say and epidural a but they do help so much with contractions. It hurt really bad and I could t stop crying then shaking. I got the shakes pretty bad. Then my mom came and I tried sleeping since I wasn't feeling to much. I had a ton of blankets on me. Then at about ten the doc came in to break my water. At what a 7? I can't rember. Then gpa came in. Then at 11 something I felt a lot of pressure and like I needed to push. They got doc in and ready then started pushing around noon. You definitely took longer to push out than your big bro and you hurt more than pushing him out. I'm wondering if it's cuz you were induced. Then at 12:20 pm you made your appearance and while I was pushing you out daddy said you had a lot of dark hair! You were 7lbs 11oz and 20in long.