Well I wanted to share with you our first and last family snow day for a long time, we figured hey, might as well go to the snow, before we go live in the deseret, where we are more than an hour away from the snow. Here are a few pics, of our fun.
3 girls first time in the snow
Well I guess i can spread the news now, we are for sure moving down to AZ. We will be leaving on the 9th of Janurary, We will be renting our friend's home there for 18 months. It has been a long time deciding what to do with financial problems, and actually after watching an episode n Oprah, I felt an answer to pray with some advice that was given on the show that was going through a similar experience. weird to say that, but its true so w are selling the house and moving out of CA. I hope one day we might be able to return, but for now, I don't want to move again, at least this big untill the girls are done with school. We will miss all of you in the Olivehurst Ward, and our friends we have made living here in Marysville. Its been nice living here, but now we feel we need this change to improve our life, and get rid of the constant stress. I don't want to die at age 30, from a stress related incident. WE love all of you, those we are leaving behind, and its sad to think, but we really have no intentions of even coming back up here, since we have no family close anymore. we will fill you in as we get in the house are details, but leave a post and i'll email you our info.
So this morning started off like a typical morning lately, Got up with the baby to nurse her in bed, then when she woke up, Aimee came in the room and then I heard emily crying through her door, so Aimee let her out and they all jumped on the bed, and then we were playing with cadyn and then emily wanted me to read her a book, So I did and they all watched and were paying attention and I had a great feeling come over me. I was very proud of being a Mom and the great little girls That I was raising. I have been struggling with the role of Motherhood, and it hit me today, this is what it is all about, and That gave me the new focus to try even harder to Be the best Mom I could be for my daughters. I just thought I'd share that with my loved ones, who are all of you out there who read this. I'm glad to be a mom, even though times it is hard, It is worth it. I love you Aimee, Emily, and Cadyn, very much.
Yeah I know its been 2 months since I last posted anything, but I have started back to school and taking 2 classes 1 online-medical Terminology, and 1 at the college-Anatomy. So far I'm doing alright-meaning I'm passing with a C in Anatomy, but it might be getting pulled up real soon. 
Aimee started Preschool this year where she goes 5 days a week in the afternoon. So getting used to that is working better now that i have a routine. Anyways just wanted to post our fun camping trip to Mammoth Lakes-Red's Meadow. The girls all did real well, this was our first camping trip more then just an overnighter with the ward. Here are a few pictures to tell you about our trip.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Mamabear.graff/LaborDayCampingTripWGrandpa
SO our trip down South, was fun but very busy, we went to bed exhausted every night. from driving to visiting to chasing the kids down from playing with Grandparents "breakables". But all in all it was good to see family and friends, that we haven't seen in a long time since about christmas time, longer for others.
SO are day at the park was a blast, after driving through tons of traffic, we arrived at the top of the 5th inning, great timing, since thats when the Dodgers swept the giants, the score at the end of this inning was 6-0, eventually they scored some more, but in the 12th inning they finally ended the game at 8-7, The 10th win straight against their rivals at AT&T park. To see all our pics go here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Mamabear.graff/DodgersGiants
Papa and Emily in their True Blue attire enjoying garlic fries
Hope everyone's 4th was fun, besides the scorching heat, we rather had a fun day. We went to friends in the ward (who is moving in a week) for lunch, we brought a pool over and the girls really enjoyed that. we later filled it back up at our house in the front yard, in which i sat in, while Mark and Aimee did the fireworks and I took pics. the next blog will be after my postpartum appt, and then the Giants and Dodger Game and then my sister's wedding in SoCal.
Thanks to all of you for your help with the fam, this last little while.
http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/g/graffbaby3/
This is the website I made as our virtual birth announcement, so go here whenever you want and see updates as well.
well We are going on a little over 3 weeks, since little Cadyn arrived and we have all been adjusting great actually. As for her 3 week weight check, on Thursday, she had gained 9 oz ( the doc said after 2 weeks old, they should be gaining at least an ounce a day) so Since she gained more than 7 he said she was doing well. SO I was excited, to say the least, except, she had this nasty little ingrown toenail on her left big toe, right on the top in the middle that I had been watching and trying to rid the puss myself, for a week, and so he gave us a prescription for an antibiotic. Its been weird giving an infant meds, and trying to make sure I don't forget the meds time, plus feeding times, plus normal life, its a bit chaotic. So to say the least, Emily decides to throw up on Thursday in the car, then was fine, then Sat morning Aimee dry heaves 2x takes a long nap and by 12 she is up and driving us crazy. Then by 7 I throw up and have diarrhea. Then Mark gets it Sunday morning and All day we both were laying on the couch taking turns to help with the minimum care of the kids. Thank goodness it is not called the 24 hrs flu for jokes, cause today we feel almost brand new. More to come about the rest of the week with pics
Being a cute big sister trying to console her little sis!well I wish the circumstances were switched and That I was the one losing the weight, not the baby, but alas, She has managed to keep her weight down in her 1st 2 weeks of life ( I'm trying to be humorous about the subject, so i don't get to down) As of last Thursday, she weighed 6lbs, and 14.1 oz, So the doctor, said to just try and wake her every 2 hrs to feed, and if she doesn't want to cooperate with nursing, then pump and give her that, so we have tried to stick with that, and what do you know, she starts cooperating the minute she got home from the docs, Doesn't always seem that once you go to the doctors, your illness seems to get better, even before the meds start working, weird . So anyways, she is latching on better and is awake more, so I think she will be fine come Thrusday, when we go in for a weight check. I am actually doing well, I feel th worst when I go to bed, because lying flat hurts a ton, so I try not to lay down during the day too much. And my wonderful Husband has been getting up with Cadyn and giving her a bottle, so I can continue recoverying, however, I want to start getting up, to see how I will feel, So I think I will try tonight and see how it goes. I still have my lifting restrictions, of #10 for another month, but the girls seem to be understanding, most of the time. So I also have been working on Family History, and if any of my family has any info I could use, please send it to me, so I can get as many names printed out, so when We get a chance to go to the temple, we will have the names ready.
Here is the scoop on our newest edition to our little family She was born on Friday, June 8th 8:02 pm at 7lbs and 14.1oz and 20in long at 36 weeks. The only real complication we ended up having was it took the docs over 20 mins to reach the uterus, and by that point, they had pushed Cadyn out of the way so far, that they had to suction her out. It being my 3rd c-section, my body had built up a lot of scar tissue and made the docs work to get my baby out.
As for Mom and baby, we are doing alright, we are still fighting the whole breastfeeding issue, and I at least just pray that it will come together sooner then later. I think she thinks as long as she gets food she is content.
As for Dad and the girls, they are really enjoying having their baby sister finally here. Dad is working really hard to satisfy the demands of a house of 4 females, I guess he is just getting a taste of the future, Hopefully, we won't give him too much trouble, but
as we girls all know that is sometimes beyond our control. But at least he gets to be surrounded by 4 beautiful girls everyday. But I know he can handle it, He already is a really good dad, so I have no worries
that he'll survive, since they all our 'Daddy's little girls' I know he will be happy as soon as I am back to my self, so I can give him a hand, actually he is counting the days...
Since it is Father's day weekend, I think about the great husband and father I have and my daughters have, and how grateful he is the man he is. I love him so much for dealing with me through all the pregnancy and recovery issues I have, and then the girls and work. I don't give him enough credit sometimes, But he is one Awesome Dude, and we would be lost without him. Love all of you and feel free to email, or comment here, to get more personal feedback.
Well, for what looks to be my last prenantal appt, it went pretty good. I was told that my cervix had not changed from a 1 cm 2 weeks earlier. So that was good news. Next thing the doctor told me was I have an anterior placenta( if any "medical terms" confuse anyone, Google it), which apparently is not good for a c-section, since it is in front of the incisions area, and that would mean the surgeon cutting through it. The other problem, is that besides it being it the way, it could be attached from the adhesion's and or just really stuck to the uterine wall. This is called placenta accreta. So thus taking it out can either cause lots of bleeding and require a blood transfusion and/or a possible hysterectomy. The doc, also said my Red blood cell count was not very high, so I might lose to much and it be more of a problem then normal situations. so needless to say, the doc advised us that either I tie my tubes now or Mark does in the fall, but i am not to have another surgery down there, so basically she is telling us that their are more risks involved with this delivery, that it would be wise to stop now. So after praying for a few months now about this, we feel this is our answer to our prayers, as far as whether we are to continue adding numbers to our family or not. This may not sit well with some of you, But most of you now the struggles I've been having and I guess my body doesn't want me to do this anymore, So I guess its time to listen to it. I'm writing this down, so I can have something to remember why we made the decision and how we felt about it, it will still be in our prayers until next week when they do the Amnio to test for the Fetal lung maturity (FLM) and if it is positive, we will be having the baby or at least surgery at 8am, so sometime that morning "Cadyn Bailey" will enter this world. We appreciate all the thoughts and prayers in our behalf, we really do feel the love of our friends and family as we go through this trying time. But we know that as long the Lord is with us and condones our decision, then we are happy. Love you all and will continue to use this to keep you updated on our family...hopefully
