Little "Nanyn"

We've had Landyn a little over 5 months now and I'm already forgetting a lot of her story on how she got here. I was set to be induced on August 1, 2011. I started having crazy contractions about 5 days before then and spent the night walking around the hospital for hours and hours. I was dilating fast and they set up my IV to get me ready for the epidural. 

Around 4:00 am my contractions totally stopped and they told me I had to GO HOME. The horror. I was convinced she would be coming that day and was seriously annoyed that I had to go home early. Luckily, August 1st came soon enough. Dane's delivery was so great that I thought I couldn't top it. I was wrong. This one rocked.

Jeremy and I got to the hospital bright and early. I was given my epidural BEFORE they induced me, which was pretty spectacular. After they started the pitocin I went into crazy labor right away. In the last half hour my contractions were coming so fast that the doctor told me the epidural couldn't keep up. I'm not sure what that meant, but it hurt a lot for a good 20 minutes. About an hour and a half after they induced me, baby girl was here and doing great. 

I'm not sure if I mentioned it, but Brynlie was kind of extremely excited.

Landyn had tons of hair, cute little dimples and ate like a champ. I had a couple of issues and they said I should probably stay an extra day. Normally, I'm dying to get home, but seeing as how this was our baby number last, you can bet that we jumped on that and stayed as long as possible.

This girl had some awesome spiky monkey hair for the first couple months.

Kelson posed for a couple pictures, got really overwhelmed with the hospital, new baby and 5 people telling him to smile. He put his head down and cried right after this picture.

Dane actually did really well with Landyn...besides wanting to maul her all day long. He was never jealous or anything luckily.

He loooves his baby Nanyn.

I keep waiting for Landyn's newness to wear off and for my kids to start ignoring her. So far that hasn't happened. Kelson and Dane hug and kiss her alllll day long til she's crying. Sometimes we have to ground the children from kissing her. I guess it could be worse.

Grandma gave Landyn her first glitter toes while still in the hospital. That's how she rolls.

That's some sweet hair.

First pig tail

Rollin' over - right around 5 months

Landyn is an extremely good baby...which really works for me. She's super smiley and kind of just hangs out all day. She'll start to grunt if she's hungry or bored, but other than that she's pretty content.

Baby girl wears 18 month clothes now and weighs 22 lbs which means she will be in her infant carrier for about another week. I'm dreading putting her in a big car seat because she can't sit up by herself yet, so shopping will be exceptionally unfun. And the car conks her out, so I'll have to wake her up and take her inside now. Such is the life of a chubby baby.

When Landyn was a couple days old she would really flip her neck back. I didn't think much of it though because she was so new and floppy. After a few weeks it wasn't getting any better. My sister mentioned it looked like torticollis and we found out a few weeks later that it was.

Her head was likely bent a little weird when I was pregnant and her neck muscles grew longer on one side than the other. It's pretty common apparently, but luckily Lauren pointed it out to us or we probably wouldn't have noticed for awhile. Landyn went to physical therapy for a couple months and now she's almost all better.

This girl is so easy and happy. Jeremy and I usually argue over who gets to hold her when she falls asleep. Not so much over who gets to change her diapers though. She looks so much like Brynlie's baby pictures and so far acts just like Bryn too. I'm dying to see what her hair does and dreading for her to get any older.