Newborn Pictures

Thomas and I took these pictures of Wes when he was like a few days old. I love how they turned out! We didn't really know how to pose him haha, so I'm glad we got some decent ones. 

Hospital Pics and Video

Here's some pictures of our experience in the hospital with baby Wes :)

 These were once I had my epidural in... Once I wasn't in pain haha 

 Sweet, perfect boy 

 Skin to skin with a newborn is the best 

Thomas made this video from Wes' birth :) 

Wes Michael Manning

Born July 5th, 2015 (exactly 2 weeks before due date)
2:07 pm

7 lbs. 6 oz.

20 inches long.

My contractions started on Saturday night (the 4th of July) around 10 pm. We had a great 4th of July and ended it having a BBQ with our friends, going swimming and doing some fireworks. I had no clue I would be having a baby the next day haha. My contractions started and were uncomfortable but not very painful at all, and were about every 10 minutes apart. They weren't very consistent in length or how far apart they were, but they did keep coming. I got no sleep... I tried, but they were uncomfortable enough to keep me from sleeping. I laid in bed... was on my phone... bounced on the exercise ball... walked around the family room... it was a long night haha. Finally around 4:30 I woke up Thomas and said that they were getting closer together (3-4 minutes apart) and were pretty painful at this point, so I wanted to go in. I was hesitant because I didn't want to be turned away, but I was sick of just waiting at home. We got to the hospital and I was at a 1-1.5 cm and 70% effaced. So the same that I was at my appointment like 2 weeks before this. What the heck! I was so frustrated and bummed. We stayed for an hour and they monitored my contractions and the baby's heartbeat. She checked me after an hour and I hadn't progressed, so I was sent home :( Worst news! We went home and just hung out at home a while... I bounced on the ball and walked around. They progressed and were getting definitely more painful. Around 11 they were hard to walk through. Thomas went to get the camera and lenses from Stephen so we could film/take pictures at the hospital. I had my mother-in-law come get Jayne and pretty soon after Thomas got home we left to go back to the hospital. I was hesitant to go back because I did NOT want to be sent home again! But the contractions were 2-3 minutes apart and were intense. I felt lots of pressure and thought we needed to go in. The nurse checked me and to my surprise I was at a 6! No wonder I was in pain. I had dilated quite a bit at home! This was the best news :) I got to be admitted! They gave me my IV which took a while... and was not fun. I hate that feeling! The contractions were so painful at this point. And they were happening so often! It was NOT fun let me tell you ha. I was so excited to get my epidural but annoyed because it was taking forever! I finally got taken up to the delivery room and the guy pretty soon after gave me the epidural. I was having contractions during it... Which is so scary because you can't move while you're getting the epidural. I was sitting there and all of a sudden I was like "uhh... either my water just broke or I peed" haha. But yeah it was my water. Totally broke during a contraction while getting my epidural. Weird feeling! Finally the epidural kicked in after forever and I didn't feel any pain. Hooray! I was a different person haha. The nurse checked me and I was at a 7. This was around 1:00 I think. Thomas went to get lunch in the cafeteria at the hospital. Very soon after he left I felt a lot of pressure... I felt like I needed to push. I remembered that feeling with Jayne. I called the nurse in and she checked me and sure enough I was at a 10. It happened so quick! I hurried and called Thomas and told him he needed to come back. He was waiting for his chicken tenders to be done cooking haha. I told him to just try and hurry once he got them because I was going to push very soon. With Jayne it was mostly just me, Thomas and the nurse for almost the whole birth. The doctor came in only for the last few minutes. This time, since Jayne was born under 30 minutes, the doctor was in there the whole time. Oh, so my obgyn is Dr. Huish. Well, he was out of town. He was on his way home from California ha. So the doctor that delivered Wes is named Dr. Bickley. He was AWESOME! I really felt good about him delivering him. I trusted him and didn't have any problems with it. I was a little sad that Dr. Huish couldn't be there, but Dr. Bickley was great. It was an incredible experience. The doctor and nurses were so relaxed. I loved the feeling in the room. The nurses and doctor knew this was my second so they were just like ok you know what to do, let's do this! They let me push when I felt like I needed to push. Four sets of pushes and he was out! It was so quick! I didn't have an episiotomy this time (I did with Jayne) but I had a tiny tear. The doctor stitched it up but said it would have been fine if he didn't. They handed him to me right away, but only for a second because they had to take him and get stuff out of his mouth. It took him what seemed like forever to cry. Finally he did and that was so good to hear :) They handed him to me and I breastfed him very soon after I think. I wish I could remember every tiny detail. It was such a great experience. It's so easy to forget the pain once you are holding your precious baby in your arms haha.
We got moved to a recovery room soon after. It was just me, Thomas and Wes for a while which was nice :) We had some family come visit that night and the next morning and afternoon. Taryn, my parents, Thomas' parents (with Jayne), Carrie, and my grandma came and visited. Dr. Huish even stopped by the morning after he was born. He felt so bad and was so sad that he couldn't make it to deliver Wes. He is such a nice guy.
Jayne was so funny when she came in the hospital room. She didn't care much about Wes haha. I expected that. She's too young to understand that the baby is her brother and will always be with us. She cared more about the remote for the hospital bed... the graham crackers... etc. But she finally sat by me and gave Wes a kiss. It was so cute :)
We got to come home Monday later afternoon, around 4 or 4:30 I think it was. So just a little bit over 24 hours after Wes was born! It was quick. I could have stayed another night if I wanted. But I just wanted to get home...
I will be uploading the pictures from my phone soon and Thomas is making a video that I will post when it's done :) 

36 Weeks

I'm 36 weeks (as of Sunday)! I really can't believe how fast it has gone. It seems like I just found out I was pregnant. I went to the doctor today and I an 1.5 cm dilated and 70% effaced. Woo hoo! I'm progressing and that is always good to hear. I looked back at my blog and with Jayne at 36 weeks I was about the same dilation and 25% effaced. I had her 8 days early. Hopefully this little guy will come early on his own :) If not, the doctor talked to me about being induced at 39 weeks because of having gestational diabetes. I would rather go into labor on my own and not have to be induced, so we will see. I'm sure at 39 weeks though if I haven't had the baby yet I will want to be induced haha.

How far along? 36 weeks 2 days
Maternity clothes? For sure. 
Sleep: I've actually been sleeping pretty good as of lately. Not too bad! 
Best moment this week: Going to the doctor (both appointments) to find out my weight is good, baby is doing good, my blood pressure is good, and my blood sugar has been great :) 
Miss Anything? Eating cereal.... I only can have a tiny bit and I probably shouldn't even have a tiny bit because of the amount of carbs. 
Movement: Yep but it's slowing down as he is running out of room. Lots of little "bumps" though when he has hiccups which is quite often :) 
Food cravings: Carbs hahaha   
Anything making you queasy or sick: Nope  
Have you started to show yet: Of course 
Labor Signs: Braxton hicks occasionally and now I am sometimes having some legit contractions (hence why I'm dilated a little). I woke up in the night last night because I was having a pretty painful contraction. But I have only had a few and they don't last long.  
Wedding rings on or off? On 
Happy or Moody most of the time: I feel more moody this pregnant than with Jayne haha. Mostly on days when Jayne is being really naughty... 
Looking forward to: Having this baby in a few weeks! 

I won a photoshoot by a lady named Kimmie Carter :) We took these recently. Here are my favorites! 

  

April, May and June

I realized that I haven't blogged in a few months, so here is a long random post of pictures from the last while! 

Jayne is now almost 23 months. She will be 2 years old the end of next month on July 30th! So crazy! She is at SUCH a fun stage. A hard stage, but I love it. She cracks us up all the time! Here are some things about her:

*Sleeps like an angel. She goes down around 8pm and wakes up between 8-9am, sometimes even later (We've been spoiled with that.... I'm hoping that her brother is the same but watch he will probably be opposite haha) 

*Takes one nap a day around 1:30 usually.... at it's usually 2 hours long.

*Is pretty much in size 4 diapers... I'm using up the rest of the 3s. She wears mostly 24 month clothes or 2T, but she's skinny so she wears 12 month shorts haha. 

*Is very very extremely hyper haha. All the time. I think that's why she sleeps so much... She gets so worn out!! She never slows down!

*She loves to count! She can count from 1-10 perfectly now. Yay! 

*Loves to watch Barney (She says "Beeee!" instead of Barney haha)

*She knows some letters if you point and ask what they are. I can't remember how many or which ones, but she knows O and M for sure. It just depends on her mood if she will say them or not haha. 

*When you point and ask what shape it is, she knows circle, oval, triangle, star and heart

*Lately her favorite toys have been her stuffed animals and baby dolls. She carries them all around and puts them to bed haha

*She does this super cute chasse/gallop around the house when she's really happy and excited. It's adorable!

*Talks NONSTOP. She is such a chatterbox! She says tons of words... But some only I can decipher because they don't really sound like the real word haha. For example, yogurt is nummy and cracker is pa. I have no clue why. It's a challenge trying to figure out what she's saying quite a bit of the time, but I'm surprised how much I understand.

*She loves to sing songs. Some songs she knows and will sing randomly by herself are I am a Child of God (I sing it to her every night before bed), Let it Go, Oh Mister Sun, the ABC's (she says the whole alphabet pretty good now!), The Wheels on the Bus, I Love You song from Barney (that's currently her favorite... She sings it all the time! So sweet), A Tisket a Tasket, and more I can't think of. 

*Loves to play with cousins and friends

*Is good at giving hugs and kisses 

*Loves to play with shoes and loves her princess nightgown

*She is obsessed with light switches

*LOVES to wash her hands because of Barney haha. She constantly asks if she can wash her hands

*She is just a silly girl who makes us so happy! Even though she is naughty sometimes and drives us crazy haha 

This was her idea.... cups for shoes haha 

5 babies born this year on the Manning side! 

She loves to see the horses when we go on walks! Too bad it's too hot to go on walks now dangit... 

Little stinker! She loves to pull her ponytail out. 

Painting with pudding! 

She figured out it tasted yummy haha. 

Little diva. She loves to play in the little pool. Not sit in it though... Just stand. 

Baby bump! And Jayne photobombing :) 

Oh my haha 

She still LOVES to read books. 

She discovered that it's fun to sit on top of the couch and pull the curtains... grr 

Kid's Club! 

New car seat! She loves it 

Jayne loves when McKayli and Holly come over! They are so sweet to her. 

I think this was a time I had to wake her up in the morning to go somewhere. She looks so tired hahaha 

We celebrated our 3rd anniversary on April 27th :) We went to Texas Roadhouse! Yum :) 

The Children's Museum in Phoenix is so fun! Jayne had a blast. 

One of my absolute favorite low carb meals that I make all the time... chicken stir fry with this yummy bankok peanut sauce. Mmmm 

She likes to hide behind the couch and curtains haha 

We went to the cabin with my parents. Jayne loved it! The weather was SO nice. 

We love Target... and go very often haha 

Her crazy hair haha. And she insisted on wearing ALL the necklaces, not just one haha 

My friend Jannae and I! She was 37 weeks in this picture and I think I was like 29 weeks maybe? 

Another favorite meal.... Green beans, red potatoes and chicken with zesty italian and butter on top. Mmm

She was a lucky girl and got an icee at Target... 

She loves to color with markers...

And it usually ends up on her face of course ha

Sneaky picture with daddy in the background :)

Reading to brother... :)

She found a new spot to read haha 

Amazing Jake's was so fun! 

Yummy cookies at Kids Club 

No more park days... Boo summer 

Her outfit totally reminds me of something that I would wear when I was her age. 

I went to Wendy's and asked for my chicken sandwich to be wrapped in lettuce. This is what they gave me haha. Not even wrapped at all, and mayonnaise on the side. 

Daniel and Jannae's baby girl Rosilyn is so adorable! 

Playdate with Sadie and Taymar! 

Cousin Scarlett!

I'm obsessed with this picture of Jayne and Jason! Their faces are the cutest!!!! 

I told her to smile... instead she growled at me hahaha 

Memorial Day! 

The library! 

Yummy banana pancakes 

We went and got free lunch at Robson Elementary one day (they do it in the summer). Jayne was so excited about her star shaped tater tots haha 

Donelle, Nick, Payton and Beck came to visit! We loved having them here! Jayne and Pay had so much fun together, Lots of fighting happened haha.... but it was so cute seeing them together. 

She went through a phase for a while when she hated baths... now she loves them again! YAY

My mom and sister threw me a baby shower :) It was so fun! Lots of people came and spoiled my little guy, we had delicious food, and it was a fun party! 

Yay for diapers and wipes! 

My belly made a nice seat for Beck haha 

Smores dip.... Ohhhhh myyyyy goooosshhhh

Crandell cousins! (Missing Landon and Elliot)

My new nephew Clark! He was born 10 weeks early and was 3 lbs 1 oz. He is doing well though! 

Papa was teaching them how to play t-ball. So adorable 

I love how curly her hair is when it's wet! 

Jayne and her new baby cousin Jacob. She was being so sweet to him and kept randomly going and kissing his toes :)

Girl's Camp! woo hoo! It was a blast. I'm so glad I could go, even being almost 33 weeks pregnant! 

One of the other leaders (Susette) was amazing and brought this reclining chair for me haha. it was the best 

I'm sure I have a picture with this same statue from the library. Jayne was saying hi and waving to him 

Me and Kari and our girls went to the new pool by Mesa High!