Sunday, November 28, 2010

Baby Magleby #2 on the way!

Well, that pretty much says it all, we're expecting Baby Magleby #2!! Our Due date is June 21, 2011 and we cannot be more excited!! We told Zach right away as soon as we found out because we figured it would take him the entire 9 months to get used to the idea... as most of you know he is extremely leary of babies... he doesn't know what to make of them especially the crying part... he has very sensitive hearing as it is, and is very emotional so when the crying goes on and on it really upsets him. We're hoping that since they baby is ours, and will be here 24/7 he will get used to it, and it won't bother him so much. He seems to be getting excited about the idea.

Down to the nitty gritty... so in hopes of not repeating what happened with Zach's premature birth we've set up a pretty good plan with my OB. He was FANTASTIC at listening to my list of things that I've researched over the last 4 years and wanted to try. He mentioned Incompetent Cervix right off the bat which I have to say was a bit of a relief... because once you know what it is you know what you can do to prevent it... not knowing is the hardest part!! So that being said here is our plan to keep this lil one in here as long as is humanly possible:

1) A Cervical Cerclage. We'll be going in a few weeks to have one placed (once finals are over!). Basically in the case of Incompetent Cervix the cervix can't hold the pressure of the growing baby and it gradually begins opening up and most of the time you don't know it until it's too late. So the purpose of the cerclage is that they sew the cervix shut and (if we make it that long!) they remove it at 37 weeks. In the event where it is placed as a preventative measure rather than a rescue measure (once you've started dilating) it has an 85-90% success rate (success is counted as making it to 37 weeks and beyond).

2) 17p (alpha hydroxyprogesterone) shots. I'll be doing these once a week from weeks 16-36. These are found to be very helpful in pregnancies after preterm births of preventing subsequent preterm births. This was the main thing that I have researched over the last 4 years as the Dr's had previously said no to Incompetent Cervix. I cant even tell you how many case studies, message boards and other websites I've researched this one to death on. I was so excited as soon as my Dr said yes before I even finished talking about it. He said that he has had a lot of good experience with it and was going to recommend it!

I'm feeling very positive about this, and have very good feelings (as well does my Dr) about this pregnancy going farther than we did with Zachary. We go in in a few weeks for an ultrasound which we are SO excited about... I suppose the one good side to a High Risk pregnancy is all the extra ultrasounds, lol. So we'll keep you posted!!

Thanksgiving pictures!

Zach playing with Reighlynn


Making some yummy birthday pizza's
Zach was really excited for all the cheese!
Singing happy birthday to Joe!

Grandpa trying to sneak a piece of Zach's cinnamon rolls... he wasnt having any of that!!

Nathan & Katie

Thanksgiving 2010!

This year for Thanksgiving we made a super quick trip down to California to have Thanksgiving with my family!! It was so much fun! We flew in Thursday morning, (which was also Joe's birthday) and made it home in time for lunch, got to see JT & Kasaundra and their cute lil twins and Nathan & Katie with Reighlynn which was so fun! We had a relaxing afternoon and had fun hanging out with the fam!

That night, in honor of Joe's Birthday, we made homemade pizza's and had some yummy cake. Zach loved the cake and managed to eat most of Joe's piece! :) The next day we celebrated Thanksgiving, having everyone there except for Stephen & Lacie and Anderson (we missed you guys!). There was lots of yummy turkey... yummy mashed potatoes... yummy stuffing and corn... all the amazingly yummy traditional Thanksgiving yummyness!! Topping it all off with of course the pumpkin pie and chocolate pie :)

All in all it was a perfect trip down, we got to see lots of family, do lots of relaxing, and feel plenty rejuvenated! I love trips like that, where you don't need a vacation afterwards to recover from your vacation!, lol.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Shutterfly!!

first off let me say how much I LOVE shutterfly!! I love that they have so many wonderful things to choose from. We've made a photobook of Zach's NICU stay with them, and it turned out so perfectly!! We also made a small soft copy 5x7 size photobook of Zach's first trips to Disneyland and he loves looking through it and pointing out all of the fun things we did there, and the fun Characters he got to meet.

Pictures capture so many of our favorite memories, it can take you right back to that very moment, and is something we treasure so much in our family, pictures mean so much to us. Being able to use a site like Shutterfly really helps to get some memories organized now that I am SO far behind on scrapbooking.... I am really considering just making Zach's baby book on here, since clearly I haven't worked on it since he was about 4 months old.

This year we are going to be doing our Christmas cards through Shutterfly, our first time using them for this and I am so excited!! They have SO many cute designs to choose from my favorite being this one!! http://http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/cards-stationery/cool-peppermint-dots-christmas-5x7-folded-card?sortType=1&storeNode=93476

This is also another cute one: http://http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/cards-stationery/snow-pals-christmas-card?sortType=1&storeNode=93476


They also have really cute calendars which work as great presents for say Grandparents, or even for yourself!! http://http://www.shutterfly.com/calendars/wall-calendars


If you're interested in trying Shutterfly this year for you Holiday Cards then you're in luck!!
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Saturday, November 6, 2010

Halloween 2010!!

Well, our Halloween week this year was crazy busy to say the least!! :) Tuesday night we went to The Pumpkin Patch so Zach could pick out his pumpkin... as always he had a blast looking at all the different pumpkins until he found the right one!! :)



Thursday afternoon we made our yearly Halloween costume trip to take Zach into Grandpa Magleby's work. Zach had a blast riding the elevator up and then was so excited to see Grandpa and everyone in the office was excited to see him! They were all charmed by his cuteness & offered him candy which he quickly accepted!! I'm so bummed I forgot to take pictures while we were there!! :(
Then Friday night we went to our Ward Trunk or Treat which was a little crazy, a little crowded, but Zach had a lot of fun playing the different games to get his candy prizes :) He then LOVED the cake walk, where he got a cupcake. We didn't get too many pictures since it was so crowded, but we did manage to get one of War Machine with his cupcake :)
Saturday night we went over to Grandma & Grandpa Magleby's house to go trick-or-treating around the neighborhood :) As per tradition JT & Kasaundra came with us and for the first time the twins got to go trick-or-treating too!! They were such cute lil' skunks!! So here is everyone who dressed up in their Halloween costumes: Delilah the skunk, Kasaundra as the lady from Bones, Zach as War Machine, Linda as Spider-Grandma, JT as the guy from Bones, and Porter the skunk!
After we finished Trick-or-Treating Zach got to call Uncle Dan and they chatted it up for a bit, and Uncle Dan read him a book which he sure enjoyed!
Linda tickling Porter with her cape, he loved it!!

Overall it was such a fun week and Zach was really into trick-or-treating this year. Every house we left he would hold up his bucket and say "I got another candy!!!" like everytime it was such an exciting surprise to get another one!!