"Addie's" Story

When your mentally set to have a baby, your ready to have a baby. That is how I was on Monday, July 20th. Ashlynn-Marie was sooooooooo excited she kept me up half the night before (2:30 am), and I was awake by 5:30. Paul and I made our little trek to the hospital at seven, and checked in. After being asked a million questions, getting hooked up to monitors and an IV (Which by the way was in my wrist, and hurt like the dickens!) we waited to be induced. The nurse assigned to me, checked to see how dialated I was (and I wasn't), but she was more concerned that the baby was still very high, and later to find out in a "Total Breech Presentation" (which she didn't tell us)!!!
My Dr. does his surgeries on Monday's and came up to see us in between one of them, bringing in with him an old, humongeous portable ultrasound machine. That is when we found out that the baby was sitting criss-cross applesauce in my tummy, and that to deliver I would have to have a C-Section. I freaked, litterally (I had a very good cry for about and hour)! I asked my Dr. if it were possible for the baby to flip, and he said it was, but asked what if it didn't. After a Blessing, we decided to go home and wait the week until my official due date to see if the baby would flip. I had a Dr's appointment on Tuesday the 21st and nothing had changed, but I had a good talk with my OB/GYN (I'm glad he is LDS, because it made it easier, because I knew he understood my need for guidance.) about my anxiety and concerns.
The week went on with nothing really happening. Wednesday morning I woke up at 3:30 due to some contractions, but they were more than five minutes apart, and went away by the time i fell back asleep at 5:30.
Saturday, we had a really layed back day. I didn't even take a shower until 5 o'clock when Paul told my his brother was coming over to see the kids and they were going to go to a movie. About 6:15 the "PAINS" started. Paul thought that I was pouting because he was going to a movie, but I told him I was having contractions- It didn't register in his brain that contractions=Labor!! He and Mark went to the movies and I timed contractions every 5 minutes, that lasted about a minute to a minute and a half each. It was coming up on 9 o'clock, and in less its a dire emergency I don't like to call people after 9. So I finally got the gumption up to call my Dr., and he said, "We'll then... what do you think you need to do?" I made him promise to do an ultrasound just to see how the baby was sitting. He agreed.
So as I'm rushing Ashlynn into the shower for her bath, I try calling the Parents house... NO Answer. I try mom's cell... NO Answer. I try dad's cell... No Answer. I try mom's cell again... NO Answer. I try Aimee's cell...No Answer. I try LeAnne's (a friend) cell... No Answer. By this time I'm bawling. Brennen and Ash are super excited that the baby is finally coming, and I can't get a hold of anybody. Mom calls on my cell, at the same time LeAnne does. Mom had run to Walmart to get a few things and dad didn't hear the phone ring up in the bedroom, because he wasn't feeling well. Dad came to get the kids; Brennen was so excited to have is very "first" sleep over at Papa's house. It made him feel like a big boy. Mom took me to the hospital, and I texted Paul to tell him that I would be there. When they got me situated in Labor triage, they checked the baby's heart rate, checked to see what I was dilated to (6), and we waited for the Dr. It didn't take long to decide they needed to stop the labor. Several nurses "checked" to see if they could tell if the baby had turned or not. They used the old monster ultrasound again. By the ultrasound, they could tell the baby was still breech, but couldn't find "it's" legs. The Dr. then used the ultrasound machine to see if he could deliver the baby breech or turn it. The machine was so grainy, they called down to the lab, to have a better machine brought up to check really quick. The baby was in the breech position that you can deliver the regular way, but he couldn't turn the baby, because I only had 3.1 % of the amniotic fluid left ( I don't even know when my water broke). So, we had to make a decision and fast. Mark and Paul had made it to the hospital by then (come to find out Aimee and Ryan had been in the same movie), and gave me another blessing. And we knew then that we had to go through with the C-Section. Because it was an emergency one, they had to call in a whole OR team from their homes to do it.
Dr. Freeman (you may recall a story earlier this year about a Brother at church that opened a door that Brenn ran into, Same Dr.) ended up being the ONCALL Peds, and most everyone else in the OR was LDS to, it was just funny. But the 8 attempts to get a Spinal were not.
Adelaide Tampas was born at 1:42 am on Sunday, July 26, 2009. She had a lot of fluid in her lungs, but Dr. Freeman was able to get it all out.
That surgery was a very weird experience. One that I hope not to endure again. We wouldn't trade our little Addie for anything.

Here they are

Grani Lani with the Tampas grandkids

The little red head

The proud aunt (I finally made it on the blog)

She's Finally Here!

Hey, this is Aimee. Just putting pictures on here for all to see of the beautiful Adelaide Tampas, or Addie for short. Sorry, no hyphen this time. Addie was born at 1:42 on July 26th by C.section. She is 6 pounds 1 oz and 19 and a half inches. It looks like she'll have blue eyes and reddish blond hair. Brennen is super excited that she looks like him.

Both Mom and baby are doing good. Lara is very sore and really tired, but overall she is doing good. I couldn't get the pictures to work so this is all you get for now. I'll try again tomorrow.

Baby Guess Poll

It's time to fill out the "guess the baby" chart! To Play- you need to pick a gender, date, time, weight, length, hair(if any), hair color and eye color!
Just hit comments,and tell me your choices!! Good Luck!!!

Primary Activity Day-Trip to the Boise Temple

Saturday didn't go the way I had envisioned it for months. But what ever does. I kept getting phone calls saying that my helpers were cancelling. So we woke up Sat. morning, got the kids in their Church clothes, and drove to the temple. When we got there, there was one other little girl waiting. Shortly their after, my second councilor showed up, and the Bishop and his wife. Another family with two little girls showed up, so we started. We talked about the importance of Temples and memories that we had of the Boise Temple. We were just getting ready to go over to the Temple grounds, when three more families showed up. There had been a traffic jam on the freeway, making it difficult to get to Boise.
When we went over to the Temple grounds, we talked about the special qualities that the Boise Temple has (thanks Uncle Mark!!!-He works for the church in the Boise Temple, and he gave us information sheets for the temple).
I hope the children remember the importance of the Temple when they make decisions in their life. I know for me, being able to watch the temple being built when I was little, saving money for it to be built, being able to go to the open house, and seeing my parents going to the Temple often made a big impact on me and my desire to be able to go to the Temple at an early age.

Dates, Shopping, Geese, and Vet's Memorial

On Saturday, Ash had a Papa date to play catch and batting practice. She is getting better. So while Ash was having her Papa Date with Papa Dave, Brennen and I went shopping. I really wanted some new tanks from Old Navy to wear under my shirts, but by the time we made it there, they only had Bronco Orange left. So we looked around for something for Paul for his birthday (since everything in his closet is Bronco colors!!!!!!!!!!!). People always talk about their little girls being clothes horses, Brennen could give them a run for their money. He kept picking up things in his size (they were cute clothes)that he liked. He was carrying around about $100 worth of clothes. In the end I told him he could pick one item. He picked a vintage looking batman shirt. (He slept with it clutched in his arms, he insisted on taking into church with him, and then wanted to change into the second we got out of church.)
Paul wanted to go on an adventure Saturday afternoon, and the kids wanted to feed the ducks, because granilani had a bunch of bread that was stale. We took the kids to the park that has always been good for feeding ducks for the past 27 years, but there was not even one single duck there. Ash was furious. So we went to a Park in Boise. There were a ton of Canadian Geese. They rushed the kids when they figured out that they had food. This freaked Brenn. The Geese were rather friendly. I wish I would have had my camera (I need to train Paul better in this aspect).
The park that we were at, had just had its playground refurbished, and the kids had a blast playing on it.
Ash has been asking for a long time to go so Great-Papa Hallberg's grave site at the Veteran's Memorial, so we took a nice little drive in the "Mountains". Brennen kept telling Paul to turn right, so that we could go further up the mountain.
It was a gorgeous clear day, so we could see the whole valley from up on top of the Vet's Memorial by the Flag. You can pick out familiar landmarks to help orientate where you were. We were all tired and hungry after our little jaunt around town. So we got a bit to eat. Needless to say Brennen fell asleep, and wouldn't wake up. He slept for 3 hours, and then was up until about 4 am. He was then very grouch at church.

Last Day of School for Ash

Today was Ashlynn's last day of the 2008-09 school year at ILC.

Today's festivities included a talent show....
Ash hula hooped while reading a book...TO HERSELF!! It was so funny. At home she can start by herself without help. I told her she need to read the book aloud. She was adamant that she didn't have to.

There was also a school wide Olympics, and BBQ. A fun time was had by all.

I also had a DR's appointment today. My blood pressure was elevated, but everything else looks fine.