Khloe's 1st Dr's Appt

Khloe had her 1st Dr.'s appt. on Monday 4/19. Paul had to work so my mom went with us. Which was nice since this was our first attempt to leave the house since we came home from the hospital. She did wonderful. Her pediatrician's name is Dr Lori Desoutter and so far we love her. She tested her reflexes, checked her ears, nose and throat and her skin color to make sure she did not have jaundice. She weighed in at 8 lbs 11.6 oz so she has gained a little since she was born at 8 lbs 11.3 oz. Dr. Lori was very pleased to hear that Khloe is eating on most feedings 4oz and sleeping on average about 4 hours (sometimes 5 hours) between each feeding. ( I have been told by my brother Brock that I have hit the jack pot with Khloe that this is definitely not normal) Dr Lori also agreed that I should be so thankful that Khloe is such a good sleeper and eater. That seems so funny to me as Paul and I both LOVE to eat and sleep....seems like the apple has not fallen too far from the tree, huh?

I promised Grandma Pat that I would take pictures of Khloe's hand's and feet so she could see every detail about our little precious angel as Grandma Pat lives so far away and will unfortunately miss out on these tiny little treasures...so here you go Grandma Pat. Hope you all enjoy them as well.

Khloe Sylvia Muriuki

Our Little Khloe has finally arrived! She came on Monday April 12th at 5:26pm. She weighed in at 8lbs and 11.3 oz and is 21.1 inches long! Wow! What an amazing feeling it is to have our little girl finally here. Julie and I have officially entered into the world of parenthood!

The labor took about 11 and a half hours as we had to induce on Monday morning and Julie was a rock-star mom through the whole process! She really did whatever it took to get her here naturally. We were worried for a moment that we might had to have a cesarean because she is such a big baby. Well.... you know Julie... a true Vaughters... When she heard that she was even more determined to push as hard as she needed to to have her naturally! Push she did! Out came our little girl in about 26 minutes!

Enough about us! Baby Khloe is just as cute as can be !We are still trying to figure out who she looks like more - I think there is a good combination of both of us (duh !) She definitely has Julies chin and ears, and she has my nose and and eye shape. He eyes are a bluish green right now so it will be interesting to see what color they will end up. She has been such a good eater, she literally attacks the bottle when we give it to her and eats about 4oz each sitting every three hours. She must have gotten that from me! So far far she has been healthy - we were worried that she may have a little jaundice but it appears to have gone away now. As expected she has been sleeping a lot although last night we had our first melt down experience - don't know why, but she finally got to sleep about 3:30am, maybe she was testing out her vocal cords lol! Poor little princess, it was breaking our hearts to hear her cry so hard. Today she is sleeping in her play pen and soaking up some sun by the window - she does love to sun tan just like her ma! She seems to sleep so deeply when she there!

Well that is the update so far everyone! We'll keep you all posted in the weeks, and months to come! Enjoy her pictures!

Dr. Visit 3/31/10

Ok so I had a Dr appt yesterday and they wanted to do an ultrasound to see how big Ms Khloe was going to be so during the ultrasound the technician starts to giggle ans says "oh yeah I can already see she will be a big baby" I asked her why she said that and her reply was " I can see her fat rolls on her neck" We both just laughed and said how cute that was to think about. i can not wait to see her fat little neck, wrists, and I'm sure legs. That is so precious when they're so little. Then she said she was measuring 7.3 lbs to 8.15 lbs (give or take a lb) So basically she could be 6.3 lbs up to 9.15 lbs....isn't that what all babies are at this point?? I am so confused!! So then I waited to see my actual Dr and he examined me and said I was still only 1 cm & 60% effaced (sp?) which sounds good. He wants to see me agin next Wednesday 4/7 if she has not come by then and talk about scheduling me to be induced. I can be induced any day after 4/9 (39 weeks) he is worried that she will be too big if we wait any longer.

I'm hoping the next time I update this blog I will have some pictures of baby Khloe and her fat little neck to add to the blog...I know that's really all everyone cares about anyway, LOL! :)

Lots of Love!
~Julie~

Update on Dr's visit and Maxx's surgery

Ok so now that I am having to go to the Dr's office every single week now. My last appt was on Tuesday 3/23/10 with a Dr. Garcia who is one of the Dr's in the group that I have not met yet. Very nice, sweet man I like him a lot. My blood pressure is a little high so he is going to be watching it closely, he made the comment "oh wow we are going to have a big baby" and of course my rely was, no Dr. I think I am just really fat. He smiled and politely said no you are measuring very large. He says my uterus is measuring 40 cm and I should only be measuring 36 or 37. Last week the midwife who measured me said I was right at 35 cm so who is correct? He ordered me to have an ultrasound done next Wednesday so we can see an approximate weight for Khloe so we won't have any surprises....what does that mean? I'm not too clear, isn't every baby's weight a surprise?? Oh well I guess we will see next week. Also I am 1 cm dialated (sp?) and my lining has started to thin out. He tell me I was a certian % effaced (sp?) but I have forgotten the % now because at the same time he was doing a vaginal exam and said "oh ok here is her head", I said wow you can actually feel her head? "Yep I am touching her head"....CRAZY!! I was so excited that I forgot the other details he said!!

Ok so our little "boy" Maxx had his eye surgery on Wednesday 3/25 to repair his "cherry eye" in the left eye. It was very scary for us we had to drop him off early in the morning and he was going to be sedated. When we went to pick him up at the animal hospital they had schave the front of one of his legs about 2-3 inches and you could see 2 red dots where they had his IV in him, it was so painful to look at. (Oh yeah one more detail when I dropped him off at the hospital in the morning he was horrible in the car, wouldn't sit down wouldn't listen, was so loud with this horrible loud noise he makes in the car, he was sooooo excited to be going for a car ride even though we both knew he should not be as excited as he was especially since he was going to have major surgery done) When they brought him out we both leaned down to pet him and he just wimpered with his huge cone around his neck as if to say "Please take me out of here, I promise I will be good in the car next time" It broke our hearts to see him so weak and miserable. He was so lathargic after we got him home he had no energy to even jump on the couch.

Couples baby shower...

Saturday March 6th we had our baby shower. Our friend Carmen Powell threw the shower for us and did a FABULOUS job!!! It was held at the club house of a very very nice apartment home community that is managed by the same management company Paul works for. It was perfect. We had about 40+ guest show up. The camera we used to take pictures with was malfunctioning that day so we did not get any pictures of the actual building so I will try and describe it. When you first walked in there were about 4 tables around the room with large leather chairs around them for seating, in the middle was a large couch with 2 large over stuffed chairs and a coffee table (we opened our presents here) Against the back wall was 1 large counter space with a refrigerator and ice machine and sink. This is where Carmen had arraqnged all the food. We had very yummy looking food such as Rice Pilau, beef samosa's, fruit salad, grilled chicken, and beef stew and salad. Everybody seemed to rave over the food ( I actually didn't eat anything I was so busy talking, I kept trying to go make a plate but every time I started to I got stopped by someone to talk) Paul was very upset that I did not eat any of the food at my own baby shower, I did have 2 large pieces of cake thought...LOL! Ok back to the layout, there were 2 double doors that opened up out onto a beautiful brick patio area. There was a huge wall size fire place with more seating and a huge 1/2 circle brick wall with a built in bench for even more seating. Carmen and Penny did a wonderful job decorating inside and outside. They had mini vases along the brick wall with short pink roses and wrapped around each vase was a pink ribbon that said "It's a Girl" very elegant! My poor friend Carmen had a little trouble with the cake that day. She had ordered a cake in the beginning of the week and accidentally droppped it before it could get in the car. Poor thing shde ordered another one and thankfully they were able to have it ready in time for the shower....It was sooooo good and moist (Again I had 2 pieces, 1 for me and 1 for Khloe LOL)

We were so overwhelmed with the number of people who showed up for us and all of our wonderful thoughful gifts! We received so many beautiful clothes and well needed items from our registry plus gift cards which are so wonderful. Thank you so much to our wonderful friend Carmen for making this day so memorable, We love you very much!!

This was a sign that everybody was supposed to sign as they walked in.

Here are some of the baby's first books we received a wipe warmer, long sleeve onezies, cash and gift cards, Khloe's 1st piggy bank, a grooming kit and some other misc items.

Here are a few of her new outfits, the one on the left is so adorable and so unique we have not seen anything like it. We love all her new clothes!

Here is her princess potty training chair which plays a song when she "makes a deposit" it in it :), a elephant shaped humidifier, diaper genie, and a booster seat/high chair.

New pics of Khloe's room

Ok guys we have finally finished with Khloe's room. The crib has been put together finally....we had to wait about 2 months to receive the missing nuts and bolts for her crib. Our beautiful glider chair came in from Lazy boy which Paul's Mom so graciously purchased for us as her gift to us for the new baby, Thank you so much! My friend Carmen and I finished putting up the few decorations around the wall which Paul and I started last week. So let us know what you guys think! We love it, very girlie but not completely a baby room, she can grow into this room.

Dad & Linda were in town for Super Bowl

Dad and Linda came to visit yesterday evening and watched the super bowl with us. They were on their way back to Florida from their visit with Linda's mom, his sisters, and Paul and Ally in Memphis. Ally and Paul sent us so many cute baby clothes for Khloe which Julie got all organized and hung up! They also sent an awesome stroller and carrier too! We can't thank the two of them enough for all the wonderful things they have handed down to us!
What's worrisome is baby Khloe won't know where all the clothes came from and the expectation has been set! lol! The shopping seed will be planted! We're in trouble... lol! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who has helped start her wardrobe and all the other things she'll need!