38 weeks

Here I am at 38 weeks. The c-section is scheduled for Tues Jan 20 at 330pm.

Take care,

Netty

still waiting again

Well the Dr just sent me home and scheduled me for a c-section on Tuesday Jan 20Th at 330 pm pacific time. I feel a little scared as I have not had a c-section before. Dan's job got changed so this is good he doesn't go to Utah until the end of next week so that is good at least he will be here when the twins are born.

I felt a little frustrated because they kept telling me full term for twins is 36 weeks, but the Dr said they couldn't do anything until I was 38 weeks which I will be on Sunday. I almost feel like they are treating me like a single baby and not twins. I was told that the twins are weighting in at 7 lbs, which if that is tree the preemie cloths that I got at my baby shower most likely won't fit.

Well I will post sometime after the twins are born.

Netty

Still Waiting

Well I am 37 weeks along right now I will be 38 on Sunday. We had an ultrasound done yesterday and baby A is still breached so when we see the Dr today we will be setting a c-section. After the drive home from my appointment yesterday I have hardly been able to walk. I have a feeling that when we go to the Dr's today that they will send us over to the hospital next door and get this over with. I don't have regular contractions, but I have been having some contractions over the last 2 days. I am hoping to have the babies by Saturday night as Dan leaves out of town Sunday morning to fly to Utah for a job Monday and won't be back until Monday night.

We had a good Christmas. We got up and had breakfast and then we got my parents on the web cam and they got to see the kids open their gifts. They have loved playing with the kitchen set that I had gotten for them. If they had gotten nothing else for Christmas they would have been happy. My parents then drove from Kenniwick WA that afternoon and I finally got to see them. I saw each of them separately this summer, but I hadn't seen both of them together since they had come to WI 17 months ago for the baby blessing of Jennilyn. They stayed for a few days and then they came back with my aunt Peggy and her girls for a baby shower that my sister in law did for me. My mom has stayed to help with the kids and be here when the twins are born. I really appreciate her help. My dad went to Utah with Grandma and Grandpa and won't be back until the end of January so my mom is staying until then. I feel so lucky to have her come to stay so long.

Well hopefully we will be posting some pictures of the twins really soon.
Until then.
Netty

Here I am at 30 weeks!

All right now I am 32 weeks, but here is a picture of me at 30 weeks on Thanksgiving Day.

Doing to much!

Well today I learned what it is like to do to much and feel the pain for it later. My mother-in-law and I went to do some arrends and get a few grocyers and even though we were only gone for about 2 1/2 hours I was feeling the pain with the twins by the time we got to the car at Walmart. As a result I stayed off my feet the rest of the day and she took care of the kids until Dan got home. She also made dinner for all of us so that I wouldn't have to be on my feet again. I have found it is easier to go upstairs and stay up there for a while rather then going up and down all day. This morning knowing I was going out after the kids had breakfest, when I came down to get dressed, I got the things I knew I would need for the kids and I took them back upstaires with me so that I could avoid going up and down the stairs. I think it helps to try and plan a little that way. The kids were good today which helped a lot while we were doing our shopping. Now if they can just be good fo my appointments for the rest of the week as I am not fitting behind the steering wheel very well, my sweet mother-in-law is driving me everywhere.

Until next time.
Netty

Well I am an Aunt once again. My sister Wendy just had her first child, a boy born at 345pm today Nov 9, 2008. They named him Jack Riley Norman. He was 7 lbs 12 oz and 20 in long. I haven't seen pictures of him yet, but I can't wait. Coming from a family of all girls it is funny that all of us have had boys for our first baby. I am excited for her and wish her the best of luck.

Netty

Update

Update!

Well we had another ultrasound yesturday. Everything is still looking good.

We had another 3-d picture done, but baby "b" wouldn't wasn't in the right position to get "a" picture so here is baby a's picture.

People have been asking if we have names picked out. Yes we do

Ruth Lois and Irene Marlyn. These are family names and we thought it would be great to honor our grandmother's and mother's in this way. Ruth is acutally my Grandma Dillon's middle name, but since we didn't want to do double naming (My sister shares the same first name as my grandmother) as has happened alot on Dan's side, even I share the same first name as one of his sisters and we are the same age. Lois is after my Grandma Alcorn, Irene is the first name of both of Dan's Grandmother's and Marlyn is my mom's name. We liked how the names sounded together even though people have told us they are so old fashion.

Well that is it for today.

Netty

I Voted!

Well it is the day after elections and as I have watched the results this morning, I fell that our nation will never be the same for our kids as it was for us growing up. I did vote last week as Washington state does all voting by mail. No long lines, no waiting with kids or taking turns no worrying about the polls closing. You just had to have you ballot in the mail by 8pm last night. Well we mailed ours out last week.

I am glad that I voted and had the chance to take part in the system that our great nation has set up and I hope that we never lose that freedom.

Netty

Twins!

Well here it is finally we have scanned in the pictures of the twins. 3-D.

It is amazing how technology has come to were we can see them this way before they are born. I didn't have this done with any of the other kids so this is neat.

Netty

Well we had a good Halloween. We took the kids to the mall and just walked around the first floor as the kids are still little we didn't see the point in doing both floors, but also we found out as we were getting ready to go to the mall that they were only doing the trick or treat until 7pm and it was almost 630pm before we got there as the kids took later then usuall naps.

This week Dillon became very interested in pirates as my mother-in-law was busy making two pirates costumes for two of her daughters. So on Thursday morning my mother-in-law got up and in 1 1/2 hrs made the pirates costume he wore to a play group on thursday and then trick-or-treating on Friday.

After we got done at the mall we went to Dan's sisters' house to trick or treat there and visit. Some of the pictures are of the kids with their aunts and their roommate Katie.

The kids had fun walking around the mall and holding our their buckets to get candy. So far I have hidden the candy and they haven't been begging for it.

Hope you all had a fun and safe Halloween.

Netty

Well it has been awhile since I last posted and I promise that I will do better.

Well since I last posted we have found out that we are having twin girls. Poor Dillon, he will have to be the lonely big brother with all those girls around.

Dillon and Jennilyn have been enjoying playing outside a lot right now and even run and get their shoes and bring them to us when they want to go out. Jennilyn is into saying bye-bye and waving to you all the time. She is a cutie. I will try and update some pictures this weekend when I have the laptop back. Dan is out of town again and I am using a different computer that dosen't have all my pictures on it.

We have another ultrasound this Friday to see how the twins are growing. Dan has had his first job with our new computer repair business that we have started. He even gets to go back this Saturday and do another job for the them that they requested. Hopefully we will continue to see more jobs come in.

Yesturday, I had a some vistors come see me. My great-Aunt Orba who lives down in Zillia, WA (4 hrs away) and her husband Nick, my grandfathers cousin Russell, and my great-great- aunt Elma who lives here in Spokane came to see me. Orba called and said she was in town and wanted to come and visit me and say hello. I was really greatful for the visit. It is nice to know that I have family willing to call and stop by when they are in town.

Well the day is a busy one for me so I better get going.

Netty

Hello,

Well it has been awhile since I last posted. We found out last week that we are pregnant with twins. So come January we will have 4 kids 3 years old and younger. I have also learned how to add the slideshow on this so check out some of the recent pictures of the kids from Jennilyn's 1st birthday last week.

Take care.
Netty

Jennilyn is walking now. She started recently when Netty had taken the kids to her grandparents (great-grandparents for our kids) for their wedding anniversary celebration. We had seen a few steps here and there before but not as a regular thing. Now she's walking most places. What is fun is that she'll stop to pick up her favorite blanket whenever it is nearby.

As for Dillon, he's talking a bit more. Still not a whole lot. Yet, he's been adding words here and there on a more frequent basis. He'll say "more" and hand you his sippee cup instead of just handing his cup up before you like he used to and expecting a refill. He also tries to singing along with some of the videos. Marsha was up this past week and had some alphabet video with her that Dillon would follow along with trying to draw his letters in the air like they directed. I wasn't surprised. One of his favorite DVDs is a Leap Frog video teaching the alphabet. Dillon also seems to enjoy having signs read to him off the doors at church with his usual "What is that?"

The long period of unemployment has come down to a terrible decision. Netty and I must move. My father will be helping us financially until I can get employ, so I expect he'll make sure I job hunt like it was a full-time job in itself complete with overtime, minus the overtime pay though. Anyways, our lease is up the end of this month and our landlord has someone else interested in renting the place. We've known this was happening so we got most of the stuff packed up already. Today, we'll finish packing up and get the rental truck. Tomorrow, we'll load the truck and on Wednesday we'll start the drive to my parents' home in Spokane, Washington. My dad figures it will quickly be cheaper than supporting our rent too by having us relocate there. Still, I was hoping to get one of the jobs I had an interview with so I would have been scrambling to find a place locally or in Iowa and going for perhaps a cheaper truck rental.

Thinking of the moving truck rental, ugh! Just three years ago we moved out here from Utah. We rented a moving truck for about eight hundred, not counting gas. I was expecting some inflation and the increased gas prices to hurt especially. Turns out that the cheapest rental truck we could find for the one-way trip is about thirteen hundred, not counting taxes or gas. Ouch! We had some saved up in anticipation of a move with all this job hunting, we just had no idea that it had gotten quite so expensive.

Jennilyn loves practicing her stair climbing. She has gotten good enough that she even climbed up the first step of a step ladder while we weren't paying attention. We had just looked away for a bit thinking nothing of her playing there. We knew Dillon could climb ladders so we had been careful watching him around any ladder, but now we know Jennilyn is upgrading her skills to ladders too. Maybe soon we'll be converting her crib (after we move) to a toddler bed.

Another surprise this past month is learning that Netty is pregnant again. That was not planned. I know what it takes to make a baby.... The details of our planning would probably qualify as too much information. Anyways, Netty had her first ultrasound to make sure it wasn't another tubal pregnancy. The doctor told us that she should get a second ultrasound this next month to confirm whether it is twins or not. I guess I could leap into the lead for kids among my siblings.

Well it has been a while since I last wrote. I have been busy packing as we are moving to Spokane, WA in 1 1/2 weeks. Dan is still unemployed so we are moving in with family until we can find a job. I think that maybe this is for the best, as we recently got a surpise that I am pregnant again. Due Feb 1, 2009. It will be nice to be living close to my mother in law when this happens. I am headed up to Floodwood, MN tomorrow until June 22nd to visit my husbands grandmother. We are also going up to help my in-laws paint grandma's house (of course I will be taking care of my two kids).

I have decided that I need to make a better effort of keeping this up, so I am going to try and do better.

Untill later.

Well we are into another week of job searching. Dan lost is job in Nov so it has been a long three months now.

Jennilyn is growing like a week. She is almost 19 lbs and can crawl and likes to eat what we are eating not the baby food. She also hates a bottle but likes a sippy cup (Go figure).

Dillon is a busy 2 year old who likes to play with his sister and loves to play with cars or play outside. He can't seem to understand that even though it looks nice outstide the -30 degree windchill factor outside makes it so he can't go out and play. We have had cold winter this year, but it is starting to finally warm up. Even though yesturday we had negative windchill factor here.

Dan has a job interview today, I hope it goes well.

Netty

Well we have had our little girl. Jennilyn Annette Burke was born Aug 16, 2007 @ 4:35 am. She weighed 9 lbs 1 oz and 22 inchs long. Dan was out of town and she came so quickly that he wouldn't have made it in time even if I could have gotten a hold of him. I got to the hospital at 11:10 pm on Wed and she was born 5 1/2 hrs later. She is a bundle of joy. I will write more later.

Well it has been a while since Dan and I have posted on this blog account, and since I have noticed that some of my friends have started using blogger I decided I better come back and start using it again.

Boy what an exciting year we have had since we last wrote. In Nov we found out we were excepting our 2nd child. We are due any day now. We do not know what we are having since the baby wouldn't cooperate with us.

In July we decided to move a little closer to work and family and church, so it is nice to live closer to everything that we enjoy.

We will keep you posted on when the new little one arrives.

Netty

Dillon's 1st Birthday

 

It has been about a month since the last entry into this blog. As you can see here, we've started introducing Dillon to books. He likes to stick them in his mouth of course. We really ought to thank whoever started the children's cardboard books. They stand up to his taste testing much better than our church magazines that he has sampled too. I have been reading the stories as I flip the pages in hopes that eventually he might make the connection that there is more there than just different pictures on the different pages.

It was entertaining this morning when we shared our pancake breakfast with Dillon. I ran out of pancakes on my plate and Dillon started screaming because he wasn't getting his steady supply of pancake. Fortunately, we had some more. He just didn't understand that dad wasn't abandoning him to pancake oblivion. I was restocking. Dillon enjoyed it.

Later, as my wife took a neighbor to work, I enjoyed some time watching Dillon as he slept. That is when he is real easy to watch. Cute. Quiet. Low maintaince. Just stay quiet enough not to wake him. Since he'll sleep through the washing machine and TV, it really is just a matter of not laughing mostly. He still wakes up easily when he hears laughter. At least, he seems to do so when I am around. It is cute to watch him wake up and look around like he's trying to find what he missed out on. Still, he needs his sleep or he ends up cranky. Now, if he would just learn that he will have time to explore the world after his nap too, and he'll enjoy it more without being cranky. Dillon puts a real struggle sometimes about going to sleep. It's as if he has to experience and see more yet before he sleep steals him away.

Well, my wife and I stayed up late last night. I am staying with her over at the neighbors' as she babysits their little boy.