She Has Arrived

Introducing

Emma Rose Yancey
December 12, 2008

8:38pm

6lbs 15oz

19 1/4"

it was a friday (4 weeks ago) and a full moon. i heard someone say that it was the closest the moon has ever been to the earth. it was beautiful and looked so huge. i had begun going to see my midwife for weekly checkups just the week before. So this check up was no different. They checked my weight (always hate that part), my blood pressure (which is always good, lets hope to keep it that way) and when she went to check my cervix she said i was 2cm and about 60% effaced. she said "would you like me to stretch you to 3cm" i was like sure why not, what's it going to hurt. (besides me). So she did and I went home excited because we had also decided that if i had not had her by the 21st then she was going to induce me. well that turned out to be unnecessary. I went home and by 11am i was having contractions, but the funny thing was i didn't believe they were the real thing. i had been having braxton hicks contractions for a while and they had been somewhat painful. so i started timing them and they weren't consistant. they were about 5 mins then 11 mins and so on. so they say if you get up and move around and still are having them then they probley the real thing, so i got up, took a shower and did some laundry, dishes and i was working that day. and they were still there. but with madison i was having them every 5 mins they were consistant and they lastedfor 12 hours before i went to the hospital. so i called my midwife and asked if i could come in for her to check me to see if it was the real thing. see i needed to know so i could call my in-laws to come and watch madison while we went to the hospital. i was so convinced that they weren't the real thing (i mean it was 10 days before my due date and i was 6 days late with madison). our friend cayce took me to the doctors (since i really didn't need to drive) and vic was on his way to get madison from daycare and it was about 30 mins to the doctors office. so she checked me again and said i was 3cm and she agreed that i was in early labor. well i thought "i have plenty of time" so vic came and picked me up from the doctors office and we went home. i needed to finish packing my bag and he needed to get the camera, but we needed to wait until vic's parents got there to watch madison, but i ended up not waiting that long. cayce works at CMC-Pinville where i delivered emma. she called to say that we really needed to get on the road b/c there was lot of traffic. it ended up taking us about 40 mins to get to the hospital (that was around 8pm). They put me in a triage room to access me. funny thing was that somewhere there was a miscommunication, they thought that i was coming in the rule out that i was in labor (at this point i knew i was in labor, but i still thought that i had a long way to go). they checked me and i was still at 3cm, they were thinking about letting me go home. good thing they didn't because emma arrived at 8:48pm. less then an hour after i had arrived she was here. i couldn't believe it. it all happened so fast, vic says i only pushed maybe one time and this time i was screaming for an epidural. (no time) when my midwife checked me again i was at 7cm and while she was still checking me i went to 9cm and pushed emma out. i couldn't believe how quickly it all happened. But, i think the most interesting part is that when vic got up that morning and left for work he gave me a kiss and he said the my belly, "ok, i'm ready to meet you" and i said "well, you might get your wish today." the only reason i said that was because i had been up the night before with some contractions (what i thought was braxton hicks) i don't know why i said that but it came true. emma was born on my cousin Joshua's 16th Birthday. I called him that morning to say happy birthday and i told him i was sorry but it didn't look like i was going to have her on his birthday. see my cousins were hoping that she would be born on one of their birthday's (rachel's being the 26th). so now it is even easier to remember the girls birthday's madison was born 2.2 and emma was born 12.12. but now it's been a month, and it has been a rough month. it has been a very big adjustment to having two children. more on that in a later blog.

The Town Home...finally

For Sale
1432 Grantland Place

Greensboro

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Finally.......

37 weeks

with 3 weeks to go we FINALLY have somewhere for our newest member to sleep. since this house is really only a two bedroom with an office, she will have to share a bedroom with us for now. which is fine with me b/c it makes it easier with feedings every 3 hours. plus it makes it easier to stare at her as i'm sure to do.

The Family Christmas Tree

isn't it beautiful

coming soon......

stockings and presents under the tree

Madison's Purple Christmas Tree

Madison is not one to sleep in the dark, and since halloween has long since passed (and I was ready to get rid of the glowing pumpkin in her room, vic and I decided that maybe a small Christmas Tree would help. And since is room is covered in everything purple, a purple Christmas Tree was only fitting. Once we started putting up the big tree she started taking the ornaments to her room and putting them on her tree. I must admit it's really beautiful at night.

The Yancey's First Thanksgiving in Belmont

After, 13 weeks of driving back and forth to greensboro to finish up our townhome, so we can put it on the market, we decided to stay in Belmont for Thanksgiving. (plus I just wasn't up for it, after all I am having a baby in 4 weeks). It was a wonderful day. We slept in until 9am....yeah. madison climbed into bed with us and we watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. (other then the Rose Bowl Parade it's my favorite). It was a wonderful morning with my family. then I got up and started doing a little cleaning (since we haven't been home on a weekend in 2 months, the house was pretty messy) the turkey went in and around 3 I started cooking. i know i made too much but it was oh so good. what took me 4 hours to make we destroyed in 30 mins. But i love left overs. then we put up our christmas tree (I stole this tradition from the walden's). In the end it was a fantastic thanksgiving, stress free.

the bird

vic eating and cutting

the meal....yum

(i made too much)

from left to right

cranberry apple, mac and cheese, broccoli casserole, stuffing and turkey

madison

eating thanksgiving dinner

(still in her pj's)

42 days

so i haven't posted anything new since october. i've been a little busy. when i looked at my blog this morning it says that i have 42 days until baby #2 is due. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
trying not to freak out. where has the time gone? oh yeah all my time has been spend sick, gallbladder surgery, and working on the townhome (which by the way i'm so tired of looking at) i'm 34 weeks today. so for everyone you need to get on the ball with your christmas shopping b/c that means it's only 6 weeks until christmas. i can't believe that i might have a christmas baby. it's exciting and stressful all at the same time. saturday i had my baby shower and it was so great. my aunt and cousin are the best. i had a fantastic time. after the 22nd i will really start focusing on getting the house ready for our new arrival. (princess #2). it will be interested to see how madison handles it all. so far she seems really excited. i'm sure the next post won't be until after the baby comes.

October 2, 2000

This is a portion of a video that I created in Dec 07 for my grandparents. At the time we didn't know what 2008 was going to look like for them. They had just been put into a nursing home and I wanted to celebrate their life and to show my appreciation for them, after all I wouldn't be here without them. This is the portion that is my family, my mom (their daughter), my dad and me. I'm posting this because Thursday will be 8 years she's she passed away. And I think the song is expresses just how I feel. I love looking at pictures of my mom, I see myself. Vic says I look just like her. I'm even beginning to think I sound like her too. 9 years seems like such a long time ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday. This year October is even a little more difficult for me b/c my father passed away October 21 last year. I figured if I went ahead and wrote something about it now then maybe Thursday won't be as difficult. I just wish she were here to see Madison grow up and this new little one. Time heals, it's not as hard as it once was. But, I still miss her everyday!!

Kilz or be killed

I think i have figured that we have used 20 can of oil based kilz on the condo. that's just crazy. and at around $20 a can that's even more crazy. I am so tired of breathing kilz, and nothing is odorless. I would be happy if I never had to use the stuff again. After this weekend Vic and I are completely done using kilz, we have primed every possible surface in the town home. (still smells like smoke though, hopefully that will go once we put new carpet in). I am so ready to get done fixing this town home. I am quiting by November 1. I figured it will be around 7 weeks until I'm due for baby #2 so that might be a good time to stop working on it. hopefully we can then put it up for sale. we really don't have that much left, but when we only have weekends to work on it, it takes awhile. by the first weekend in october we will have all the flooring in (except for the carpet) and then two weekends of racing (nascar and ihra) then we'll be finishing it up. HOPEFULLY. so if anyone needs an expert kilz painter, you know where to find one, but i can't guarantee that we will help :)

98 days to go

98 days or 14 weeks sounds like a lot of time. but, i think i'm starting to panic. ahhhhhh we are having another baby, ahhhhhhhhh. I'm not even close to being ready. there are so many other things that i have to finish up before this baby gets here. like finish fixing up our townhome so we can put it on the market. (i'm just tired thinking about it) plus i don't have any of the baby stuff out of storage and there are still many things that I need to purchase. 26 weeks today and i'm growing more uncomfortable. i've really only had about 5 good weeks during this whole pregnancy. my pregnancy with madison was SO different, it was GREAT up until the last month. i was so focused on my first pregnancy and this one i seem to just be surviving, on a daily basis. At least my surgery went well and i've gained back all the weight that i lost during that 6 or 8 weeks i didn't eat very much. food has never tasted better. :) even though i as stressed, not sleeping, over worked (and under paid, isn't that what they say), i am so excited about bringing baby ...... (oh yeah i can't tell you her name, it's a surprise) home. madison is also getting excited. she loves it when i read her "mom's having a baby". i think she can read it by herself now. she love to touch, talk to and kiss my belly. she says funny things like "she just kicked me" or "her feet stink" (that one always makes me laugh). i can't believe that madison is 3 1/2 and that we are REALLY having a second baby. I couldn't be happier. i just pray that everything goes well over the next 14 weeks and that my delivery goes better then the first. (my aunt and most of the world think i'm crazy for having a natural birth, AGAIN) Marty, i'm going to try really hard this time not to scare the other women. hehe

the only thing that I'm missing is my mom. i wish that she were here, and that madi and baby would know their nana. I just hope that she would be proud of me and my growing family. As october approaches i can feel it in the air, i know it's that time just by the way it smells. it's hard to believe that it will be 8 years. i get through the days better then i use to, but i still think about her and wonder what she would say about my curly blond haired, blue eyed little girl. i can hear her saying "one day you'll have one just like you" and I do, she may not look like me but she is every bit ME. Now that i'm a mother the hardest thing is not having her here to call and ask advice or just complain because madison is driving me crazy. I can hear her voice and i think i have a pretty good idea of what she would say. well apparently i've had a sappy night. i guess i just needed a good cry.

Gallbladder Surgery

Thursday August 4th I had gallbladder surgery. during my 20th week of pregnancy. I can't believe that it's been 4 days since my surgery. I'm feeling much better but not 100% yet. I'm just glad that everything went ok, I wasn't really worried about me i was worried about the little one i'm carrying in my belly. Everyone kept telling me that there is nothing they can do if something happened, but nothing happened, she's doing great. kicking up a storm. My surgery only lasted about 15 or 20 mins. they were worried about the anesthesia causing me to go into preterm labor. what was interesting was that in all my internet searches to find out about this surgery I read that usually the baby also goes to sleep during the anesthesia, but during the surgery Dr. Lowe said that they could see her moving. my little fighter. He took a picture of my gallbladder as well as my uterus. they are really gross, but still you kind of have to look. I haven't really enjoyed this pregnancy b/c i was so afraid that i would lose her at any moment. so now that i've got the surgery behind me I'm looking forward to enjoying next 19 weeks. I feel like i can finally be excited about this little one. now if only vic and i can agree on a name, that would be great.

the gallbladder is the white thing in the middle

my little one is inside there .

Charlotte Here We Come

Charlotte, North Carolina

well it looks like we are going to be moving to charlotte. we just don't know when yet. hopefully vic will find a job soon and we can move. i'm excited but hope we are doing the right thing. i'm really going to miss my family and friends but at least it's only an hour and a half away. hopefully our family and friends will come visit us. i'm sure that we will be moving within the month, but i hope that it won't take to long for us to get our townhome fixed up and ready to sell. i'm looking forward to our future home and glad that we will still be in north carolina.

so they think we're having a girl

Baby #2

maybe a girl.......

what are we going to name this one?

everything looked good today at the doctors appointment. she was wiggling sooo much the tech had a hard time getting these pictures. and when i asked her what she thought we were having she said "it looks like a girl to me" vic said, "how accurate are you?" and her reply. in a year and a half she's only gotten one wrong. we will know for sure in about 6 more weeks. but madi called it, of couse we all thought it was going to be another girl. and of course vic said "i just can't make a boy" poor guy. maybe there will be a third, who knows......... in the mean time we need names, any suggestions? send them my way. we have the boys name picked out since i was pregnant with madison. oh and i'm just hoping that i'll have this one before christmas... Due to arrive December 22.

Oak Island 2008

the yancey family

vacation

family of four

vic, jen, madison & baby #2 due december 22

on the ferry to fort fisher

daddy caught a shark

beautiful

vic graduated

congratulations

vic

may 30, 2008

Jay Hedgecock and Vic

Hedgecock Racing Academy

High Point, NC

class of four

gothic website

i am so proud to have been selected to work on this website with my favorite professor Patrick Lee Lucas. together we created this website for his iar 221 history class. i have been working on this for over a year, so i was very happy to finally see it completed as well as learn that his students really loved it and thought that it enhanced their experience in the class.


http://www.uncg.edu/~pllucas/Gothic%20Cathedrals/website%2003.31.08/timelineNEW.html

catching up

well it's been a long time since i've posted on here, i guess things got a little busy... more to come on that later. i've been going through some of madison's baby picture and i just can't seem to remember her that little. and she was born with brown hair, i thought i had a chance, but i guess not. so i thought i'd share of my favorite with you!!

she is not even 8 hours old here

my little girl

when she slept i slept

first visit to a swimming pool

our first picnic

awe.....

out came the books, in went the baby

she was sick this day and made me put evey one of her toys up there in that chair




going "dowin" to the beach '07

i can't get any sun like this

she loves her zoey

goin' racin'... these are her first racin' glasses

playing dress up in mommies clothes

she's just so darn cute!!

what a face

playing under the covers on a saturday morning

she's so stylish

this is what she calls "checkin my email" she just happens to be a "rock star" in this outfit

and my all time favorite

yes, you guessed it we have a telephone in

our bathroom (it doesn't work)

but this is how i caught her one day!

she said she was talking to maw-maw!