*Abigail Rae Summers*

Big sister Brooklyn and Abby

Abby 3 days old

Abigail Rae Summers is here! Officially made her appearance @ 9:14pm on October 23,2009


On Oct 23,2009 Camden and i made our way to the hospital. I arrived at the hospital at 6am and filled out paperwork and off we were to have a baby. The nurse got my iv and pitocin going at 7:3oam and then Dr. Billharz came in and broke my water at 8:30 that morning. Camden was being very good about keeping people updated. The came in and attempted to put in my epidural at 10:30 but the first one was not successful. The second epidural was a success and mommy was in a lot of pain at was at a 5. I never could have done it normally, i am a chicken when it comes to pain!!! They kept coming in and checking and i would gradually make my way up there. By 4pm Dr.Billharz told them to start uping the pitocin every 30min to get it going faster to get miss Abby here. Well by 8:30pm she still wasnt here and Dr.Billharz came in and was concerned. He is a stickler for c sections but he was highly recommending it because my pelvic bones were not allowing Abby to come down anymore or she was just to big. I told him to do whatever he needed to do to get her here safely cause he was giving me the option to go longer to see if she would come by herself and like i said i am a chicken when it comes to pain so Camden and i gave him the go a heads on the c section. They got me all prepped and ready to head back to the or to get the c section rolling. During the prep time the anistigolist ( dont think thats right) was a little concerned that since i had the epidural put in almost 12 hours ago it was not going to work and so then if it didnt work he was going to have to put me to sleep :( luckly the stuff worked when he enjected it into my back again and we were on the road to get this baby here. By the time they started my c section i was so tired and worn out i was falling asleep and was not feeling good cause i had not eaten a thing, but after all the labor and pain mommy had to go threw baby Abby officially came out of my stomach at 9:14pm @ 8lbs 10oz 20in long. Camden got to watch the c section so he got to see them cutting me open and taking stuff out of my body to get her here! Poor guy had been threw enough waiting for her to get here got to see all the blood and guts too! When they put my 1st epidural in he went to a pale white and looked like a ghost so he had to go sit down. After the pains and getting sick i finally had my little girl here and now i have 2 beautiful little girls. :) About 10:30pm everyone finally got to see Miss Abby. Brooklyn was so tired and starting to get cranky but she enjoyed holding her little sister.

Saturday Dr.Billharz came in for his round visits and was making sure everything was ok. He was happy we did the c section because Abby laying slightly sideways in my cervix and that may have been why she was not making her way down very well and that when he made the incision normally when you go in to get the baby out you see a arm or a shoulder, well he said she was right there face and all and looking right at him! He said that was the first time that thats every happen to where you see a baby's face right off the get go!

It's going to be a busy time soon!

Well i was off today and i took Brooklyn to preschool. She has so much going on at school coming up its crazy! She has her halloween party coming up on the 29th, that i will get to go too :), then we have the field trip to the fire station Nov 3rd, i felt bad on that one cause only one other person had signed up to help out so me being the nice one i said i would help, so if its too cold that day we may be knocking on Aunt Peggy's door (which i am sure she would LOVE to keep the baby), then come Nov 11 Camden and i will be going with her to the shatto dairy farm and we are still up in the air about taking Abby with us but we will see later what weather will be like, then she has school pics come Nov 19 so i am going to have to find a cute outfit for her pics now!
Well anyways, come 3 days Abby will be here and then we will have 2 rugrats at home! :) We are all excited and cant wait! I am so happy and appreciate everyone that has offered to help out with Brooklyn while i am in the hospital. I appreciate it alot and so does Camden. We are greatful for all of it!

*brooklyn*

all i have to say is i think i am going to be bald by the time i hit 30!

-at the house-

" Brooklyn's first fish ( she was scared and didnt wanna touch it)"

"Brooklyn and her pumpkin she picked out"

well alot has been going on since last time i was on here, Camden and i took Brooklyn to her first preschool field trip on Sept 30, she had so much fun playing with Gracie and Grace and she even helped daddy pick out a pumpkin for her sister when she gets here. Brooklyn caught her first fish when Camden and i took her to Ray county lake,she was so excited and so was Camden. Brooklyn would not touch it though which was even more funny! My doctor's appts have been going good and i just recently went to one yesterday and they are inducing me on the 23rd due to the baby measuring full term and not having any more room to grow! Wish me luck cause i am sure she is going to be huge!!!!!! So as of yesterday i only have to work 2 more days and i am off for 6 weeks and this is the first year in god knows when that i have not had to work the day after thanksgiving!!!! YEA a vacation from work! Looking forward to staying home and being home with the baby and Brooklyn, i am sure Brooklyn will be jealous at first but i am sure she will be my little helper as well. She is still getting over being sick and finishing up her antibiotic the dr put her on for the virus she has, now she has been fever free for 3 days now but she is still congested and today she is coughing alot and almost sounds like she is going to loose her poor little voice! She will eventually get well as we are forcing medicines down her! Next weekend we have so much going on but since the baby will be here that friday we will sadly have to miss out, we got invited to Emmalee and Tori's halloween party in hale, missouri saturday evening as well as the church halloween party is that evening as well. So its all up to daddy on wether or not she is going to either one cause i will be in a hospital bed! :( but better news is Abby will be here for Halloween so we can take both girls trick or treating! :) Brooklyn is so happy she gets to be a peguin this year and she is even more happy that gamma is making her costume for her, cant wait to see my little peguin! :) Brooklyn has her halloween party at school on the 29th so i am going to try and make it to that and then she has a field trip the first of nov to the fire station- that all is going to depend on how much help she already has signed up, the shatto dairy farm is on the 12th of nov and i am really looking forward to that cause i have never been there and thinks its going to be interesting! I love going and doing things with Brooklyn and her school since she has became a preschooler! My little girl is growing up! Here lately she has been trying to push buttons and we are all thinking its due to the baby arriving soon, which is a very good possibility! Hopefully she wont be too much worse when we bring her home from the hospital!

~been busy~

It has been forever since i put anything on here! Well most of my dr appt have been going pretty good. My last one was with the nurse practioner again and i really dont care for her! I asked her if it was normal to be light headed all the time and she said it was! Its just really weird that i am getting light headed all of a sudden with this one but never did when i was pregnant with Brooklyn. Who knows i am going to let Dr. Cargill know i am still like that and see what she says on thurs. They were supposed to start checking to see if i am dilating at all and they didnt last time so i am hoping she will on thurs. I would say Abby is ready to go cause she loves to push like she is coming out any minute and let me tell you its not comfortable! I have been having braxton hicks contractions like crazy too this past week and they are not comfortable when i have them at work! Camden changed his days off so now he is off weds and thurs! i am kinda liking it cause we both have been off and have spent sometime together when he has not been out fishing! :( Brooklyn has been going to preschool and she loves it! She has been learning to trace her name and learning the alphabet. She is doing really good tracing her name cant wait till she can do it herself! Thursday would be her first field trip to the pumpkin patch but its supposed to rain all day! So Camden and i are taking her on weds (tomorrow) so she can enjoy it and not get sick from getting wet. Which 2 others from her class will be there tomorrow so she will know some of the kids. Other than that Brooklyn just had her party on the 20th and she had a princess party and had so much fun! She loves all of her gifts and loved playing with all the kids. She then officially turned 4 on the 26th! We were going to take her out to eat but i wasnt feeling all that great that day and i was really tired so we stayed home that night. We will another day. My uncle got married on the 27th but we were not able to go due to both camden and i working which from what i have been told didnt miss much! oh Brooklyn told us she wants to be a peguin for halloween! There is no ands ifs or buts about this one tried to change her mind on it to something else and she wants to be a peguin! how funny is that!!! my child has a mind of her own i guess!

*Brooklyn's First Day Of Preschool*

The day started out early when Brooklyn woke up at 730am having a accident in our bed, which i think is cause she had so much to drink before going to bed even after she went potty before bedtime. It was 11am and i made her eat lunch and then we got ready to go to school. She was so happy and so excited to go to school. Daddy couldnt drop off Brooklyn with me because he was the only one at work and couldnt leave. :( Brooklyn and i arrived at school and she went off and started playing in the play-do with Gracie. When all of us moms went to leave Cadan didnt want his mom to leave and started crying. Poor guy! There was only 3 kids plus Brooklyn today because one little girl was sick and 3 cant start till sept and 1 in jan. They colored a apple pic and then used scissors and made a apple pic with red paper and glue. Very cute job she did! They traced their names and Brooklyn told Mrs. Padgett she spelled her name wrong because of the way she made the k and to Brooklyn it looked like a r. lol They all went threw their colors and the only one the 4 of them had problems with was grey. They learnt a new song "Peanut butter and jelly". Brooklyn had fun playing with all the kids. Today we had Brookyln, Gracie, Ashlee and Cadan in her class. Poor guy was the only one in there! At 230 i went and picked her up and they sang us parents the peanut butter and jelly song and then it was time to leave, well Brooklyn didnt want too! We then finally got in the car and left to go to daddy's work so she could show him her pictures and tell him about her day. After that we made a stop at gamma and pappi's house. Brookyln got to see Emmalee and Victoria Faith! She was so happy to see Emmalee! They gave each other big hugs as soon as that door came open! They played for a while and then Brooklyn started playing with Tori and that kind of upset Emmalee. After a few minutes Brooklyn was playing with everyone! After a long day of being up we headed home and Brooklyn fell asleep in the car for 5 mins and we got home and she woke right up so we could watch the new Hannah Montana movie! So far so good on the movie!

Mommy enjoyed being away from Brooklyn and not having to work today. Went and got my hair cut which was needed so bad and then i took Camden some lunch and came home and relaxed, soon i wont be able to cause Abby will be here soon enough! So we are going to enjoy as much of it as i can!

Vacation time / 28 wk check up

Where to begin? This year we went on our vacation and headed off to the reunion. Camden left and went down thursday to truman lake and spent some time at our lake lot at bent tree harbor. He didnt have too much luck with fishing because the water was low. He had a nice time being by himself which i was happy cause he needed it. Friday Brooklyn and i were off to the reunion and followed my dad down there since he wasnt going the way he normally does. Camden beat us down there and got the room ready and turned the air on! :) On the way down we stopped at a amish store and we got some stuff there. We finally arrived at the resort little after noon and got our bags all settled in the room. We went swimming that afternoon for a while and then Camden took Gaige and Brooklyn fishing down by the boat docks and ramps but no luck of catching fish! They got some nibbles but nothing else. That evening we had our group gathering and we ate homemade ice cream and let me tell ya even though there was not much there since not alot showed up this year it was still very yummy! Saturday we went and got 800 lbs of rock my parents bought for what heck if i know! CRAZY! It rained the first part of the morning there but other than that it quit towards the afternoon. We went swimming for a while on sat and then mostly stayed around the resort ate lunch, played games! That evening they had dinner catered in and it was ok, after dinner we had our auction and we still brought in over 1000 for only have 60 people there this year. Saturday night little miss Abby was being a pain in the you know what and i was so uncomfortable. She was everywhere and even laying down was not helping! Finally at 1am i was able to lay down and get some sleep until my dad came in and fell asleep! Then the horrible snoring began! Sunday we all slept in and went and ate breakfast. We had our business meeting and elected new officers and thank god once again Camden didnt get elected! I dont know how he would have been able to help plan anything with his work schedule but he thinks he could have done it! He got drug into it anyway thanks to dad and they are supposed to be planning a float trip and looking for a new place to go next year! After that we were off to head home! :) Couldnt wait till i got home! Besides the beds were not comfortable and dad snoring and Brooklyn kept running down to the pool with out a life jacket on and noone around her it was a good time! Cant wait to see what next year brings to us! Monday we went to the kc zoo with Macynna and Jared and the girls had so much fun! By the 4th hour they were tired and cranky so we left. I will soon get pics of the zoo on facebook cause i took over 200 pics~ Tuesday we had to go back to work and let me tell ya i was not looking forward to it!

Tuesday i had my 28 wk check up with the dr. I had to be there @8am and they did the retake of the 3 d sono, which i am glad they did! Abby was still not cooperating like we wanted her too but she was better than the last one i had done so we got some cute poses of her! She took measurements of her and she was measuring to be almost 3 weeks a head of schedule! She weighed 3 lbs and 2 oz and her heart beat jumped all the way to 158. So our little girl is growing like a weed! After the sono i waited to see Dr Olhausen ( the one that delivered Brooklyn) and he said most likely it looks like i will go early by the way she is growing! Other than that him measuring my stomach by his hands i am measuring just right! He put in my file the growth of her from the sono and checked all the other measurements from all the other ones i have had done. He checked the dates to see when i would be due with her growth and so now we are looking at anytime pretty much in Oct the way she is growing! My next visit will be my last monthly visit and then its every 2 weeks! :) that means its getting close! I get to go see Dr Olhausen again on my next visit!

I was off to take Brooklyn to Bobbi's for the day and i get a phone call and i let it just ring since it was unknown and i never answer them, well come to find out it was work and they were throwing me and another girl a baby shower and it was at 11. Well noone bothered to tell me about it and i had been on vacation and so i assumed i needed to be to work at 1130 when i was scheduled to be there . So i called them back and they are like where are you? I am like who was the one that was supposed to call me and tell me about the shower? They preceeded to tell me that they posted it on the board on a friday (when i was not there). I asked do u all look at people's schedules cause i have been on vacation for the past week and a half! So needless to say i have no so bright people i work with! I was there for my shower for 15 mins and then i had to go to work. I got alot of newborn stuff so lets hope she fits into it all! I am good on onesies up to 3 months now! Got alot of cute clothes and sleepers and they made me a diaper cake made out of huggies diapers! I told them i wanted to use pampers along time ago because Brookyln had issues with alot of diapers so instead of going threw all that again i was just sticking to pampers! Well i guess i am going to have to try and see if she breaks out from them so they dont go to waste and if she does i can give them to people i know thats prego again! Overall it was ok and the shower was very nice and thoughtful and i appreciate they thought about us both!

Now cant wait till the baby q on the 22nd! So far we have had a few rsvp back but hopefully we have more so we know how much food to cook and get! Cant wait to spend time with family and friends! :) <3

Miss Abigail