Everett Anderson

Everett Anderson Barfield

was born february 11th at 3:30pm

he weighed 9 pounds 3 ounces and 19.5 inches long

we thought makai's birth was fast at 3 hours!

we were only in the hospital room for 4, four minutes.

yes! minutes, before everett was born. 

the week leading up to everett's birth i was having minor cramping.

on a scale from 1-10, it was a 1.5...maybe a 2.

i had a non-stress tests that week (and the week before) and i had asked 

during the test if they were contractions.

because i basically was terrified to have him at home or in the car.

nope, they weren't registering on the machine as anything.

they weren't happening consistently

but when they did happen, they were about every 10 minutes.

i texted my mom about 12:30pm and asked when she thought 

she would be home from her dentist appt.

she said they were just finishing up and would come right away.

i called my dr. to see what should i do.

i was having consistent "pain", every once in a while

but i really, really didn't want to have the baby at home or in the car.

she knew this and had warned me to go straight to the hospital 

once i thought i was in labor.

so i felt super dumb when she was like, well are you?

i said i don't know...and then i started to cry. she was all, why are you crying?

eddie and i had a good laugh about her being a little stern with me 

she suggested i come to her office so she could check me

as she hadn't checked me yet, she is more midwifery (natural)

my mom and tanner show up around 1:30pm

as soon as i see my mom, i started crying again.

i think cause it was real then. 

even though i wasn't in pain, i knew i was to give birth

which i actually hate, considering my track record i have reason too.

so we head to my dr.'s office and get there about 1:45

as i walked in and through the office the pain was increasing

and she said, oh! you aren't in labor. if you are talking and walking.

she checks me and says i am at a 3. 

she suggested i walk around her office building 

and she will re-check me in 45 minutes to an hour.

i believe she must have striped my membranes while checking.

cause my pain went from a 2 straight to an 8.

we only made it around half way around the building

 and my contractions went from every 10-25 minutes

to less than 5 minutes and then eventually, less than 3 minutes.

i walk back into her packed office about 2:20

and i am sure i scared all sorts of first time mamas

i was starting to need to be vocal and stop to breath.

she asks me to check me again and i'm moving at a snails pace.

she was like, now you are in labor!!

i was at a 5 now. then she asks...did you just pee?

i was like, i don't know? no? i don't think so.

she was like crap! hurry!! get your pants on.

as i'm having contractions on top of each other

there i am unsuccessfully getting my pants on.

she was like, you have to keep moving! i don't want you to have him here.

silently i am so freaked out! eddie helps me with my pants.

bless his heart! such a trooper.

my dr. explains to eddie to go cover my seat with a trash bag

and the towel we brought.

i was really freaking out at this point, with her saying that to eddie.

she knew he was coming, and coming fast.

i had checked my contraction app and it was 2:45pm

so he darts out of the office and to the car.

i start walking to the car very slowly, having 5 contractions on the way.

at one point an older lady from a downstairs office asked if i was ok

i was like, oh yeah! totally, just in labor. you should have seen her face.

she helped me to my car where eddie was waiting.

the hospital is still another 20 minutes away.

by now it was 3pm. the hospital was 6 exits away.

plus a little street driving and lots of speed bumps.

we get 4 exits down the freeway and i have pressure to push.

eddie was driving 80+ miles per hour

and i told him to hurry up or we would have the baby in the car.

my only saving grace was my water hadn't completely broken

i suppose, i was just leaking? i never knew if the towel got wet.

so we arrive at the hospital and i really had to think if we could make it to maternity

or if we should just go straight into the ER.

eddie ran to go get a wheel chair from the ER.

as i got out of the car and sat down, my water broke.

we run down the long hallway to the elevators to get to the 2nd floor.

as we arrive to the elevator there are two kids with their mom.

they couldn't have been older than 10.

there i was, literally about to deliver. and i tried to pull myself together

for the sake of those children. i didn't want to scar them for life.

the elevator seemed like it took forever.

when a baby is born a lullaby is played.

i was like, oh...a baby was born. trying to make things a little less awkward.

as they both stared at me and the mom wasn't sure what to do.

so the elevator opens and the mom is like, we'll wait.

so we go upstairs and push the button to get into maternity.

i'm not sure what i said, but they knew who i was

and informed me that jo (my dr.) had just arrived and was waiting in the room.

at this point, i'm just ready to push and i'm trying not too

so i basically just kept my eyes shut to keep it together.

i was mid contraction when they asked me to stand up

and get undressed, all while my eyes where closed. 

i was basically paralyzed in pain and i overheard them talking

about just cutting my maternity jeans off.

i ripped them off as fast as i could and basically hopped on the bed.

i pushed twice and he was here!! at 3:30pm

i finally opened my eyes. after i had him on my chest.

i awkwardly said hi to my nurses since i hadn't opened my eyes the entire time.

except to see where the bed was.

then it was back to having my eyes close to concentrate on the pain.

oh my goodness!!! it was so crazy! and so fast.

getting his first bath. he wasn't a fan.

he must have had his hands in his mouth in the womb.

cause he liked to keep his finger in his mouth or close to it.

he reminded us a lot of emi.

i think because of his coloring and his white dots on his nose.

but he also reminded us of makai because he had light eyebrows like makai.

i had to stay in my labor and deliver room for like 5+ hours 

i was hemorrhaging since my delivery was so fast, i guess.

i knew something was wrong because of how my dr. was acting.

she didn't say anything and i didn't ask questions until she said

we have to give you a shot in your leg to stop the bleeding.

sweet, poke away. i'll spare the scooping details.

then she said:

you're bleeding a little more than i'd like, so i am going to shove these  

five pills up your butt. i was like uh, what?

as if i hadn't been violated enough in that region.

turns out that didn't stop it either.

so they had to give me 2 bags of medicine by IV

and i couldn't go to recovery until the first bag had emptied.

they had a shift change shortly after i delivered.

they basically had nothing to tell them, it was funny.

we got here at 3:26pm and he was delivered by 3:30pm.

the new nurse would say, what about this? 

the old nurse would be say, nope we didn't have time to do that. 

the new nurse would ask another question and the old nurse 

would say, no we weren't able to get that info either. 

emi got out of school at 2:20, so when my mom went to pick her up

i really was having the baby.

they were so excited to finally meet him.

makai wasn't so sure of my IV and wouldn't even come near me at first.

thank you eddie for your fabulous photography.

we've had our camera over 5 years and he still can figure out how to use it.

oh well! this captures makai's smile and everett.

after about 5 hours we finally got transferred to recovery.

where i was served a cold dinner since dinner isn't served to labor and delivery

and poor eddie was on his own.

he finally left at one point to get something to eat.

he had finally gone down to the cafeteria at 7:10

too bad it closed at 7. poor guy was starving.

everett was a great nurser from the start and was sleeping well.

i don't think i ever went to sleep

as the room next to ours had a crying baby. basically the entire night.

eddie went out before 6am for bagels, since we didn't know when breakfast was served.

i showered and got dressed for the day.

at one point i went out to the nurses station to get 

something to get the sticky tape residue off my arm from my IV.

they were like, you are up and walking and dressed?!

then my nurse was like, this is her 3rd baby. and they all shook their heads.

my nurse then said: so you're ready to go home? i said yep!

unfortunately i couldn't. i had to wait 24 hours for sure because of my bleeding "scare".

at 5pm on the 12th we were finally discharged and headed home.

January 2015

unfortunately from january to... i'm really not sure

probably mid-february i lost about 550 pictures from my phone.

i had a bad connection and somehow the chord became disconnected

and when the photos were uploaded they were deleted off my phone.

but when i went to upload the pictures, they were empty.

so sad! i couldn't recover them.  

well, i should say i was only able to recover a few of them. 

all ready for church.

makai wearing a belt for the first time.

daily car seat nap while we go pick emi up from school.

and we are to the point where he will only fall asleep in the car.

if we try to have him nap at home he refuses.

luckily he transfers well.

i had to laugh when i read this.

because when makai was born and i was ask her for help.

for example, he once had a blow out and i needed more wipes.

her response: not my baby!

this was a craft i helped with in her class.
i loved getting a first hand look at how she is during school. 

ugh. makai had been waking up in the night 

and coming into our bed and making himself comfortable.

monster makai, there goes an entire thing of floss.

 

spaghetti factory dinner.

i still can't get over those baby blues.

sunday picture again.

so strange that next month we'd have another kid in the picture.

turns out those late night visits were from a virus he caught.

i'm 100% sure from nursery.

poor kid was miserable. 

we enjoyed a day at the zoo and fairytale town.

emi lost her first tooth

this should be it's own post. 

but for the sake of catching up it's not getting it's own post.

as emi was getting ready for school she showed us how loose her tooth was

he tried unsuccessfully to pull it.

i asked to wiggle it and wiggled it super hard and it started bleeding.

it was seriously hanging on by a thread.

but at this point she had zero trust in either of us.

so we sent her off to school.

thinking we had failed at parents, one for trying to trick her

into letting us "wiggle" her tooth

but now we were going to miss it and she was going to lose it at school.

i remembered to ask her for a picture before she got out of the car.

cause i knew her smile would be forever changed.

luckily, by some miracle it didn't fall out.

she wouldn't let us near her mouth

but she was willing to have gma come over and look at it.

all with the plan that gma would pull it.

but she didn't know that.

poor thing was so scared of us and would cry if we even came near her.

(hello unibrow)

gma said she wanted to see how wiggly it was

but needed to use a tissue to make sure her hand didn't slip.

2 seconds later and she was so happy.

it didn't even bleed and she claims it didn't hurt.

despite her facial expressions.

taking a look at her new gap.

she immediately wanted to drink through a straw.

she was so excited for the tooth fairy.

she was expecting a coin.

i had some gold dollar coins saved just for the occasion.

when she woke up she was a little disappointed.

i thought because her BFF gets like $5 a tooth.

turns out she thought she would get a chocolate coin.

December 2014

such a healthy breakfast

cereal with nutella toast.

 

such a bad idea!

sadly, you'd think i would learn my lesson and not serve nutella toast.

emi in her favorite outfit.

this kid! he falls asleep everyday when we go pick emi up from school. 

he usually sleeps 45 minutes in the car and then another hour in his bed.

sleepy girl!

since she is in school, i get less pictures of her.

or she is silly in the pictures i do take.

on thursdays i help in emi's class.

she thought she was so cool wearing my visitor sticker.

i thought this was hilarious.

she basically forced me to write that.

a normal smile picture. yay!!

painted penguin on her nails.

she chose having red on every other nail.

her toes look the same as well.

my dad needed a family picture for his germany christmas letter.

since everett was due in february we didn't have any pictures taken.

as we figured we would do it in february.
so we set up a tripod one day after church and took a family picture.

this year i bought some shatter-free ornaments

and didn't put out any presents until christmas eve

due to what we call monster makai.

emi was star of the week at school.

she had to bring pictures in and an outfit from when she was a baby.

emi had fun decorating a gingerbread man after makai had gone to bed one night.

she was so proud of her work that she wouldn't eat it.

sadly makai got to it while emi was at school

and i was in the shower.

makai helping eddie clean out the gutters.

and teasing me that he is ready to be potty trained.

he loves to wear underwear and go potty.

but then he also doesn't care if he pees or even poops.

starting in january eddie will be working from home permanently.

i teased him that he even got a window office.

a small corner in our bedroom.

trying to figure out if we can make our current car work.

we don't have a car payment.

as much as we'd like a bigger car, we don't want a car payment.

luckily all 3 fit.

emi is back in a 5 point harness instead of a booster.

i love how makai clings to her.

he always likes to sit so close.

November 2014

story of my life, playing catch up.

i'm only behind almost a whole year. 

but i am determined to update the blog, at least monthly.

 

you can see makai's pants in the background.

he went through a phase where he would go pant less.

and even pee on the potty. i was hoping before everett came he would.

but no such luck!

emi was giggling at something half naked makai was doing.

took makai on a late night grocery run.

sometimes when he takes a long nap he is wired until like 10pm.

this was his smile back then. 

this picture cracks me up.

my dad came over to help trim an overgrown bush of our neighbors

that was overgrown into our yard.

i went out to check on emi at one point and she was in m parents car.

i asked if i could take her picture and this is how she posed.

momo and poppy sent emi a gift card to her favorite place

for being student of the week.

she was so excited and happy!!

we enjoyed a day at the zoo.

this had to have been on a saturday since the zoo mascot was out.

all ready for church.

takes a backpack full of books and some quite toys.

and of course, enough food to feed 5 people.

we wrapped makai in a baby burrito.

back when emi was born, tanner wanted to be wrapped in a baby burrito.

so now it is kind of a thing they do. 

momo gave emi an earring holder for all her earrings.

my morning view, watching pbs.

we celebrated gpa's birthday.

took makai to story time.

he could care less about the books and goes straight to the computers.

we had paisley over, emi's BFF

for a late movie night (wearing their matching pj's). 

they ended up not even watching a movie but playing 

break the ice most of the night.

my dad bought a race track

all the boys love it.

my parents neighbor was out with her horse one day 

and asked if the kids wanted a ride.

didn't get a picture of makai because i was walking with him.

went to leatherby's for some reason, maybe gpa's birthday.

emi prefers sorbet and sherbet over ice cream.