Sabrina Paige Heywood

Sabrina Paige Heywood was born Oct. 29, 2008. She was 7 pounds, 11 ounces and 19 inches long. We love our new little girl! Olivia calls her "My baby Brina". Labor and delivery went good and quick. I started labor at 6:00 a.m. and she was born by 8:30 a.m.- she's my quickest labor yet! Levi and Olivia love their new sister and are so good with her. Levi can even talk to her and calm her down when shes crying. He's always a big help.

From the top picture you can tell she has hair-and it's brown! She's our first brunette at birth. She looks like my baby pictures (her mommy) and Levi.

Welcome to the world Baby Sabrina!

Boggle

It's Oct. 24th and I'm still here. But don't worry, I'm going to Joanne's to get some fabric to sew a blanket today (midnight madness coupons) and I bought Boggle to play to make the time go by.

When is this baby going to come? If I haven't had her by Tuesday my doctor wants to enduce me. She wanted to enduce me yesterday but I said I'd like to wait to see if she'll come on her own!

I'm still here...

By looking at the little count down for my baby you'd think "Hey! Sadie's baby is probably here!". Well, I'll just let everyone know I was a few days late with Levi, and 5 days late with Olivia. So I'm still here on baby girl heywood due date. She doesn't have a name set in stone, but we have some ideas for names.

What's In a Name?

I'm due October 21. Thats in just a few weeks. But Braden and I don't have a name picked out. Why is this so hard? I just want the perfect name for my little girl.

I've come to the point in my pregnancy that labor pains are starting to resurface in my memory. I think Heavenly Father blesses women to forget labor so they can have more than one child. But the thought just hit me-there's only one way out of this!!! This week I decided I should probably get ready for the baby so I dragged in the baby girl clothes from the garage and washed them. So cute. Olivia had a hard time with it because she thought everything was hers-which it was two years ago. She found her "shwimp suit" from last year and insisted on wearing it.

I also set up the baby's bed-which Levi and Olivia quickly filled with Olivia's dolls. I walked into my bedroom and heard Levi singing "baby mine". Every few days he asks when the baby will "come out". He is really excited for another little sister. This time around he really knows what it means for Mommy to have a baby. My sisters Ashley and Brittany both had baby boys earlier this year so my kids are around babies a lot-which I'm very glad because I've been able to help Olivia learn how to be soft around a baby (Poor Porter!!!!).

More Nauvoo

Joseph and Hyrum statue just across from the Nauvoo Temple.
Iowa Flooding-there isn't supposed to be water here-it's a field.

Five years

In July to celebrate our 5 year anniversary Braden and I left the kids with family and drove across country to Nauvoo, Il. It was an awesome trip. I am amazed with America landscape. The Grand Canyon, Corn, Corn and more Corn, green lush fields, rivers, creeks and rivers...Braden and I loved watching the scenery change.

The Grand Canyon-it was a bit out of the way but we HAD to go to the Grand Canyon! I didn't hike or anything seeing how I was 6 months pregnant at the time. (I thought I was so big and now I'm 36 weeks, ha-I was so little on that trip!)
The Mississippi!!!!!! I've wanted to see the Mississippi ever since 1990 when for school that year we studied "Adventures Down the Mississippi". Braden couldn't believe how excited I was to drive over it. This next quote is for my family: "Steamboat cross the Mississippi River!
5 years of marriage. How many of them happy? 5.
The Nauvoo Temple-I'm glad we made it to Nauvoo after the temple was rebuilt. We came out of it just at sunset-it was just beautiful. I loved Nauvoo-the pagaent was awesome, we watched it twice.
We stayed in a bed and breakfast in a home that used to be Willard Richard's. It was down on the flats of Nauvoo-walking distance to the old town.

Dolls and Superheroes

As Olivia's older brother Levi feels it is his job to teach her how to be a superhero. His first rule is that a cape is always necessary. He has a speical radar built in his chemical make up that helps him find supplies wherever he is. Towels held together with rubber bands or clips are his favorite make shift cape. The second rule is sound effects. Swoosh, Caaa,-every move, sword, and gun has sound. And the sounds can't be "bang" or "bam", he only does "realistic" sounds.

Olivia follows Levi in all his superhero endeavors but she adds a "women's touch"- her baby is usually snuggled in her arm. In her chemical make up is the ability to take any object and pretend it's a baby. The other day I found her wrapping a dirty, 2 foot work brush in a pillowcase and singing "Baby Mine" to it. She then gently put it "to bed" on a 5 gallon paint bucket.