Introducing Baby Rylin Grant Jarrard!

Rylin Grant Jarrard

was born on Friday, March 20, 2009 at 3:27AM at Northside Forsyth Hospital. Her due date was April 5th, so she was almost 3 weeks early. She weighed 6 pounds 13 oz. and was 19 1/4 inches long. She has lots of black hair like Travis and the normal slate-blue baby eyes. She is so tiny!! Addyson seems so huge to me now. She's a really good baby and is the sweetest thing. We all just want to gobble her up.

Me in the delivery room the night I delivered Rylin.

This is either before or after my epidural...I can't remember!

Travis was listening to the NCAA wrestling tournament on his computer and filling in brackets while we waited for me to dilate from a 6 to a 10.

Here she is! Her first picture taken by Daddy! Getting her lungs sucked out. She looks pretty mad.

Rylin's 1st "Weigh In" as Daddy likes to say.

6 pounds 13 ounces

Her First Bath...She loved getting her hair washed and combed. My kind of girl.

All clean now and Mommy gets to cuddle with her.

We are so proud!

Me, Rylin, Dr. Angela Nix, and my good friend Emily Slaugh who was the nurse who helped deliver Rylin. It was so great having a friend there with me the entire time, and Dr. Nix was there a lot too. I lucked out!!

The whole delivery gang.

We are all dead tired....I think this was taken at 4:00AM or close to it.

Our little Sweet Pea. Travis texting everyone to let them know she had arrived...it was too early to call you all!

Our sweet Sydney holding her tiny baby sister. She was soooo excited to hold her!Addyson was so sweet and didn't want to let Rylin go.
Sydney and Rylin

The Jarrard Girls

Addyson, Kate, Sydney, Rylin

The Family!

Addyson, Kate, Sydney, Rylin & Travis....is he outnumbered or what!?

SISTERS!

Rylin had some more visitors!

Thanks you guys for coming to see us! It made me feel loved.

Lazette kept my girls the entire time! She was such a blessing to us.

Andrea came by to snuggle Rylin too!

And Kristan came by to bring Mommy flowers and to, of course, hold Rylin.

It was tough for me not having my parents there at the hospital, but having my wonderful husband and friends there made it such a great experience.

Proud Daddy....Wonderful Husband

I love you Travis.

On our way out the hospital door and to home sweet home!!

Random Thoughts and Feelings

Okay, so I haven't been in the blogging world in a while. Why? Not sure. I stopped the frequency when I was suffering with morning/night/all day sickness with this baby, and just haven't gotten back into the groove. Maybe I'm just tired and cranky....not sure!

So, I'm sure I have about zero readers right now, but that's okay. I felt the urge to right down some thoughts.

I'm pregnant with our 3rd and last baby.

I'm excited to have her in my life, and for this to be the one to complete our family. I loathe most of pregnancy, I can't lie, but as I feel her moving around in my belly, I'm getting a little nostalgic and wanting to make sure I remember this feeling forever, as the next few weeks will be the last time I feel this. I have such negative thoughts about my body while I'm pregnant, but lately, I've been looking in the mirror and trying to cherish this body that I have right at this moment b/c of the miracle it is performing and realizing that it really is beautiful. I only have a few more weeks until she arrives, and I'm nervous, scared, excited, anxious, tired, giddy, hesitant and a whole slew of emotions with it. I know that I want this to be our last baby, so it's not me mourning that this is our last child, it's just me wanting to remember. Remember Kate, remember! I know I won't, though. I know it as well as I know my own name. I won't remember the details of exactly how I felt and looked while pregnant. It's frustrating.

I feel so blessed to have this opportunity for 3 times in my life. I feel inexplicably unprepared to have 3 children.....and even though I'll have had approximately 10 months to prepare.....you're never quite prepared.

I am feeling a tinge of regret that I haven't cherished this pregnancy. With two other children, this pregnancy has seem to go by almost unnoticed except when I go to get dressed in the morning and have to pull on maternity clothes. I am going to consciously try and make an effort to focus, at least once a day, on this new little life inside me, while she is still inside me.

And, no, we still haven't settled on a name. Our favorite right now is Rylan. Sydney is insisting that we name her Lexi, though, and always calls her that.

So, on to other things.....

I'm thinking of this b/c Addyson is yelling at me from her room right now trying to delay her nap.

Ways Addyson tries to get out of taking her nap:

"Mommy I stinky"

"Mommy I have boogies"

"Mommy Potty!!" (which she never ends up going)

"Mommy I awake!"

"Mommy I need you!"

"Mommy my clothes off!" (that means she's stripped naked)

"Mommy I need to be princess!"

Ways Sydney delays me going out of her room at bedtime:

"Mom, I have to tell you something important.....ummmmm....."

"Mom, I'm really thirsty"

"Mom, can we talk about Jesus?"....this one gets me all the time...I just can't say no to this!

"Mom, what are we doing tomorrow? and the tomorrow after that? and the tomorrow after that? It's really important that I know".

"Mom, just one more song? please? you sing so pretty."

"I have a secret I have to tell you and you can't tell any of your friends." (then she proceeds to whisper nothing in my ear....just heavy breathing and saying...uhhhhh).

"Mom will you count my webkinz and make sure they are all in my bed" (the answer to this is always, no, b/c she has 21 freakin' webkinz!)

Cute Sayings the girls have said lately:

Addyson: "White Horse, I ride it, really, I did!" (she says this whenever she sees a horse - which is every day - about when she rode a white pony over Christmas).

Sydney: "Those aren't circles under my eyes, mom, they're semi-circles."

Syd: "Mom, when we go to live with Jesus after we die, will we be able to play with the whales?"

Christmas and New Year pictures...YES, I'm a tad late.

So, I posted this without writing anything....oops! Here are some pictures from Christmas and New Year's eve that I hadn't posted yet. I'm not keeping up with the blog like I used to, that's for sure! Sorry Mom and Dad Jarrard!

This is Addyson and her friend Alayna

Acting out the Nativity with the Busse's

We had planned to go to Stone Mountain to see the lights/fesivities, but it was so freakin' cold, so we went to Chucky Cheese instead and then to Lake Lanier to see the lights that night. The kids had a blast.

Pony rides at Lake Lanier.

Christmas Eve, Acting out the Nativity at my parents' house.

Christmas Day. The girls were so excited!!

My brother and his family came to visit the day after Christmas, and my girls had a blast with them! Below is what we call quadruple trouble.

I just had to capture a picture of my brother picking his nose.

I couldn't resist. Addyson loved her cousins' Dallas Cowboys football helmet

My dad with the two little ones.

Family Home Evening

"Stir with Love"...a little family tradition.

New Year's Eve!

Fireworks and a pinata thanks to Uncle Quinn & Aunt Kjirsten!

New Year's Day

Ice Ice Baby.....

So, for some reason I think I need pictures to post on here....BUT, after getting a new camera for Christmas...thank you Travis...I'm a little slow at downloading, etc. I need help in the technological field.

Anyway! I have lots of pictures to post from Christmas, etc., but it won't happen tonight.

So, our little family is about to say our nightly family prayer when Sydney starts ....well...she starts rapping. I wasn't sure what she said, but Travis was like..."what are you teaching our daughters? What are you guys listening to?" (he is totally chuckling), so Sydney keeps doing it and Travis says.."She's doing Vanilla Ice". Of course, I was like "No, honey, I haven't listened to Vanilla Ice in a long time, so she can't have heard him". Then I remember......I RAP IT TO MY KIDS! I'm such a dork.

She was saying "I'm back with a brand new addition".

You're all probably thinking I'm a big dork too, but it works....you should try this when your kids won't listen....just start out with Vanilla Ice, and then make up whatever you want to say to them by rapping it....seriously, it works...here is an example of what I do....

"STOP! Collaborate and listen, Mommy's back with a brand new addition. GET in your car seat NOW, so we can go to Grandma's HOUse".

They start giggling and then get in their seats...seriously, try it.

You can thank me later.