Scumptious, yummy, snuggly, ch-hunky, wild, sweet…. all those describe our Jettler! I have no idea where this past year has gone… I know everyone says that… but I really feel like this past year went by faster than others! My sweet baby is no longer much of a baby anymore and last week I was literally a full on mess trying to squeeze every little second I could of him still being a baby before he turned one. My parents offered to let us have his party up in Canada at their farm with my whole family because they only get to see the kids a few times a year and also since we just moved to Utah and well… still trying to meet people! I pulled out my crafty hat for this party and literally made all the decorations… which took forever but I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. We had TWO suitcases guys that were full of just decorations haha I’m a bit of a savage I guess! Anyways he had the most special Birthday and was spoiled with love from his Nana & Papa, aunties and uncles and his cousins from Canada. Shout out to my amazing parents and brother Terry for doing so much work to help set everything up for his party, we couldn’t have done it without them! We loved celebrating our little handsome on his big day! He was an answer to prayer and one we longed to have for awhile. Not many know his birth story so I thought I’d share it today with all of you below.
Way back when Kyden was about 8 month old we decided to start trying for baby #2. I’ve always wanted my kids close in age and was ready… well so I thought. We ended up trying for a span of 7 months. We never really told too many people about this as we both had family members and friends struggling to grow their own family for way longer than 7 months. However it was by far the hardest and darkest time I’ve personally ever gone through. Every month I would pray this would be the month, cross my fingers as I took a test and waited the full 2 minutes before checking…. each time left me on the floor crying asking God why. Finally while we were in Park City, Utah on a family trip in December with our little Kyden I took a test and we found out we were expecting! I can’t even express the emotion and gratefulness I felt. God is always faithful and so good! My pregnancy was normal for the most part, I was a lot more nauseated than I was with Kyden and it lasted up until freaking 22 weeks!!! It was always so random and just hit me out of no where. I thought it was definitely a girl because they say your more sick with a girl…. guess they are wrong! At about 32 weeks I really started to feel uncomfortable and it was getting hard. Just putting Kyden in his crib at night put me out of breath… and walking up any amount of stairs was a full on mission where I had to talk myself into “you can do it, your a pregnant rockstar.. those stairs will be hurting more than you” haha and then be completely out of breath about 5 seconds later regretting my motivational talk to myself. Any other pregnant women been there?? I remember thinking at night there is no way my body can go full term… I literally felt like if I walked too fast my legs would fall off because all my joints hurt so bad haha but I really thought my leg was going to fall of guys… no joke! Thankfully Robert always gave me a back massage every night before bed… how lucky did I get? I think he could tell I was hitting my limit and so we had our bags packed by week 33. I was more than ready and when I went to my 36 week checkup I was 3 cms dilated… which I guess is common and doesn’t mean labour is immediate but I knew for me it was coming soon, baby was so low and I swear it was my intuition but I just knew baby was coming fast. With Kyden I went into labour at 38 weeks om the day and the day I went into labour with Jettler I was 37 weeks on the day.
Earlier that evening we took Kyden down to the community pool, I was wearing a red bathing suit that said “baby watch” (how fitting) and it was stretched to the max I may add, I was huge! I started having contractions about every 7 minutes for an hour while we were there. I never was one that has ever experienced braxton hicks so I was kinda of confused and didn’t know if thats what was happening. Like is it just gas pains with rhythm haha? but for real… I couldn’t tell forsure if I was thinking it was contractions because it felt like contractions to me or if it was braxton hicks! So I text my doctor who is also our close friend and who also delivered Kyden by the way, just to give her a heads up that I may be going into labour. GUYS! I swear, literally as soon as I sent her the text my contractions stopped!!! like what!!!? Why does that crap happen, life just wanting to embarrass us a little? Now I felt like an idiot and dreaded texting her back and to be like… just kidding I’m out of it, they stopped! I’m an annoying pregnant lady 🙂 I even called my parents and told them today is the day, to just then call them back and say just kidding just wanted to get you all excited for fun!! Then as we were in bed that night talking, because I couldn’t sleep because lets face it, theres no sleeping position thats comfortable after 35 weeks, Robert said and I quote word for word ” I better get some sleep while I can because I have a funny feeling it’s coming soon” and I laughed as I got up outta bed to go fold laundry. As I was walking to put laundry away I coughed… and felt and heard a POP!! Like not even 3 minutes after Robert said he was going to sleep haha my water broke at 10:40pm that night. I texted my doctor immediately and we texted our friend Sarah who offered to watch Kyden for us when we had to go to the hospital. And I swear she flew over because she was at our place in record time, less than 10 minutes. In the meantime Robert packed up the car with our luggage and I started timing contractions in the kitchen… they went from every 4 minutes to every 3 minutes in a matter of 20 minutes and I started to panic. I remembered my friend Sarah saying “GOOOO!!! You’re going to have this baby here if you guys don’t go right now… “and I remember thinking am I going to have this kid in the car on the way to hospital? It literally felt like I was on the drive, I was clenching all my muscles by the time we pulled up to the hospital door because it felt like baby was on it’s way out! When we go to the hospital I was contracting every 2 minutes and opted for an epidural since I got one with Kyden after throwing up from the pain and I did NOT want to wait for that again. Some people say when you have an epidural you make the baby do all the work, I 100% and truly disagree. When I was in labour with Kyden and throwing up, my body was beyond tense and I was not doing well at all. Babies pick up on stress and I truly think being at such a stressful and painful state is worse on the baby. Moms need to listen to their own body and decide what they feel is best and should never be judged for either choice (same goes for breastfeeding and formula feeding!) When I had my epidural I still knew when contractions were happening and when to push, in no way was I making the baby do it alone, I pushed every single one with Kyden with all I had. So side note, don’t let anyone ever guilt trip you into not having an epidural, your the mom, you know whats best for your body to get that baby out and what you can handle. Every woman is different and we all have different pain tolerances so do whats best for YOU!! Anyways rant over.. I got an epidural because I didn’t want to wait to get to that point again where I was shaking uncontrollable from pain and throwing up. After my epidural, like literally about 15 minutes later I remember laying there thinking I need to push, I could feel the baby really low and my contractions were so fas by then. The doctor checked and I was fully dilated and she said if your ready to push you can! So they got me ready and said here we go… PUSH!!!!! and somehow I had a labour from heaven and our little Jettler was out before I even finished my first push!!!!! I know.. I know!!! I hated when girls said they had a quick labour because Kyden was roughly 11 hrs from start to finish (which I know it’s that long either) but I’m bragging because I was so thankful Jettler flew out so fast! I remember being stunned as I saw our doctor holding him and looked over at Robert who was also looking like he was going to pass out in shock… like did that just happen? Is that really our baby she’s holding already…. it was so incredible and crazy and we were instantly obsessed with our little 6lbs 14 oz Jettler Boy. Which fun fact, we had his name picked out when Kyden was 3 months old. I actually made it up one day while watching football and saw the name Jensen and I kinda liked the name Kessler so I started playing around with the two names and came up with Jettler and Robert was hooked. So we said if we ever had another boy, he would forsake be our Jettler.
My parents are incredible grandparents, our boys are beyond lucky to always feel so special and loved by them!
A year ago on July 22 at 12:23 pm will always be a frozen time in my memory, how he smelt, how teeny tiny his little body was but yet how big his little hands were, how he yawned and most of all how content he was. He has brought so much love into our family with his chubby little grins, sweet snuggles and obsession to be around his big brother. He was an angel baby his whole life, but for real he was! I’m pretty sure for the first 6 months he slept without a peep other than at night when he was hungry. He’s just been our chill baby that goes with the flow and is just so happy to with us. His bright blue eyes from birth have changed to dark blue, hazel, brown… I mean you never know which eye color your going to get when you look into his big mesmerizing eyes. His giggle literally melts your heart and makes you want to snuggle him and eat him all at the same time. His big brother has been infatuated with him from day one (other than sharing toys with him… we are still working on that) Kyden does love to randomly take a break from playing to run over and hug or kiss his little brother. If Jettler ever bumps his head or anything Kyden is always running over to say “kay? kay Jett?” and Jett always responds with a grin. He also has a wild side, where he gets spurts of energy and speeds off, climbs everything and dances. Giving this mama mini heart attacks on the daily. He thinks he the life of the party and he makes us all laugh! Our mr. scrumptious, you have us wrapped around your finger and we can’t wait to see you grow up and cheer you on the whole time! WE LOVE YOU JETSKI!!
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My 5 favorite things about Jettler right now that I never want to forget
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He is snuggle heaven, always offers up the most irresistible and delicious snuggles! He just rubs his head into you and he can’t get enough and neither can we!
2
Sweetest most innocent heart you’ll ever meet. He’s just so lovey and clam… has such a sweetness about him thats addicting and so admirable!
3
His love for his big brother, truly looks up to him so much and just always wants to be around him and do everything he’s doing. Always up to play and always gives brother the biggest smiles!
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His adventure side. He is so independent and will just crawl off and go exploring, see life as an adventure! He’s has no fear and has all the determination in the world… which can kinda scare this mama but also make s me so proud!
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His love for food haha he loves to eat anything and everything! Always two fisting and making the biggest mess… but he makes messes look adorable!! And always needs a bath after eating haha
Happy 1st Birthday sweet baby boy!!!
XOXO
