New Years Eve Party

New Years Eve was great. We went to a movie at the theater. After we partied with all the Orme side- eating dinner, making crafts, playing games and sleeping over.
Fondue dessert is so yummy and so messy. Chocolate, carmel, fruit, candy, donuts. What could be better? At least that's what all these folks think.

Taylor's 1st Christmas

On Christmas Grandpa and Grandma Hintze were able to hold Taylor. This is the first time Taylor was held by anyone except the nurses and us. Everyone is excited for Taylor to get big and come home.

Christmas Pictures

I love Christmas! I thought it was fun when I was a kid but it is so much better as a Mom. I just can't wait for Christmas and wish it would never have to end when it is here.

Taylor wearing clothes

This was taken December 26th. She is looking big and healthy- at least her Mom thinks that she is geting big. She is 4lbs 2 oz. today. She is taking a bottle but doesn't always finish her 1 oz. of milk. In that case, they put the leftovers through her tube. Taylor still breathes quickly and will most likely come home on oxygen. We are anxiously waiting her arrival.

Some of my favorite pics of Taylor

Look how comfortable she looks in her isolette. It makes me want to squeeze her.
Taylor's three fingers fit around the small part of Chris' pinky.
This has been are second home for the last two months.

Introducing Taylor Nicole

Taylor Nicole was born on November 24th at 8:35pm. She weighed 2 lbs 14 oz. and 15 1/2 inches long. She was rushed to NICU where she will stay for the next two months or so. She came at 29 weeks and 5 days gestation so she was not ready to come out. We are grateful to the doctors and nurses that are able to keep her alive and well. We love you Taylor! Grow, grow, grow so that you can come home quickly.

While on bedrest I started cramping. The doctor was called. We waited for Chris to arrive and then I was taken to the OR. This is the delivery via C-Section. Taylor was breach so there was no other choice. When she came out there was no amniotic fluid at all. She was literally folded in half. She had bruises all over her from being so tight in my uterus. My placenta came out in shreds. The Neonatologist said that it was really good that she came out when she did.

Bedrest at 27 Weeks

On November 9th my "water broke" and I was placed in the hospital until I would have my baby two weeks later. Thank you to my mom and my mom-in-law and all those that kept tabs on me in the hospital. Truly everyone's visits and phone calls made it so that I could handle sitting in a room for that long. I think the best story was when I got out of the hospital one of the ladies in my ward said, " I knew you were home when the kids came to church again with their hair done". It was true. Chris just couldn't do the girls' hair. They came to visit in the hospital one Sunday and Paige's hair was a ratted mess. Chris said that that's about what her hair looked like at church that day. I about died.