My Dog and My Baby

When I thought about having a baby girl I never thought that I would be comparing her to my dog. However, the two are very much alike. For instance.....
They both prefer to sleep with me then in their own bed. (Actually Mallory prefers to sleep with Grandma and they take a nap together at least once a day, it is going to be a bad habit to break)
They both love milk (Salta really loves left over cereal milk)
When they are falling asleep the both start breathing fast, then their eyes roll back and then just like that the are out cold.
Also when they are sleeping they kind of keep one eye open, not all the time, mostly when they think that their brothers are near and they may be attacked.
Since they both sleep 85% of their life most of their similarities have to do with sleeping. They both make so much noise when asleep and it sounds exactly the same. Seriously the first night home I had Salta in the bed with me and Mallory right next to my bed. During the night I kept hearing grunts and snorts and I couldn't decided if it was Mallory or Salta.
Lastly, they both put up with me dressing them up.
I love my girls- dog and baby!!!

Pretty Girl

She is sooooo cute, huh? Sorry about the side ways one, I never can get them to turn before I put them on here.

Alms is making me do this

• Which artist/CD do you listen to when you don't feel like listening to the radio? I don't really care about the who's in the music department, so basically whatever is on is what I listen to.
  

• What is something that you think your spouse looks good in? (Try to keep it PG rated people(=) My husband is super hot in his uniform. His Dress blues are the best but I like the BDU's also.
  

• What is something you do to destress? Read a book, talk on the phone, get a pedicure
  

• If you had all the time and money in the world what hobby would you take up? Shopping!!
  

• Which genre of movie do you prefer, comedy, sci fi, drama, horror, chick flick? Comedy or a good chick flick
  

• What is your favorite candy? Reese's Easter Eggs. They are better then regular Reese's

• How many kids do you plan on having? 3, Which means I am all done!!

• What is something you try to avoid doing so you won't end up like your Mother? Keeping stuff. My mom and dad have so much stuff. They never throw anything away. I love to get rid of stuff, yet I still have soooooooo much stuff so I need to do a better job of it.

• What is one of your favorite quotes and why? It is actually a scripture. " The lame that have faith to leap shall leap". It gives me hope that I can do anything that I want to do.
  

• What is something people may not know about you?I am afraid of the dark! Which is the main reason we have an alarm system on our house. I wake up Garett at least once a month because I hear something and I want him to check it out.

• Do you have recurring dreams and what is one of them?I have a dream that my dad get taken by evil men and they make another one of him. The dubbed dad is awful and does really bad thing and we don't know that it really isn't dad. I have no idea what that means but I have had it like 3 or 4 times.

I am supposed to tag 7 people but really I don't want to put any pressure on anybody so if you are cool then you will do this but if you are not so cool then you won't.

She's here!

Mallory Susan Jackson. March 11th, 2010. 7lbs 11oz.

Mallory was born March 11th at about 1030pm. Rachel's water broke around 6pm and we headed over to the hospital without any real contractions. They admitted her, and by about they hooked her up to some pitocin to bring the contractions on. Two of Rachel's friends showed up shortly afterward, they wanted to see a baby born (but not being the ones doing the pushing as they experienced with their own births!). I figured things would go kind of slow since by around 930 she still wasn't having any great contractions. I decided that I would go try to catch some shut eye for a little bit since she was under good care with Sara and Page. Within about 25 minutes I got a call to "you better hurry up." So I came right back, and on my way got a second call that Rachel was ready to push. Three pushes and Mallory was out and I missed all the laboring. Word is that there was a small moment of weakness when Rachel was about to change her mind about the epidural, but Page and Sara coached her through that (although dilating from 8cm to 10cm in less than 5 minutes is a painful thing). Rachel was a total champ! She was up and about in no time and is doing very well today. Mallory is quit an eater. She is quiet and sleeps a lot (but we have been fooled before, but we are cautiously optimistic). Preston and Spencer love her. They insist that we be here at the hospital all the time and can't figure out why Rachel and Mallory don't come home with us. I also have to mention that Rachel's parents came out to help out with the baby and keeping our household together for the next couple weeks while I am busy with school. They arrived the night before Mallory was born, got settled in and have been such a blessing to have with us.

Preston

The boys are in the bath right now in preparation for bedtime. Garett and I are outside the bathroom waiting for them to be done, and what do we hear, a little tooting in the tub. Spencer asks Preston "What was that?" Without missing a beat Preston says "Well Mommy and Daddy are outside doing fireworks".

Preston has become the best at making excuses for his tooting, they have been Hippos, frogs, crickets and now fireworks. I can't believe that my 4 year old is a toot excuser.

Now he is not all gross. He does do cute things also. In preparation for the baby I put together a backpack of clothes for the boys. We have been telling them if they wake up and mommy and daddy are gone then somebody is downstairs to take of them. Well the other day Garett went into school early and I fell asleep on the couch after some insomnia. I heard Preston wake up and go into our room like he does every morning then I heard him run back into his room. Then he came downstairs. I sat up to say good morning and there he was with the backpack of clothes and a huge grin, until he saw me and realized that we weren't gone to the hospital.

Preston is such a good boy. He does have his up and downs but we love him so much. He is so excited to be a big brother again and is having a hard time waiting for his sister, almost as much as his mom is.

Auntie Sues

We love, love Auntie Sues!! This weekend she came for a visit which is always so much fun. She has a little puppy who the boys love. However, this visit was a little different then normal. Friday the boys were great, but we got them to bed late, then they woke up early. They were a little tired but still pretty good. They didn't have very good nap on Sat. and then got to bed late again. Sunday they were horrible. I kept joking that I wanted to go into labor just so I wouldn't have to deal with them anymore. They just love Auntie Sues and puppy Morgan so much that they get so excited and then not getting enough sleep just put them over the top.

However, if Auntie Sues called and told me she was coming back this weekend I would be so joyous.

We love you Auntie Sues!