First Marathon Woes

Thursday night my mower shot a golf ball sized rock into my right knee. That's what everyone wants 2 days before their race. So I loaded up on NSAIDs and did just fine until Sunday afternoon. My right knee got so inflamed that the cavity behind it was even filling up with fluid. Am OK now with more NSAIDs on board. It doesn't look like I'll be soccering on Tuesday. Bummer. But that's all I have to complain about. Everything else was great. When's the next one?

Karl is at a meeting and I have nothing to do. I figured it's been a while, so I'd do a blog even though I really don't have much to blog about. I guess I'll just fill you in on what we have all been up to as of late.

Karl is recovering from his biking accident. He still comes home almost every day and says, "I don't know what I did different today, but I'm really sore."
He can do almost all his dental work now though and has spent many hours catching up in lab. He doesn't like to be behind.

It was interesting to have him hurt. we are usually very active and for entertainment we go to the park and play soccer or something of the sort. But we have been doing a lot of sitting and talking and he played the piano a lot and even wrote a song.

Me, well, I cut about 13 inches off my hair. That is probably the biggest change in my life. Other than that I am doing the usual. Teaching the kids and try to stay on top of everything else I'm supposed to be doing.

OK - so here's what Meg's really been doing. EVERYTHING. She's doing the shopping, painting the house, caring for me, leading the choir, working in the nursery, running Haylee to ballet, taking Carson to appointments, teaching Lydea to sew, and potty training Zac. She put together another photo book for our family that is too much fun. She got us a babysitter so we can go to Inception this Saturday. She's put up with super long hours while I've been catching up. Meanwhile she's been suffering from allergies and feeling overtired from getting up to help me get ready for my day. She's a superstar. Don't let her tell you different.

The choir is going away soon -- instead she'll be teaching the 12 and 13 year old Sunday school class....

Visitors/my help after Violet was born

My mom and little sister Amber came and helped me after Violet was born.  It was so good to have them.  Hard to see them go!

2011

Up and at ‘me again...after 6+years

We enjoyed our time in Texas and were very happy to have residency over. Now we are in Illinois. Karl is working Great Lakes Naval base as an oral surgeon. Carson left on his mission 13 months ago to Fortaleza, Brazil and Haylee is in her first semester so college at BYUI

Rebecca is 13 now and always looking for something to do so I told her she could start this blog up again. It’s so fun to go back and look at what is on here from years before I would love to continue it.

Violet

Heidi Violet Chandler

My Dr. finally agreed to induce me on the 15th.  At 11Am they started me on pitocin.  Karl had been on call the night before and met me at the hospital.  I wasn't dialated much, but had finally started to eface a bit (which is why my Dr didn't want to induce me), but I know from past babies that I really don't go anywhere until I'm either very over due or I'm on pitocin.  The pit doesn't bother me at all.  Usually I move pretty quickly once I'm on the pit.  My other inductions I have had the baby in 4-6 hours from the time they started me on the pit.  With about an hour of hard contractions.  This time I just slowly progressed.  So I sat and talked to the nurse and Karl tool and shower and then a nap.  We talked names a bit while he was awake, but still didn't decide what we wanted to name her.   Around 5PM I was at 5cm and and the baby was still quite high.  I looked at the nurse and said, I don't think that we are even going to see this baby by 6PM, which is when her shift was up.  I got tired of sitting in the bed and decided to stand.  After a couple minutes I felt and heard a weird pop.  I have never had my water break on it's own.  I didn't know it actually made a pop sound.  It's a strange feeling!  That was about 5:15 a couple minutes after that they contractions kicked in and before I knew it I was ready to push.  The nurse ran and called the Dr.  Told him baby was coming and that I had gone from 5cm to 8cm in 5 min.  Well the Doc thought since I wasn't moving very fast earlier in the day that he would be fine finishing up what he was doing.  

I had the nurse telling me to be calm and DON'T PUSH.  Well, I didn't push, but baby pushed her way out.  They grabbed a Dr. from the hall and she delivered our sweet baby. 

Because of the quick delivery she was quite swollen.  Not the cutest baby when they first gave her tome me, but she is a doll now.  She is very loved by all her siblings!  I keep thinking that the newness will wear off, but it' not.  Everyone still begs to hold her every morning and they all fight over who gets to sit by me and Violet at church.  And now she is crying, so that's all for now.