Coleson Bradd Clifford

I am finally getting around to posting about our sweet new bundle of joy, Coleson. We are just so in love with him. He is honestly the best baby ever. He is always smiling non stop, we just can't get enough of him.

I was really worried about having another baby, I just didn't think I could love another baby as much as Kason, but boy was I wrong. My heart has literally doubled size for this little guy, we couldn't love him more. 

I would like to write about his birth story so I always have it as memory, because I KNOW I will forget. Which I probably already have anyway ha. 

So at about 35 weeks, my blood pressure spiked. It happened with Kason too, but not until right at 40 weeks, so this was a bit earlier. It wasn't pre-eclampsia, but it was still on the border. The doctor just told me to take it easy when I can and to stop work to rest more. So lucky me, I was able to be done with teaching a lot earlier than I thought :) I couldn't complain about that. As I kept going to check-ups, my blood pressure was stable and gone down a bit, but still not low enough to be normal, so the doctor wanted to induce me at about 38.5 weeks. 

So we went to the hospital Wednesday morning on May 13th to get induced. We checked in at about 7:30am. My labor was REALLy fast with Kason, about 6 hours total, so I thought with Coleson it would go maybe even faster, boy was I wrong. I wanted to wait a little longer to get the epidural with Cole, because with Kason, I just thought I got it way too soon. So they started me on pitocin and such at about 9:00am. I didn't feel any pain or anything for quite awhile. The doctor finally came to break my water at about 2-3 pm. And this is where my traumatic experience all started haha. I don't remember it ever hurting with Kason, to get my water broke. But for some reason this time, it was the most pain I have ever felt for as long as I can remember, I kept crawling up the bed to the very top, it was embarrassing. The doctor kept asking me to come back down haha. He ended up not thinking he could do it until I got my epidural because I was moving up the bed and in so much pain. So he left and said for me to get my epidural and he would come back. Little did we know, he did end up breaking it during that whole horrible experience, but it was time to get the epidural anyway. 

I should of known right away that something wasn't right. I just didn't feel numb at all and only one side felt any difference at all, but the nurses kept telling me that is how it supposed to be and that it takes time to go numb, and blah blah blah. I listened to them, because I wasn't in pain yet, so I thought I would have patience and wait it out. Well as time went on, I finally started to progress. And I was getting really really uncomfortable and could feel a lot. They had the anesthesiologist came back to re-do the epidural or whatever they are supposed to do, but couldn't do really anything to get it to go numb where it is supposed to be...hint hint, my you know what. My legs were numb, but no where else. Very frustrating. I am sure it numbed it a litttle compared to having nothing, but it sure didn't feel that way ha. So anyways by the time I finally got to a 10, which was at about 10:00pm, I was hurting SOOOO bad, I was shaking so bad and couldn't control it. I think I was just more so scared to push him out because I knew I would feel it. So I was psyching myself out a lot. When the doctor came and we began to push, it actually felt so good, I was so surprised. I only had to push for about 5 minutes and Cole was here. My mom and Tage were in the room with me, and were great supporters! Even though I was kind of a wuss! Haha. Once they put Cole on my chest, I remember yelling, "Oh that was sooo worth it!" And of course you immediately forget the pain you were in. My recovery was 100 x's better than Kason, I felt great. Coleson came out at 8lbs. 6 oz. at 10:13pm. 

Coleson has just been the best baby we could ever ask for. And Kason just loves him so much! We were really nervous about Kason and how he would be with the baby, but he SURPRISED us all. He was soo cute when he met him for the first time. One of the best moments of my life. The first few weeks, anytime someone came over, Kason would run over to Cole and yell and point "Baby! Baby!" letting everyone know he was his baby. It was priceless. 

Here are some newborn pics we got of Coleson. We LOVE them, especially the brotherly love ones. 

And now that Coleson is almost 3 months, he has already changed soo much! He is so much bigger than Kason was. We have a feeling he may be pounding on big brother before we know it, at least Kason is fast ;) Here is some pics of our sweet little guy so far. 

Had to be under lights for a few days. 

Coleson's bedroom my mom did...AMAZING!

Brother kisses!

First Smiles!

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MILK DRUNK!!

Comparrison of the two boys...who's who?? Brothes for sure! (Kason on the left, Cole on the right)

Welcome to the family Baby Coley! You couldn't be a more perfect fit! We LOVE YOU SOOO MUCH!!!

4 month RECAP :)

I really need to do a better job of not updating this every 4 months ha. But I say better late than never :) Crazy to think that the next update, will most likely be when Babe #2 is here...crazzzyy! For those that don't know, I am due in 7 weeks, May 15th with Baby Boy #2. We are so excited for him to get here. We "think" Kason is too :) when we ask him he does say no, but then he will give baby brother kisses on my belly all the time, so we are going to just say he is excited! Kason is definitely in for a rude awakening tho, he will now have to share all his toys and not to mention attention time, but I think he will adjust just fine...hopefully. This pregnancy has actually gone by pretty fast for me, which is a good thing. I have had a lot more pain/uncomfortableness with this one tho than Kason, probably just cause it is my second child as well. But overall it has been great. I am incredibly huge I feel tho, I wouldn't be surprise if twins end up coming out at the end. Jk...but seriously. I need to go back and update a few months ago...lets start with the Holidays!

For Thanksgiving we spent a couple days down at the Grand America Hotel with Tage's side of the family. We played in the pool quite a bit and had a blast all together. For the rest of the weekend we headed up to Tage's family's cabin, which is always a blast!! Kason loved the snow and riding the 4 wheeler.

At the Hotel. Getting thrown from Daddy is a Fav!

Fun times at the Cabin!

Christmas is always my FAVORITE time of the year! I love the season and family time. My whole family made the trek down to Utah again and we spent the week at Heidi's. Of course it is a FULL house, but we wouldn't have it any other way :) Kason was big enough to play with his cousins. They were so good with him. He loved every minute.

Some Family pics we got done while everyone was here.

Fun times at the Rec center

Grandma and Grandpa are the best!

Loves his Uncle Blake!

Cutest Santa ever!

Christmas Eve we did the tradition of Polar Express up at the Heber Creeper. This was by far the most fun year for us because Kason was old enough to have fun! He didn't stop smiling and yelling the whole time. It was a blast!

Polar Express with some of the cousins

Christmas morning was so much fun with Kason this year. Of course he is still too young to understand Santa and all of that, but he sure tore through his presents faster than a bat out of hell. He was a spoiled boy for sure! Kason just makes everything so much more fun for us now :)

Spoiled boy!

Syd, one of my best friends from college, spontaneously asked if we wanted to go to San Diego with her for a few days and do LEGOLAND and the beach. How could we pass that up? So just I went with Kason. We had sooo much fun! Kason was still a little too small for some of the rides, but we did put a hat on him that few workers let him slide by on. Others were VERY picky and even smooshed his spiked hair down to measure. So we did miss out of a few, but it was still so fun! But I do have to say my favorite part of our mini vaca was the beach! Kason was in heaven. It was sooo fun too see. I immediately came home and told Tage that no matter what, we are going to a beach this summer, just so he can see Kason in his own little heaven. So we booked a beach house with some of my family for Labor Day at Newport Beach, I can not wait!!

My flight buddy passed out

Fun times in the hotel room.

LEGOLAND

Had to tear him from the toys!

LOVED the Lego people, always wanted to snuggle

My favorite picture of the trip!

I think that is a recap of the major things that have gone on for our little family over the last few months. We are now just gearing up for Baby #2 to come. We have a lot to do to get ready, mentally as well ha :)

Here are few other pictures of Kason as of late as well.

We met Mitt Romney at Rumbi Grill :)

First fall of snow, he was so intrigued with it.

 

Disney on Ice with cousins!

 

Shoveling snow with Papa

First movie in a theatre, Big Hero 6, his new favorite!

I am in scouts, and Kason has finally caught on to the flag ceremony.

Always has to go to bed with his cars.

LOVES the park!

Becoming an addict, gets it from Papa!

Loves his new Power Wheel.



Got some of Kason's 2 Year pics done by Tage's cousin. We love them! I can't believe he will be 2 next week, makes me want to cry!!! Where did my baby go??