Pictures from the hospital!

Here are some of the Pictures my very talented cousin Sarah took of Kingston! He is so precious! I love this boy more than i even thought possible!!!

I Love the wrinkles!!! So cute!

King's first bath at home!!

After Kingston came home from the hospital i came up to Indianola to to stay with my parents for the week. My mom took the week off from work so she could help, and what a help she has been!! A few nights ago she helped me give Kingston his first bath!! Yippee!! I loved it, He hated it!! Oh well, what do ya do! You gotta bathe your kids right! Here are some pics of the cute little bugger!

Grandma Jessie getting him all ready!!

The calm before the storm!!

The storm!!

Feeling totally relaxed now that his torture is over!!

Mommy and Kingston!! Love his face here!! So funny!

He is here!

Kingston Vince Nelson made his big debut the last week!! February 25th at 12:00 a.m. right on the dot!! He weighed 7 pounds and 6 ounces, and was 20 perfect little inches long!! I went in Wednesday night at 11 p.m. to get a prostin gel (gel they put on your cervix to soften it) to try to induce me, then they sent me home for six hours. I had to go back to the hospital one more time to get another prostin gel placed. So at 5:30 a.m. Dallas and I headed on over to the hospital once more secretly hoping they would just keep me there, but they didn't they sent me home again. ^ hours later we headed back to the hospital to get induced. They checked me in and we waited!! finally at 5 p.m. my water broke on its own. All of a sudden I felt like i was peeing my pants!!! "Dallas, I'm peeing!!" I told him, "well stop" he says back to me.... like i wasn't trying to stop! and then WHAM.... worlds worst contraction hit! (or at least that's what it felt like!) so i stuck it out for another 2 hours and got my epidural.... after that it was a cake walk! I was finally dilated to 10cm at 10 p.m. and started pushing!! Hardest thing EVA! I pushed for an hour and a half and every time i pushed the babies heart rate would drop.... so the doctor told me i would need to head in for a C-Section :( I was really sad about this at first but then I manned up and realized its what had to be done. so they sent me into the operating room at 11:30 and Kingston was here 1/2 an hour later. He was so beautiful and perfect! I can't believe that i had a part in creating something so absolutely amazing! I am 100% in love with him!

Me just sitting, waiting, wishing!

Getting closer!!

So today i had my 38 week apt. and it was ...hmmmmm.... interesting! I got a lot of news, my blood pressure has been kind of on the high side these last few weeks and my feet are the size of balloons (I'm retaining water) so the doc sent me over for some lab work. He says that if it comes back abnormal then he will Induce me on Wed. (the 24th) AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! This is very scary/exciting news for me..... for the last 3 or 4 weeks i have been telling everyone how "ready" i am to have this baby! but when it comes right down to it.... what woman is really "ready" to have a baby? That's right, NOT ONE! Its OK though, I'll get over it and do what i gotta do and i am seriously excited to meet my little dude!! The other thing... to all those moms out there who told me getting "checked" wasn't painful...... (this is me sticking my tongue out at you) i almost kicked my doctor in the face, that hurt so bad!! He called it cervical stretching............YOWZA!!! He told me it was just a small glimpse.... hmmm great! It wasn't bad though, as soon as he was done "feeling" my babies head then the pain went away... but for those 15 seconds i couldn't even think straight!! The good news is i am dilated to a 1 1/2 and 70% effaced!! Its small progress, but progress none the less!! But that's enough of by moaning and groaning..... I am so excited to get to be a mommy, and start this new adventure!! Its just a very terrified excited!! thanks for reading!

names, names, names!!!

It has been so stressful trying to find names for my little dude!! I have always been very excited to discuss names ever since i was a little girl, I loved the thought of giving a little baby a cute name!! That is until i got pregnant!! now that it is something that i actually have to do i am very nervous!! What a huge responsibility, giving another human a name!! He will be stuck with it for the rest of his life!! what if he hates it? what if kids tease him? what if people can't pronounce it? what if its hard for him to spell? what if its hard for him to say? these thoughts have been like a train in my mind for the last 5 or 6 months!! not to mention middle names!! I want it to be meaningful and sound good... but what to choose, what to choose? Anytime someone in my family brings it up i just say "i am not going to talk about it right now!!" I want to choose a name so badly, i feel like it will make it more real for me to call him "____" rather than just baby. So i pray every night that Heavenly father will whisper the most perfect name in my ear and i will just know..... Well that wasn't the case! Dallas and I have had names picked out since we were dating, and as soon as i got pregnant they all went out the window!! We had on boy name picked out and i just loved it, but i didn't like the way it sounded with Nelson. any way, it has been stuck in the back of my mind for ever... but i kept refusing to think about it!! well last night i prayed again to know the name of my son... and that night i had a dream and Dallas and i were calling him by this name... so i just can't refuse it any longer. I have decided to name him Kingston! i am so excited about it! it feels like a huge weight has been lifted to finally know his name!!

It's a Boy!

We had our 20 weeks ultra sound on the 19th, and found out we are having a boy!! yay!! No on to trying to find names that Dallas and I both agree on.....(BOO) :) any suggestions?I think I'll dress him up as a skeleton for Halloween.......

Its a Baby!!!

In May I missed my period and i was SURE i was pregnant.... so sure that even after about 10-15 negative pregnancy tests i was still sure!! when i finally went to a doctor they told me i wasn't that i must just be stressed out from moving to Chicago... So i took a hint... i was a little upset, but i got over it. When i missed my period again in June i didn't even think about pregnancy, i just figured i was still stressed out. The second week in July i started to throw up all the time, and gag when i smelled something nasty (or something not nasty at all) Everyone told me that i should just take a test but i really didn't think i was pregnant!! So i finally broke down and took one and it was instantly positive!! I was in shock, i sat on the edge of my aunts bath tub for a while staring at the two lines on my stick, waiting for one of them to disappear! When it didn't i went and showed my aunt!! It was a really great day!!! Dallas was so happy, he didn't really know what to say except "congratulations!!!" HA! it was funny!!

about a week after i found out!!
The latest belly pic!!

I am now almost 19 weeks along and am due March 8th. I am 99% positive that it is a boy! We find out next week for sure!! The pregnancy so far has been great.. other than the first week of throwing up every day i have felt pretty good (lets be honest its still a pregnancy, so how good can i really feel!) But compared to some horror stories i have heard.... I think i am fortunant!! I will keep you posted on everything that is going on..... Here are some pics of my little peanut!! it looks like a human now, and less like an alien!! YAY!

The peanut at 9 weeks 2 days!
12 weeks along!! And sucking his little thumb!!