By the first week in February, I was 28 weeks along and placed on bed rest at home because I was showing signs of pre-term labor. I spent a lot of time cross stitching and making bows! By the end of the month, I was admitted to ETMC for a possible kidney stone only to later go into "official pre-term labor". I was transported by ambulance to Mother Francis in case we needed the NICU. I spent two miserable weeks in the hospital fighting to keep Brooklyn inside. After 2 weeks, a thousand painful contractions, and being dilated to a three-I was finally released to go home and continue bedrest there. I got home two days before Maddie's 3rd birthday!
I was still pregnant at 37 weeks and considered full-term. I was able to finally get up and start moving around!
On April 11, I was induced back at ETMC and after only 4 hours of labor, our sweet Brooklyn Hope was born. She was beautiful and healthy! All of the pain and hard work was worth it. Praise God for our newest little girl!
In May, Maddie had her first accident ever and had to get stitches on her ear. This happened the day after I had my gall bladder removed and was still in the hospital. Brooklyn was only 6 weeks old. By the end of May, Maddie was playing soccer through the YMCA. It was so much fun to watch her!
During the summer, we did lots of activities! We went to San Antonio and visited Uncle Josh wwhile he was stanioned there for the Navy. We went to Sea World and the Riverwalk. Maddie also enjoyed her first VBS!
In September, went to the Hallsville vs. Chapel Hill game, celebrated daddy's birthday and had Brooklyn's baby dedication!
In October, we got ready for Fall! It was filled with pumpkins and all things Halloween. We hosted the 2nd annual Light the Night event at our home. Our family dressed up as Goldilocks and the Three Bears! We also went to Medievil Times and had a ball!
In November for Thanksgiving, we flew to Washington state to visit Jaime's family. It was fun to have everyone together. We had a great holiday and even managed the hectic adventure of flying with two little ones!
And of course, we just finished up Christmas and all it's fun activities! Jaime and I also celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary. Currently, we are beginning a new bible study called B90 (reading the whole Bible in 90 days), Jaime is starting a new soccer season, Brooklyn is crawling and pulling up, etc, etc.... Life just flys by and keeps getting better and better! 2012 is going to be full of great things!
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