Mya is 2 weeks old! (Warning: Lots of pics)

(Ava & Mya kicking back, Ava LOVES to hold her!)

My baby Mya is 2 weeks old today, amazing how it went by fast.

Today we had her Dr appt and then my Dr appt...it was crazy having to drag them around and oh how I hate waiting for Doctors!
My bro and his family came to meet Mya this past weekend.
Little sleep was had by most of us, but we still loved having them here.
The kids got along for the most part. Well, except at church on Sunday. Right as church was starting Ava decided she wanted the goldfish that I had given her cousin Kiera, well Kiera got mad and so did Ava and screaming & crying commenced. Kiera got dragged out of the chapel screaming "I want my Mommy", everybody started laughing. A bit embaressing, especially for my SIL Shanda, sorry!


Ava & Kiera are almost exactly 7 months apart and funny thing, so are Liam and Mya. We had taken a pic of the girls like this (should have posted it), so had to do it with these two.

Jeremy is the biggest kid, loved by all the kids! Ava & my cousin Jess are enjoying their ride.

Love this pic, looks like he's posing or thinking really hard!

Ava did some posing for me also!

Another copied pose, Jer took the same one w/ Ava, so here is Mya.

I'll have to do a comparison post soon.

My Girls! Just love them!!!

Mya's 1st bath! Didn't like it too much, but by the 3rd one has decided it's not too bad.

This is for my Sis, who gave Ava the BYU onesie that she never fit into.

But with Mya being a whole 2lbs lighter, it fits great!

Stats on Mya:

2 weeks- 9lb 1.5 oz, 22 in long

LOVES to sleep!

Cranky from 10pm to around midnight, not cool!

Not a fan of tummy time.

Fast eater, way faster than Ava.

Poops all day long (not that anyone wanted to know that)

Smiles in her sleep, so sweet.

Takes all sorts of "tough" love from her sister and doesn't even cry about it.

Is the cutest little bug!!!

We are home...now a family of FOUR!!!

Mya on Day 2 of life! Isn't she just precious, we could kiss her for hours.

Big Sister Ava loves to snuggle Mya, not always so gently.
Close supervision will always be a must with Ava & Mya, at least will she's this small.

Oh my, just love her!

Hmm, think they are related?

This was taken right before we left, 1st time I did my hair or make-up in 3 days!!! With Ava I got beautiful the next day, but after almost passing out in the shower on Day 2, I gave up on how I looked until I could function better.

She loves to sleep this way, so comfy on Mommy.

Welcome Home!

Jake was just as excited as everyone else, she got a few good licks from that dog.

Boppies are the best invention, couldn't live without one.

1st go at tummy time! Ava couldn't let Mya have all the fun, so she spread out her own blanket and joined the party on the floor.

Then she had to size up her babies next to Mya, already practicing how to share. Just don't touch Ava's blanket, she's never sharing that! Even at the hospital a nurse commented on Ava's blanket and she grabbed and declared "this is MY blankie."

As for sleep, she's doing GREA T during the day, hard to wake her sometimes to eat. But the last 2 nights at home have been a struggle. I think I was up with her from 1:30am to 5am, then she finally fell asleep in her carseat and I slept on the couch until 7am when Ava woke up. Oh how I've been looking forward to this! :) Otherwise, she's a keeper!

My cousin Audra last commented that she couldn't wait to hear more of Mya's birth story, so here goes, you asked for it! Tuesday the 31st we arrived bright and early at 5:30 am. Got my I.V. hooked up, vitals taken and took some NASTY anti-nausea med. They wheeled me into the O.R. just before 7:30 am, where the anestheologiest (can't spell right now) administered my Spinal injection. Instantly nerve pain shot down my left leg and kept throbbing, she re-adjusted the needle, but it took a good couple of minutes to stop hurting. Then I layed down, and started to feel the numbness creep up my legs. Eventually the doctor came in and they let Jeremy come back as well. Then before I knew it, they were slicing me open and within a couple minutes I heard the sweet cries of Baby Mya. Jeremy got to take some pics right after she was out and then I got a quick peek before they took her to get cleaned up. At one point I looked over and saw that the scaled read 8lbs 10oz, I asked if that was seriously her weight, I was shocked. After having a 10lb 12oz baby, I didn't imagine I'd ever get an 8 pounder!!! Then my anesth. doc asked if I felt sick at all, well like a second later I could taste bile in my mouth and just started vomitting. Disgusting! I think it happened 2 or 3 more times while I was still being operated on. It took a total of an hour or so from start to finish for the C-section.

I won't tell you all about the 1st day, as my memory is fuzzy. But I lost my stomach a few more times. At dinner time I was feeling good and they made me get out of bed and sit in the rocker to eat my jello and broth. But just when the nurse came back to ask how my food was sitting, I barfed it all back up for her. Pleasant, I know. The next day brought on the challenge of getting out of bed, they removed my blessed catheter and helped me to the toilet. After sitting there a minute I went totally flush and almost fell over. The nurse got me back to bed and it took me a few minutes to recover fully. I tried again later, not too bad, just a little dizzy. Then I decided to take a shower at 5pm because I stunk from all that barfing. I sat on the stool in the shower and got all clean, then had to tell Jeremy to get me dressed fast because I was about to pass out again. He did a good job helping out, I felt just awful though. Got into bed to re-coup and decided that was all I could do for the day. The next day was much better, made 3 trips out of my room and in the hallways. No more dizziness or nausea and I was eating like a pig. Everyday has been better, still pretty sore and hard to stand up straight, but I might be able to go for a short walk today, we'll see. Sorry for the yucky details and my non-exciting writing abilities. But besides all the yucky stuff, just hanging out and holding this precious newborn has been the best. We feel so very blessed to have been given this 2nd miracle baby!

Mya Carole Frey

Trisha (and hubby) arrived at the hospital at 5:30 am. Time seemed to fly by with all of the people coming in and out of the room. We had a few minutes with the night shift people before the shift change. She said the "well rested and chipper nurses will be in soon."
Mya Carole Frey. 8 lbs. 10 oz. 21 inches.

Wiped out. Trish had bouts of nausea during the C-Section and afterward. That seemed to be the only issue. Mya was doing well. Her blood sugar was low and the first feeding was supplemented.

She's a keeper. Ava was happy to see her sister and she was gentle. She seemed to understand that she is no longer in mom's tummy. It may be a challenge to keep her from smothering her little sister. Ava gave her a little toy and Mya gave her big sister a new Belle Barbie with a horse. We will be in the hospital until September 3rd.

LAST DAY OF WORK FOR 3 MONTHS!!!!

Trish #1 & Trish #2

There are 3 hygienists at my work, 2 of us are Trish! She is having a baby about 2 weeks after me, so fun. My boss isn't too excited, but he'll live. We had planned our last pregnancies one at a time, but this of course was a big suprise to me and hers was an "oops."

I survived my last day today! It was especially tough because my 1st patient was Jeremy Frey. I'm soooo very ready to be done, pregnancy is not my favorite thing, but the end result is going to be AWESOME!!! Only 4.5 days....

(Side note: I had a patient tell me today I didn't look that ready, that I could actually be bigger...what the heck??? I think I'm pretty dang big & ready RIGHT now!!)

"I love to see the Temple"

This is the Portland OR Temple, so beautiful!

We had a Birthday party for Jer's coworker to go to on Saturday and he happens to live just past the Temple. On the way home, we decided Ava needed to see the temple and she wanted to as well. Glad we stopped!
Can you tell she was excited???
It was cute to watch her take in this beautiful, sacred place. She just kept staring up at the tall spires. There is a gold statue on top (info for those non-LDS followers) who represents Angel Moroni, Ava kept calling him Joseph Smith. Not even sure where that came from.

Ava & Mommy....can't get this girl to hold still.

My big 37 week bump...it's so much bigger looking when I'm standing.

Ava & Daddy, enjoying all the views.

Ava told me to take this picture of the trumpet, funny girl.

But as we were leaving, Ava asked if we were going inside. We told her no, because we

weren't in church clothes and she'd have to be really, really quiet. The poor gal burst into tears, she was just devastated. I wanted to cry with her, it was so sweet. I can't wait for the day to take her into the Temple and have her feel the Spirit that is in there.

Today after church Jeremy was nice and took Ava for a walk so Mommy could nap in peace. When they got back they decided to lay in the shade and check out the clouds in the sky.

It was quite cute and they stayed out there like that for awhile. Mommy enjoyed the peace, but had trouble sleeping anyways.

Tomorrow morning it will be 8 days till Delivery-Day!!! I can't wait

to meet Baby Mya and see what she looks like, I keep expecting her to look like Ava, though I know she probably won't. Finally got all the baby clothes unpacked and cleaned and ready to go. Now I just need to pack my hospital bag and I think we are set to go. We took down all the baby gear yesterday and Ava has been having a blast using them for her baby dolls. I don't think she gets how soon baby will be here, since she's taken so long to grow, but she did tell me the other day that "Mommy is getting so big, baby sister is growing." Thanks. She has a new phrase that cracks me up...when she's trying to tell you something and can't think of the right word, she'll pause and then laugh and say "I can't say." Love my girl (most of the time)!

Ava's 1st boating/tubing experience!!!

It was hot Saturday here in Oregon, but thankfully our friends invited us to a

lake up in WA to celebrate Cavan's Birthday (Happy Birthday today!!!)

Their parents own a boat and we got to take a little ride in it, Ava's

1st ride to be exact. She was having a blast riding in the boat.

My man Jeremy (with our friends nephew), just hanging out, ready for some action.

Hmmm....this is a little scary, but way fun!

Trying to sit on Mom's lap these days is no easy task...there is barely any room left.

Oh but I held her tight, didn't need her to go flying.

Our friend Cavan (Birthday Boy) with his niece and nephew.

Oh Wilson! He's their cute Boxer.

Now it's Daddy & Ava's turn!!! I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little scared

to have her out there. Thankfully we weren't going to fast, but they still did some good bouncing and Ava looked like she was getting some whiplash.

Even without a smile on her face to be found out there, she still said it was fun.

They had to stop once because her shoe came off or she took it off.

It was a great day and we stayed cool playing by the water all day.

Thanks for the invite Dovers!!!! Enjoy all your Mt Dew...hahaha.

Ava's NEW room!

We decided to kick Ava out of her room and give her the bigger Guest room, so when baby comes all the crib stuff matches the walls/decor in the smaller room and baby can just be in there...well eventually.

We didn't want to paint this room again, it's been done like 3 times since we've owned the house....it's had some pretty scary colors that we chose, sadly.

So I found some cute wall decor, love Vinyl decals, so easy to use and remove.

And I got the idea for the tulle swag from some blog, I think it turned out cute, quite girly!

And for some reason, she actually plays in her new room more than she ever

did in the other one. It's kind of nice!

We had to find her a new dresser, so found her a used one on Craiglist, but still in good shape.

Now I just need to get rid of the black curtains and find some pink ones and have Jeremy

build some shelves over the bookcase to put pics on.

Easy enough!

And she was more than happy to take over "Aunt Lissa's room"...which she kept telling me.

My happy Girl!!!