Settling into a Routine

 Life has slowed down a bit since having Naylor (I call him Bubba), it has been so nice staying home with him, and I love just holding him and watching him sleep.  I just think he is so cute, this past week has been fun, we have ventured out of our house a little bit more.  We have been to grandma's house a few times.  Last Sunday, Naylor got the chance to meet his American cousins, he still wants to meet his Canadian cousins, and can't wait to meet them.  He also got circumcised this week, which was not fun for momma, he cried (and he doesn't really cry at all, he just wimpers for the most part) and he really cried after it was done, and for awhile afterwards.  It broke my heart.  He is doing really good now though, still struggles with sleeping during the night, he sleeps like an angel during the day so I will have to figure out how to switch those days and nights around. Any suggestions???

 Bubba really likes his baths, it is his favorite time of day, he just chills in the water and he has been like this since he has been able to have baths.  I think we have a water baby on our hands.

July 19th was our 4 year anniversary and since we had a new baby at home we decided to hold off on celebrating for a few days.  On July 24th, Riley got off work early due to the holiday so he suggested we leave Bubba with my mom (first time leaving him) and go for a ride in the razor.  We did and it was so fun, but I was ready to be back to my baby when we were done, but it was so nice just to spend time Riley and me for a little bit.

Naylor and daddy just chilling this afternoon.  Daddy just likes to sit and hold him, and they sure look cute together! Love the men in my life.  Riley is such a fabulous daddy and husband, Naylor and I are sure lucky to have him.

Naylor representing half of his background during the opening ceremonies of the Olympics!

Naylor sleeps with his hands up like this all the time, if his hands are down swaddled in blankets he will struggle and complain until his hands are free so he can put them up. He also likes his legs free, during the night I will find him all the time with his hands like the picture above, the blankets over his chest still, and the bottom of the blanket kicked free from his feet so that his legs are free as well.  It is the cutest thing.  Well that is pretty much it for this week. It has been fun staying home with Bubba!

Naylor as of late

We are a few days late on this but, HE IS HOME!!! After 18 days of being in the NICU he finally came home on July 17th. We couldn't be happier that he is home and he is doing great. As of Friday he weighed 6.4 pounds and is 20 inches long. His doctor said he is growing like he should and is a perfect baby. We agree.

 He sleeps fairly well at night, some nights are better than others but for the most part he only wakes up every 3 hours or so so he we can feed him. 

Some of our favorite pictures

Here are a few more pictures of Naylor. He now weighs 5 pounds 15 ounces and is just over 19 inches long. 

He is 46 hours old in these pictures. We really love these pictures because we can't really see his IV or his feeding tube. Naylor is doing amazing and is completely off his oxygen and eating like a champ. They bumped up his feeding schedule because he was getting fussy between feedings. He eats just like a Sabey boy, and he has to have a fourth or fifth meal to keep him happy. Thank you for your continuing prayers. We love him like crazy!

Naylor Riley Sabey

Naylor Riley Sabey was born on June 28th at 4:05 p.m.
He was 7 weeks early, weighed 5 pounds 3 ounces and was 18.5 inches long.
We are so thrilled that this little fellow decided to join our family early and we love him like crazy!
Kallie and Naylor are both doing great. Thank you all for your prayers in our behalf
This is about 3 hours after he was born.

My Hospital Stay

Hello all, I am writing from the hospital.  I have been in here for a couple of days but I will tell you all how it started.  Starting on about last Friday I started having pain in my epigastric (lower chest) area, I just brushed it off as heart burn and kept going, but on Monday I was working and the pain was so severe that I couldn't ignore it anymore, so I talked to the floor and they said go home, or to L&D to be examined.  Well, I didn't think that I needed to go to L&D yet, I am only 33 weeks, and I was pretty sure the baby was just causing some rib pain from how big he is.  I went tell my boss about what was going on and she said, lets just take you up to get examined cuz I was in such severe pain.  She was wonderful and wheeled me up in a chair and helped me out so much with my time off stuff I needed.  I work for a fabulous department, they call and check on me everyday and it is just so nice to know that they care and are there to help out.  Well long story short, I was spilling protein in my urine and my blood pressure was elevated a bit.  So I got an admit ticket to stay in the hospital until my Dr decided what to do about this situation.  Yeah!  Get to stay on a floor where I work and I know a lot of people on it.  I get transferred over and they say we are going to give you steroids to accelerate the babies lung development, do a few more tests that take a little over a day to run and figure out from there.  Looking at all the lab values and knowing what they mean it just freaks me out and of course I assume the worst possible thing, which is buy time to get all the steroids in then deliver the baby.  Well the lab tests came back not good, but not bad so the decision my MD made today is to keep me in the hospital, I am not stable enough to send home, and keep me pregnant as long as possible then deliver this baby either when I become unstable or I am term.   So I am just hanging out, being watched, monitored, and enjoying some bed rest before baby comes.  Riley has been wonderful, he hasn't really left my side except to go home for a few minutes shower and grab some stuff that we need.  I just love him so much!  Our families have been wonderful, they have checked on us and asked if we needed stuff.  We just ask that you keep us in your prayers please, this has been scary experience but we we are so excited to meet this baby when he is a little more grown.

Party Up North

 So I am a serious slacker and  haven't blogged for awhile, and I apologize but I am going to make it up in the next few days. These last few weeks have been packed with some fun things.  Our first fun thing we did was we took our last trip to Canada just me and Riley.  Next time we go up we will have a baby. :)  It has been a little bit since we have been up there just because of our school and work schedules, so we were glad we could go up before the baby was born.  Riley really needed to go home, he was missing it extremely bad.  And we packed in alot of fun things while we were up there.

 This is me going gopher hunting at the Sabey farm.  I got the gopher I was aiming at when Riley took the picture.  I think total I killed like 12, it was so fun.  It was Riley, Brad, Syler (our nephew), and me.  That went.

 Syler being is adorable self, he definately knows how to smile for the camera.  Don't you just love that little face, cuz I sure do.

 Mandee and Jordan working on training their horses, Mandee is on Mitch and Jordan is on Jack.  They are some good looking buck skins, very pretty.

 For awhile Riley has been just itching to ride horses again, he used to ride when he was younger but decided he didn't like getting brushed off, bit, bucked off, or anything else so he stopped.  But having the itch he got back on again up in Canada.  This is him on JT.  He is a mighty fine looking man up there, but I am a little partial I think.



Brad and one of his best buds Syler on Champ. Syler loved every minute of it riding with Grandpa.

 Another day we went to the horse races in Lethbridge, I didn't bet though (I would just pick out the horse I though would win) and Riley was kicking himself for not betting the horse I would pick, even though I wouldn't have let him.  But some of the horses I picked won. This picture we thought was pretty cool, if you look close to behind us, on my side is the American flag, on Riley's is the Canadian. We didn't even plan it like that but when we looked at the pictures noticed it, but this is our relationship.  Pretty sweet huh!

 Another day we went up to the cabin and did some work up there.  Awhile ago the archway they had leading into the cabin blew over in some wicked wind, so that day they put up another one.  This is Jared in one of the holes they had to dig to put the poles in.  It was about 4-5 feet deep I think.

Lifting up the poles, they didn't look light at all, but they were able to lift up all four of them, two on each side  it was a little nerve racking for the girls to watch, but they did a good job.

This was them just trying to figure out how they were going to get the top across piece on and attached safely.  Luckily the neighbor came down with a tractor to help.  Thank heavens, it was nerve racking watching them with the tractor, couldn't imagine it without it.

Safety first, always with the Sabey's!

This is a picture of me with Riley's 30.06, I wanted to go for a walk, and Riley told me to never leave the cabin without some kind of firearm cuz you never know what you will run into up there. So I grabbed his gun, and some bullets, and left.  When Riley found me he couldn't quit laughing at me, but I was just following his orders, he shouldn't have laughed at me.  

 We got to hang out with 3 of the cutest little boys ever while up there.  Dahlin and Biz went on vacation while we were up there so we got to help watch their boys.  This is Laiken and he is so freaking cute, I just love him!  He is just so sweet, and smiles for anyone.  He even got his first tooth while we were up there and you wouldn't even know he was teething.  Such a good baby.

 This little bundle of energy is Sawyer, he is a very cute/active one year old.  He is Mandee and Jordan's little guy.  He gives you these little crooked smiles, and turns his head to the side and it just melts your heart.

And Syler again, don't you just love that smile, this little kid is so smart, and he says the funniest things, that just make you laugh so hard.  I am so glad we got to go up and spend time with the family up there, it was so good to see everyone, and Thanks Dahlin and Biz for sharing your little boys.  It was definately a good time up there.  We loved it, and it was much needed.