Ivy!

So after 38 weeks, we finally got to meet our little girl, Ivy Olivia Campos. She is the sweetest and we love her so much-in fact, we loved her from the second we knew about her, loved her even more the second we laid eyes on her, and love her more and more everyday. Kyle adores being a big brother and he always wants to hold her hand and give her kisses. He is very protective over her. Tonight, my mom was holding her and Kyle yelled, "That's MY sister!" :-) He is the cutest boy.

She came 2 weeks early, unexpectedly, on July 28. I had a very healthy pregnancy but just was super tired by the time I was 36 weeks so I stopped working at that time. On my second week off from work, I started having contractions but thought they were just braxton hicks and ignored them. Two days later, I started thinking these were not fake ones because I was in major pain and they were very close together... I thought, "i'll just go the doctor tonight if they get worse" but luckily, I went against that thought and went in at 11am... and I was already at 5cm.

I did have an epidural (life saver!) but because I was so dehydrated I had to wait until I had

1 1/2 bags of liquid IV'd into me... by the time I actually got it, I was already at 7-8cm... a few hours later the midwife checked me out and Ivy was already pushing her way out! She was delivered right then and there and guess what, I didn't even have to push one bit! They just pulled her gently out and because my water never broke, she was still in her bag of water which I was told is very rare and special for the baby. So it was a perfect delivery and Robert and I were so happy that words can't describe it.

It's definitely been harder having two kids to watch over but I'm getting the hang of it day by day.

It's becoming a trend how I don't update for months at a time!! But much has happened!

We are still living next door to my parents and I am still working for the same police department... the great thing is that Robert and I are now co-workers! He is not a police officer, but a community service officer who gives out parking tickets at night! He had training during the day two weeks ago so I got to see him everyday at work, which was really sweet! Since last week he has been working nights. He gets off at 6am and I start work at 6:30am so we pass eachother on the road everyday and it makes me all giddy each time he drives past me, honks his horn and waves at me with a huge smile. It makes me so happy even though I'm about to start a 10 hour day of work! :-)

Kyle is so amazing. He will be 3 in a couple of months and he talks SO much... we have full conversations and he has developed the cutest sense of humor and a feisty personality. We have so much fun with him and are marveled at all he learns everyday. He knows how to spell "toy" and loves to tell everyone "T...O...Y...TOY!" If anyone tries to spell it before him, he puts his little hand up and says, "No nononono! That's MY line!" it's really cute.

Another great development is that we are expecting again! I am 18 weeks pregnant and as of my ultrasound from the other day, we are expecting a little girl! We are thinking of names and for some reason it's way harder to think of girl names than it was boys names! We had SO many boy names that we loved and now, i have very few girl names that I like. I even liked at the top baby names of 1880 to see if there was any pretty name that would be totally unique now-a-days. Robert and I had a deal that if it was a boy he got to choose the first name and I could use the middle name and vice versa for a girl-but he doesn't really like any of the first names that I love. I am going between Evelyn and Camila... I LOVE Camila (pronounced Ka-Mee-La in Spanish) but Robert really doesn't like it... I loved the name Sophia since I was in high school (mostly because I have always been obsessed with Sophia Loren) and he doesn't love that, either... so we're working on finding the perfect name!

So far, we have been so blessed. I love my job, Robert is now working somewhere that he loves, we love eachother and our son; our little family, and how we are looking forward to welcoming our little girl in August :-)