A Plane Family Story

This weekend was Abigail Charlotte baby blessing. It was wonderful to have so much family and so many friends come to share in this special day. Here are some pictures of our beautiful little girls!!

Here is Abigail in her pretty little blessing dress! I wanted Izabella to wear all white also so this is the little dress I got for her...
Doesn't she look so cute?!!
Bella hates getting her picture taken, so getting her to smile for these pictures where torture for both her and I. But I had to try to get one of my girls together on Abigail's special day!
Here are a couple pictures of a full dress shot of Abigail's beautiful blessing dress...Here is the story...
I told Mike I wanted to get a blessing dress for Abi and of course he reputed with, can't she just wear Izabella's. Of course not, she needs her own dress to wear on her special day.
So after looking all over town and on hundreds of different web sites when I finally found this dress and I fell in love with it. So I ordered it off of ebay where I found it for more then half off, i was so excited! However, after about three weeks of waiting I got really worried that I hadn't received my dress yet so I called the company I ordered it from. According to their records the dress was being returned due to being sent to the wrong address. We corrected my address and the lady I spoke to agreed to send it to this address as soon as the received the dress.
Finally last Monday I had to find out were my dress was, so I called the company back and they said they had still not received it. So I tried the post office. They told me that the last time the package was scanned was when it had come back to the Twin Falls office for return, and until it was scanned again there was no way to know where it is. I was furious!! I mean, why put a tracking number on something when you can't track it. So of course I freaked out and dragged Mike to every store to find another dress. I couldn't find one. Not one that I really liked, and there wasn't a single one Mike didn't turn his nose up at. What was I going to do? Abigail was being blessed in three days and I didn't have a dress for her to wear.
I finally had just come to the realization that there was nothing that I could do and Abigail would have to wear Izabella's blessing dress, when the post office called, and they had found my package. Something had happened and the package had been lost in the Twin Falls post office and had never been returned. It had just been hanging out in limbo for the last three to four weeks. So after letting me know that the entire mix up was my fault since the company was given the wrong address, I was given permission to pick up my dress. After seeing Abigail in her dress it was all worth it and it was a very special day for Abigail and the whole family. Thank you to everyone who made the trip and helped make Sunday such a wonderful day!!

Love you all,

My Christmas present from Michael came in the mail yesterday. It was so much fun to open it...even though I already knew what it was! I couldn't even wait for Mike to get home from work before I opened it.

I have been wanting a big over sized clock forever. I have always thought they were so cool. So when Mike told me Christmas morning that's what I would be getting for Christmas I was ecstatic. It is gorgeous and I love it. It is 32 inches in diameter and it looks great hanging over our dinning room table. Mike also had it inscribed to say:

The Plane Family

December 15, 2005 to Eternity

My husband is so thoughtful!!

So...as I posted earlier, December 31st was a "Big Day" in The Plane Family, and it all started at about 2:30am. I had this sudden urge that I needed to visit the bathroom. This is really nothing new for a women 8 months pregnant. So I didn't really think anything of it, until after my visit. I stated wondering if my water had broke. I wasn't really sure, and I wasn't feeling any contractions. So I went out to the couch to lay down for a little while and see if anything happened. After watching an episode of That 70's Show I had another strong urge to go to the bathroom, and again I was left wondering if my water had broken.

After a long hot shower I had decided that it was time to call the doctor. I was having some small contractions and I needed to be checked to see if my water had broken because if it had I needed to start antibiotics since I had tested positive for the Strep-B Virus. So I called the hospital and spoke with my doctor who had just gotten home from delivering two other babies. He told me to head to the hospital and he would meet me there.

As I walked back to wake up Mike, I had a rude sensation of running water and I knew that my water was defiantly broken. As I stood in the doorway I shouted at Mike, lovingly, "Get Mark on the phone!", before dashing into the bathroom again. After some sarcastic complaining about what horrible timing I had Mike got out of bed and called our friend Mark ,who had consented months ago to watch Bella for us when we went to the hospital. Both Mark and Mike had been up all night playing games for their Christmas break until about 2 am; so neither one of them were very happy to be woke up and 3:30am.

By the time Mark got to the house I was really starting to have some strong contractions. Izabella had woke up and was not happy about mommy and daddy leaving in the middle of the night, yet she was very excited to have Mark staying with her.

When I got in the car I started timing my contractions because I knew the nurses would ask me how far apart they were when we got to the hospital. In the short 10 min ride it took to get to the hospital my contractions were coming about 3 mins apart. At 4:20 am I was gowned and ready for some drugs, however the nurses informed me that I would have to be checked in before I would receive any. Getting checked in took forever, and I'm not joking. It really did feel like an eternity. Within about 30 minutes my contractions were only 1 minute apart and I was in a lot of pain. Finally they decided to check if my water had broke and if I was dilated at all. Sure enough my water had broken and I was 3 cm dilated. At this time the nurse left to get my IV ready and to find out what I could have for pain. 10 mins later she had just gotten in my IV and I told her that I really felt the urge to push. It had only been 15 mins since my last check but she thought she would check again.

Her eyes got very big as she realized I was completely dilated and the babies head was right there. All it took was her going to the door and 6 other nurses came flying into the room and luckily their was a doctor asleep in the doctors rest room that they were able to wake up because 2 contractions, 1 push and about 5 mins later my little Abigail was in the world, at 5:23am.

She weighed 6 lbs 11 oz and was 20 in long. She had a head full of dirty blond hair and was perfect. The doctor and nurses were all concerned that I hadn't received any antibiotics and rushed her to the NICU to run some tests. Two minutes after our little angle was born my doctor walked into the room. He couldn't believe that he had missed it, again! (He had to have surgery two years ago and missed delivering Izabella as well).

All I could say was, "See Mike, I told you I could do it with no Drugs!" To tell you the truth, I really think this is the way to go. Here I am 2 days later and I feel like a new person. I feel GREAT!! And I do have to say ladies, I didn't scream once!! If I had to do it all over again I wouldn't do anything different.

And just as a side note, after delivering Izabella Mike informed me that labor was nothing like the movies. After this delivery he had a different thought.

"That was just like the movies without all the dramatic screaming. You could have even ran the whole delivery in a single episode!" Leave it to Mikey to make a comment like that.

I think he also appreciated being able to go home and be back in bed before 10:00am.

Everyone is home, and we are all doing very well. We got a phone call Sunday morning from the Doctor telling us we could come get little Abigail and bring her home. I couldn't wait! However, I had to wait for my husband to get out of bed and get ready. It was the longest hour of my life. I thought men where suppose to get ready faster then women?!

December 31st is a day that will not be forgotten in "The Plane Family"...

Let me take you back to December 31st, 2007 about 11:17pm when Izabella Arrow Plane was born. She instantly stole Mike and my hearts. This is what she looked like then...

I can not believe that it was 2 years ago when this little 5 lbs 13 oz little angle came into this work. Still to this day this little angle keeps Mike and I smiling. We love to watch her grow and learn. I can't believe my big girl is turning 2 years old and now weights 24 lbs, it seems only yesterday I was holding her for the very first time.

Now I am struggling to keep up with her. To celebrate her birthday Bella decided that she wanted a Tinkerbell or "Bell" party as she would say. Since I was almost ready to explode I decided that it was a good idea to order a store cake for this birthday since I didn't really have the energy to make one. So on Monday morning Izabella and I went to Walmart and she picked out this cake for her party. It is all she talked about all week, was going to pick up her cake for the party!

Here is Daddy and Bella blowing out her Two candles!!

I'd say by the look of thinks that the cake was a big hit!!

Decorating for Christmas this year was a completely different experience. Izabella is in the "I do it" stage a wants to do everything mommy and daddy are doing. So this year she wanted to help with everything. At first I thought that this might cause some problems, but really she was a lot of help and quite a delight.

It was so much fun to make all the ornaments and to decorate the tree as a family. Izabella did it all. She is so curious and always wants to be involved. So we took a Saturday night, popped some popcorn and Bella and I started string popcorn and cranberries for the garland. Then we made gingerbread men and snowflakes. And she even helped me string the dried oranges and apples.

Then on Sunday afternoon Mike and Izabella set up the tree and fluffed it. It was great watching her help her daddy!

Then when night came we were all ready to decorate our tree. We warmed up some cocoa and put on some Christmas music, then the festivities began. Izabella did really well making sure the bottom of our tree was decorated with all the right ornaments.

We only had to help her space them out a few times.

Then when the bottom was all done Daddy helped her decorate the top of the tree too.

Here is our tree after all the homemade ornaments were put on them I love my old fashion Christmas tree!!

And her is our lead decorator posing with her beautiful Christmas Tree!!

Izabella loves her Christmas tree and for the most part has left it alone. I have noticed that a few of the candy canes have disappeared and Bella has to show everyone that comes over her special ornament, plus the doggies, and Daddies Star Trek ones. She has also been my little gift girl this year. Since I have a hard time getting under the tree I have been wrapping the gifts and she's been putting them under for me. She is mommy's big little helper.

We hope you all are having a great holiday season so far, we sure are.

Wishing you all the best,

Mike, Stefanie, and Izabella

So we have just over a month left in waiting for our new little family member to join our family, and we just can't seem to find enough patience. I know that mostly I'm getting excited to be able to sleep again, or to be able to tie my own shoes, but Izabella and Mikey are getting anxious also. Izabella has decided in the last couple of weeks that she too has a baby in her tummy. We have tried to explain things to her, however whenever anyone asks her about the baby she pulls up her shirt and pats her tummy saying, "My Baby!" It really is too cute!Last week I stayed home for a couple days and Izabella and I decided that it was time to start getting things ready for her new little sister. I was so proud of her as I watched her clean out one of her drawers in her dresser out and helped me but the baby clothes in it. I had so much fun telling her how she had warn all these little outfits herself only two years ago. We then pushed over all her clothes to one side of the closet and hung up the rest of the baby clothes. Izabella's favorite part was moving all her shoes to one side of the changing table bottom shelf to but the baby shoes on the other side. She loves shoes, and naturally she tries to but on the baby shoes from time to time.