3 weeks old

9 lb, 7.5 oz today. I don't know why some of these appear sideways when they're the right direction in my computer...
Miller is starting to get more comfortable with her.

Some of her many expressions...



This is my favorite face. Her chin narrows when she yawns so she looks like a little alien baby.

2 weeks old

My baby girl is 2 weeks old today! We had a check up and she was 8 lb 12.5 oz and still 21 inches. She sleeps a lot still... looks like everyone does except me!


Mr. Monkey is almost as big as her!
Here's one with her eyes open.

Introducing Sadie Constance

Here she is!!!!!
Sadie Constance
9/15/09 8:28 am
8 lb, 10 oz, 21 in



Proud papa

She is already so expressive, she rolls her eyes and scrunches her nose at us too!





Miller did fairly well, but he still isn't sure about her. I think he'll be fine once he gets used to her. He was very interested and smelled her a lot, but didn't like it when she moved or made noise.


This is the second outfit she was in since we got home... while changing her first diaper at home, she peed all over her first outfit. I guess she wanted to make her first diaper change memorable!


We saw the doctor at about 2:00 on Monday. Nothing exciting happening yet, but 4 days past due, so we made an appointment to come back at 6 am the next morning and get induced. That must have scared her, because I started having contractions almost immediately after I got home, and then shortly after my water broke. We were back at the hospital at 5:30 and my contractions were already 2-3 minutes apart. I was hopeful that would mean a quick labor, but my dilating wasn't cooperating. I ended up getting the epidural once I realized we would be at it for a while. 15 1/2 hours later, it was time to get this little one into the world, but she still wasn't ready. She was parked facing my left instead of face down. 2 more hours later, the doctor finally came in and helped her out with the vacuum, and then it was only a few minutes later and she was here! I am still amazed that only 3 days ago, she was inside me, and that big! I did not look like I was carrying an 8 1/2 pound baby. She must have been packed in there really tight!

38 weeks and counting

We're counting down days now... 9 days til our due date!This picture is from last week at 38 weeks. My belly doesn't seem to grow much anymore, but she's still growing, so I'm just getting more uncomfortable as she's running out of room! My last day of work was last week Wednesday, so it has been really nice to have some time off before her actual arrival. We had a dr. appt. today, and it sounds like it'll be at least another week. So, while impatiently waiting, I'm getting organized, running errands, and hope to get some cleaning done, although the "nesting instinct" hasn't kicked in yet. (I sure hope it does, because I have NO motivation to clean.)

Since I don't have any human baby pictures yet, here's a few cute ones of my first baby-


Kevin's got his rally cap on... Cubs must have been losing. I wonder if he had frosting on his face or something! :)

35 weeks

Well, here we are at 35 weeks, only 5 more to go!
We had baby class at the hospital this week. We got to take a tour and see the delivery rooms. There's a whirlpool tub in the bathroom! I don't even have that at home!

Baby Shower

I had my shower last Sunday. Thank you SO MUCH to Mary Jo and Stefanie for putting it on, and to Grandma for letting us have it at the Heritage! I had a great time and I hope everyone else did too. We got so many nice gifts, it is such a relief to know that I don't have to buy a ton of stuff myself up front. We'll certainly spend enough on food, diapers, and day care!


Here's the diaper cake that Barb and Renee made. How cute!











This is the diaper baby that Stefanie made.

32 weeks

32 weeks- doesn't seem like as much of a difference from the last picture at 29 weeks. I only gained about 3 extra pounds between my last 2 check-ups.

I finally have all the furniture in the baby's room! I picked up the chair yesterday.
I also added the lamp and the diaper genie! And of course there's Miller again...

I got the crib set at the shower so now I have almost everything from the collection. Still just need to add the hamper, one more rug in front of the changing table, and some baskets for the night stand.
We also have a good start on diapers! Thanks to my friend Lisa's idea, we got most of these at the shower.

And now we're starting to move in on other rooms in the house too... so far just the swing is set up in the living room.