Friday, August 28, 2009
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Okay, okay
Cut me some slack people! I've finally updated our Picasa site to include pics of Anna's early arrival :)
Life with two kiddos is interesting to say the least! All I can say is thank goodness my mom's here to help out for a couple of weeks!
Carrie seems to be adjusting as well as can be expected. Some times she just wants to love all over Anna....and others she gets a little mad that Anna takes up so much of my time. All expected reactions from her; it's just hard as a mommy to feel like you aren't able to fulfill the expectations of both kids at the same time. I'm sure it's something I'll figure out when I've had more than a few days under my belt of being a parent to two children!
Monday, August 17, 2009
Anna's 1st Full Day
Today was a great day! We had a very routine night last night as well as today. Lady (Carolyn) came to help out and bring clothes to Mom and Dad. Anna went to the nursery and passed her hearing test! We had Larry's Subs for lunch. Yum! Mommy's first cold sub in 9 months! Whizzy, Rhett, and Carrie came in this afternoon to so that Carrie could meet her little sister for the first time. "That's my little sister"
Good Night All!
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Welcome Anna Sophia!
At 6:14pm this evening we are please to have Anna Sophia join our family! 6lbs and 10.2 oz and 18.25". As of this writing Mommy is great and Anna is hangin in the NICU working out some fluid in her lungs. We should have her with us in a couple of hours. Yea! Here are some pictures of todays adventures. We look forward to introducing her to you all...
So what's a few days....
Sorry everyone but I (Jerry) will be handling blog duties for the next few days because today is the day! #2 has decided to make his or her grand entrance 12 days early! Stay tuned b/c we will be heading to the OR this evening for the delivery. Yea! For those of you who have been keeping up, the wait is almost over as we will let you know the name and sex ASAP!
Stay tuned... Only a few hours to go!
Stay tuned... Only a few hours to go!
Friday, August 14, 2009
HE'S HOME!!!!
Finally! Jerry's been home almost a week, and even my co-workers have noticed a difference in me....they say I'm laughing more, looking more relaxed, etc. That's cause my partner-in-crime is finally back on the correct side of the pond, silly people! (Well, that and the fact that I can say "honey, i'm really exhausted....can you give carrie a bath tonight?")
Welcome home, Daddy! We missed you terribly and are so excited that you're back and we're so close to starting the next exciting chapter in our life, growing from a family of three to a family of four!
Please excuse the fact that I look like the broad side of a barn in this photo. This is what 36 weeks pregnant looks like. Taken moments after our reunion!
Welcome home, Daddy! We missed you terribly and are so excited that you're back and we're so close to starting the next exciting chapter in our life, growing from a family of three to a family of four!
Please excuse the fact that I look like the broad side of a barn in this photo. This is what 36 weeks pregnant looks like. Taken moments after our reunion!
Monday, August 3, 2009
Random updates
Hi there! I'm waiting on all of my guidebooks on Portugal/Spain to make their return trip to the states before finishing up the blogs on my trip there since I can hardly remember my name these days. In the meantime....
Went to the doc on Thursday and got a great report! Well, great in that fluid levels are going in the right direction - up. She still wants me to rest and drink gallons of water, which I've been doing, and it seems to be doing the trick. While there I thought they had forgotten about me....they hooked me up to the non-stress test machine to measure contractions and baby's heart rate - and left me there. For like 45 minutes. I finally knocked on the wall and another nurse came in and apparently no one realized I was in there. Fantastic. Luckily she ran to get my nurse who had forgotten about me and also brought me some sweet tea & a brownie to encourage the baby to move around a little more. I do what I can in the name of helping my baby.
Jerry will be home on SATURDAY. I can hardly believe it. Some times it feels like it's been forever that he's been gone, and sometimes it feels like it's been 5 minutes. More often than not it's the former, but oh well. It's almost over! Jerry keeps saying he's going to mess up the "routine" Carrie and I have going. I say come on home and mess it up all you want :)
Carrie went to the "big girl" class today at school. She's obviously been two for awhile now, but the school waited till now to move her and several other kiddos from her 18 month old class over to the two year old class all at the same time to ease the transition. Thankfully there's a total of 6 kids going over there starting today, and one of them is her BFF Lauren. I'm not kidding - these two are like super glue on each other. They always have to sit right beside each other whenever doing crafts, story time, lunch, you name it. The teacher did say she had to separate them at naptime or otherwise they'd keep the entire class up chattering. I just find it utterly fascinating that this sort of social structure has started so early in life. I guess it's the psychology training coming out in me, but I'd love to spend a day just watching like a fly on the wall to observe all of this!
I am having a little bit of mommy guilt over the fact that I didn't take her on her very first day, but I will be picking her up. I didn't take her because getting her out the door and deposited at school and me at work by 8am is never going to happen and I had a meeting this morning at 8:30. I feel horrible not taking her on her first day of big girl class, but also felt silly asking to come in late on one of the only three days I'm in the office each week. I will take her in tomorrow, though. And my mom got to take her in today, so that was a "treat" for mom as well. Apparently as soon as they pulled into the parking lot Carrie announced "No Miss Lizzie class." Uh oh. She wasn't terribly happy from what I hear about going to her new class, but she waved like crazy to my mom from the window (I'm glad that this classroom has a window just like her old one does, so we can do the ol' "wave bye bye to mommy!" trick if necessary).
There are lots of new things going on in her class - no sippy cups, just regular cups (um, let me know how THAT goes) and stand up diapering in the bathroom to encourage potty training. I have to admit I've been terribly lazy on the potty training thing. I had a lofty goal of having her trained by the time Jerry got home. Obviously that hasn't happened. But seriously - have I had the patience and energy to go through that little process in these past few months? Absolutely not. Jerry seems quite committed to getting her potty trained himself after he arrives home, so I say go for it buddy. I am hoping that by seeing all the other kids in her class doing it she'll want to speed up the process. It may all go out the window in 3.5 weeks, but that's okay. At least she'll have a vague idea of what she's supposed to be doing.
Went to the doc on Thursday and got a great report! Well, great in that fluid levels are going in the right direction - up. She still wants me to rest and drink gallons of water, which I've been doing, and it seems to be doing the trick. While there I thought they had forgotten about me....they hooked me up to the non-stress test machine to measure contractions and baby's heart rate - and left me there. For like 45 minutes. I finally knocked on the wall and another nurse came in and apparently no one realized I was in there. Fantastic. Luckily she ran to get my nurse who had forgotten about me and also brought me some sweet tea & a brownie to encourage the baby to move around a little more. I do what I can in the name of helping my baby.
Jerry will be home on SATURDAY. I can hardly believe it. Some times it feels like it's been forever that he's been gone, and sometimes it feels like it's been 5 minutes. More often than not it's the former, but oh well. It's almost over! Jerry keeps saying he's going to mess up the "routine" Carrie and I have going. I say come on home and mess it up all you want :)
Carrie went to the "big girl" class today at school. She's obviously been two for awhile now, but the school waited till now to move her and several other kiddos from her 18 month old class over to the two year old class all at the same time to ease the transition. Thankfully there's a total of 6 kids going over there starting today, and one of them is her BFF Lauren. I'm not kidding - these two are like super glue on each other. They always have to sit right beside each other whenever doing crafts, story time, lunch, you name it. The teacher did say she had to separate them at naptime or otherwise they'd keep the entire class up chattering. I just find it utterly fascinating that this sort of social structure has started so early in life. I guess it's the psychology training coming out in me, but I'd love to spend a day just watching like a fly on the wall to observe all of this!
I am having a little bit of mommy guilt over the fact that I didn't take her on her very first day, but I will be picking her up. I didn't take her because getting her out the door and deposited at school and me at work by 8am is never going to happen and I had a meeting this morning at 8:30. I feel horrible not taking her on her first day of big girl class, but also felt silly asking to come in late on one of the only three days I'm in the office each week. I will take her in tomorrow, though. And my mom got to take her in today, so that was a "treat" for mom as well. Apparently as soon as they pulled into the parking lot Carrie announced "No Miss Lizzie class." Uh oh. She wasn't terribly happy from what I hear about going to her new class, but she waved like crazy to my mom from the window (I'm glad that this classroom has a window just like her old one does, so we can do the ol' "wave bye bye to mommy!" trick if necessary).
There are lots of new things going on in her class - no sippy cups, just regular cups (um, let me know how THAT goes) and stand up diapering in the bathroom to encourage potty training. I have to admit I've been terribly lazy on the potty training thing. I had a lofty goal of having her trained by the time Jerry got home. Obviously that hasn't happened. But seriously - have I had the patience and energy to go through that little process in these past few months? Absolutely not. Jerry seems quite committed to getting her potty trained himself after he arrives home, so I say go for it buddy. I am hoping that by seeing all the other kids in her class doing it she'll want to speed up the process. It may all go out the window in 3.5 weeks, but that's okay. At least she'll have a vague idea of what she's supposed to be doing.
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