2 Months! and Labor Day

Adalyn is 2 months old today. She loves to be in her swing. I spent a month researching the best swing and ordered her a fancy one that rocks front to back and side to side. It played animal noises and had a cute mobile hanging from it. However, whenever I put Adalyn in it, she would start crying. She was not too fond of her fancy swing. A week later, Clark found a different swing at a garage sale for 1/10th the price. We bought it and thought we would see if she liked it better. It is a basic front to back swing with a few classical songs. She loved it! She usually falls asleep after a few minutes of swinging, but occasionally she will stare at the speaker where the music comes out.

This Labor Day was an eventful one for us. Will and Rosie were in our backyard climbing trees while I was feeding Adalyn (Clark had to work). Rosie came running in saying, "Will fell out of the tree." I rushed outside to find Will crying and crawling towards the house. I picked him up and examined him to find a very swollen ankle. I asked what happened and he said he was climbing when the branch broke and he fell on his back and hit his ankle hard. After ten minutes of crying, I decided we better take him to a doctor. Since it was Labor Day, all of the doctors were off and we ended up going to the emergency room. The nurse gave him some Lortab while we waited for the x-ray tech to come in. She x-rayed his foot and then we waited for the results. The doctor came in and told us the x-rays didn't show any fractures, but with kids it is common for the fracture not to show up for a few days. He put a soft cast on Will and told us to come back in a few days for a follow-up x-ray. He told Will he needed to stay off of his foot until then because the growth plate could break and Will would permanently have a small foot. Then the nurse came back in and said she, the doctor, and the x-ray tech all thought it was broken, they were betting on how bad the break was.

To pass the time, we have watched several movies and played Will's new favorite game: Building towers out of blocks and then shooting them down with rubber bands. We are anxious for Friday to get the results.

Adalyn's Smile

This alone makes all the sleepless nights worth it!

6 weeks old

Adalyn is 6 weeks old today. At her 4-week appointment, she was 8 lb 5 oz and 20 1/2 " long. She likes warm baths and being held. She loves Clark! She gave him her first real smile. She still has reflux, but I like to think it's not as bad. She is starting to lose her hair. I find little hairs on her blankets. We love her so much!

Just a quick update with a few pictures. Will loves to snuggle with Adalyn.

I made Adalyn some bows out of ribbon to stick in her hair (with corn syrup). Rosie wanted to be "twins" with Addy so I made her some too. She was happy to be matching with her little sis.

For Adalyn's first tummy time, she fell asleep. I thought she looked precious so I snapped some pictures of it. You are probably wondering, "where's her clothes?" Well, she had just had a blow out in her outfit so I changed her out of it and laid her down for tummy time.

We are loving our baby. However, I am looking forward to the day when she sleeps better. I have not got more than 3 hours of sleep consecutively for over a month now. Kind of a crazy thought! I figured I run on about 5 hours of sleep a night.

Adalyn is here!

Adalyn was born July 7, 2011 at 2:42 p.m. She was 6 lb 8 oz and 19 inches long. Clark and I went into the hospital Thursday morning at 9:00 to be induced. The doctor broke my water and an hour later, started me on the not-so-wonderful Pitocin. At 11:00 I was a 4 and the anesthesiologist came in and told me he had 4 other surgeries scheduled that afternoon so it would be best to get the epidural right then. That was great by me! The contractions were coming every 1 1/2 minutes and more painful each one. It took the anesthesiologist almost 20 minutes to get it in. He blamed it on my scholiosis, but Clark said he seemed a bit inexperienced. Anyway, after that, I was feeling much better. At 2 p.m. I told Clark, "You better get the nurse. I feel the urge to push!" Clark ran to get the nurse and she checked me. I was at an 8 so she said we would wait a little bit more. At 2:30, I REALLY felt the urge to push, so Clark got the nurse and she checked me and said I was ready to go. She paged my doctor (who was at a tball game) and told me to try to wait. He arrived in my room minutes later and after 3 pushes, Adalyn was born. The nurse immediately put her on my chest and let me hold her for a minute. Then she took Adalyn away to get cleaned up, weighed, and checked out. She told me she would bring her back to me in 20 minutes. Well 30 minutes went by and she still wasn't back in my room. I had Clark go into the nursery to see what was taking so long. Clark told me they had to keep her a while since she had a lot of amniotic fluid in her lungs. They kept her in the nursery, on oxygen until 11:00 p.m. Then they brought her into us looking wide awake and happy. We took pictures and then tried to get some rest.

The kids have immediately taken to her. Will keeps saying how cute and little she is.

Rosie loves to be my special helper. She loves to throw away the diapers and cover Adalyn up with blankets.

We are so glad she is part of our family!