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!

The Vandura and swim lessons

Now that blogger is letting me post again, I want to take advantage and update y'all on our summer. We went to the Evanston Rodeo last weekend. The kids loved the chicken chase and the saddle bronc riding. Rosie said she wanted to see Dad ride the wild bronc, but I was happy he was in the stands with us instead! Rosie also insisted on wearing her "cowgirl jeans and jean jacket" to look authentic. She was so cute!

We got a van! For months now we have been looking for a bigger vehicle since our little Honda Accord would be quite tight with 3 little ones in the back. Clark said he would really love to find an old van with curtains and comfy seating. Then just yesterday I was browsing online when I came across a 1990 GMC Vandura with only 79 thousand miles on it. I quickly called the lady and we drove over last night to look at it. I started cracking up when I saw it. It is hilarious! It's super comfy and very roomy. Will noticed it barely fits in a parking spot. The kids both hopped in and buckled themselves without any help and I knew it was the car for us. Here's to hopefully many more miles in our new ride.

Will just finished swim lessons today. He took them for 3 weeks at the local pool and he did so well. He passed off two levels and now feels comfortable swimming underwater, floating on his back, and even doing flips in the water. I was so proud of him!

Here's just a cute picture of the kids. They found Clark's ear muffs for when he goes out shooting his loud guns. They were pretending they were listening to music. Rosie's were too big for her and they kept squeezing her cheeks.

Here I am, 38 weeks along! I have an appt next Tuesday and hopefully the doctor will still suggest I get induced. At my appt last week, he offered to break my water, since things were already progressing. I realized I wasn't ready then to get induced, but now I am ready!