Tuesday, September 27, 2011

April Faith



She's here! April Faith arrived on her due date, September 22nd at 8:12 a.m. She weighed 8 lb 1 oz and was 20 inches long. I'll post a longer version of her birth story soon, but we are home as of Saturday and Bethany came home from Grandma and Papa's on Sunday afternoon and we're adjusting as a family of 4! Dan goes back to work on Thursday so I'm figuring out how to be the best mom of two girls that I can be.

Monday, September 19, 2011

You're still here?

Yep! No baby yet. This pregnancy has been crazy with my emergency appendectomy, headaches, a broken toe, a condition that caused me to have ultrasounds every 2 weeks at Methodist, moving out of the cabin, moving into our house, moving out of our old house, remodeling Bethany's room, changing daycare, moving Bethany into a big girl bed, back pain etc.

With our due date just days away, it just goes to show that every pregnancy is different! I think it could be for a number of different reasons and here are a few...

- I've done it before. Now that I have gone through this, I'm paying much more attention to warning signs and being more careful about doing too much (not going on 20+ mile bike trips without a cell phone for example)
- We have a Sleep Number bed. I know Dan works for Select Comfort so this may seem like a shameless plug, but I seriously sleep soooo much better than I did before we got the bed. Since our bed arrived the day my water broke with Bethany I didn't get the benefit of sleeping on it last pregnancy, but this time it has been wonderful!
- I'm a Type A personality. Because I want to be able to plan for everything, God must have wanted to keep my on my toes with a 5 week early baby and now a full-term (or past!) baby this time. It has been so strange trying to plan for a 7 week time period that I may be out on leave for work.
- This baby is going to be laid back. Bethany was ready to face the world early and that fits her personality now, so maybe this baby will be different.

So, baby girl, I'm learning a lot about myself during this process and about you! We can't wait to meet you and although I'd love some sort of message telling me exactly when that will be, I will be patiently waiting.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

No baby on Labor Day

Although I thought it would be quite humorous to have a baby on Labor Day, this little girl is content to stay put for the time being. I'm now 37.5 weeks pregnant and feeling great! The weather this weekend was absolutely beautiful and it looks like it is going to last all week.... I love fall. We had a fun filled weekend getting a bedroom set for our bedroom, building storage shelves for our basement storage room for all the boxes to unpack someday, going to the fair and then the Minnetonka Orchard. Dan and I even got in a boat ride together to finally figure out a baby name. We're down to only a couple options now so I think we're ready!

Here are some pictures from the last week or so of fun.

Waiting for the bus to go to the fair - Bethany talked about the bus all day and woke up the next morning reminding us of the bus ride and who went on it ("mommy, daddy, Charlie, auntie" (and yes Brent we know you were there too:)



This one looks good

on the hayride at the orchard



She loved all the baby animals, and we're hoping for a miracle of birth soon too!

This is her current favorite book counting all the items on each page. There are 10 buttons which Dan and I have had to count many, many, many times and she does a great job counting along with us


Cutie pie at the Gale Woods farm last week before we found out we got free state fair tickets (thanks, Mike!)

which way do we go at the orchard? yummy apple donuts please!

cute little farm kids

checking out the chickens

Fun to grill yesterday with my whole family and just enjoy the nice weather at the lake. It will never be as easy as it is now once baby #2 comes, so I'm enjoying every minute!