Sneak Peek

We had a friend/prev coworker come take pictures of our family.  I wanted mostly pictures of Piper but knew she would be hard especially once she was naked and awake. She has no control over her (exceptionally) long arms so they were flapping all over, but Presley was super cooperative and quite the little model! We got some good ones and I can't wait to see the rest of them!

Thanks Andrea!

Presley Mania

Presley is loving the new house....so do her dolls! She lines them up in front of the fire place and reads them a book!

 I was able to take some pictures of P in gymnastics class this week. She loves it and does so good!

I think the bars are her favorite!

 practicing cartwheels

 the vault! Running with her tongue hanging out!

Piper mania

Piper is 2 weeks old now. She is such a good baby. So sweet, sleeps good, only getting up (usually) once a night about 3-3:30am and then she is good until about 8 am.

 

 Presley adjusted right away after we got home from the hospital. She responds right away when Piper starts crying....'I'm coming Miss Piper!'...it's so cute! She loves helping out which helps me out!

So far we are all adjusting very nicely! I have yet to really take a nap....This baby has been a much easier adjustment for us...so far. I realize all that could change in a split second!

I have much more to post but limited time today since I'm stealing my parents internet while Presley is in preschool. Later gators!

Rewind one week

For my dad's 60th birthday we got him a chance to go skydiving! Holly was lucky enough to be able to jump with him too! I thought she would be nervous but really she just seemed very excited!

Holly and Jerry before Holly's jump!

 

 

 Dad coming down

 Holly coming down for the perfect landing

Afterwards Holly was so excited and proud!

 

We have been working hard on getting the house in order (before the baby came) and for the most part we did pretty good. We had planned on getting alot done this coming weekend, but obviously those plans have been moved. Hopefully I can take some pictures of the house and get them posted on here soon.

Yes, I had a baby to get internet access....so?



Well, Wednesday night I woke up about midnight having to pee....like normal. Only it wouldn't stop. Steve always thought it would be funny to see me pee my pants, well here you go hubby! I went back to bed and waiting for the contractions to start. Slowly but surely they did....about 15-20 minutes apart so I didn't think much about it until about 4 am. They were getting closer together and I started to actually think hmm.....I haven't really slept since midnight and I definitely can't go to work in this pain, maybe we should go to the hospital? What are we going to do with P? We don't even have a car seat for this baby in the car yet? We haven't packed a bag! We have so much to get done this weekend! So we got up, got ready, Holly came to stay with Presley (thank you Aunt Holly!). We got to our hospital room about 6:30 am, the pain had really intensified and the contractions were about 5 minutes apart by this time.

I was dilated to 5 and they were prepping our room and talking like we were going to have this baby soon. I had Steve call my mom, he said this was going to happen sooner rather than later. She got the kids off to their 'back up' sitters for the day and headed right down. I FINALLY got my epidural, after pleading, begging and crying. I told Steve I would pay the anetheologist cash, if she would get in our room and give me that epidural! Of course, then the epidural didn't take to my left side! Are you kidding me?

Dilated to 8 and finally, the numbness took over. AHHHH.....HEAVEN! Doctor showed up, I wasn't feeling any pressure (or pain), 9 am I started pushing and by 9:15 she was here! Piper Rebecca, 5 lbs 14 oz, 19 inches long and cried for the first 2 hours. She is doing good now, sleeping a ton and we'll enjoy it while we can! I know it could be short lived (i.e. Presley).

 

 

Grandma Becky (Hence, the middle name Rebecca!)

 

Aunt Samantha and cousin Boston

 

Aunt Holly

 

Big sister Presley, who is slightly stand-offish. She doesn't want to hold or touch her. She doesn't want to hug or touch me either.  I think once we get home into our normal surroundings that she will loosen up a bit!

 

Grandma Kathy

 

Grandpa Jerry

 

Grandpa Les (Pa!)

 

She is so sweet! (for now!)

 

Grandma and her 3 grandchildren

Thank you to everyone who has been helping us with Presley and Piper over the last 24 hours! Thank you to everyone who has visited, texted, Facebooked and wish us all well! Our daughters are very lucky to be surrounded by all of our awesome friends and family! We love you all!

Revolution

Have you watched Revolution yet? Where the power goes out and they have no ability to use computers, listen to music, drive cars, talk on cell phones? I almost feel that lost without internet at home....almost.
I have so many pictures and updates on things and it's driving me crazy! So expect a large picture dump when I do get up and running!

The only update I'll give at this point about our not-so-boring life is about Baby G. I had my dr's appointment, NST and ultrasound yesterday. Things went good, gained 1 pound, still dilated at 2. This doctor also mentioned not going past 39 weeks which is fine, whatever. I've never been a fan of having to induce labor but they scheduled me for 7:30 next Monday morning (and I better have internet next week for updates and pics of our baby!!). If this is what they think is best for little baby and her tiny stomach (which seems to be their worry) then I guess I can't argue with the experts.
So freak out time for me! Don't get me wrong, I don't like surprises, so you would think that I would like having this all planned out. But KNOWING the date?! KNOWING there is an end and when that actually is....freaks me out! Steve is all excited that we can plan things and know what we need to get done and figure out things for Presley, which I agree that does make things easier....BUT STILL!!!!

And with my luck I'll go early anyway, so I'll be freaked out about this and then it won't matter and then I'll be disappointed that I didn't make it until the 15th, b/c obviously I'm never happy! HA!

Wish me luck to get connected to the internet soon! B/c I'm sure my employer doesn't appreciate the time I'm taking out to do this!

Three quick thoughts before the weekend begins....

Presley is dry in the mornings about 98% of the time! So proud of her! The girl can hold it like a rock star, even though we don't encourgage that normally! I think we are almost ready to cut out the nighttime pull-ups and try just putting her in her underwear at night...of course then she'll start wetting the bed...guaranteed!

My NST went good today, nothing weird. They had to wake her up after 10 minutes but then she was moving and kicking! My guess she wasn't happy with her wake up call! Never wake a sleeping baby, right?

My sister and dad are going skydiving tomorrow morning...wish them luck! :)
Have a good weekend!