She's here!

Our lil princess joined us on November 12!!!!!!!!
Ella Claire
11/12/2007
8:23 am
7 lbs., 5oz. - 19 3/4"

She is just beautiful! The surgery went well except I had a reaction to the anesthesia, which made me throw up through most of the surgery (such fun) but besides that it went great! Ella was born SCREAMING and they noticed she was breathing too fast and she had to be kept in the NICU for 2 days on breathing machines and IV fluids. However, on the second day they let me start nursing her and she is nursing wonderfully now. She was released from the NICU and stayed with me overnight. She developed jaundice today so she is on some phototherapy but hopefully she will be ok to go home tomorrow.

Josiah met her and he was such a good boy. He reached his hands out to hold her and then he wanted to give her the bottle. He pretty much just looks at her but doesnt really like or dislike her at this point.

Anyway, I will update more when we go home, but here are some pics for now:

12 hours from now...

Its now 8:09 pm and my csection is scheduled for exactly 12 hours from now! Im excited and nervous all at the same time!

The drs told me I cant eat after 12, which I normally don't. But...since they told me that I feel like I must eat up until 11:59 pm just because I know I will be soon cut off!

Anyway, the next update you will get will be with Ella's information so stay tuned!

JOSIAH JOSIAH JOSIAH

So here's my chance to brag about Josiah and only Josiah before Ella comes in and steals some of his thunder...

So, my little boy is just the CUTEST thing ever. His vocabulary has exploded lately and he repeats EVERYTHING we say. He LOVES balls! Anywhere he can get his little hands on one, he tries it! He points out every ball he sees too! In the SuperTarget here, they have big red statue type balls outside the store and he says "BIGGGGG ball." He just cannot help himself. He also LOVES to color! We bought him a big floor pad with paper to color on and he will sit there forever just to color. Of course we have to do it with him and draw the shapes he tells us to draw. He loves Dora the Explorer (an educational cartoon that is SERIOUSLY annoying after awhile) and anything with music he can dance to. He is in the stage where he wants me to check out everything he is doing, so he is always like "Mommy, look!"...at least 50 times a day!

There is sooooooo much more about this kid I can write but it would take me forever. All in all he is such a sweetheart! He really is a good kid, and if the terrible two's exist, then we will cross that bridge when we get to it. For now, Josiah really makes every day soooo unique and happy and I can not imagine my life without him!

Maybe earlier...

Last night around 11pm I started to get REALLY bad contractions. Before this point I would have them but they were nothing regular or really painful, just uncomfortable. This time it was the REAL deal. Of course I did not want to go in to the hospital because I need her to delay her arrival until my parents get here so I have someone to stay with Josiah. After 2 hrs of trying to do everything I could to make them stop, I finally just laid down with a tall glass of water and fell asleep! Woke up this morning and I feel fine! Wheewwwww...dodged that bullet. So here's hoping she stays nice and warm in there AT LEAST until tomorrow night when my parents arrive!!!

One week from today...

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY OUR LITTLE GIRL WILL BE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can not believe it!!!!!!!!!

Josiah and Josiah

I met a girl in our church down here who I really hit it off with! She has a 2 1/2 year old named Josiah as well (and a 5 mo. old little boy who will be Ella's playmate haha). Anyway, my Josiah and hers hit it off too and they are sooooo cute playing together. They are like monkey see, monkey do! We took them to the park the other day and they had so much fun!

Here are a couple of pics:

Later that night we went out to eat with a group of friends and had such a good time! Even better, Josiah slept throughout the whole meal so Steven and I got to eat without having to cut up food into small pieces, keep silverware from flinging and sugar packets from opening haha...Here are a couple of pics of me and my boy before we left! Yes...I know my belly is ENORMOUS!

Josiah again...

Its getting harder and harder to catch him doing cute things on video because once he sees it turn on he stops whatever he's doing...so you'll just have to settle for him doing regular things and be satisfied with his CUTENESS!

My handsome boy...

I love this kid...

So close yet so far...

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