Sunday, February 28, 2010

Settling In

Hi all!
We've settled in to our little life here, and I'm loving being home with the girls. I know it's only temporary, but I like the stay-at-home mom gig. I have just a few more weeks to enjoy it. Jordan is pretty much an angel, just like Harlie was at this age. She only cries when she's hungry, and we often have to wake her to eat so we don't hear much fussing. She wakes us twice at night and Mikey and I have been taking turns feeding her so neither of us is exhausted. Many of you have been asking how Harlie is adjusting, and I feel like I owe you more of an answer, but all I can say is she's doing fine. It's as if Jordan was always here. Harlie doesn't whine about things, and she's very helpful. She says Jordan is cute, and she checks on her a lot to make sure she's okay, or just to see what she's doing, but she's not obsessed with her either. Things haven't really changed much for her. We have been waking her up at night and in the early morning, I'm afraid, so her sleep patterns are changing a bit. I do feel badly about that, but once the baby starts sleeping through the night we may be able to go back. For right now, though, we're enforcing an earlier bedtime so she's not missing so many hours of sleep. And she has been requesting her nap a bit earlier the past few days, so at least she knows how to make things work. Thanks for reading if you got this far - I'll caption below the photos. Love you guys!







Her hair was spiked to match Daddy's
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The certainly are beautiful, aren't they???
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This is what happens when you give Harlie a bowl full of strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries. She ate the whole bowl, which was an ENTIRE bag of frozen fruit.
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Dressing up like a fairy
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Jordan Brianne





Hi there! I don't have all of the photos I want to share with you ready, so I'll just post a few quick ones to appease those of you who are complaining! Mom is coming over this morning, and I'm hoping with her help I can get myself and my things in order enough to be ready to do some more photographing.

For those of you who don't know the exact statistics:
Jordan Brianne was born Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 7:11 PM.
7 lbs 2 oz, 19 inches

We had a long day of decent labor, though sometimes painful, and we had a few issues with the epidural, but it worked out fine. I just wanted to scare Mike! Delivery took longer than it had with Harlie - about an hour and a half of pushing as opposed to the half hour with Har - but Jordan was bigger and came face up, which I hear has a lot to do with the difficulty pushing. Anyway, I'd still do it again in a heartbeat just to keep my precious girls.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Still Waiting....

Hi all. I just wanted to let you know that I have NOT had a baby yet, and I'm still hugely pregnant. So huge, in fact, that I'm getting disgusted by myself more every day. My stomach has grown new stretch marks over the past few days, and Jordan has no room to move, but still does so, causing me a lot of discomfort. If she's not an 8 pound baby, I'll be surprised. Anyway, no new photos to share, although I have still been taking them. Harlie just gets cuter every day! I'm on leave now from the church, and as soon as I get my one final order here (it's stuck on a Fed Ex truck that won't deliver because of our extreme blizzard) I'll get those pics shipped out as soon as I can so I can relax! I figure the doctor won't let me go much past due date, so if we have to induce, we'll do so on the 24th at the absolute latest. No matter what, it won't be long now. I'll post pics and stats as soon as we have them!