One month

Well believe it or not, Emily has been here a month. She is officially 9lbs. 8oz. which puts her in the 50th percentile and 21.5 inches long (60th percentile). It has been a pretty good month, she is sleeping well and eating pretty good, except the spit-up that comes with every feeding. Evan is loving her and takes EVERY opportunity to kiss her and pat her on the head. He is a great big brother and helps out a lot. She is attempting to make some new noises and smiles a lot (even if it's only gas). Time is flying by with her, but we are enjoying every minute.

HAPPY EASTER!

Happy Easter to all!

WELCOME Emily Audrey Lindic

We would like to announce our new arrival: Emily Audrey Lindic! She was born Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 12:05pm. She weighed 7lbs. 9oz. and was 19.5 inches long.

The labor was pretty easy. My water broke at home at 4am and we went into the hospital around 5am. They got me all situated and hooked up to the gazillion machines and I was slowly progressing, I got my epidural (love those) then they started some pitosin (sp?) around 10am, and kept increasing the dose about every hour, by the third increase the contractions were right on top of one another and VERY intense! I pushed for about 3 minutes and she was here!

She is so amazing, she did not even cry when she was born, she just squeaked a little. She seems very content and happy, is eating really well, and sleeping a lot. Our first night home was a little rough, she was very fussy from about 7pm until 1am, but then slept in until 9:30. We are so very happy to have her and feel very lucky to have such a perfect and complete family.

Evan is very excited about her, he always wants to help and keeps saying how cute and funny she is. He is so compassionate and gentle with her and I know he is going to be the best big brother ever.

PROGRESS!!

Ok, so we've finished the baby's room. (well its about 97% done. We still have to finish staining the dresser and put it in and load it up with all the clothes and stuff, I am making a skirt for the bottom of the crib and we still need to buy a hamper, but all the big stuff is done). We are pretty much set for baby's arrival-physically at least, not so sure about mentally yet :)

I am also slowly progressing. At my last visit I was 1 cm. I go back on Monday and am hoping for more progress because my doctor started talking about inducing me and I don't want that-I've heard too many horror stories. So, we'll hope in the next week I will be heading to the hospital!! Sorry about the picture-Evan took it for me!! :)

Updates

Ok, so here are some things we have been up to. First, Noel finished the closet in the hallway and also our new closets in our bedroom. They all turned out awesome!! We still have to put doors on the closets in our room, but that will probably wait a while, we think it looks kinda nice being open. The hall closet is so nice also, to have somewhere to put our vacuums and misc. cleaning supplies. I love having such a handy husband. Now the only real major thing left to do before baby arrives is put carpeting in her room and get a dresser, then we can fill the room with all of her stuff.

Then yesterday was my sister's baby shower (she is due May 10th). It turned out great and they got lots of stuff. My mom did most of the decorating, but we had a lot of help from friends and family too.

32 Weeks!

Wow, time is starting to really go fast. You have been able to watch our baby grow each week, but thought I would share how I have been growing! I feel huge, but pretty good. We are still struggling with names-Does anyone else find this to be VERY difficult? We are getting things accomplished and cannot wait for baby to arrive.

Making progress. . .

So I feel like lately our lives revolve around this LONG list of things that need to get accomplished before baby arrives. So I thought I'd share some of the progress that we have made. I am decorating the baby's room with ladybugs, so here are a few things I have made for her room: These will hang on the wall and eventually when we pick out a name, each will have a letter on it spelling her name.

These are curtains that I made for her room.
And best of all. . . this is the bed that Noel made for Evan so that we can give his convertable crib to the baby. It turned out really awesome and Evan loves it!!!

Now we just have to build the closet in our room, carpet the baby's room, find a dresser for baby, get all of the baby clothes/toys etc. out of the attic, and on and on and on. . .