Shelby

Just a couple days and she has changed and just amazes me with how developed she is. She has so many expressions and likes to look around. Holly and Carson just adore her. Of course- Chris and I do to-even though she is feeding every 2 hours. I'm tired, but she is just so sweet. We are so blessed to have another baby and such a sweet girl.

Shelby is here!!

First Family picture with our new addition!

First bath at the hospital.

Shelby has long fingers and toes!

All swaddled up- clean and content

Our baby girl was born on Sept. 6th (Labor Day!!!). I had a scheduled inducing to go in on Sept. 5th at 8pm. So-Chris and I prepared a nice dinner on Sunday and had friends and family over before we had to go to the hospital. Holly and Carson were excited about their sleepover at Nana and Papas'. I was induced at 8:15pm, water broke at 2:20 AM, and Shelby was born at 4:15 AM. Everything was very fast and delivery was realitively easy. I kept telling the nurses that the worst part was the IV. I hate getting IVs and the nurse couldn't get it so I got stuck a few times.

Shelby weighed 8 lbs. 4 oz., length: 20.5 in. She is the perfect size and is so beautiful. She is a pink baby! She is a great eater and so far has been the perfect baby. We are so excited to have her in our family and to finally see our baby girl. Holly loves to hold her and keeps asking when she gets to help feed her. Carson loves to touch her and is very proud of his baby sister. Carson didn't call her Shelby until this morning-he kept referring to her as his baby sister. Carson is doing good-I can see it is going to be an adjustment. Carson had his first day of pre-school today and he was so excited and proud-so hopefully that will help him to be a big boy.

I'm doing good. A little tired, but nothing that I didn't expect. I think I'm more concerned with getting a good schedule for Shelby so she will sleep more at night eventually, and also helping our family routine- now with Shelby here. Thank you for all the love and support and you will see more of Shelby soon! I'll post more pics soon!

Almost there!

I realized that I don't have any recent pictures of me big and pregnant! But I personally don't like pictures of me right now because I look so huge and swollen. But I do have the pictures of me big and pregnant with Holly and Carson-which I think I look better, but oh well, what can you do. I'm 38 weeks along and my doctor has planned to induce me on Sept. 5th-in which, I will be having the baby on Sept. 6th-Labor Day! How funny huh? She could come anyday-which I am getting anxious because I'm not sleeping, I'm uncomfortable, swollen, my legs and hands go numb daily. How's that for complaining. But there is an end to this, which I am excited to see our baby girl. Tomorrow is my last day of work until Dec.-which I am so excited to have 3mo off with the kids and to get to be home. I have been busy getting my house, yard, and baby items ready so that I can relax when the baby is here. Chris says I'm driving him nuts because I don't sit down and I do all these projects and constantly clean the house!!! What am I suppose to do? I get a little crazy-but that is just nesting-right? So-next post will probably be everyone meeting our baby girl.

Plat I Resevoir

Sunday after church we went to walk around at the reservoir by our house. There were a lot of families there. Kids were swimming in the brown mucky water and fishing for crawfish. There were a couple boys that we were helping catch them and they even let Holly and Carson have a turn. They really liked that and then Carson got to touch a crawfish and it pinched him. He cried for awhile and then he was over it and ready to start catching more. It's nice to have the reservoir and the river so close to enjoy.

Holly lost her first baby tooth

Holly was playing with this loose tooth for a few days and I kept trying to take it out for her. I know nice mom, but she would freak out as soon as I tried to get it out. Then last night 7/13/10-I finally told her it needs to come out and she was very brave. I finally got that stubborn little tooth out and she was so happy. She was crying and getting really upset and then when it came out she said, "That didn't even hurt!!" She was smiling and laughing and kept looking in the mirror where her space is now! The picture shows her puffy eye face because she was crying! I got a little treasure box for her tooth from work and she was very excited to put it under her pillow. The Toothfairy came last night and Holly got a $1. I told her that the Toothfairy must have thought she was very brave to get a $1. That was a fun experience! Now Holly keeps showing everyone her gap in her smile and her big tooth coming in!

Chris' Birthday

Chris turned 36 on July 10th and we celebrated his Birthday on Sun. the 11th. Chris wanted carne asada dinner-so I made him dinner and a peanut butter chocolate cake-since he loves peanut butter. I will have to brag and say that everything turned out great! I was very impressed with myself! Chris got a Wii from us with some racing games. I told Chris he has to share and now the kids love playing the Wii everyday! It is a fun family time and Holly and Carson love playing the sport games. It was Graffitti Weekend (car show in Roseburg) last weekend and that was fun for Chris. He went to all the car events from Thurs-Sat. and put the '64 Buick in the car show with his local car club, the Road Tramps. That was probably the best part of his Birthday weekend.

4th of July celebration!

We had a nice relaxing weekend for the 4th. We had a picnic at Stewart Park in Roseburg and watched fireworks at the park. It was really nice and not too crowded like I had expected. This is the first year that Carson was able to enjoy the fireworks-since we didn't see any last year. Both Holly and Carson really liked the fireworks-it was cute to watch them.