Adeline Mae

Adeline Mae arrived at 8:07 a.m Feb 25 2009. she was 8 pounds 14 ounces and 20 inches long. here are a few photos and we will update more later!!!

Off to the hospital...

Here is the last of my belly pics for this pregnancy! We are headed to the hospital here shortly. Mary came and picked the kids up last night so I could have a quiet, restful evening to myself. We have to be at the hospital at 6:00 am for 7:30 surgery. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers that everything goes well.


Hopefully there will be an update with pics tonight! I'll try and have either Kevin do it or have Mary do it tonight while she's here w/ A&P!

t minus 7 days...

It's hard to believe, a week from today, we'll have our newest little bundle of joy in our arms! I can hardly wait. I'm getting really anxious all of a sudden! I have two days of work left before maternity leave and I'm sure next Monday and Tuesday will be full of running around and making sure things are done around here, though I'm sure Mary will do a wonderful job holding down the fort with Amelia and Paul. The kids seem to be getting excited too. I think it's so hard for them to grasp just what is going on and when is this baby you've been talking about for months going to be here?! Friday we have an appointment w/ our OB, hopefully when we leave that appointment we'll have an idea of what time my surgery will be and what time we'll have to report to the hospital! Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers this next week. Pray that the surgery goes well and that we have a safe and healthy delivery! Stay tuned...

Ice Fishing

We took the kids ice fishing on Saturday afternoon. Here are a few pictures from the event! It was definitely interesting and needless to say we weren't out there too long. I think we were in the fish house for about 20 minutes when Paul stands up and announced that he wanted to go shopping. Then he continued to reel in his line, saying he caught a fishie (his minnow) and that the fish was going to bite him. Some where along the lines he managed to tangle his line. Amelia was more interested in drinking the "chocolate coffee" aka hot cocoa. But it was a family outing none the less!

36 weeks down, 3 more to go!

Wow! Thirty-six weeks have passed. Crazy. I can't believe how fast this pregnancy has flown by. Now in less than 3 weeks we get to meet our newest addition to our family, I can hardly wait. Tonight while Kevin was at church teaching his religion class, the kids and I were putting things away in the nursery. It was so much fun, they were both so interested in everything. They were helping me fold the towels, wash cloths and burp cloths. And asking a million questions. Then they discovered the basketful of baby toys and proceeded to dump the entire basket out and play with them all. Kevin came home and asked what happened in the nursery! All I could say was "What do you think?!" Oh well, they had a good time after all!

While we were sitting there putting things away, I asked the kids again what they thought we were having. Amelia said "A baby brother" and Paul said "A baby sister." Can't wait to see who is right. For the longest time they were both saying baby sister.

Here is my 36 week picture....

According to my babycenter.com weekly pregnancy e-mail, the baby weighs approximately 6 pounds and is gaining an ounce a day and is more than 18-1/2 inches long. Also baby should be head down at this point, in my case, it really doesn't matter. But I'm almost positive he/she is head down, because when they get hiccups I feel it more towards the bottom of my stomach! Next week (37 weeks) baby will be considered full term. But as we all know, baby will be coming at week 39...we hope! I don't want baby to come any sooner. The closer I can go to my due date the better. They say the closer to your due date baby is born the better off the baby is health wise, etc. And 39 weeks is the soonest most OB's will perform a c-section, unless medically necessary.

I'm now on to weekly doctor visits. I have an appointment in the morning. Hoping all goes well!

Looking at this picture...Kevin and I are both thinking it's a boy!

5 weeks to go...

Caught on film....a rare moment for Paul! Sunday morning we were getting ready to run errands in the cities before heading to Kevin Sr and Mary's house for Kevin Sr's b-day. Kev was taking a shower, and I had just gotten the kids out of the bath, got Amelia ready to go, got myself ready to go and Paul didn't want to get dressed, he just wanted to lay on our bed in his dinosaur towel. I was getting a few things ready in the kitchen and I came back to find this....


Amelia of course, needed a picture taken of her when I took out the camera. She had to pose by her new futon. But she's looking a little distressed! Silly girl!

Comparison picture....

For the first time #1 & #3 look very similar. It's normally been #2 and #3. We still think it's a boy, but in five weeks we'll know for sure!!


Hard to imagine and believe that five weeks from today, we'll be holding our brand new tiny baby. I'm not real sure where this entire pregnancy went, but it sure went by awful quick. Kevin doesn't think so, but to me it feels like it's flown by! My last day of work before maternity leave will be Friday, February 20. That'll give me the weekend to relax before the big surgery day on the 25th. I will return to work end of May/beginning of June. Somewhere in there anyway!



The nursery is almost 100% complete. We need to tackle the closet yet, which Kevin needs to get in there and paint it, then I can organize it. We also need to find blinds still. Last Friday we picked up our futon for the den. Which is our multi-purpose room. Guest room, playroom, office all in one! It looks so much different in here with the new light fixture, paint and all of the furniture finally arranged. Still a work in progress, need to get my desk in order before any guests arrive when Baby T does!

Amelia still asks daily if it's time to go to the hospital. I keep telling her soon, in a couple weeks. And she has informed me that she wants a "Pink Princess Birthday Party", so I suppose I better get cracking on that as well!

Paul is Paul! Quite the little character around these parts! He's taken it upon himself to try using the big potty at night when he gets home from daycare or any time Amelia uses it, he needs to use it. Hopefully we can continue to progress on this whole potty training business. I'm not holding my breath, but we will see! He pooped on the potty twice last night and once tonight. And he refuses to use the swell little potty we just bought him. Go figure! Good thing we're having another baby!



On that note, I'm off to bed.

33 weeks + nursery pics!

So weird to think I've already been pregnant for 33 weeks. This whole pregnancy has just flown by! Now the time is closing in on us. We have an appointment on Monday (19) with the OB who did my c-section with Paul, to discuss and schedule the upcoming c-section. I'm anxious to know baby's birthday so I can get everything figured out on the home front, figure out when my last day of work will be and just to know when baby will be here! Amelia is very anxious for baby to get here. She keeps asking every night when we all get home if it's time to go to the hospital. I'm happy to know she's really excited for the baby. Now to establish the ground rules once baby gets here, like no picking the baby up, etc. Should be interesting!!

I think Paul can tell that something is going to rock his little world soon. He's always been our easy to bed kid. Which I believe I forgot to mention, Paul has hit a few milestones since we moved! About 2 weeks after we moved into our new house, he decided that he wanted to start sleeping in his big boy bed and not the crib. When we moved, we set up his twin bed (as it was already up there) and also our extra crib, because we didn't think he was ready for the "big move", well much to our surprise, one night when Kevin was putting him to bed he said "No daddy, my bed! My bed"
Kevin said "You what to sleep in your big boy bed?" '
Paul: "Yes"
Kevin: "Ange (I was putting Amelia to bed), he wants to sleep in his bed, what do we do?!"
Me: Just put him in it and we'll see what happens.

Well the first night he came downstairs and came into our room at about 2 am, but every night after that has been much better. And he hasn't slept in his crib since! Now we need to take it down and get it out of there before baby comes so he can't decide once baby is here that he wants to sleep in his crib again.

Anyway, this past week he's been a bit of a stinker at bedtime. He wants me to sleep with him, etc. But if Kevin puts him to bed and I don't go in there, he goes to bed just fine! Hopefully the sleeping will go better in the next couple weeks!! He also just got his last baby molar, so we're officially done teething until baby #3 gets some teeth!

Here are some new pictures.

33 weeks---01.14.09

The Nursery!

Baby's bed.
We're using the same bedding we got when I was pregnant w/ Amelia. We also used it for Paul. It's from Pottery Barn Kids and I love it. Their bedding is definitely worth the money, still looks brand new 4 years later!

Baby's bed! And his/her new Build-a-bear from Great Granny and Great Papa for Christmas!

Looking from the crib.

My dad built our changing table when I was pregnant w/ Amelia. He used the design I loved from Pottery Barn Kids, but made it taller and longer and it's solid oak, so much nicer that the PBK one! He made it just by looking at a picture from the catalog and using their measurements for an example! This will be a great piece to hang on to for a long time!

Looking in from the door. We still need to buy blinds for the windows...cordless of course!

It was fun getting to do a nursery again after 4 years...thank goodness we moved! Or no new nursery!

Well, it's time for bed!