Piper Jane Little

After much anticipation and waiting...Miss Piper Jane has made it successfully into this world! I think it also took lots of threatening to get her out by induction. So...when I went for my 39 week check-up (Tues., the 17th) my doctor and I thought it might be a good idea to get a scheduled date on the books to induce because she thought I really didn't need to go past 40 weeks. So I was a little bummed because yet again, I wouldn't know the "surprise" of labor. With Emaline, I thought my water broke, but that wasn't the case and they just induced me when I was at the hospital. Funny though, after telling my mom, my ideal day for her to come would be on Friday the 20th because Josh was off, my dad was coming home from a business trip and Josh's dad was coming home (so we thought :-)). Sure enough, at 5am on Friday morning I got up to go to the bathroom and stood up and felt a mini gush of water. I immediately thought I peed my pants (known for that) but didn't like it when it happened a second time. I called my doctor's office, just to make sure they would want me to go in and they did, so I was at Mo Bap by 6am with my mom--Josh was coming off the night shift. After being evaluated for an hour and a half, the on-call doctor determined that I didn't completely break my water, but I was 3-4cm dilated so she recommended to my doctor that I stick around and get some help. Finally at 9:30am, they admitted me to a labor and delivery room and started a Pitocin drip. I hadn't felt any major contractions and just stuck around 3cm until my doctor showed up at around 1pm to make sure my water was broken (cause I had another "spill" all over the floor, nice, huh?). She then proceeded to completely rupture the bag (they think I had a slow leak) and then contractions actually started to come on. After that it didn't take long to move to 5-6cm, when they gave me the epidural ( I think it was around 5pm??). Then I was at a 7cm at 7pm and she was born at 7:55pm. She was a little stubborn coming out though and had the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck twice, tightly as I understand and I had to stop in the middle of my last push so the doctor could cut the cord before she came out. Thankfully, there wasn't any lasting impression of this on her and she "pinked" right up with a little O2 to help her out. It was a fantastic day. I loved every minute of it...well maybe not the epidural part, that freaks me out a little. :-) She weighed 7lbs 10oz and 21.5 inches long. She was only 2oz. off Emaline's weigh in, it's funny--Piper is like Emaline's twin 2.5yrs later (almost)! Well...here are some pics from the delivery day. Enjoy! I'm sure there will be more to come.

Dylan's Birthday!

Our friend Dylan had his 2nd birthday party this past Sunday on the 8th and we fortunately, all got to go as a family! Emaline was super excited to go to another party, she is a party animal! As per usual though, I was lazy yet again and didn't get out the 'ol camera to take some much needed pictures.  I really have been a serious slacker. So these are a couple that I took from Jacki's collection.  She did a great job hosting and it was fun to see all our friends and have Emaline get to play with all the kids.  The plan was to go to Bounce U in Chesterfield afterwards, but Em had such an exciting time at The Haarmann's she fell asleep on the way home and I was feeling a little uncomfortable.  (p.s., sorry to Ryan and Suzanne for freaking them out a little at Target ;-))!  

Thanks for everything Jacki and Scott! Hope Dylan enjoyed all his goodies and his fun day! 

Meg, Suzanne and Me hanging out on the couch.

Diaper Keg: Baby 2.0

We decided to keep the tradition alive of extorting lots of diapers for our unborn child from all our friends with Baby 2.0. It was something that we kind of just threw together considering we weren't going to have any type of shower/party for the second child. We really don't need anything new since it is another girl. So we are already prepared, right? Well, we hope so. It was great just to have an excuse to get all our friends together and we appreciate every single one them that came to celebrate and drink some beer, in exchange for diapers ;-) This year though, wasn't as crazy as was the one for Emaline. Obviously, we are a little older and a little wiser this time around. We ended up getting a smaller (pony) keg and it was exactly the right amount of beer to go round. I yet again, was running around gabbing and trying to talk with everyone instead of taking pictures, so needless to say, there aren't many shots of the fun that was had. I really have been lazy these past few weeks. I think it might have something to do with this child in utero...

Thanks to my family for putting together everything and taking care of all the incidentals. You guys are the greatest!


Here are pictures of our loot:

Super Bowl 2009

We had a low key Super Bowl this year and went to my sister's house in the 'ville. She graciously hosted a kid/family friendly shindig, complete with dogs running a-muck. I unfortunately was too lazy (yet again) to take pictures with my own camera, so I stole some from my sister's gallery. Thankfully, Josh didn't have to work, so we all got to spend some quality time together. Obviously you can tell that I wasn't that into the game, although we were rooting for Arizona. I love the underdog! Too bad they couldn't hold onto it in the end :-(, but we had some good eats and a White Castle fix too. Good times.