Saturday, November 12, 2011

Lydia is 2 months old!

Time has flown by and Lydia turned 2 months old this week! At her doctors appointment she weighed 10 lbs 15 ounces (50%) and was 21.75 inches tall (23 %). At 6 weeks old she started growing out of her newborn clothes and is wearing size 1 diapers. Her hair on the top of her head is finally growing back in, she had her Dad's hairline for a few weeks. Chad says when she breaths heavy and grunts Lydia sounds like an angry bird. She has started to smile more, coo, and is now sleeping 5-6 hour stints at night. She is a really good baby!
                                         
 
                                     
 
                                      
 
Claire's latest activities are that she loves to do letter tracing and is getting really close to being able to write her name. She can also say the entire pledge of allegiance and has about 5 books memorized that she can read to you perfectly. She is a great big Sister and is still really proud of Lydia but she can have her difficult times where she is stubborn, demanding and can't sit still like all 3 year olds. Her newest thing is that when you ask her to do something she will say, "No,Never!" in a real sassy way. I don't know where she picks up on some stuff. She also loves to sing songs, play board games and is really good at a robot game on my phone.






Thursday, October 27, 2011

Claire is 3 today!

Our amazing daughter Claire turned 3 today! We are so proud of all you have accomplished and the wonderful big sister you have become.


Friday, October 7, 2011

Lydia is 1 month

It almost doesn't seem like it but our new Baby Lydia turned 1 month old today. Things have been a lot busier since coming home from the hospital and now having 2 kids. Claire is still very proud of her baby sister. Lydia has been a good influence on Claire. It used to be hard to get Claire to drink her milk but now that she sees her baby sister drink it, she will now ask me for her cup of milk. Lydia is such a strong eater and at a week old started drinking 3 ounces and now is up to 4 ounces. She continues to sleep a lot and is a very content baby. She has started sleeping between 3-4 hours at night.
Lydia lounging in her favorite bouncy seat

Chad multi-tasking with both girls.

 Some fun pictures of the girls together......





Claire was gearing up for the River City Roundup Rodeo

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Lydia's Birth Story

Our new baby girl Lydia Ann was born on Sept 7th at 12:01pm. She weighed 7 lbs 2.6 ounces and was 20 inches long. She had a unique birthing story and ended up being delivered in my doctors office since my labor was only 4.5 hours long. When I called my doctor to tell him that I thought I was ready to go to the hospital after only having contractions for 2.5 hours he told me I had better come into his office so that he could check my cervix before trying to check into the hospital. So 45 minutes later when I showed up at his office and he made me wait  another 15-20 minutes to see him. He told me I was fully dilated and could have this baby now if I really wanted to. I had only hoped I was 4-5 centimeters dilated so that I could go to the hospital and have an epidural started because I was in so much pain. I told him I would rather go to the hospital since it was only a few minutes away from his office. After my doctor told me they could not give me any pain medicine at the hospital and calling a rescue squad to take me and waiting another 15-20 minutes I felt the urge to push. I gave about 8 good pushes and Lydia ended up being born at the doctors office on an exam room table. This was the first time in over 37 years that my doctor had delivered a baby in his office. A few minutes after I delivered we were sent in the ambulance to finish up in the Labor and Delivery at Bergan Mercy. Lydia's Echo cardiogram was done on Thursday and they found 2 minor heart abnormalities a PDA (Patent Ductus Arteriosus) and a PFO (Patent Foramen Ovale) that are common in infants and should fix themselves over the next 6 months. Our Pediatrician reassured us that she has clean bill of health. Big sister Claire is very proud of her new sister and still continues to be a good gentle helper. We had a lot of friends and family come visit us in the hospital and came home on Friday afternoon.









                                                     

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Claire's First Day of Preschool

Today was Claire's first day of Preschool. We had been telling her for the last month that she had to be good or she couldn't go to Preschool and it was a good way to get her to behave. She was excited to go and talked about it often. It was funny to see some of her other classmates because they were all so shy and just looking around at each other like who are you. When I picked her up she had already made new friends, done a few art projects, and played on the playground. Neither Claire nor I cried, I am not sure who I am more proud of.....




Sunday, August 14, 2011

Summertime Fun!

This summer has kept us busy! We spent a day at Adventureland in June, drove up to the Gavins Point Dam and then spent almost a week in Branson, Mo and Table Rock Lake just a few weeks ago. This summer has flown by and made this pregnancy go fast also. Our 2nd baby girl will be due in the next month on Sept 12th, or sooner if I have any say. Claire took swimming lessons this spring, gymnastics this summer and will start part-time Preschool next week on Tues, August 16th. Claire has just started learning how to ride a bike with training wheels and loves to be outside. She loves to go on bike rides with Dad, swimming, and going to the Zoo. Her favorite things at the Zoo are monkeys, girafees, and the jungle.                                      
                                     

Claire with our dog Joe playing in the backyard

Claire finally got up enough courage to go over the shaky bridge
 in the Jungle at the Zoo.

Claire with Grandma Dalrymple looking over at the
Gavins Point Dam
                                     
                                         Claire loved boating on Table Rock Lake

Saturday, April 16, 2011

New Baby!

We are excited to announce we just found out that we are having another baby girl! She will be due September 12th. Big Sister Claire was right the whole time and kept telling us she knew it was a girl...