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Sunday, December 25, 2011

First Christmas!

We had such an awesome Christmas this year! We spent Christmas Eve with a few other couples who also didn't have any family close by. We ate an awesome lunch/dinner, played games, swapped white elephant gifts and talked for hours. Such fun. We woke up semi-early on Christmas morning and had our first family Christmas! It's so fun to start new tradition and carry over some old ones. Spencer and Olli waited in the hall while I made sure everything was ready and we had a fun time opening presents. Then we went to a wonderful Christmas program at the church on Bainbridge Island with some of my family's friends from way back when and had a delicious brunch afterward. It was so nice to relax before we get ready to make the long drive back to Idaho for Spencer to finish school. Anyway, here are a few pictures of our festivities as well as a super sweet video of Olli smiling!











Friday, December 16, 2011

Tummy Time Videos

They're all basically the same but they're still cute :)

Big Girl!

Olli is now 3 1/2 weeks old and getting so chunky! I don't know how much she weighs since she won't go back to the doctor until 2 months but I bet she is close to 9 lbs now. She has been so fun and is still sleeping relatively good during the night and I'm actually getting accustomed to less sleep. We did have a bit of a rough day yesterday. We took Spencer to the dentist at 1:00 for a cleaning and consultation that took about 2 hours. He's had some pain in his jaw and a chipped tooth so we decided it's finally time to take advantage of our dental insurance. Turns our the pain in his jaw was caused by his wisdom took that never got removed. It was growing sideways into the root of the tooth next to it! Ouch! The dentist was going out of town the next week until the end of the month and we're moving back to Idaho after Christmas so thankfully she let us come back after the office was closed later that day. But when we tried to leave the office to pick up his prescription our car wouldn't start! We had to wait for an hour for a tow truck, another half hour to take us to the dealership, another half hour to get our car into the service department and over to Enterprise to pick up a car. By now we barely had time to make it to Walmart to pick up Spencer's prescription and get back to the dentist. But we made it just in time! Poor Olli was stuck in the car seat for the majority of the day and never got a consistent nap or meal but she was a little trooper. And Spencer had to get his 2 teeth removed and then had to go back the next day for some more a little more work but we are so happy that it's done and hopefully the pain in his face and jaw will go away. Anyway, here are some cute pictures of our stinkin' cute baby and a couple of videos of tummy time! They're all basically the same but cute nonetheless. :)

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Tummy Time

Olli had her 2 week check-up yesterday and everything went great! She weighs 8 lbs 4 oz which is awesome because she lost quite a bit of weight when we left the hospital and I've had a few struggles with nursing but this just put my mind at ease! She of course screamed the whole time because she HATES to be naked and holds her breath when she cries (screams) and it scares me to death but she was a trooper. The doctor said it was time to incorporate tummy time in our day so when Spencer got home today she got a little work out! It took her about 5-10 minutes before she was done but she did some good work!


This is Spencer demonstrating what she looked like when he first laid her down.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

More pictures

I think I overloaded the previous post with pictures and it wouldn't let me do anymore so here's the rest!
All settled in, ready to go!
Spencer chose the perfect time to take a picture, right in the middle of a contraction
Good plan babe


10 centimeters ready to go!
My good friend Katie Spencer




Oh boy, she's got some good lungs this one...



Thursday, December 1, 2011

Olli May

Well Olli May finally made her arrival on November 22 at 6:38 pm weighing in at a whopping 8 lbs and 20 inches long. So here's how it went down: I woke up that morning feeling pretty good and was just going to relax for the day (I had already started my maternity leave the day before). I had been having a ton of braxton-hicks contractions for several weeks but they were never painful. My stomach would just get very tight for a bit and then it would go away. Well around 10 or 11 in the morning they started again but this time I was getting a bit uncomfortable. Eventually I started timing them but it was so unsatisfying because they were mostly about 6-7 minutes apart but would range from 4 minutes up to 8 minutes. Around 2:00 the pain was getting pretty intense so I called Spencer and told him to come home, that I was gong to call the hospital and see if I could get checked out just in case. By the time we got to the hospital around 3:15 I couldn't even talk through the contractions but was expecting to be sent home because I wasn't far enough along. We go admitted, in a bed and checked about 20 minutes later and ta-da! I was 3 cm, 70% effaced and had a bulging bag of water (sorry if that was TMI)! So we were in it to win it! Now all we had to do was wait. I got my epidural around 5:00 and was measured at 6 cm right after. And then my water broke! About this time my good friend Katie Spencer came to hang out with us and take pictures. My doctor came in around 6:15 to check me and it was GO time! She had me do a couple of practice pushes to see how well I did and then she got suited up. Spencer even go suited up-she was going to let him deliver the baby! I pushed for about 10-15 minutes and then she came. It was so awesome and so beautiful and we are so happy that she is here! We got to leave the hospital Thanksgiving morning which was perfect because that's when my parents arrived. We've had a few rough patches which is to be expected with a newborn but everything is evening out and we're all getting the hang of things. Hope you enjoy the pictures!