This Is The Year

I promised my out of state brother I would blog again, and that was a few days ago, so I am a little behind! Baby Girl keeps me pretty unproductive these days.  She nurses ALL. THE. TIME.  Which is actually nothing new for me, since all my kids were like that.  I think it has something to do with being big babies - they need more sustenance.  But I'm okay with that - because all my big babies also slept through the night by 8 weeks.  So it's a decent trade-off in my opinion. She is growing so fast I can hardly stand it.  Even though we thought we were done having kids before we got pregnant with her, now that we have her I want to slow down time so we can enjoy all the little moments of her growing up.  It already seems to be flying by. Here are a few pictures of her cuteness:  Her first Valentine's Day.  In the car on her way to her 2 week check up.  Which she passed with flying colors! Since I spend the ...

Well...she's finally here!  Actually, she's been here for a week as of 8:14 tonight.  I'm sure you can guess that hopping on the blog wasn't the first thing on my to-do list! I woke up last Tuesday morning feeling uncertain whether my contractions were feeling more like real contractions or not.  They were so inconsistent throughout the morning, and I just wasn't sure what to think.  They seemed to be getting more painful, but not closer together at all.  I was starting to feel paranoid because I hadn't been feeling Baby Girl move all day, so finally sometime after noon, I told Hubby we should probably go in, just so I could be reassured about how baby was doing.  At this point, my contractions were ranging from 7-12 minutes apart.  I've never gone in with them that far apart before. To our surprise, when we arrived at the hospital, I was dilated to a 6 and 100% thinned.  Crazy!  My contractions still weren't very close together!  Bu...

Well y'all - I'm still pregnant.  That's right - no Baby Girl yet.  I was REALLY hoping she would come over the weekend so that we wouldn't have to deal with the chaos of finding rides to school, and all the other weekday activities my other kids are involved in. I have had a few contractions off and on, but I'm pretty sure they are still just Braxton Hicks.  They go away if I move around, and are not consistent AT ALL.  Sigh...my very clever friend MiMi suggested that her name should be Patience, after putting us all through this!  I know I shouldn't complain, her due date was only 2 days ago...but we are all ready to meet her! Since she still hasn't made an appearance, it's not too late to enter my Baby Girl Poll .  Even if you already entered, since everybody's guesses on date have already passed, you are welcome to take another shot at it! I have my next doctor's appointment on Thursday if she hasn't come yet, and at that time he wi...