Audrey Claire

Introducing our little Audrey Claire!
Stats:
3/18/10
11:48am
8 lbs 11oz
21 inches

Mommy cuddles her baby girl for the first time.

Daddy holding his girl for the first time.

Grandma admiring Audrey for the first time.

Grandpa getting to know little Audrey.

She loves her hands up by her face.

She also loves sucking her thumb and fingers.

I love this one of her! She's just so beautiful-and yes, I am prejudiced!

Mommy, Daddy and Audrey waiting to be released. More than ready to get home.

Our little Audrey Claire is all dressed and ready to head home. She's so adorable!

This is the boys reaction as soon as we brought her in. They were mesmerized by her! (Colton was napping at the time.) They were so excited to hold her. So, when I told them they could hold her but they had to wash their hands first they went running to the bathroom to wash up.

Nathan holding his sister and loving her!

Josh was in heaven holding her. He has been smothering her with kisses and loving on her.

This is Colton's reaction to her. He wanted nothing to do with her or me for that matter. He was mad at me, he's warming up now to us but not at first.

Things are going good. She's been a pretty easy going baby so far. She's pretty laid back, it's kind of a nice change, knock on wood. Labor went pretty good. Got there at 6am and by 11:48am she was out. It went really quick, a lot quicker than we all thought it would. But I am just loving having her here. She's a sweet little girl. I'll leave it at that for now, she's ready for a feeding but enjoy these photo's for now.

Surprise shower @ Olive Garden

So, I've done this post like 3 or 4 times; something is not working for me and it won't let me publish all the others because of wierd errors. I've had to upload the pictures and re-write this so many times that I've given up. I started working on it last night and seriously I've had nothing but issue after issue. I had a lot of things written but now it's going to be very short and sweet. This is my last attempt at this post. I just wanted to thank every single person that came to the surprise shower last night. It was wonderful and it made my night knowing that there were so many of you that cared about me and wished me luck. I'm very lucky to have so many good friends in this ward. Thank you for all the great gifts; they are so cute and very appreciated. Thank you Jenny and Sheridy for putting last night together. I'll post pictures of her as soon as I can. Danny won't do it so it has to wait until I get home. But thank you girls for a wonderful night!

One Week Left

Ok, so I'm sure you are all sick of pictures of me and my belly but I wanted one more post since I'm now down to 1 week! I am being induced on the 18th; I check into the hospital at 5:45Am. I'm really excited to meet this little girl but I"m extremely nervous and anxious about his labor and birth. I'm not really sure why since this is my 5th birth and I totally know what to expect but I'm the most nervous I have ever been. So, wish me luck! Anyways, I don't know if this shirt does my belly justice but that's what ya get. (Don't you love how Colton snuck into the picture with me? He's such a cute stinker!) I had Danny take the picture of me standing left and right to help give a better look at this ginormous belly. I'm big but I'm definitely not as big as I was with Colton. I do have a good amount of fluid but I'm also thinking that she's a good sized baby too. So, I'm wondering if anyone is willing to take any guesses on her size when she arrives next week. Last night I dreamt she weighed in at 9lbs 1 oz so that gives you my guestimation! Anyone else?

35 weeks

All the boys like to touch and feel the belly. They like to feel her move around. Josh really likes to lay his head on the belly and make himself comfy. Nate keeps asking when she's coming, he's really excited to meet her. Colton, well... he doesn't know what he's in for, he's really not ready to share his mommy yet so, I'm not looking forward that that transition.



This last pictures is SOOOO not my favorite! Danny was in not into taking any pictures and this is was the only one he would take of me. And I really don't like it at all! I don't think you can really see how big I am getting, this picture doesn't do the belly justice.

As far as update goes, I've been going to the Dr every 2 weeks. But I've also been doing weekly biophysical profiles each week. That entails a short ultrasound to see her movements, the fluid, etc. Then I head over to Labor and Delivery and have a NST (non-stress test) done. On Friday, the Dr measured me at 37 1/2 to 38 weeks along, so I'm once again measuring big but my fluid level is only at 17, where as Colton's hit a high of 38. She just might be a big baby. The Dr wants to look at doing an ultrasound to measure her size at my next appt at the end of the month. The Dr has let me pick a day to be induced, we picked March 18th, so in just about a month we will be holding our little Audrey. For now she's doing really good. Honestly, I'm kind of scared about her getting here because she is sooooo active and crazy inside, she NEVER stops moving. She gets hiccups all the time, the last ultrasound I was able to see her with her mouth open and she kept playing with her tongue, sticking it out and in. I think I'm going to have my hands full with her. But I'm so excited to see her, hold her, kiss her and have her finish off our family.

Dinner time

Nate likes to make different faces at the camera. I pulled the camera out at dinner the other night because of Josh. I bought Danny and I some ribs for dinner and made the boys a hot dog. Well, Josh, wanted the ribs so I grabbed the camera for some pictures. Nate wanted to know why I was taking pictures because he didn't want me to put them on the blog. I don't know why he would think I would do anything different.



Colton has now discovered how to cheese it up for the camera! He was cheesing it up when he saw the camera, and I didn't even have any intention of getting one of him but when I saw him doing this, I couldn't resist!



This is my little carnivore! He saw the ribs and told us he likes "chicken". He thinks all meat is chicken, we do correct him, but in his mind it's chicken and he loves all meat. He handed back his hot dog and had several ribs instead. He just makes me laugh because he loves meats and nuts and chips and dip. But trying to get him to eat any fruit is just impossible. We had fresh pineapple after dinner, he barely touched a piece to his lips and said it was gross. Unless he dips strawberries in sugar, he doesn't eat them. Doesn't like apples or banana's or peaches. I've made fruit smoothies or a breakfast casserole with mixed fruit and he won't eat the stuff, he'll pick out any fruit. But he's very willing to try different sauces and dips and nuts and meats. He's my littlest guy but at least he's getting lots of protein for strong muscles so he doesn't get beat up. (at least that's what I tell myself)

My boys

Look at that kid! Look at the joy in his face! He won't stay of the counter and one night we found him up there and had unwrapped all these suckers and he was one happy little boy! The boys have loved all the candy that Grandma and Grandpa sent them!


One night the boys were watching a movie. I was on the computer and looked over at them and saw that all 3 of them were laying on their couch. I thought it was too cute! I just had to get a picture of them.

I love that they have a good brotherly bond!

don't look at the floor in this one it is really cluttered. and sorry about it being sideways. I don't know why it's uploading it sideways, it's not sideways in my file, I've tried playing around with it but I have no clue what it's doing.

Snap shots

Colton found our little 4-wheeler that we bought from Cabela's and started riding it. He rode it all Saturday afternoon, it was pretty cute so I snapped some shots of him. So these next few are of him and all his different faces. His personality is really starting to develop. He's such a funny, loud, dramatic boy!

This one is of him actually laughing! That really is how he laughs!



Josh wanted a picture too and he wanted it taken with Jesus, and I just couldn't tell him no to that request!


This is the two big boys on Sunday night watching a movie. Nate chose his own outfit, isn't it just awesome!

Cookies and Colton

Don't let this picture fool you. He's pointing to the 1 cookie but really that is Josh's 1 cookie. His are all the other cookies. If you enlarge the picture you'll notice that he took a bite out of most of the other ones. He had finished his cookie and decided to push the chair up to the stove, grab the spatula and help himself to the cookies when I was occupied. He is such an independent soul since he watches his brothers do everything. FYI, yes, I did take them all away from him and put the pan up out of his reach!

Pregnancy Shot

This is my baby bump at 28 week. It was taken on Tuesday when I turned 28weeks.

I know it's big and it's still going to get bigger. So, this shirt probably won't fit much longer. I'm figuring she should be at least 8lbs. And again, I don't have any gestational diabetes. We just make big babies. I'm hoping that I only have 10 weeks left, I don't want to go any longer than that as big as I get. So, let's hope I can get induced around 38 weeks!

Christmas 2009

This is Christmas eve. They were waiting to open one gift but fist mom had to get a picture of them.


Santa had just visit out house.


This is the chaos after everything had been opened.


Looking for the hidden pickle ornament; it's a German tradition.


Opening the pickle gift.


Colton was so excited to see what his present was. It was a glitter ball-and he absolutely loves balls! I love his facial expression in this one!


Nate wanted 2 things: a robot and a remote control car. This is his remote control truck that he loves.


Josh kept seeing the golf clubs at Target and he really wanted it. So, he was super happy to get this gift.


All 3 of them opening up a present.


Look past the awful bed hair, no make-up and to make matters worse, I woke up throwing up this Christmas morning. But I wanted to show the bag that the boys colored and decorated for my presents, I thought they did a great job!


This has been a fun gift that they have all had lots of fun playing with. Nate just had to have his face in it and a picture taken, silly boy.


And finally this is what we woke up to, on Christmas morning. It was really pretty. And even though you can see grass poking out of the snow, it's really a lot of snow, our grass is just really, really, really long! It took Danny like 2 hours to shovel our driveway, I felt bad for him- too bad I was sick and pregnant(hehehe!) But, in spite of all that, we had a great Christmas! The boys had a great day, they loved all their presents. And luckily, I felt like everything was a hit unlike years past when it hasn't been that way. It was so nice staying in, having a good meal and watching movies. We hope you all had a great Christmas too!