First Sunday

Lily attended church for the first time on Sunday. She slept through the whole thing which is what you want at that age!

Oliver attended church for the first time as a big brother and Shane attended as a daddy of two! Everyone looked great:-D What a great family I have!

Uncle Aaron's Visit

Uncle Aaron flew all the way out from Washington to visit his newest niece! We spent the afternoon in Portsmouth...Lily's first outing! She slept through the whole thing. We went to Poco's Bow Street Cantina for dinner. Shane got the chimichangas and said they were awesome. I got a cheeseburger and food poisoning. Awesome.
Oliver loves his Uncle Aaron, probably because he is just like him! As Oliver gets older I hope he is able to see Aaron more because I know they will have a great relationship!
I am now realizing that I didn't take any pics of Aaron with Oliver or Lily, but I know they're out there, just on assorted cameras.

Someone put bubbles in the fountain!

Grandma and Grandbaby

Sweet girl
Hangin' with Willy the Whale

Aaron and his gf Madrese

Lily Bates

She is here! Born September 14, 2009 at 4:14pm. 7lbs 12 ozs, 20.5 inches long. My water was broken at 145 and I had her 2.5 hours later. Very quick, intense labor, but completely worth it! We are now working on adjusting to life with two children and no sleep. I will try to keep posting pics, but they might be spotty these next few weeks. Sorry about the quality of the pics, I accidentally deleted the good ones that Shane took:-\

Still Here- Day 11

Yesterday was a fun day. Full of non-labor fun. Shane made his Saturday Morning Breakfast. This week it was oatmeal banana pancakes with peanut butter and chocolate topping with a side of sausage and hashbrowns. Goodness gracious they were delicious. Shane's mom had stayed down with us the night previous just in case I went into labor, so she got to experience the awesomeness that is Saturday Morning Breakfast.
After Breakfast Irene (MIL) and I headed out shopping. We hit up a yard sale that had some book shelves that were PERFECT and the PERFECT PRICE but they were just too darn big. There was no way we could fit them in the car so we had to leave them behing *sniff sniff*. We did score an awesome bargain at the yard sale, though. They had one of those play mats that has roads all over it for little ones to play with their cars. It was only THREE BUCKS!!
We then headed down to the Christmas Tree Shop. Oliver definitely hit the jackpot yesterday because we kept finding super cute, fun stuff for him. I found a couple of canvases with a fire engine and a police car on them. Perfect for a little boys room! Irene bought him some cars for his new car rug and then we found an AWESOME toy vacuum cleaner. It looks just like ours, and has all of the same buttons. Oliver is always taking ours out of the closet and playing around with it, so it is great that he has his own to play with now.
When we got home from shopping, we were greeted by a vase of lilys and a gift bag with diapers and bibs. Shane told me that his co-worker had showed up at the house and said, "I went to the hospital, but you weren't there..." I just can't believe how thoughtful he was to bring such a beautiful gift first to the hospital and then to our house. I was hoping the scent of lilys would coax our own Lily out, but no such luck!
The biggest news of the day, though, came from Marisa in the evening. Mom had her flight changed so now she is able to make it to the birth!! This was the biggest disappointment about being sent home on Friday. We knew Marisa was not going to be able to meet her niece before she left for 18 months! Thanks to Mom's powers of persuasion, though, she is now going to be able to see little Lily be born...and even cut the cord!
Today is Marisa's farewell open house so we will be driving up for that, which should be a good time.

Still Here- Day 10

Seriously. I had contractions all afternoon. Then we went to the Friendly Toast and they went away. Stupid over-priced hippie food! Never going there again! I did get a Rosebud cake from Popovers out of the deal, so at least one good thing came out of not having Lily yesterday.

Now, I just want to make one thing very very clear. I know how lucky I am. I get pregnant very easily. I have super easy pregnancies. No morning sickness. I don't show until 6-7 months. My last delivery was efficient and effective. I have an angel of a child that gives me no problems and makes it so easy to parent. And he is healthy. I know that having to wait a few extra days to meet my next angel is not asking much of me. I am just impatient. The complaining I do is with an awareness that this complaint is very low on the scale of complaints and I don't really mope around all day saying "woe is me".

I just want to meet my Lily girl is all:)

THEY SENT ME HOME...

WITHOUT A BABY!!!!

Yes, you read correctly. They gave me one dose of progesterone to thin out my cervix and bring on contractions. Then I waited for 3 hours. When they came back they informed me that several women in labor had come into the ward that that they didn't have room for me. So I'm scheduled for another induction on Monday. Oy. I've been having contractions off and on all day, so I'm trying to keep those going so that I can go back to the hospital in labor at some point this weekend, but they seem to be fading:(
I guess Lily just wasn't supposed to be born on the 11th...

Still Here-Day 8

Yesterday I had my post-dates ultrasound and non-stress test. These are both done to make sure the baby is still thriving. Marisa came with me to the ultrasound which she was really excited about. I'm glad she was able to see the ultrasound of Lily. At this point she is so big that you can't see much, but the tech gave us some great shots of her little bum! Haha! There was plenty of fluid for her to swim in, so the tech said (with disappointment) that she couldn't call the hospital to induce me right then.
The non-stress test simply involves them putting monitors to measure the baby and contractions and make sure the baby is reacting appropriately (ie the heartrate goes up as contractions go up). I was there for about 2 boring hours. It also reminded me how uncomfortable those hospital beds are! I'm going to have to bring a few pillows from home!
At 9 the Camerons, Amber, and Hillary came over to watch Wipeout. The Presidential address went over, which worked out so we could all chat before the show started (sorry, Pres. Obama!) What rocked was that when the show came on it a. started from the beginning, and b. was in Australia! Nice! Those Aussie contestants are even crazier than the American ones (who knew that was possible!?)
Today is going to consist of last minute preps for the baby. She'll be here tomorrow! Nutters! I also want to sneak in one more nap before I don't sleep again for 6 months:)
Shane is going to try and keep the blog updated while I am in the hospital, in fact, I think he is planning on bringing it to the hospital, so stay tuned for some pics tomorrow! He also joked that he was going to web cam the whole thing...well I hope it was a joke:-D Well I am off to savor my last day with Oliver as an only child!