10 Days....

My littlest baby is now ten days old.... and she just gets more precious every day!

Everything went as planned with her delivery - arrive at the hospital, get Momma prepped, have a baby. The c-section, however, kicked my bootie. It was a really rough surgery this time (it wasn't bad at all last time, so I wasn't expecting this). As my darling husband put it, "It is a really violent procedure." All I know is that they had to give me some pretty strong drugs during the surgery because I was having such a hard time with it. But then we heard her cry - I'm pretty sure ML was crying before she was completely out of my belly. :) And she continued to cry until she got all wrapped up and was given to her daddy! Here they are right after we got back from the OR.

Mika Lynn

7 pounds 8 ounces

20 3/4 inches long

Absolutely perfect!

The only thing that I feel sad about is that I don't really remember the first time I held her because I was so out of it on the medication. It is a weird, cloudy memory. But thankfully the recovery is going wonderfully! No problems at all there! 

My Nanny spent last week with us - it was such a blessing! She will never know how much she means to us. Words can't express it. She was such a help with cooking dinner and taking care of the big girls and letting me take it easy and heal and take care of Little Bit. Don't you just love those squishy cheeks!!!! 

The Big Sisters are so excited as well. They love having their baby home and they are very good with her. It is  so special to me to watch them love her. I know they will all three grow up to be best friends!

We are slowly settling into a routine around here. My mom is here this weekend - another blessing!! She's so good to let me rest as much as I need. And Jared has been great! He even kept Mika Lynn for a couple of hours yesterday so I could go return something to Target and get out of the house for a bit. We also had a special lunch date with just the Big Girls - it was really nice and they liked having us all to themselves. Even though having a new baby at home with us is an adjustment, we are all adjusting pretty well. 

And here are my Three Little Valentines.... aren't they precious! I'm dying to get a good picture of all three of them so we attempted a laying down picture yesterday. We may try some other poses today. :) Oh I love these girls - they are the loves of my life!

She's On Her Way....

This will be a post devoted to my third baby girl. :) I don't spend enough time talking about her, on here or in person... so here you go Miss M!


Today I had a doctor appointment. I am 31+ weeks. All is well - weight gain is fine (almost 20 pounds from the time I got pregnant but if you factor in me losing 10 in the first trimester, I've "gained" 30!). BP is normal - yay! The insane pain is just something I have to live with - I had already come to that conclusion.... apparently each pregnancy is harder and harder on your body. 


I am having a lot of contractions... in fact, I had a good one while in with the doctor. We both laughed about it because the belly got all kinds of hard just as she was about to check for the heartbeat. Baby Girl's heartbeat was 140.... so that's good. 


And then Dr. C blew my mind when she said "I want to schedule your c-section today". We picked February 4, 2010! YIKES! It seemed so weird to get to pick the day my baby is born.... although I know I don't really get to pick that, just the last possible day for her to be born! :) I called the hubby when I left and told him and I think he was just as surprised that we did that today as I was. Usually, I joke that the appointments are so repetitive and nothing exciting ever happens (not that I want anything exciting, believe me I like the boring appointments) but not today! 


I asked what the chances were for me to go into labor early since my water broke 4 weeks early with P and 3 weeks early with L. Dr. C said it was highly likely that I will go into labor before Feb. 4 and that I should be prepared for a January baby..... I am (kind of!). 


She then surprised me again when she said one more appointment in 2 weeks then we will start every week.... That is early! She wants to start checking me and monitoring more closely since I will likely go into labor early! YIKES!!!! I'm almost to my weekly appointments. I was not prepared to hear that today! 


All in all, it was a good appointment. Now I just need to get done with all of my Christmas stuff so I can get to work on all of my baby things! I have a thing or two to buy and A LOT of clothes to wash!


Hope you all have a wonderful Monday.... I am planning on taking some Christmasy pictures to post up this week. Hopefully I can get it done!


Christmas Countdown : 11 days!