Wren's Sunday best

From Wren

Well hello there

Mom and Dad took me to the doctors on Monday and I'm now weighing 8.2lbs and filling out quite nicely if I must say so. Mom and me and now home alone together. She is very good company and lets me do lots of this.....
while she catches up on laundry, dishes and whatever all else she does while I sleep. I've grown up so big that I'm completely out of my newborn diapers and some of my smaller sleepers graduating to 0 to 3mth clothes and diapers....yayDon't I look so darn cute and grown up?! Well that's all for now.
Until next time,
Wren

Funny Faces

Wren is getting to be more alert and awake these days. And she also seems to be talking up a storm to us with her expressions....

Mobile

Wren's bird branch mobile made by Mum.

Very cute. Thank you!

New diapers

Our diapers came in the mail! Yay and I'm already in love with them. Wren hasn't fussed about a dirty diaper since. I have to make sure I check it more often because she won't even let me know though.

Wren Penelope

This is our new little girl. Wren Penelope born Friday Oct.21/11 at 4:28am, 7.15lbs, 20.5in. She's only 4 days old and has changed so much. Couldn't be more in love with her, she is so perfect!
*new dad in aww

*2 hours after delivery

*so cute!

Come on baby!

Well strike number 2! I started having contractions again on friday night around 11:30pm. I didn't want to wake Lane so I stayed awake and started timing them. They were getting closer together and stronger that I finally couldn't just lay there, I got up and did some laundry around 2:30am which woke Lane up. At this point they were lasting 40-50 seconds and 3-4minutes apart. All the books say you should be headed to the hospital when they are 5 minutes apart! Yikes! So we scrambled, packed our bags and headed to the hospital. The nurse checked me and I was 2cm dilated and the contractions were getting even stronger as we were there. I have to be honest, at this point I started freaking out and thinking I wouldn't be able to make it if this is what 2cm's felt like. The nurse consulted with the doctor only to come back in the room and say that she was sending me home but I could have morphine if I wanted it (I declined. As much as I was starting to feel anxious about the pain, it made her seem so close and it made me feel alive and excited). We went home kind of disappointed but with hope that it was probably close. It's now Monday late afternoon and no progress!!! I'm having contractions still but now they slowed to 10 minutes or more apart with lots of quick sharp pains. I feel so teased by all of this and definitely frustrated as I get more and more uncomfortable.
Anyways.....maybe third time is a charm :P Here are some pictures we took quick right before we went to the hospital so we could remember the belly at its biggest.

And any advice on how to get things moving even if they seem silly would be great.

Feeling lazy....

Well I'm officially into the third trimester. And just like how I got into the second and suddenly my nausea/vomitting dissappeared, it's the same with this third one. I've have really bad swelling in my feet and hands this past week (not attractive I know) and to top it all off, I think she may have gained 2lbs. I can actually feel the weight of her crushing my pelvis although I suppose this is referred to as round ligament pain.....hmmm.
So anyways I'm just laying in bed these days and can barely get up to go to the washroom. I'm really hoping I can work for at least 6 more solid weeks but we will see what the doctor says next week.
Words of wisdom and encouragment will be thankfully accecpted :)

Yay THIRD trimester today!!!!

This is sort of a miscellaneous post with some stuff we've been up to and some baby junk.


Today we had another prenatal appointment and it was the first appt. where I've been later in the day so there was a bit of a wait (along with lots of other preggies). It's funny because up until today, in that moment, I've felt so out of place. Like I'm a giant compared to everyone else but I felt like I fit in when I was surrounded by all these other cute, sweaty, blessed bellies. It was great!


We have definitely been very busy with everything from house reno's, to surprise birthday parties (my mom's 50th), to baby stuff, to new and exciting purchases......


A welcomed addition to the house, laundry machines!! They just came today, fresh from the delivery people with detergent coupons and everything. Lane was even so excited that he wanted to sit and watch the first load being washed haha. And I've never been so excited to do laundry before that I'm actually looking forward to all the diapers and baby clothes lol.



Lane pulled apart the deck which he will be redoing this week hopefully and be making the 'after' pictures absolutely stunning.
This was one of the first things we bought when we found out we were pregnant, a handmade sock monkey off of Etsy. The shelf is also a new addition to the room :P
Solid wood rocking chair we scored off of Craigslist for $30!
Lane and I were 'window' shopping and came across this pillow. It was SO perfect with all its rich and bright colours that we had to go back and buy it.
Some progress with the crib. It's primed at least and ready for paint (a lot more work than we saw ourselves doing when we imagined a white crib).

Belly Bump update

Well on high demand, here are some new belly pictures (well belly and the rest of my growing body). This week I've had quite a bit of swelling too in my legs and feet which I suppose is expected but nonetheless, it's very nice to put them up at bedtime. We are very excited for the big ultrasound coming up this week. And the last time we saw our baby was at 7 weeks and it was fairly tiny, this time we will be able to see that its a little baby with a face and arms and legs and everything!


Week 15

Week 16

Week 17

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Week 19

Week 20