One Week and two days old

Well, I can hardly believe how fast the time goes! Gabby is over a week old already. We are having so much fun with her. She is such a blessing! We are adjusting pretty well to having two kids. I ventured out on my own yesterday for the first time with both girls. It went really well! I went to work to visit my co-workers and then went grocery shopping. Right now it seems pretty easy because Gabby sleeps all the time and Megan is used to going grocery shopping with me. I think it will become more difficult as Gabby gets older and more mobile. Megan just loves Gabby to pieces. She is always asking it she can hold her and she loves to hug and kiss her. I hope she always loves her this much!!

We went to the doctor's on Tuesday for Gabby's one week visit. She has surpassed her birth weight and it now 7lbs 13 oz. The doctor said she is doing really well!! She is usually up twice at night for feedings. But, last night she stayed awake after the feeding and was so noisy making grunting noises. I finally moved her to her bedroom at about 4:00am. I think I will put her in her own room from now on. Megs is sleeping a little better these days. I only had to go see her once last night for a few minutes and give her a hug. I usually try to have a little nap in the afternoon when Megan sleeps. I am recovering much faster from this birth than from Megs. It doesn't even hurt to sit on hard surfaces this time!!

We have been so blessed by our friends and family! We have had so many meals provided for us. And a very special thank you to our moms who come over and help with the girls and clean our house. We love you!! I have hardly had to cook any meals in the last week. We are so grateful to all of you.

Little "ishta"

Megan is just keeping an eye on gabbers here.

Another Closeup of our new sweetie, just so you can all get a good look at how gorgeous she is.

Megan is proud to hold her little sister (ishta). Megan really does love Gabrielle. She kept asking to hold her, so we let her today. She was in her glory for about 1/2 a minute, then she was done. She wanted Gabrielle to go "down" off the couch so that she could play with her. It's really sweet to watch them interact.

Wir haben ein neues Baby!!!

Wir sind also aufgeregt! Baby Gabrielle wurde bei 7:50 Dienstag am April 17. getragen. Sorry, I found a german translating gadget online and couldn't resist. We are so excited! Baby Gabrielle was born at 7:50 on Tuesday the 17th of April. She was 7lbs 8ounces and is healthy and happy. She is a very quiet and content baby, and has slept well through her first night. Tanya is up and around the house and is feeling pretty good. She started having contractions at about 10:00 on monday night, and we went to the hospital at about 1:00 tuesday morning. They were able to leave the hospital today (wednesday). Megan loves Gabby and likes to hug and kiss her. She also likes to put blankets over babies face.

The Doctor and nurses were fantastic, and the whole experience was very good.

Due In 5 Days

I can hardly believe it, but this baby is due in 5 days. Where has the time gone?? I wake up every morning now wondering if this is going to be the day!! When I was at the doctor's this past week, she told me I am 1 cm dilated and she "stripped my membranes", hoping to get things going. I had that done twice with Megan and I'm not sure it did anything. So far nothing seems different since I had that done. My doctor is on-call for our clinic this weekend, so I think she wants me to have it sometime this weekend.

The weather for the past couple of days has been absolutely BEAUTIFUL!! I think yesterday was something like 24 degrees. We spent most of the day outside. Jeff has been digging up grass around our cedars in the backyard to put in drip irrigation. He was digging for about 7 hours straight for 2 days. He was totally exhausted. I felt bad, because I could not help him with it. He made 2 loads to the dump. Megan just loves to be outside in the fresh air. We have Molly again because Jeff's parents are in Portland visiting his brother, Eric. Megan just loves to have Molly around to play with!!

Megan helping daddy with yard work!

We went to church this morning and had a great Easter service. I just love some of the old hymns we sang!! I am just overwhelmed by Jesus' love and amazing sacrifice for us on that cross. And today is so awesome because he arose and we have victory in him. What amazing LOVE!!

Today we are going to have an Easter egg hunt for Megs. But, of course she does not eat chocolate or candy, so we bought her some plastic eggs that have Play-doh in them. She loves Play-doh!! We are going to hid them in the backyard and she can collect them. We'll be sure to take some pictures. My mom and dad are coming over tonight for Easter dinner and for my dad's birthday. My due date is actually my dad's birthday and he is very excited about that! I have made a ham in the crockpot, salad, potatoes and a cake.

I will keep you all posted as to the baby news!! Bye for now.

Fun with Bubbles

Today Jeff bought Megan some bubbles to play with outside. She totally loved them! It was really cute watching her try to catch them. We played outside today for quite a while because it was SO beautiful. The sun was shining and it was really warm. I just love springtime!!

Earlier this week, Derek and Colleen came over to help us cut down some trees in our backyard. We got them a chainsaw for their wedding and Derek loves to use it. He cut down our large cherry tree and a plum tree. The yard feels so much bigger now. Megan was very interested in the whole process and she wasn't scared of the loud chainsaw. Then Jeff had to chop the tree branches into smaller pieces and put them in the truck and haul them to the dump. Megan wanted to be outside with daddy when he was cutting the branches. She mostly stayed in the cab of the truck and just played around in there.


Wednesday was my last day of work in the office. It was a good day, but it doesn't feel like I am really done yet. I am still working from home for as long as posssible and then hopefully I can start up again a few months after the baby comes. On Thursday night, my boss took all the staff out for dinner to Yama's Greek Restaurant. It was really good and I ate way too much. Sometimes I don't realize my stomach is smaller these days. I didn't feel really good that night though, I had really bad heartburn and had trouble getting to sleep. I guess while I was out for dinner, Megan was a little troublemaker for Jeff. She cried for me for more than an hour. She usually loves her time with her daddy, so I don't know what was up. She has been a little sick and out of sorts this week, so maybe she just didn't feel well.

I was at the doctor's office again this week and my doctor said everything looks good and I am starting to dilate. I can't believe this is happening so soon!! I am starting to get more excited and anxious now. I am still not sleeping well, but I guess that I'm being prepared for when the baby comes!!

Bye for now!!

A little hospital visit

Since my last post, lots of things have happened!! Jeff and I went for my ultrasound on Friday to see if the baby was breeched again. We had the ultrasound done at the hospital and we had a technician in training, well he was very nice, but it took FOREVER!!! My back was killing me by the end of the appointment. He started doing the ultrasound at about 11:30am and we got home about 2:00pm. I had not brought lunch for Megan and Jeff had to go back to work. We were quite frustrated about this. The technician did like a hundred pictures of the baby, but in the first 2 minutes he told me the baby was not breeched!! I was very excited about this. Then the real technician came in and did all the measurements and pictures over again. I don't know why this all had to be done, but I guess it's standard procedure. The baby is measuring a little small right now, the technician thought about 5lbs 12oz. But, I still have 3 weeks to go!

Then, this morning I went to the bathroom and I thought maybe my water broke! I am only 37 weeks now. I was in a little bit of shock!! There wasn't much fluid and I wasn't sure what it was. We went to the walk in clinic this morning because Megan has a fever and is not feeling well, I thought I would get checked out too. Well the doctor at the clinic could not do much for me, he sent me to the hospital. At the hospital, the doctor did a swab and some tests and everything came back negative for amniotic fluid and my cervix was still closed. That was good news, because I would like the baby to grow a little bit more. Megan could not stay with us at the hospital because it is RSV season, so mom and dad came and got her and took her to their house. She was happy to see them!!

Also, Megan is not feeling well and is VERY cuddly. She just wants to be held all the time. I do like when she is cuddly but not when she is sick. Her fever was quite high last night and we gave her some Tylenol and today she doesn't have a fever. She does not have much of an appetite and is not herself. We though maybe she had an ear infection, because her balance a little off this morning, but the doctor at the clinic said she looks fine. I will see how she is in the next couple of days and if she gets worse I will take her in again.

3 weeks and counting

We took Megan to the park this past weekend. She totally loves it! The playground is pretty good for kids her age and she can go on the slide by herself. Although, she prefers that we go with her. She gets pretty upset when we leave. We have been to the park 3 times in the last week and now I think she is getting used to it. She is a little scared of the swings these days. She only stays in the swing for about a minute and then she says "all done". She used to love the swings, so maybe she got scared one time.

I can hardly believe this baby is due in three weeks!! This pregnancy has gone by SO fast. Although, I am getting more uncomfortable these days and I look forward to that being over. Jeff took some pregnancy pictures of me the other day and some of them turned out.

I was at the doctor again today and my doctor could not tell if the baby was breech again or not. She felt around my belly for quite awhile and was still unsure - so she is sending me for an ultrasound tomorrow. I really hope that it is head down at this point. She said the baby is probably a little under 7 lbs right now and she said that is good if they have to try and turn the baby because it still has some room. I just trust God that everything will work out! It will be neat to see the baby at the ultrasound because now it is so much bigger than last time.

We have been taking care of Jeff's parents dog while they are away and Megan is totally obsessed with her. Megan never leaves her alone and she always wants to give her hugs, of course Molly is not a big fan of that. Megan even wakes up from her naps calling for Molly. I'm sure Molly will be relieved to go home after this week!

I will try to post again really soon to let you all know how the ultrasound goes. Bye for now!