coffee

I'm not sure what I think about drinking coffee from a straw. I know some people swear by it but I'm not so sure it's all people think it is. At this moment I'm inclined to opt for the yellow teeth...

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Adjusting to Life

So, I've kind of realized that there is all this novelty when you first bring home a baby and everything is crazy and people are coming over all the time and then things begin to die down and you wake up every morning to the sound of a crying infant and she has big eyes and poops a lot and cries a lot and you love her and realize that you can only do what you can do and life will continue on and this little baby will be a part of it.

We were at the racquet club this afternoon and a mom with her daughter walked by. Her daughter had a little racquet tucked under her arm and was talking to her mom as they came down from the restaurant and I thought, maybe that will be us one day. The millrose games was on the tv and I thought, maybe she'll run like me one day.

And that's where we're at right now. We sit around and ask eachother if she knows she's loved and if one or the other of us thinks she'll play soccer or tennis or run or play guitar (well, that one is just Ricky). I don't think I realized that as quickly as everything moves, there would also be these big lulls in time where she is just tiny and can't see you or smile at you. She just opens up her eyes and half way smiles. I get all excited until I realize she's just pooping or passing gas.

Anyways, being a mom is wonderful. Still very surreal, but good. I have realized that I can atleast go to the racquet club because there are places to breastfeed that don't make me feel like a moron. The ladies are very nice to me, too, as I camp out in the towel closet or the back of the locker room.

I worked out for the first time today. I walked for twenty minutes on the treadmill and did some crunches. Yay for getting back to the size I was when I was 6 month's pregnant. I'm not even goaling to be the size I was before I got pregnant...let alone the size I was in college. I'm sticking with the currently realistic goal of fitting back into the clothes I could still wear when I was 6 month's pregnant.

Ricky is taking a technical writing class and it has pretty much begun to consume his life. He spends hours pouring over websites and writing papers. The class is pretty much awesome but very time consumming. Soon he will have his degree and all this studying will be behind us. I feel very blessed to be able to hang out with him so much while he has been studying. It has been kind of fun. I get to read novels...fluffy christian novels that make me happy. And I feed the baby. The story of my new life.

Here are some pictures. One from tonight at the club and three to show how hard it is to get one good picture. I left off half the bad ones...

New Picture

I have the baby and the dog asleep on me so I thought I would take a second and post. I'm finally starting to get the hang of the whole breastfeeding thing. It seems to be working much much better but I'm not quite organized yet on a schedule. I haven't decided whether or not I think it's going to be really important yet. However, this evening I read that if I don't either feed Clair or pump out milk about every 2-3 hours, I might not have enough milk to feed her when she gets older. That has pretty much freaked me out and into the desire to create a schedule...starting tomorrow. I really hate schedules. I've never liked them. I should just be a hippee.

Here are more pictures. Ricky wanted one to show that she's the length of his arm.

hanging out

I promised myself that this week I would do nothing but hang out with my new baby and my husband and I'm so glad I did. Ricky and I have not spent this much consecutive time together since we both started working corporate jobs. I can't believe how fast the days are flying by though. Right now we are blowing through episodes of the office on netflix and taking turns holding clair. That and I just keep eating because I'm constantly hungry and pumping or feeding Clair intermittently.

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First Pediatrician Appt.

We got back a few hours ago from our first pediatrician appointment and I've had some time to myself for the first time since we had the baby. It's been kind of nice. I haven't done much of anything but watch Everybody Loves Raymond and fiddle around on the internet but I feel very relaxed now.

Our pediatrician appointment went well. We were fifteen minutes late and therefore had to wait like 45 minutes to get in. When we went into the room the lady asked us to get her all undressed and we checked the diaper to make sure it was clean so we could leave it on. Everything was good and so she started to get her paperwork together and Clair went, "Pbbbbbttththhtt" and we had to change her diaper. After that was over, she did the measuring thing which was pretty cool because she did it by marking on the white paper with a pen. Who knew. After the measuring was over she put her on the scale and weighed her. Then she left the room and told us to wait for the doctor. Like two seconds after she left the room..."Pbbbtthteehthtt" and we had to change her again. It was kind of funny. Then the doctor came in and checked the heart and poked around a little bit and everything was fine. The best part is that he told us that as long as she eats enough throughout the day, we can let her sleep through the night. woohoo!

Clair week 1

So, It's been 6 days and we have a baby and have finally started to slow down. People have been coming by non-stop which has been really great and we have actually gotten some sleep so we've been awake and able to enjoy everything.

I realized this morning that I actually feel guilty that everything has been so easy. We had a bit of a troubled night our first night here where we got no sleep and then our second night we got almost a full night but she wouldn't eat, which was actually scary and not nearly as enjoyable as one would think sleeping through the night with a new born baby would be. However, we figured out she was just starving and since we have remedied that situation (yay for breast pumps) she has been happy happy and she cries when she's hungry and then she sleeps. And that's how it's been for the past two days. She is awesome and she sleeps between 4 and 6 hours during the night. We are going to go to the pediatrician today and he will tell us whether or not we get to continue enjoying that or if we should be waking her up.

Not that it's all been a bed of roses...I've had troubles with the breast feeding but we have a friend who is a nurse who has been helping me with it so for the first time since our night where she just stopped eating I was able to feed her on both sides.

Well, here are some pics...

Clair

We had a little girl. Her name is Clair Erynne Williams and she weighed 6.13lbs and was 19 inches long. She was born at 9:56pm. I'll have pictures soon to post. I think she is beautiful, though obviously I'm a little biased. I am in a double room so ricky had to go sleep in the waiting room and I am, after having dozed on and off for an hour and a half, pretty much wide awake. They said they will bring her back to me around 2:30. She is getting her bath and being cleaned up.

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bumped back

Our time got bumped back at the hospital so now I have to all at 8 to find out when I go in. The plus side to this that I have read my bible, everyone's new blog entries, called my mom, packed some more stuff...and it's only 7:19. Better than any morning I've had in 9 months!

Interestingly, I have two bags, two pillows, a blanket, and a little radio to bring to the hospistal. I think that might be more than we brought on our one week trip to Ireland...

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baby coming

We are going to the hospital at 8am on Wednesday to start the induction process. Looks like we're finally going to have a kid!

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blogging from my iPhone

I just discovered that I can blog from my iPhone. How cool is technology? Ricky and I decided to skip church today and spend our time trying to get the last of our boxes unpacked in an effort to get the house ready to go. Maybe the baby will come today...

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It is in fact the end of the day on my due date and instead of giving birth or holding my new baby I am sorting papers to shred and putting old screwdrivers in piles with paint brushes to eventually store in our office closet. I'm sitting here at my desk and the little guy/girl is thumping the inside of my belly as happy as a clam.

Dr. Laird said we will induce on Thursday of next week...yes, that is 6 more days.

We did find a pediatrician, finally. Usually I try to do all my research upfront on this stuff so all I have to do is go in but with the pediatrician it was really hard because I would ask around and get great recomendations and then call or go in and be sorely disappointed. So, it was very nice to finally have all the pieces fit together and meet someone who, himself, did not give me the creeps and whose office did not feel like a hospital waiting room. There were actually little pictuers from patients posted on big bulletin boards and highlights magazines just like my pediatricians office when I was a kid...it was nice.

And now I will go back to sorting random crap in our office. On a side note, I found like 5 packages of 39 cent stamps...yay for inflation, stamps are now 42 cents. Anyone know if you can buy 3 cent stamps or do I have to suffer through all the 1 cent ones whenever I want to mail anything. Which, btw, I do like 3 times a year so I figure these stamps will last me another 10 years. By that time I'll just be able to double the 39 cent stamps on one envelope.

It's 2 days till due date and still no baby...
These two are from right before Christmas.

This one is from last weekend, after New Years.We haven't done any formal pictures so this is as good as it gets

I haven't posted a lot of pictures lately so I thought I would throw a bunch on here.
This was our mantle


These are the tenants' Christmas Stockings

Fuzzy Christmas Tree!

Ricky's first Crane...I grew up making these so we had a little lesson. As you can see, we were very excited until we realized that while we were making the crane, the last light show display on the house down the street was going on and we missed it. Then we were just a little bitter.

Mike is back in town from Australia. yay!

I made lots of Cranes!! This was Erin's first as well.

The fam looking at lights

Roller Derby Rocks!

I almost finished Cody's stocking. He ended up with an amputated foot but it was ok because the stocking is so huge it still held all his stuff.

Rob got a new bike and he loves it. Ricky, Cody and Rob went for a ride after we opened gifts on Christmas day. New helmets all around!!

Ricky relaxing after the ride.

Our house.

I will post more pictures of Ricky's bday and new years later on.

On new news with us, I had a doctors appt on Thursday and found out that I'm 1-2 inches dialated and 75% effaced so the baby's coming. No saying it will come before the due date on the 9th but Dr. Laird said I would be inducible after that point. So, here's to actually having a baby sometime soon! Oh, and we're finally fencing our back yard. I will have to put up pictures. The fence is way ghetto but the gates are turning out to be pretty cool looking. At some point maybe we'll have grass...woohoo.