Lyla Nicole has arrived!

Lyla Nicole joined us on December 13th at 1:14pm. For those of us number geeks, it is pretty fun that she was born on 12-13 at 13:14 :) Jeff and I went in to the hospital the night before and I was put on some antibiotics during the night. My doctor came by at a little after 8am Monday morning, broke my water, and I was in active labor in no time. Everything was progressing nicely but she hadn't dropped enough so the nurse suggested I walk around some more...well, I took about 3 steps to the sink and that's about all I needed. I told (maybe yelled) that they should check me and when they did, they said I was "at a 4", meaning that she was just about out of me! They called my doctor, she ran over from her office and I only pushed for 9 minutes before we met our little angel! She was 5 lbs 9 oz, 19 inches long and absolutely beautiful! Bright blue eyes looking at me just minutes after being born!

Such a proud Daddy!

Haley was so excited to see her new little sister. I love my girls so much!

Gingerbread house & toddler bed

So...what to do when you are having contractions every 10-20 minutes and can't sleep? Update the blog! Here is Haley with the gingerbread house she helped make with my mom & me. I can't say that all of the candies made it onto the house and not in her mouth, but it turned out quite nicely! :) Here is Haley in her big girl bed. This picture is already outdated though because her Daddy, the best husband a girl could ask for, painted her room yesterday! Now two of the walls are an adorable pale pink and it looks so good with her white furniture!

38 weeks

Well, I'm 38 weeks along today and apparently 3AM is when the sleeping stops and heartburn & insomnia begin :( My checkup yesterday went well and the doctor said I was still "on track". I've been seeing a chiropractor and she thinks I've dropped pretty low and could go into labor at any time (especially since my OB will be out of town this weekend). My chiro claims that being adjusted at this stage pretty much guarantees a very short time of pushing - she comes with a good track record & if it works for me, I will be sending out my recommendations! If nothing else, I feel better and haven't had a headache in over a month which is unheard of for pregnant Christy! Ok, going to try heading back to bed...wish me luck!


Happy Thanksgiving!