Better late than never!

I figured it was high time that I announced the safe arrival of our second beautiful baby girl! (I'm only almost 7 months late, but better late than never, right?) Abby Maria was born on May 8, 2009 at 9:53 am. She weighed in at 8.9 and was 22.5 inches long. She came fairly quickly (compared to Megan). I had a stretch and sweep the morning before and throughout the day I was starting to feel the odd twinge and cramp. Sure enough at about 3:30 am I started noticing that the cramps were about 10 minutes apart...so I knew they were contractions at that point. At 5:30 am I had a HUGE contraction that was long and extremely painful. Decided it was time to wake up Mike and get the show on the road. After that the contractions quickly went to about 3 minutes apart. We left home at 6:30am and drove incredibly fast to the hospital. Got there at 7am, and was assessed at 5 cm dilated. I was also told that an epidural may not be possible at this point since I was progressing to quickly. (I panicked a little at this news) Thankfully the anesthesiologist was there when I got to my delivery room and I got the epidural in right away...didn't even have time to really say hi to my nurse or anything. Once the epidural took effect, things were much more pleasant! It was very different from Megan's birth because with her I could feel when the contractions were coming, but with Abby I just felt crazy pressure. The nurse finally checked me again and said "I see hair!" She arrived about 3 pushes later!

Megan was so thrilled to meet her. She didn't want to give her back to us when she was holding her. (life over the next few months was a little harder...Megan took a little while to adjust to sharing our attention)

Abby is such a little joy to have in our lives. She is very quiet...she likes to just observe everything that is happening around her. And she is so smiley. It doesn't take much to get a smile from her. She starting sleeping through the night at 7 weeks (amazing, eh?!), got her first 2 teeth at 4 months, and has WAY less hair than Megan.

Here are some pictures of her at each month, up until November 8 (6 months).

And that's the story of our newest little sweetie. She has definately molded herself into our hearts.

Excited

I'm sitting here at work...trying to get my work done, but my mind keeps thinking about the baby and everything coming up in the next few weeks...and I'm just so excited!!! I'm due to meet this little one in 6 weeks...can you believe it?! It feels like it's taken a lifetime to get to this point, but I'm finally starting to grasp the reality that I will be holding this little girl in my arms soon. I already love her, but I know that love is going to multiply when I see her little face and kiss her tiny fingers and toes. I think in some ways it will be a way for me to hold a little piece of my three little angels that we didn't get the chance to meet here on earth. I am so thankful that God has blessed us with two daughters...and that He has strengthened us through our struggles. We have so much to be thankful for, and I know that too often I take it for granted.


Other things I'm looking forward too: only 2 weeks of work left!! It will be great to have some time off with Megan before the baby comes. She's been really cuddly and sweet lately, and I want to share some time with her before our lives get a little hectic. I'm looking forward to her meeting her sister...she seems to be quite excited about it. She still says that she is having a baby too, her's is a boy. (I think she may get this from her "Big Sister Dora" dvd...Dora's mom has twins, a boy and a girl, so naturally when I say mine is a girl, she thinks hers is a boy) The other day we were in the car and she was complaining that her carseat straps were too tight (a normal occurance...even though they are not tight at all). I told her it was fine, and they had to be tight enough to keep her safe. Then she said it was tight because her tummy was big. Hmmm..."why is your tummy big, Megan?" "because the baby is growing!" Little stinker! It'll be interesting to see what happens when my baby is out of my tummy....what will happen to hers?

Anyways, I guess I better wrap this up....need to finish up some things here. Just thought I would take a few minutes to share.

Megan milestones

This is a post about what Megan is up to right now. I've seen this done on a few friend's blogs and thought it was a great way to record some of Megan's moments.

Megan is 34 months old now...just 2 months shy of her 3rd birthday!

She loves to make Smoogies (smoothies) with mommy in the morning.

She knows her ABC's in english and in French.

She loves to sing...songs she knows and songs she makes up.

Bedtime consists of a story and then a lot of songs, usually including the following:

Jingle Bells

Rock-a-bye Baby

Rubber Ducky

Jesus Loves Me

Jesus Loves the Little Children

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

Row Your Boat

Skinamarinky Dinky Dink (with the actions of course)

The Goodnight Song

She can't pronounce her V's yet... and says them as B's. (I lub you mommy!)

She loves to help with everything: washing dishes, baking, putting laundry away.

Dora is her favourite show.

She enjoys playing leggo with Daddy.

Loves to colour and use stickers.

She still says "ogurt" instead of yogurt.

She knows a lot of French words, including colours and body parts. (thanks to daycare!)

She is a strong willed little girl, but still loves to cuddle.

The list could go on and on....I love this special girl!!

Helping Daddy

So with the bus strike going on and along with the bad weather this morning, I left for work early and Mike was going to take Megan to daycare.

Well, she decided she was going to help Daddy this morning. Mike sent me the following description in an email this mroning, and I thought it was pretty cute!


she got a stool and put it down in front of my lunch on the counter. "I make Daddy's lunch!"
She then proceeded to place the cheese and meat on the bread slices, and then put the whole sandwhich together. (and no, not like us by putting the single slice of bread on top of the rest of the sandwhich. she took the whole sandwhich and turned it upside down, and then put it on the remaining slice of bread. we had to re-load the sandwhich when she was done) I had to cut another slice of cheese, since she ate one of my six slices.
then, she stacked them all in a pile to be ready for the lunch bag. with my breakfast on the bottom of the pile, and a bite taken out of it.