dear reese.

i love you :)

without boring you - i figure i should write out the details of reese's arrival on may 11, 2010. ***which, btw, was my grandma marty's birthday. i could only wish that reese is like her.

it was her eviction date. LOL after 40wks, i went in at 6am to be induced. this is before.




we got everything hooked up and water broken by 7am. i started at about 2cm and 50% effaced (same as i had been the week before).

EJ got breakfast.


i did not.


i ended up getting an epidural a bit later. maybe 830am or so? bc, well, i felt like it and started to feel contractions. and we simply could not have that. ;) the epidural was my easiest so far. the other ones weren't "hard" at all, but this one i didnt even feel.

some pics of our set up.




time passed and reese's HR started to drop a bit bc of constant contractions. so they stopped them completely with a shot of terb. gah. and turned off the pit (which btw was low to begin with). reese bounce back completely, of course, and they turned the pit back on -- but only for a little bit. the dr was at the other hospital trying to deliver someone else, but she was taking too long. so we just let me progress on my own :) i watched some more tv, played on FB (lol), and tried to sleep until finally i was complete, the dr left the other woman who STILL had not delivered, and came over for me.

i pushed through 1 contraction, she was right there, so we didnt wait and just pushed her out 1 more time. ta-da!! 3:53pm -- here she IS! Reese Madeline.




the lips. lol (which the nurses commented on "OMG HER LIPS! gorgeous!" when she wasn't even ALL the way out haha


7lbs 10oz and 20". and perfect. she was able to just lay on my chest for about 5 mins before they took her to be cleaned up.


some detail shots.




lol her poor left foot print. she moved. haha


proud daddy with his third footprint shirt :)




my first "after birth" pic. i did good! woot!


im in love.






in love as well.


my parents brought up my other babies.


sawyer didnt know what to think lol




lol aidan.


day 1 is over. sleep baby.


the next day, aidan and my mom came up to visit during sawyer's naptime.






hanging out on us.




bow head.


hey pretty.




okay baby. go to sleep.


lol look at my tired eyes. this is leaving on day 3 :) she was/is a bit jaundiced. we left with her weight at 7lbs 2.5oz so that was good.


at home, aidan could not WAIT to have reese at least try the swing out. and there aidan perched.


sawyer came to check it out.


sawyer wanted so badly to hold her. "in my arms! on my lap!!" and she'd pat her lap lol








and this is *not* a grumpy face. she wants reese to lay "on my armsssss!!" and is showing us how she'd hold her. lol


:)


yesterday -- reese laid with EJ while i relaxed. i (and everyone) originally said how much she looks like aidan.... but i see a lot of sawyer in her recently.






aidan held her hand.




today sawyer was a sassy face. and took a break from all this baby biz-ness to steal a snack and play with my cell ;)




why such a good sleeper all daaaay? lol maybe she was pooped out from running to costco. lets just say, its a *tiny* bit harder to get 3 kids into the car instead of 2 ;) but it was nice to get out of the house. i felt normal again. and we had so much fun as a family just running around that it makes everything perfect.


the whole flickr set to the first 3 days is HERE.

anyway, thats the story. and the past 5 days. we are in love. now its the 5 of us. and we could not be happier.