Her First Day

As I write this, Lexi's first day is coming to a close.  It was a wonderful and exciting day.  She entertained visits from 6 grandparents, 1 great-grandmother, an aunt, an uncle and two friends.  All the while, she behaved wonderfully as she was passed from person to person and made to pose for countless pictures. 

We don't know right now if she will be coming home tomorrow or Monday.  Either way, we are anxiously awaiting her homecoming.  As for right now, I am going to get some sleep so I can be well rested for when we do it all again tomorrow.

It's a girl!

Now that I'm home and able to get on a computer, I thought I'd fill you all in a little more on yesterday's events.

The story starts Thursday night. We were planning on camping this weekend at Lazy Lakes. We had figured that since Kristi was feeling well and all indications were pointing to the baby coming late, we'd be able to get a last pre-baby camp trip in. We head out Thursday night and set up the trailer, have dinner and go to bed. During the middle of the night, Kristi got up and went to the bathroom like you expect any 8.75 month pregnant woman to do. A couple hours later, she jumps up and runs out of the trailer. Concerned at her hasty exit, I go over to the window to see if she's ok. By the time I can look, she's already out of sight. When she came back she told me that her water broke. We called the doctor, and they told us to get our things ready and go to the hospital. We quickly packed up the trailer (apologies to any neighbours we woke up doing this), dropped my truck and the trailer at home and took Kristi's car to the hospital.

We checked into the hospital and things started progressing. Everything was moving around nicely until early evening when Kristi seemed to stall around 5cm. Since her water had broken, the doctors wanted to speed things along (I believe they said they don;t like going more than 18 hours after the water breaks.) They gave Kristi a drug to speed along the contractions, and not long after that gave her an epidural. Things started moving quickly after that. At 11:33pm, Alexis Katrina was born. She weighted 6 lbs 4 oz.

After the doctors finished the initial checks, Lexi was taken to the nursery to be cleaned up and Kristi did the same. A couple hours later (Maybe 3:30ish?) they brought her back to our room. Now by this time, had had been able to get no more that a couple 15 minute naps. I was basically planning on making sure mom and baby were doing well and then going home to get some sleep.

After Kristi nursed Lexi, I took her and was rocking her in the recliner. This had managed to purge the adrenaline from my system that was keeping me awake. I started dozing off, so I handed Lexi back to Kris. Some time after 4, the nurse took her (Lexi, not Kris) back to the nursery. As soon as she left, Kristi and I were both sound asleep. The next thing I know, the doctor is waking us up at 7.

Fwd:

It's a girl! Alexis katrina. Born 6-29@2333. 6 lbs 4 oz

Guess what

Well, we were camping. I guess the baby wanted to camp to. After a hasty pack up of camp this morning, we're at the hospital. (Well, right now, I'm at Panera's getting lunch and picking up stuff for Kris. Stay tuned for more....

How do you want to be notified?

We're now down to under two weeks until the due date and we're getting the final preparations together.  One of the things I need to do is get a list together for announcements.  As of right now, I figure I'll do announcements in three ways.

 

1) Cel Phone picture message.  I'll probably send this out within a couple hours of the birth.  If you want to get a picture message, make sure I have your cel phone number.  (Standard messaging rates apply)

2) E-mail message.  This will probably be within a day or two and will include more pictures.  If you want an e-mail, send me your address.

3) Announcement card.  I'll mail these out within a week or so.  If you got a thank you note from the baby shower, you're on the list to get an announcement.  If not, send me your address please.

Stick a fork in me.

It's official, I'm done.  I was walking through a store today.  As I passed by the baby clothes section, I saw a dress out of the corner of my eye.  I actually stopped, looked at it and thought "Aww, that's so cute."  And to think, there was a time I made fun of Kristi for doing that.

Some baby info

Kristi had a doctor's appointment today, and everything is going well.  There's not too much to tell at this point.  The heartbeat is strong, the baby is head down and Kristi is measuring right where she is supposed to. 

Some people have been asking how big the baby is.  While we know that you really need a sonogram to figure this out, we asked the doctor about this today.  She told us that it's hard to tell even with a sonogram and they're not always accurate.  She even quoted a recent patient of hers who had a sonogram right before she gave birth and the baby ended up being significantly heavier (1.5-2 lbs) than what the sonogram measured the baby at. (Sorry Sandy)  The doctor did tell us that from what she has observed, the baby will not be a big baby. (Sorry again Sandy)  So, I guess (s)he is taking more after Dad than Mom.

So, until next time. . .

Nursery Tour

The nursery is now almost all set up. We picked up the crib and dresser/changing table last night. Fortunately last night was garbage night, since there was quite a bit of cardboard and styrofoam left over. In fact, between cleaning out the nursery, painting and unpacking baby furniture, we have the entire lawn between the sidewalk and street filled with garbage.

Now, getting back to what I originally came here for. I thought you all would like a little tour of the nursery. Thanks to the wonders of YouTube and a digital camcorder, you can.

Official Nursery Tester

Now that the nursery is painted and the carpet is installed, I am faced with the task of taking all of the baby products out of their boxes and putting them together. I did, however, have a little help.

While Pumpkin didn't help with the actual assembly, he did make sure to check everything out once it was put together and ensure everything was ok.

I hate painting!

What better way is there to spend one's anniversary than by being stuck inside the house painting? At least the nursery is one step closer to being ready. We have new carpet coming in tomorrow (nothing like running right up to a deadline.), and we should be getting the furniture in within the next week or two. After that all we need is the baby. Well, I have to go scrape all the paint out from under my fingernails, so until next time...

Rik

T-minus one month

We are now at the one month to go stage. So far, everything is going well with both Mom and baby. Kristi is starting to get a little more uncomfortable as the baby contiues to take up more of her internal real estate. In fact, here is a text message I got from her this morning:

I hate this. I have indigestion already and I'm not even done with breakfast yet.

Here's a picture of mom. I'm sure she'll yell at me for putting this up here, but oh well.

Welcome

Hello all. Welcome to the inaugural post on my blog. I plan on using this as a place to share the going-on of Kristi, myself and our new addition.

As of right now, we are all doing well. Kristi is due in a little over a month. We are slowly getting the house ready as time is quickly running out. Kristi had her baby shower yesterday and we would like to give a big thanks to everyone who came and especially to everyone who helped set it up.

Check in here frequently for updates and pictures.