Friends

Katie brought Jack over today so we could all have lunch together....Kresee knew she had a friend named Jack but today was the first time they got to meet....Kresee of course zonked out and just slumped over on poor Jack while I tried to get a picture...Oh well, I have a feeling we will have plenty more photo opportunities:)

Look Mommy, It's a Lizard!

We were at Maw and Papa's house yesterday (Kerry's parents). Kohen, Kerry and Maw were out in the backyard watching Maw clean out the pool. I was inside laying in the living room floor with Kresee. Before I knew it:

Kohen: "Look Mommy, it's a lizard" (and he is holding this thing in the palm of his hand)

Me: "Oh, it really is a lizard"

Kohen: "It's not dead---he's alive."

Me: "Really, are you sure about that?"

Kohen: "Yep, he's alive. He just got too much water" (he found the lizard in the pool)

Me: "Oh, he drank too much water"

Kohen: "Yep, he did. Do you want to pet him Mommy? He's a really nice lizard"

Me: "Well I don't really want to sweetie, but you do know he is dead?"

Kohen: "Yep, he's dead. He drank too much water."

Hanging out with Daddy. Kerry's favorite thing is for his little babies to snuggle up on his chest. It's the one thing that I know he looks forward to every night. He will shower and get ready for bed. Wait for me to feed her. Then I hand her off to him for some daddy-daughter bonding time. I need to get a picture of that. This was just from yesterday afternoon. Kerry loves getting his picture made as you can tell!!

Our friends brought us dinner the other night and of course Kohen loved playing with his friend, Cameron. They were so wild and loud, but they had a great time. And Cameron got to hold Kresee and I couldn't believe Kohen sat there as well for a picture. It didn't last long before Kresee wasn't to hip on the idea of 3 year olds holding her:)

Kresee Newborn Pictures

DeEdra took Kresee's pictures this morning....I was a little worried at first since she really didn't want to go to sleep for us and kept laying there with her eyes open....Thankfully, DeEdra was very patient and Kresee finally decided to take a nap.....Look at a few of the pics on her blog.....I think they are all going to be just precious:)

http://www.xanga.com/fotobydeedra

One Week

Kresee is one week old today. It's been such an amazing week with this sweet new baby girl in our house. I swear I get teary-eyed every time I gaze into her precious face when we snuggle together in bed. I just can't believe she is already here and that I have two gorgeous kiddos of my own. I feel so blessed and happy.

We had her one-week well baby check up this morning at the hospital. She did great. She is weighing in at 6 lbs 15 oz (10 ozs less than her birth weight). She passed all her little reflex tests and her jaundice level was very low which was great. I was really wanting to just know her weight and make sure she wasn't jaundiced. I didn't think she was--we have been sunning every day and I thought she looked good. We did get in trouble for letting her sleep so long at night. Last night, I fed her at 8:45 and put her to bed at 9:30 and she didn't wake up until 6:30 this morning. Believe me, she stirred a little bit around 1:30 and I tried to go ahead and feed her but she was too busy still sleeping. Oh well, I think she eats just great all day long and I'm not too worried about going more than 4 hrs between a feeding. We go to her first appointment on Tuesday with her pediatrician. She will be 2 days shy of 2 weeks at that point. Hopefully, she will gain a few ounces between today and Tuesday.

We got home and I fed her and she is back to doing what she does best: sleeping. This is her first time hanging out in the swing. I think she is going to like it:)

Delivery Story

I hope to get some more pictures posted of Kresee....She is such a sweet and easy going baby so far....Sleeps a lot which is something we aren't used to...Even as a newborn, Kohen was up all day long but slept great at night...She sleeps a lot during the day and has managed to still make 6-7 hr stretches at night which is great....Once we get this feeding thing down, I know it will go much smoother...Sometimes it takes a good hour to feed her but she is learning and is doing well....

She just looks so much like Kohen....I will have to post some side by side pictures to let you see how much they do look alike as newborns....

I'm doing well too...I can't believe she will be a week old tomorrow...This time last week, I was at work trying to tie up all the lose ends knowing I was going to be having a baby the next day....And know she lays here in my lap as I type this (sound asleep of course!)

But her birthday was awesome....I was worried because I had such an easy delivery with Kohen that I might not be that lucky again...I was also induced with Kohen and from start to finish he was here within 8 hours....She was here in 6 1/2....

We got to the hospital at 7:30....By the time we got all situated and admitted and ready it was 8:30 before they hooked up my IV and started the pitocin.....At that point I was 3 cm dilated and 60% effaced....At 9:20, Dr. Lamar came and broke my water...He said I could go ahead and have an epidural b/c I was 3 cm but I figured I would wait awhile since I wasn't in any pain...At 11:30 when I had been having some lovely painful contractions for about 30 minutes, I did get that epidural....I was then 4 cm and 75% effaced....So after that it was fairly boring...Kerry and I just sat there and watched TV...I was starving the entire time and it didn't help him eating McDonald's in front of me....At 1:50, I was checked again...I was then 5 cm and 90%....Not 30 minutes later, I was feeling a lot of pressure with each contraction...So at 2:30 the nurse checked and I was already 10 cm and ready to go....They called the doctor, he came right over, 3 pushes later Kresee was born at 3:01 pm....So it happened really quickly that last hour....

We were so glad to only have to spend the night one night...It was nice getting home on Friday afternoon especially when you have another kiddo at home waiting for you....Ok, lunch time for me.....

Sweet Pictures

Kresee Leigh

Kresee Leigh

March 5, 2009

3:01 pm

7 lbs 9 ozs

20" long