Love my baby girl!

I guess once you have a baby all your blog posts become about the adorable bundle of joy... And I am no exception! I am having so much fun being a mommy to this adorable little girl...


Zoey has the funniest baby mullet. She is practically bald on the top, but in the back she has long, dark hair! Too bad you can't ever see it


She loves to kick her legs like she is riding a bicycle and she loves to have one arm straight out in the superman pose. It is too funny! She does it when she is awake too



She is getting so long! It is crazy how fast they grow...


Here she is modeling the cute shoes Elisse knit for her... They are so cute! A little big right now but she will grow into them



I am so in love with this little girl and can't help but kiss her chubby cheeks all day long! I love being a mommy and can't imagine my life without this cute baby girl. Zoey has been a lot better with sleeping at night the past few days and I am soo grateful for a little more sleep! She is so smiley now and is especially happy when she wakes up in the morning. She gives me giant smiles until she gets tired for her first nap. She is growing so fast and I want to remember all these fun stages!

6 Weeks!

I can't believe my baby girl is 6 weeks old today! I love her so much... She is so fun and I love her smiles and the noises she makes. She always makes a squeaky noise when she yawns and she makes noises like Aaron nevell (the guy who sings have your self a merry little Christmas). We love our baby Zoey and can't imagine life without her!



Mommy's little cow... 6 weeks old today!

More Zoey pictures

Since we are still at home until RSV season ends, here are some more pictures of my adorable baby girl



Silly faces :)



Zoey wearing the cute Winny the Pooh and Tigger outfit we got from Disney world last summer. I was pregnant when we went but didn't know if it was a boy or girl so I tried to get the cutest gender neutral outfit I could find. I think she looks pretty cute :)



Baby girl in her ducky towel after bath time









Go Jazz! Lauren gave this to Zoey for Christmas



Chillin on the couch while grandma Bonan was here for a visit



Smiling at mommy!

She is so fun and is starting to interact with me and Jed more. She looks at me and will smile if we kiss her chubby cheeks. She is getting a little better with sleeping at night but loves to cuddle with mom in bed. Hopefully she will start to like sleeping in her bassinet soon! We give her a bath every night and for the most part she screams the whole time. I think she really hates being cold. If I can get the room really warm and get the water to be a nice temp she likes it but if not she let's us know!

Baby Zoey

I don't have the cord to download the pictures from my camera so this post will have what few pictures I have on my phone. I wanted to write down the story of Zoey's birth before I forget it.

On tuesday jed and I went in to the doctor for our scheduled appointment and my swelling and blood pressure were up. My doctor put me on bedrest, scheduled and NST and told me to come back on Friday. I had my Non stress test the next day and everything looked good and my blood pressure had gone down. I assumed that would be the case on Friday at our appointment so I didn't bring my hospital bag and I was not mentally prepared either. It was Gavins birthday and we were planning on going to his party straight from the doctors office. Well my blood pressure was still high so dr. Kaelberer decided he didn't want to wait and sent me straight to labor and delivery to be induced. I was so nervous and a little freaked out! I thought I was ready for Her to come but I obviously wasn't! They checked us into the hospital at 6:00 pm on the 7th and started me on an oral medicine to get my body ready for pitocin (if your body isn't ready for it, pitocin doesn't work sometimes). I do NOT know how people have a baby naturally. My contractions were every 2 minutes from 6 until 2 in the morning when I couldn't take the pain anymore so I got the blessed epidural. It was the most magical moment! I was able to sleep until 7 when dr. Terry came in and broke my water and started the pitocin. My dr wasn't on call and had a day of skiing planned with his family but said he would try to make it back in time to deliver Zoey. Luckily Dr. Terry was on call who I know very well because I used to work for him. So they broke my water at 7 and when they checked me at 10 I had gone from a 1 1/2 to a 2. I started to worry that I wasn't going to progress on my own and I'd have to have a c- section but at 1 I started feeling more pressure and was dilated to a 6 and by 2 I was complete! It was crazy how quickie things picked up. They had me sit for an hour and a half trying to let my body bring the baby down on it's own so I started pushing at about 3:30. I pushed for about 20 minutes and then had to sit and wait while they called Dr. Terry in to come deliver. It was soo hard to just sit and not push because the urge was very strong. Once dr Terry came in there was so much chaos with all the people getting the room ready. I pushed 3 times with him in the room and she was here!



The proud Daddy. I thought Jed might have a hard time with watching the birth but he was awesome! He has been such a good Dad and he loves Zoey so much!

When she came out she hardly cried which made me so nervous but she was perfect with no problems. I am so in Love with her!!!


After her first bath in the hospital



Going to the dr. At 3 days old. She was jaundice and they had to check her levels.



At home with mommy (this is what we do all day since we can't go outside.. Having a baby in January during RSV season is no fun!)



Smile! She has started making more faces and smiling at me and Jed. She is so much fun! We have to keep mittens on her because the second we take them off she claws at her face. It is so sad! I have a picture on my camera that I will post once i get my memory card uploaded.



Wide eyes! I cant wait to see what color her eyes will be. She has a TON on hair on the back of her head. She has a cute baby mullet :)



Stretch! She sleeps with her arms above her head sometimes.. So cute!!!



Naptime with daddy... She sleeps really well during the day but not so good at night. She loves to be cuddled up to us at night to sleep. We are trying to get her to sleep in the bassinet but she has a mind of her own!



Watching TV with dad in her cute ballerina outfit. She came home in the outfit but it fits a lot better now .

I have a ton more pictures I need to post including her first photo shoot so hopefully i will get those up soon.

I am so in love with this little baby and I am so grateful that I get to be her mommy. She is such a sweetheart!

Zoey Ann

January 8, 2011

4:12 pm

7 lbs 11 ounces

21 inches

October

I don't know what the deal is with my picture uploader but these pictures are out of order so I will just do captions for each to let you know what we have been up toSaturday my mother in law and my grandmother in law threw my very 1st baby shower! It was so much fun and the baby got spoiled! Thank you to everyone from coming and for your generosity!The 22nd was Elisse's birthday so we went to Texas Roadhouse for dinnerBefore Texas Roadhouse we went to Gardner Village. It was witches night out so It was a little busy but it was fun to walk around and see the fun Halloween decorationsAll the fun stuff the baby got at the baby shower (see I told you these are really out of order)Elisse sitting on the birthday saddle at Texas Roadhouse. I don't know why my camera made her face so red... she was blushing but not this bad! She still looks pretty though so don't be mad that I posted this Elisse! :)A couple weeks ago Amy and I threw a shower for our Friend Alex who is having a little boy in the next few weeks. Amy was really nice and let us use her house. It was decorated so cute and she had some really fun games to play. It was fun to shower baby cook with Presents and I can;t wait to meet him!

We are getting really excited to meet our little girl (even though it seems like forever away!) but luckily we have so many fun things coming up to keep the time going by quickly.. up next... Halloween!

Update

So I am really terrible at updating... but there isn't a lot going on with us and I haven't been taking pictures... and we all know a blog post is no good without pictures! So a couple things we have been up to.... At Chuck E. Cheese for Boston's Potty Party... I haven't been there since I turned 6, but it ended up being really fun! Who knew arcade games could be such a blast? Thanks Boston (and Aim) for the invite!

This last weekend was conference weekend. My family went up to Park City to stay at a Condo for the night so Lauren and I drove up and ate dinner and did some shopping with them. One of our favorites... Main Street Pizza and Noodle

The girls who were there outside on Main Street. Kaitlyn already left when we took this and we missed Elisse! She had her Grad show and wasn't able to come up when I was there. Jed stayed home to go to conference with his Dad so It was fun for me to go spend some time with the girls.


Word to the wise... if you are ever pregnant and huge, DO NOT stand next to Lauren in any picture! :)

Baby Update: Everything is going well. As you can see from above I finally started showing (more like WHOA where did that belly come from?!?) and everything looks good with our little girl. She is growing right on schedule and everything has been really smooth so far. I hope it stays that way! Jed and I are both really anxious and excited for January when we will get to meet her! Now if only the next 3 months would just fly by......