Speedy Delivery

Abigail Lucy was born on 11/7/09 at 12:41 pm. 7 lb. 3 oz., 21.5 in.

Here are a few of our better pictures, but we ended up mostly with movies this time. My water broke at about 7:30 am. We went to the hospital at about 8:45 expecting an epidural. The anesthesiologist didn't make it in until about 12:30, long overdue. By then Abigail was ready to come. Nate was a champ, I'm pretty sure his hands were nearly broken from all of my squeezing. Honestly, when I figured out that there would be no epidural, I felt pretty proud because I'll be the first to admit that I'm a major wimp when it comes to pain, and I was surviving. One push was all it took and she was here. We're all so excited to have her out with us. Here are a couple of movies. I love the one with the two sisters because Olivia is so sweet and gentle with her new little sister.

Indecision

To be honest, Halloween this year seemed to go on forever. There were so many activities to dress up for, we even skipped several but Olivia still ended up dressing up 5 different days. From the get-go, she wanted to be a butterfly, so I got her the wings. But after weeks of anticipation, each time she dressed up, she decided to be something else. For trick-or-treating, I put my foot down and told her she had to be the butterfly.


For dancing and gymnastics, she HAD to be a ballerina kitty.

For the Halloween Parade downtown, she wanted to dress up in last year's witch costume. Of course nate had to be a woopie cushion. Olivia kept saying that he couldn't wear it out of the house because people will laugh at him. I guess when you're a girl, being a little embarrassed of your father starts a little early. Eventually she was okay with it and they worked out a system where she would squeeze him when people asked for sound effects. Great. . .

I didn't get a picture of her at preschool in her Belle dress from her dress-up stash. I have to say, it was fun to see her in such a wide variety this year.

We've been occupied with a lot of things lately, but mainly just trying to survive while growing a fetus. But now I've only got 5 weeks to go, and I've gotten my computer back up and running, so let's hope we're back in business (no guarantees!).

First day of preschool this year--can't you just see the enthusiasm? She loves preschool, but was a little dismayed that she wasn't going back to the 2-year-old classroom. But now, a month later, she comes out with huge smiles. I attempt to find out what she learned or what she did that was fun, and all I can get out of her is "I liked everything."










These next two pictures are from the Fall Festival that is downtown every year. It's all free except for a few vendors and the pony rides. She also loved the hay ride, carousel, fall desserts, and we managed to avoid the violent moon bounce.





















First field trip to a local farm. She asked about this daily for 2 weeks before we went. It was tiring, but definitely fun. She couldn't keep her hands off this mangy little kitten that kept sneezing and coughing (Nate's lucky I didn't bring it home and take it to the vet). Then we took a look at the animals (some calves, piglets and goats), and took a wagon ride to the pumpkin field and picked this pumpkin. It was the first one she found, right in the middle of the pathway, but we still had to trek through the weeds so she could make sure she didn't like another more. Then there was the corn maze, after which we'd both had enough of the pollen.

We're back!!!!

Oh boy, I've seriously abandoned this blog lately. But if you're reading this, thanks for not giving up on us. Hopefully the flood of pictures of the cutest, smartest, wiggliest 2-year-old will make you forget that the drought ever happened. . .

So we've been keeping busy--A trip to Utah for Thanksgiving, a road trip to Disney World for Christmas, then to Boone, NC on the way home, O started preschool in January, another trip to Utah to see Celine (me, not Nate :). It seems like we contracted any communicable disease known to man (that a preschooler is capable of passing on, anyway). Hopefully we're back on the road to normalcy now.

Olivia's especially interested in anything ballet. Guess we'll try the class at the Y this summer.

A visit to some of our favorite people in the world!

She was a little shy when she met the characters, but she truly LOVED it. She keeps saying that we are going back again soon.

Nate's new best friend.

We found out too late that we weren't supposed to sit on the cannons at St. Augustine. Oops. Our 3 day car trip was actually argument-free until that stop :).

This is how O looked almost the entire trip--I was so glad she finally decided she would try the headphones. It's a wonder one of us didn't secretly throw Enchanted out with the trash after this trip. . .I still find myself breaking into song "How will she know. . .?"

A quick stop on Christmas Day in DC. It was one of our nicer trips there, easy parking, no crowds, and pretty warm.

These past few months have passed by so fast! Stay tuned for more updates in the near future. . .