Field Trip to the County Fair!

A couple weeks ago Ella's preschool had their first fieldtrip and I (suprisingly to me with a 5 week old and a sore C-section scar!) felt brave enough to take Sadie and venture to the County Fair! And, it went great! I'm LOVING not being a mom for the first time-I'm so much less stressed! When Sadie needed to eat we just headed to the car, set Ella up with crayons and a coloring book and nursed her in the comfort and relative privacy of the car and then headed back into the fair. Ella was a champion about catering to Sadie's needs (since she's OBSESSED with her sister) and we had a lot of fun taking in all the fun of the fair!

Ella and her buddy Annemarie

I am totally fascinated by chainsaw carvers-wood, ice sculptures whatever, I love watching!

What a hideous animal! The gobbling terrified the kids ;-)

Milking a fake cow-kinda lame, I know, but at least the milk was real :-)

Sadie did this during most of the fair (LOVE this adorable sleep-anywhere stage)

Ella has been asking to try Cotton Candy since January. I told her when we went to a fair in the summer she could and it didn't happen all summer but this was her big moment! She loved it!

All the rides were free because it was "Kids Day" I was so proud that Ella went on them without me since I had to stay with Sadie-she's such a big girl!

This was the sign on the ticket booth-had to snap a pic-hilarious and a sentiment I totally agree with!

Sisters

A Few Firsts...

First time meeting Great-Grandma Jean (4 days old)

First family walk! (5 days old)


First Bath at home (5 days old)

Favorite Sadie Pics weeks 1-6

Heading Home

Ella was SO excited to put on Sadie's first real outfit and get her ready to leave the hospital!

All buckled in and ready to go! Now the real adventure begins...

Visitors!

I loved having visitors at the hospital! I didn't get pictures of all of them but thank you all for coming! It was wonderful to have that support :-) This is in no particular order and by no means everyone who came-thanks for coming even if you aren't pictured below!

My wonderful friend Ana

Chris' parents-proud to have grandchild #6! (and they all live within 15 minutes!)

My 2 Hollys and my sis :-)

Marissa was our most frequent visitor and so helpful on the day of delivery with Ella. It was so nice to have her come almost every day

Melissa-friend from grad school (not sure how we didn't get picture with Kate who came with her!)

Nana

Uncle Dave and Aunt Julie. Julie was so excited to see that you can marry into this TALL family and not have enormous babies (Chris was 11lbs 1oz when he was born and Sadie was only 6lbs 14oz!)

On the day of the delivery, Ella got some "you're a big sister!" presents from Chris and me.

My dad, who somehow managed to not find out it was a girl the entire time we knew. Ella is a fabulous secret keeper! He was hoping for a girl though and was thrilled :-)

My mom :-)

Sadie's First Hours

Aunt Marissa brought Ella to meet her sister as soon as we called so Sadie was only about 2 hours old when Ella got to hold her :-)

Sadie Grace

Sadie is now 7 weeks old but I figure I should start at the beginning...

Because of "significant pelvic floor damage" and corrective surgery after my natural birth with Ella, I was forbidden to do that again (no complaints here!). So, I had a scheduled C-section which went fine. Not my favorite hour (the spinal had to be done twice, my neck and shoulders were shaking uncontrollably during the whole surgery, and my doctor was chatting about her beach vacation the whole time and didn't talk to me) but we got a healthy baby out of it and the recovery wasn't too bad-by 6 weeks I felt pretty much normal again :-)

This was before my poor cold-blooded husband was told he couldn't wear his clothes under the scrubs :-(

After 2 hrs in pre-op waiting and getting my IV and all, it was time to head to the OR!

About 5 minutes into the surgery Sadie was out! Born at exactly 11am!

Sadie at 30 minutes old :-)

More to come...

First Day of School 2010

Ella started her 3rd year at her preschool last week! She's going to school 5 mornings a week this year! I was sad/worried about that until Sadie arrived and now I think it's great for Ella to have time with friends every morning while I can rest or get things done with just 1 kid in tow. As always, Ella LOVES school, has a bunch of "best friends," and is enjoying learning new things all the time. She taught herself to write her last name this summer (from listening to me spell it over the phone many times!) and is really interested in sounding out words (reading) and writing. She's doing great!




And here's what Sadie did on Ella's first day of school...

Team Adventure!

Still not quite up for blogging but here's a link to my SIL's blog and a post about Ella's fun adventure last week!

http://flexibledreams.blogspot.com/2010/09/team-adventure-piney-run.html

Hope to get back into blogging soon!