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!

Sadie's Room!

Sadie Grace Anna Heiliger is here! More on her soon but she's healthy and beautiful and I'm totally in love :-)

I've been wanting to post about her cute little nursery but couldn't because my dad didn't want to know the gender and he is a faithful blog reader. Thus, here are the pics post baby. Loving me some owls and trees :-)