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!