A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words....

Hanging out in the bouncy seat

Sleeping in Mema's arms

Getting some loving from Great Granddaddy & Great Grandmother

Sweet girl...

"big sister" checking things out

"talking" to Daddy

Snoozin....

Finally Home

We finally made it home Monday evening around 8:00pm. Avery ended up getting jaundiced Sunday afternoon and had to spend all Sunday night and most of Monday under the bili light. She was rechecked at 4pm Monday and her levels were well within the normal range, so we were finally cleared to go home. Monday night, I had a reaction to the antibiotic I was given to take for the epidural site infection and so I spent all Tuesday & Tuesday night fighting off the reaction with Benadryl every 4 hours. NOT FUN! My mom and John were WONDERFUL in taking care of me, Avery, meals, & the house...I don't know what I would have done without them. I'm still having issues with soreness and some swelling in my back at the epidural site, but we are hopefully on the right track for healing. Overall, I'm feeling better, but still not 100%...I'll be so glad when the knot/soreness go away.

Avery is doing so wonderfully. She is eating and sleeping like a champ. She's up about every 3-3.5 hours like clock work ready to eat. John brought Gretta home Tuesday evening and she has done remarkably well with Avery. We were a little worried! :) Gretta gets very concerned when Avery cries and will run to wherever Avery happens to be at the time. She also wants to sniff Avery quite a bit and is just very curious about her overall.

She's HERE!

Avery Elizabeth arrived on Thursday, August 13th at 5:16am. She weighed in at 8lbs. 8ozs and was 20 1/2 inches long. She is doing wonderfully!! We originally had hoped to go home Saturday morning, but an infection around the spot where my epidural was placed has delayed us. After an MRI, I was placed on 48 hours of IV antibiotics and we hope to be going home Monday sometime.

We are completely in love with our sweet girl and already cannot imagine life without her. She is a blessing from above and we can't wait for everyone to meet her!

Baby Steps...

We had our weekly checkup this morning and we are starting to make some baby steps in the right direction. 1 cm dilated and starting to efface was the final call from Dr. Sellers. He could tell a big difference from last week's check, he said. She is head down and has "dropped" into position. Hopefully we are on the right track! We head back next Wednesday @ 1:15.

Nursery Pictures

Here are a few pictures of the nursery. It's a pretty small room, but I think it turned out well. Thanks to Aunt Sassy for the paintings over the bed! :) We go to the doctor tomorrow morning...hoping for some progress this time!

Quick Post...

Nothing new to report from the doctor yesterday. No progress, but honestly, we weren't really expecting any at this point. She is measuring right at 37 weeks, which we will be tomorrow. We go back next Wednesday at 10am!

36 Weeks & Counting...

Well, here we are at 36 weeks...I feel like she's grown a BUNCH over the past week or so. Here's a picture taken before church yesterday:

Last week marked my last week of work at Immanuel. I'm going to miss my co-workers there a lot! On Thursday, they did a "good-bye/baby shower" luncheon for me....it was so nice of them to do that. The food was yummy, the cake EXCELLENT, the table decorations adorable, and the fellowship with my co-workers priceless! :) John was able to come and we had fun visiting and opening gifts. Once again, we are so blessed to have such wonderful, loving, giving friends. The IBC staff went in together and got us our pack & play....this is above and beyond anything I ever expected! Here's a picture of it:

Here's a few other pictures from the shower @ IBC:

The yummy cake--it was strawberry, my favorite! :)

Getting Avery's book collection started

One of the cute diaper cakes (there were 2!) and some fun "accessories" for Avery!

We head to the doctor Wednesday morning, so hopefully I will be able to update after that with something new! :)