I knew I would write about Caroline’s birth, but I needed time to process everything that happened as part of our planned c-section birth. There is much more to the story than what David and I have written about here so far. But we decided to give ourselves a little time before I attempted to …
Oh, I remember that thing. That’s the sun. Yes, the sun finally shone today for a few hours. Over the past 12 days we’ve only had 16% of the available sunshine. Poor Caroline doesn’t even realize that the world isn’t full of gray, overcast days. October weather is usually quite gorgeous in our neck of …
While in the hospital I received many samples of baby essentials – diapers, binkies, soap, wipes, etc. One of the things I received was a sample of Dreft baby detergent. I had already started using Dreft so I was happy to get the coupon – until I saw it had expired 9-30-04! So I hopped …
I wrote just prior to having Caroline that I was living in a baby bubble. Pretty much all of my thoughts and actions revolved around the end of the pregnancy and getting ready for her arrival. Well, fast forward a few weeks and I’m still in a baby bubble. The only difference is that the …
Today Caroline is two weeks old! We’ve already had such exciting times with her. On Sunday I had to call David at church on the cell phone during the sermon to have him come home so we could take Peanut to the emergency room. She had green spit up and when I called the doctor …
Thank you to everyone who has been leaving comments and blessings and prayers on the “announcement post”. It’s been so nice to hear from so many and it’s like having a huge online “get well” card. 🙂 And we’ve appreciated those prayers. The doctor came by Friday afternoon to check up on Sallie and it …
Our sweet little Peanut is finally here with us! Caroline Elisabeth was delivered by c-section yesterday, September 28 at 12:13 p.m. She weighed 8 lbs. 8 oz. and was 21 inches long. She has lots of hair and is cute as a bug in a rug! 🙂 Caroline Elisabeth means “a joyous song of the …
David and I have been talking about this lately and I’m curious to hear what other people do. What do you call your mother? What do you call your grandmother? What do you have your children call you? Whenever I talk to Peanut, I always refer to myself as “mama”. I’m not sure why since …
I have to admit that I am totally oblivious to a lot of what is going on in the world around me right now. I realized this morning – oh, yeah. We are electing a governor and a senator in a few weeks. Oh, it is going to be October on Sunday. Oh, we need …
Someone left a comment last evening that I should do a post and let everyone guess the name of the baby. That sounds fun to me, so here we go! I do want to mention that I did ask for suggestions a while back and gave some “guidelines” that David and I were working under. …
I’m 37 weeks now and continue to feel the toll of carrying around the extra X number of baby pounds. (Nope, I’m not telling, but my doctor is happy with my weight gain if that counts for anything!) The doctor is guessing she’s over eight pounds and that I could end up with a nine …
I was originally going to title this “Feeding the inner Swede”. Then I thought about “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…” But when I took a look at our NOAA forecast today and saw a WIND CHILL measurement, I knew that those titles just would not do. (Our wind chill right …
