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All grown up!

My baby eats food now. She LOVES it! I put the bib on her and the poor little thing spazes out before I get the spoon to her lips. The first time I feed her I wasn't sure how she would react, but she gobbled up the rice cereal and applesauce like a champ! She knows when its meal time and gets so excited to see her bib and spoon.

The other day I put a bowl of soup and bread in front of Belle and Gretta just stared and it and slurped her food. She wants REAL people food, in fact she wants it so much she is growing teeth already to get in on the action! Can you believe it? My baby is getting teeth and she isn't even five months yet!!! Belle was seven months when she got her first two, and didn't get anymore till she was almost a year!

How old were your kids when they got their teeth?

PS I can put her hair in a pony!

Beds

One night little Annabelle was lonely...So she wished upon a star, and poof!

A cohort in crime!

This is REALLY what mommy's bed is for!!

I LOVE my girls!

Conversations with a two-year-old

Annabelle informed me the other day that "I am going to get married in the temple too! Like you!" It makes me so happy that she listens!

She also told me that she was sad when I left her to come down here, but she played with Gretta so they were happy. It makes me wonder what/who else she remembers.

Mommy skills!

I want you to think back to when you were a kid and you got sick, who did you want? MOMMY! Well my little girl is no acceptation. She is a daddy's girl by day and only wants mommy at night, at least while she's sick. Makes a mom feel good, but its not always possible to cuddle with her and take care of a newborn... or so I thought. The other night she was cuddling with me in my bed, and the baby started crying because she was hungry. No biggie right, just give the sickie to the hubby and feed the baby right? WRONG! The sickie would not go to her daddy! So, here I am, wanting to sleep, nursing a baby while holding a two-year old on my lap. That takes some skills let me tell you! How did I ever manage to fall asleep that night you ask? I got the mommy skills, thats how!

Finally

Ok, so I am finally getting around to blogging about little Gretta's birth.

I started having contractions on the first of september, I was excited and a little nervous, i had decided to have her at home. I wasn't worried about the lack of pain meds because I didn't have an epidural with Annabelle and lived to tell the tale. Well, they were really intense for a few hours and then pretty much stopped when Craig came home from work. Bummer. So for the next 9 days not so much as a peep from my little girl. On the Morning of the 11th, yep thats right, september 11th, I had an appointment that I hopped would be my last, I was getting really uncomfortable, and just felt like a beached whale all the time! I started having really strong contractions while i was getting ready to leave. While I was there they measured and checked me, my belly was 42 cm!! It was only 39 the week before! and I was almost 4cm along. They told me to go home, and call my husband to come home and my mom to start the drive down so she could be there for the birth of grandbaby #6.

By this point it was around 11:30, I get to my car and tell Craig to come straight home after his 12 o'clock meeting. I call my mom and tell her to get down here so I can have this baby! She tells me she has to "run do a few things" and then she'll be on her way. I was like, "you know I am in labor right?" But whatever! She didn't end up leaving for another few hours!

Craig comes home, and my labor has almost stopped completely. Great! So Craig and Belle take a nap, I cant sleep because I am really annoyed that my baby isn't here yet, so I do what all good expectant mothers do and I start cleaning! After all the cleaning I'm pretty tired and I am having some contractions, so I fall asleep. At about 6pm I wake up from the intensity of the contractions. I go down stairs and eat some dinner and decide the moment has come to call my midwife. She comes over at about 6:30 and I am about a 5. She leaves for a little bit and Craig takes Belle over to a friends.

At about 8 I am almost a 7 and I get into the tub (did I mention I was doing a water birth?).

Within 10 minutes my mom and my sister FINALLY arrive, its time to have this baby! It was really a wonderful experience for me to be in my own house, and that I knew what my body was doing. I pushed for maybe half an hour (time is a little warped when you're in labor) and by 9:57 I was holding my 9 lb 13 oz baby girl in my arms!

She is now two months old, and is so much fun! Both girls love each other and I can't believe how different and how much the same things are!

We sure do love our new little addition!

Playing "catch-up"

Ok, so I know I'm not very good at updating this. But here you go! Some of the things going on around here the past few months! Enjoy!