This year Christmas seemed to sneak up on us. Next year I am getting all my shopping done at least a week before Christmas. Just in case you were wondering, I didn't send a Christmas card this year. I'm sure you are all very disapointed, that is if you even noticed. Santa was good to us this year...Whitney got a trike and the girls got a huge dog to share, and our stockings were stuffed full of goodies! We hope you all had a happy and safe Christmas!
My sister-in-law Connie took these glamour shots(Thanks Connie!) Brooke was really sleepy, she didn't mind being naked and moved into different positions!
We finally agreed on a name for our sweet baby girl. Brooke is a name that both Brig and I really like and we hope that she'll like it too. Marie is my middle name. I thought that at least one of my girls should get it. Brooke is still as sweet as can be. She has began to wake up for longer amounts of time, but she still sleeps about 20 hours a day. Her awake times are luckily during the day. I do have to make sure to burp her all the way or she gets hiccups that will keep her up at night. At her two week check-up she was average in her weight and the size of her head, and long for her age. Brooke weights 8.3lbs(45th percentile), and has grown about an inch since birth(88th percentile). We feel so blessed to have her here healthy and happy! 
Well she's here and doing great! I started having real contractions today at about noon. We hesitated going to the hospital because I didn't want to be sent home, but about 2:15 my 
contractions got really strong and close together, so we figured it was time to go. I got to the hospital at 3pm and was dilated to 7cm. The nurses rushed around to get me all checked in and an epidural in me asap. After less then 10 minutes of pushing, our little bundle of joy arrived at 4:48pm. She weighs 7.14 lbs and is 20 inches long. She's got lots of light brown hair, 10 fingers, 10 toes, and is cuddly cute as can be!
Today I went into the Dr. again and he had some pretty good news for me. I am dilated to 2cm and 70% effaced. He said that he thought I would have the baby this weekend or at least by the beginning of next week, based on how much I had progressed from last visit. He also said to make an apt. for next week, but he doubted that I would still be pregnant by then. So we'll see. I don't know how some ladies make it to their due date and beyond without going crazy...I am ready to have this baby!!!
Yesterday I went into the Dr. to see how the baby was progressing toward being born. The Dr. said that I was only about 1cm dilated and that the baby still had a lot of moving down to do. The news was a little disappointing since at this time in my last pregnancy I was at 2cm and Whitney was born 4 days later. Maybe I'll make it til December after all. He also said that if I did go all the way to 40 weeks that the baby would be between 8-9 lbs...ouch!! But luckily he said that he would induce me if I wanted at 39 weeks, I hope I go on my own before then.
