♥ Geeze ... C'mon Guys

It is time for a quick reminder. Lily is a sponge. She soaks up everything even when you think she is not paying attention. We have been noticing it more and more lately since she has gotten into Dora and Diego. At first she seemed to zone out and not participate no matter how much we encouraged her by asking her questions or prompting her to follow along. Then I started to notice how much she was paying attention and she started to participate (especially with Diego). One day we were in Costco and she was noticing how all the items were stacked up to the ceiling. "Look at dat way up high" she exclaims pointing to the stack of diapers.

"Yep, they are very high" I responded.

"I can't reach it, too high"

"No, we can't reach it"

"I need a ladder" she states

"That's right, a ladder would help but we don't have a ladder"

"Check my packback"

"Have you been watching too much Dora Lily?"

"Yep, too much Dora" She said while nodding her head.

Now, we are generally pretty good at watching what we say and what we listen too (no more Eminem blaring while I clean house) and thankfully I quickly censored myself during the last dreadful Rider game. I was getting a little stressed out by yet another turn over and let out a "Geeze, C'mon guys play some freaking football" (it was a quick censor from what I was about to say and is probably better since you are not supposed to use the Lord's name during sporting events or something along that lines). During this outburst Lily was seemingly busy playing with her babies and shopping cart, but she still soaked it all up and 2 minutes later she's throwing her hands up in the air and letting out an exaggerated "Geeeeeze". A short while later she added the "C'mon guys". In fact every time she see football on the TV she let's out a "Geeze, C'mon guys" . Of course since I am the parent of the year a proudly grin every time she does it. My little Rider girl :)

♥ Lily Has A Little Sister ....

July ... that is the last time I have posted to my poor neglected blog [hanging my head in shame]. I had such good intentions to keep this blog updated, but alas life has gotten in the way again. I only have myself to blame and I hereby make a renewed vow to do a better job - but please don;t hold me to that ;-)

Now for the important news, our sweet baby girl is here!! Daisy entered the world on Monday Aug. 30th, 20010 at 11:22am. She weighted 7lbs. 30z. and measured 19.5". She is so precious and so far has been a really content and happy baby. ♥♥♥

Here is our birth story:

On Weds. Aug. 25th I was sent for NST after the Dr. noted that her heart rate was dropping during the routine. After the NST and a Biophysical profile on Thurs. everything looked great. For about 2 months I had kept thinking and saying that she would be born on the 29th of Aug even though her EDD was Sept 12th. As the 29th came and went I decided my mommy intuition was wrong and even made a comment about it on my FB. We went to bed the night of the 29th but I still had a nagging feeling that she would be born soon. I woke up around 2:00am feeling a little crampy but since I had been having cramps and a ton of BH for a couple weeks I didn't think much of it. Awoke again at around 5:00 with some pretty sharp cramping but it didn't seem to be consistent - more constant. I got a little restless and started doing somethings around the house then I would go back to bed. The whole time wondering if I was going to be in labour soon or not. At 7:00am I still wasn't sure and was having a really hard time decided if it was true labour and if I should phone my daycare families and call of the day. At around 7:40 I decided it would be for the best even if it was false labour. After the decision was made I decided to go sit in the tub to see if that lessened the crampiness or brought on more actual contractions. By 8:30 I knew I was in labour. We called Chrissy to come and watch Lily and phoned Mom & Dad to make sure they were also on their way. I tried to labour at home for awhile - but Curtis was not wanting to stay home to long since our Dr. had commented how this could be a fast labour since I only laboured with Lily for around 9 hrs.

By 10:00 we arrived at the hospital. I was having contractions about every 2-3 minutes by this point. I was brought into assessment and the nurse checked me. I was only 2cm but she said that even though they usually don't admit you until you are 4cm she wasn't comfortable sending me home since I was contracting pretty hard and quick already. 40 mins later they checked me again since they needed the room and they needed to see if I was progressing enough to stay. 5-6 cms!!

Off to the birthing room!! By this point I was starting to lose some control and really wanted an epidural. I believe I requested several times for them to put the call in to the needle guy. Shortly after arriving in the birthing room (funny enough we ended up in the same room with the same nurse that we had for our NST). I was now contracting one on top of another and becoming very vocal with each contractions - I really didn't think I would be a screamer but wow moaning and yelling really helped me get through the peaks. The nurse promised the epi was on it's way but we had to get the iv in first. After a few tries (paused due to contractions) she decided to check me stating that we probably wouldn't have time for the epi. sure enough 30 minutes after getting in the birthing room it was time to push. 2 practice pushes and about 10 minutes later she was born. I had a panic moment when I was told I was going to deliver her naturally and stated that I couldn't do it, but after the first push felt so much better I went with it.

It was a totally different experience than with Lily. I felt much more a part of her birth and was sitting up much more and able to watch her enter the world! Very empowering.

We did immediate skin to skin and within 10 minutes she was trying to nurse - and basically hasn't stopped since

I feel great, Daisy is doing wonderful, and Lily is so far, adjusting well to being a big sister. We were home the same day by 8:00pm. In and out

Lily is slowly adjusting to being a big sister. The first week was pretty rough but each day gets better as she gets more and more interested in her baby sister. I think she is starting to realize that she isn't going anywhere so she might as well accept it. She loves to help out so we send her on little missions (through the diaper in the garbage, help burp baby, get baby a toy etc.) We have also been trying to make an effort to make sure she gets some special one on one time with each of us. When we brought Daisy home that night we brought Lily over to introduce her to Daisy and Lily said "cool, baby sister" . I wish I would have had my video camera, it was too cute.

Lily of course seems so big to us now. It's like she aged over night. Her sentences have become longer, her memory deeper, her emotions wilder, and her independence stronger. She is extremely tiring yet uplifting at the same time.

I had moments of fear during the last months of pregnancy. Fear that would not have enough time, energy, and love for 2. While I still fear having the time and energy, I now know that with each child your heart grows. When I look at these two beautiful little girls that we brought into the world I am overwhelmed with love, pride, and awe.