New Baby Girl pictures

Baby girl was officially born at 6:25pm on February 7th, 2014.  I thought I would add some of the more fun pictures that explain the story a little better.  We are so lucky to have our beautiful girl with us.  In case you missed the measurements she was born at 9 lbs 8 oz and was 20.4 inches long.  I think i've told people 9lbs 9 oz but it was more like 8.7 oz and they round down so I guess we should say 8 oz.  She is healthy and happy as long as we are holding her.  Anna and Kali are going to be pretty jealous I'm sure.  We still haven't decided on a name yet but we have a few choices.  I think #1 right now is Bonnie, #2 is Elizabeth and #3 is Audrey.  I don't know why it has been so hard to decide on a name for her but we just haven't been able to come to a decision.  Anyway, I'm sure Christy will explain more later.  For now enjoy the pictures.

Shortly after getting everything hooked up.  Christy got poked twice and they still ended up in her hand. :(  Here she is sitting on the ball leaning forward to keep the baby off mama's back.

Doing some laps around the maternity center. It was pretty empty which was very nice.  I think there were only two other rooms occupied out of the 10 that were there.

In a clear liquid diet Popsicles are king!

Christy's face after the 2nd time they put in the epidural.  Seriously I think they stuck her like 5 times overall.  The first time didn't work so the anesthesiologist came back to do it again.  The second time they punctured the spinal corridor causing the medicine to leak into her spinal fluid.  This gave her an instant headache which went away quickly once the medicine started working but she could have a headache for the next week which is no fun.  

This picture was only a couple of minutes after baby girl was born.  The midwife Leanna immediately handed Christy the baby and she lay there for probably half an hour before we tried breast feeding.  It made the experience so much more special and intimate for us.  It was nice this time because while pushing it was just us, our nurse Anna and the midwife Leanna.  They were an awesome team and did exactly what Christy needed.  I'm so grateful that they were able to help us in this experience. Once baby girl was born a few more people came in to help take care of her but it was still very quiet and respectful. Such a different experience than both of the last deliveries we have had.

Mommy and Daddy bonding with baby girl.

Our girls got to come see here only an hour after she was born.  I don't think they quite understand but I'm sure they will soon.  They are crazy and were trying to get into everything.

While Kali is trying to see mommy here she noticed the food tray right behind her very quickly and of course was trying to eat everything on it.  That girl loves her food!  

Kali checking out the baby and Momma.

Daddy daughter picture.  This pretty much sums it up.

Family picture!  Sorry it's so whited out.  I put the flash setting a little too high.  Ooops.

Grandma and baby girl.

The Big Sisters!  (This is their "show me your shirt" pose)

Mommy and baby!  Both are doing very well and we are so happy everything went so perfectly.  Our prayers were answered in so many ways.  Heavenly Father is truly great to us.

Aren't they beautiful! 

Kisses!

More Kisses!

We love baby Sister!

Snow!!!!

 These two sure had fun in the snow today!  Before they could go play they had to get there picture taken...

 Kali loved going down on the sled, it was pretty adorable!  She would go up and down all by herself.  She couldn't get enough!

 anna

 Of course you have to eat it Mom. 

 Snow angel!

What we've been up...

 Kali has been potty training and well what an adventure! 

 These two really are best friends!  I hope that they can always be friends even though they might not see eye to eye. 

 Last Saturday Mommy was going crazy trying to get a little certain someone to come but after walking the zoo she is still not here.  

 Just in case anyone is interested in how big my tummy really is. 

 Another belly shot taken Monday the 27th, at 39 1/2 weeks. 

 These next few pictures are at the science center.  It was a lot of fun going and we will probably spend a lot of time here on really cold or hot days. 

 

One day we didn't have anything planned so we had a fun day full of dress up in our princess dresses, had a tea party and then watched Cinderella.  It was a lot of fun and I hope the girls liked it just as much as me!  

Baby girl name

I have no idea why we are having such a hard time trying to figure out what this little girls name should be.  Hopefully by the time she is born we can narrow it down.  For anyone who is interested here are our top name choices:

-Aubrey or Audrey
-Elizabeth
-Elsie
-Madalyn
-Evenlyn
-Bonnie
-Jaclyn

Well that's all the names that we have thought of.  While Zach and I played a game last night I went through every single girls name on a website and these are the ones that are left.  We had a few others but I think these are our top choices.  I hope we figure this out soon but for now we are clueless.  We are getting really excited for her to come.  The girls pray for me and the baby all the time and Anna asks me like every day when the baby is coming.  I sure hope that it's soon cause this baby isn't getting any smaller. 

Update on potty training

Kali has been WAY harder than Anna.  She still has accidents and she still needs lots of encouragement.  I feel like she is just on the edge of being completely successful but she just needs an extra push...not sure what to do.  We have tried to be really encouraging but man sometimes I just want to scream.  She pushes all my sanity buttons.  This means that all this hard work is for what?  Well I just hope and pray that all that we've tried to teach her will stick when the baby comes.  Starting completely over just sounds terrible but that may be what ends up happening. 

Potty training

I was a little preoccupied today so I didn't get a picture of Kali in her cute panties but man is she cute!  I just love this little bucket of love!  Really that is what she is too a little bucket of love.  She hates when people are sad and she is always giving people hugs and trying to help them.  She loves to help around the house and it is so cute watching her.  But everything lately is on her terms!  So when she took her diaper off before bath time and said she needed to go potty and went I figured I better give this a try before baby #3 is here.  So that is what we did today.  I put her in panties and she had 2 accidents but we rushed her to the potty.  Ever since then she has done remarkably well.  She has had a few other accidents but she usually finishes in the potty!  Yay what a huge success at least in my opinion.  To top it off she went poop tonight.  We knew she needed to go for a while probably like a hour or so but I could tell she didn't want to.  Well she finally did it!  She went poop in her potty and then even though it was 8:30 she got a little ice cream for going.  Yes you may think that's bad but this girl loves her food and she seemed really scared about going poop and I wanted to do everything I could to reassure her that it was okay and going poop is okay.  Let's all pray tomorrow is just as good as today!