Life is good :-)

The days have just flown by! Jim goes back to work and Meirah is two weeks old tomorrow. it feels like she just came home, but also like she has been here forever.....don't ask me how that works.


Anyway, we have had a very eventful weekend! Here is Ivria and her daddy, checking out the big "choo choos". Jim's dad lives right across the road from the tracks downtown, they are standing in the front yard right there. Ivria's great fascination with trains can be attributed to my dad, who has had train sets since I was small. While we were down there on Saturday we had a BBQ, and the three boys, Jim's brother Will and his family (also with two small daughters) were there, in fact it's the first time in 13 or so years that the three sons have been together at their dad's house. Pretty cool day.

Yesterday after regular service we had the annual "vision meeting" at church, and Jim was officially ordained as a Pastor. Yay hubby! He's been looking towards this for ten years, so it's awesome to see his dedication come to fruition. I am SOOOOOOO Proud!

And here are the girls after the long weekend, snuggly on the couch. Ivi isn't really asleep, just being lovey. Meirah however is asleep. That's how she looks much of the day still :-)

Quick pics!

Hi all, here are a few quick ones,. A blurry no-makeup mommy with her girls at the mall play center this morning, and a cute smoochy daddy picture as well.

Meirah Nicole, born May 12 09, 8lbs, 20 inches

Here is our princess just a few days after her much awaited debut.

We can't tell you all how happy we are. Big sister Ivria is adjusting well so far, I figure there won't be any real difficulty until Jim has gone back to work and there will no longer be a parent fully at her disposal :-) Until then we are enjoying the time as a happy family. This morning we let Ivi come down the hall to see her sister on the bed, and she laid down next to her and gave her a gentle hug. Sigh, happy times.

Anyway, on to the birth story!

Everything finally got rolling around here on Monday night. After much false labor, I was sitting here at the computer when my water broke. I was totally surprised as I had not experienced this with Ivria, so I ran off to the bathroom, and sure enough! We were gonna have a baby soon! So I called Jim at work and told him that he probably had a few hours before he really needed to be home, but the gals at work sent him home. We got everything packed and had Lola come pick Ivria up for us, and settled in for the start of Labor. I started having some mild contractions, and at 10:30pm we headed to the birth center. I really thought things were going to move quickly, but baby had other plans I guess.

I was dilated to 3cm when we got there, but my contractions died off and by about 2am we were taking a nap on the bed. By 6am we had only dilated another half cm, and were sent off by the midwife to have some breakfast.

So here we are, at 6:30 in the morning after being up all night, at Denny's. You can see how thrilled I am to be there, instead of delivering a baby already!!!!

The whole point of getting out a bit was to distract me from worrying about the labor, and it worked. By the time we got back to the birth center, the contractions had picked back up and I was dilated to 4 cm finally. Between 8:30 and 11:30 things finally picked up momentum.

At 11:30 we were dilated to 6 cm (FINALLY!) and I was begging for the birth tub.

Sparing you all the gory details, Meirah arrived happy and healthy at 2:23 in the afternoon.

Here is a very happy daddy!

And here is our good friend Melissa, who came along for support. She assisted our midwife Joan in catching Meirah. Joan was the one who delivered our first baby, in the same room in fact!

And here is a very tired and swollen, unglamorous mommy, who couldn't be more content with the experience. It was frustratingly slow in the beginning, but once she arrived, all of that went away. I feel great at this point, in fact we were home in time to catch american Idol that night.

Thank you to all our friends sending their prayers and good wishes. Lots more updates to follow! Jim is off work for 2 weeks, so we will all be chillin at home enjoying our new status as a family of 4.

THis is it for sure!

It's almost 6pm and my water just broke! No contractions yet, but I'll call the apropriate people as soon as I hear back from the midwife, I just paged her.


Keep me us your prayers!

SO NOT FAIR!

Grrraahahahahaarrrrr!


I had solid progressive contractions from 2pm to 7pm tonight. and then they quit. They really had me fooled this time! I even called the midwife. I swore I wouldn't be calling in early.

Sorry Dad!

Grandpa has been hoping that darling Meirah would make her appearance on his birthday, tomorrow the 7th. Unless something drastic changes, it's unlikely. I've been having contractions on and off for days now, so I had the midwife check my cervix today at the appointment. I'm 50% effaced and dialated to 1cm, which translates to "mmmmm, probably not this week" in laymans terms. However, I am more than welcome to try and move things along, like in the evenings when the contractions are the strongest I can walk some and see if things progress. This weekend should bring sunny weather so I'll head outside for some exercize!