17 August 2011

3 Little Girls

Who knew that we’d be celebrating our 7 year anniversary with three little girls?! We love them so much. I have to share this picture below. It cracks me up! Avery and Cam went to their friend’s birthday party a couple weeks ago and came home with these fabulous butterfly faces!

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It made me smile and/or laugh every time I saw them. Especially when they talked really animatedly and opened their big eyes wide. Hilarious. (Thanks Heidi- you rock!)

The girls looooove their baby sister. And love holding her.

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Isn’t Lily a beautiful sleeper?

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She sure is a cutie! Here she is 18 days old (yesterday).

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I think we’ll keep her. :)

06 August 2011

Lily, 8 days old

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Well we survived the first week of life unscathed! Lily is doing really well. She had a doctor appointment on Tuesday and she wasn’t jaundiced enough to worry about and she had only lost a half a pound, so that wasn’t bad at all.

Merrick has been off work all week so he’s been playing Super Dad. Wednesday he took the girls to the Splash Pad for a few hours, then soccer, then the local library’s ice cream social. Thursday he did a marathon day at the Wisconsin State Fair. I think he was there with the girls for 6 hours. Boy, was he tired after all that walking around! What a good guy. Yesterday they took it easy and the girls got to spend some more time with Lily.

The girls looooove holding her. Avery loves to call her “Lily Amelia” and she can’t stop talking about how much she loves her baby sister. Camryn is doing pretty well although she tends to want to sit really close next to me when I’m nursing sometimes, so we need to work on that a little. She just misses being the one her mommy cuddled the most. It’s an adjustment time for everyone.

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I’m feeling really well. A little achy here and there but overall I feel very much healed from the whole process. I’ve got my ankles back!! Hooray for no more swelling! And I put my wedding ring back on for the first time in about a month. Smile

Lily has been a good little girl. She’s starting to learn to sleep a little better. Merrick got her to sleep last night for the first time and she fell asleep in this bouncy chair by herself for the first time just now so that was super nice. There were a couple nights this week when she was awake from 1-3am but last night she slept perfectly and only woke up to nurse at 11:30, 3, and 6:30. Very nice for mama!

Anyways, on with a few pictures of Lily from the week!

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31 July 2011

Lily Pictures!

Sisters, an hour or so after birth:

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First bath for Lily:

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Time to go home from the hospital!

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Hair!!

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I finally got her cuteness on camera, 2 days old:

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My sweetie…

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29 July 2011

Smith - Party of Five!!

Lily Amelia Smith was born today at 2:49pm. She was 10 days late so we got induced this morning. A couple of quick facts:

- weight: 10 lb 4 oz
- length: 21 1/2"
- good amount of brown hair
- lots of chunky rolls!

Oh and I'm quite proud because I was able to have her without pain meds! It was wild there at the end but she came out sooo fast- the doctor only had one glove on! Despite some meconium and shoulder distocia she was perfectly fine and healthy!

Avery and Camryn love their little sister and we're excited to be a family of five now! :) pictures and more to come later.

17 July 2011

Soccer!

We signed Avery up for an 8 week outdoor soccer rec program. She’s been enjoying it, although she has a lot to learn. She’s on the gold team… but that doesn’t mean she can’t wear pink shorts!

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Camryn has fun at Avery’s practices. She kicks/throws a soccer ball back and forth with a 6 year old boy. Loves it.

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Avery had her first mini game this past week. I told her she would get an ice cream cone if she scored a goal. Well, she scored one for the other team, does that count? That was a fun discussion, haha.

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The first game was what my father-in-law calls “huddle ball” where there’s all the kids huddling around the ball, or swarming around it like a beehive. Pretty fun to watch!

As for me, yes I’m due to have a baby sometime soon. Like very soon. (Yesterday would have been nice!) But I’m still hanging in there! Hopefully my next post will be some good news about baby #3! Can’t wait to meet her!