2 Weeks 5 Days

I am amazed at how S-L-O-W-L-Y the last few days of pregnancy seemed to drag, and at how fast the first couple of weeks of Naomi's life have flown by! It seems like we JUST had her and now she is almost three weeks old. Just like that.

She is doing SO WELL. We just love having her. I can't even describe the tremendous amount of love I have for this precious little person!

She went for her check up at the Dr. today. She was 7lbs 11oz and 21 3/4 inches long. They said she was in the 45th percentile for weight and head circumference, and in the 90th percentile for height. She's a tall little girl and quickly growing out of her newborn size clothing!

The antique baby scale that has been in my family for years.
My dad was weighed on this as a baby (not that he's old or anything).

Our family of three!

Mother and Daughter

The cutest teddy bear on EARTH.

Ok, so I'm a big dork, but I thought she looked so darn cute in this!!!

And the winner is...

We had a fun little game going before Naomi was born. Friends and family went onto a website to place their guesses as to our baby's birth statistics. The results were pretty funny I thought...

Grandma H. came in first place...and Grandpa H. came in dead last!

http://www.expectnet.com/games/BabyH----

Baby Girl has a cold...

After asking everyone to wash their hands before holding her, somehow Naomi still managed to get a cold. She started coming down with it at about 10 days old. Poor little girl! I think I feel worse for her than she actually feels though. She's still sleeping well and acting fine. I hope this one passes quicky for her sake (and mine). She's too little to be getting sick already!

She's Amazing!

We are so in love with our baby girl. She is such a sweetie. So far, she really only cries when she is hungry or when we change her. She spends most of the day sleeping or looking around contentedly. She can already lift her head when on her tummy and turn to face the other way, she has a strong little neck! She eats like a champ and poops like one too.

Having a baby has been the most amazing experience of my life, and I feel so incredibly blessed to have her. Adam and I are in complete awe of this little miracle and thank the Lord for her every day. She is truely amazing.

Now for some more pictures:

Nap time at the hospital

Going Home!

Already a Daddy's Girl...

SHE'S HERE!

Introducing...

Naomi Noelle

Born 12/24/2008

6:35am

7lbs 1.2oz

20 inches

She's got a head full of hair!

Counting Blessings...and The Belly Photo Shoot!

I have hit the point of being ready to be done being pregnant. Everyone said I would get here, and well, I have! But it's not because I am miserable and uncomfortable (although I do get a little slower and a little more uncomfortable everyday it seems, and I am usually completely out of breath by the time I get my shoes tied). It is because I am ready to meet this beautiful little person! I can't wait to see our baby. Is it a boy or a girl? Who will baby look like? Will he/she come out with a full head of hair? What is it going to be like being a full-time mama? I am just SO eager and so excited to meet our little one! And I am really really excited to watch Adam be a father. At the same time though, I really think I am going to miss being pregnant. I have LOVED it. LOVED it LOVED it LOVED it.

This has been such a wonderful time and I have felt so completely blessed through out the past few months. Well, let's step back a bit, I have felt so completely blessed over the past few YEARS. The amazing experience Adam and I had while he was a Travel Nurse in California was a real time of growth for our marriage, and we have some wonderful memories from our time out there. Then this past February, Adam and I came home to Michigan for a "little while" on a travel nursing assignment. At the end of that we had no idea what we were going to do...stay in Michigan, move out of state, keep travel nursing...? Within one week we each had a job here in our home state. Within a month we had made an offer on our house which was accepted that same week. Shortly after we moved in, we found out we were pregnant. Skip ahead to October where the Lord provided His perfect protection for our family when our home was robbed and no one was hurt. It's been a big year for our small but growing family, and I am truly counting my blessings!

On to the BELLY PHOTO SHOOT...

This past Saturday, my good friend Susan took some pictures of Adam and me, and the Belly of course. She did a great job. (THANK YOU SUSAN!!) Here are a few pictures she took:

He loves me. He cracks me up (and he was in some rare form this day too)!

Sorry to those of you who hate feet, but I really like this picture!

Here is Susan's website if you are interested in seeing more of her beautiful photography work!

http://susanmcgowan.wordpress.com/

14 Days and Counting (and the Nursery is done!)

38 Weeks, 1 Day

I am 14 days from my due date. But what exactly should I be counting? I mean, technically I could have this baby any minute (well, after hours of excruciating pain of course, I really don't expect this to be that easy!), or I might have the baby NEXT YEAR (sounds far far away, doesn't it?!). I was just telling Adam last evening, "Remember our first ultrasound!?" We were staring at the screen showing us our 8 week 3 day little fetus with arm buds and no neck, and now...any day, we will be meeting out little baby, a fully developed little person! I thought it was crazy, and it made my eyes well up a little bit, but that's probably because I'm an overly sentimental pregnant lady right now!

How about a flash back picture. My brother took this of me at home in Alpena...I think this was in October?? Not sure...I'll have to update this when I figure it out.

I call this "Granny Pants Picture"

(Take no offense, Grandma's of the world, it's all in good humor!

And a Granny is different than a Grandma in my opinion anyways.)

Ok, now some pictures of the Nursery...

Alright, so...some interesting "news" if you will. On Sunday, we were hanging out with some friends when Adam announces, "I think we'll have the baby this week sometime." Not a totally out there prediction, but still, I about fell out of my chair. Then, this week, just for fun I went to a reflexology session at work (feet / pressure points, etc) because I'd heard that the lady who was doing it would predict if you were having a boy or a girl. I thought it'd be fun, just for giggles to see if she was right or not (plus, a foot massage, hellooo!). She said "boy" and that I would have him "in the next 5 days". Needless to say, I finished packing my hospital bag last night.