What a Busy Month!

I'm alone right now with just the company of the dehumidifier and baby monitor competing for who can buzz the loudest. Lindsey is asleep. She doesn't normally sleep for long chunks of time because she wakes up with gas after only a little while. Right now, however, she is on her belly. (I know that makes me a horrid uncaring mother and you can call DYFS on me later but she's comfortable that way with her tushy up in the air just tooting away and I needed to update my blog so back off.)
Christin and George are camping in the backyard. They took a tent out after dinner

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I interupt this post to say AHHHHHHHHHHH There is a mouse looking at me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, the mouse situation is being handled. I was saying, that George and Christin took a tent, some sleeping bags, a lantern and some books out to spend the night camping. I made them some smores (which I of course ate too many of), said goodnight and left them to camp. Christin is having a great time (and George is too). She is becoming such a "big girl". In just two weeks she starts nursery school. I'm both sad that she is old enough and so excited for her. I'm pretty sure she will love it.


It's hard to believe Lindsey is 4 weeks old. Sometimes it feels like it was just yesterday she was born and then other times it seems she has always been a part of our family. She is smiling more and more everyday and growing so fast. (Already she is out growing clothes!) Her temperment is different than Christin's. For the most part she is content to just look around. She sits in her swing or bouncer or lays on the floor or bed and just looks around. However, when she wants something, she wants it right away! I can't help but laugh as it's reminicent of her birth. She was content to stay safe and warm in my belly, despite the drugs, until she was ready to come out and then she was coming and didn't care who was/or wasn't there:)
It's been so fun to get to know her everyday. People say she looks like Christin but with dark hair. It's funny, though, she just looks like Lindsey to me (even when I cover up her hair and look just at her face as only weird mother's do:)

We've been so busy this month: visiting with family, going to the Camden Children's garden, A Riversharks game, the playground, and even took Lindsey to church for the first time this past weekend. We've done so much and all grown and changed in the past 4 weeks. I can't wait to see what the future holds for us!

Well, it's time for me to get some sleep:):):) Maybe:)

PS. I will try and update the blog more often now!

She's Here!

Lindsey Marie DeVol is finally here! I went in on Sunday evening to be induced and as of Monday night nothing was happening. Soooo I ate some stromboli and George went home for a shower and to grab a couple things. That is apparently what Lindsey was waiting for. George left around 9pm and by 10 the nurse was calling him telling him to come back and I was sadly saying goodbye to my stromboli (I may never eat a stromboli again). Around 11 the nurse checked me and still I wasn't progressing so she gave me some medicine that would work for 3 hours and then I could have more. By 12:30 I was begging for more which she gave me at 1:30. By 2:30 I was up rocking and breathing through contractions. Around 3:30 I started begging for something for the pain. The nurse said she wasn't authorized to give me anything else but she would check and see if anything was going on and then maybe I could have an epidural. Well, I was 5cm so she called the anesthesiologist and the doc and told them both to come on back. I never did get the epidural because in the next 30 min. I dialated the remaining 5cm. My doctor got there at 4:10 and Lindsey was born at 4:16.
She is beautiful, of course. She weighed 8lbs 2oz (2oz less than Christin) and was 20.5 inches. She is doing great. She lost a little too much weight and was a little jaundice so she goes to the doctor tomorrow but she seems to be gaining now and looks less jaundice so we aren't concerned. Christin adores her! She constantly wants to hold her and kiss her. When she wakes up in the morning she right away comes in to say hi to Lindsey and give her a kiss. She always calls her "baby sister" or "my baby" instead of Lindsey. She was a little annoyed that she didn't have blonde hair like her but she seems to have gotten over it. We are all doing great and happy to be home.
Thanks to everyone for your prayers and support!

PS. Congrats to Alicia on guessing the name so early! What made you guess that?!?!?!