Caylee will be 4 months old on Tuesday! My, how time has flown! I really can’t believe it’s been that long already. I went back to work with the new year and seem to be adjusting to being a working mom pretty well. Luckily Mom O. has been awesome and has been watching her Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays while Chase and I both work. It’s so nice knowing that she’s not in daycare at such a young age right in the middle of cold/flu season. This week and next while my mom is taking some time off, Chantel has stepped up to the plate to take care of her niece.
Dec
08
The Year Twenty Eleven
I could nearly sum up this entire year in one phrase: preparing for baby. But that doesn’t justify all that we have been up to (just nearly all).
In February, we went down to Florida to visit Mom and Dad A. and watch one of the last shuttle launches (STS-133). We were able to watch it from just across Indian River and get some great shots. We also went to Jungle Adventures; it was pretty amazing to see all the animals they have.
We spent Easter at Mom and Dad O.’s house in Northern Virginia. We also got to visit with one of my parent’s exchange student’s family who was in town.
In August, we drove down to Savannah, GA with Chase’s sister, her husband, and his son. We had fun touring all around downtown Savannah and even braved Paula Deen’s restaurant. We then continued down to Florida to visit Mom and Dad A. one last time before Caylee was born. It was nice to be able to relax one last time.
Our lives turned upside down in early October when Caylee made her grand debut. Becoming parents definitely changed our lives; but I don’t think we could be more proud. It’s only been two months, but she has grown and developed so much already!
We spent the weekend before Thanksgiving feasting with Mom and Dad O. It was great to be able to take Caylee up there and relax while someone else cooked up a storm. Black Friday, Mom A. came up to visit from Florida. We enjoyed her company and I’m sure she enjoyed spending time with Caylee.
We’ll be spending Christmas at Mom and Dad O.’s house. I’m sure Caylee’s first Christmas will be wonderful. I hope she can grab better by then so she might be able to help open some of her presents.
Well, that sums up our year! We wish you all a wonderful holiday season!
Nov
28
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Wow, time has flown! Caylee is more than seven weeks old now. The weekend before Thanksgiving we headed up to my parents house for a Thanksgiving feast. I can’t imagine trying to cook that much food for just Chase and I when we have an infant around, so it was really nice for my parents to do Thanksgiving early with us.
On the actual Thanksgiving Day we got down all of our Christmas decorations and set up the tree. I trimmed it during Caylee’s naptimes. Chase’s mom came up for several days after Thanksgiving and she watched Caylee so we could actually get the outside decorations up. Chase even combated his fear of heights to put the lights up on the gutter of the second floor!
We did take Caylee out for some shopping on Black Friday, but we didn’t do any of the door busters – we started shopping around 9 am. It’s kind of nice with how young she is, we got all of our shopping done for her while she was with us. We also were able to make a small dent in the rest of the shopping we needed to get done. Although, I can say I’m looking forward to Christmas next year much more than this year; mainly because she’ll be older and actually able to enjoy it rather than just sitting around while Mommy or Daddy opens her presents.
Well, there’s my update for now. I’ll be writing our End-of-the-Year post soon in case you’ve missed something throughout the year!
Oct
10
Caylee Isabelle
We would like to introduce Caylee Isabelle to everyone! She was born October 7th, weighed 6 lbs 9 oz and was 20.5 inches in length.
I woke up to my water breaking around 4:30 Friday morning. After figuring out that indeed had broken I called my doctor’s office (I had a 9 am appointment) to find out if I should head to the hospital or just wait until my appointment to confirm. They sent me straight to labor and delivery. Unfortunately, I didn’t actually start contractions until about 7:30 or 8. So by the time my doctor came to check on me about 1:30 that afternoon I hadn’t really progressed. We discussed augmenting my labor, which I finally decided to do since we had been pacing the halls for hours by that point. But before she went to order the medicine she grabbed an ultrasound machine to make sure what she was feeling was a head engaged. About 30 seconds later, she informed me that my little girl was breech and we should start prepping for a C-section.
They brought me into the operating room about 2:45, gave me a spinal block and at 3:06 our little bundle of joy was born! Caylee and I just got home from the hospital this afternoon. I’ll try to get some pictures uploaded later this week.
Sep
01
Natural Disasters
So we’ve had a fun past 10 days here in Richmond. Last Tuesday, August 23, there was an earthquake. It measured a 5.8 with the record in Virginia being a 5.9. So it was pretty significant for our part of the country. It happened about 40 miles from us, so while we didn’t have any damage we definitely felt it. Although, in my case I had to look at one of my co-workers to make sure I wasn’t going crazy.
Then to add insult to injury, this past weekend we were hammered with rain and wind from Hurricane Irene. Here, according to news reports, we saw gusts up to 71 mph. But the winds whatever they were, were strong enough to knock over plenty of trees. Just in the few streets surrounding us, there were 5 trees down (that was only 1/2 of the subdivision); and we were some of the lucky ones who were only without power until Monday night (49 hours without power). One of my friends from high school and one of Chase’s co-workers both had trees fall on their property causing major damage (roof needing to be replaced and totaled vehicle, respectively). Unfortunately, my work still doesn’t have power so they’ve been sending home people who can’t actually get any work done even with the back up generator running. Although, I’m not sure how much longer that is even going to hold since they were already tripping breakers on it by the time I left this morning.
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