Trick or Treat!

This is my first Halloween and I'm loving it!!! Who needs candy when I got Daddy!!! We without a doubt have a little monster on our hands!

My first meeting with Grandpop!!!

Grandpop flew in from Florida last night just to see me!!! I stayed awake just long enough to see him, have him hold me, and even burp me! It's so nice to finally meet you Grandpop!!!

A good day!

Today was week three of having Alexis to the doctors for a weight check. She was born weighing 7 lbs 4 oz and came home weighing 6 lbs 10 oz. Week two she weighed 6 lbs 10.7 oz. The doctor wants to continue seeing Alexis until she reaches her birth weight so at today's appointment I was very happy to hear she is slowly reaching that goal. Today she weighed 7 lbs 1oz! We are almost there! You have no idea how happy mommy was to hear that!

Eyes wide open!!!

Here's a look at our little girl with her eyes open! Something we don't see too often throughout the day!

Bad habit #1!

Yes, we know...this is not something we want to get into the habit of doing but it was too cute to not take a picture of.

While mommy went to get her shower daddy watched over Alexis. You can't see it in the picture but daddy's eyes are closed and he is providing her with some "white noise" otherwise known as snoring!!!

Oh how she loved it!!!

Alexis is finally here!!!

Sorry for the delay in getting a picture posted. We thought this would be a much easier and faster way to get pictures out to everyone but we didn't realize we would have to find the time to post!

Our baby girl is hours away from being six days old already! She is so incredible and has truly made our family! We are learning more and more every day; what she likes, what she doesn't like, her funny little facial expressions, and most importantly how to be good parents. We have some work to do in getting her back on the right sleepping schedule of sleep during the night and not all day long.

Some cute little things we've noticed about here are...she has one really long eye lash on her left eye. She often times will open her right eye and keep her left eye closed. When she sneezes, she sneezes twice. She has the cutest facial expressions (especially when she's sleeping). Daddy has learned early on that she has a wimper that will get her anything she wants!!! She's loves to be swaddled and cuddled, but please leave her right arm out...she's ok with her left arm being tucked away! She doesn't like her feet being rubbed, unless she is sound asleep! This is just to name a few...we could go on and on about just how beautiful our little girl is!

It's now a waiting game...

Our hope of having Alexis on 10-10-10 is just about over.

I've finished up my last day at work, her room is all ready for her, our house is clean (thanks to Ben), laundry is done and unfortunately I've seemed to give up on the hope that she's going to come early. I was really hoping that I had my last doctors visit but it looks like we'll see him tomorrow.  My new wish is that he tells us to go to the hospital right from his office. I understand we'll still be (three days) early but I don't know how much more of this I can take.

I have horrible back pain, I'm not sleeping, and I haven't had any contractions. We've been doing what we think will help her come along a little faster; walking a couple times each day, doing squats and driving fast over speed bumps. If anyone has any other suggestions for us, I'll gladly try it.

I remember thinking back to our 20-week ultrasound when she was so active and we had to redo an ultrasound in order to get good photos. Why wouldn't she rather be active outside of me, in her new home? I promise to keep her warm, Ben will swaddle her and we'll love her every second of every day! That sounds better to me already!

My biggest fear now is that she'll come late. Please keep your fingers crossed and say a prayer she'll come out right away!