Summer Fun!

My beautiful sister and niece

Margot's first trip to the zoo

Lil' blue eyes

Monkey Bizness

3 months!!!

Lucy's "fancy" dress from Gma and Gpa Ellsmore

Out of order-the girls at the zoo

Dinner on the deck in our pajamas

At the park

Our new haircuts and fro yo!

Our new friends we made at Build a Bear

So much happened in June so far I decided I should update the blog toute suite!  The first week in June Amber and Eden visited from Iowa.  The week was full of fun activities! The zoo, the park, Build-a-Bear, haircuts, Monkey Bizness (a fun indoor place for the kids to play) and lots and lots of fun cousin time!

Sorry the pictures are out of sequence.  Enjoy!

3 Months!

Our Little Pumpkin

Sisters

Margot modeling her beautiful blanket made by Mama's friend Jackie

Mother's Day

Mother's Day

3 Generations on Mother's Day

I think the onesie explains this one

Cathy, Go and Aidan.  Aidan doesn't look too sure about that baby.

The Reid Boys at the Museum of Nature and Science

Grandma Ellsmore

My favorite Easter basket gift

Easter

I think Cooper is eyeing that egg thinking "hmmm, I could totally destroy that"

Lucy fell down on the way home from the park and scratched up her face, she didn't seem to mind though

Grandpa Marvin

Lucy was so proud of her snowman!

Grandma Marvin

The last 3 months have been a whirlwind!  We've had Grandma and Grandpa Marvin come visit (and Gma Marvin even came twice) and Grandma and Grandpa Ellsmore came in April.  Then the Missouri Reid clan visited in May and currently Aunt Amber and Cousin Eden are here visiting but I don't have pictures of that visit just yet.

Margot, as you all know, has had some trouble gaining weight.  At her appointment this past Wednesday she weighed 9 pounds, 11 ounces which is up from last month but she's still not on the chart yet (we call her zero for fun).  Her doctor is confident that another month of good eating will put her on the chart for her 4 month visit.  She is such a little doll, we just can't get enough of her!

Summer has started and Lucy and Margot and I are figuring out how to keep ourselves busy!  Poor little Margot spends more time than I'd like in her car seat/stroller but running Lucy around keeps us on the move.  Go is too little for me to wear her just yet but once that's a possibility she will no doubt spend lots of time strapped to my chest.  She can smile and coo and has laughed a few times. She's going to be a thumb sucker, just like her Mama was!

Lucy had her last (forever!) day at Kathy's and we've already met the girls' day care provider for next year.  Her name is Diana but everyone calls her Nana.  She was very sweet and the girls are going to LOVE her.  She'll have Margot 5 days a week when I go back to work and Lucy just on Mondays.  Lucy will go to preschool the other 4 days at Hopkins.  We toured Hopkins one day and Lucy was sooooooooo excited about her new school.

Meanwhile, we have lots of summer fun ahead of us!

Welcome baby Margot!

The Reids

Daddy's girl 

Lucy was soooooooo excited to meet her baby sister!

Sisters are the best

Blue eyes, black hair

Proud daddy

First bath, close up of her scratch

2 ounces heavier than Lucy

Minutes old

The night before

She's here!  Margot's stats: 

Born at 12:20 pm

Weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces

Length 19 3/4 inches

Blue eyes

Black hair (why?) 

How she got here:

     We had a planned induction for Saturday and had to be at the hospital at 5:30 am.  Luckily, my friend Andrea came Friday night to watch Lucy and stayed with her until Sunday morning.  More on that later.
Saturday we got to the hospital right on time.  There was supposed to be a big snow storm yesterday but it turned out to be not much of anything.
     The doctor started me on Pitocin at 6:00.  I had just a few bad contractions before the nurse ordered my epidural (thankfully) and coming super early must have paid off because he was in my room in about 15 minutes.  After that my labor progressed REALLY quickly.  In fact, I saw the anesthesiologist two more times because I was still in pain even after the epidural.  We found out why pretty quickly.   I came in at 3 1/2 centimeters and my doctor checked me again at noon and I was at 10.  I was very thankful to have my actual OB deliver her.  She stopped by at noon to check on us before she headed off to a surgery thinking she'd deliver the baby once her surgery was done.  She checked me and said, "well, I don't think we can wait until surgery's done, let's have a baby."
     I only pushed for 20 minutes before we got to meet our sweet baby girl!  The first thing we noticed was how much hair she had (so much!) and that it was black, although we needed the bath just to confirm.  I got to hold her skin to skin for an hour before she was weighed or measured or got her eye drops.  She is absolutely perfect.  Her cord was wrapped loosely around her neck which is evidently very common and she someone managed to scratch herself coming out.  Brian has taken to calling her "scarface" if you can imagine it as an endearing nickname.
     She's definitely a daytime sleeper and up all night as to be expected from a newborn.  She looks EXACTLY like Lucy in the face, the only difference being the hair.  She even weighed almost exactly the same as Lucy.  We love her so much already and can't wait for you all to meet her!