One Week

We got a visit on Friday from Nate, Kirsta, and Colin. A few pics from that visit.

Colin didn't want to pose for a picture though...

Crouching Sara, Hidden Dragon. It's funny when she stretches one leg - looks like a kung fu kick or something. It's a little hard to tell from this angle...

Sara's hands are always active while she's awake. Mostly up by her face. Here's one of her grabbing the pacifier, about to pull it out and scream.

Hmm, pacifier or hands, I can't decide so I'll do both.


Bryant decided Sara was okay and decided he wanted to hold her. It only took him a week!


One week old and quite content after a bath.



Scott's big nose and meeting his niece on Sunday. Exactly a week old.


TTFN!

Sara comes home (and other tidbits)

So Monday was interesting. Sara slept a good part of the night, which was good. Heather, on the other hand, kept waking up because she was too hot. We got through about 5:30 when Heather had to call the nurse to help her - that's when I woke up - at least for a little while. I grabbed Sara and watched a little TV. I dozed off and woke up to the doctor taking her away for her morning checkup.

Not long after the checkup we got a call from Kirsta letting us know that Bryant got sick at her house. I packed up and went home to take care of Bry and stayed there until after the kids left for school today (Bry was fine by the end of the day). We brought Sara home a little after 2pm today.

Eyes Open

We found a kitty for Sara...

"I don't know why you had to change my clothes - I was all warm and cozy and now look, you've messed up my hair!"

Posing for a picture and waiting for food.

Ahh - at home. Zen pose...

Sara Lu Silvey is here!

Here are the much anticipated pictures.

Sara was born at 2:17pm today, September 21, 2008.
7 lbs 8 oz
20 inches long

Heather makes this look easy. She only had to push three times. The first push got the baby almost out. Dr. Porter told her not to cough or sneeze after her first push because she was really ready to come out. Second push delivered the head, and the final push got the shoulder allowing her to come right out.

Before Sara got her bath.


Sara has a lot of hair at the moment. Lots of CURLY brown hair. The curls come from her mom.


The kids were excited to meet their sister...



But Bryant was ready to go.


Kisses from granny!


We'll post more pictures later.

New Silvey baby expected on...

Sunday, September 21

We found out today that Heather is scheduled to be induced on Sunday, September 21 at 7am if baby hasn't arrived before then. She was 70% effaced and still 2-3 dilated at her appointment today.

Stay tuned!

Baby Ticker

While we try to be accurate with the baby ticker, we can never account for early delivery. Heather had a checkup today with Dr. Porter. She's about 50% effaced and 2-3 dilated. We found out that Dr. Porter is going out of town on Tuesday, Sept 23 for about a week. He suggested that we will probably induce before his trip (if the baby doesn't come on her own). At this point it sounds like we'll maybe go in on Sunday, September 21 - we'll keep you all posted. Just pray it doesn't come before Saturday - I'm in Texas next week from Monday until late Friday night.

In other news, the next time you come to our house we will probably have some decorative curbing completed. I was talking to my neighbor who wanted to get some curbing installed before he puts in his sod. Once this was decided, I spent the last two evenings cutting back my sod the way that I wanted (I love my edger attachment) and prepping a couple of areas where we'll have it done. The guys came out to do the work earlier today, but wouldn't you know it - RAIN - just as they were getting set to go. Fortunately they hadn't started mixing the quickrete. They should be back in the morning, weather permitting. I'll post pics when it's all done.

Peaches

Last year after we moved into our house we decided to plant a couple of trees. We planted a sunburst maple in the front and a Gleason (Lemon) Alberta peach tree in the back. We were surprised to find that the peach tree, although quite young and small decided to give fruit this year. From what I understand this is not typical for the first year after planting. We probably had around 30-40 fruits in the beginning, which I thinned down to about 20-25 earlier in the season.

A couple weeks ago we had some kids over playing who found the peach tree (and obviously didn't know better) , picked the green fruits and threw them down on our concrete patio breaking them into little pieces. Here's a picture of what remained on the tree which we picked this week.

First day of school - 2008

Pics of the kids - each on their first day of school.

Quick update

Yes, yes, my blog is terribly out of date. That's what happens when things get really busy. Seriously, for the last few weeks I've put in 10-12 hour days doing some intense work with strict deadlines and I'm sick of looking at a computer by the end of a day. Things are getting a little better but the days are still long. And so it goes with work.

Let's face it - most of you read this to know what's going on with the other people in my house. Who cares if Caleb has a birthday. I will have you know that the only call I received on my birthday was from Jared Moore. Local family might be off the hook since they came on Saturday and sang happy birthday. Lenna sent an e-card if that counts. I don't know what happened to Brad and Hannah.

So the kids started school. Rachel is a big first grader now. Kaylee is going to kindergarten in the afternoon. Bryant goes to a new preschool in the neighborhood on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. They all seem to be adjusting pretty well. I'm mostly surprised at Bryant - things that he's not very inclined to do at home (like behave and listen) he seems to do well while at preschool according to his teacher. Maybe some of it will stick...

Heather is still huge. Only a few more weeks to go. She will be going to the doctor once a week starting next week. I anticipate we'll have a better gauge on the delivery date soon. She's been induced almost a week early with all of our others. As long as it doesn't come the week of September 15, we'll be fine (I'm traveling to Austin, TX that week). We'll see if this one follows suit. Honestly I can't wait for the new kid - I actually get paternity leave with Omniture - two weeks paid time off. I'll probably take a few days off initially and then work half days from home for another couple weeks.

DeAnna asked about baby names - yes we have discussed a few, but nothing is decided. We probably won't share any of our ideas until after the baby is named because that's the way we do it now. We've typically decided the day the baby was born, with the exception of Bryant - we had him named from the time we were thinking of names for our first before we knew the gender.

That's all I have time for now. I'll try to post again soon with pics from the last few weeks.