like her mama

as she gets older i see more of myself in evelynn. for instance, she sleeps like her mama.
slobber at 2 weeks old and now she is sleeping with blankets on her face at 4 months old!

four months flew by

ok. so ive realized that it has been about 4 months since ive really updated the blog. here is a rundown of the last four months of our lives:
- evelynn was born july 27th- spent the better part of august and september waking up in the middle of the night to feed the baby and being sleep deprived
- in august we started to get random smiles from evelynn and she met her great-grandma- evelynn started to smile in response to silly things in september- i took evelynn on her first plane ride in october out to so cal for her uncles 20th birthday.
- first week of october evelynn started sleeping through the night which meant i was a happy, well a happier mom!
- evelynn was a hot dog for halloween thanks to her grammy martha
- we traded in the truck for a chevy impala...a more family-friendly car
- evelynn had her first play-date with her friend lucy who is 2 weeks older than evelynn
- we took evelynn on her first roadtrip to so cal for thanksgiving (thats a whole other post!)
that brings us up to date for the most part! im going to try and do better to keep this updated.

already looking forward to the big shabang!

mendonsa...party of three!

ok ok! i know its been almost two weeks since evelynn graced us with her presence, but better late than never right!? :] so here is a little story about our day...

so i didnt want to go to church for fear of having to answer the question of why evelynn was still in my belly. so steven went without me. when i got out of bed and was letting towbie out, i experienced something like my water breaking, but only a little bubble. so i paid attention to what was going on and told steven to call in between services. he eneded up coming home for fear that it was TIME. we hung out at the house for a couple hours just waiting. pains were getting a little more constant but not worse. so we got our stuff together and headed to the hospital at around 2pm, calling my mom and sister on the way to tell them we were a go.

we pulled up to the hospital and it felt weird. when the lady asked if she could help us, i was like "i think its time to have my baby." kind of awkward... so they put me in a "flashy" hospital gown and in a bed. they hooked me up to the heart and contraction monitors. then they did a test to see if it was actually my water that had broke...indeed it was! so at that point we were admitted.

my whole plan was to have the baby naturally, but not be discouraged if i ended up with an epidural. i lasted until 10:30pm. i realized id be too tired to get her out. so i gave in to my fear. once i had the epidural i was GOOD! :] i was able to relax and get some sleep...considering it was so late too. my mom, sister, and dad made it in time for the big show!

so after a little pushing and laughing (yes laughing!) our little girl joined the big bad world outside of the bubble...

she was born at 1:56 am, weighed 7 lbs and was 19 1/2 inches long...

waiting...

...for evelynn to come! this has been the biggest test of patience EVER!!!! waiting for all these things to happen is nerve-wrecking! i feel like a child who is staring at her birthday present, but cant open it until someone says its ok... grr!!!!

evelynn's bedroom

so we finally have all the non-baby stuff out of the room and it's basically set up and ready to go. there are a few minor details missing but i figure she won't care about those things. plus being the non-interior decorator that i am...i'm still wondering what to put on the walls. as long as she has food and a clean diaper she'll be happy. she probably won't even care about clothes since it's blazing hot! :] but nevertheless....here it is. (i wish the curtain was up so i could get the whole picture (and ya'll too!)...oh well.

could this be...

so i googled "tattoo baby" and some funny pictures came up. i was actually looking for a picture to send to a friend whose daughter draws all over herself with marker. but instead i found this...
i had to sit and giggle for a minute and only imagining what we would do if evelynn came out looking like this! Ha... it would be hard to have a child who has cooler tattoos than you. i know steven would be jealous of her ship! funny stuff... only 11 weeks to go until we get to meet evelynn and see her eyes, ears, hair, nose, fingers, toe, everything!!! cant wait to meet her! :]