First Father's Day

This is what Pete and Adlee did while I made a coconut cream pie for Pete for Father's day. I thought it was sweet so I had to take a picture of it!
Pete is an awesome daddy! He plays with Adlee, sings to her, changes her, burps her, talks to her and loves to hold her and look at her! I couldn't have picked a better man to be the father of my children! Adlee is lucky to have such a great dad!

Daddy with his yummy pie!

Labor Details

I have been meaning to make a post about how my labor went but life has been a bit busy with the baby! So here it is about 4 weeks later!
I wound up getting induced on Adlee's due date June 1st. My mom came into town on the 27th and we wanted her to be able to spend time with the baby. My doctor thought it was a good day for me to have the baby as well. One big bonus about being induced is that I was able to have my doctor, Dr. Madden, deliver me! He is a fabulous doctor!!!

I had to be at the hospital between 4am and 5am. We arrived closer to 5am with hardly any sleep as we were excited about having the baby that morning. (You can tell I did not sleep by my eyes in the picture). This is the last picture of me pregnant at 40 weeks. It was taken right before they started my labor at the hospital. They started me on pitocin at about 5:40 am and my water broke on its own about 6:20 am. I was planning on doing natural labor. I lasted a good seven hours and then decided to get an epidural when I was still at a 4. This picture of Pete and me was taken after I got the epidural. It was heavenly as you can tell by the smile on both of our faces. Pete was happy when I got the epidural too...he definitely did not enjoy seeing me in pain.
We spent the next about 9 hours just waiting for Adlee to make her arrival. When it came time to push she arrived in less than 20 minutes. She came out with her eyes wide open and I swear she had a smile on her face too! I spent about 16 hours in labor and it was worth every minute to meet this sweet little girl who has brought us so much joy!!!

The proud daddy holding his baby girl.

A Special Dress

A few weeks before I had Adlee my mom sent me a package in the mail. She sent me a few things for my birthday, a super cute lamp for Adlee's room and a yellow dress and blanket with a note attached. The note said that she and I had both worn the dress home from the hospital and she thought my daughter might like to wear it home too. I had no idea my mom and I had worn the same dress home from the hospital or that my mom still had the dress. My mom, Adlee and I are all the oldest in our families and we all wore the same dress home. The dress is really cute especially on Adlee!

This is a picture I found of me in the yellow dress.

Mom and Baby Moment

I should have sent this picture out earlier. It's everyone's favorite. The mom and baby moment right after Adlee was born.

Here is a picture of Adlee with her hat off so you can see her head of dark hair. Everyone has been asking to see her hair too.

New Baby Girl!!!!

Our new baby girl, Adlee Madison Jay, was born today at 9:31pm. She is 7 pounds 2 ounces, and 18 and 1/4 inches long. She has lots of dark hair and we already love her!!!

Birthdays and other stuff

Pete and I have birthdays that are 8 days apart. Pete turned the big 30 this year! I had two of his friends take him golfing for the afternoon while me and a friend decorated our apartment. After golfing they met us for dinner. Then we went back to our apartment where a bunch of friends were there to surprise him. I was pleased that he was actually surprised and that I didn't spill the surprise ahead of time. It was really hard to keep a secret!

This is my ice cream cake. I wanted a mint chocolate chip ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins but they don't have Baskin Robbins here! I was bummed so I settled for one from Cold Stone...still good but not the same. We didn't have a 7 candle so Pete got creative with the candles we did have. We went out to eat at my favorite restaurant PF Changs up in Birmingham on my birthday! It was super yummy!!!

Pete with his German Chocolate cake at his surprise party.

Some of the people that were at his party.

Pete enjoying golf.

The pictures below are all random pictures taken over the last few months since I have neglected our blog. I need to be a better blogger and update more often. Maybe I will post more when the baby comes and we have something interesting to post about.

This was at the tea party we went to on tax day. They had really delicious pork sausage dogs for free. I'm not telling how many I ate!

We went to the park to have lunch and play bocce ball with our friend's the Batteen's about 6 weeks ago. While there Pete broke his finger catching a football. He has been wearing a splint on it ever since. The picture above is before the finger incident. Pete took our dog through the water fountain.

This is Pete and Mila after they went through the fountain. Pete liked it but Mila hated it!

Over Spring Break we went on a hike out by Holt lake. These pictures are from the hike. We stopped and had a picnic by a creek and let Mila run free. She had fun running through the water and chasing sticks.

Pete kept throwing her progressively bigger sticks. This is the biggest one she chased and dragged around. It was really funny to watch her carry a stick 4x her size.

2 1/2 Weeks Left!

We are excitedly awaiting the arrival of our baby girl! We can't wait for her to get here! We finally decided on a name but are waiting to announce it when she arrives.
Her nursery is almost all the way put together. We would like to get a rocking chair/glider of some sort before she comes. I'll put up some pictures of her room when it is finished.
This is a current picture of me at 37 weeks pregnant. My mom is coming on May 28th and she wants the baby to hold out till then so we will see if baby cooperates with grandma! I have had a good pregnancy so far and I am still not too uncomfortable. I feel really lucky!