Six week old Nora

 She's getting chubby! I can't catch a good smile on camera.

The Zoo and other random pictures

 Above are some random pictures of Seb.  Whenever I take picture of Nora, he wants his picture taken too.  I don't want him to feel left out!

And here are some picture of Seb at the Zoo.  We went with Justin's parents and he loved it even though he isn't smiling for any of the pictures...

He didn't want to leave the lion drinking fountain.

He did not want to sit on this statue but we waited in line to take his picture on it so we forced him.

So serious.

Measuring himself with grandma and daddy.

Wiped out on the way home... would not let go of his zoo ticket, even while asleep.

 And here are some recent pictures of Nora.  She will be four weeks old tomorrow. 

Two week stats

This was the day we brought Nora home from the hospital.  Yes, Sebastian still loves his binky...  He is doing really well with the baby.   He wants to hold her and play with her,  pretty cute.

A couple of random pictures.  She wasn't even 2 weeks old yet in these.

 

Nora turned 3 weeks old today!  Her two week stats were:

Weight: 7 lb 10 oz- 25th percentile

Height: 20.5 inches- 54th percentile

Head: 34.7 cm- 17th percentile

Seb

If he could be outside all day, every day.. he would!

One week old

Nora Marie James

Mommy and Baby

Daddy, Mommy, Baby

Baby Nora 6 lbs 8 oz, 20.5 inches

Going home!

I was scheduled to be induced on Wednesday, the 25th.  Early Monday morning I woke up feeling something I thought could be early contractions.  They stopped when I woke up to take a shower so I figured it was just Braxton Hicks.  At about 3pm I started having more and they were getting closer together.  I spent the rest of the afternoon trying to figure out if this was really something or if I was just having false labor.  Finally, I told Justin to come home just in case.  We tried going on a walk to see if they would stop... but they didn't.  So at about 9:30pm we headed to the hospital and they were getting really close together on the way down.  I got there at 10pm and told them I wasn't sure what was going on.  They checked me and I was 4 1/2 centimeters so they said they were going to keep me.  I was in so much pain at that point and I wanted the epidural so badly! Eventually they moved me to a delivery room and I finally got the epidural.  They checked me right after that and I was already at a 9!  So an hour later the doctor got to the hospital and after a few pushes I had her at 1am Tuesday morning.  So... I went from thinking I was in false labor when I arrived at the hospital to having her three hours later.  This was very unexpected but despite the fact that I would have preferred the epidural much sooner, I was so happy it went so quickly and so smoothly.  We took her home from the hospital Wednesday morning.

We are so happy to have baby Nora here.  She is so tiny and adorable.  We are in love with our little girl!

Crib Bedding

Here are some pics of our baby's new crib bedding. Now I just need to get Sebastian into a bed so I can steal his crib... and I need to paint the nursery... and get all of the random furniture out of it! Probably won't be done by the time the baby is born. Oh well, she will sleep in our room for a while anyway, right?