Maylee's Two Week Pictures

Our precious baby girl

This is Blake's favorite

This is my favorite!

No offense to everyone else that has kids, but mine are the cutest! But I'm sure every mom thinks that! These are pictures we took at our house the other day with a black sheet for a background. We are lucky because Wade and Jolene (Blake's brother and his wife) got a really nice camera for Christmas, and we are benefiting greatly from it! Jolene came over and we took pictures for about an hour, and got some really great ones. I don't think you can even tell they weren't taken in a studio, and in some cases I think they look better than if we had gone to a studio.  So moral of the story, find a friend or family member with a really nice camera and you get great pictures for free! These are just a few of our favorites...

I am going private!!

So after reading one of my friends blogs tonight about going private, I started thinking more about it. So I decided to google our names to see what came up. Kaleb's name was the only one that lead me to our blog. That has made me feel a little wierd, so i am going to go private. Please send me your e-mail addresses asap, so that I can invite you. I think it only needs to be the e-mail you are registered with blogger on. Thanks, and sorry if this becomes a pain for you.

Maylee's Story Part 2

Maylee Marie arrived April 1st at 4:45pm. Those of you who got a text message at 8:45 am, that was Blake's April Fool's joke! We got to the hospital at 8:30, and the Dr. broke my water right away and at that point I was dialated to a 3. They didn't start me on pitocin until almost 10, and I didn't start having regular contractions until 10:30. So the nurse told me that I didn't have to count labor starting until then! So that means six hours of labor. :o) Which actually was 15 minutes longer than Kaleb! But I'll take it, because I pushed for 45 minutes with Kaleb, and Maylee was only four pushes. When she came out, I thought she was so tiny, and figured she was in the mid 7 lbs. area.... oh no! 8'2" and only 20 inches long! Kaleb was born a week and a half later than Maylee and was only 8'6" and 22 inches! So had I waited until my due date, she would have beaten her brother in size!  She was our little butter ball! Since then she has lost weight and is less swollen. So now she looks long and lean. I'm anxious to see how much she weighs at her 2 weeks appointment. Kaleb was almost 10 pounds at two weeks. 

She is our little princess and is just as low key as her brother was. Doesn't cry unless she's hungry, and even then it's just a little squawk, and then she's quiet for a few more minutes, waiting for you to respond. it's so fun having a little girl in the house, she has definately brought a whole new dynamic to our family! I can't wait to see her play with her big brother! He has been so good with her too! His favorite thing is to get pictures with him holding her! 

Delivery Time!!!

Here is the April Fool's picture Blake sent everyone when we got to the hospital. He sent it to about 30 people and many people sent back their congrats, I guess they didn't think anything looked wrong with the picture.