ONE Month!

Hadley you are ONE month old! Here is what you are up to at one month...

-You weigh 9 pounds (75th percentile), and are 21 3/4" (50th percentile)

-You finally fit into your newborn clothes!!!

- You are still in Newborn diapers but I have a feeling we will be moving to Size 1 really soon!

- You are starting to be much more alert

- You are officially a "cat napper". You HATE taking a nap during the day and fight it SO bad. We are working on this...

-You love your pacifier and are getting better about keeping it in your mouth for more than 2 minutes.

-Your neck muscles are getting stronger and you like to lift up your head.

- This past week when you were having tummy time, you lifted your head and turned it from one side to the other!

-You are a very content baby. When you fuss it is usually only for a minute. We are so thankful!!!

- You LOVE to be held!

- You like to be swaddled at night so you don't hit yourself in the face and wake up!

-You are getting to be a better sleeper at night. You usually go to bed around 9PM and then wake up at 1Am, 4AM, and 7AM to eat. You usually go right back to sleep, but sometimes you want to play!

-You are starting to smile more and more. It is so fun to see!



We love you SO much Hadley, and cannot wait to watch you grow up! You are so much fun and bring so much joy into our lives!!!!

Hadley Grace Heath

Hadley Grace Heath

August 31, 2010

4:42PM

7 lb 14 oz

21 inches

Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! Psalms 127:3-5 (ESV)

My pregnancy in Pictures...

It is crazy to go back and look at earliar pregnancy pictures of myself! I can't even remember looking like that! I feel like I have had a giant watermelon under my clothes for years!!! I can't wait to be able to easily bend over, see my feet, and paint my own toenails again!!!

17 weeks

23 weeks

27 weeks

33 weeks

37 weeks

It is still so surreal to me that there is another human being inside of me! I can't help but wonder what she will look like, what her personality will be like, and wonder what plans God has for her. I feel so blessed to be her mommy and I can't wait to watch her life unfold!

Update

Well I had my weekly dr.'s appointment this morning, and we decided to induce next Tuesday, August 31st!!!! That means in just 6 short days Hadley Grace will be here! I. CANT. WAIT!!!!! It is so relieving to know when my last day at work will be, and know a deadline of when to have everything done! I have been super busy working on Wiggles and Giggles stuff lately, so I am looking forward to taking a little sabbatical from that, and just loving on a sweet little girl!!!
Poor Bear has been a little sad lately. I think he senses something is changing. We have brought all this new stuff into our house, and new toys he is not allowed to play with, and he has been a little down in the dumps. Poor guy. It's ok soon enough he will LOVE Hadley, especially when she starts dropping him food scraps and playing with him in the yard! :)


Hadley we can't wait to meet you!

Showered...

Hadley has been "showered" in love! I have been given a total of 5 showers! It has been such a HUGE blessing! We had two showers thrown by friends, both our workplaces threw us a shower, and Tim's mom threw a shower for family. She has gotten lots of cute things to wear, as well as LOTS of practical necessities!

Here are a few pictures of my last shower thrown by Elita, Deborah, my sis-in-law Lydia, and my sister Elissa.

Me with the hostesses (L to R): Deborah, Elita, Elissa, and Lydia

My mom, me, and two of my sisters, Elissa and Mary Lee and my sweet niece Abby

Diaper cake my sister made for Hadley!

Cute (and yummy!) cake!

Everything was so cute! I loved every minute of it!

Hurry up Hadley! We are all so ready to meet you!!!!

Almost there....

We are SO ready to meet Hadley! Her crib finally came in! It was so fun to set up and put her bedding in! I LOVE how it turned out!

I have developed a horrible pregnancy related rash, called PUPPS. It is MISERABLE. Everything they have given me doesn't help, and I am scratching myself raw. It feels like I rolled in a fire ant bed. The only thing you can do to get rid of it is to deliver. I went to the dr. this week, and he said he wanted to wait another week before inducing me because there is a chance (while very small, still a chance) that her lungs might not be completely ready for life on the outside. SOOOO...while I would love to have had Hadley this week, and be done with this rash, I do not want to risk her not being quite ready, so I will wait. We will talk to the dr. again next week and go from there. So hopefully, Hadley will be here next week!!!!

I. CANT. WAIT!

My little chunker....

34 weeks!
Well we went to the Dr. yesterday and had an ultrasound. At our last appointment Hadley was measuring about 2 weeks ahead so the Dr. wanted to do an ultrasound to see what was up. I was excited to have another chance to see Hadley because you usually don't get to have an ultrasound this late. I was secretly hoping they would tell me, "Oh man we got your due date wrong. You are actually due August 24, not September 7th." No such luck. Instead we found out we just have a little porker on our hands! She is already almost 6 pounds and I have 6 weeks left! AHHHH! That means that she could be between 9 and 9-1/2 pounds when she is born! Holy moly! The Dr. assured me that even if I stop eating, she will still gain weight, so bring on the Cheetos and Mexican food! :)

In all honesty, thinking about birthing a baby that huge kinda freaks me out, but the important thing is she is perfectly healthy and so am I, and for that I am so thankful! The ultrasound tech pointed out that she already has lots of hair! That makes me happy! I am hoping she will have a head full of hair so she can wear lots of cute bows!

Last Saturday, my sweet friends Magen, Deborah, and Stacy threw me the most beautiful baby shower! It was so fun and Hadley got lots of super cute clothes and other fun stuff! Here are a few pics from the shower:

Awesome cupcakes with little babushka dolls! They match her crib bedding perfectly! They were SO cute!
Yummy lemon cupcakes

Just some of the beautiful cupcake spread

Me with my mom and mother in law

Me with the sweet hostesses

In the nursery organizing and looking through everything again! So fun!

Hadley's first set of wheels from her Gigi and Grandpa! Love it!