sweet baby girl

i promise i've been working on posting pictures of amelia for the last few nights after the kids have gone to bed... and i think i've fallen asleep every night while editing pictures! we are doing really well here, and amelia is getting the hang of eating and sleeping. we've had a couple of great nights and a couple of harder nights, so hopefully tonite will be another great one. ethan and caroline are doing wonderfully with her, and we are just enjoying some days with nothing much to do other than love on our kiddos!

well, i'm falling asleep again, so it is off to bed for this mommy. enjoy this sweet picture of our baby girl, and i will be back soon with pictures from amelia's birth day.

amelia's blog debut

we are home with precious amelia! thanks so much for all of your prayers and sweet comments... we are doing great, we are just super tired. i think i have had about 3 hours of sleep since waking up thursday morning, so i'm doing well to be constructing any sort of sentence at all! i just wanted to share a couple of pictures from amelia's birth day to tide you over. never fear, there are many more to come!! here we are as a family of FIVE!


i'll be back in the next couple of days to share more of our baby girl and her proud, proud brother and sister!

amelia lynn has arrived!

Hi--This is Emily's mom just letting you know that Amelia Lynn is here! After a short labor, she arrived at 12:16 p.m. weighing 8 lb. 4 oz. and 20.5" long. We all think she looks just like Ethan when he was born! They are planning to come home on Friday afternoon, so check back later this weekend for "a few" pictures. Thanks for all your prayers for a safe delivery and a healthy baby.

walkin' out the door!

good morning! isn't it a BEAUTIFUL day at 5:35 AM!??! :) we will be leaving for the hospital in just a few minutes!!! i'm just slightly excited as you can tell. our wonderful pastor just called to say hi and to pray for us over the phone, so you really can't start out your birthing day any better than that, can you? brian and i talked last night about how it feels like so long ago that we were doing this with caroline (a whole 2 years! ha!). it feels so different this time around, but i really don't know why that is. maybe it's that there are two excited kiddos waiting to meet their sister... maybe it's that i've had the vbac experience behind me, so i know more what to expect... i don't know. but two things are the same. 1) i could not be any more excited and 2) our God is the same as He was when He perfectly orchestrated the births of ethan and caroline. that is something to hold on to today and to rejoice in!

two cute stories to tide you over till pictures of amelia start overtaking this blog....

-yesterday morning, i got home from my appointment and got the kids out of bed. i greeted them by saying, "guess where mommy's going tomorrow?!?" and ethan exclaimed, "to have amelia!!" in his excitement, he shouted, "i'm going to hug her like THIS!" and hugged his stuffed giraffe with all his might. caroline climbed out of bed and exclaimed, "NOT LIKE THAT!" and slapped herself in the head. oooooh dear, amelia better come out wearing a helmet and shoulder pads!! caroline continued this mantra all day, and i did my best to focus on how we will pat amelia instead of what we won't do!!

-as the kids and i were having a "picnic" on the living room floor yesterday afternoon, we talked about how today would be amelia's actual BIRTHday. this concept was kind of hard for ethan to understand, and he asked, "what kind of birthday is she gonna have?" wellllll....... a DOCTOR's party, i guess! haha. so we're hoping to have a little birthday party for amelia tonite when the kids come to visit.

alrighty, we've gotta get on the road! thanks for your prayers today. we will do our best to get the information out as soon as possible after she's born!

a green light for tomorrow!!!!!

so you can see there is good news to share today! my doctor has given the go ahead for my induction tomorrow morning at 6 am! woohoo! i am dilated to 2 cm, 50% effaced, and "very soft". amelia's sweet lil' head is lower this week, just like i was hoping! thank you Lord! i spent all of monday night and some of tuesday morning timing contractions, so i know my body is preparing to get this baby out... and if i don't go into labor today or tonite, then tomorrow it will be! thank you for your encouragement and prayers. please remember us in prayer tomorrow as we welcome our sweet amelia into our family.

we're gonna try to rig up some kind of internet access at the hospital tomorrow, so hopefully we can share pictures from amelia's BIRTHday pretty soon after she's born! my doctor doesn't plan on breaking my water and getting things rolling till 9 or so because he has a surgery to do earlier in the morning, and he wants to make sure he is completely available for me... we will be twiddling our thumbs and hanging out for awhile. all that to say that i don't expect her arrival before lunch since we'll have a late start. we will let you know as soon as we can! we can't wait!!!!