Photo By Emilie

Through all of my surfing the web and discovering new web sites and blogs, I came across a photograhper, Emilie. http://photobyemilie.blogspot.com I have admired her photos for almost a year now and check her blog frequently to view all of her beautiful photos. I have always wanted to have family pictures taken by a professional photographer, and Emilie is who I want to take family pictures after Thomas comes. She has had a few givaways and I won this one for a 10 minute photo shoot of your child with Santa. We went on Saturday, December 19th. I knew it would not be easy, since Charlee is afraid of people dressed as Santa, but thought we'd give it a whirl. Charlee just would NOT smile. She was scared of Santa and would not even warm up to Emilie. It was really cold inside, so I think that had a little to do with her giving no emotion. She did smile a few times, so I hoped Emilie was able to get at least one good picture. Anyway, we ordered the disk and I got it in the mail on Tuesday. (Really fast!!) There were 11 images and I was very please that she was able to get some really cute shots of Charlee. These are 4 of the 11 that Emilie took.I was glad she got a good one of Charlee with Santa. Charlee got excited because Santa had asked her what color of plastic high heels (or as Charlee calls them, "plastic healings") she wanted for Christmas, so she turned to him to say "Pink".
I think the picture above is my favorite picture of Charlee! She is so cute and I just love her so much!!!

She smiled good for this shot too!! So cute!!

She is just so sweet in this picture and I love it that you can see her tights!!

I am doing Christmas/Birth Announcements so it will be January when those go out!

We wish everyone a

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Week 38

I had my last non stress test and doctors appointment today!! Everything looks good. I am dialated to a 3 and the doctor said that I could go any day now. If not, we go into the hospital Monday morning. I am just hoping he stays in until after Christmas morning. Then bring on the pain. I AM READY!!!!!!!!!

Last Ultra Sound!

Ultra sound went good. Baby weighs about 6 lbs 12 ozs.

Unless I hear back from my doctor the

28th will still be the day!!!

12 more days!!

I go in next Tuesday, Dec. 22nd for another

NST and my doctors visit. The last ones!!

37 Weeks

Todays non stress test went very well and my doctors appointment went well too. Baby is doing great and very squirmy. Still dialated about 2 1/2 centimeters and 75% effaced and having mild, irregular contractions. (I also lost 6 pounds this last week!) He says we still look good for inducing on December 28th unless the ultra sound shows something bad. We go in tomorrow at 2 for the ultra sound. I am excited to see the baby and a bit worried.

Here is Charlee after playing with markers while Lynn was asleep on the couch.

Thank goodness for washable markers!!

DECEMBER 28TH!!!!!!!!!!!

Unless Thomas decides to come before December 28th, or something happens before then, we will be going to the hospital that day to be induced!! It is so weird knowing that in under 3 weeks he will be here.

I had a non stress test yesterday and the baby is doing great!! Then I had my 36 week check up afterwards at my doctors. Everything was great and he did a cervical exam and I am 2 and a half centemeters dialated and 85% efaced. So I am on my way. Due to the high blood pressure they like to get the baby out 1 to 2 weeks before the due date, so he chose a week before my due date,Monday, December 28th to induce. The baby could always decide to come earlier or if I have any complications come up. I go back for another non stress test and doctors appointment next Tuesday the 15th and for an ultra sound on Wednesday the 16th to see about how big the baby is. If he is too big I may be induced sooner. I am also nervous/excited that he is also going to fix the problem that I still have from when Charlee was born. It has been really hard to deal with but I really need it fixed. It is more surgery and depending on what this baby does to me they will have to cut another 4th degree tear to sew everything back up properly. So I will have a longer healing time like I did with Charlee. It took over 8 weeks to completely heal from her, so I am really not looking forward to that.

Until next week!!!

I dressed up Char and we went to Wheeler Farm to take some fall pictures. We had a lot fun. These are just a few of the pictures. She is so good to pose for me.

Thanksgiving 2009

We had a good Thanksgiving this year. It was nice to not travel and to have family come here. My mom came on Monday, then Dan, Charisse and Ireland came on Wednesday and then, of course Erline came over on Turkey Day. It was fun to have it at my place. We did not do much but it was nice to just chill and eat yummy Turkey!!! Charisse did announce that they are expecting in June. So that was a nice suprise.

Then on Saturday evening was my "We Also Sing" concert. Lynns parents, Kevin and Jackie, Jeff, Barbara, Karter and Karson were all here for my concert in addition to my mom, Erline, Ree, Dan and I-ball. It was fun, just a lot of standing. It was a good thing we did not have anymore songs, because at the end of the second performance I was about to die!! If I stand for a long time or walk around for a long time I start to get mild contractions and they are really uncomfortable!!!!

It was a crazy but fun weekend. It was fun having people here but was stressfull and tiring so lets just say that Hotel Brown is officially closed until at least February or March.
These are pictures I took of Charlee in October, but since I am not so good at posting, I am just now putting some up. They weren't that great because the sun was in a bad spot! But she is still cute!

Week 35

Today I went in for a non-stress test. They measure the amniotic fluid to make sure there is enough and then they put these things on your stomach to see if you are having contractions and to see how the baby is moving and his heart rate. Everything looked and sounded great. I go in on Dec 8th for another non-stress test and then my 36 week appointment at my doctors afterwards. Only Five more weeks!!

Week 34

Another check-up and everything is great. He did not do a cervical exam yet but he will in two weeks. I do, however, because of having gestational diabetes, have to go in every week for non-stress tests to make sure everything with the baby is fine. I go in on Tuesday, Dec 1st for my first non-stress test.