one month old

 

 

 

 

Liam is now over a month old. what a cool little boy. as long as i don't make him too cold when i am changing his diaper and i feed him when he wants milk, he is easy-going. He is showing us some smiles now. i have not had any luck at capturing one on film but i will keep working on it. He is very alert and is staying awake just a little more now. Ella is still enamored by him. She likes to include him in her play. Yesterday she was placing blocks in his hands so he could play with them. Very cute. Ella is growing nicely also. She is having more and more tantrums. Perhaps they are the because she is almost entering her two's but i think it is also because she is adapting to a new brother and less attention. Currently her favorite person is Nana and i am sure it is because when she goes over there Nana is all hers (since Liam and I stay here on Mondays and Tuesdays). Ella gave up her Baa (pacifier) last week. it wasn't willingly. She had been chewing on it and already ruined one. when i replaced it I let her know that if she chewed through the second one that there would not be anymore. well, a week later she had chewed through the second one and i had to have her throw it away. She did so but was so upset. She didn't cry at the time but she cried a lot on the following nights. i kept letting her know that she was now like mommy and daddy who didn't use a baa. She kind of bought it and now, a week later, she is doing fine although she is always looking at Liam's baa.

We are the proud parents of 2 now. We welcomed Liam Abraham Gillies into our family on 12/29/10. Seven pounds eleven ounces and 20 1/4 inches long. How beautiful he is. The labor was a short 4 hours long. Again it was very painful and i did it without an epidural but it was amazingly fast. Too fast even for the doctors to prepare as they were asking me to wait until they put their gloves on when i was saying i needed to push. Two pushes and he was out. Painful but easy.
We chose the middle name just a week or so ago. Abraham because he is the reason Carl and I met and it went well with Liam. We just have to make the name legal through Social Security and the birth records.

Nothing to do but Wait

i am not working. nor is Carl (well, outside the home). We are just waiting for little boy to be born. Ella is home as well since we have taken her out of daycare for 2 weeks during the holidays. Little boys due date was yesterday, well sort of. that date was based off the first ultrasound i had. the second ultrasound gave me a date of 12/23. Carl wanted the boy born today because its the shortest day of the year and their was a solar eclipse last night. two events that haven't coincided in over 5000 years or something. i just don't want to be in the hospital on Christmas day. i don't want a christmas baby. A new years baby would be fine. Medical insurance would cover costs and we would have a chance of being on the news (and winning all sorts of freebies) if baby boy happened to be the first baby of the year. of course, if he isn't born until then i will be kind of bored and anxious with waiting. i have a doctors appointment tomorrow morning. perhaps there will be some progress (dilation, cervical softening) then.

Ella from 01/10 to mid 11/10

 

Halloween, a little late

 

just wanted to post this photo of Ella at Halloween. She was standing in our yard that the tenants had decorated with various halloween items. She was a doctor, kind of in honor of her great-grandfather Carl Gillies, also because i figure this may be the last year i will get to choose a costume for her and wanted to keep it gender neutral.

SSSS..no

 

We had our first snow a week ago. Ella loved it. loves it. she wants to put her coat, mittens, hat, and boots on all the time in order to be able to go outside. i don't love it but i will put up with it for her and the joy she displays. what mom/dad wouldn't.
we've been under the weather this week. we moved back home last saturday after moving from one side of the duplex to the other then staying with Bill and Mary for a week while carpet was installed. the carpet is such a treat. i have never lived in a home with new carpet. we have a lot to do to make the home organized BUT it is livable now and that is good. i am trying not to stress about it because i have a month left and don't want to stress so much that i end up having the little boy too early.
updates on Ella...she is officially sleeping in a bed on her own now, and not just a mattress on the floor of our room. she is in her own room and i found a toddler bed for $30 at Target. it was a web-return that was marked down for that reason. it is perfect for what we need right now. didn't want to invest in something more yet since we are already facing some major money issues with the newbie.