Well, here I am. bored as all hell, and no where to go. I figure no one pays attention to my posts anywhere I put them, so I might as well be talking to myself.

I think lauryn is cutting her molars. She has the top two teeth, and I can see the bottom two teeth coming in; but the back of her gums are swollen as well, and when I rub on them, she gnaws on me. I think its too early for that, no?

Holy Moley!!

I can't even believe it!! I still tear up sometimes just thinking about how lucky I am right now...

Last week, about Monday or so, I got an email from Dax Moy's website, directing me to this post on his blog; http://dailydoseofdax.blogspot.com/2009/06/human-fat-loss-guinea-pigs-wanted-lose.html.

Well, I left a comment, because I have wanted to get in on his Look Good Naked Challenge in the past, but never had the extra money to do it. I have been thinking about jumping in and doing something for quite a while now; I'm tired of my body, and I want to change it. Not only do I want to look good (obviously, that's what everyone wants) but I want a body I can depend on. I don't want bad joints, I don't want bad posture, or a bad back; I want to be as fit and active and able to do whatever I want for as long as I am alive; I have seen first hand too many times what lack of exercise can do to you (and on the flip side, I've seen those women who are 60 who have exercised their whole lives, and look like they are 40). I've seen the benefits, and I know that I need to be in the "fit at 60" category, and not like my grandmother (or mother) and bedridden at 50 (or dead at 45).

I think it is something every woman goes through after having a baby; its almost like you are given free-range for 9 months to "let go", and then you have the baby, and your world is upside down, and you have to get used to the whole new addition, and the new routine. Things were almost extra crazy around here; my husband was laid off for 6 months, finally went back to work, and then 2 weeks later was put on a third shift schedule; which means he works midnight till 7 am. So he sleeps all day. This schedule has been wearing on me a lot; and right now, in the dead heat of summer (not really, I'm sure it will get hotter around here, heat index is only about 106) our AC is still broken, which makes it hard to cook, or be in any other room of the house besides the one he is sleeping in.

Well, after commenting on his blog, and waiting the whole week, I finally checked the blog on Saturday (after not getting an email with the results), and ....


I WAS PICKED!!!

I cannot believe it. I just, I can't believe. It was shaking, I was trying not to cry so I could see what I was doing; I had to go through ALL the comments to make sure I was the only Amanda, lol, and then I sent an email to verify my status.

Now, I'm on his group, and I'm spending today getting ready for the challenge.

So, anyway, I've started a new blog to follow that challenge; come visit me some time, cheer me on my way ;)

http://amandas30in30challenge.blogspot.com/

Today is our anniversary!

My husband and I have been married 10 years today. Can't believe it!

And my oldest little girl will be 9 in March. Yikes!!

Getting ready to get back on track

So, I feel like I've had a pretty easy time of it, postpartum-wise. Not to go into great detail, but I didn't have a lot of damage or pain; at approximately 2 weeks I felt back to normal. I'm about 4 pounds away from my pre-pregnancy weight; now I need to lose that initial 40 I was trying to lose before I got pregnant! I've been meaning to take pictures to start my journey, but I'm only 4 weeks postpartum. I'm still technically "healing", although, like I said, I've felt normal for a few weeks now. So, I'll wait for the 6-week mark, just to be sure, and then I'll take starter photos, and get started on working out. I need to really research what I can eat and what is ok while I'm breastfeeding; surely its ok to lose weight, but I'm sure its not ok to do it with a severely restricted diet; don't want to mess with my milk production ;)

The birth of Lauryn Isabella

I haven't spent much time on the puter lately, so I'll make this fast

The only thing I can say about Monday is that I didn't have any contractions, lol. I had been having contractions off and on since New Years, so I've spent all month thinking "any day now", and then Monday was relatively uneventful. So, I woke up at 1 oclock in the morning, early Tuesday, with stomach pains, and needing to go to the bathroom. After 20-30 mins, and noticing that my contractions were about a minute apart, I was feeling like we needed to go to the hospital. I didn't want to go in early; I hated laboring in that bed for hours with my first DD. So, I turn on a few lights, and I'm sitting in my computer chair, trying to get myself ready (it was hard moving around and getting stuff with contractions so close together). I was about to wake up hubby, when he woke up because of the lights. He gets up to go to the bathroom, and I said "so you about ready to go?" and of course, him being a man, "go where?"

So, we call the necessary people (the ones who said call no matter what time), and he's helping me gather up my stuff so I can get dressed and stuff, he's waking up kids and getting them ready, and we finally leave to go to the hospital. It was about 2:20 when we walked in. My sister and neighbor were already there; they had beat us to the hospital so we left the kids with them in the waiting room while I walked back to L&D desk to check in. I think its weird, they don't ask me any questions or anything, they just get my information, sign some papers, and then take me back to the room where they leave you to labor before they move you into the delivery room. I was getting on the bed, moving ever so slowly because I'm still having contractions, and the nurse checked me, and was like, OMG, your an 8! and I feel the bag bulging, and right about then it popped. So they are all freaking out because first, I walked up to L&D at an 8, and second, I was an 8, lol.

So they move me into a delivery room, call the doc, try to get everything set up, etc. My sister comes in to be in there with us. Soon, I was getting the urge to bear down with my contractions, and the doc wasn't there yet, so I told my hubby to go get a nurse, cause I needed to push. She comes in and says "the doc will be here soon" (Um, that's great, so will the baby! Why don't people listen to the mamas in labor?) so about that time, he walks in, and he's all calm and nice, shaking everyone's hand and introducing himself (he wasn't my doc, he was just a doc in the same practice) and he's getting his gown on, and mask, and gloves, and about that time, I was getting another contraction. He was standing right in front of me, so I figured he was ready, lol. My groans changed to screams, and I pushed her out. I had my eyes closed, was concentrating on her, and the feeling and everything else. NO one told me to stop (like they did with my son, once his head was out, they said "stop pushing!") so I just kept going until I felt the relief of having delivered. Apparently, no one was paying any attention to me, and didn't notice that I had just delivered my baby. My husband and sister both said they thought the doc was going to drop her, and DH said he was trying to play it cool, but he was flustered at not having noticed, lol. So they squeegie out her nose and mouth, and then he tries to unwrap the cord (it was wrapped around her twice, and it was also pulled into a knot) before he handed her to me; and that's that. I'm in love with my little girl, and she was born an hour after walking into the hospital. After the doc handed her to me, he said "that was literally a 1 push delivery!" lol.

She was born at 3:28 am on Tuesday, 01/20/2009. She weighed 7 lbs and 14 ounces (she's my "middle" child; my daughter was 1 lb lighter, and my son was 1 lb heavier) and she was 19 inches long. She has a shock of dark black hair, and deep, dark blue eyes. We're well established in the nursing, even if it does make mommy cry a bit right now and we're still learning the CDs

Here's a link for the hossy pics

http://www.our365.com/NewbornPortraits/BabyDetail.aspx?birthid=c31ea7d0-c180-4d4d-aced-0238fda31bf6

Getting closer

Can you believe it? I feel like its going to be any minute now, but at the same time, I don't want her to come before Christmas; its still too early.

Thanksgiving was an adventure; I've been having a hard time getting around; she dropped a few weeks ago, and she is firmly lodged in my pelvic bone; everything there, blood vessels, nerves, tendons, all that is what is supporting her. And it hurts. I can't hardly walk; my pelvic bone feels like they are being ripped apart. I can't lift up my legs very far; putting on pants is a chore, and its hard to get up into bed, because it hurts to lift up my legs. Jon usually has to come pull me up out of bed to get up, and the first few steps of walking are hard, my spine doesn't want to straighten, and I'm afraid my back is going to give out.

So, with all this going on, I had to cook Thanksgiving dinner. I tried to manipulate it so I was doing all my prep work sitting at the table, did the majority of it the day before, and assigned jobs to my dad and Jon, but I was still hurting with all the standing around and cooking. Christmas should be even more fun.

I'm right about the 20-lb mark for weight gain, which I guess is ok, considering I didn't vomit with this one in the beginning, and I gained 10 pounds the first 3 months. Food has no interest for me. Its hard to make dinner/eat something when your just not interested. I can tell I'm hungry, and I need to eat, but I just don't want anything.

I'm having my baby shower this weekend. I almost didn't want to do it; I should have done it sooner, but I had my mind set on the beginning of December, and me and my sister were going to do it, and then some people from church said, "Oh, we can throw you a baby shower!" so I postponed the plans for mine, thinking they were going to throw one together. Well, it hadn't happened, so my Dec 6 baby shower turned into Dec 13 baby shower. I feel its too close to Christmas, but what can you do? I don't want an "after" baby shower.

I have a lady making me a cake; its going to be so cute! Can't wait to see it. As far as everything else goes, decorations and games and what not, I hope my sister has that worked out, cause I can't be the hostess to my own shower ;)

I have a pool worked up, if anyone wants to make guesses for my baby's due date ;)

Had my 3D sono today

Little snot. She kept her face covered nearly the entire time; either with her hand or pressed backwards into my uterus. We poked and prodded at her for nearly an hour, lol. We got a couple of good shots; then, at the very end, we caught a smile! It was so cute, I'll post the video link so you can see.

Here are a couple of pics for her; I kinda think she's going to look a lot like Kathryn (Kathryn and Jonathan have different colorings, and they have different noses and different shaped heads, even though they both look like daddy)

I realize I've been MIA...

Sorry about that. I don't suppose there are too many people who check up on me, but I hate to feel like I've deserted any of my friends ;). Sometimes, when I get down, and things are rough for me, I don't want to talk to anybody, "myself" included. I just would rather be a hermit, bundle up in my house, and not go anywhere or do anything. I've pretty much been doing that the last month or so.

Still feeling really good with the pregnancy; I'm starting to hurt in the pelvic area, I'm guessing this is my ligaments stretching. I need to do more exercise, but I get so down, I don't do anything. We are still having some troubles around the house, financially, still trying to work all that out.

I've got a couple of projects going on right now; hoping to post pics soon. On one of the cloth diapering forums I'm on, I've signed up for several "swaps" where I swap an item for an item. Well, in my case, I don't really have anything to swap, except my knitting talent. So, mama's send me their yarn, I knit it up into the pants for them, and send it back. In payment of this service, I've gotten several diapers, several wipes, a couple of shirts, some environmentally safe laundry detergent, and some other stuff. Its pretty cool, actually ;)

As part of this forum, and others, I've been made aware of things that I hadn't really been exposed to previously; like the no-vaxing issue. I'm seriously considering not vaxing my child; at first, I wanted to be selective/delayed, since there are so many more vaccines now than there were when we were kids; and I can tell you right now, I had already made the decision prior to this that my daughter was NOT getting the Gardasil, we do NOT do the Flu vax here, and I kick myself on a daily basis for allowing my children to be given the chicken pox vax. For these reasons, and several others, I'm thinking we're going the no-vax route. I have plenty of time to make my decision, since I already know I'm not doing it for the first year anyway, and I can gather more evidence to support my decision.

We may have found a church. We have never been "church going people" but we have always looked for that sort of fellowship or whatever you want to call it that you get from going. Well, the kids have played soccer with this church for 3 years; we've gone to their fall festival for that, if not more than that, and they did basketball last year, and will do it again this year. We know so many people there already, and it seemed like it was just time to try it out. This weekend will only be our third time going, but so far, I think we are all enjoying it. Kathryn and Jon most especially, it seems.

I'm ready for the GD election to be OVER! I know who I'm voting for, I'm sure you know who your voting for; my life experience has taught me it does no good to argue with someone who has their mind made up already, so what's the point? It just gets nastier and nastier, and if I think about it long enough, I stress out over certain aspects of a certain candidate who keeps getting compared to a certain beloved president who didn't last very long. So, 1 more week. And, ironically enough, our voting station appears to be "our" church, lol.

Finished a project

I am on several forums right now for cloth diapering mamas; on one, we have a "swap" set up where we make some diapes for our partner, and then swap out. Since I hadn't actually made a diaper yet, I put down that I could crochet and knit. My partner wanted a pair of "longies" which are wool pants. The wool is an excellent waterproof barrier between the cloth diaper and the rest of the world, while at the same times it natural and its breathable. They make "soakers", little shorties or diaper covers, but since winter is about here, she wanted longies. So here's what I made.

Still working out the bugs

I'm still working out all my little details for the cloth diapering; I guess it would just be easier if I bought a whole bunch of different brands, and then tried them out, knowing what I like. But that's not what I'm going to do; I'm going to MAKE mine, and I don't know what pattern to use!! There are literally a TON of patterns to use, and what if I make my entire stash out of one pattern, only to find out it doesn't work? and I don't want to make all different patterns, cause then what if I find one that does work, and the rest don't; then I'm just as equally out of all that fabric. GRRR I'm so frustrated with all of this; you would think a diaper is a diaper is a diaper, but they all have different rises, and waists, and snap placement, and crotch width, and estimated weight zones, etc. I could just cry.

So, I've been trying not to buy anything, since I want to make it, but I have made a few purchases. I bought 1 that was half price, because it was "the older pattern style". Apparently, the updated their pattern, so they were getting rid of the older pattern style. I also won one, off a free for shipping lottery on the hyena cart; and I've entered as many of these as I can find. Here is one

http://soapaholicsanonymous.blogspot.com/2008/09/green-giveaway.html

She's giving away a CD to someone who posts a comment on her blog about their favorite way to reduce, reuse, and recycle. She even has the etsy cart up for the lady who makes the diapers that she is giving away, which, by the way, are totally yummy and squishy ;)

I'm on several cloth diapering forums, as well; on one forum, I've joined a diaper swap, where in, I make a diaper and send it in, and she makes a diaper and sends it in. Well, I haven't actually made a diaper yet, ;), but she wants a pair of "longies" which are wool pants. I offered to make some out of a recycled sweater, since wool fabric is about $25/yd, or knit some, and she chose to have the knitted ones. I'm afraid I've bitten off more than I can chew, but hopefully I will get it done in the next week and a half ;) They are cute, so far, I just keep having to frog my work since I want them to be as perfect as possible for me ;) But, in exchange, I will be getting, I think she's sending me 3 diapers, for the 1 pair of longies, so not bad ;)

Still here ;)

Hi ya, thanks for checking up on me, Cyni. Things were looking pretty scary at first, but then, a weather-miracle happened. They say a dry front swept in from the side, collided with Ike, and pretty much took all the gust out of his sails before he even reached us. We did have high winds and little bit of rain; but we didn't have the flooding like we did about a month ago with another hurricane. There were a few knocked down limbs, a few uprooted trees, but all in all, we were unscathed. The worst damage here at our house was the privacy fence between us and the neighbors was knocked down; its their fence, though, so they are fixing it ;)

We were without electricity or internet for about 2 days, but that is all resolved now.

I'm still working on all my many projects, trying not to blow off my head with all the information I'm trying to process with my CDing, and I'm trying to work as much as I can, mostly because I've been out of work, and I'm looking to supplement, Jon is supposed to have "time out of the schedule" next week, so that's going to hurt us more, and we desperately need to get caught up.

Hope all is well with everyone else ;)

Drawing for free baby carrier

I've entered a drawing for a free baby carrier; the more places I post the link, the more chance I get to enter ;)

www.ecobabycanada.com

Isn't it amazing how you can post the same post/blog in different places, and almost know what response to expect? I pretty much expected the love and support from you guys, as always ;), with my cloth diapering decision; when I posted that same blog on MySpace, I titled it "no criticism, please" because I didn't want to hear anyone's negative comments about my decision. And in fact, I did get a lot of remarks along the lines of, "well, since you said no criticism, I guess I have nothing to say..." Very sad. I love you guys.

Ok, since you all asked sooo nicely, ;), baby Solorza's name will Lauryn Isabella.

Thanks for all the well wishes, guys, you all mean so much to me!

So, I will admit to having a bit of obsessiveness to my personality. I will decide on a topic, subject, project, craft, whatever you want to put in this box, if I decide I want to do it, learn it, learn about it, etc; I will obsess until I know just about everything there is to know about it. I can pretty much tell you anything you would want to know about weight loss, diet, nutrition, exercise, etc. Not that I was able to actually put it to good use ;)

So, my newest interest, shall we say, is cloth diapering (CDing). I have decided that we are going to cloth diaper this baby. There are several reasons why we came to this decision; cost being the main one; second one being that it takes well over 150 years for 1 disposable diaper to decompose, and it is estimated a baby will have used 1000 in a year, and they are expected to be in diapers the first 2.5-3.5 years of their lives.

No, I didn't cloth diaper my other 2; probably because it wasn't ever presented as an option. In fact, if it weren't for the internet today, I probably wouldn't attempt to do this one this way; I didn't even OWN a computer, much less get on the internet, until Kathryn was about 6 months old. Anyway, you have a baby; you buy your diapers at the store. That's it, that's all. You don't see cloth diapers in the stores now. They do sell the prefolds and the flat cloth, which I bought, but used as burp rags. They don't, however, sell the plastic pants for the babies anymore; the only size I see now are for toddlers, for potty training. Therefore, with Kathryn, and with Jonathan, I wouldn't have known about CDing unless someone aproached me, suggested it, and showed me my options. And let me tell you, you would be amazed at the options there are available today. They have come a long way from the flat and prefolds and plastic pants of our mothers and grandmothers. They have so many different diapers out there, and there are several websites out there dedicated simply for the terminology used in the CDing world. I could bore you with the details, but I suppose I wont, unless you ask nicely ;). Basically, there are tons of companies out there making the diapers, which all have different options as to convenience, fabric choice, etc. And, on top of these companies, the cloth diapering world is apparently the newest WAHM/SAHM (work/stay at home mom) craze. Therefore, there are TONS of "homemade" companies making these and selling these, as well.

So, anyway, I'm stressing out because of all these different options. Obviously, I want to be prepared for the baby when it comes. But I don't know what to get, what to use, what to do. What works for one, or so many, so well, may not work for others as well. Some people SWEAR by a certain method, while others complete trash it. Therefore, it is considered a "trial and error process". It is suggested to buy several different brands/styles, try them all out, and then decide which way is better for you before you make your big investment. The problem is, it is, to me, quite a chunk of change to just buy a "sampler". So, therein lies my dilema.

Anyway, that's my current "obsession", in case anyone was wondering what was going on in the world of Amanda ;)

yes, I have a baby name picked out. Yes, I will tell you, if you ask nicely ;)

I FINALLY know what it is!!

Its a girl!! here are some sono pics.

So, I went to the doctor on Friday. I brought Kathryn with me; this was the visit she was going to listen to the heartbeat, and guess what she thought it was. I'm still torn as to what I think; I don't want to get my hopes up one way or the other; I kinda want a little girl, but I wouldn't be disappointed to have a boy. My sister just had a girl, so I can get my girl fix in ;). Anyway, before I went in, I was looking at my tracker; it says that I am 18 weeks (as of Thursday), so I was confused as to why my "19 week sonogram" was scheduled for another 3 weeks away. I had planned on asking them about that when I went into the office; the nurse caught it first, though, and changed it, so I go in on Tuesday for the sonogram!! Only 2 more days and I'll know what this little bit is!!

Anyway, back at the office, with the doctor; first of all, she couldn't get a read on the heartbeat, cause the baby wouldn't be still long enough; it kept moving. She finally got the monitor to read a heartbeat; 150. She said she wouldn't guess, lol. She says "140s, its a boy, 160s, its a girl; 150s, I don't guess". So, I don't have a clue yet, but I will know in TWO DAYS!!!

So, I finally did my yoga workout today.I don't know if its because I didn't have to work today, or because Jon wasn't home (he's working late), but I managed to squeeze it in. How. Very. Disappointing.

Ok, yes, I understand. I'm pregnant. I have to be careful. I will soon be overwhelmed with gravity, and actually not have full function or control of my body. Not to mention, somewhere during these 9 months, my body turns to fragile china, and I have to be oh so very careful with the way I carry, position and move my body from pose to pose. Also, I've probably never exercised a day in my life, so I need very detailed and explicit instructions for about 30 seconds before each pose is performed, oh so achingly slowly. Not to mention, we don't want to push ourselves too far during pregnancy, because pregnancy is a static time for our bodies, and we don't want to make any advancing movements.

What a crock of shit.

Ok, I get it. I probably got a bad DVD, right? I just need to keep on looking try again, etc etc. The thing is, I was very careful about the one I picked out; it had the best reviews, a lot of women raved about it, said they had done yoga before and this really gave them a workout, blah blah blah blah blah.

I've done yoga before. Its been about 6 months, but I've done yoga before. Therefore, I felt that this DVD was going to be the best one for me to get, since I can't really consider myself at an intermediate level, right? Guess not.

So, I'm not bragging or anything, but I'm really flexible. Like, really flexible. Like, right now, having not done anything in quite a while, I'm more flexible than some of the women doing yoga who have done it for a while. Which, actually, is a bad thing, in this case. It means that I have to really keep up with my stretching and flexibility, because if I don't, it causes all kinds of problems with pains in my hips and back. Another problem with this is, even though I'm technically a beginner at most of this yoga stuff, I am doing intermediate/advanced poses, simply because that is how flexible I am, and I have to do it that far/deep to get any sort of stretch.

There was another DVD that I was eyeballing, but I shied away from it; the reviews were from, for lack of a better term, hardcore yogis. I'm talking, women who TEACH yoga, talking about this is an awesome DVD, it really gave them a stretch, blah blah. Well, apparently, I'm going to have to go hardcore yoga, because Yoga Momma didn't cut it.

I hate clothes shopping. Well, for me, specifically. I could 'browse' and help someone else all day. But for me, its a different story. I can never find *EXACTLY* what I'm looking for; apparently, I just made it up. I guess I need to find a seamstress (or learn myself) and have all my clothes made for me.

Apparently, I am the tallest woman EVER to be pregnant. Ever. First of all, when I buy pants, regardless of if I'm pregnant or not, I'm either buying men's, so I can get the 34" inseam, or I am buying the "tall" size at the New York store. So, now that I'm pregnant, and getting bigger, and outgrowing all of my clothes, I obviously cannot wear them anymore. So, I'm looking for new clothes. I have one pair of jeans, my "fat" jeans, that I am still able to wear, if I pull the waistband below my belly paunch. But, they have giant holes in the inner thighs, so they aren't necessarily appropriate for public wear.

So, my sister just had her baby, and she tried to give me her maternity clothes. First of all, let me just start by saying, my sister is about a foot shorter than me, ok? But, when it comes to SIZE, we are about the same. She has all the same SIZE pants from the maternity store that I would buy. And the pants are capris on me.

So, I go and look it up online; the longest inseam I can find is 31.5 inches. Well, if I was really short, I could get the special short pants with a 29 inch inseam. WTF?? Like I said, I'm the tallest woman EVER to be pregnant. Oh, and on a budget, musn't forget that I absolutely refuse to pay $100 for a pair of pants that will last me 6 months, and I will NEVER wear again.

So, here are my options, apparently, since I can't buy "maternity" pants. 1) buy more 'fat' jeans (men's jeans with a higher number in the waist, like a 36, and still have the inseam appropriate for me), 2) wear sweats/yoga pants for the rest of my pregnancy. So tempting, I just can't decide.

UGGGH!!

Baby Blues

Ha ha. Not really. I do love that comic strip, though.

Seriously, this has been the easiest pregnancy I've ever had, and I can't even begin to explain the difference. People keep asking me what I think I'm having; you know, mother's instinct and all that. Well, considering I've already had a girl and a boy, and basing this pregnancy on those, I believe I'm having an alien. Or something to that effect. LOL. Pregnancy with Jonathan was hard; pregnancy with Kathryn was harder. Yeah, I'm tired a lot, and I have my days where I just don't feel like doing anything; but I didn't have any of the morning sickness. Yeah, I was nauseated, but I never once threw up; which, considering I LOST weight with my other 2, is a freaking miracle. I actually feel like doing stuff, too. Not much, but a little bit. I'm still working, which is more than I can say for the other 2. I'm actually going to start back up with my yoga this week; I have a yoga dvd and a pilates dvd that were geared especially for pregnant women.

As far as cravings go, so far its been very similar to Kathryn, in that I crave lots of fruit. For the most part, food doesn't appeal to me. I do believe this child wants me to be a vegetarian. What the hell do you eat, as a vegetarian, besides salad and fruit? I can feel it move now; its very active.

This pregnancy is going by so SLOW!! I wanted to know what it was the minute I found out I was pregnant. I feel like I can't do ANYTHING to prepare for this until I KNOW what it is!! And I'm not making guesses, so don't ask. I will not allow myself to hope, wish, or think it is one, just to be disappointed. That's ridiculous; you should not be disappointed.

I have a doc's appointment scheduled for next Friday, just a checkup, and she will listen to the heartbeat and guess what she thinks it is. I'm taking Kathryn with me; she's probably more excited about this baby than I am. All she wants to do is hold my sister's baby all the time; which, BTW, is the tiniest thing on the face of the planet you are allowed to go home from the hospital with. What cracks me up the most are the big, tough, strong men scared to hold the baby!! HA HA

So, Sept 11 is my sonogram to find out what I'm having. Of course, I will post updates then ;)

My new Neice

Here she is, in all her 6-lb, 8-oz, 18-in glory; Natalie Joan.







And of course, that's my girl Kathryn holding her. I don't know who was more anxious for that baby; me or her ;)