Happy Birthday to my amazing husband! I love you so much! You are such a wonderful husband and friend and now an incredible father. My heart melts everytime I see you with your little girl. We hope you have a special day!
Love,
Your girls
(Kristen, Ava, and Macy)
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
More pictures of our sweet girl
Here is a 2 minute slide show (with music) of some pictures from the very beginning of my pregnancy along with some others taken since her birth. Enjoy!
Ava Slideshow - click here
Ava Slideshow - click here
Friday, April 3, 2009
2 week check up
First of all I want to say Congratulations to our dear friends Jenny and Zack who are now the proud parents of Rebekah May Burkhart! Also a congratulations to my sweet friend Rikki who gave birth to her little girl Sally (on the same day as Jenny). I can't wait to meet your precious girls!
Today was Ava's 2 week check up and she is doing fantastic! She now weighs 7 lbs. 7 ounces and is 21 1/4 inches long. She has put on almost a pound since birth and has grown 2 inches longer. She is growing healthy and strong, such an answer to prayers. The doctor calls her the star baby. That makes her mommy very proud! The one thing that we need to keep an eye on is Ava's neck. She has a slight bit of Torticollis which in simple terms means her head tilts slightly to one side. The doctor didn't seem like it was anything we needed to worry about but we just need to do some gentle stretches of her neck and repositioning so that she gets comfortable relaxing her head to the other side. Here is Baby Center's explanation of Torticollis.
Torticollis (also called congenital muscular torticollis) is a condition that causes a baby's head and neck to tilt to one side. It affects about 2 percent of newborns. The cause is unknown, but doctors suspect that when a baby is positioned in the uterus so that her head is tilted to the side and her neck is down, the blood supply to the neck is cut off. This results in some tightness in one of the two strap (or sternocleidomastoid) muscles that connect the breastbone, head, and neck, and allow a baby to turn her neck. Though the baby may look uncomfortable, this condition causes no pain.
Some things we love about our little 2 week old:
~She makes the cutest little grunts, like a piglet, when she is waking up in the middle of the night to be fed. No cries, just grunts!
~When I unswaddle her she throws her arms up in the air with jazz hands. Always makes me smile.
~She is becoming more and more alert each day and loves to just stare at things with her big beautiful eyes. At least once a day she will stay up between feedings (about 2 hours) and just stare at things, perfectly content.
~I love the way she calms down when her daddy or her mommy is holding her and talking to her. I know she recognized our voices from the first time we held her.
Today was Ava's 2 week check up and she is doing fantastic! She now weighs 7 lbs. 7 ounces and is 21 1/4 inches long. She has put on almost a pound since birth and has grown 2 inches longer. She is growing healthy and strong, such an answer to prayers. The doctor calls her the star baby. That makes her mommy very proud! The one thing that we need to keep an eye on is Ava's neck. She has a slight bit of Torticollis which in simple terms means her head tilts slightly to one side. The doctor didn't seem like it was anything we needed to worry about but we just need to do some gentle stretches of her neck and repositioning so that she gets comfortable relaxing her head to the other side. Here is Baby Center's explanation of Torticollis.
Torticollis (also called congenital muscular torticollis) is a condition that causes a baby's head and neck to tilt to one side. It affects about 2 percent of newborns. The cause is unknown, but doctors suspect that when a baby is positioned in the uterus so that her head is tilted to the side and her neck is down, the blood supply to the neck is cut off. This results in some tightness in one of the two strap (or sternocleidomastoid) muscles that connect the breastbone, head, and neck, and allow a baby to turn her neck. Though the baby may look uncomfortable, this condition causes no pain.
Some things we love about our little 2 week old:
~She makes the cutest little grunts, like a piglet, when she is waking up in the middle of the night to be fed. No cries, just grunts!
~When I unswaddle her she throws her arms up in the air with jazz hands. Always makes me smile.
~She is becoming more and more alert each day and loves to just stare at things with her big beautiful eyes. At least once a day she will stay up between feedings (about 2 hours) and just stare at things, perfectly content.
~I love the way she calms down when her daddy or her mommy is holding her and talking to her. I know she recognized our voices from the first time we held her.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Visitors
Miss Ava is quite the hit with our friends and family. We have had lots of visitors. There are a few of you that we didn't get a picture of, sorry about that! Thank you to all of you for the outpouring of love and FOOD! :)
Papa Jim and Grammielle (Mikey's dad and stepmom) 
Gigi (Mikey's Mom) 
B-Pop (Mikey's step dad)
Kay Kay, Aunt Alli (my mom and sister), and Greg (Alli's boyfriend)
Kay Kay and Great Aunt Kathy
Aunt Brianna
Aunt Alli
Aunt Hilary (Mikey's step sister)
Papa Mike (my dad)
Great Granny Jean
Great Granny Jean and Great Aunt Kassandra (my grandmother and aunt)
Ben and Tana
Amy
Chris
Taryn and Tim
Sarah and Jennie
Rikki (she's expecting her baby girl in a week!)
Greg, Alli, Great Aunt Konnie
Wendy and Shelly
Ryan, Vaune, and Luke
1 week old
A little late but here is the picture of Ava at one week old. We are really enjoying our little girl. Mikey went back to work this week so it is just Ava, Macy, and I at home. Feeding and sleeping are going pretty well. I have been getting about 5 hours of sleep each night because Ava has been doing great at going right back to sleep after her middle of the night feedings. She wakes up every 3 hours to be fed so she is already getting on a schedule. I haven't felt the need to nap a lot during the day although I know I should try and squeeze in at least one. We have had a visitor almost every day. It has been nice because it forces me to get "presentable" and allows me to have more interaction with others during the day. It's amazing how great a shower makes you feel after you have been in your pajamas all day and been spit up on.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Hospital Pictures
Instead of putting all our pictures in a slideshow I will put up a few at a time in seperate posts. I am not even going to attempt the slideshow considering it has taken me hours in the past to figure out and time right now is very precious! Here are some of the pictures we took at the hospital. It's hard to believe Ava is already a week old! Ugh, love this child!
Poor girl! I had to post this picture of our four legged baby after her bad haircut at the groomer a few days before Ava's birth. I keep telling her fur grows back. :(
Poor girl! I had to post this picture of our four legged baby after her bad haircut at the groomer a few days before Ava's birth. I keep telling her fur grows back. :(
About to leave the hospital
We had to get Ava a preemie going home outfit because the ones I brought were too big. Thanks Gigi for the cute outfit!
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