Two Months!

Look who's two months and smiling like it's going out of style!

I know this is a strange picture, but look!  You can see both of her dimples!

Meg has not been the easiest baby.  She fusses quite a bit and wants to be held almost all day long.  I don't usually mind, because she is our last baby and I'm really soaking it in, but my house is the worse for wear because of it.  She is out growing this slowly.  Just yesterday, I was in my bedroom folding laundry.  Meg was on the bed and I was talking to her as I folded.  I left the room to get another load out of the dryer, and while I was gone she started to cry!  As soon as I came back and started talking to her again she was happy and smiling once again.  Oh no, I'm in for a long journey with this baby girl!

Cutest girl ever!  Just wish I could get better lighting so that you all could see that her hair is Auburn.  If it stays, it'll be another color for our family!!

Vertical Talus

Last Friday, Meg went to her first Pediatric Orthopedic surgeon  (who specializes in feet) appointment.  Dr. Sinclair confirmed that Meg does have vertical talus in her right foot.  Vertical talus is similar to club foot but sort of the opposite problem.  Club feet are pushed up and to the inside of your leg, vertical talus you foot is down and to the outside.  Both problems are treated similarly.  The foot is casted to stretch it out and manipulate the bones in the foot to align properly.  Since her bones are still cartilage, now is the best time for casting.  So on went Meg first cast!  They were out of pink, so we went with purple.  The plaster is only from the bottom of her knee down, but the fiberglass is all the way up to her hip.  They have found that if they don't fiber glass all the way up, babies kick their casts off!  She will get a new cast every friday over the next month or so and then her foot will be re-x-rayed to see how the therapy has gone.  After that, it sounds like surgery will be next to fix any other problems and lengthen her achilles tendon. 

 

We are praying that the casting will be highly successful!  The better the casting the less surgery she will need, although our doctor did stress that they try to do as little surgery as possible.

 Meg was pretty crabby that first day, but she's been a real trooper the rest of the time.  Unfortunately, it's no more pants for this girl!  Tights are much easier to stretch over a cast or just cut the leg out if I need too!!

One Month

I just realized that I never posted Megs pictures at one month and know she's nearly two months!  Better late than never, right?

She hates tummy time!  Not a surprise, not one of my 6 children have.

See?  Doesn't like it one bit.  What a heartbreaking face!  

Happy Birthday to Me!

  

 Sooo, I know my birthday my birthday was in the middle of December.... we were just a little overwhelmed with a new baby AND Christmas.  Plus, I don't think Todd took me seriously at first when I told him I wanted counter stools for my kitchen.  Aren't they just perfect?!!  We ordered these online because no store anywhere carries white saddle seat stools.  And I actually got my first shipment the first part of January, but one of the stools had a cracked seat and boogered leg.  We just got the last one on the 25th of January.

 

I love having stools for my island!  Whatever did I do before them?  They are perfect when we eat in shifts in the morning (that doesn't happen too often, but I can see where it might as girls start middle school), and this is where we eat lunch every day.  Sooooo much easier for preparing and cleaning up!  The girls love using them to do homework (I don't particularly like books in my kitchen) and they like to sit at them and help/watch me cook.  Did I already mention that I love these stools?

Three weeks old

I can't believe that our little Meg is 3 weeks old!  After a rough start with breastfeeding, Meg has become a pro and is really starting to fill out.

She is so tiny.  This is a newborn size outfit and she still has some room in it.  

Her 0-3 month clothes are still really baggy.

I haven't been able to catch it in a picture yet, but Meg has some pretty cute dimples in her cheeks.  They are really starting to show with her added chubbiness.

Merry Christmas Morning!

All of the girls were soooo excited for Christmas this year.  Olivia and Emily had the hardest time falling asleep.  Emily was up until near midnight and Olivia one!

Rylee really was excited... she just didn't want to be in the picture with her sisters.

Our beautiful REAL tree!

Rylee got Toy Story figures from Santa.  She loves them and hasn't stopped playing with them.  

She was out of control Christmas morning... opening every present she could get her hands on and then ate every piece of candy she could find.

Audrey got the Patriot colt and Elizabeth's riding outfit.  There were a few tears that she didn't get Felicity, but she quickly bounced back!

Santa gave Emily the Get Better Set and wheelchair for her American Girl Doll.  She's been wanting it since she broke her wrist last school year.

And Olivia got a writing desk for her doll.  There probably won't be too many more doll presents for my oldest girl!  That is soo sad to think about!

Meg slept through all of it!

Princess Marcella got a load of princesses from Santa.  She was sooo funny.  She squealed every time she opened a present!

It was a magical, wonderful Christmas!

Introducing....

The newest member or our family...

Here I am, in all my glory. :- /  This was taken Sunday.  I was induced Tuesday.  The inducement went really well, except that I wasn't able to have an epidural...again.  My platelet count was under 100, so to avoid me bleeding out, I guess, no epidural.  Ah-natural with pitocin!  At least I knew what to expect, 

since Rylee was the same.  

Meg Elizabeth was born just before noon, weighing in at 7 lbs 12 ozs and was 19 inches long.

As you can see, the hospital here rounded up.  If Memorial would've done that with Audrey, she would've been 10 lbs 15 ozs.

My mom flew out for the delivery and to help out the week after.  She was an angel!

The nurses returned Meg after her hearing check and bath with her hair mohawked and a bow!  

Too cute!

A friend from our new church congregation watched all the girls and then brought them to the hospital to see their new baby sister.  I love this picture of Todd with all of his girls!

We only stayed one night at the hospital and then went home.  Here we are getting ready to leave.

A few days later we gave Meg her first sponge bath.  And like all my other girls, she cried through the whole thing.

We all wished that Grandma didn't have to leave!  Grandma spent time doing crafts, painting nails and playing dolls with her grandbabies.

These pictures were taken when Meg was just over a week old.  Isn't she the sweetest thing you've ever seen?  These are purely braggin' photos.

At exactly 2 weeks, Meg lost her umbilical cord.  Yeah!  A real bath.  She really liked sitting in the water...

The scrubbing, not so much.

Thank goodness for binkys!